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    Take a Trip Down Memory Lane and See What Men's Fashion Looked Like in 1970s Australia

    My typical work outfit in the 70's was a Royal Australian Navy sailors uniform! (Until I exchanged it for a nurses uniform)
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    What this woman found in her KFC chips will shock you!

    @Defiant 540, Angry? Really? Angry at a comment? How stupid.
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    Alphabetical Bands/Groups

    ZOOT!
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    Alphabetical Australian Places Game

    Zilzie, Qld
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    Alphabetical Bands/Groups

    X-Ray Specs
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    This British expat was SHOCKED by these 5 things she experienced in Australia

    Good to know! Not everyone complains tho, we just see a lot more of it these days because of social media. Some people will whinge about anything if they have an audience! I had the misfortune of sharing a bus in Spain, with some English tourists. Their complaints were that no one spoke English...
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    This British expat was SHOCKED by these 5 things she experienced in Australia

    I lived in post (just)Thatcher England, post military deployment, to have easier access to travelling through Europe! It was a surprise being cold for most of the year, but you get used to it! I chose to emigrate to a foreign country because I knew it would be different and NOT Australia. I...
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    The One Fruit That Could Put You at Risk if You Take These Common Medications

    PS Chocolate may have, usually, more potassium than bananas!
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    The One Fruit That Could Put You at Risk if You Take These Common Medications

    Understandable. Potassium interacts with certain medications but not all! You'll have to trust the advice given by your GP, not common myths and incorrect "facts". There are certain antihypertensive (high blood pressure) medications effected by potassium. Ask a pharmacist! Our bodies need...
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    The One Fruit That Could Put You at Risk if You Take These Common Medications

    It may be a fact that bananas contain potassium, but so do many other fruits and vegetables! The general advice is to not take potassium, as in POTASSIUM SUPPLEMENTS! Bananas contain between 380 and 420 mg potassium, about 12% of a recommended daily value. You'd have to have to binge on bananas...
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    The One Fruit That Could Put You at Risk if You Take These Common Medications

    That is incorrect! There is more potassium in many other foods other than the humble banana! Avoid POTASSIUM SUPLEMENTS! Not food! Your body needs potassium to thrive! Ask any dietitian! or look at www.healthdirect.gov.au/foods-high-in-potassium
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    The One Fruit That Could Put You at Risk if You Take These Common Medications

    Maybe it is because of my career as a professional nurse, and familiar with pharmacology, that I have been aware of this fact for decades. I also take antihypertensive, anticoagulant and antidepressant medications, just to name a few. They all come from the pharmacy with pharmacological...
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    'Don't fix what's not broken': Here's why the internet is shocked by this woman's idea for an alternative to toilet paper

    Ha! The internet was shocked!!! 🤣 Poor bloody internet! Call the wahmbulance!😂 Check out toiletpaperhistory.net to see what people used before TP was used!
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    Woolworths under fire for this 'frustrating' self-service checkout feature

    Unbelievable! This idiot would probably complain that her water is too wet! Build a bridge fool!
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    Macca's worker refused to clean and quit mid-shift – reasonable or not?

    What a bloody idiot sook! His choice to work in that environment in the first place, and cries because he has to get his poor little hands dirty! Makes me mad as hell!
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    New fear unlocked – One camper woke up to WHAT in her ear

    I have had similar, in as far as having had a scorpion in my sleeping bag. Bugger stung my on my back! Spiders were the worst though. Scary buggers! Had goannas and possums raiding in the middle of the night. Had a mate who woke up to a snake in his tent! If you go camping, you are in the...
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    This common driving habit is MORE dangerous than using your phone - are you guilty?

    Tailgating is not just dangerous, it is illegal!!!
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    What are your New Year’s resolutions for 2023?

    48 years ago I resolved to never make another new years resolution. It worked!
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    Yesterday's 3-year-old......

    "Computor" games!!!!! 🤣
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