Funny you should mention that...Quote:
Originally Posted by Golden Phoenix
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Funny you should mention that...Quote:
Originally Posted by Golden Phoenix
My wife and daughter were at home all day yesterday with all doors and windows closed. When I got home we noticed that the floor felt gritty, so I mopped it - the mop head was caked with red dirt and the water in the mop bucket was totally murky with a dark ruddy tinge! (O_o)
I also queued up for 50 minutes at the carwash on my way home too... only to hear on the evening news that we might get another dust storm tomorrow! D'OH!
During my morning commute I noticed so many other cars and roads still covered in red dirt... no need to visit the heart of Australia now, it seems the heart has come to the East Coast!
quit yo whinging!!! its not like dust storms of that magnitude happen every day, everything cool happens when im not in town, 99 hail storm, Hasbro Imax thing, red dust storm enjoy the uniquenessQuote:
Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime
*soldier & alien stop shooting at each other, slowly turning to look at a wall of dust coming their way*Quote:
Originally Posted by 1AZRAEL1
Alien: Oh shi-. It's Superman 64 all over again...
Soldier: Hey, at least we get colourful dust.
Alien: Werd, and could be worse. We could be in Silent Hill
*alien and soldier laugh*
:p
I can't find my Baldur's Gate 2 CDs...:(
I hate Day light Savings!! I completely forgot of the time change and now I have realized that I lost a whole hour :(
I hate it when I'm on ebay and forget about it and miss auctions by an hour. :(
I wish they had a setting where you could "localise" the time an auction ends.
I ALWAYS miss at least one thing each year due to this. :mad:
You'll get it back laterQuote:
Originally Posted by kup
But then it won't count.Quote:
Originally Posted by Golden Phoenix
+1 for the anti-daylight savings crowd - I hate having to get up earlier, and I don't want people around later on 'cos that's when I'm out and about.
My hair is starting to piss me off, it's lovely and long but the maintenance is really annoying. I've been growing it for ten years and can't decide whether to keep it or get shorn.
Main bitch= I got a sweet new phone a while back on the understanding that my not-quite-father-in-law's plan got it as a freebie, which due to a Telstra cock-up (turns out it's not free and will end up costing $1100 by the time the plan ends, which is the exact opposite of what he was told when asking not one but two sales reps) I may now lose. Normally I hate new phones but I've grown quite attached to this one, mainly thanks to the whole MP3 as ringtone function, so I don't really want to go back to the pink Hello-Kitty phone, amusing as it is - curse you Telstra! Actually Telstra's been screwing up constantly for months now so I shouldn't be surprised...
I was at the local Indian take-away, and the lady standing next to me asks how much the $8 deal is.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22...movieprime.jpghttp://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22...avatars/gg.jpg
She obviously needed it converted.
It would be 345 INR. :D
I was expecting 3 seperate packages today from courier today, but it looks like he's not coming and i'll have to wait til tomorrow for new toy goodness.
Edit : They arrived just now (3pm) jeez and i cant open them yet cause i need to go out to do errands. plus i have a box of krispy kreme that arrived from sydney to eat.
Just had to cancel my doctors appt for this arvo as I'm in too much pain to leave the house. :( I took the day off work as I have a cold which has now triggered my chronic illness and as a result I can barely go 5 minutes without being doubled over in agony. FML.
Coming back to work from my holidays, only to have the whole first week, stuck back after I am supposed to finish all because there have been more problems than you can shake the proverbial stick at. :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:
I'm taking tomorrow off for stress leave, and don't give a rats ass what work think.
Some days I just wish I didn't get out of bed.
Urg, you too eh?
This week has been a real ..... yea.
But what is this holidays thing you speak of? Stress leave? You're kidding right? Sorry man, but you need to htfu. :p
Heh, you guys wish you weren't at work, I wish I could go to work. Oh well, been watching some good movies at home at least. Saw 'Let the Right One In' and 'The Mist' today, I thought both were fantastic although don't watch the second one if you want cheering up - it has the bleakest ending I've seen since Spoorloos (original 'The Vanishing').
Is Let the Right One In on DVD already? I have to track that down.Quote:
Originally Posted by Doubledealer
Not sure mate, although I'll definitely be tracking it down too when it is! Did it ever come to cinema's here? I only just heard about it recently.Quote:
Originally Posted by gamblor916
Oh and I meant 'The Mist' has the somber ending, not LtROI. Whoops.
Not me. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Doubledealer
I just wish that the people that came into my work would switch their bloody brains on.
I can understand that you want to go to work, but when you have had the last week I have had, you would be glad not to be here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Doubledealer
I had to take a day off last week due to stress, 4 days back at work and had to take a day off. After today, I need to take the rest of the year off.
Having the time at work I have had since I came back from holidays, I can fully understand why someone goes postal...
I try to be positive about it all, but I just can't be positive here. And before anyone says it, I have been looking for other work, and zilcho. Doesn't mean I'm gonna stop though, I need to get outta here before I lose the rest of my sanity.
Sorry to hear you're having such a bad time of it mate. What aspects of your work are so awful? The people I'm guessing?Quote:
Originally Posted by 1AZRAEL1
Nah suprisingly not the people, well in a way yea. My main gripe is the fact that things don't work around here. Computers too slow, keep on asking for an upgrade but the bosses not caring. That and when I am not here, things don't get done which gave me a bigger workload yesterday. That teamed with my portable hard drive not working properly anymore, so no music to keep me company in my solitude at work.Quote:
Originally Posted by Doubledealer
Sorry for my ranting, but the stress of it all here is really getting to me, and they can't seem to realise it.
Goki is a sad panda today. :(
I went shopping at Parramatta Westfields with my family and as usual we had Softimus Prime tacked onto Optimus Pram (that's the name of my daughter's pram ;)) - she loves playing with Softimus and Slumblebee. Anyway, some <person born outside of wedlock> snatched Softimus. That's right, some low life stole a toy from a 5 month old baby. :mad: (T_T) I noticed the toy was gone when Yukikaze started crying; I suspect that the sudden move from the thief must've startled her, but of course when I looked around I was just surrounded by crowds of people.
Now I'm sure it shouldn't be too hard to find another Softimus Prime, but as usual thieves never stop to think about the sentimental value of what they're stealing. I had that Softimus with me when my wife went into labour and we rushed to the hospital. That Softimus was with us in the delivery room as our daughter was being born. I held the toy in front of her when she was only minutes old. I was hoping that she could look back on this toy fondly when she gets older, but thanks to some <female genitalia> that can now never be. :( :(
So Yukikaze's lost one of her favourite toys, and my wife is unhappy too as she also personally quite liked Softimus; we both considered him to be our favourite amongst the TF plushies. But yeah, the sentimental value is irreplacable.
Shortly after being born Yukikaze is greeted by Softimus Prime
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22..._newborn08.jpg
Softimus in Yukikaze's bed at the post natal ward
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22...ook_day3_8.jpg
I hope Karma catches up with the son of a <female dog> who took our Softimus.
Damm man that so sux, people are such dicks, yes I hope Karma bites him on the assQuote:
Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime
Speaking of people stealing TF related things earlier this week when my car was parked at Marayong station some person ripped my Autobot car logo off my car, leaving an autobot imprinted black sticky patch, yeah it's cheap to replace but now really annoying because should I bother getting another one just to have it ripped off again. People are such low lives. And to add to that my poor car last night had it's rear right wheel bent as I was driving home from a gig, so now he is sitting waiting to be fixed. Not a good week for him.
:eek: Dam thats low, how could you steal from a 5 month old! Don't know if it helps but if you cant find another Softimus prime let me know as I have one and Slumblebee, that i bought and have put away both still with tags they are perfect and they are yours free if you want them :DQuote:
Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime
Well i got home today, after having a normal usual day. Sat down in front of the computer until i heard my mom screamed "somebody broke in! somebody broke in!" *in filo* and i was like whatever until i actually got out of the garden and realise she was right garden looks ok but our gardens fence got ripped opened due to its small escaped door, probably the offender used an axed or something? Then the worst part was the broken the window! The window of the room where all my tf collections are! just outside the window is bruticus lying on the ground headless! i observed the whole place to see if anything else was missing luckily they didnt manage to get in the house but only manage to grab bruticus out of the window and weirdly the empty box of ultimate bumblebee outside the fence. *sigh* I guess main nothing is nobody got hurt and nothing got stolen just broken glass, alot of it! with my collections :(. I called the police, made a police report but what else can they do but try to get finger prints. So much for having a piece of mind :(:(:(:mad::mad::(:(
sorry to hear about your bad luck at least nothing was taken :)
yeah nothing just my peace of mindQuote:
Originally Posted by The_Damned
Yeah but at least the cops are informed and its unlikely that the person will return since he didn't take anything or got frightened away before he could steal.Quote:
Originally Posted by Deceptic_Optics
Did he actually take Brutucus' head or did it come off when it was dropped?
i think when they dropped it yeah at least nothing was taken, hopefully they dont comeback, man im so lucky cos my tf are not even insuredQuote:
Originally Posted by kup
Oooh a thread where get to vent! Where do I begin - having to move in with my loving but insane parents at the beginning of this year, being stuck in a job and career I hate so intensley I've allowed it to get me dipping in and out of various vices - cigarettes, wacky cigarettes and alcoholism (I've been clean of all for a while now, but work stress got me back on the cancer sticks) - if you are of any intelligence and possess motivation, do not join the Australian Public Service, or at least the Department of Broadband and Communications! Just a warning.
Being single is lonely and sad and the fact that I'm just as much a shy hermit now as I was 15 years is frustrating. And while I love my pets dearly, the fact that the two beings I feel closest to in the world are a cat and a dog also makes me angry at times.
Well I'll leave it at that. And alas when one thinks of all the ills of the world out there, it doesn't always give you perspective - and if it does it just makes you feel guilty. At least that's what I've found.
Heck while I'm greatful for attending the Parramatta meetup the fact I still couldn't find it in myself to be more social and gregarious is also infuriating.
I feel for you - I was robbed a couple of years and they took anything of immediate monetary value (that could be traded at Cash Converters) that I had - but it was losing the peace of mind that I had previously enjoyed at this place that hurt the most. I ended up moving a month later because I could not stand to live there (it didn't help that in my case I was 99% sure that it was the people who lived above me that did the deed).Quote:
Originally Posted by Deceptic_Optics
Its so lucky that nothing was taken, you should put jail bars on your window now!
Is transformer toy insurance expensive and easily attained?
Well its easy to have it insured, but, if you really wanna have it insured properly..... you have to have a detailed list , have someone appraise each piece, coz NRMA only covers $10,000 ( as my collection is) and isnt even worth half of the collection's worth. My G1 alone while not in pristine condition is worth more than 10 grand but Im still hoping none of this bad luck stealing affair hits me, heaven forbid.:(Quote:
Originally Posted by Starscream212
thanks for the information, i only have movie figures but when i start to get a decent Beast Wars collection ill have a serious think about it!
aherh hitting a blank brick wall? im not use to it:oQuote:
Originally Posted by dsaint
Damnit, that makes my blood boil. :mad: As bad as it is consider it a sign that you need to insure your Transformers. I currently pay $200 for my home contents insurance a year and recently called NRMA (who I'm with) to see how much more it would cost to insure my Transformers for $5000. Guess how much? ZERO. :D You just tell them you want to insure roughly however many you've got Takara//Hasbro Transformer toys for that amount and it gets attached to your home contents insurance (just make sure you take photo's of all your toys). They then send you a letter to keep with your records. I also recommend a lockable cabinet for your most prized toys! Hopefully by doing all this your peace of mind will gradually be restored. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Deceptic_Optics
Gah! That sucks. :( :( I've been burgled a few times before and I know you have that AWFUL feeling of having been violated. Last time I got burgled the guy stole:Quote:
Originally Posted by Deceptic_Optics
+ Original G1 Optimus Prime
+ Original G1 Megatron
+ Original G1 Ultra Magnus
+ Original G1 Galvatron
+ Loose in box BTA Alert
+ MISB BTA Broadcast
+ My _entire_ DVD collection
+ My PS2 and games
+ My DVD/VCR
+ My microwave oven
...my Binaltech Prowl was also broken (one wing mirror snapped off, never recovered).
Here's what my TF room at the time looked like just after the burglarly:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22.../aftermath.jpg
<sigh> Hope nobody else ever has to experience this.
Again thanks guys, really appreciate for the advices. Im just so paranoid at the moment that i end up slowly packing away my collection :(:(:( and I think we are still deciding if we are putting security shutters on the house. Its just so sad that people like this exist, you just feel so violated :mad: *bastards* Sad part is i might even gave up collecting cos this same thing happen 6 years ago but we got robbed in a unit, my collection wasnt that big and its not that intersting with thieves then so i packed them away for a couple of years until i got over the incident. I dont know if i could move on with this one specially with the actual target this time is my collection *sigh* :(:mad::(:mad::(:mad: