thankyou, it is as lathes UK say, very well thought out, especially the oiling.
Nothing much under Cazzes will try Henri, or practice my french n phone the factory
yeppers we are so limited down here in what we can buy.
good of you to reply
Soft spot for the Aus. Took R&R Potts Point, the "notorious" Texas Tavern, off RVN, 1968. As if the BEST parts of an earlier and more "direct" America had been preserved without as much gratuitous posturing and "Bu Ci.' Nice folks, IOW.
BTW: Aus dollar was worth US$ 1.26, that period. Been a while, yah?
Back to silly-villain life, metro DC, so off I go to the nearby Australian embassy to see about emigrating. Didn't NEED "Assisted passage". Never having been into drugs nor hooring, I'd saved rather a lot of money whilst in uniform.
Great folks, the Embassy staff. Gifted me several days old Aus newspapers the embassy got fresh each day by air. So I doos my research. Lots of books and such.
At the time, Aus had the highest statistical percentage of homosexuality of any nation reporting.
Well. Maybe. Or maybe they just didn't give a damn about hiding such proclivities, 'coz I don't think it was ever true, then or now.
Not that I CARED. God ever made anything more attractive than a healthy woman with an appetite, she kept it for her OWN amusement!
The killer? Aus was also the most heavily UNIONIZED of reporting countries. And THAT statistic WAS accurate. Most of my family were Union, one or another. I had been United Steelworkers card-carrier.
But I had also already learnt how b****y POLARIZING and destructive of decent government Unions cannot avoid being. Fox and the scorpion thing. It's just their nature.
Gave emigration a miss.
Dunno if I am the better for it 50-plus years on.
But Aus surely is!
Self-sufficent wherever it is possible, or even when NOT possible, they've no need of
importing professional arseholes.
Grow enough of their own, y'see.
I DID say "self sufficient", yah?
