Hi Avoca I agree, I never get nagged! Mainly because every job or question my wife asks, gets resolved immediately, it is so easy that way. You know the task will eventually get done so do it now and have a happy wife and more time for your own things
The other mantra I have is decide whether you want to right or happy!
Roy
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Hi Avoca I agree, I never get nagged! Mainly because every job or question my wife asks, gets resolved immediately, it is so easy that way. You know the task will eventually get done so do it now and have a happy wife and more time for your own things
The other mantra I have is decide whether you want to right or happy!
Roy
roycv
@roycv
"Benevolent Dictatorship" sounds about right.
Rumpole of the Bailey often referred to his wife Hilda as "She who must be obeyed...", which I always found to be sensible advice.
Hi Avoca, now you Ozzies like a good argument especially with a Pom. Mostly the most trivial topics where the first one to laugh loses.😀
I met a lady well actually a young girl, well old enough anyway. I used to take the other side of any 'discussion' and we have been married now these 63 years.
However, she, her, my missus, worked out that if 'it', was just done, there was no argument, and I have lived with this benevolent dictatorship ever since! We settled down to what we each do best. She chooses and selects where we live, which house and holiday destinations and she is good at it too. No regrets whatever. I was a manager at work and just blended in when I got home, reading bed time stories was a treat for me.
Ah! Those were the days, our son was 60 last year and our daughter 2 years behind, so it was a long while ago.
Roy
roycv
Hi Avoca, now you Ozzies like a good argument especially with a Pom. Mostly the most trivial topics where the first one to laugh loses.😀
I met a lady well actually a young girl, well old enough anyway. I used to take the other side of any 'discussion' and we have been married now these 63 years.
However, she, her, my missus, worked out that if 'it', was just done, there was no argument, and I have lived with this benevolent dictatorship ever since! We settled down to what we each do best. She chooses and selects where we live, which house and holiday destinations and she is good at it too. No regrets whatever. I was a manager at work and just blended in when I got home, reading bed time stories was a treat for me.
Ah! Those were the days, our son was 60 last year and our daughter 2 years behind, so it was a long while ago.
Roy
I met a lady well actually a young girl, well old enough anyway. I used to take the other side of any 'discussion' and we have been married now these 63 years.
However, she, her, my missus, worked out that if 'it', was just done, there was no argument, and I have lived with this benevolent dictatorship ever since! We settled down to what we each do best. She chooses and selects where we live, which house and holiday destinations and she is good at it too. No regrets whatever. I was a manager at work and just blended in when I got home, reading bed time stories was a treat for me.
Ah! Those were the days, our son was 60 last year and our daughter 2 years behind, so it was a long while ago.
Roy
Well todays one in not nautical at all, Captain Peacock was ex army.
@roycv
Mmmm, well, only really one way not to be caught alive by jumping into a billabong I would suggest.
And anyway, Roy, its a folkloreish song, not a coronial inquest, give me a break already...
It doesn't actually say he drowned or got wet! But I bow to your more intermit knowledge. Good song though!
Roy
Up jumped the swagman, leapt into the billabong,
You'll never catch me alive, said he,
And his ghost may be heard as you pass by the billabong,
Who'll come a-waltzing, Matilda, with me?
roycv
It doesn't actually say he drowned or got wet! But I bow to your more intermit knowledge. Good song though!
Roy
Up jumped the swagman, leapt into the billabong,
You'll never catch me alive, said he,
And his ghost may be heard as you pass by the billabong,
Who'll come a-waltzing, Matilda, with me?
Roy
Up jumped the swagman, leapt into the billabong,
You'll never catch me alive, said he,
And his ghost may be heard as you pass by the billabong,
Who'll come a-waltzing, Matilda, with me?
@roycv
For the most part, most are. But not all.
In the song "Waltzing Matilda", the sheep(jumbuck) stealing 'swagman' jumps into to a billabong and drowns to avoid capture by "...the troopers, one, two, three...".
Mainly a low lying area that connects two parts of the same river, usually at a bend, during floods, also the breeding ground for most native fish.
So, very much alive.
Avoca
@roycv
For the most part, most are. But not all.
In the song "Waltzing Matilda", the sheep(jumbuck) stealing 'swagman' jumps into to a billabong and drowns to avoid capture by "...the troopers, one, two, three...".
Mainly a low lying area that connects two parts of the same river, usually at a bend, during floods, also the breeding ground for most native fish.
So, very much alive.
For the most part, most are. But not all.
In the song "Waltzing Matilda", the sheep(jumbuck) stealing 'swagman' jumps into to a billabong and drowns to avoid capture by "...the troopers, one, two, three...".
Mainly a low lying area that connects two parts of the same river, usually at a bend, during floods, also the breeding ground for most native fish.
So, very much alive.
I thought a billabong was a dry river bed?
Roy
Wordle: Well 'billabong' doesn't fit, so I'm stumped.
Now todays one is really difficult 🤣
It’s just Naval internal terminology just like the Principal Medical Officer has the nickname name of Scab Lifter - and a million other terms
SouthportPat
It’s just Naval internal terminology just like the Principal Medical Officer has the nickname name of Scab Lifter - and a million other terms
Don’t you mean Taranto.
I don’t understand the Royal Navy’s derogatory views on the Fleet Air Arm, they saved the navy’s bacon over and over again
EdW
Don’t you mean Taranto.
I don’t understand the Royal Navy’s derogatory views on the Fleet Air Arm, they saved the navy’s bacon over and over again
I don’t understand the Royal Navy’s derogatory views on the Fleet Air Arm, they saved the navy’s bacon over and over again
Another day, another whinge about Wordle.
Ummm, by their nature, aren't ALL fish predatory? I bet they are to whatever food they eat.
And, a 'shark' is the only predatory fish around here, as far as I know, and that doesn't fit.
So, once again, I yield.
Avoca
Another day, another whinge about Wordle.
Ummm, by their nature, aren't ALL fish predatory? I bet they are to whatever food they eat.
And, a 'shark' is the only predatory fish around here, as far as I know, and that doesn't fit.
So, once again, I yield.
Ummm, by their nature, aren't ALL fish predatory? I bet they are to whatever food they eat.
And, a 'shark' is the only predatory fish around here, as far as I know, and that doesn't fit.
So, once again, I yield.
@SouthportPat
Sure do, now, take that movie and pump it full of steroids.
Remove the proper military command, replace with unqualified, sychophantic, idiots and a zillion times more firepower, and we arrive at 2026.
I just hope there is a director somewhere ready to say..."Cut".
Avoca
@SouthportPat
Sure do, now, take that movie and pump it full of steroids.
Remove the proper military command, replace with unqualified, sychophantic, idiots and a zillion times more firepower, and we arrive at 2026.
I just hope there is a director somewhere ready to say..."Cut".
Sure do, now, take that movie and pump it full of steroids.
Remove the proper military command, replace with unqualified, sychophantic, idiots and a zillion times more firepower, and we arrive at 2026.
I just hope there is a director somewhere ready to say..."Cut".
@EdW
Yeah, butt you haven't beaten them at a World Cup since...
@Steves-s That's ok. I have a golden retriever like that. Takes over everything and I can't switch him off
Remember the 1970’s kids film Wargames - a look into the future of AI ?
They certainly did and one of Englands finest military leaders was killed on this day - always celebrated in Naval circles unless you are a WAFu then they celebrate Toronto night
SouthportPat
They certainly did and one of Englands finest military leaders was killed on this day - always celebrated in Naval circles unless you are a WAFu then they celebrate Toronto night
Pay, Didn’t England kick France and Spains buts on that day🤣