4 model aircraft, one model T34 from my secret santa, and 4 WW2 books to get through. Two referenece books for insects and butterflies/moths and a new duvet. Don't ask, i don't know. And Owen? Thanks for tagging the rembrella for me, I could have saved myself a £100 on other stuf and just given my mum the brolly, She was well chuffed!
I've been watching what looks like a new Chritmas Show for the BBC...it's called "Grumpy Old Christmas", and it looks at grumpy British fathers and why the most festive time of the Year should be cause for these boys to complain....just a few quotes that caught my ear.... SANTA... "When I was a kid, I still believed in Santa-claus, and it's never your mum and Dad that tell you..it's always one of your friends..."You know, it's your Dad....".....I was proud of that, WHAT MAGIC..that MY DAD should get into this big Sleigh EVERY YEAR...." OFFICE PARTIES.... "These office parties are NOT designed for you to enjoy yourself...You can undo an entire years work with one drunken comment." Office Party Typical conversation...... "Can I be honest with you...it's for your own good...." "I KNOW...you ARE a complete a$$hole...but it's for your own good." MUSIC "Every year we get these Special Christmas Collections of music ...and they're just RANCID..." CHRISTMAS DINNER "Whatever you do....don't offer to help." "Turkey is like chewing on woodchipping." "THEN theres the ritual of the OOOing and AHHing over the food....." "Everybody LOVES Christmas pudding, they all say it...and I say, "Well, if you love it, how often do you eat it?..."Oh..once a year...' CHRISTMAS JOKES "I'VE READ FUNNIER OBITUARIES..": CHRISTMAS GIFTS "Xmas morning............ you come downstairs feeling like a rats bum from the night before." "Now, as a Father, unwrapping presents is like the 'Rorkes Drift' of paternity..."Ohh...ANOTHER 1000 piece Jigsaw from Grandma....that WILL come in handy.." "And what do you about Grandad?...a man whose owned everything he's ever wanted since 1974..." "..And I said..."Kids, this year...NO SOCKS...I mean it...NO SOCKS...lets just try it as a social experiment." "You SHOULDN'T have..." "Well...give it back then..." CHRISTMAS TV: "I've seen the "Great Escape" so many times, i think I'm IN IT..("Was I in this bit?....no no no!.") Merry Xmas...kimosabes!
Ta bros....i sometimes wonder whether anybody is reading that which I post......thats chiefly why I like the replys.....it gives me a chance to gauge the popularity of what I've written...... I do try to quote sources for you....this way, people who wish to rebutt my arguments have every opportunity to see where it all comes from....this is the purpose behind listing sources...it's not just to proove that you've actually read something relavent, it's to allow others to check your work... I invite EVERYONE to check that which I post.....If anyone has a correction, or feels that the information provided is dubious, please let me know......a few words in a kind reply does wonders for my morale...!
Ta bros....i sometimes wonder whether anybody is reading that which I post......thats chiefly why I like the replys.....it gives me a chance to gauge the popularity of what I've written...... I do try to quote sources for you....this way, people who wish to rebutt my arguments have every opportunity to see where it all comes from....this is the purpose behind listing sources...it's not just to proove that you've actually read something relavent, it's to allow others to check your work... I invite EVERYONE to check that which I post.....If anyone has a correction, or feels that the information provided is dubious, please let me know......a few words in a kind reply does wonders for my morale...! Yassou file mou Christos, Kala Christouyenna!
This is getting out of hand!...i cloud not speak Greek if you gave me Aristotle as a teacher!...i might just have to learn the language just to fool everybody....great laugh, though! I'm going to have to change my handle in here...the majority of people seem to have a mental picture of a balding, fat and hairy individual, typing away in a dingey apartment in downtown ATHENS.....!
This is getting out of hand!...i cloud not speak Greek if you gave me Aristotle as a teacher!...i might just have to learn the language just to fool everybody....great laugh, though! I'm going to have to change my handle in here...the majority of people seem to have a mental picture of a balding, fat and hairy individual, typing away in a dingey apartment in downtown ATHENS.....! No, I always knew it was Brisbane!
I can't get used to the idea of an Australian Christmas. It's just not right. Beach , barbies and sunshine.
Owen ...you echo the words of my mother and myself.....and we have lived in Oz most of our lives...Chritsmas holiday for us means beachs, surf and sand in between the crevices of your backside....sunburn, cold collation, and Christmas dinner that leaves everybody in a warm sweat at the table....the awful television, the marvellously unsingable christmas dittys...the gifts you pretend to like, the gifts that you bubble over with enthusiasm for....the holiday road toll, the gloriously immobile workers on holiday....Christmas hampers with everything in them but what you really wanted to eat for Christmas...long drives up and down the coast...lights on houses from individuals with more time and money than you have....Backyard Cricket, endless sport on television (our government is turning our kids into SIMPL MINDED SPORTS PEOPLE, who have no capacity to disscuss anything that makes them feel inadequate..which is most of what people talk of... The art of conversation is DEAD in most Aussie homes...talk about a subject for more than 5 minutes and you have usually lost your audience. It's a shameful example of how our education system fills these kid's heads with all this 'feelgood' crap...(now, you didn't get the correct answer, but you treid VERY HARD, and thats all that counts...POPPYCOCK!)....Average attention span for most adult topics....ALL DAY LONG...Aussies can talk about womens boobs until the cows come home.... Football...another coversation topic that is flogged....not worth speaking of at the best of times...our television coverage of the game is replete with burly football players making 'expert' statements like.., "Yeah, it was a great game, the boys all pulleds together, and victory today went to the side that could score the most points.."...OH YEAH...I've waited over an hour of the telecast just to hear that?.... Australia is an amazing mix of intelligence and thickheadedness...all in the same nbatural character of the people...I'm a Pom by birth, so I don't suffer the Ozzie obsession with sport....in fact, it was only after their TV Gods TOLD them that they were Sports fanatics that Australians actually woke up to it....people are actually proud of the fact that they can name everyone of the members of the Brisbane Broncos, but can't tell you who Hitler was, can't find France on a map, and wopuld not know what informative conversation was if they came across it every day... Guys, I'm a meatworker, a SLICER in a Boning Room, so my contact with Aussie workers ids much the same as most trademan....and most meatworkers I meet have the 'Brains of a Cinema usher.....perhaps I do too, for picking such a lowpaying bluecollar job....but I LOVE it, and thats what you should do, something you love, something that gets you up out of bed in the mornig with a smile... Anything else is self delusion....
You could have been describing a good portion of the United States, Christos. I'll surmise that big burly football player doesn't realize that 50% of all teams that play any sport, lose. If Christmas there includes the young ladies in the lower left-hand pic, where do I sign up?
I'm on the GOLD CCOAST...there are more 'blondies' per kilometer sqaured here than in any other place, with the possible exception of Scandinavia.....The women of Australia are some of the most liberated females on earth...with the usual mix of intelligence and thickheadedness that, as you so rightly pointed out, could very well describe the entire western world, let alone us.... I blame our leaders for this dusgraceful state of our education system...
there are more 'blondies' per kilometer sqaured here than in any other place, with the possible exception of Scandinavia..... I'll second that!
I'm on the GOLD CCOAST Funny, I thought I lived on the Gold Coast. You are David, trust me, you are. But you need to keep quiet about, we don't want herds of foreigners* thundering in, messes up the balance we work so hard to obtain. *Anyone not from the South or who has not lived here a prescribed number of years. David, you qualify as a citizen, not a foreigner.
The suburb I live in (and own this house) is called BEENLEIGH....it's a very central suburb of Brisbane, about 40 minutes away from the City center, and about the same distance from the Gold Coast.....I'm about to leave most of my rsearch material behind to travel up north to DARWIN for a stint driving mini-busses ther...I'm going to conduct research and give you some excellent pictures from the very good WWII siotes that still exist there...look forward to these posts in the weeks to come.!
