Young men and young women share the same dietary and boozing habits - food on the run and the regular booze binges - but men do more of the physical work and they are outdoors 'on the hoof' more through their sport and other recreational pursuits. Then there are the differences between male and female bodies, but best not to mention that.

So yes, ladettes could be showing more early physical signs of their over-indulgence and indolent lifestyles.

The benefit is that there is much more canvas for tramp stamps and skin folds for body piercings. A hornbag would wear something noice, different and unusual to show the midriff (and the thighs, look at moi hornbag thighs).

It catches up with the lads as they gradually wean themselves off participant sport and the boss decides that anyone of a certain age (getting lower and lower) is a disgrace to the workplace.

Phew, Whistler only just pipped CJM at the post to wave the flag of political correctness, 'You swine, politically incorrect humour is verboten on OLO'. Still, we can always have a titter with the delightful Kath and Kim. Kath and Kim hasn't been banned yet by the PC thought police, or has it?

Maxi

Agree totally: thanks for the light hearted thread.

Foxy: sex + motorcycles = adrenalin and style

Yabby: double eeuuuuwww - no style wotsoeva.

Piper: glad to be of help - I just recalled what I liked to do when I was 19. A thought: I took a discounted flying lesson once - some companies offer a cheap deal of one flight to try and get you to sign up for a course which you don't. Fun, fun, fun.

Dear Fractelle,

Faeries + Gnomes + Minis = Charm, Wit, & Daredevilry!

Cheers My Dear.

It gets worse every year Hasbeen, just trying to think of something interesting. Is there a decent point when a parent can just send a birthday card and a letter asking how they are? He has recently built me a new computer and I don’t think I can keep up. He has a holden commodore (I am asking the manthing on the couch) about ’97. But he just got himself new tyers and a car stereo.

But he is a crazy kid, does work full time and does the big two hour commute to Sydney and back each day so one of those work hard play hard boys that has more hair products than his mother and a more extensive wardrobe than his sister and it probably wont be long before he is earning more than his father. At that point we’ll probably disown the little sod. So I’ve narrowed it down to movie tickets, some kind of extreme activity or something for his car.

So the hubbard things were dresses. Freaky stuff. They sound hot, like temperature wise. What were you doing hanging about the Pacific Islands anyways?

Cheers Max, I am probably overthinking it aye.

“The benefit is that there is much more canvas for tramp stamps and skin folds for body piercings. A hornbag would wear something noice, different and unusual to show the midriff (and the thighs, look at moi hornbag thighs).”

You crack me up Cornflower.

Good one Fractelle, we have a little airport close by.

Dear Piper,

What about the latest Apple iPOD classic?
It has 120 GB of storage - space up to
50,000 songs, 150 hours of video, 2,500 photos ...

Or just give him the Gold Class movie tickets -
(travelling and working so hard - he'd probably
like to chill out and relax with his girl on
his Birthday). He can save doing all the 'exciting fun
stuff,' when he's a bit older (and going through
his mid-life crisis).

Pied Piper, I got sick of climbing the corporate ladder in Sydney, climbed on a yacht, & went to have a look at the Great Barrier Reef. It seemed silly to turn around, so I sailed up to the islands to have a look around the WW11 sights.

When I got there I found lots of the out stations, plantations etc, wanted jetties built, machinery & power housed fixed, & could get no one to even talk to them, let alone come & sort their gear out.

I didn't know all that much about some of the stuff, but I knew a lot more than anyone else, who would come out to them. I must have done OK, as I did it for 4 years, & the demand kept growing.

On one atoll they wanted me to stay & marry the number 2 princess. It turned out that it was not my beauty, or ability at fixing things which had won her heart. It was the fact that she was too closely related to all the eligable men to be able to marry.

Later I took 5 of their girls, with the same problem, to another atoll, about 250 miles away, & brought back 6 of their young blokes, to sort the problem, for a while. A hundred years ago, or less, they still went on wife raids to the other atols, & were raided in return, but today they no longer build big enough double canoes.

If ever you get the chance, go have a look. Its a wonderful part of the world, but only with your own boat, can you get to much of it.

Sorry about tour thread Max.