Sometimes Sayings.

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I will take a wedgie over a strangulated scrotum any time.

Lang wrote:

I don't think it really matters where they live (we have a candidate who has lived for 10 years one street away from the border of the electorate where he is standing. Idiots are baying for his blood because he does not sell up and buy a house in the next street)

This is a Commonwealth election to to have a government to run the business of the entire nation and the bloke from Bairnsdale  must give equal weight to the people of Broome in national matters. There is often the time when any politician must sacrifice the will of his local electorate for the greater good of the whole nation. Don't worry, the spin doctors will have written his script of explanation as he does his whirlwind tour in a hard hat turning the first sod on a new factory that the government had absolutely zero input or support, handing out junior footy jumpers and drinking tea at retirement villages.

Any possible preferential expenditure for his electorate over all the others (other than saying what a great place it is) raises questions of pork-barrelling and a corruption scandal. That is why we have state governments and local councils who are tasked with much more direct representation of an electorate population. State reps still need the big picture much of the time while council ward reps can almost give local and full council matters equal opportunity.

You may vote for a shire councillor because she is nice or you like her personal agenda and she will get your gutter fixed or support your desire for a second rubbish bin. In this election we are voting for a national management team for 25,000,000 people. Any local matters are entirely secondary and in 90% of matters dealt with your rep must give equal weight to the full 151 electorates. Even those on a mission like the Greens and Teals believe their program is for the greater good and should be similarly restrained from favouring their own direct voters - good luck with that.

I'm not worried about people living in the next street but am talking about people with no knowledge of their electorate and living 100s of km away.  A member of parliament is elected to represent their local communities' views and should be accessible to the people who elected them.  Some of these candidates think Echuca Wharf is part of the Swan Hill Pioneer Museum, Think that water should not be taken out of rivers for any reason not realising that most towns and cities in Victoria rely on river water for their water supply etc. The national good they look for should be for the majority of the nation, and to pretend to know the concerns of the people who elected to you without any way of them speaking to you is irresponsible.  

One sunny day over Easter, we drove to a nearby waterfront area to watch yacht racing and fishing. Two young women walked past, one carrying a baby and the other carrying a boy of toddler age. The woman carrying the toddler was obviously replying to something he had said. We heard her say "yes, I do have boobies in my bra," When she realized we had heard her, she looked very embarrassed.
 

You should always carry a gallon of whiskey in case of snake bites. You should also carry a small snake.

Attributed to W C Fields by Sandi Toxvig.

Just an update on how the Prison Service is getting fully behind climate change Net Zero.

 

You don’t look at the mantle piece when you’re stoking the fire.

Cop a load of MainFreight signs on rear end of vehicles
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www.ensemblemagazine.co.nz/articles/mainfreight-truck-mottos
each n every truck has a different sayn

LOL
cya

 

 

The Formula one driver, Juan Emanuel Fangio said "driving fast on a racetrack does not scare me. What scares me is when I am driving on a motorway and some idiot who thinks he is Juan Emanuel Fangio races past me."