In your bush travels this is a bit of useless information  you can file in the useless information file we all maintain   or maybe  if you need to out wit the kids at trivial pursuit it could help show that  your smarter than them .


How do you tell the difference between a Wallaroo , Wallaby, and Kangaroo

Wallaroo has no hair on it's nose

Wallaby has hair on half it's nose

Kangaroo has hair all down it's nose

you do know that this is a fallacy put about by the wallibies dont you??

they want you to think that this is correct so they can get you down on hands and knees to examine the nose, down to their height, just as you are counting the hair, the little bugger will poke you right in the eye and run off laughing

dont fall for that old one, sneaky little buggers they are.............

wallabys are pretty good eating as well!!

-- Edited by dave06 on Wednesday 15th of April 2009 12:30:46 PM

Wombat,  may I borrow that?  Too many beers perhaps, but my sides are still splitting....

well I messed with a cheeky little girls head the other day (bit of a habit of mine) I asked the little smart ass err!! ummmm!!! hummph!!! precocious little girl "how to catch a bird without a trap" give up????? well so did she so I said "lay down as flat as you can, be very quiet and make a sound like a grain of wheat, when the bird comes to eat you then you grab it" she still looks at me funny, not real sure!!!!!!!

It seems kids these days have not idea. I'm not talking about the things we remember doing at their age. I'm talking about how they spend their time when not doing their homework under protest. They have headphones blasting music into both ears at an horrendous volume, blasting some quite savage lyrics directly into their brains. They play computer games, some of which are quite grotesque and violent, during which they kill someone, and as if by magic they can kill that figure again next time. There's no such thing as dead forever. They watch vicious movies and then go out a relive the scenes. Their friends are also doing the same, and they the mix it with aclo-pops and nasty drugs like chrystal methamphetamine, and all reason in the brain is gone. They have no respect for people or property. What's going to happen if this doesn't turn around? What can we all do to turn it around? And they're our future leaders.

yep!!! the computer age, horrid thing it is, we used to play good quiet games like cowboys and injuns, circle the wagons and then shoot all the cowboys and rape all the women and steal all the horses, or was it rape the horses and steal the women and shoot the wagons, hell too long ago now, I cant remember, anyway then we'd scalp them all racing around whooping and a hollering, oh!!! wait a minute that's maybe not a good example is it umm!!!! cops and robbers, charge into the bank, shoot all the tellers terrify all the customers and maybe shoot a couple of them, big shoot out with the coppers, errrr!!! starting to see a pattern here well we used to play a nice quiet war game in amongst 3 foot high marshmallows (big weeds grow real thick, hides dozens of kids) we used to build tunnels in amongst them to find the enemy and when we did we would throw marshmallow bombs over (complete with all dirt attached to the roots) and kill all the enemy any left alive well we would use our bayonets and "stab" them all, wooden knives would "slit" their throats "commando" style, hang some of the worst ones from an old pepper tree, hmmm!! I think I might have seen a bit of violence in there somewhere but just cant quite separate it from the great times we had as kids as John says it all comes back to respect for oneself and for others it just aint here no more!!!

Yes, but after all that violence you went in and had tea with mum and dad, whom you respected. Oh, some days you probably didn't like them very much if they caught you out doing one of those "forbidden" things, but you still respected them. You didn't take your revenge out on them by pouring petrol over them and setting them alight, or stabbing them or shooting them. It's gone past imagination and pretending, and all without respect or any concept of the damage their actions have on others. There doesn't seem to be a division between real and depicted on computers games. And they're using real guns and knives now. Does anyone play with cars, trucks and tractors in the sand pit anymore? That was my favourite with my cousins. Gee, I'm sounding old. Nah, it's just a state of mind. It has passed.

yep agree 100% granny, dont understand this generation but I can still hear my old man saying "buggered if I know what you're gonna be like when you grow up, bloody kids of today, I dont understand this generation, when I was your age I was working 16 hour days and earning tuppence a week" well thankfully I have never "grown up" so I shall never know, my toys have just got a bit bigger and my sand box is certainly larger the experts reckon its the "instant" generation, everything must be attained as quickly as possible as in I want it NOW, and they normally get it just bringing a child into the world, not that it is that hard to do my dog did it for years until we had her "fixed", anyway to bring a child into the world automatically grants mum and dad $5,000 and a pension for life, hell we got nothing never in the history of man (or woman) has any generation had so much in so short a time span, they call them "the spoilt generation"

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yep agree 100% granny, dont understand this generation but I can still hear my old man saying "buggered if I know what you're gonna be like when you grow up, bloody kids of today, I dont understand this generation, when I was your age I was working 16 hour days and earning tuppence a week"

well thankfully I have never "grown up" so I shall never know, my toys have just got a bit bigger and my sand box is certainly larger

the experts reckon its the "instant" generation, everything must be attained as quickly as possible as in I want it NOW, and they normally get it

just bringing a child into the world, not that it is that hard to do my dog did it for years until we had her "fixed", anyway to bring a child into the world automatically grants mum and dad $5,000 and a pension for life, hell we got nothing

never in the history of man (or woman) has any generation had so much in so short a time span, they call them "the spoilt generation"

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Sorry Dave but we (not you and I) but our generation made this current generation what it is today, we have allowed this to happen simply because we did nothing to prevent it. 

Maybe we were just short sighted and couldn't see what was coming or did we just stick our heads in the sand and hope somebody else would fix the problem?  I could be wrong but I believe that a large contribution to the lack of respect, which as Basil says is endemic in today's society, was the end of National Service.

 

I would fully suport NON ACTIVE national service, I am and always have been against wars and or police actions started at the whim of some rich twit who then wont send his own kids over to fight for a perceived injustice we are definately the problem, we seen what we percieved to be an injustice as a child and we "filed" it away so as to not impose that "injustice" on our child I.E. I will never smack my child I will make sure my kids never go without my kids will have everything that I never had, perceived and real we "spoilt" our kids (this generation) and we have got to take responsibility for OUR mistakes, they only pass on that which they have learnt from their parents (US) we are to blame, nobody else, it is our shortfall, but I wonder what the spoilt kids of the spoilt generation are going to be like

I don't know if it was a good or bad thing, but I had to get out of a violent relationship for survival purposes, and I took my 2 girls, the cat and the budgie, and a suitcase of clothes and linen. There was no family allowance, and I had to work to pay my way. Then I was entitled to the single mum's pension, which certainly subsidised my income, and my rent. I gave up the work to concentrate on being a mum. So I simply didn't have anything left to spoil them with. A chocolate on shopping day was it, but they were always fed and clean, the house was always neat and clean, and they had what they "needed". I didn't have anything special either, and we didn't have a car for along time. Now that was a challenge in Ceduna. They're not any worse off as they're grown up making their own way in the world. I have however perpetuated the single mum family I think. But it was by long-term relationship first, and then single because things just didn't get any better after the children came along. I think all these busy working families simply don't have or take the time to deal with family issues, including discipline, attention and sharing time. So the kids get paid off with entertaining devices. There's no immediate solution, but some of these handouts have to start being conditional. On the Cairns local TV news it was reported a mother had her toddlers taken from her after she fed them emulsified pizza, squid rings and other take away left overs. The kids must be strong, as they didn't get food poisoning, but I bet they had indigestion, and may have even been in pain. Life has to be better than that. Granny

once again granny I must place you one step higher on my admiration ladder, I deal with women all the time and I dont even begin to understand what they went through or are going through, I had a little personal snippet from the womens point of view with Julie, she was an absolute mess and that feller only broke a cot, but the emotions involved, I had no idea, she wouldn't leave my side for 3 days, didn't want anything to do with anyone else not even her own dad, she said he didn't understand and that she couldn't talk to him I talk to women on a daily basis who are in a dangerous situation (I am a senior phone counselor) and my first advice is always to "get out" but the trouble is then where do they go, Julie came here (well I went and got her) and said that "she felt as if she was wrapped in a big furry blanket" she felt extremely "safe and protected" which of course she was and not just by me most have nowhere to go, but without that support I can only imagine the troubles and torment, I truly admire anyone who comes out the other side with kiddies in tow well fed and well balanced, stronger person than I know I am, I take my hat off to you all, thats inner strength I agree once again that the "welfare" dependency must have some sort of conditions put in place after all if I go to work then i get paid, with that money I can buy and do things but without work I dont get paid and therefore I cant do things, and if I sit on my bum too long without work I get grumpy and I am not nice to be around, my hands have always got to be busy, (pleases the dragon no end) if these people dont go to work and just sit on their backsides all day then nothing changes, the paycheck still comes in, the grog can still be bought and if they have a child or two well then it's bonus time I am a great believer in "work for the dole", gives a person a reason to get up in the morning and they gain a certain respect for things when they have to work to earn it like the rest of us hell this is a good soapbox, not one iota of movement and you gotta love the handrails and book support that I built in, oh well back in the corner with it

I am always amazed at the lack of general knowledge when I happen to watch those afternoon television shows where 3 teams of three kids selected from only the private school system have to answer general knowledge questions .. It is absolutely scary to say the least when the combined brain power of 9 years 6-10 kids can't come up with an answer from a multi choice selection of 3 . If I was a parent paying for private schooling then I would certainly be having words to the principal about teaching my kid some of the more meaningful life skills. They can more than likely recite the entire works of Aristotle but can't use the yellow pages.