Sigh... Remember when we were allowed to leave the country???Quote:
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Sigh... Remember when we were allowed to leave the country???Quote:
Originally Posted by 1AZRAEL1
I was in Germany for 2 weeks February last year catching alot of metal concerts. Never thought they'd be the last international bands I'd see for a very long timeQuote:
Originally Posted by DELTAprime
And to think this year the only international artist I got to see was a DJ who played a show at Ivy.Quote:
Originally Posted by 1AZRAEL1
I'm really wanting to travel to Japan on my long service leave at the start of 2023, but it really isn't looking good for that possibility.
Wanted to travel to QLD for my 10yr anniversary with the missus next May. Might happen, might not. Hopefully October next year we can still.
Never been in a job that we strike. Interesting times ahead.
What is with the NSW government and playing low ball with agreements
First the nurses last year - mid pandemic while everyone was saying how vital they are
Now a 0.3% increase in the first year for a service that is vital to keeping the economy working.
Moreover - if you're worried about encouraging spending - the best way to do it is to provide greater discretionary spending to people on lower to mid incomes as a greater percentage of that gets spent directly back into products, rather than saved for larger purchases.
"We appreciate the work you've done through pandemic, but not so much that you deserve payrises..."
EA negotiations were going to happen no matter what, just bad luck it happened during the pandemic. But whilst managers and others were safe working from home, emergency services and transport were all on the front line. Nurses and medical staff are so undervalued by our governments it's not funny. Overstretched, underpaid and undervalued.
But just as a big side note, our industrial actions are way more than just pay disputes. They're trying to bring in unsafe trains by cutting the guards important role out to save money. And they are finding it cheaper to pay out compensation to familys if someone is maimed or killed because of the operating of these trains. Imagine that, putting money as more important than lives. Yep, our government sucks.
That's pretty disgusting. Although sadly not rare. I lived in an apartment coomplex that had the wrong tiles in the common areas, instead of being slip-resistant outside tiles, they were the ones you would find inside your house.Quote:
Originally Posted by 1AZRAEL1
When my mum cam over, she slipped on the tiles and broke her arm. Naturally I complained to the complex, although I moved out very soon afterwards. My mum ended up being paid out with a hassle free compensation payment. Before I left, I spoke to the caretaker (who just looked after the place, but wasn't the caretaker) and the complex was aware of the issue and it wasn't the first time it had happned, but they weren't inclined to fix the issue.
Needless to say I am glad neither me, nor any of my family have to go there anyore.
Also; I really hate printers when they don't work for some reason.
Money over people. It's abhorrent. Glad your mum wasn't badly hurt.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tetsuwan Convoy
As someone who used to work for a call centre printing out mailers, I know that frustration lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tetsuwan Convoy
I have no doubts about the public safety concerns. I'm in a different aspect of public service but the community benefit still ranks very highly in everyone's mind - it's what keeps people involved in lower paying roles - the public role they serve (plus a little more flexibility).Quote:
Originally Posted by 1AZRAEL1
There's history in other industries though - Ford is famous for the Pinto in the 70's. The fuel tank was susceptible to bursting into flames if ruptured in a collision. They had worked out it would be cheaper to fight / pay out compensation than delay production / recall the vehicle to fix the problem.
The guards? This almost sounds criminal.Quote:
Originally Posted by 1AZRAEL1
Guards is a silly title imo. What we do is make announcements, operate the doors, customer service stuff, etc. On normal days. When things go wrong, we're trained for that. But they want drivers to watch cameras, operate the doors, watch cameras again whilst looking ahead at the track. Our system is not safe for thatQuote:
Originally Posted by Autocon
At Kmart the other day, I saw retro TMNT toys. With the Vintage Beast Wars toys and new MOTU toys at BigW, it's like the stores are back in the 80s/90s again.
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Also at Kmart, I saw some new Marvel toys... noting that they have "mystery Web Gear" included with the toy... but if you turn the packaging to the side, you can see what the mystery piece is included. It probably isn't a random inclusion, but still... if it is marketed as a mystery item, it should be a surprise when you open up the packaging.
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My first visit to the toy shops after lockdown I saw: Vintage BW toys, Headmasters in 80s style boxes, carded 90s TMNT figures and the Turtle's party wagon, and Real Ghostbusters figures. Very much a time warp feeling.Quote:
Originally Posted by griffin
Linkin Park's songs.... do they all sound the same to others? Their song 'Numb' just came up on a spotfiy playlist and thought oh there's that song from Transformers, but no it just sounds like their songs from the Transformers movies.
Mostly the big singles like In The End, Crawling, Numb, New Divide, Burn It Down and to an extent What I've Done. Breaking the Habit and One Step Closer I can easily tell apart from other songs (and this isn't getting started how from Minutes to Midnight each new album had a different sound).Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulbot
Though if anything, their last album was bashed by fans for NOT sounding like anything else they had done before.
:( Rest is peace Al.
I was never happy with the way his character Cavil went out in BSG. Apparently, Dean was the one that pushed to have Cavil off himself, but I feel like that was out of character.
Ralph Macchio just turned 60! :O
When he was on The Late Show last night, he still looked like he was in his late 20s... but 60... dayam. He's certainly got great genes, as he was 23 when the first Karate Kid movie was filmed, but he looked 14-15 on screen (was playing a 17 year old character).
What are all these celebrities doing or using, as so many of the ones that are 50-60-plus years old now, are looking like they have been frozen in time at sub-30.
Another surprise, that I just found out tonight - the actor who plays the tough guy Torres on NCIS, played the soft, sensitive Fez in That 70s Show.
Yeah that got me too when I found out.
This feels like one of this tropes where the nerdy/geeky weirdo from high school grows up and turns into a 10/10.
The Wiggles have won the Hottest 100!
Spoilers! ??
J/k. I bet its like the time Tom won the gold logie
I've been watching the Simpsons again. Initially it was a binge of the initial good seasons, but then i decided I'd power through to watch it all.
It was hard getting through seasons 20-29, I relegated it to background noise. But I'm up to S32 and I honestly think it has come round. It's not like S1-10 good, but I enjoy it enough to actually pay attention to it (So I wanna say like S15 quality)
Lol. As long as it's a real diamond on that ring, she should be ok with it. Also, McNuggets are delicious.Quote:
Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime
SBS has an obsession with the movie The Fith Element... each year on may 5th they play the movie 5 times in a row. Weird.
I wonder if it's some big joke idea that they came up with a few years ago that still has a year or two left.Quote:
Originally Posted by griffin
Five years of
The Fifth Element
played five times
on the fifth day
of the fifth month
I feel like it should start at 5:55:55 just to really complete the gag.Quote:
Originally Posted by Seraphim Prime
Recently I have noticed that the pet toy section of the grocery store is being over-run by Hasbro... with their Tonka and Nerf brands (and now Transformers).
In the past there had been some random licenced pet toys of things from Disney, but the last couple of years has seen a sudden explosion as Hasbro and Disney appear to be fighting over that very niche toy market. It's almost as if the word "toy" needs Hasbro's attention, to start targeting.
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Random musings about the silly nightmare that is English spelling (the only language that has spelling bees!)...
"Though I coughed roughly and hiccoughed during the lecture, I still thought I could plough through the rest of it."
Of course, the reason why most of these variant pronounciations of "ough" (none of which are actually pronounced as "ough"), is because of historical reasons. They represent how these words used to be pronounced or how the pronunciation of "ough" has changed through time. Except for one idiotic outlier... hiccough. It is also the only time that "ough" is pronounced as "up." At least the others aren't alone in their weirdness.
e.g.
though rhymes with dough
cough rhymes with enough
thought rhymes with bought
plough rhymes with bough
thorough rhymes with borough
tough rhymes with rough
...etc.
What rhymes with hiccough? Well there's pickup, but of course, it doesn't end with "ough." And while the other ough weirdos have understandable historical origins, hiccough does not. It's literally because some numpty assumed the the "cup" in "hiccup" was related to the word "cough," and so he set the spelling as hiccough. Hint: the words cough and hiccough are not related!
Same with the silent g in "sovereign." Another numpty assumed that it must have been related to the word "reign" (which has a silent g because it comes from the Latin word REGNVM) - but it's not! "Sovereign" comes from the Old French word "soverain"... it never had a G in it, but some English knucklehead assumed that it needed to have one to reflect a word origin that never existed! It's as daft as painting Starscream in Jetfire colours because you think that the original Starscream toy came from Macross. :p
Go home, English. You're drunk!
English can be a tough language.Quote:
Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime
Theres never a drought of contraversy!Quote:
Originally Posted by kovert
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( ﾟ∀ﾟ)ﾉｼ <applause>Quote:
Originally Posted by Autocon
Aploughse :)
Happy Palindromic Pi Day, everyone! :)
It's still August.... still winter.... and Woolies already has out a large assortment of Christmas baked foods.