The other half taking 38 minutes, yes thir-ty-eight mi-nutes to get changed for a trip to the shops earlier this afternoon.
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The other half taking 38 minutes, yes thir-ty-eight mi-nutes to get changed for a trip to the shops earlier this afternoon.
Damn it! The barrel of my G1 Shockwave has somehow yellowed and the screws rusted! No other toys have suffered from such damage around him so have no idea what happened!
WSW 0 CCM 2
Boo :(
I can understand the screws rusting but I can't imagine how the barrel could turn yellow when it's grey. I thought only white plastics could turn yellow :confused: Nothing is real anymore...Quote:
Originally Posted by kup
No any sort of plastic can turn yellow if it's susceptible to it. It is however more noticeably yellow in whites but there are distinct color changes in colored plastic too like them becoming darker or even green.Quote:
Originally Posted by 5FDP
That sucks Kup :( Be careful if you're planning on buying a replacement off eBay or the like. I can only imagine the number of KO Shocky parts floating around (there was a purple barrel one as well which should make them easier to avoid).
A cursory glance at my G1 Fortress Maximus will show you extremely yellowed greys. ;) White is the most susceptible to yellowing, but any kind of plastic can photodegrade.Quote:
Originally Posted by 5FDP
I had the same issue with my childhood G1 Slugslinger's thighs and hands when I pulled it out of storage for the last 10 odd years :(Quote:
Originally Posted by kup
I've been reminded why I don't like eBay auctions. I put bids on about 20 TF comics last night, individual postage was high but in bulk the combined postage would be a good deal.
Woke up to find that I'd been outbid and lost all of the auction, but one. So now I've got one comic with high postage. I'd have rather been outbid on everything then be left with only one purchase!
Going to stick with trusty "Buy it now".
that's a bummer, can you ask the seller to send via a cheaper method?Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulbot
I've purposely bid more than I should ahve in the past, just so I could get the cheaper postage, that's probably worse...:o
This week is pay week and I only got paid $200. I should've been paid considerably more plus leave loading because I'm on holidays. I really hate automated pay systems.
It's funny. Every place I have worked has automated pay systems and people within those companies always complain about being paid incorrectly. But I have NEVER had a single problem.Quote:
Originally Posted by SMHFConvoy
Very strange.
And now for my venting session:
I have been on leave this week spending the second week of the school haolidays with my wife. We had planned to do a lot of day trips this week and spending a lot of time outdoors, at the beach, etc. but I have been sick since Tuesday!:mad: I have spent the week home mostly in bed with a cold. I thought I was getting better yesterday so I went to a dawn service and then the local march, and now I feel like poo again.:(
And to top it all off, this was my last week of leave until I get more. NEXT MARCH!!
Not happy at all…
Yesterday there was a driver who just decided to park his car like this...
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22...ps9a551bbe.jpg
:rolleyes:
What's also amusing in this photo - if you look at the far right there's a man and woman passing each other, but in the photo it looks like they're kissing. :p
I bet if you had to hang around for them to return they had the most pathetic apology....Quote:
Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime
My vent: trying to play new cd on the computer at work and the media player keeps stalling. OH MY GOD its annoying.......
Submerged my G1 Shockwave barrel and screws in H202 for a couple of days. I removed the inner clear purple plastic parts to prevent damage.
Good news! The barrel has regained it's original color (for now at least) and the screws had their rust cleaned and looks like they have no structural damage, they look nearly new. I assembled it all together and it now seems fine.
Good thing as I was very hesitant to buy from Ebay and the only person with a sure to be legit barrel was charging something like $42 on shipping alone.
Nope. He just briskly walked right past me, hopped in his car and drove off before I could get a word in edgewise! :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Tetsuwan Convoy
Stay classy Western Sydney.
Ah dammit I have a stiff neck today. I used to headbang alot in my younger days, now not so much. But it was worth it to see Black Sabbath!!! :D
Don't get me started on idiots and parking :mad:Quote:
Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime
Did you get their rego plates?Quote:
Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime
I love clicking on an item on the main listing only to find out in the product description that its sold out. Thanks AmiAmi.
eptoys.com and ehobbybaseshop.com does that as well, which is very frustrating.
Well I had a sit down with the admin manager at work about my incorrect pay last week when I was on annual leave. Turns out that even though I had put through the adjusted holidays early march payroll's automated system screwed that up. Not only that I wasn't even in the system for the pay period during my holidays!
When I raised the pay issue with my manager last Wednesday because I personally visited work over the matter. She got customer service to check my holidays were in the system and they discovered the same thing and did NOTHING ABOUT IT.
So to the admin manager's credit he emailed payroll in hopes of getting things fixed asap but I don't think it's going to happen and he did offer to give me a loan out of petty cash but I said I'd already borrowed money from my folks.
So Trent I hope you never have problems with your employer's payroll system because it is a pain.
Had some milk for breakfast, went to work and came home 12 hours later and found the milk carton still sitting on the bench and not back in the fridge. Gah! Need more sleep.
Oh terrific. I've lost all names and numbers from my iPhone's contact list. Seems to be happening to a lot of people looking at the apple discussion boards. May be caused by the crappy update to the Facebook app update.
And I can't see how to get them back without doing a full restore from my last backup, which I'm sure will force my phone to get the iOS6 update which I've been holding off on. Unless there's some way to restore from a backup without resetting the entire phone.
Edit: Trying a restore. What genius hid "restore from backup" under a right click on the navigation? :rolleyes:
Edit: Worked. Lost a few days worth of text messages, but got names and numbers back.
Must be the month for it, I just finished my second week in my new job, my first payslip says I've accrued 6 hours of annual leave, and $0.00 pay. at least I didn't pay any tax. ...Quote:
Originally Posted by SMHFConvoy
apparently my Tax file declaration form had been misplaced. I should get my pay delivered this Friday, only a week late.:rolleyes:
fresh yoghurt:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Paulbot
Ew. Seem to be coming down the flu and didn't get paid this week. And my Energon Scorponok fell during the night and broke. First TF my partner ever got me.:(
That's quadruply tough man! Energon Scorponok is a beautiful figure! :(:(Quote:
Originally Posted by Gouki
I cant hear out of my left ear. Thanks for dipping the plane like a madman Mr. Pilot
Ugh! Work has shorted me $500 on wages. I called the union and I'll have to talk to all the payroll people again! Bloody clowns.
I'm still waiting for my first fortnights pay and I'm half way through my 4th week...
Geeze! What do employers and clients think employees and sole traders get by on these days? A few lungfuls of air? Very disheartening. I hope that they genuinely make it up to you.Quote:
Originally Posted by UltraMarginal
I really, really, really hate comics fandom. Really. Really. Really. I don't think I can understate it.
Pay came through this Tuesday finally, everyone has been chasing it up, apparently thre is one person in the pay office in Canberra who is a so and so. My local HR person had over 5 unresponded to emails to the pay office on my behalf.Quote:
Originally Posted by SMHFConvoy
it should be fine, I just have to make sure it's the right amount.
Why's that? I mean, any group that large is going to have good and bad, but hating comics fandom as a whole? I am certain there are those of us Ozformers that also fit into the category of "comics fandom". Surely you don't hate us too?:confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by Gouki
Oh no, I absolutely hate the comics fandom, the disgusting attitudes towards minorities, the general cluelessness. But! I do like fans. It's just the general unpleasantness of the fandom that I hate.Quote:
Originally Posted by M-bot
So your gripe is less with comic fandoms and more with society in general…Quote:
Originally Posted by Gouki
No, Gouki's gripe is with comics fandom.Quote:
Originally Posted by Trent
Comics has a horrible track record with representation of minorities - and in real life too, so few black or female writers in the industry - because the bulk of the comics are by white males. Recently there was a comics panel about Marvel comics and a fan brought up that in Age of Ultron Luke Cage was killed off panel and there was a lot of awkward jokes from the Marvel panelists because they didn't know how to address this problem.
Yet, Dan Slott kills off Peter Parker and the Internet breaks from the fan rage!
It's my own fault really but I lost the head to the foc jackpot I was making ;_; ;_;
Hopefully I can find a loose foc jazz at the parra collector's fair next weekend ;_;
RE: Comics
Heh, I still can't get over the fact that according to the Transformers IDWverse, Taiwan borders North Korea (but still flies the Chinese flag). :rolleyes: Could be worse. Could be Michael "Jordan borders Egypt and Giza is within eyeshot of the sea" Bay! ;)
Mebbe it's a 'Murica thing. :p
And how exactly is this fandom's fault? I generally don't buy comics of the 'Big 2', and avoid books with the kind of stereotypes you mention. But I, as part of comic fandom in general, am to blame for these issues?Quote:
Originally Posted by SMHFConvoy
Taking it a bit further, Bay's three TF films had a fair amount of racism and mysoginy, am I, as a part of Transformer fandom (as well as a fan of films) to blame?
I'm just not sure how a blanket hatred of fandom is warranted.