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Re: Will the REAL Australia please step forward?
Originally Posted by rpa34
We sure could do with some rain right now, its scorching in London. Everyone is wilting, underground trains reaching temps up to high 40's inside! yikes.
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Re: Will the REAL Australia please step forward?
Thank you all so much - what fantastically positive posts!!!
It's so nice to read the upside instead of people slagging off Australia for the stuff that they don't like! We're hoping to be there at the end of September - just in time for summer!!!!! Thank you for making me smile! :) Sonic xx |
Re: Will the REAL Australia please step forward?
Originally Posted by CasG
Is that her name? :confused:
Most people think it means she's the boss. In my terminology, it's "Second-In-Command". ;) :) :D Responsible for the day-to-day operations. As such, a lot of responsibility, and worth her weight in gold. |
Re: Will the REAL Australia please step forward?
Originally Posted by thatsnotquiteright
It's short for 'Chief-of-Staff'.
Most people think it means she's the boss. In my terminology, it's "Second-In-Command". ;) :) :D Responsible for the day-to-day operations. As such, a lot of responsibility, and worth her weight in gold. Just wondered why you always called her that... :) (bleedin' Army men :rolleyes: ) |
Re: Will the REAL Australia please step forward?
Originally Posted by CasG
Sure she is :)
Just wondered why you always called her that... :) (bleedin' Army men :rolleyes: ) To summarise: I am the Officer Commanding or OC with the responsibilities of the Commanding Officer. A household is too small a unit for me to qualify as an Commanding Officer. (CO). She is the 2nd in command (2ic), however I give her the title COS as used in higher formations because I have decided to split her responsibilities into many, with a staff appointment for many and varied things. Money, shopping, childcare, intelligence(literally!), ideas, comfort, actually everything.....) She does all the hard work and is therefore given the accordant respect. She has OPCON, I have OPCOM. The major coup of course, is that she (and everyone else) is too busy, or thus confused to work out who is 'in charge' - to use modern day relationship terminology. Or she thinks she is in charge. Yes, a major coup.... |
Re: Will the REAL Australia please step forward?
Originally Posted by thatsnotquiteright
:) :D In role, she performs all the jobs of the Second In Command, huge remit that it is, but in local terminology she is still the boss of course : in other words, actually, to use another analogy, she may not be in operational command, I am - but she is definitely in operational control.
To summarise: I am the Officer Commanding or OC with the responsibilities of the Commanding Officer. A household is too small a unit for me to qualify as an Commanding Officer. (CO). She is the 2nd in command (2ic), however I give her the title COS as used in higher formations because I have decided to split her responsibilities into many, with a staff appointment for many and varied things. Money, shopping, childcare, intelligence(literally!), ideas, comfort, actually everything.....) She does all the hard work and is therefore given the accordant respect. She has OPCON, I have OPCOM. I'd murder my OH if he did that to me !!! :eek: |
Re: Will the REAL Australia please step forward?
Originally Posted by CasG
I'd murder my OH if he did that to me !!! :eek:
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Re: Will the REAL Australia please step forward?
Originally Posted by thatsnotquiteright
What's a OH? :D :rolleyes:
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Re: Will the REAL Australia please step forward?
Omnipresent Humanoid :rolleyes:
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Re: Will the REAL Australia please step forward?
Originally Posted by CasG
Operations Hand. :D
Just a thought, all jokes aside, I think the military analogy is quite correct. A couple both work very hard together to maintain a household unit. Both are frankly as important as each other, each bringing a specialisation to the game. Unless both work and childrear in exact equal quantities. Who is 'in charge', or 'wears the trousers' is a matter of opinion lol. The beauty of the military system is that everyone wins and gets the respect and treatment they deserve whatever their role. Incidentally, she does not do all the hard work, she does alot of it, and 'unpaid', too. And no this does not sound as 'bad' as it seems because that is no strange or unusual thing. So I salute her. Christ, now I am sounding like an old effing colonel. And she is definitely my No. 1 (to use Naval parlance).... |
Re: Will the REAL Australia please step forward?
Originally Posted by thatsnotquiteright
Righto!
Just a thought, all jokes aside, I think the military analogy is quite correct. A couple both work very hard together to maintain a household unit. Both are frankly as important as each other, each bringing a specialisation to the game. Unless both work and childrear in exact equal quantities. Who is 'in charge', or 'wears the trousers' is a matter of opinion lol. The beauty of the military system is that everyone wins and gets the respect and treatment they deserve whatever their role. Incidentally, she does not do all the hard work, she does alot of it, and 'unpaid', too. And no this does not sound as 'bad' as it seems because that is no strange or unusual thing. So I salute her. Christ, now I am sounding like an old effing colonel. And she is definitely my No. 1 (to use Naval parlance).... Think when you have been with someone a long time, you just live with it, and get on - doing thing together and independantly naturally. :) |
Re: Will the REAL Australia please step forward?
Sod the military. Let's talk about Australia. ;)
Things that epitomise Australia for me: The heavy rising scent of Eucalyptus within the air Walking through the bush and capturing the most exquisite scent of a tea tree, or some scented native which you try to locate but just can't. Cafe society with fabulous coffee where Starbucks doesn't have the market share Telling an Aussie how much you love Australia and watching them beam with pleasure Speaking to someone in the country and wondering why they're talking twice as slow as you Sheer inventiveness with the most basic of foods Fantastic sunsets over massive skies Beautiful birds in the trees Real 'ocker' Aussies Bridges which are named after local hero's Local councils which are more concerned with making someone cover over a 30 year old work of art on a garage door than keeping graffitti off the local skate park and surrounding areas Australian advertising - probably the best advertising in the world |
Re: Will the REAL Australia please step forward?
Originally Posted by CasG
Fair enough, it just sounds funny to hear it all catagorised as such....:) - but each to their own!
Think when you have been with someone a long time, you just live with it, and get on - doing thing together and independantly naturally. :) Believe or not she has more internal household experience with a drill to date in our relationship than me, she wanted to choose exactly where to put her pictures so she did the drilling lol. She even knocked together some garden timber. I've almost given up cooking because she is so much better at it - that was a very natural thing - when I first met her she said she couldn't cook - what an absolute fib it turned out to be! When I do cook I make a real effort though!! |
Re: Will the REAL Australia please step forward?
Originally Posted by thatsnotquiteright
Righto!
Just a thought, all jokes aside, I think the military analogy is quite correct. A couple both work very hard together to maintain a household unit. Both are frankly as important as each other, each bringing a specialisation to the game. Unless both work and childrear in exact equal quantities. Who is 'in charge', or 'wears the trousers' is a matter of opinion lol. The beauty of the military system is that everyone wins and gets the respect and treatment they deserve whatever their role. Incidentally, she does not do all the hard work, she does alot of it, and 'unpaid', too. And no this does not sound as 'bad' as it seems because that is no strange or unusual thing. So I salute her. Christ, now I am sounding like an old effing colonel. And she is definitely my No. 1 (to use Naval parlance).... i'm loving all this military parlance! really i think it's great, really amused me. like your thinking mate!! :D |
Re: Will the REAL Australia please step forward?
Originally Posted by thatsnotquiteright
That's what we do too. But I am at work 10hrs a day, she is not, so we have to have some sort of split. But she is better at alot of things so often she ends up doing them. I'm no good at anything apart from ironing, sweeping, and dusting the skirting boards, and trying to fathom power tools in the shed. :p I do all the major woodwork, although I admit the oddjob man = not enough daylight hours left after work and a baby so we have one for a few hours to do weeding and oddjobs - finished a bit of it off since he was at a loose end - and I also do wood splitting, pool maintenance and mowing.
Believe or not she has more household experience with a drill than me, she wanted to choose exactly where to put her pictures so she did the drilling lol. She even knocked together some garden timber. I've almost given up cooking because she is so much better at it - that was a very natural thing - when I first met her she said she couldn't cook - what an absolute fib it turned out to be! When I do cook I make a real effort though!! If you ever end up single, That's, do let me know. :D |
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