hooman posted:

Please make sure you live long enough to report your findings, or at least leave enough evidence for us to infer them. Have you tried RoyAl's in East Vic Park? I love them.

Brown Paper Bag posted:

And RoyAls do an amazing fried chicken burger.

Hobo Erotica posted:

People say it's ok cos the opinions are lovely, but the opinions just don't seem that lovely.

hooman posted:

Truth.

I will have to try this city burger.

YOU CAN PRY MY BURGER CHAT FROM MY COLD DEAD GREASY HANDS.

Lid posted:

Pineapple and beetroot should neither be on burgers nor on pizza nor any other food stuff.

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

quote:

Firstly, she's not actually nude, because she has neither clothes nor private parts. She's effectively just wearing a kind of holographic body stocking. That's the conceit. However, like you said, that's what it makes you think of. We've backed into the canon and had this conversation even before we ever showed pictures of Cortana. Why is she doing that? Why would an AI pick that? Well, we have other AIs. We have one who dresses like a wizard. We have one who dresses like a World War 2 pilot. They do it because they feel like it's a part of their personality. In Cortana's case, because she's illegally cloned from a real human brain, she's a little bit different than other AIs. One of the reasons she does it is to attract and demand attention. And she does it to put people off so they're on their guard when they're talking to her and that she has the upper hand in those conversations. It's kind of almost like the opposite of that nightmare you have where you go to school in the nude, and you're terrified and embarrassed. She's kind of projecting that back out to her audience and winning intellectual points as a result. That's not why she was designed like that. That's how we've backed into our fiction. But that's the conceit and that's why she does it. She expresses that in her other behaviours and we've invested in that aspect of her persona.

Mordialloc posted:

Hi folks,

Following from the discussion a couple of days ago about employment service providers, I'm looking to employ someone in a month or so on a casual basis in my business but I don't want to use a provider that is shady/fucks job seekers. Are there any good/decent/not blood sucking ones?

About the job: Handyman work in Canberra, 2-3 days a week.

bandaid.friend posted:

NTRabbit posted:

I really think that, as punishment, he ought to ban us from further participation in the F-35 program. That'll learn us.

Really though, there's not anything he can actually do to us. Anything meaningfully punitive requires the approval of both houses of Congress, and he can't even get the Obamacare repeal through, let alone reprisals against a popular long term ally.

Hobo Erotica posted:

The indifference is just striking to be honest. Worth remarking upon at least, which is what I'm doing. I'm not railing, I'm just trying to understand the hate. People say it's ok cos the opinions are lovely, but the opinions just don't seem that lovely. But no one else has said that yet, which suggests that everyone just accepts that junkee article? The consensus is she's a lovely, victim blaming, whore hater? I feel that sets a new low for the discourse.

Tasmantor posted:

Sorry to interrupt food chat and women bashing but I have a problem you guys might be able to help with. I have a 2nd year apprentice who had found a much better shop who want to take him on but the boss just told him he can't do that. Does that seem right? It smacks of the sort of BS that is driving him away anyway.

Blow posted:

the other Aus thread in GBS is far superior to this one. You wanna know why? 'Cos we don't talk about politics.

HookShot posted:

You're right the thread with a dude who likes to shove things up his cock is definitely far superior to this one.

Bogan King posted:

This thread is really bad at respecting women. Milky is probably the worst but we're not pointing fingers. We could all look to our younger generation and see how they treat women in this enlightened day. So I present part x of n in a series called 'Caleb does ladies (without getting his dick wet)'.

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

These captions are classic:

Kafka Syrup posted:

https://twitter.com/Studio10au/status/875149232159703040

Why on earth is a TV show directly lobbying on TV for a particular government Bill to pass? SURELY, the collapse of Network 10 isn't some immense cartel-like conspiracy to extort media reforms that directly benefit the shareholders of Network 10...? Surely Australian politics isn't THAT corrupt... Surely... surely...

AgentF posted:

As like pornographic content or something this would be okay. Outside of that, why would there ever be a reason for a fighting game (I think?) character to be dressed like this? Y'all gotta admit there is a serious problem with cheesecake in video games. Not talking about women exhibiting sexuality, which is fine if there are in-character reasons for it, but talking about women flashing boobs and butt all over the place for no reason other than a presumed-male audience. Anita Sarkeesian Was Right.

AgentF posted:

I like how they don't bother finding out the name of the leader of the Greens. Also if Hildebrand loses his job then good.

Tasmantor posted:

Sorry to interrupt food chat and women bashing but I have a problem you guys might be able to help with. I have a 2nd year apprentice who had found a much better shop who want to take him on but the boss just told him he can't do that. Does that seem right? It smacks of the sort of BS that is driving him away anyway.

HookShot posted:

You're right the thread with a dude who likes to shove things up his cock is definitely far superior to this one.

Lid posted:

Reminder Joe Hildebrand is a dickhead

http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/movies/why-ban-a-film-just-because-we-dont-agree/news-story/4f50f7d8d494d60decbbbc203b08cd04

Synthbuttrange posted:

yes bump he off

quote:

https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jun/16/a-shoebox-that-feels-bigger-than-it-is-tiny-homes-for-the-homeless
When pious architects choose to direct their talents toward a higher calling, they tend to do so in the form of towering cathedral spires, awe-inspiring sermon halls and grandiose vaulted ceilings.

Derek Mah, an associate at NBRS Architecture, went for something a little more humble.

At a Sunday sermon about two years ago at Community Church Hornsby, on the northern fringes of Sydney, he was approached about using his skills not to devise great big buildings in the name of God, but tiny houses for the homeless.

The suggestion came from a friend in the congregation – David Woolridge, who, as Mah put it “has always been passionate about trying to get guys off the street and helping them out. He came up to me and said he’d gotten an idea about how to solve homelessness”.

It is a vision about to be realised in Gosford, on the NSW central coast, where three to four “tiny homes” that each take up just 14 square metres will be completed next month as the first project of Woolridge’s Tiny Homes Foundation, designed in partnership with NBRS Architecture.

“Think of the house as a shoebox,” Mah suggests.

“Down one end a small toilet and shower, the other end a bed, and in the middle a little kitchenette which opens up through glass doors onto a deck, which can be open in the morning and means the back garden becomes the living room - it feels bigger than it is, integrating the outdoors.”

The word “shoebox” isn’t usually a selling point in real estate parlance, but Mah uses it in this case with pride, given the long-term objective of the project is to enable housing to be provided to as many of Australia’s estimated 105,000 homeless people as possible in a country where building isn’t cheap, and land is eye-wateringly expensive.

Each tiny house costs less than $30,000 to deliver, and the small size of the building means it can be squeezed onto excess council-owned land not suitable for conventional housing, at potentially no cost.

“The land for the Gosford project had no direct driveway access, only pedestrian access, and was long and skinny so didn’t lend itself to other uses,” Mah says.

He adds that the houses are appropriate for a single person, with the potential for guests, and that residents will also have access to an additional community facility, kitchen and laundry.

Wooldridge tells the Guardian that as “an Australian and a Christian” helping the less fortunate is a privilege, not an obligation.

He says the project is sourcing tenants through Pacific Link Housing, and those living in the houses will participate in an “equity participation arrangement” in which “agreed amounts of their rent payments not utilised for maintenance and other direct costs of their tiny home will be credited to a notional future housing account that, subject to some equitable and simple terms, can be made available for any future housing-related costs.”

The Tiny Homes Foundation has a “replicator program” on its website for parties interested in undertaking a similar project in other neighbourhoods around Australia, and is open to its model being used for anyone keen to avoid splurging too much on house and land.

Construction will be undertaken by unemployed people through training services provider the Skills Generator, which works with various programs including work-for-the-dole.

The Tiny Homes Foundation say this is so the project can deliver an added dividend of helping those in need develop further skills. This is despite the fact that the work-for-the-dole scheme in general has attracted plenty of controversy, such as in April when the St Vincent de Paul Society described it as a “punitive” scheme that risks creating “a class of working poor”.

Tiny house projects for the homeless overseas have also prompted concerns – such ventures in the US have been criticised for housing people in substandard conditions, lacking access to water and electricity and provoking fears that they will lead to the creation of slums.

Katherine McKernan, the chief executive of Homelessness NSW, does not buy the comparison, saying that the Tiny Homes Foundation is delivering “houses in every sense of the word”.

In contrast to some US projects, the Gosford homes will feature full connectivity to energy and water mains and quality insulation.

She says any project aimed at helping the homeless is welcome at a time when more than 60,000 people sit on NSW public housing waiting lists and Anglicare estimates that just 1% of available properties are affordable for low-income families around Sydney.

McKernan notes, however, that tiny homes are by no means the solution for all homeless people.

“For some it is suitable – we’ve done research on older women and they’ve agreed they could live in smaller places, but they need to be designed really well,” she says.

“But the majority of people in need are women and children experiencing domestic violence issues at home, so the houses required are family homes.”

“Tiny houses are a really good thing, but only useful for small number of people – circumstances need to be thought through.”

Wooldridge concedes that his project “is not the only solution”, but believes it will be “more than a tiny part of the total answer”.

“Our model is innovative, holistic, scaleable, flexible, zoning compliant and cost effective, even cost-neutral after considering the broader community/social costs already being incurred.”

open24hours posted:

The solution to homelessness: get welfare slaves to build a shanty town.

Mordialloc posted:

Hi folks,

Following from the discussion a couple of days ago about employment service providers, I'm looking to employ someone in a month or so on a casual basis in my business but I don't want to use a provider that is shady/fucks job seekers. Are there any good/decent/not blood sucking ones?

About the job: Handyman work in Canberra, 2-3 days a week.

Hobo Erotica posted:

I get the joke and all but you can see how juvenile this is, right?

So is there any debate or discussion in D&D these days? Or the public shaming of women with opinions is fine even if the reasons don't really hold up to the slightest scrutiny and lol if you actually give them any scrutiny?

Gorilla Salad posted:

Was it this month or last month where someone pointed out that "even here in AusPol, we dismiss and cut off women"? Of course, no one wanted to believe such a thing about themselves. Yet here we are.

The pointing of the "more Left than thou" finger seems a lot more cutting than usual and I'm personally having a really hard time seeing where that unpleasantness is coming from unless you take it as an excuse to openly hate on a woman who has gone and succeeded in life on her own terms by making a profession out of having an opinion.

Cling-Wrap Condom posted:

Birdstrike posted:

busb wants you to fix his nbn but given his posting I encourage you not to

Cling-Wrap Condom posted:

hey milky you kicked my rear end in HOTS recently, I think. You were a lunara and I was a morales with a very bad team!