Age restrictions on the purchase of ....eggs

[spudfan]

My daughter was shopping this morning and came across this.
It seems the humble egg has joined the list of items that you cannot buy unless you are over 18 years of age.

[p38arover]

Anti-social behaviour? Who has been throwing eggs at people over there?

[Saitch]

If some people chook eggs, then others should duck eggs.

[windsock]

Anti-social behaviour? Who has been throwing eggs at people over there?

Practical yolkers...

[ramblingboy42]

I guess if they can't buy smokes or grog under 18 , why not eggs?

ps , they can't vote either....

[RANDLOVER]

The kids are missing nothing, buying eggs is not all it is cracked up to be.

[RANDLOVER]

I wonder if the kids scrambled to buy stocks of eggs before the age restriction came into force?

[ramblingboy42]

so why are the shelves empty?

is it covid? is it fuel prices? is it the employment situation? is it the floods? is someone stockpiling millions of eggs? are the chooks unhappy? is it the change of government?

whats next ? first it was dunny roll , then pasta , then eggs , then houses , now new cars, what else can't we buy?

[V8Ian]

Excess sorghum. [tonguewink]
180239

[Homestar]

Bought eggs yesterday for work BBQ this morning - no shortage at all - every shelf of eggs full. I was surprised when I saw the news article on this so will see if things change in the coming days.

[scarry]

whats next ? first it was dunny roll , then pasta , then eggs , then houses , now new cars, what else can't we buy?

Second hand cars?

The prices for some of them are stupid,if you can find the one you want.

[RANDLOVER]

so why are the shelves empty?

is it covid? is it fuel prices? is it the employment situation? is it the floods? is someone stockpiling millions of eggs? are the chooks unhappy? is it the change of government?

whats next ? first it was dunny roll , then pasta , then eggs , then houses , now new cars, what else can't we buy?

I think the suppliers will be asked some tough questions by some hard boiled customers.

[Saitch]

Are shoppers scrambling to get to the eggs?

[350RRC]

so why are the shelves empty?

is it covid? is it fuel prices? is it the employment situation? is it the floods? is someone stockpiling millions of eggs? are the chooks unhappy? is it the change of government?

whats next ? first it was dunny roll , then pasta , then eggs , then houses , now new cars, what else can't we buy?

Public demand for free range chooks and eggs has risen over the years......... chooks lay fewer eggs in cold weather............... that's what I've read.

Also a lot of battery hen facilities west of Geelong were in quarantine because of some disease outbreak earlier this year. There were warnings on the Vic Emergency website for months. Entirely possible the whole flocks were liquidated, but I dunno for sure.

DL

[RANDLOVER]

The egg producers might also be suffering from staff shortages due to staff being poached by other industries.

[ramblingboy42]

I hope this doesn't affect supplies for sunday morning eggs benedict at the local cafe.....ie , eggs, poached on hot shaved ham on warm muffins and warm hollandaise sauce drizzled everywhere........any variation from this is not eggs benedict.

grilled no

fried no

bacon no

fish,any no

any other sauce no

on sourdough no

on breadrolls no

on toasted turkish (that cuts the inside of your gums) no

get it ? yes? good

[V8Ian]

How do you drizzle warm muffins? [tonguewink]

[ramblingboy42]

FIIK

[ramblingboy42]

I dunno what you're talking about

[ramblingboy42]

A, FUNEX?
S, IFX...
L, MNEXFU?

[RANDLOVER]

I hope this doesn't affect supplies for sunday morning eggs benedict at the local cafe.....ie , eggs, poached on hot shaved ham on warm muffins and warm hollandaise sauce drizzled everywhere........any variation from this is not eggs benedict.

grilled no

fried no

bacon no

fish,any no..........

It's is still tasty when done with smoked salmon.

[ramblingboy42]

if you roll a lump of cake in banana syrup then coconut , is a lamington?

[V8Ian]

If you cover small cubes of foam rubber with vegemite and then roll that in desiccated coconut, I don't know if it is a lamington, but I do know it's a riot at arvos. [bigrolf]

[JDNSW]

No!!!

[Saitch]

If you cover small cubes of foam rubber with vegemite and then roll that in desiccated coconut, I don't know if it is a lamington, but I do know it's a riot at arvos. [bigrolf]

In the 80s, there was a product available from toy shops called 'Slime'.

Apparently it was a hoot when placed in a dip bowl, with a few Jatz scattered around it. [bigwhistle]

[NavyDiver]

Around the camp fire with Ian and Saitch could be a hoot

We did love feeding overseas visiting types on my ships vegemite.

Back on eggs or on Eggs from our back yards- Alarming news which I suspect is alarmist myself

"[B]Backyard hens' eggs contain 40 times more lead on average than shop eggs, research finds"

Link
(https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-10/backyard-eggs-lead-levels-chicken/101289708)

My research finds the eggs from my families and mates farms are SOOOOO much better than the shop brought variety. Any headline saying "research finds" is treated as a suspect source in my eggpriance [biggrin]

[Saitch]

"Backyard hens' eggs contain 40 times more lead on average than shop eggs, research finds"

My research finds the eggs from my families and mates farms are SOOOOO much better than the shop brought variety.

Do you find them a lot heavier? [biggrin]

[JDNSW]

Around the camp fire with Ian and Saitch could be a hoot

We did love feeding overseas visiting types on my ships vegemite.

Back on eggs or on Eggs from our back yards- Alarming news which I suspect is alarmist myself

"[B]Backyard hens' eggs contain 40 times more lead on average than shop eggs, research finds"

Link
(https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-10/backyard-eggs-lead-levels-chicken/101289708)

My research finds the eggs from my families and mates farms are SOOOOO much better than the shop brought variety. Any headline saying "research finds" is treated as a suspect source in my eggpriance [biggrin]

The research in question correlates the highest levels of lead with older suburbs, which would have had generations of lead paint on everything - most of which ends up in the soil, which chooks spend their day pecking at, so it is hardly a surprising result.

My guess is that in most cases, while it is forty times more than "shop eggs" it is still not high enough to be a significant issue, unless you eat a lot of eggs.

[V8Ian]

The research in question correlates the highest levels of lead with older suburbs, which would have had generations of lead paint on everything - most of which ends up in the soil, which chooks spend their day pecking at, so it is hardly a surprising result.

My guess is that in most cases, while it is forty times more than "shop eggs" it is still not high enough to be a significant issue, unless you eat a lot of eggs.
Which correlates with a finding I heard on the radio yesterday. Older, inner suburbs have higher lead content in the soil.

[Saitch]

Which correlates with a finding I heard on the radio yesterday. Older, inner suburbs have higher lead content in the soil.

As a lot of AULROvers would be aware, lead was heavily used with 'phone lines up until not that long ago.
After the cessation of the use of lead with said lines, my fishing sinker mould was used a lot less! [bighmmm]
I assume a lot of gun owners may have suffered, as well.

[V8Ian]

When Mrs 8 was with child, the first time, we bought an unpainted, wooden cot. I painted the cot with a premium paint, that contained lead. Megan would use the top rail to relieve her gums, when teething. This was deterred by spreading a proprietary product called Bitters, and it definitely was.
The fear was not the lead in the paint, but the possibility of choking or splinters in the gums.
The Bitters didn't work, she loved it, licking it off before reverting to the rodental habits. Fortunately, none of this seems to have had any detrimental effect.

[JDNSW]

There are a lot of environmental contaminants that have seen widespread use, in some cases for centuries, and that are known to cause medical or developmental issues. Just a few of them, that are now regarded as highly dangerous, just from memory.

Lead
Used in plumbing at least from Roman times (which is where the word comes from), paint and cosmetics from ancient Egypt onwards, munitions from the Roman era, batteries since the 19th century, all sorts of engineering, including solders, alloys etc, and in the form of organic compounds, as an octane enhancer in petrol. Causes a wide variety of medical issues, and now regarded as dangerous if ingested, either directly or via plant or animal products. Lead solder is not permitted in many situations, with this enforced mainly over the last thirty years. Not allowed in paint, petrol, or some other uses, but use is still widespread

Mercury
Used in instrumentation since ancient Greece, chemical and refining processes since the eighteenth century, dentistry from the 1850s to the 1980s. Known to be dangerous in vapour form since about 1800. Soluble organic compounds very dangerous known since the 1950s. Now regarded as unsuitable if it can be contacted or possibly ingested by the public, but still widely used in industry.

Asbestos
Used to make fireproof fabric from antiquity, it became a major industrial product in the nineteenth century and the expanded to very widespread use in construction in the 20th century. It was known to be medical problem from industrial exposure to dust from early in the twentieth century, and by the 1950s was known as a carcinogen, but rarely resulting in cancer. Several factors seem to have resulted in this becoming more common. These include that these cancers take a long time to develop, so the population living longer is an issue. Another factor seems to be the change in the 1960s in the actual mineral used - there are two forms of asbestos, blue and white. Blue is decidedly more hazardous, but also more common. It was rarely used until about 1960. The other factor worth mentioning is the introduction of power tools to cut fibro sheeting dry. These ensure the operator works in a cloud of asbestos dust, which is very hazardous. (And a similar exists issue with silica - silicosis has been known for several centuries, but has spread from a few special industries where it was a workplace hazard, to become a risk for anyone using an angle grinder or similar to cut or polish stone or concrete dry.) Asbestos in no longer permitted to be used in new equipment or work in Australia and some other countries, being replaced by often less suitable materials.

The list could go on and on. One problem is that as the ability to measure very small concentrations improves, there is a tendency to further reduce the environmental levels that cause alarm, in some cases resulting in major expenditure for very doubtful benefit.

[jonesfam]

Many moons ago we lived in a very old un-renovated house.
Our little dog went blind, took her to the Vet & he reckoned it was lead in the Lino that had made her blind.
We pulled the Lino up, painted the floor, the Vet gave the dog injections over several weeks & she came good, sight wise.
Never had the problem agin.
Jonesfam

[scarry]

When i was a kid,our parents wouldnt let us get a job at the local garage,the old man always said we would get lead poisoning.

Yet at home we sprayed Dieldrin around here there and everywhere,it worked very well,particularly on those bloody green ants.
And used Cresote regularly on the retaining walls,fence posts,etc.

A mate of mine started at QBuild as a carpenter in 1961.They were building a lot of schools in the day.
He says they could never see from one end of the work shed to the other for asbestos dust most days.

He is still going,but it got his first wife,she was only 30.Came from his work clothes.

[1950landy]

When I was a kid in the 50's we would throw bits of fibro in the fire because it go off like a fire cracker & when playing hop scotch we would use pieces of fibro to throw into the squares , while waiting our turn we would suck on the fibro.

Before the mid 70's when I was working as a motor mechanic we used to use compressed air to blow out brake drums , we instructed to washing out the dust with water in mid 70's . After fitting new brake linings on the shoes we would radius grind the shoes to fit the drums & bevel the leading & trailing edges of the linings. All this done with out any PPE. I also remember while we were waiting for parts guys to pick parts for us we would pump petrol if a customer came in for petrol.

I am now in my 70's & so far no health problems from these practices. [bighmmm]

[NavyDiver]

There are a lot of environmental contaminants that have seen widespread use, in some cases for centuries, and that are known to cause medical or developmental issues. Just a few of them, that are now regarded as highly dangerous, just from memory.

Lead
Used in plumbing at least from Roman times (which is where the word comes from), paint and cosmetics from ancient Egypt onwards, munitions from the Roman era, batteries since the 19th century, all sorts of engineering, including solders, alloys etc, and in the form of organic compounds, as an octane enhancer in petrol. Causes a wide variety of medical issues, and now regarded as dangerous if ingested, either directly or via plant or animal products. Lead solder is not permitted in many situations, with this enforced mainly over the last thirty years. Not allowed in paint, petrol, or some other uses, but use is still widespread

Mercury
Used in instrumentation since ancient Greece, chemical and refining processes since the eighteenth century, dentistry from the 1850s to the 1980s. Known to be dangerous in vapour form since about 1800. Soluble organic compounds very dangerous known since the 1950s. Now regarded as unsuitable if it can be contacted or possibly ingested by the public, but still widely used in industry.

Asbestos
Used to make fireproof fabric from antiquity, it became a major industrial product in the nineteenth century and the expanded to very widespread use in construction in the 20th century. It was known to be medical problem from industrial exposure to dust from early in the twentieth century, and by the 1950s was known as a carcinogen, but rarely resulting in cancer. Several factors seem to have resulted in this becoming more common. These include that these cancers take a long time to develop, so the population living longer is an issue. Another factor seems to be the change in the 1960s in the actual mineral used - there are two forms of asbestos, blue and white. Blue is decidedly more hazardous, but also more common. It was rarely used until about 1960. The other factor worth mentioning is the introduction of power tools to cut fibro sheeting dry. These ensure the operator works in a cloud of asbestos dust, which is very hazardous. (And a similar exists issue with silica - silicosis has been known for several centuries, but has spread from a few special industries where it was a workplace hazard, to become a risk for anyone using an angle grinder or similar to cut or polish stone or concrete dry.) Asbestos in no longer permitted to be used in new equipment or work in Australia and some other countries, being replaced by often less suitable materials.

The list could go on and on. One problem is that as the ability to measure very small concentrations improves, there is a tendency to further reduce the environmental levels that cause alarm, in some cases resulting in major expenditure for very doubtful benefit.

Life- it is always guaranteed to end in Death [biggrin]

[ramblingboy42]

isn't this thread about eggs?

of which we in Australia consume 17,000,000 each day?

that's 1,416,666 dozen at around $3/doz.....$4.25million/day is good business...and that's not value added.

wonder how much bacon we consume.

[V8Ian]

isn't this thread about eggs?

of which we in Australia consume 17,000,000 each day?

that's 1,416,666 dozen at around $3/doz.....$4.25million/day is good business...and that's not value added.

wonder how much bacon we consume.
So is that 34,000,000 bulging chooks' eyes?

[Arapiles]

The research in question correlates the highest levels of lead with older suburbs, which would have had generations of lead paint on everything - most of which ends up in the soil, which chooks spend their day pecking at, so it is hardly a surprising result.

My guess is that in most cases, while it is forty times more than "shop eggs" it is still not high enough to be a significant issue, unless you eat a lot of eggs.


The relevant bit of the research is this:


Two key findings arose from the study data: (i) in order to retain chicken blood Pb below 20 μg/dL, soil Pb needs to be < 166 mg/kg; (ii) to retain egg Pb < 100 μg/kg (i.e. a food safety benchmark value), soil Pb needs to be < 117mg/kg. These concentrations are significantly lower than the soil Pb guideline of 300 mg/kg for residential gardens. This research supports the conclusion that a large number of inner-city homes may not be suitable for keeping chickens and that further work regarding production and consumption of domestic food is warranted.


Lead poisoning of backyard chickens: Implications for urban gardening and food production - ScienceDirect (https://reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/S0269749122010120'token=BE40DCE848B637794D68B7AD4D 82E07997A415DAB9541B2491AFE487FD13D4FDB22256FEA7EE 357F69E4CE753E116B35&originRegion=us-east-1&originCreation=20220812083252)

So, the permitted levels of lead in gardens are just less than double what's permitted for chooks. Which would mean that veggies would have more lead than the eggs, all things being equal.

I seriously doubt that there's a pile of lead in my backyard - it's not full of paint residue and we don't have lead pipes. There are some very contaminated sites in the old inner-city industrial suburbs - in particular where the petrol stations were - but our street was always residential and prior to that was market gardens. In any case our veggies are grown in raised beds that are filled with commercial soil, so they at least should be fine. And the chooks were in disgrace last weekend because they got into the newly planted beds, but at least now I can argue that it was better than them scratching in the soil.

[JDNSW]

I don't think plants (in general) take up lead at anything like the same level as do chooks.

And yes, there are all sorts of small businesses that would have contaminated the soil with persistent hazards. One that comes to mind is battery making - construction of car batteries used to be a sort of cottage industry; I remember my father used to buy batteries from a business in Northmead, owned and run by a bloke he went to school with. I expect that block, and probably for a good radius round it, is saturated with lead. And probably sulphuric acid. (I remember when the Art centre in St Kilda Rd Melbourne was being built they had serious foundation problems because of the level of sulphuric acid in the soil for the same reason. The concrete was failing soon after installation.)

Another contaminant, not lead, would be coal tar and its derivatives including creosote, which were used as a wood preservative, waterproofing, and disinfectant for two centuries until about 1970. Some industries would have used this intensively - for example, it was used on railway sleepers, which often found their way as a "second life" into garden edging etc. Places where this was applied, for example, would be heavily contaminated.

[RANDLOVER]

isn't this thread about eggs?


I prefer to say the main ingredient of this thread is eggs.

[V8Ian]

And the contributors are egg static.

[Saitch]

180302

I'm going to put this in my photo albumen.

[Arapiles]

Another contaminant, not lead, would be coal tar and its derivatives including creosote, which were used as a wood preservative, waterproofing, and disinfectant for two centuries until about 1970. Some industries would have used this intensively - for example, it was used on railway sleepers, which often found their way as a "second life" into garden edging etc. Places where this was applied, for example, would be heavily contaminated.


Have to admit that I cringe every time I see businesses selling vegetable beds using recycled timber like railway sleepers, or old pallets, because they've almost certainly been treated with something like creosote or arsenic.

[Arapiles]

And the contributors are egg static.

And that's no yolk.

[350RRC]

Have to admit that I cringe every time I see businesses selling vegetable beds using recycled timber like railway sleepers, or old pallets, because they've almost certainly been treated with something like creosote or arsenic.

Pallets have a code on them that shows what they've been treated with.

Good luck, Grasshopper.

DL

[350RRC]

.............. One problem is that as the ability to measure very small concentrations improves, there is a tendency to further reduce the environmental levels that cause alarm, in some cases resulting in major expenditure for very doubtful benefit.

Around 20 - 25 years ago in Vic there was a major emerging issue with treated pine in public parks, children's playgrounds with arsenic (the bad cousin of lead) being detected in low levels.

For a couple of weeks it looked like every bit of treated pine would have to be pulled out and replaced with ?

It then emerged that that arsenic is ubiquitous in most soils in the extremely low concentrations the instruments were detecting.

Exactly as you've iterated John.

DL

[austastar]

Hi,
Tas had some homes built in the early 60s in a log -cabin style out of copper arsenic impregnated pine logs.
As the logs dried out the salts crystalized on the timber surface and would drop on working surfaces, bedding and floors. They were soon prohibited in habitable structures, but the logs were allowed on structures exposed to the weather. Some time later the arsenic treatment was phased out all altogether.
Cheers

[ramblingboy42]

...and it affected tens of million of eggs that came in contact , thus forcing supermarkets to restrict sales of eggs to u18's

[RANDLOVER]

...and it affected tens of million of eggs that came in contact , thus forcing supermarkets to restrict sales of eggs to u18's

That sort of precautionary principle just can't be beaten.

[350RRC]

There's a lot of scrambled info in this thread and a fair bit appears to have been poached from other websites.

I'd lay a bet that most theories are the 100 year old variety and have been cracked wide open years ago, and nothing to crow about.

[bighmmm] DL

[Saitch]

I'd lay a bet that most theories are the 100 year old variety and have been cracked wide open years ago, and nothing to crow about.

[bighmmm] DL

A bit eggotistical there, mate!

[RANDLOVER]

...and it affected tens of million of eggs that came in contact , thus forcing supermarkets to restrict sales of eggs to u18's

They might have to whisk the contaminated eggs off the shelves.

[RANDLOVER]

Looks like this thread has been laid to rest. [bigsad]

[scarry]

Looks like this thread has been laid to rest. [bigsad]

Maybe it is time to re hatch it?

What was everyone crowing about?

[350RRC]

Maybe it is time to re hatch it?

What was everyone crowing about?\

'It's 0415 and I'm having a ****'. Sun ain't up till 0645. Maybe 5 chook houses within earshot from me.

Roosters around here do it summer or winter ......0415. Crowing about having a ****....... or just stirring up all the other roosters within earshot just coz they can, or I'm already on the job... how are you all going?'.

DL

[RANDLOVER]

Maybe it is time to re hatch it?

What was everyone crowing about?

Sorry I can't relay all that info in just one post.[biggrin]

[Saitch]

\

'It's 0415 and I'm having a ****'. Sun ain't up till 0645. Maybe 5 chook houses within earshot from me.

Roosters around here do it summer or winter ......0415. Crowing about having a ****....... or just stirring up all the other roosters within earshot just coz they can, or I'm already on the job... how are you all going?'.

DL

One of my new orchids has flowered. I'm eggstatic!

[windsock]

Sorry I can't relay all that info in just one post.[biggrin]

Try half a dozen...

[Saitch]

\

'It's 0415 and I'm having a ****'. Sun ain't up till 0645. Maybe 5 chook houses within earshot from me.

Roosters around here do it summer or winter ......0415. Crowing about having a ****....... or just stirring up all the other roosters within earshot just coz they can, or I'm already on the job... how are you all going?'.

DL

A B-I-L has three roosters too many, if you want to join the crowd, 350RRC.
They're 'Free to a Good Home', too.

[V8Ian]

Post them, freight on. [bigwhistle]

[350RRC]

A B-I-L has three roosters too many, if you want to join the crowd, 350RRC.
They're 'Free to a Good Home', too.

Thanks.............. but the chook houses aren't mine.

I only grow 5 sorts of garlic, horseradish and walking onions atm.

Your BIL should have no problem 're-housing' them in the week before Chrissy.

cheers, DL

[JDNSW]

When he was a teenager, my youngest (as a school project) raised a duck from an egg to adulthood. When he brought it home from school I named it "Christmas Dinner". In the following November he gave it to a friend who lived out of town "for a better life than a suburban block in Melbourne". Shortly after Christmas it was taken by a fox.

[Saitch]

When he was a teenager, my youngest (as a school project) raised a duck from an egg to adulthood. When he brought it home from school I named it "Christmas Dinner". In the following November he gave it to a friend who lived out of town "for a better life than a suburban block in Melbourne". Shortly after Christmas it was taken by a fox.

That's more or less how my B-I-L ended up with his three, surplus roosters. His daughter is a Chalky and one of her students' projects was raising day old chicks, which were all certified 'Hens' apparently. [biggrin]

[scarry]

https://www.drive.com.au/news/police-hatch-a-plan-after-eggsplosive-attack-on-speed-camera-car/

[Saitch]

https://www.drive.com.au/news/police-hatch-a-plan-after-eggsplosive-attack-on-speed-camera-car/

..."forcing the operator to eggzit the vehicle".

[3toes]

He was egged on

[RANDLOVER]

\

'It's 0415 and I'm having a ****'. Sun ain't up till 0645. Maybe 5 chook houses within earshot from me.

Roosters around here do it summer or winter ......0415. Crowing about having a ****....... or just stirring up all the other roosters within earshot just coz they can, or I'm already on the job... how are you all going?'.

DL

For occasions like that you really need a stopcock, so you can turn that noise off.

[ramblingboy42]

12 gauge stopcock?

[JDNSW]

.22 will do, or an axe.

[ramblingboy42]

or the council.....

years ago my daughter brought half a dozen 2 wk old "hens" from her school

I noticed one was much noisier than the others and named it "rowdy", it grew into a particularly handsome colourful rooster and I was going to show him....

this is where the council comes in....my neighbour. complained to the council without consulting me...saying Rowdy was crowing at 2am....a council officer turns up with a warrant for Rowdy's arrest.... immediate disposal , no 2nd warnings so he had to go.

I put a photo of him in the local newsletter and a guy came from Russel Island and rescued him , so Rowdy lived his life out in the hen house resort on a tropical island

[austastar]

Hi,
Suburban life in Asia is full of rosters crowing at sparrow fart. Followed of course (in Muslim countries) by the morning amplified call to prayer.
Cheers

[Saitch]

Hi,
Suburban life in Asia is full of rosters crowing at sparrow fart. Followed of course (in Muslim countries) by the morning amplified call to prayer.
Cheers

Years ago, when I was in a North African nation, the first morning I heard the call to prayer, owing to my ignorance, I thought it was a dog howling.

[V8Ian]

Years ago, when I was in a North African nation, the first morning I heard the call to prayer, owing to my ignorance, I thought it was a dog howling.
Don't worry mate, you can only go to hell once and you had your berth reserved years ago. [tonguewink]

[austastar]

Hi,
Worst noise (well one of the more disturbing) at day break was not knowing there was a pork slaughter house just out side my hotel window. (Thailand)
Screaming gurgling pigs being strung up to bleed out put me off pork for a few days.
Cheers

[RANDLOVER]

The injustice as mentioned by the OP makes my blood boil.

[4bee]

The kids are missing nothing, buying eggs is not all it is cracked up to be.

Shell be right.

It is not the egg/eggs innards that is the problem but that shell hitting one's Duco can mean a respray job.


How do I know this?

Personal experience is how. If in doubt, ask the local larrikans to demonstrate this on your new RaRo.

If one is bothered by Chook noise wait until they graduate to Peacocks. [bigrolf]

[Tins]

Years ago, when I was in a North African nation, the first morning I heard the call to prayer, owing to my ignorance, I thought it was a dog howling.

Never understood why any god would have need of a loudhailer myself.

[Tins]

If one is bothered by Chook noise wait until they graduate to Peacocks. [bigrolf]

Twenty cayuga ducks can make a din as well....

Peacocks. There was one in my street for years, imaginatively named Andrew. He was loud.

[4bee]

so why are the shelves empty?

is it covid? is it fuel prices? is it the employment situation? is it the floods? is someone stockpiling millions of eggs? are the chooks unhappy? is it the change of government?

whats next ? first it was dunny roll , then pasta , then eggs , then houses , now new cars, what else can't we buy?


As the song goes "Money can't buy you love......."


It can buy you a quick shag though.