• Yes Gee, it's much better to have a gay-hating, ratbag christian fundamentalist next door. And there is nothing so neighbourly as a christian church that protects child-molesting monsters. - matilda
  • I would never go under the knife either I am too scared,I have had too many operations on my knee and that is enough pain for me.I think you like fine we always judge ourselves too harshly and we have earnt these lines and sun damage.I am 10 years older than you and it only gets worse! but I do the best with what I have. I love your professional picsMy sister and I just had ours done a month ago I have not got my copy yet but we actually were shocked how normal we looked,we thought we would look better than we did,though she said they do not like to photoshop them too much as we would not look real,and I suppose that's true if you have a great pic,you would get a shock looking in the mirror everyday! - Lisa Mckenzie
  • Oh Mrs Woog - if only we knew then what we know now! - B-rend
  • What a dreadful legacy this era of time will leave our children, grandchildren and maybe great-grandchildren. If we contine on the present path we are opening the floodgates to huge increases in gambling addiction. We have already opened the floodgates to a huge increase in alcoholism and struggling to close them even a little. We already have begun an increase in babies, toddlers and children given less parental face and eye to eye contact while their parents have eyes and attention tfor their iphones, facebook and computer games. Childrens' safety, psyches and development have already begun to be negatively affected by their access to the internet, and sometimes excessive hours staring at a plethora of screens. We have begun a rise in narcissism in the younger generations. Now we are going to add rampant gambling addiction over the next 20 years. God help us, because we certainly aren't helping ourselves. The next 20-50yrs don't look pretty. It will take several generations to overcome all this. I wish the politicians and business leaders of this country could look past 'today' and keep the future in mind. Please, will the people of character and strength of all parts of our society please stand up and fight for our children. Get this gambling "addiction" to having to having it everywhere all the time out of the lives and formative minds of our children and teenagers. Keep it where it belongs - very firmly 'for adult eyes only'. And, 'adult' does not begin at 15! - Gracie123
  • I just love ya guts (and your beautiful face), Mrs Woog. x - Maxabella
  • every bit helps - and agree - wish I'd stuck my head in a hat and worn more spf+++ THIS is the advice I pass on..... - aj
  • The Fairfax article said Stephen Conroy had “brokered a deal with the television industry to allow betting companies to continue spruiking live odds” during sports broadcasts. Free TV said a quote in the story attributed to its CEO was used out of context....Mmm...wonder how that happened? They are planning to have a new code enforcing a ban on promoting odds on TV in place by August so lets hope the public pressure makes sure there is a positive outcome. - JoanneH
  • Gee, Gee, I was brought up to have respect for myself and my elders and show respect to all persons. Automatically - no earning of it - a given. One can always withdraw from an individual, family member or not, who does not reciprocate, or who demonstrates lack of respect for themselves and others. Think again, consider your words, look for meaning in Ms Summers' writing about respect. Perhaps you may find your own consciousness raised. Respectfully, Mim Adamson - Mim Adamson
  • Really? Tell me, what is the most heinous sin in Islam. Paedophilia, murder ... nup. It's shirk and Christians commit it everytime they worship Jesus as the son of God. It is unforgivable, and we all know that Muslims are not into turning the other cheek, don't we. As infidels we are nothing, less than nothing. Add the current 'invasion' rhetoric that is filling our young Aboriginals with such hate and we have a cocktail for disaster. The Muslims are activity recruiting young aboriginals and together their hate will explode. Mark my words - if the academics don't stop peddling hate and blaming 'whites' for their ingrained, cultural violence and if our leaders don't grow a spine, the Australia we leave for our children will not be the one we know now. - Gee
  • Gee, the fact that you 'accuse' many female politicians of belonging to Emily's List, as if this was something shameful, puzzles me. What is it about women giving other women help & advice in their chosen field that you find so threatening? There are many other support groups helping women in business, for example. Do you find them objectionable too? While there are 'women' like yourself who are happy to berate & belittle other women we have no hope of achieving equality & respect. Criticism is a useful tool used constructively, personal abuse just creates animosity. Also, Anne, I think you could have written 'Lack of respect for women as they DO these..... Rather than ' try to do'. - Madge
 
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Categories:  The Way We Were

REMEMBER WHEN… THE SANDMAN WAS A PASSION PIT?

By The Hoopla
August 15, 2012

Ooo, er, the Sandman panel van… status symbol for every real and wannabe seaweed head.

Preferably with a mattress in the back and a stereo pumping out Morning of the Earth. A lurv nest if ever there was one.

“Don’t laugh your daughter may be inside!” read the sticker. One thing was for sure… she wouldn’t be behind the wheel. “You’re not drivin’ the Kingswood,” said your Dad. “You’re not drivin’ the Sandman,” said your boyfriend.

 

 

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7 Responses to this article

  1. Helen August 15, 2012 Reply
     
     

    The other sticker was”If the van is a rockin’, don’t come a knockin’!”

     
  2. Jane Waterhouse August 15, 2012 Reply
     
     

    First time in the back of a Sandman was with my girlfriend and two lovely chaps, one called Darryl (with a double rr) and the other called Pete Townsend and yes, there was shag pile carpet on the roof….ahh great memories..

     
  3. Jennnifer August 16, 2012 Reply
     
     

    Ahhhhh the good old days

     
  4. Val August 16, 2012 Reply
     
     

    Around our way the were called shaggin wagons and my dad was absolutely horrified one day when I said it! Oh the innocence ….

     
  5. Shirley August 25, 2012 Reply
     
     

    So true!……My boyfriend had a succession of panel vans and the only time I ever drove one was when he was hospitalized for an emergency appendectomy…..definitely pre equal rights!

     

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