Stratos wrote on Oct 12^th, 2014 at 7:33pm:


Great!

Sooty decided to share my afternoon siesta yesterday.

Stratos wrote on Oct 12^th, 2014 at 7:33pm:


Fair enough, but no one wants to admit to being partial to life on the dole. The young ones today have a bedroom packed with electronic goodies to listen to and play with all day long while mum prepares the meals and collects the dirty laundry.

Mobile phones, CDs, iPads, digital TV, DVDs, unemployed friends to visit, bong parties, rock concerts, 'easy' girls to shag, surfing, etc etc...

Today it's a thousand times more difficult to get motivated to leave the family home for a working life than it was for me in the late 50's when there was virtually nothing to do at home ... (no 'easy' girls to shag. They all had principles in those days).

My first job meant getting up to an alarm clock at 5:00am on freezing cold black mornings with the icy sleet ratta-tatting against the window pane, and then getting into my leathers for the motorbike run into town from the countryside along roads that were thick with icy mush. Couldn't bend your fingers by the time you got there, and ears in danger of frost bite.

I hated that first day, and every following day of my entire working life.

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'Sooty' .. otherwise known as ... 'Fat Boy'

Bobby. wrote on Oct 13^th, 2014 at 5:59am:


There's quite a story to him ~ but I don't know the half of it. He's a mystery. Came into my backyard half-starving and very traumatised. A nervous wreck. Petrified of humans. It took me and my other two an entire week to entice him out from under the house. That's an all-time rcord. It usually takes no more than a day.

Every morning after he's had breakfast he jumps up on the table and butts head with me to acknowledge I'm the Top Cat here and he's my grateful subordinate.

He's Boss Cat in this street. As good as he is to my two cats, he's a 'Worst Nightmare' to the other moggies up and down the street. They keep their distance now. Strong as a pitbull and with canines like a Taipan's fangs.

What did people expect under the Abbott Austerity Program?

I predicted it:

http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1372809408

Bam wrote on Oct 13^th, 2014 at 7:27am:


'Vulnerable people' ~ my arse.

I once overheard and witnessed a Job Seeker staff member put down the phone after talking to a 'client' who had phoned to say he couldn't come in for some reason, then say:

"Get a job you lying bastard!"

gone wrote on Oct 13^th, 2014 at 3:37pm:


A revolution of drunken, dung addicted, over-weight, violent Australian with no intrest in working? yeah i'm sure that  revolution will be successful.

Pantheon wrote on Oct 13^th, 2014 at 3:44pm:


You will see. It's only matter of time. 

Pantheon wrote on Oct 13^th, 2014 at 3:44pm:


Yep just wave one of these around and they'll run a mile...