+1 to Rottnest island. I stayed there for a few days last year, very relaxing!
A day trip is well worth it too, the train/bunker tour is one worth doing.
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+1 to Rottnest island. I stayed there for a few days last year, very relaxing!
A day trip is well worth it too, the train/bunker tour is one worth doing.
Lol. I've lived in Perth all my life (40 years) and have never been to Rottnest.:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Borgeman
Did you ever ralize that ipad screens are insanely priced to repair? I broke mine ( :( ) and i have been looking at the prices... some over $100!!
I HAVE PHONE, TELEVISION AND INTERNET NOW!!! :D (for the first time in 21 days)
Ah that explains the low word count to post ratio recently :pQuote:
Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime
Welcome back to normalcy. :)
The longest federal election campaign since 1969.... as if we haven't had enough of politicians (and Prime Ministers) in our faces in recent years, now we have to face 2 months of them headlining the news programs and papers.
That's it, I'm off to hibernate. Wake me up when it's July 3rd...
What if we wake you up on July 2 so you can vote?Quote:
Originally Posted by griffin
I spoke too soon. 'Net conked out on Friday night and only got up again this evening. But now we have no gas/hot water and won't be back up until tomorrow! :rolleyes: All this on top of an incredibly crappy day at work... oh yeah...Quote:
Originally Posted by BruiseLee
Take a moment to feel for the Americans who's presidential selection goes for a year and a half. Or other countries in the world who's only elections are military coups.Quote:
Originally Posted by griffin
Hmmm maybe use this to mention to the missus that the Feng Shui might be out of whack in the house. Could be a good time to pitch for that larger Transformer room again! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime
Maybe spoilers for the new Netflix Voltron cartoon
In the trailers, the team has a new character in the black outfit, not Sven, who's clearly older than the others and seemingly "in charge". Was jokingly thinking "hope nothing happens to him" but it got be thinking.
Never quite understood as a kid why Keith and Lance wore different coloured uniforms to their Lions. In the original anime was Sven the leader and Black Lion pilot until hediedwas badly injured at which point the other two rotated? I could imagine that might happen in the new show and wonder if that would actually be accurate to the original story?
Nope, Keith was always the team leader. Been ages since I've seen the show but in the first episode where they pilot the lions (think it was third episode in to the series...?) Keith actually flies the green lion due the black lions key being missing, plus Pidge was separated from the team at that point, but right from the outset Lance flies the red lion wearing the blue uniform and Sven flies the blue lion in the black uniform. There's no apparent reason why that was the case, if those two had of been the other way around then Keith/Sven would of been the only lion/colour clash but giving Lance the red lion just made it that extra bit confusing. There was at least one later episode where Lance ("correctly") flies the blue lion.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulbot
Plus, when Sven is (largely) written out of the show, the Princess takes over the blue lion wearing a pink uniform. And unless I'm colour blind, Hunk's uniform always looked more orange than yellow. Then much later when W.E.P. commissioned Toei to make more Voltron episodes after they'd run out of GoLion episodes to dub, for some reason in those episodes the green lion/Pidge's uniform is coloured in a shade of green that's so dark it almost looks black.
Ugh.
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What's the go with Kmart. They plonked the checkout / pay station right in the center of the store ... as well as at the front.
My local only has it in the middle. I dont like it at all. I just wanna grab my stuff and head out. It being in the middle means I have to go further to buy things.Quote:
Originally Posted by Megatran
Only thing it is good for is my step count.
They've been rolling that new layout to stores for a while now. It sucks. Southland has had some 'quick' self checkouts at the exit which kind of helps. The store layout though is crowded and messy, but they have $25 deluxes so I go back.
We're trying to make you spend more. Pay for something in the middle, you might also grab something on your way out, in case you forgot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Megatran
Serious, that's why you'll also see all of the 'worlds' next to each other, with all of the associated products within arms reach.
An email I sen to Telstra tonight:
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It may surprise you to learn that the call you speak of below, scheduled for 6:30pm tonight, did not happen. I know, shocking right?!?! This is now the 4th time I have not received a scheduled call in relation to this issue. I will not direct my wrath toward you, for I know that you and your team are simply the poor sods faced with the sometimes insurmountable task of fronting the ire of the Australian social media monster and explaining the yet new level of incompetence your company has, despite all odds, managed to achieve. And believe me, the irony of Australia's largest phone service provider, navigating social media (in my experience so far) quite adequately yet be so inept as to not be able to arrange for a phone call to be made at a scheduled time, is not lost on me. But I suppose I could be jumping to conclusions, after all, while I was given a time of 6:30pm Tuesday, no time zone was specified.
After my complaint on your Facebook page Your staff replied with an apology and within an hour it appears that someone within your organization recalled the use of a touch tone phone and rang me to organize a 5th call for tomorrow night at 6:30pm.
Now, I must admit I am curious as to whether this streak can be maintained. On one hand, it would be supremely awesome to get this issue sorted. On the other hand, I find myself wondering if there is an official world record for non-returned phone calls and whether I've got a shot at it?
I thank you and your social media staff for the assistance and hope you pass my complaint on. I fully intend to lodge a complaint with the ombudsman. As Telstra's blatant lack of respect for its customers cannot go unreported.
Cheers,
Trent
Thanks for the explanation. Was wondering this myself. Being a guy, I'm not an impulse buyer though. When I go into the shops, I know what I want and head straight for it. Once I have secured said item, it's straight to the registers and out the door - mission complete :cool: My wife's the complete opposite. She likes to browse and it gives me the shits. It's kinda like spending money for the sake of spending.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sinnertwin
I've only just found out that the original TMNT movies have been released on Blu-ray here. How did I miss that??? Does anyone here have them? Kind of wondering how the quality is.
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Originally Posted by Sinnertwin
It's also why supermarkets typically put essentials like milk right up the back, to make customers walk past the rest of the store and try to entice them to buy more stuff.Quote:
Originally Posted by 5FDP
#year9commerce :)
I've seen it in a couple stores as well. my biggest problem with it is it really encourages people to just walk out with stuff. and it puts a massive burden on the poor sod at the front door who has to check bags etc. correct me if I'm wrong Sinnertwin but whoever that person is, isn't a trained security guard, just another teenager on the minimum wage.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sinnertwin
Nice one Trent, the sarcasm was dripping, I can't see it making a difference to your service, except you mentioned the ombudsman.Quote:
Originally Posted by Trent
Actually, between that and my post on their facebook page, I had a phonecall within minutes.Quote:
Originally Posted by UltraMarginal
I have no doubt it was my threat of the ombudsman that spurred them into action. But it was fun typing that email.
It shouldn't take public threats on social media to get good customer service. I'd call the ombudsmen anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by Trent
Meh. Effort.Quote:
Originally Posted by UltraMarginal
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Originally Posted by UltraMarginal
Door greeters are really only there as a visual deterrent to the opportunistic thieves -the little teeny bopper that wants a $3 can of Impulse or the gamer that wants a new pack of batteries for their XBox controller.
The experienced ones will have 101 ways of concealing merchandise and attempting to walk out. If we are able to establish them early enough, undercover loss prevention officers & security staff are notified at which point apprehension will occur outside of the store.
Stores cannot legally enforce bag checks for customers leaving the store.
Reference
"When a bag search is conducted no items are allowed to be touched with the retailer only able to look at the contents inside the bag. Customers do have the right to refuse to have their bag searched, but since a customer enters a store under licence, the retailer also has the right to ask a person to leave, therefore revoking the licence (under which the customer entered the store)."
So here's how I understand it; if you enter a store where there are prominent signs saying that customers may be subject to bag checks, you can refuse to comply with the bag check and, unless the store has good reason to believe that you've shoplifted, the worst that they can do is tell you to leave. If you're already exiting the store, which is when bag checks occur, then it's a fairly empty threat. I'm not encouraging anyone to abuse this, but just pointing out some legal facts.
One reason why I carry my Transformer toy in my hand when I go out instead of carrying it in my bag or pocket is to make it visibly clear that I've already entered the store with the toy, then I show the toy on my way out and the checker can know that I didn't steal it from the store. If the checker is busy as I enter, I hold it in a position that can be easily seen by security cameras - should security feel the need to review video (it's never come up though).
I think Southland was the initial trial store - staff there HATED it at first, buts it's been that way for 2-3 years nowQuote:
Originally Posted by Paulbot
They've merged the audiovisual/photo printing section with the service desk and layby too, which can be a pain when I want something from the DVD cabinet and have to wait for someone collecting a layby or an idiot to be told why they can't get a refund, back when I worked there they were three separate desks in different locations across the store
Edit: used to work the door too, funniest moment was a biker trying to walk out with a fridge...
Castle Towers Kmart is the only one that I've noticed that hasn't changed their layout yet. Hornsby has recently done it, but it doesn't work well since it's a long store and not a wide store.
Also on the bag checking thing, it's kinda funny because when I show them my bag, they only see the top of it. I could have a stolen transformer in the bottom of it and they wouldn't even notice.
Some places do have better security, the worse case was Target Hornsby where I had to sit for a bunch of minutes because the person out front thought I had stolen a Transformer, despite the fact I had purchased it from somewhere else (and that also Target wasn't even stocking that type of Transformer!). I had to wait a bunch of minutes till they learnt I didn't steal it.
This is why I should always have a receipt for when I'm buying toys.
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All the easier to steal things :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Sinnertwin
Actually some guys walked out with a speaker set and cos security can't handle them physically they got away with it (until the police got them)
Just saw this on QI tonight... in Hong Kong, you can have your wedding at Mcdonalds for as little as AU$500.... and they do it rather flashy too.
Imagine Mcdonalds in Australia doing weddings... it would be a tacky bogan fest.
But the Wedding Cake would be one of these, and they are pretty damn good.Quote:
Originally Posted by griffin
http://shop.coles.com.au/wcsstore/Co.../0/5103340.jpg
Pretty much this:
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you obviously haven't been to a whole lot of Australian Weddings, a lot of them are anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by griffin
A mate of mine used to film weddings on the side to supplement his creative works. I remember picking up a drive from him (or a camera, or a tape deck, whatever it was) and he was in the middle of editing a wedding video.Quote:
Originally Posted by UltraMarginal
The footage was of the bride in a horrible puffy white dress, trying to smoke a cigarette at arm's length while holding a can of Beam & Cola.
She was picked up in a stretch Hummer.
To quote the great Stan Lee; 'nuff said.
The Bomboniere at my cousins wedding was a stubby cooler.Quote:
Originally Posted by millhouse
You know what i find scary? A raid was done on a kids locker today (yes i go to high school) and he's year 7 (so 13-14) and he had drugs... I'd like to know how f'd up this world is where a kid in a town where the police aren't even here for 7 days a week can get drugs
Something to restore your faith in humanity; 2016 Calgary Police Chief's Award Gala have honoured the following citizens for exceptional bravery in saving the lives of complete strangers.
* Four skateboarders who stopped a woman from being raped and detained the would-be rapist until police arrived.
* A woman who chased away a group of attackers and tended to the victims' wounds until help arrived.
* A man who performed CPR and mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on an unconscious driver who'd suffered a heart attack.
* A young man and woman who saw a man bashing his ex-wife (with their children screaming in the back seat of their car). They stopped the attack, called police, and looked after the woman until police arrived.
That's great!Quote:
Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime
You know all this crap about the Gorilla being shot. How come when a school is shot up people aren't like this?
It's a bit wet out :eek:
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You did.
Rest In Peace
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