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Thread: How the tide turns

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    Hmmm number 24 must be incorrect.

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    LOL, some of them i agree with some I dont. but you are definitely right about 24

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    I remember when our garbage was collected in galvanised tin rubbish bins on the footpath by a team of 3 or 4 Garbos hanging off the side of the garbage truck, running in relays to pick the bins up. One of the Garbos on our run was a first grade rugby league player for the Eastern Suburbs Roosters. Very exciting to see for a young lad. His only wage was about $250 a week as a Garbo, and his physical training regimen consisted of running from the footpath to the truck with a 20Kg garbage bin about 200 times each morning, and his dietary intake involved about 6 or 8 schooners each day at knock-off time with the blokes on the truck. A top Sportsman of the day.

    These days, he would not need to "Work" at all, as he would be on a contract of $400,000pa and be monitored and trained by professional nutritionists and trainers. But either way, all they do (then and now) is just play a game of footy.

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    Errgh. The comments are better than the "article".
    At any given point in time, somewhere in the world someone is working on a Land-Rover.

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    What about the larger shops where the cashiere sat upstairs in a little room and the attendants at the counter would put the money and a docket in a metal cannister then send it off on a pulley system to the him/her. The cashiere would then write out a receipt and send it back along with your change.
    Ryans in Spencer Street Melbourne is one that comes to mind.
    Woolworths Supermarkets have a similar in principal pneumatic system in operation today.


    Cheers, Mick.
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