Aussie humour, car swop day, political stupidity, flood affairs, shares

Rumours of my demise are untrue – despite three blog free months. Aussie humour, car swop day, political stupidity, flood affairs, shares and all that.

Our little band of neighbours has had a hard time of late.  We wish you well and good health.

We’ve recently ventured into the world of property development and in the course of doing so, have met Patrick K who has named us Mr. and Mrs. Echidna, or “Spikey” for short.  If you want to know about echidnas (echidnas are small mammals covered with coarse hair and spines), click here.

Some other little Aussie gems from PK include “sheep count him to go to sleep”, “he’s so tall, he’s only half way down when he’s lying down” and “he’s a bit 1,3,5”. A couple from one of my friends who shall remain nameless – “she bangs like a dunny door in a cyclone” and (in reference to country dances) the dating (spelled “mating”) strategy was “go ugly early”.

The dyslexic sign writer strikes again

Can you work out the logic behind the slogans on this car? Please let me know.  I am not kidding – I took this from the car last week. “training taint gives you more flxebility than ewre before!”  Here’s the web site if yuo’re intrested http://www.workskills.com.au/

A bit of Aussie subtlety.

Sticker

Why?

 

 

  On Sunday May 15^th, thanks to the eagle-eyed Mrs. K, we went to Green Plains to a car swop meet.  Green Plains is bandit country – the local tribes sport beards, tattoos and fierce hats, but they are pussy cats.  Browse the machinery at your leisure – unlike the British Car Day (blog) this was HOT ROD day.  I have never seen so much engine in a Ford Falcon, and this thing comes out the factory.  My personal favourite was the very elderly Dodge (I think) complete with two old hippie surfers, rust and muck all over the thing. They put them in the far corner in case the mud and attitude were contagious.

Way to go!

Tow Car

Look at the last line

 

Disasters have been a theme these past few months. The flood enquiry drags on – I suspect we’re about to find out that having a handbook and all sorts of people with their fingers in the decision pie simply doesn’t work.

When I wrote a draft of this blog back in March, I tipped a downturn in the share market.  Well, it happened. If building mega towers heralds the point at which a company or a country reaches the pinnacle of stupidity and self-importance, the Saudis are said to be to building a kilometer high mega tower in Jeddah. Think Sears Tower (Chicago), Petronas Towers (Malaysia) and Burj Khalifa (Dubai) and look what happened to the companies or countries in question.