NOT much worries our northern rivers farmers. If you discount politics, the economy, coal-seam-gas mining, irrigation, drought, floods, bushfires, beef prices, milk prices, cattle bloat, avocado prices, carbon prices, animal viruses, insurance, agricultural pests, broadband, climatic matters, farmers’ markets, coffee-eating flying foxes and beekeepers’ back, everything is hunky-dory.
And so it was in the public bar on Friday night that the conversation turned from these regular concerns to some recent well-publicised examples of human behaviour, a topic guaranteed to meet thoughtful reflection in a country pub.
The first subject under discussion was the American bogus doctor who gave herself a gigantic bottom by pumping her buttocks with a toxic mixture of cement, a flat-tyre sealant called Fix-A-Flat, superglue and mineral oil. As my macadamia and coffee farmer neighbour Eric said, the resultant photos showed ‘‘a skinny sheila with three or four Kim Kardashians shoved down her strides’’.
The Age
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