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Aaaaa I love those possums. They're so cute  There's a baby currawong that has fledged from a nest in one of the trees in my backyard. The parents are quite vocal and land on the deck for a drink but I'm yet to get a decent picture of the baby. 
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Nov 1, 2022 10:17
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bee posted:Aaaaa I love those possums. They're so cute Our possums here are quite lovely, shy furry things that you see in a tree at night or in a corner of the shed roof. Contrasted to American "o"possums, which seem to be horrible bitey sharp-toothed garbage raiding vermin. It's quite a ... good thing that no-one gives a drat about the Cup anymore? I remember back in my schooldays, kids bringing portable TVs to school, stopping classes for the race, sweeps on the blackboard, and we were in NSW! I barely heard it mentioned today, went to the butchers at 3:10, their TV was on the race but no-one was paying any attention.
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The best thing about the Melbourne Cup is the public holiday. In fact I remember in school, it turned into a 4 day weekend for us , because, I think, of the hassle of everybody coming in on Monday, having Tues. off, and then coming back in on Wed. I used to work at Crown Casino though, and let me tell you that Cup Week was an awful time to be rostered on. The usual crowd of gambling addicts, but come late afternoon they get joined by drunk bogans in their now-disheveled cheap suits and askew fascinators looking to throw away what little of their cash they didn't at the track. All the while being confused and angry that sitting at a Blackjack table losing money isn't as exciting or glamourous as the ads make it seem to be. A tale of that time: one year, on Oaks day in "the Maple room", (one of the casino's swanky areas which you had to be a member to enter, but not the actual posh high roller upstairs room), there was a kerfuffle as one of these drunken bogan couples had been caught having sex in the toilets. As they were both being escorted out of the building, the lady was making a scene loudly calling out, "You need to let me go back in there! I need to see my husband!"
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I'm showing my age here, but back when I was a youngin I used to work in Telstra's customer support call centre, taking incoming calls from people reporting that their landline or payphone was faulty. The call centre was open 24/7, 365 days a year. I did that role for close to 3 years and the only time the calls ever stopped dropping in during business hours was during the cup. You'd get 15 or so minutes of quiet, blissful, customer free time then as soon as it was over the phones would be ringing off the hook again.
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Nov 2, 2022 04:53
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Chrpno posted:Our possums here are quite lovely, shy furry things that you see in a tree at night or in a corner of the shed roof. Contrasted to American "o"possums, which seem to be horrible bitey sharp-toothed garbage raiding vermin. Hey now ringtailed possums rifle through the odd bin now and again too. And their mating call sounds like creaking floorboards in a horror movie. They are the best.
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Nov 2, 2022 15:04
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A few pages back but what the hey...BrigadierSensible posted:I grew up in Frankston. Can confirm. Frangers eh. I bet it's much the same in Scumshine and Dandebong.
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bee posted:I'm showing my age here, but back when I was a youngin I used to work in Telstra's customer support call centre, taking incoming calls from people reporting that their landline or payphone was faulty. The call centre was open 24/7, 365 days a year. I did that role for close to 3 years and the only time the calls ever stopped dropping in during business hours was during the cup. You'd get 15 or so minutes of quiet, blissful, customer free time then as soon as it was over the phones would be ringing off the hook again. My dad made me buy some Telstra shares to teach me about markets and stuff. I think I doubled the mone in a short period of time. SOmehow it didn;t turn me into a stock-bro, but looking back I should have seen it as another step towards the idiot drive to monetize every public service.
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BigBadSteve posted:A few pages back but what the hey... I grew up in Ferntree Gully area.
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Outrail posted:My dad made me buy some Telstra shares to teach me about markets and stuff. I think I doubled the mone in a short period of time. SOmehow it didn;t turn me into a stock-bro, but looking back I should have seen it as another step towards the idiot drive to monetize every public service. Didn't Telstra just tank at launch though?
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Inceltown posted:Didn't Telstra just tank at launch though? Honestly, I don't remember exactly, but I remember almost doubling my money on the first launch, and then losing a bunch on the second (because it happened around August 2001, and then something happened in September? I forget). e: That was the T1 in 1997, must have done well but isn;t tracked on the google search for share prices. Outrail fucked around with this message at 19:36 on Nov 2, 2022 |
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Hahahaha, whenever I got the occasional "I'm a Telstra shareholder and I shouldn't have to be kept waiting 3 business days for a technician to come fix my busted phone line" caller I'd tell them that if Telstra were to improve technician wait times, we'd need to hire more staff which would cut into profits and accordingly reduce their share value and they'd shut the hell up real fast.
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Indiana posted:I grew up in Ferntree Gully area. Condolences, I live there right now.
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gently caress this oval office and his lovely facial hair.
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Imagine if he got stabbed over it. Don't be a hero for a corporation
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Nov 4, 2022 04:42
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What is the crime sir? A meal?! A succulent chicken meal?!
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Neddy Seagoon posted:What is the crime sir? A meal?! A succulent chicken meal?! Strange but true: The guy in The Chats' Dine And Dash video is apparently an actor playing the part, though the character he based his staged arrest clip on really existed, was infamous, and did many dine-and-dashes as well as hotel-stay-and-dashes. https://goat.com.au/pop-culture/the-story-behind-the-succulent-chinese-meal-guy-is-weirder-than-that-cops-judo Re the theft of a typically scrawny yet fatty and tasteless supermarket roast chicken, IMO anyone who bothers to nick one is probably genuinely desperate. I'd feed my dog better, if I had one.
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Nov 5, 2022 17:37
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Hey now, supermarket roast chicken and expiring bread rolls got me through a lot.
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Nov 5, 2022 18:01
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9pm at Dubbo Woolies was the unofficial divorced mans club for a while. You'd have all the divorced dudes waiting around for the chicken to get marked down. There was even the unspoken rule that new faces got first pick because obviously the new guy was newly broken up so in need of a bit of kindness. Dudes rock.
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BigBadSteve posted:Strange but true: The guy in The Chats' Dine And Dash video is apparently an actor playing the part, though the character he based his staged arrest clip on really existed, was infamous, and did many dine-and-dashes as well as hotel-stay-and-dashes. That's not who the guy getting arrested was. It's actually even funnier than a dine-and-dasher getting caught.
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Inceltown posted:9pm at Dubbo Woolies was the unofficial divorced mans club for a while. You'd have all the divorced dudes waiting around for the chicken to get marked down. There was even the unspoken rule that new faces got first pick because obviously the new guy was newly broken up so in need of a bit of kindness. This could be the saddest post.
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Outrail posted:This could be the saddest post. You'll be happy to know that I wasn't in the divorced mans club (can't get divorced if you never married) but knew someone who was.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:That's not who the guy getting arrested was. It's actually even funnier than a dine-and-dasher getting caught. That new video bought a happy tear to my eye. Bloody legend. Thanks Sportsbet, even though you're causing pain and misery to gambling addicts, fleecing everyone else and clogging TV with your lovely matey ads, you did good supporting this old geezer. Also, so it's possible the succulent Chinese restaurant was Jimmy Chang's Super Bowl on Wickham St?
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I highly recommend listening to the radio documentary about him. The dude has a really interesting story. https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/earshot/a-succulent-chinese-meal-viral-video-this-is-democracy-manifest/13678264
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I never liked that weird little troll
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Demi Lardner!
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Inceltown posted:9pm at Dubbo Woolies was the unofficial divorced mans club for a while. You'd have all the divorced dudes waiting around for the chicken to get marked down. There was even the unspoken rule that new faces got first pick because obviously the new guy was newly broken up so in need of a bit of kindness. 15 years ago people (mixed demographics) would line up at my local too. Eventually the chickens were never marked down because people were clearly not buying em.
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Gobbledok for the new $5 note!
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Drunk 42 yo Bronte dude threatens taxi driver and steals cab while on the piss on a Thursday night in the city. Dude was still in his work suit and everything and was lit enough to be pulling this stunt before it's even 9pm.
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Inceltown posted:Drunk 42 yo Bronte dude threatens taxi driver and steals cab while on the piss on a Thursday night in the city. Dude was still in his work suit and everything and was lit enough to be pulling this stunt before it's even 9pm. It'd be only fair if he got some free rides in jail... with other guys doing the driving. Sadly though he'll probably just get probation or a stern talking to by the judge.
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