Hi there JAY OF MELBOURNE...

Of course you're right! Wasn't that organisation formed to assist Vets in their post military employment, particularly if they suffered injury to their Limbs? Another group the 'Limbless Soldiers Assoc.' I think it was called? They had a triangular shaped badge if memory serves me right?

G'day ONTHEBEACH...& HASBEEN if you happen to be about...?

Speaking of the Ford Customline, I had one as a youth, a 1953, V8 side-valve job it was! Talk about a 'lair', trouble was I couldn't enter the true character, because of my 'short back and sides' haircut being in the Army! Never mind I cruised the highways and byways of Wagga and later Singleton and their environs. This 'pretentious' debonair looking idiot, who barely managed to pay the necessary 175 quid it cost me to purchase the thing?

The 'diff'. was a true work of mechanical perfection; whenever I passed a group of kids or dogs, the 'whine' it produced, used to sound like the howls of a large collective of Tasmania Devils on steroids. Naturally everything and everybody headed for the hills, for fear of their very lives, such was the mortifying effect it had? Eh they were the days 'doncha' reckon ONTHEBEACH?

I was under the impression the Commissionaires were all ex P.O.W's or invalids but by their website it appears that it's a general veterans support group. Maybe my recollection is coloured by the fact that the only member I knew, my high school girlfriend's grandfather was a former British soldier who'd been a prisoner on the Burma railway, I recall us visiting him in his little rooftop flat in one of the buildings in Swanston St Melbourne where he was the doorman.

Hi there JAY OF MELBOURNE...

No, with respect, the Corps is open to all Vets, as long as they've received an honorable discharge at the conclusion of their engagement. From what I've heard, they're a pretty good organisation who really look after the interests of all Vets, thanks Jay.

The problem with gender-less toilets arises in crowded places where people line up outside the cubicle. Some are impatient, some are urgent, and having men women an d children in the same waiting line from what I've seen at self standing toilets at events poses abuse.

Dear Josephus,

The danger of abuse exists wherever there are queues for essentials and demand exceeds supply. We just don't see it a lot in first-world countries.

In this specific case, the supply/demand ratio can be improved by having urinals besides to the cubicles. Women can use them too (http://go-girl.com).

Yuyutsu,

Women at urinals reminds me of an incident at a Queensland country pub many years ago when I was a young soldier.
Our truck had stopped there for lunch and a beer or two.
The urinal was a tin fence about 70 yards out the back and when a couple of us eventually paid a visit, there was a pissing contest going on, a woman walked up and said "Betcha I can beat yers all"
Bets were duly laid and her attempt was not very high so a bloke stepped up and prepared to beat her.
As he started she yelled out "Hey! Fairs fair, no hands"
There was a general concession of defeat and she went back to the pub a few quid richer.