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Money can't buy happiness? It would certainly bye me happiness! As the old saying goes, "There are other things in life besides money...misery, poverty, hunger, debt." Some for me, some for my son and daughter, and some for my 4 granddaughters. If people win that kind of money, and they go...

Well, that "negligible" amount would be better spent on aged pensioners, as far as I am concerned, I bet your bippy, the amount is more than you think it is (lots of hidden amounts that no one knows about - what the government tells us they are spending, I guarantee you is not the total amount)...

I am really tired of the shallowness of the modern Western world. Shit happens, step over it and move on. The universe will not end tomorrow because of trivial nonsense that seems to rule most people nowdays.

I am in a retirement village on the Central Coast of NSW. When I retired, I couldn't afford to pay the high house prices where I wanted to live (10 minutes from my daughter). I actually thought I would be working until I keeled over! The maintenance fees cover building insurance (residents pay...

Not if you change the definition of vaccination. People from my era were vaccinated against Polio...they didn't have to have a half dozen vaccinations to be covered and they didn't get Polio either. Same applies to Diptheria and the other diseases. Vaccinate once against Smallpox, one didn't...

Nope, not a scientist or in the medical field. I can, however, read and research. All the "died suddenly cases", the incredible increase in myocarditis, the number of athletes/sports people suddenly having heart attacks on the field, the increase in mortality since the introduction of the COVID...

I am always stunned that people believe those screens protected against COVID, when the checkout workers touched fruit, vegetables and all the other purchases. Cracks me up! I remain uncovidvaxxed, I will never have that poison injected into me and I also have several health problems. I ignored...

If the government wants more money, they should put a stop to foreign aid, and cut by 3/4 the $30 billion spent annually on Aboriginals (said money not going where it is needed, only going to urban Aboriginals. Foreign aid is equivalent to welfare money; it goes to the countries' governments...

How do people think that everyone survived in Australia before the invention of air conditioning, or fans? I have a fan on at night to sleep (I loathe summer with a passion, and wait patiently for winter each year), but not during the day. I have air conditioning, but I would never use it due to...

Sitting at the table as a family is an important part of raising a family; time to chat, talk about the day etc. I always insisted on my children sitting down at the table for dinner, and now both my son and my daughter do the same with their families. My four grand daughters have grown up with...

There are certainly many positive aspects to civilisation, and plates and cutlery are two of those positive aspects. Damned if I would ever eat off a table cloth. Pure laziness. Just wash the damn dishes. She has kids, she doesn't even have to do the dishes herself! Train them young, dear.

I am over people deciding on a lifestyle choice and then demanding that everyone else in the world cater to them for their choices in life. If it is a medical necessity, fair enough, but "I have decided I am (insert choice here), now all of you will adapt to my wants. People need to realise that...

Leave literature alone! Write new stuff, but leave the classics and recent (say, last 100 years) alone. Kids should be reading the classics like Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn and any other novel that may have language that is not acceptable today. If kids can read about homosexuals and...

There are many, many things that I cannot abide...two of the many things, are dishes on the sink and an unmade bed. I get out of my bed and make it immediately, except on Saturday mornings as I wash my sheets and pillowcases every Saturday, use a mattress protector and shower twice daily. I have...

Steve McQueen...sigh...oh, sigh.

Several years ago, I was renting a first-floor unit. It also was flooded when a storm happened and I was walking through water. The landlord came and looked and his advice was to just let the carpet dry out. As a result, mould developed and I ended up in hospital with what I thought was...

The best little money saving tip, and I can't remember where I read it (it may have been on this site, and if it was, thank you to whoever posted it) is to take every $5 note found in one's purse and put it away somewhere. I have a box in my wardrobe and I go through my purse after shopping and...

I would never buy such a cake on principle. I am tired of having all of this in my face daily. People wonder why I long for society to return to the past; the past may not have been perfect, but homosexuals and lesbians kept quiet and did their own thing and people generally didn't care or know...

Teaching is a tough job? Now, there's an understatement. I retired last year after a couple of decades in the classroom. The only people who have in the remotest idea of a teacher's workload, are other teachers and teachers' families.