Random Stuff

[griffin]

Last week on Gruen (tv show about advertising), they mentioned about the affect social media apps can have on sales of obscure things... like a recent video on tiktoc of a skater drinking cranberry juice while singing to a song by Fleetwood Mac (from the late 70s), inspiring so many other people copying it, that the cranberry juice company has seen a massive surge of sales (they sent the person who did the original video, cases of the juice and a truck).
And then on the weekend, during Rage's music video weekly chart (on Saturday), the Fleetwood Mac song suddenly shows up at about number 5... which shows how much of an influence a single video can be, bringing a 40+ year old song back into the music charts for no other reason but because it has been used on tiktok (a number of more contemporary songs are stuck in the music charts because of tiktok videos, but this is one of the oldest songs it has sent back into the charts).

Meanwhile, it has saddened me to see SBS advertising the screening of the final season of Anthony Bourdain's travel show... which broadcast in America after he died (in 2018). The sad thing was, the final episode to screen while he was alive was a visit to Hong Kong, and while I was watching it along with his other recent ones (like the one tonight featuring New York), he just seemed like he was re-visiting his favourite places for one last time, as he just looked so old and worn out now... and sad... like he knew that he was just getting too old to enjoy this anymore.

[Ode to a Grasshopper]

So hey, question for Goki and/or any other Latin fans here...

How would I say 'You disgust me you filthy/worthless peasants' in Latin? I've started a course on computing basics (being something of a technophobe and needing to learn a few neglected skill areas) and one of the assessment tasks is to do up a flier in Word for 'Dazza's Woodfired Pizza'. Since they won't let me change the sample text and so I can't make the Worst Flier for the Worst Pizza Restaurant Ever (my slogan was going to be 'Now Food Act 2003 Compliant!') I've decided that going uber-fancy with the prescribed text will still be pretty funny, but for that I need a suitable Latin motto for the restaurant.
I've run a few options through Google Translate and so far am quite fond of "Et displicis, nequam rusticorum", but I wanted to check with people who actually know a bit about the language.

I've decided that - since the original plan for a hinted-at backstory involving a legal dispute with the Health Department, the local cat shelter, and Dazza's Woodfired Pizzas is no longer an option - Dazza is now Lord Quincy Farthing Dazzington IV, who was disowned from the family estate back in Mother England and exiled to NW Tasmania after an unfortunate fox-hunting accident at the local croquet club, where he has been reduced to running a local pizza restaurant for the local hordes of hungry bogans. Whom he despises, hence the slogan.

[Paulbot]

We used to be able to do a search on this forum and see results as Threads or Posts. But now we can only see Threads. Is this right? Am I missing something?

(I'm trying to find a post I made and it's proving more difficult than it should!)

[griffin]

We used to be able to do a search on this forum and see results as Threads or Posts. But now we can only see Threads. Is this right? Am I missing something?

(I'm trying to find a post I made and it's proving more difficult than it should!)

On the Advanced Search page, there are two search tabs that show up under the "new sales and toys" header box (this is since the upgrade last year... I don't know why, as it annoys me when I use the wrong one, and seems unnecessary).

By default, you first end up on the "Search Multiple Content types" tab, which is the right-side tab. This doesn't give you a results option.

Click on the left tab "Search Single Content type" tab. This one gives you the option at the bottom to select Threads or Posts as your results.

[Paulbot]

Thanks. Yes that other tab is what I was looking for in advanced. Didn’t notice the tabs at all.

[nalops]

This will make finding things on this forum so much easier. Thanks!

[griffin]

I haven't seen the hot cross buns yet (they usually are in Coles and Woolies within 3 days of Christmas), but they have both already been rolling out the Easter eggs as of yesterday...





I've checked out several stores in the last 3 days, and I've noticed that this year there was a LOT less unsold christmas items (decorations & foods) this year (in my area - it could be different in places like Sydney). Some stores I went to had almost nothing christmas related on clearance.
It wouldn't be a sign of people buying more this year compared to other years, but would be because the retailers were cutting back on their orders back around June, when it looked like the economy was going to be stalled in lockdown for the next year or so. But then as Australia did better with the virus than anyone had predicted, we saw the re-opening of states and wound back restrictions, allowing a lot more people to get back to work and spend more (and most states to be able to have a normal christmas). As such, it was too late for retailers to readjust their stock orders, because of how much stuff is made in China and produced around 6 months in advance.