Marla wrote Yesterday at 7:19am:


Versus you. One who would sponge off the government for pot.

UnSubRocky wrote Yesterday at 2:29pm:

Utter bs, I have been in India on ten different occasions, some of my stays were long enough to say that I have lived there and never once in thousands of miles of travel,  and between times living in cities or villages have I ever caught a hint of BO.

Any day of the week one can see Indians, who don’t have home facilities washing [all over] at public stand pipes.

And as far as hygene goes India, unlike Australia, has never had a National Campaign to urge the citizenry to wash their hands after wiping the anus.
Perhaps the campaign in Australia was just a precaution, that’s the charitable view.

Edit; just did a Google and India has had such a campaign, just a few years ago, but it was commercially inspired by Lifeboy [Unilever].

Jasin wrote Yesterday at 7:32pm:

Exactly as it did in my ancestral village in England, but the Poms got over it by gradually improving wages, age care and the introduction of the aged pension; it became unnecessary to have many sons to ensure some material comfort in old age.
Generally countries with good social security have low birth rates and high immigration.

Frank wrote Yesterday at 8:57pm:

You might also note that the Indian Armed Forces are fiercely proud of their British traditions and their various Colours reflect this,
you might also consider the respect that Indian troops earned from our ANZACS at Gallipoli, both as fighting soldiers and in the less glamorous but very essential role of water carriers [often under fire].

Frank wrote Yesterday at 10:49pm:

Just like us you mean, our first water closets, both as an idea and a facility were imported from England.
I can remember using ‘’Earth closets’’ and ‘’long drops’’ in Australian country towns up until the late 1990s.
Just as an aside a late friend who lived in a former mining town had areal long drop toilet, it sat atop the main shaft of a well ventilated gold mine, rummaging in the shed one day he found a couple of rusty tins of cyanide that had belonged to his father [see Cyaniding for gold]
realising the danger he held them in newspapers and disposed of them in the toilet/shaft, apparently they burst and killed all the bacteria ect because a few days later the gentle breeze from the tunnels turned the air so foul that the dunny was hauled away and the bulldozer used to fill the shaft for a bit and the dunny was hauled back into place.
The dunny was built on skids and was originally designed to sit on a small hole for each fruit tree as it was planted in the orchard; it was about 60 years old.

The orchard was still producing fruit.



Recently, travelling to Brisbane the men’s and the disabled toilets at one council controlled rest stop were so fouled that everyone was using the ladies.
Generally Aussie wayside toilets are not bad but nowhere in India did I ever see toggle water taps on the wash basins, saw my first Australian one in Tenterfield NSW where the Council had apparently never heard of one armed people who wanted to wash their hands.
Would not have known about it but a one armed mate told me, so  I took a look.

Jasin wrote Today at 12:53am:


And, what’s more the rolls are smaller than ours.
Muslims have no need for it as the fingers of the left hand are used, hence the reason that they only eat with the right hand.