more important news

A motorbike crashes in Kalbarri. The paper reports that the bike may have hit an emu. The rider is seriously injured. yes, okay, that's unfortunate.
what we really want to know is... Is the emu okay?



Nick Lethbridge
consulting Dexitroboper

Super sub deal

i listened to AM this morning. and ended up cheerful. positive. optimistic, even.

it was a story about nuclear subs. some of which could be built in Australia.

The project would require expert workers. trained workers. some from overseas. some trained in Australia.
it will take years to build these subs. years of employment for specialist skilled workers. better start planning and training now...

what a terrific opportunity.
for years we have been subjected to demands to import workers. preferably unskilled workers. non English speaking. fit for the dirty menial work that no real aussie wants to deal with. jobs such as feeding the daily slops to old people. wiping the bums of screaming toddlers. and at the top of the skill set, serving meals to rich tourists.

building nuclear subs will require skilled workers. many of them. for many years of steady employment.

what an exciting... and positive... possibility for Australia.


Nick Lethbridge
consulting Dexitroboper

Perth Bears. Really?

To be honest, I don't know what sport the NRL manages. Rugby, I suspect. But there seem to be several types of Rugby. anyway...
There is a rumour that a new NRL team could be created. possibly in Perth. our own state tourism Minister suggests, the Perth Bears.

hang on...
didn't the NRL recently close down a WA team? due to not knowing where WA is, possibly.

and... Bears? There are no Bears in Australia. nowhere.
Yes there are koalas. often misnamed as Bears.
but there are none of them in our state. except in zoos. or stuffed in museums... perhaps that's the thinking.

will someone remind the tourism Minister which state he lives in.





Nick Lethbridge
consulting Dexitroboper

*bang*in a park near you.

Have you ever *bang* wondered why *bang*basketball practice requires its own special *bang*area? A hard surface? *bang*

Other sports *bang*can be played *bang*on the grass which is a part of every local*bang* park.

Cricket, foot*bang*ball, tee-ball, soccer. Playing games*bang*. Just running round hav*bang*ing fun. All can happen on grass.

*bang*Yet basketball requires*bang**bang**bang* its own special area.

In case you are *bang*really wondering... It is*bang* because basketball practice is all about dribbling: bouncing *bang*a hard ball on a hard sur*bang*face. Over and over *bang*and *bang*over again*bang*.

Have you ever wondered why people do not want a basketball practice area near their house?*bang*

life *can* be tough

yesterday I was less than impressed at the "hard luck" story on the radio... a couple who owned three houses and had raised the rents that they charged.

today, the same show found a less ridiculous story:

a family with three children and one house. they have reduced the kid's supporting commitments. there is less spare time and money to drive to and from the various venues.

there was no self pitying whingeing. the father dealt with the problem. worked extra hours. was not complaining. he was dealing with the situation.

not looking for pity. but i did admire his attitude. and efforts.

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Dr Nick Lethbridge / Consulting Dexitroboper
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The word "boobs" is so scary until you get to the second "b". (Alfred E. Neumann

tough times. not

The RBA raised interest rates by a quarter of a percent. The ABC was desperate to turn this into a hard luck story.

how have you cut back? they asked. oh, we decided to cancel our daughter's karate lessons.

oh, how terrible. but not as terrible as the next interview...

has it affected you?

oh yes, we are paying off the house that we bought when we moved to Perth. and we had to raise the rent that we charge for the house that we own in Melbourne. and on the house that we own in Sydney.

oh... and have you cut back on any of your expenses?

pause for thought

...ummm.... no.

Life is tough. for a reporter under orders to present hard luck stories.

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Dr Nick Lethbridge / Consulting Dexitroboper
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Dying for you to read my blog, at https://notdotdeaddotyet.blogspot.com.au/ :-)

The word "boobs" is so scary until you get to the second "b". (Alfred E. Neumann

sheep slaughter furore

Today's paper is full of opinions on the live sheep trade.

Traditionally, live sheep are packed into trucks. Packed even tighter into ships. They survive, mostly, for a few weeks. Knee deep in their own shit, in searing heat. Then they are slaughtered in whatever cruel fashion suits the bizarre demands of primitive cultures and religions.

It's claimed that, now, our sheep welfare is the best in the world. Until they are outside Australia, anyway.

Finally, the federal government plans to ban our live sheep trade.

Shock, horror, despair.

The trade brings in 92 million each year. A tiny fraction of the billions earned by our iron ore exports.

The live sheep trade employs more than 3000 people across its supply chain. Not counting the hammer wielding thugs at the end of the sheep's life.

It would take ten times that number to run a chilled carcase sheep trade. A trade which would not horrify Australian standards, civilisation and sensibilities.

The government is allowing time for producers to adapt.

Producers must adapt.

It is time that sheep traders joined the rest of us in the semi-civilised real world.

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Dr Nick Lethbridge / Consulting Dexitroboper
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Dying for you to read my blog, at https://notdotdeaddotyet.blogspot.com.au/ :-)

The word "boobs" is so scary until you get to the second "b". (Alfred E. Neumann