One news item which got a run this week was about shearers ill-treating sheep. Now we know this happens, and we don’t condone it at all. It shouldn’t happen, but the trouble is some of the people who are complaining have no idea what it’s like to struggle with a recalcitrant wether. Someone apparently made the silly suggestion that the reason this happened was because the shearers were on drugs. We’d be more likely to think that if they were on drugs they wouldn’t give a damn. Some of these animal welfare individuals seem inclined to make controversial statements to justify their existence.
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The other day we heard about the fellow who had a call from one of those telephone parasites who claim you have a virus on your computer and offer to ‘fix’ it. The caller asked if he was sat in front of his computer and he replied that he was. Then the scammer gave a few instructions of how to enter certain details, but our friend said he couldn’t manage to do that. So the caller asked: “What kind of computer have you got?” “Well,”” came the reply,” I’ve just turned it over to have a look and it says: A-B-A-C-U-S. “The conman then gave up.
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In the light of our par last week about the possibility of our Council flying the Aboriginal flag, we were interested to read that Broken Hill Council has decided to fly that flag permanently. And their General Manager, who made the announcement of the decision, is former local executive Therese Manns.
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A local fellow was in Canberra searching for a friend he had promised to meet. He knew he was in the right suburb, but he couldn’t locate the correct destination and was completely lost. So he rang the friend, who asked if he could identify any familiar landmarks. The lost one looked about, and the most prominent landmark he could spot was a building with a sign which announced that it was an ‘Alzheimer’s Centre.’
