Back from our week out bush and I've gotta say, young people are useless! When we go out to the property we supply camp stretchers and thats it. They have to bring whatever they need to sleep in or on plus two hootchie's. One for them and one for the dog. We had students rock up without all their gear, they had no idea how to set it up and this is only 6 months after they learn all this shit at rookies. One girl was just going to sleep under her dodgy hootch on the wet grass in her sleeping bag without any ground cover for a week in the rain ignoring the strechers we offered...and she was an Army reservist before joining the RAAF
We had people that did not know how to light a gas BBQ or how to cook. One bloke said that his mum did everything for him and now he's married his wife does it Turning the gas OFF after the billy boiled was a little to much for some of them as well.

When we arrive the first job is to set the dogs up. So we give them a stake out peg and chain. They have to knock in the peg making sure it cannot wrap around any tree's and such. They then have to dig in the water buckets (this always gets them) the buckts have to be just far enough away from the peg that the dog cannot wrap the chain around it but close enough for the dog to reach it. One young lass, who we were warned about from a previous course instructor, likes to batter the eyelids and get the blokes to do the hard stuff. I went up to check on the students and came across one of the male course members digging in her water bucket. Suffice to say she got a bit of a rude shock on whats going to be happening over the next week and how I expect her to perform ( I really hate the "I'm just a girl routine").

(Whew thats the end of my little rant...for now.....)

most young people are into "shortcuts".

Rich
DRSS

Thats modern kids for you BUT they can do computer stuff and change TV channels better than us mate

Gryph mentioned the main word at fault - "TV".

Todays little darlings have an attention span no longer than the gap between adverts , and they expect the "entertainment" to come to them on demand.

And we have made them like this. Dont ask me how to un-make them , although smashing the tv set is a good start ...

although smashing the tv set is a good start ...

hey muzza i`m agreeing with you...again!

I love it when you two get along....makes me all warm inside.

We both have given up TV cobber!

You only gave up TV cause you got pissed off when they took Cop Shop off air Gryph...or were you a prisoner fan

No cob! I never missed the Liberace specials.

Never did like that Animal Lib moll Linda Stoner with her black mole on her dial.

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I never missed the Liberace specials.

Mate you make it easy don't you but I'll leave that alone

My favorite show of the olden times was The life and Times of Grizzly Adams. Thought that show was great.

In real life he lived with Libba bakesy?

I read somewhere that `ol fag bag liked the 'bears' hahaaa