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Don Dongington
Sep 27, 2005

#ideasboom
College Slice
Derr it's simple, just become a tv personality and then put 10% of your income away, lol!

WHAT ARE YOU STUPID!?

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Megillah Gorilla
Sep 22, 2003

If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.



Bread Liar
But how am I supposed to afford my five overseas trips per year, the live-in nanny, my three holiday houses and buying a new car every year?

I mean, I'm barely breaking even as it is :shrug:

Don Dongington
Sep 27, 2005

#ideasboom
College Slice
BOOTSTRAPS

GoldStandardConure
Jun 11, 2010

I have to kill fast
and mayflies too slow

Pillbug
budget:

food - $70
car - $30
bills - $0
platinum coins - $3600

please help my family is starving

Freudian Slip
Mar 10, 2007

"I'm an archivist. I'm archiving."
There is value in depositing 10% of your income into an account that invests your money and that you can't touch.

It's called Super....

Freudian Slip fucked around with this message at 07:39 on Jun 28, 2017

Cartoon
Jun 20, 2008

poop

Solemn Sloth posted:

Help someone hacked my fingers and it's making me post bad
Change from within?

Just flatten and reinstall.

snoremac
Jul 27, 2012

I LOVE SEEING DEAD BABIES ON 𝕏, THE EVERYTHING APP. IT'S WORTH IT FOR THE FOLLOWING TAB.

Hobo Erotica posted:

Do they set you up with the appointments or do you have to find them yourself?

They set them up. According to them, once you've been on the dole for 10 months you need to attend 3 job search appointments a week, which basically amounts to me job searching in their computer room for 1 hour instead of doing it at home. Just a waste of time and petrol with no benefit I can think of. 1 day a week and I'd bite my tongue, but 3 is absurd.

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
Tones is on 2GB again.

tithin
Nov 14, 2003


[Grandmaster Tactician]




So he's dropped the pretense

You Am I
May 20, 2001

Me @ your poasting

tithin posted:

So he's dropped the pretense

No sniping, not at all

birdstrike
Oct 30, 2008

i;m gay

GoldStandardConure posted:

budget:

food - $70
car - $30
bills - $0
platinum coins - $3600

please help my family is starving

spend less on movies

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

GoldStandardConure posted:

budget:

food - $70
car - $30
bills - $0
platinum coins - $3600

please help my family is starving

Reduce food budget to zero, sell fridge and buy more platinum coins to store in your car.

The knowledge of your good decisions will sustain you.

MonoAus
Nov 5, 2012
Try reducing your smashed avo budget.

Don Dongington
Sep 27, 2005

#ideasboom
College Slice

Birdstrike posted:

spend less on movies

[unintelligible squarking intensifies]

GoldStandardConure
Jun 11, 2010

I have to kill fast
and mayflies too slow

Pillbug

Birdstrike posted:

spend less on movies

i watch transformers daily to signal to the universe that we need more michael bay movies

Korgan
Feb 14, 2012


snoremac posted:

They set them up. According to them, once you've been on the dole for 10 months you need to attend 3 job search appointments a week, which basically amounts to me job searching in their computer room for 1 hour instead of doing it at home. Just a waste of time and petrol with no benefit I can think of. 1 day a week and I'd bite my tongue, but 3 is absurd.

They're loving with you. I have to attend appointments with my provider once a fortnight at the most. And yeah, the "job searching" they "provide assistance and facilities" for is a loving joke. Years back I was having to come in once a week to use their computers for job searching. PCs running outdated windows, slowest internet connection so your searches take forever (but it's ok, here's the local paper on the table and oh someone took the job section with them, welp), grimiest loving keyboards and mice you ever saw. Walking into that room was the most humiliating, demoralising thing. I finally found a job through no assistance of that useless pack of shits and they had the gall to mail me a satisfaction survey and then ring me once a week to remind me to fill it out and return it or otherwise my personal agent would get a low mark.

snoremac
Jul 27, 2012

I LOVE SEEING DEAD BABIES ON 𝕏, THE EVERYTHING APP. IT'S WORTH IT FOR THE FOLLOWING TAB.

Korgan posted:

They're loving with you. I have to attend appointments with my provider once a fortnight at the most. And yeah, the "job searching" they "provide assistance and facilities" for is a loving joke. Years back I was having to come in once a week to use their computers for job searching. PCs running outdated windows, slowest internet connection so your searches take forever (but it's ok, here's the local paper on the table and oh someone took the job section with them, welp), grimiest loving keyboards and mice you ever saw. Walking into that room was the most humiliating, demoralising thing. I finally found a job through no assistance of that useless pack of shits and they had the gall to mail me a satisfaction survey and then ring me once a week to remind me to fill it out and return it or otherwise my personal agent would get a low mark.

Thanks - this was my gut feeling. Hopefully I can get the DoE to speak on my behalf and put a stop to it.

They are really annoying people, obsessed with the processes they've memorized without any ability to just be reasonable for two seconds. I'm sick but went to my normal appointment today (it's an in-and-out thing). They tell me about this new 3-appointments-a-week and say it starts tomorrow. I tell them I'm sick and ask if they can push the appointment forward to next week; they say no, we're scheduling it and you must attend unless you can provide a doctor's certificate. So I went to the doctor and got a certificate saying I'm not fit to attend any more appointments for 2 weeks. They then sent me an email saying they'd let me off this time but next time I must get an official Centrelink doctor's certificate (something like that), despite having not mentioned this in the first place.

snoremac fucked around with this message at 09:08 on Jun 28, 2017

MonoAus
Nov 5, 2012

Similar experience for me. I had to come in once a fortnight and have an interview where they asked me a few questions and basically told me I won't have trouble finding a job and there isn't much they can do to help me.

Oh and once they photocopied an ad from a newspaper and said "not really sure if this is something you can do... Here you go anyway"

I guess it's all about doing the bare minimum to tick the box to say they "helped" you hey.

bandaid.friend
Apr 25, 2017

:obama:My first car was a stick:obama:

Korgan posted:

They're loving with you. I have to attend appointments with my provider once a fortnight at the most. And yeah, the "job searching" they "provide assistance and facilities" for is a loving joke. Years back I was having to come in once a week to use their computers for job searching. PCs running outdated windows, slowest internet connection so your searches take forever (but it's ok, here's the local paper on the table and oh someone took the job section with them, welp), grimiest loving keyboards and mice you ever saw. Walking into that room was the most humiliating, demoralising thing. I finally found a job through no assistance of that useless pack of shits and they had the gall to mail me a satisfaction survey and then ring me once a week to remind me to fill it out and return it or otherwise my personal agent would get a low mark.

I was given an option to go to a job agency. Each time I went, I was told they didn't have enough staff to aid me, and was given another appointment date. After a couple of months they closed up and I was passed onto another place. By that time I was sick of it so I opted out. I'm pretty sure it was a scam?

abc posted:

Sydney bio-hacker Meow-Ludo Disco Gamma Meow-Meow — his actual name —

i see

GoldStandardConure
Jun 11, 2010

I have to kill fast
and mayflies too slow

Pillbug
"Bio-hackers" need to get the gently caress on my level.

hooman
Oct 11, 2007

This guy seems legit.
Fun Shoe

GoldStandardConure posted:

"Bio-hackers" need to get the gently caress on my level.

Hacking up a lung?

GoldStandardConure
Jun 11, 2010

I have to kill fast
and mayflies too slow

Pillbug
harvesting organs, yes

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

GoldStandardConure posted:

i watch transformers daily to signal to the universe that we need more michael bay movies

I really liked the last transformers movie because it was one long product placement segment. Quite amazing and very funny in places because of it.

Might have been some robots punching each other but I was too busy laughing at the 30 second Chinese milk drinking commercial in the middle of an action scene.

birdstrike
Oct 30, 2008

i;m gay
https://twitter.com/james_oaten/status/879989618946351104

S P L I T S

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
She should quit the Greens and join the Socialist Alliance.

NTRabbit
Aug 15, 2012

i wear this armour to protect myself from the histrionics of hysterical women

bitches




Just had a conservative Liberal member tell me that Malcolm Fraser was a socialist, Malcolm Turnbull is a socialist, Tony Abbott's two budgets were socialist, and it's time the Liberal party listened to the conservative majority in Australia, return Abbott before everyone votes for Bernardi, and let him do a proper economically conservative budget, like the Liberals should be about. The guy is also a real estate agent :thumbsup:

Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again
I can see true socialists quitting the greens over this and affecting Kevin Rudd's leadership ambitions.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

NTRabbit posted:

Just had a conservative Liberal member tell me that Malcolm Fraser was a socialist, Malcolm Turnbull is a socialist, Tony Abbott's two budgets were socialist, and it's time the Liberal party listened to the conservative majority in Australia, return Abbott before everyone votes for Bernardi, and let him do a proper economically conservative budget, like the Liberals should be about. The guy is also a real estate agent :thumbsup:

Tell him he should run to represent.

Bogan King
Jan 21, 2013

I'm not racist, I'm mates with Bangladesh, the guy who sells me kebabs. No, I don't know his real name.

https://twitter.com/MichaelRoddan/status/879993025346260992

NTRabbit
Aug 15, 2012

i wear this armour to protect myself from the histrionics of hysterical women

bitches




DancingShade posted:

Tell him he should run to represent.

I'm now being regaled with stories about ultra centrists ruining everything because they have no values, and that having values is what makes conservatives so great

Bucky Fullminster
Apr 13, 2007

Was that QM on 7:30 report?

racing identity
Apr 5, 2017

by FactsAreUseless

NTRabbit posted:

I'm now being regaled with stories about ultra centrists ruining everything because they have no values, and that having values is what makes conservatives so great

He's half right

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

NTRabbit posted:

I'm now being regaled with stories about ultra centrists ruining everything because they have no values, and that having values is what makes conservatives so great

Encourage them to run and drive out the centrists and lefties from the party. A purification if you like.

Should be good to watch.

NTRabbit
Aug 15, 2012

i wear this armour to protect myself from the histrionics of hysterical women

bitches




I would, but the facebook friend this is happening via is a wet Liberal calling for Tone to resign, and I don't want to lose access to the free entertainment

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
I miss tones, the flags, endless Peta Credlin drama, the leaks, the onions, the knighthoods. It was a happier time.

Futuresight
Oct 11, 2012

IT'S ALL TURNED TO SHIT!
I hate Tony Abbott with a passion. If you're going to gently caress people over and rob the country at least look somewhat competent while doing it so as to let us keep some small scrap of dignity. Tony Abbott in charge took even that away from us.

naeka
Sep 1, 2008

snoremac posted:

Thanks - this was my gut feeling. Hopefully I can get the DoE to speak on my behalf and put a stop to it.

They are really annoying people, obsessed with the processes they've memorized without any ability to just be reasonable for two seconds. I'm sick but went to my normal appointment today (it's an in-and-out thing). They tell me about this new 3-appointments-a-week and say it starts tomorrow. I tell them I'm sick and ask if they can push the appointment forward to next week; they say no, we're scheduling it and you must attend unless you can provide a doctor's certificate. So I went to the doctor and got a certificate saying I'm not fit to attend any more appointments for 2 weeks. They then sent me an email saying they'd let me off this time but next time I must get an official Centrelink doctor's certificate (something like that), despite having not mentioned this in the first place.

Just to clarify this the "centrelink medical certificate" they're talking about is an exemption done on the centrelink end of things rather than the jsa and there's a specific centrelink form gp's have to fill out for it to be approved and that's up to a 3 month exemption from provider activities.

Megillah Gorilla
Sep 22, 2003

If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.



Bread Liar

GoldStandardConure posted:

i watch transformers daily to signal to the universe that we need more michael bay movies

Good news for you then, they're making another 50 of them.

I think the next one's Transformers Meet King Arthur.

No, seriously.


Futuresight posted:

I hate Tony Abbott with a passion. If you're going to gently caress people over and rob the country at least look somewhat competent while doing it so as to let us keep some small scrap of dignity. Tony Abbott in charge took even that away from us.

He's our own Tiny Trump.

But somehow not as lovely.

Yeah, there's a loving scary thought of the day.

Megillah Gorilla fucked around with this message at 11:54 on Jun 28, 2017

Megillah Gorilla
Sep 22, 2003

If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.



Bread Liar
gently caress it, quote is not edit.

Here it is:




Somehow I'm hard pressed to feel thematic tension for giant loving robots with laser beams versus men on horses with swords.

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Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Gorilla Salad posted:

He's our own Tiny Trump.

But somehow not as lovely.

Yeah, there's a loving scary thought of the day.
Palmer was our Trump, Abbott is very different.

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