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Spacey, the only time Australians were conscripted for National Service was during the Vietnam War period. At all other times and even to the present day, joining up was a voluntary decision. You must also learn that very many of those who served in Vietnam had made that voluntary decision to join the Defence Forces. I have a mate who did three 12-month tours in Vietnam. That's two more tours than the average Nasho. Admittedly he had joined the army at 16 years old and had done a full trade course before he was attached to an operational unit. We often forget the involvement of the Navy and RAAF, neither of which had conscripts.

Jeezuz! I thought Drop Bears were bad enough.

Punctuating the above sentence get you, "I WOULD not put up with that", is more straight forward. In that version, the "that" has not been identified. If there was a preceeding sentence mentioning what the "that" was, the version would be OK. Remember that what we say or write must communicate our thought clearly to the recipient.

That hoary old chestnut relating to ending a sentence with a preposition has been debunked. It arose from a Victorian era grammarian's wish to have English emulate Latin. In Latin, prepositions are included in the various Case of nouns in Latin, so they do not exist as words themselves. That depends on witch skool you went to...... "Went to" is a phrasal verb. A phrasal verb typically constitutes a single semantic unit consisting of a verb followed by a particle (eg, turn down, run into, or sit up). So it makes no sense to split the phrase. Likewise "depends upon" is another phrasal verb, so you could twist the sentence to "Which school you went to is what it depends on." Rather awkward. So claiming that "up with which I will not put" is the correct form is something I'll not put up with.

Sydney in drought?????? I don't believe it.

From the list above it seems that the occupations with the best outlooks are those which involve, broiadly speaking, providing personal service to others. It is not an exhaustive list. I wonderwhich list military service would fall into. AI won't bring peace, unfortunately.

Remembrance is a two-sided coin. On one side we remember the brave act those people made to enlist to protect their principles. On the otherside we realise the futility of armed conflict. Perhaps in the 21st Century we might instil in people the futility of armed conflict. Probably a forlorn hope, but still a hope.

Hey Nomad! What was sad about that?

Apparently the modern meaning of the term "queer" is a person who possesses an extra sex chromosome, which results in a number of physical abnormalities. "Intersex" is a broad term for a variety of conditions where a person's chromosomes, gonads, or genitals don't fit the typical definitions of male or female. Being intersex is not a choice of behaviour. It is similar, but not the same as Downs Syndrome which usually arises from a defect involving chromosome 21, usually an extra copy (trisomy-21).

A positive to celebrate!!! Today I attend Gilgandra's Remembrance Day ceremony. We have an early education centre in town which seems to have a good enrolment. The older children were walked to our memorial and sat down to listen to the ceremony. Not that they attended to it without distraction, but they were well behaved. When it came time for the laying of wreaths, the little ones lined up and came to the memorial with commemorative poppies which each child placed in the memorial. It wasn't "cute". I doubt that any one of them knew the significance, but by involving our young ones from an early age is a way to maintain links with the honourable histroy of volunteer military service of our forefathers. This link is a particulary strong in Gilgandra as it was from here in 1915 that the first of the locally organised recruting marches began - The Coo-ee March. https://www.mrl.nsw.gov.au/learn/historical-research/world-war-one/coo-ee-march https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowball_marches

Has battery-determined range become yesterday's problem?

Agrovoltaics is best combined with grazing, rather than cropping simply because croping now requires unobstructed spaces. I've said before that solar panels + sheep (or goats) is a workable combination. Cattle might find it difficult to get to fodder under solar panels. We don't usually free range pigs and pouiltry might not be protected from foxes id free ranged. I can't confirm that solar companies are now offering farmers around $1500 per hectare per year rent, but if it is true, then that is money that is independent of seasonal weathr variations. Grammar Police note: Although "agrovoltaics" ends with a "-s" it is always a singular word. OED's earliest evidence for agrivoltaics is from 2011, in Stock Journal (Adelaide).

I simply meant it as other descriptor in the class of "he bats for the other side", or "he's a shirt lifter". Those two really come from a time gone by when people did not openly announce their sexuality. Nowadays, that calling someone Gay is acceptable and not considered offensive. My reference to shirt buttons was just an example of my weird enjoyment in creating catchy bons mots.

That situation is called an "unavoidable accident", and as such, no blame could be placed on the driver. Since it happened on a motorway, a reasonable person (driver) would not expect there to be a pedestrian. On a motorway, 90 kph is well below the signposted speedlimit. At that speed a vehicle is travelling at 24.93 metres per second. There isn't even enough time for an extrermely alert driver to respond to start braking. Further, will maximum braking effort on a dry road surface, a vehicle could not stop from 90 kph in 10/20 metres. I don't understand what you mean by "falls". Did the person fall off the edge of a road cutting?

I volunteer at a OP Shop and one of my tsaks is to sort clothing donations into male, female and kids piles. I've learned that the buttons of men's shirts are on the right hand side and those of women's are on the left hand side. Would it be inoffensive to describe a Gay man as having his buttons on the left side?