So i'm back in Australia for a couple of weeks.....

.....And what the f*ck is going on with the weather? 40 degrees one day, 15 degrees the next. Went to a mate's wedding in Thredbo, got ridiculously drunk and managed to get kicked out of the bar 2 nights in a row. Damn Australia and its strict intoxication laws. Haven't been kicked out of a bar in Tokyo once, and yet as soon as I get back to Aus, some bar tender wanker is reciting to me everything he learnt during his 2 day RSA course at TAFE.

Good to escape the crazy busy-ness of Tokyo for a couple of weeks, mind.....

You can do the RSA course on-line in about half an hour ....

Lock up your sons

Did you encounter any racism ?

He encountered a few helicopters.

Try not to slit your wrists, Trev.

oi, shut up with the advice

I was over in Australia for most of October - work trip.

One question for the Aussies, because it's bad for this in Britain as well, but far, far worse in Australia. How the hell did you let the "authorities" get away with this endless petty officialdom? It's a nightmare now.

Apathy. It's a state of mind generated by the heat.

Meh.

Shoeshine wrote:I was over in Australia for most of October - work trip.

One question for the Aussies, because it's bad for this in Britain as well, but far, far worse in Australia. How the hell did you let the "authorities" get away with this endless petty officialdom? It's a nightmare now.

I'd also go for apathy.

I've also noticed a change in the press these days. An attempt to replace glass schooners in pubs with plastic cups after 10pm would once have stirred up a headline: Hey [insert name of Premier], Keep Your Hands Off Our Beer!

Today the headlines are all: Hey [insert name of Premier], How Many More People Must Suffer [insert bad thing] Before You Ban [insert whatever the paper blames for said bad thing]

Whatever the problem, the answer always seems to be to ban something and then to give some group extra powers to enforce the bannings.

I'm hoping that in the not too distant future it will all go too far and the people will stop being apathetic, but I'm not going to hold my breath.

Meh.

You should see the latest WA stop and search laws. Basically threw civil rights out the window and hardly a peep out of anyone.

Just slightly better than the bullshit bikie laws.

You an ol' Harley man from way back, qmy?

qmy would be a zephyr man . . .