o sung wu,

Excellent posts.

You should be aware though that reminiscing can be good for you. It has been found that those who get into their old music, memorabilia and so on feel younger and happier and blood pressure shows benefits.

In the research I read about the subjects had rooms decorated to accord with what they experienced at home as youths, or at some good time early in life.

Heh, heh, maybe the grille of a Ford Customline on the wall, a silky oak bar with beer logos above and a decent firm lounge chair that doesn't seat you 200mm from the floor and immediately sag the rest of the way. Maybe use the Customline's bench seats raised on wood.

Some decent broadsheet newspaper articles to read would help, but there will be no going back to that.

Beach,

The story about the old bloke is actually true. The club threaten to bar him. The duty manager had a go at him one avo, and I and a couple of others stuck up for him. The duty manager said "he's ruined half a dozen chairs, we have to throw them out. shampoo the bloody carpet, he said I've spoken to the club president (ex-digger) about him, and he said "we'll bar him if need be." which would be sad, as the club along with bowls are his only outlet. if I said his name people would recognise him, as he was once a well known trotting driver in NSW, and I like his stories about the "Red Hots". My old father in-law had the same problem, he still had a drivers licence in his 80's, my brother-in-law used to give him hell, after dad drove the car. He would call him for everything. Not that the old man didn't have the pads, he did, daughter-in-law used to purposely buy them for him, show him how to use them etc, but he just refused to wear them. My own son has said I wont drive Pops old car, it stinks. B-I-Law said he was going to put his old man in a home because of it.

Incontinence is a real problem in society with our aging population.

Or were you having a shot because I said "Were you possibly a Janitorial Engineer in a past life?"

Paul1405,

You should be on the lookout for large rollers. Oh, cement too. LOL

O Sung Wu,
Don't forget the Corps Of Commissionaires, they were all ex prisoners of war who were employed as doormen and superintendents in larger office buildings.

Jay of Melbourne,

I had a bit of look around,

http://www.thecorps.com.au/

Interesting history. Thanks.

Here's a recent related article.

http://www.smh.com.au/world/lgbti-fight-in-the-us-shifts-to-a-new-front--the-toilet-20160429-goi0xe.html

We could make it so that if you don't identify as a man and you don't have the genetics of a woman, (and vice versa) you shouldn't use either male or female toilets.

Easily fixed? Not quite.

Then you're going to have a transgender male and a transgender female arguing they shouldn't have to share.

What a stupid can of worms this is...