ttbn,

Thank you for your concern. There were more issues
involved than just mobility. There was surgery.
However your advice and concern is appreciated.

Thank you also for your kind wish that I would not
take myself so seriously one day. That is something
that I am trying to overcome with all of my heart.
It's easier said than done. But I'm working on it.

Again, I appreciate your concern.

Paul,

I'd probably have hooked him around the neck with my walking stick, forced his head back till he went limp, disengaged then ankle tapped his mate, both ankles.

That do you?

Paul,

Did you get awarded an AO for petrol pump psychology before you woke up from the dream sweating with fear?

Is Mise,

You asked me again about Australians soldiers
killing Japanese. Whether it was OK.
I tried my best to answer that question for you.
However, the best people to ask would be a soldier
or someone who was there and experienced it first hand.
I think that civilians who were not involved don't
have the proper understanding of what it must have been
like during that time of war. From the little that I
do know atrocities were committed on both sides.

Here's a link that explains more:

http://www.theconversation.com/anzacs-behaving-badly-scott-mcintyre-and-contested-history-40955

Foxy,

Do you consider that an Australian soldier shooting dead a Japanese soldier with a burst of lethal fire from a "Tommy" gun to be violent or not?

Even a civilian should know that hitting someone with a burst of .45 calibre bullets is violent.
or that piercing the enemy's gut with a bayonet is violent.

I've been a soldier and have been under fire, I considered that shooting towards me to have been a violent act.

"Violence,
noun
1.
behaviour involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something."
http://www.google.com/search?q=violence+meaning&rlz=1C1CAFB_enAU718AU718&oq=violence&aqs=chrome.3.69i57j0l3j46l2j0l2.12865j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

There, now that you know what violence is, you might answer the question,
Is violence ever OK?

Nah Issy, it wasn't necessary, the two lads were so drunk, and the quite one was so totally out of it, they were not a problem. Not being prone to violence, I informed the mouthy one that I had the advantage, he being drunk as a skunk, and I being stone cold sober. That being the case he may end up through a near by shops plate glass window, not being prone to violence, mind you!

ttbn, you and I are different people, I'm no hero, your certainly not, I can see you are like a ferret, the type of person who jumps at his own shadow, before fleeing back down your hole. An irrational propensity to be fearful is normal trait among very conservative people, such as yourself, as an old fart advancing into your latter twilight years its normal that your fears will grow. BTW K-mart have a special on undies this week, 10 pairs for $12, you may need them, they wont do much for your irrational fears, but they can help with the odour embarrassment problem whilst sitting on the bus. You seem to be the type of bloke who goes through lots of underpants.

I'm still laugh'n at the way you allowed yourself to get ripped-off by the Corny Conservative Party. That would have cost the old pensioner a quid or two, ha, ha, ha. Of course you never refer to it now, to embarrassed.