Some Aboriginal explanations

[gruesome]

TJ
Good luck with the check up mate, probably call in your way August with a bit of luck
cheers Andy

[berlitza]

Good luck with all your health checks Tjupurula.  Will be thinking of you.

KB

X3, keep us updated with how it goes mate

[Jason B]

Good luck with all your health checks Tjupurula.  Will be thinking of you.

KB

X 2 good luck, sincerely TJ.

Jas and family.

[Tjupurula]

I have been told they ahould be flying me out in the morning sometime, from there who knows where I am going.  I somehow think that they will find that all is pretty good at the moment, I hope.
Regards
Tjupurula

[Talawana5]

Thank you so much for a very easy to understand explanation love it.

Cheers

[WilSurf]

Take care and hopefully it will be all good.

[DaveCQ]

What a great post. Thanks mate and all the best with your health.

[Tjupurula]

My Goodness I have to laugh sometimes.  It is 0545 hrs here at the moment, and I have had to sign some papers.
A couple of the questions that I had to answer:-
Are you of Aboriginal or Torres Straight Islander Descent ?............I answered "I Live in Mulan Aboriginal Community, I am a black fella, so I guess I am as Australian as anyone else".
Are you an Aiustralian Citizen ?....My answer "Yes, I became an Australian Citizen in 1978, but I was born in Australia in 1959".
What is your preferred Language ?........I answered "My normal language is Walmajarri, but considering you Government officials don't speak actual Australian languages other than English, we can communicate in English".

After all that garbage, I have made my decision.  The Federal Election and my wife's birthday fall on the same day, and I know which is more important, my wife will hve a damned good birthday, and we will vote for Pauline Hanson, at lest she keeps it interesting.
Regards
Tjupurula

[Hairs]

Good morning Tjupurula,
I have tears running down my cheeks and my ribs hurts after reading you last reply.
You have to wonder how smart them blikes are that write these forms and send them out.
I hope you have a fantastic day mate.
Cheers.

[Tjupurula]

Good morning Tjupurula,
I have tears running down my cheeks and my ribs hurts after reading you last reply.
You have to wonder how smart them blikes are that write these forms and send them out.
I hope you have a fantastic day mate.
Cheers.

I do not know how I hurt your ribs Hars, but you have my apologies for that.
Tjupurla

[crackacoldie]

My Goodness I have to laugh sometimes.  It is 0545 hrs here at the moment, and I have had to sign some papers.
A couple of the questions that I had to answer:-
Are you of Aboriginal or Torres Straight Islander Descent ?............I answered "I Live in Mulan Aboriginal Community, I am a black fella, so I guess I am as Australian as anyone else".
Are you an Aiustralian Citizen ?....My answer "Yes, I became an Australian Citizen in 1978, but I was born in Australia in 1959".
What is your preferred Language ?........I answered "My normal language is Walmajarri, but considering you Government officials don't speak actual Australian languages other than English, we can communicate in English".

After all that garbage, I have made my decision.  The Federal Election and my wife's birthday fall on the same day, and I know which is more important, my wife will hve a damned good birthday, and we will vote for Pauline Hanson, at lest she keeps it interesting.
Regards
Tjupurula

That is Gold Tjupurula , just proves what an awesome sense of humour you have.  Have a great day and hope all the test work out well.

Cracka

[Hairs]

I do not know how I hurt your ribs Hairs, but you have my apologies for that.
Tjupurla

There is No need for an apology, You made my morning with that reply.
Thank you.

[chester ver2.0]

You mean you wouldn't wish this place on a bunch of Swaggers......no alcohol and the nearest full strength alcohol being Broome or Kununurra, they'd have the shakes for days
Tjupurula

I though what a great place for a meet then i read the above post about no booze
I am out

[gclan]

My Goodness I have to laugh sometimes.  It is 0545 hrs here at the moment, and I have had to sign some papers.
A couple of the questions that I had to answer:-
Are you of Aboriginal or Torres Straight Islander Descent ?............I answered "I Live in Mulan Aboriginal Community, I am a black fella, so I guess I am as Australian as anyone else".
Are you an Aiustralian Citizen ?....My answer "Yes, I became an Australian Citizen in 1978, but I was born in Australia in 1959".
What is your preferred Language ?........I answered "My normal language is Walmajarri, but considering you Government officials don't speak actual Australian languages other than English, we can communicate in English".

After all that garbage, I have made my decision.  The Federal Election and my wife's birthday fall on the same day, and I know which is more important, my wife will hve a damned good birthday, and we will vote for Pauline Hanson, at lest she keeps it interesting.
Regards
Tjupurula

Love it! You made my day too

[redrocker]

Mate thats awsome the spirits are looking over you and you sence of humour has not given up either

best of luck with everything

Redrocker

[Tjupurula]

Blimey they flew me to Kununurra, put a wire somewhere I will not discuss on line, right through into my heart, and told me that things should be okay for now.  Then flew me back.  It is so damned wierd looking at the insides of your own heart whilst awake and laying down.  The worst part is going to be when the hair grows back, that is going to get itchy.  Back next month for elective surgery I hope, I first thought they said something else (erective) and I told them they could start without me because I would not be there.  When I told them what I thought they had said, they all cracked up laughing....they should have been of my side of things when I thought I had head what I thought I had heard.
Apparently they are none too happy with the answers I put on their form.  The had addressed to Mr Tjupurula, but there was a line which said Sex, and had a M and F box to tick, so I did not tick either, I simply wrote, "No thanks, I am married".
Regards
Tjupurula

[lino6]

Apparently they are none too happy with the answers I put on their form.  The had addressed to Mr Tjupurula, but there was a line which said Sex, and had a M and F box to tick, so I did not tick either, I simply wrote, "No thanks, I am married".
Regards
Tjupurula

Some people just don't have a sense of humor, I'm glad you do! 

[speewa158]

Thats the Go ,, your answers dont have to make sence to you ,, but it will stuff up some seat warming pencl jockey .
 When ever l am in hospital & asked what religion l am , l tell they  " Put me down for what ever your short of  " That stuffs them up Big Time  . 
Some clown sits in a room with no windows , drinking too much coffie thinking up this crap   .




                                                                                                                         

[Hairs]

Blimey the flew me to Kununurra, put a wire somewhere I will not discuss on line, right through into my heart, and told me that things should be okay for now. 
Apparently they are none too happy with the answers I put on their form.  The had addressed to Mr Tjupurula, but there was a line which said Sex, and had a M and F box to tick, so I did not tick either, I simply wrote, "No thanks, I am married".
Regards
Tjupurula

Even better when they stick that tiny thin wire in your thigh next to your boys, up through your heart, and into the middle of ya melon, squirt a bit of black dye that stings like a bee had just stung you behind both eyes while ya head is wedged between the bed and a big black flat slab of stuff. And you get to watch that on a telly.
They are never to happy when I fill in the date section with the word "Itchy"

[Tjupurula]

Actually, given that Kununurra is very much a predominantly black town, I was so surprised at how little the madical staff knew about Aboriginals.  We are very much male for male and female for female when it comes to medical things, and the had no idea what was wrong when I would not let a female nurse down "there" with a shaving razor.  I ended up doing it myself.
I have read somewhere that such people do something called a "cultural awareness" course, and I thought it meant to do with us fellas, but now I am not so sure.
Regards
Tjupurula

[gclan]

Glad your ticker is still working and that you're back home having a laugh

A loofah might help with the itching

[GanG]

I have read somewhere that such people do something called a "cultural awareness" course, and I thought it meant to do with us fellas, but now I am not so sure.

Tjupurula not all white fella's in healthcare get the whole mens and womens business concept........cultural awareness training only works if they listen.

I have often found that regardless of culture, black white or Arabic, speaking in general terms,  with adequate explanation and negotiation with the patient most of those sensitive issues can be worked around with some thought and tact. Its just getting folks to talk to their patients and discuss the issues that's the tricky bit.......most just want to be busy and get the job done, not realising the impact their impatience has.

[Tjupurula]

Tjupurula not all white fella's in healthcare get the whole mens and womens business concept........cultural awareness training only works if they listen.

I have often found that regardless of culture, black white or Arabic, speaking in general terms,  with adequate explanation and negotiation with the patient most of those sensitive issues can be worked around with some thought and tact. Its just getting folks to talk to their patients and discuss the issues that's the tricky bit.......most just want to be busy and get the job done, not realising the impact their impatience has.

Therein lays most of the problem GanG, as I do not accept professional people managing to "work around" cultural issues......the either accept how I am, and work with it, not around it, or they have nothing to do with me.  I am extremely proud to be from one of the oldest continual cultures in the world, and I bend for noone. 
The reason that I have start threads is to allow people to have a basic understanding.  I am not expecting people to suddenly know the ways of the black fella, as we are born into our ways, and live in them our entire lives.  Elders do not get any form of status until become at least about middle aged (to use white terms).  Now I am sounding racist against white people.....be careful or I will paint you with shoe polish and call you family (only kidding).
If one of these professionals has no patience and just tries to "get the job done", I will tell them to get lost, as I did in Kununurra and do what is required myself.  I guess the best kind of "cultural awareness" is to simply acknowledge that someone is a cultural person, no matter their background or nationality, and accept that such is how it is.  I have two cousins, who are tribal men, and by choice they practice the Christian faith, one of them has a 27 yo daughter who is a practising Muslim, and they all get along perfectly.  Why ?  Because they acknowledge that each other has their own beliefs, and by the way, they all STILL make sure their children and grandchildren learn correct tribal ways, not the ways of their beliefs.  I reckon it is fantastic.
Regards
Tjupurula

[shanegtr]

If he is only a half black fella, what is the other half, I just had this image of someone standing up, with a line from head to toe, one side black and the other something else.  Goodness my mind goes silly sometimes.
Regards
Tjupurula

You mean like this guy?

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[Jeepers Creepers]

A loofah might help with the itching

What,,,,, a loofah bread or a shoe?