Brian

I hear a song and I’m instantly transported to a time or place with mostly fond memories. Other things can do it to like smells but music is the most powerful. I also find I can get extremely emotional with particular songs.

What do you think about the anti-hoon laws, would you dob, should we have zero tolerance, what about hoon plates. In Tasmania for the first offence a 48-hour vehicle impoundment, three months for a second and indefinitely for a third. I suppose we have all been guilty of “youthful recklessness” I think I worked most of mine out in the bush and paddocks in old bombs and motor bikes, not so easy these days.

The statistics are frightening - cars impounded
50% were speed related, 49% were hoon-related and 1% were for other driving offences;
55.3% of all impoundment offences were committed by the holders of Probationary Licences. Of these, 40.3% were speed related and 59.7% were hoon-related.
Of all hoon-related related impoundments, 39% were in relation to ‘burn-outs’, 30.3% were in relation to ‘fish tailing’, 28.2% were in relation to ‘wheelies’ and 2.5% were in relation to other hoon acts.

I know I’m taking a big risk here but I think the question needs to be asked, has the SIDS organization got anything more to offer or have we learnt all there is to know about this terrible occurrence. The results so far have shown that nutrition, bedding, sex, age, race, position, cigarettes, room temperature, drugs, weather and some medical conditions all contribute. This is great and I’m sure have saved life’s but are we now funding a huge machine that has done its job all be it well. I’m just asking the question I could be totally wrong and it may be appropriate to ask the same question of other organizations, it just seems to me that these well intended and in the beginning useful enterprise’s grow to a point and then only exist to perpetuate themselves. I actually hope someone can shoot me down in flames.

nutrition,

When a friend has a new hair colour and it looks awful do you say that looks great. Even more serious you tell your insurance company it wasn’t your fault, or Iraq has wmd’s

What is the best or worst excuse you’ve heard or used for being late.

I nominate Nikon’s Universcale

My first was a Dick Smith 1K I think it plugged into our TV with little stick figures kicking a bar thing, we then graduated to a commodore 32 with cassette sloooow load, then a 64 with a floppy WOW, I still have a Toshiba 186 laptop in working order might be worth something one day.

Chemical castration, aversion therapy, reparative therapy, lobotomization, psychosurgery, role-play therapy, murder, lock them up forever, or what?

We know we exist because we know the opposite of that is false, perceiving there is a difference between the two, but WHY ? Why can we know I am I ? versus I being not I?

What is the reason I exist? Is what ever I achieve the reason ? What if I don’t achieve it?

What happens when it over ? (the questions stop or do they)

Who cares ?

1 Remember the three R’s: Respect for self; Respect for others;

2 Responsibility for all your actions.
3 Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
4 Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.
5 Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
6 Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a good thing.
7 Learn the rules then break some.
8 Remember that the best relationship is one where your love for each other is greater than your need for each other.
9 Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
10 Remember that your character is your destiny.
11 Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.

12 After dark all cats are leopards

13 All sunshine makes the desert

14 Ask the experienced rather than the learned.

15 Avoid the evil, and it will avoid thee.
16 The best armor is to keep out of range.
17 By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn.

18 A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood
19 The deeper the sorrow the less tongue it hath

20 Don’t dig your grave with your own knife and fork

21 Don’t speak unless you can improve on the silence.
22 Every road has two directions

23 Fear not a jest. If one throws salt at you, you will not be harmed unless you have sore places.
24 First deserve, and then desire.
25 First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.
26 A half-truth is a whole lie.
27 The hammer shatters glass but forges steel.

28 He who builds by the roadside has many surveyors.
29 He who knows little quickly tells it.

30 If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one.

31 Never squat with your spurs on.
32 No one can see their reflection in running water, only in still water can we see.
33 The sinning is the best part of repentance

34 Tell me and I’ll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I’ll understand.
35 There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.