Col Rouge

What is the meaning of "sculilous" please?

Are you alluding to the fact that I suggested you were part of a "cartel" when in fact I meant "cabal?"

Either definition could apply, I daresay Col Rouge though on reflection, for someone who continues to pump himself up, feigning expertise in many fields and supposedly top dog in accounting but spends most of his time boasting on OLO, I would perhaps be more prudent to retract both descriptions.

And since my comment to you was made perhaps a year ago (who knows!?), may I ask:

"Why don't you get a life loser!"

Dickie, your post is about as ignorant as I have seen on OLO, but
then you do let your little petty hatreds and vendettas get in
the way of reason and good judgement.

Yes, there are population problems in the Islamic world and yes,
good family planning can change that. The thing is, at least they
acknowledge that and are prepared to address it and start to
take some action.

Not so for the Catholic Church, who still deny that there is
even a problem. It took them around 400 years to finally
concede that Galileo was correct, so we'll see how long
it takes them on this one.

As to my personal circumstances, which you want to drag into
this argument, I remind you that it was your ancestors and
not mine, who introduced sheep, cattle, foxes, cats and
other species into Australia in the first place. Land
was ploughed and washed away.

My involvement has been 30 years of turning what was
unsustainable, into a farming system that is quite
sustainable and a huge improvement in what existed
just some years ago. But then as you have no idea
about what is going on at the coalface of agriculture,
you are clearly too ignorant to understand the significance
of those kinds of changes.

Yours is a simplistic world of guilt by association,
perhaps best you just stick to the housework hey.

Yabby

"Yours is a simplistic world of guilt by association, perhaps best you just stick to the housework hey."

It's always a dead giveaway, Yabby, when we see you trot out your standard old 'housewife' put-down. It's a sure sign you're becoming rattled as dickie, yet again, runs rings around you.

Far from putting her back in 'her place' though as you intend, it only serves to highlight to us all that once again you've run out of ideas and recognize yourself that you're being beaten by a better mind.

Toot toot, here come the OLO sisterhood, peddling away on their
bicycles to defend comrade sister dickie.

I expected no less from you Bronwyn, but I do think that it is
a shame that you girls are so busy bitching, that you leave
it up to men to defend the rights of women in the third world.
Shame on you.

Your perception that housewife is a put down, is simply
your perception. Lets face it, its a very important
contribution, for if it never got done, those homes would
be pretty messy.

Men can't do and know everything and housework is clearly
an area of expertise, where women show a natural aptitude,
unlike us humble males :)

Given that comrade sister dickie knows far more about
housework then she does about agriculture, it is only
fair enough that she should do what she is skilled at.

Lets face it, if you were due to have neurosurgery,
you would want a neurosurgeon to operate. It is only
fair enough that if dickie wants to get bitchy and
comment about agriculture, hopefully she should have some
knowledge about the field,rather then just then knowing how to use
a google bar. So far that has sadly not been the
case.

Now do you have anything useful to contribute about
womens rights to family planning in the third world,
then you have so far contributed?

"I remind you that it was your ancestors and
not mine, who introduced sheep, cattle, foxes, cats and
other species into Australia in the first place. Land
was ploughed and washed away."

Yabby

A bit of trivia for you:

“ John Macarthur was an Englishman who first introduced sheep to Australia. By 1803, his flock numbered over 4000 almost-pure merinos. In subsequent years their flock expanded rapidly.

“John Macarthur returned to England several times, leaving his wife and growing family (14 kids) in Sydney. In 1801 he was sent to London to be court-martialled (as he was still an officer with the Corps) for involving himself in a duel. He was not only able to get the charges against him dropped, but also secured approval from Lord Camden to establish another large sheep-run south of Sydney, which he named Camden Park on his return in 1805.

“In 1808 Macarthur was in trouble again for his role in the Rum Rebellion, where Governor Bligh's efforts to stop the trade of rum in the colony were overthrown by an angry mob. This time, he resigned from the army in order to avoid another court-martial. He was, however, exiled from New South Wales and remained in England until 1817."

Oh yes – live exporter. Aren’t you lucky you haven’t yet been "court-martialled?"

Additionally, cattle, rabbits, goats and cats were on Britain's first fleet to Australia. And of course, less relevant and in more recent times, today’s West published an article on the disgraceful cover-ups of Britain’s atomic blasts at Maralinga.

Since you are an English migrant and my ancestors are not, I would daresay that the ancestral line of these recidivist eco-vandals is more yours than mine.

Not only do you deny that but you also deny that you and your cabal, or is that "cartel" (oops) continue on a rampant exploitation and destruction of this nation’s eco-systems. Perhaps you remain sufficiently deluded in believing that Australia remains a British colony and is yours to do with as you wish?

*Since you are an English migrant and my ancestors are not,*

Sheesh, I will have to waste another post on this dribble.

I am certainly not an English migrant, my background
is from central Europe.

How do you come up with this nonsense? Are you deluded,
do you just daydream, or just too old perhaps?

Given your claim to fame of your ancestors being here
for 6 generations, don't blame me for what happenend
in Australia before I arrived here in the 70s, blame
your ancestors.

What I have certainly done is to make a contribution
in agriculture, to make it sustainable. It was no such
thing when I arrived here, it is very different now.