"No speed bumps and islands in suburb streets."



We have the damned things in Canberra, you want to try driving around them and maintain your speed while responding to a fire call!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah it makes me sick the govt taking the chlorine out of the gene pool.
Not to mention things like renaming Ayres Rock, calling it a "brown out", not being allowed to call people names or even what they are.
the world is becoming a sad sad place

I made it through , sort of OK. Trying to apply the same ideaology today as we had back then gives me some trouble though.
Funnily enough though, people still die on the roads at ever increasing rates, the wrong people still shoot other people ,people still get good and drunk , people still fight , people are still black, white or brindle (even if we cant call them that) , people still get hurt at work , people still drive as fast as they want in whatever they want , ect.
I think people today whinge more and more about the government and stop to help their/our situation less.
It is time little "jackboot johnnie" wakes up though, there's too much bullshit around. Who wants to replace him though.

I only just made it through by sheer luck. All the rules helped though. Though there were a lot of gaps in the rules where I had the freedom to make a choice. Never knew how to handle those situations. Needed guidance. Now its much more comforting.

Hell I used to carry my rifle propped on the seat beside me when shooting and when driving the few kilometres to and from home. Had the bolt open but bullets in the magazine. Shit I get scared thinking how I might somehow had shot myself, or even worse drove off into town and did a mass murder seeing it would have been easier to do without having to get the rifle out of a gun slip and stick some rounds in a magazine. Phew! I'm glad that can't happen so easily now.

I do worry about the bull bar on my 4WD. Some innocent person might walk in front of me without looking and the bull bar might hurt them. I think a new rule is needed as if I wasn't allowed a bull bar they might get killed a bit lesser. Then again why a 4WD at all? There should be a rule about those too. I wouldn't mind having to drive all those extra kilometres home to swap cars before going into town. That rule would make me feel society is much safer. A car might only turn the victim into a 'vegetable' rather than kill them like a 4WD and that is much better.

I was speaking to a Doctor the other day and he is an expert on all these things. As he said, "he sees the results of alcohol, 4WDs, guns, knives with long blades, fire-crackers, bull-bars, swords, large calibre pistols, firearms with magazines holding more than 5 or 10 bullets ... He sees the results of these everyday so he knoww what is better for society than the average man, and knows they all need restricting." Funny that I only went to see the GP because I had a runny nose.

Its good too to see that I am no longer trusted to have fun with fireworks. I can drive a 20 tonne truck and shoot a big rifle (that one is worrying though) but those little red crackers were scary! They went off with a bang and a flash.

I'm glad the government has banned pocket knives. Those Swiss Army Knives were "Army" knives after all and designed to kill people. The Swiss are such a violent race carrying all those "Army" knives, plus I hear they all have automatic rifles in their houses. I wonder that there are any Swiss left in Switzerland. Oranges in any case are much nicer eaten with the skins on too.

Big dogs are really scary too. Now that I can't own or breed them anymore I feel safer in my house. Fido may have been friendly but maybe it was all just an act. Plus I know as soon as I leave my house, my bikey neighbours watch it for me and make themselves at home even if I haven't asked them over, so what do I need a big guard dog for? Neighbours are wonderful.

The best rule so far is beng told when to water one's garden. I'm glad I know now when to turn on and off the tap. And if I don't the government has asked all neighbours to watch their neighbours and if they haven't learned the correct time, to phone the inspectors and they will gladly help train the misinformed persons. Neighbourhood watch is great isn't it! Real community spirit!

I am worried now. I am feeling hungry. Should I eat or not. No one has yet told me it I am allowed to eat at noon or not? What will I do? I just wish they would make up a rule on that too. Life would be so much simpler.

I don't know how the early Australians coped. Imagine arriving in a new land and having to work out everything for yourself and make all your own decisions. I think it would have been better to stay a serf or peasant in Europe and know ones place and be told what to do every minute. We really should blame those early pioneers for the problems we have now and that our governments have to work hard to keep finding places where more rules are still needed to fill the gaps.

Good post nitrox.

Jeeez NitroX.......you must be my twin brother that was seperated at birth we think so much alike.

I'm with you , NitroX!

Pity we still can't punch fuck out of spankers.....that was what kept the good people in society from being hassled......



P.S. Karl I have tried to phone a couple of times mate.