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PancakeTransmission: May 27, 2007; You gotta improvise, Lisa: cloves, Tom Collins mix, frozen pie crust...; Plaster Town Cop

Helith posted:

Come to Australia, it's predicted we'll be a cashless society in 3 or 4 years. Cheques are obsolete and actual cash is going that way too. Paying for stuff is really fast and easy as you just tap your card and only need to enter your pin if it's over $100. No fees for small amounts too so you can tap to pay for your coffee.
Some coffee and food places don't even accept cash anymore.

Except for all the Asian eateries that are CASH ONLY SORRY so they can avoid paying as much tax. If small market stalls can afford to get a Square payment thing or other mobile payment method that hooks up to their phone, then the place selling honey chicken & rice for $10 can too. $30 a month to rent an eftpos machine is nothing, considering most people don't even carry much cash anymore, meaning lost sales.

But yeah, I've only used a cheque once in my life and it was a Bank Cheque which is as good as cash (at least to the person I made it out to). All my job payments in the last 15 years have been direct deposit (except my first job - one of the aforementioned Asian-owned eateries - paid below minimum wage in cash and not reported to the ATO), rent payments have either been direct deposit, BPAY or a rent card.

# ¿ Jan 4, 2019 06:08

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 22:40

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Edgar Allen Ho posted:

Now THAT is the Oz that I am conditioned to squint sideways at

(Also worked at an ASIAN eatery in for two years and no one was sneakily evading the taxes an Honest Business would pay, maybe Australia is different buttttttttt)

No, of course not ALL ASIANS :rolleyes:

As someone who spends too much money eating fast food (working on that (NEW YEAR NEW ME)), the vast majority of times I've seen cash only has been asian places.

I guess the tax office is racist because they have specifically targeted suburbs that have high proportions of asian immigrants
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/revealed-australian-suburbs-where-cash-only-businesses-are-being-targeted-by-ato

quote:

The ATO has made nearly 159 trips to Sydney's Chinatown in Haymarket and has uncovered more than $18 million in misreported transactions.

But it is just one, of about a dozen areas across the country, which have been targeted - many with a high migrant population - to make sure cash-only businesses are compliant with the law.

In fact, it's common enough (in small businesses) that the ATO is commissioning studies just to show businesses that they should consider allowing electronic payment: https://www.ato.gov.au/Media-centre/Media-releases/Australians-tapped-out-when-it-comes-to-cash-only-businesses/

quote:

�Inconvenient� was one of the top words Australians use to describe businesses operating on a cash-only basis

When asked about their reactions to seeing a cash-only sign, nearly 50% of consumers said it was �inconvenient�

Nearly two thirds of respondents believe business owners that use cash transactions pay less tax than they should and have an unfair advantage over small businesses that do pay tax on all their earnings (editor's note: that's me)

For businesses that operate on a cash-only basis:
- 42% have never investigated electronic payment systems before
- around 10% have looked into electronic payment systems within the past year
-1 in 5 cited 'cost' as the reason they haven't introduced electronic payments
-63% said they prefer to deal in cash (more than half of Australians prefer to pay electronically for most transactions)

My pet peeve is the fuckin cash only businesses. I'm not spending $2 at the ATM to pull out $20 just so i can buy lunch. Especially when there's a Subway next door.

# ¿ Jan 5, 2019 11:04

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Spend 20 minutes looking for a close park
Walk for 2 minutes to entrance
Walk for 2 hours while shopping in giant mall

"Boy I'm glad I I parked close so I didn't have to walk so far!"

# ¿ Jan 15, 2019 03:53

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Henchman of Santa posted:

Don't most cars tell you what direction you're facing in the rear view mirror these days?

Maybe in the US but I've never seen a compass here.

If you're using app navigation, leaving it as "north is always up" instead of rotating maps makes it way easier to understand directions and improvise when you get sudden changes in traffic. If you continue to rely on a map that's always "forward is up" then you'll continue to be lost when you don't have access to a phone

# ¿ Jan 22, 2019 03:08

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I've flown around the world as an adult (except the US post-9/11) and never had to take my shoes off. But people are still loving slow to take out laptops or remove belts and loose coins from their person.

# ¿ Jan 24, 2019 13:23

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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:

Sharing images by taking a screenshot of it instead of just sharing the original image should be a universally bannable thing on every site. Something that was originally a 20 kilobyte PNG ends being a several megabyte JPEG that's covered with phone notification icons from 8 different people and has been recompressed so many times you can't even make out what it is. It's like having that one boss that would print out screenshots of error messages on their computer so they could scan the printout and fax it to you except now everybody does it.

Blame all the sites (including Google image search) that do various trickery to prevent you from directly saving an image to upload elsewhere. But the least people could do is use the built-in image editor and spend 3 seconds cropping!

# ¿ Mar 24, 2019 12:04

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artsy fartsy posted:

I haven't used Pandora in years

Neither, because they left my country, likely due to lack of profitability. The best part is all the cars with built in headunits manufactured around that time, with Pandora buttons that now do nothing :waycool:

# ¿ May 12, 2019 07:26

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Iron Crowned posted:

Eh, cell phones have replaced the watch.

I did use a smartwatch for a while, but it was just a watch that I could change the face on, and recently switched back to a dumb watch.

Wearing a Casio F-91W terrorist watch is actually pretty nice, it does one thing perfectly, and that's all I need from a watch.

My favourite thing was meeting someone in person who also bought their F-91W for being a terrorist watch. You know, in addition to being a reliable, cheap, small watch.

The Black Stones posted:

I swear I�m going to break my friends phone in half. I text him saying I�m going to see a movie on Monday (I say this Friday) and he says he wants to come. Texts me that he works until 3:50 and the available shows after that are 4:10 and 7:10, I ask which show he wants and he says he�s not sure so I tell him I wanna buy reserved tickets so let me know by end of next day. I hear nothing back so I ask him if he knows what he�s doing and he simply says �I can go after work, I might miss previews� I can assume this means the 4:10 show but I don�t wanna buy until I confirm because he never said which showing he wants so I ask if I can buy tickets for that showing. No response back, I send a �?� after about 20 minutes. It�s now a good 2 hours later and he�s seen the message but has not replied.

JUST. TEXT. ME. YES.

I know he�s not driving and I know he�s probably at work where he can quickly pull out phone to give me a yes, but he pulls this poo poo constantly on me and recently it�s driving me insane. Just give me an answer.

I get really mad when people start doing this. So I just assume they aren't interested unless they follow through with the commitment.

# ¿ May 19, 2019 13:11

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yeah I eat rear end posted:

You live in australia. Come here and say you don't have to do (anything) to a cop that pulls you over and enjoy your ticket.

Since we moved on from "yes, at designated crossings pedestrians have right of way", are you suggesting that you also have to give way (and stop) for anyone jaywalking? Because jaywalking laws were specifically anti-pedestrian laws, made so cars weren't expected to slam their brakes on every time someone wandered near the road outside of crossings. That's still different from "fucker is jaywalking, that means I can run him over"

So if I stand at the side of a highway/freeway, I should expect cars to stop and wave me across? Or do pedestrians not always have right of way?

# ¿ Jun 17, 2019 06:39

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Chip McFuck posted:

As someone who worked delivery for a long time go gently caress yourself. Its possible this guy was lazy, but there have been countless times when I did delivery for grubhub where they didn't transfer a full address and/or full name to the order slip. I'd rather have the customer meet me outside than go knocking on random doors and potentially have your food stolen by an unscrupulous tenant because the information didnt get transfered to the printout. Don't punish the driver for something that might have been out of their control.

Yeah we had a bad delivery once (don't have GrubHub here I think, it was some local one), he showed us his phone (once he called and told him the correct address) and the address was backwards (ie instead of 1/67 Example St, it said 1 Example St) so he was down the completely wrong end of the street. It didn't affect his tip since we don't anyway, but it probably didn't help his other deliveries getting done and whatever metrics they use to pay people here (probably below our minimum wage still).

# ¿ Sep 27, 2019 01:05

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Helith posted:

Hallowe’en is a contraction of Hallows’ Eve as it’s the day before All Hallows’ Day, or All Saints’ Day as most people call it now. It was the time that you remembered the dead and as with a lot of western Christianity a good dose of paganism got mixed into the festivals.

So where did the v go, and where did the n come from, smart guy?

# ¿ Oct 30, 2019 09:07

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yeah I eat rear end posted:

In most places produce has a number on it, not a barcode. It's not hard, you just put the things on the thing and type in the number and it weighs the things.

Where I live, no produce has a number or barcode on it. It's all selected through the touch screen (both at self- and normal checkout)

Before they went with pictures and touchscreens, they had a sheet printed on a rotating cylinder at the counter with the produce name and number on it. So if the employee didn't know what fruit or nut it was, you got to tell them a cheaper version.

# ¿ Dec 6, 2019 05:08

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Bobby Digital posted:

Buddy they don’t even care when one of their drivers becomes a cop bullet sponge.

They're probably thankful they don't have to pay severance

# ¿ Dec 10, 2019 11:06

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Helith posted:

Isn't smart casual the term you use here?

The Pet Peeve: within that awful wiki article:

quote:

a pair of khakis or casual pants with a collared or polo shirt and a blazer

A jacket, dress shirt, necktie and jeans

smart, plain and straight jeans are acceptable

can include a mixture of jeans, blazers, sport coats, sweaters, necktie, a pair of Brogue shoes, dress shirts or a pair of Converse shoes

jeans [...] are unacceptable for men

So basically: whatever everyone else is wearing because it's so badly defined. If someone tells me "smart/business casual" I always ask them to define it. I've worn a dress shirt and trousers/chinos to a "smart casual" appointment and been the best dressed, and other times I've been one of the few not wearing a suit

Glad my current work place's dress code is literally "whatever you want until your boss says otherwise".

BioEnchanted posted:

An old pet peeve that an effective spook reminded me of, but that didn't bother me because it wasn't an example of it. I always hated that old meme with Screamer videos. They were the worst part of the 90s internet because they were freaking everywhere and weren't actually scary or funny, just annoying, making you jump and freaking you out for a night but then you just felt annoyed.

After like 2 of those, I always muted the sound (or reduced to like 5% volume) before clicking on any video that someone gave me a link to. And now I still have to do it, not because of screamers, but obnoxious youtubers HEY GUYS ITS ME or their annoying intro videos to pad their playtime.

# ¿ Jan 15, 2020 09:13

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Brawnfire posted:

I've never seen anything so stupid in my life, besides the guy who drove with a dog in a pickup bed on the highway.

This is normal here though, a lot of tradies (tradesmen) have a ute with a dog in it, usually it's leashed to a post. Sometimes they might have an actual cage for the dog. As long as they're restrained in some way, it's legal.

# ¿ May 20, 2020 23:31

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MightyJoe36 posted:

Same with security training.

I just did one that had something like "you see an unescorted visitor in a secure area, what do you do?" and there were options like "nothing. I'm on my lunch break" and "that person is someone else's responsibility"

Like I know you need wrong answers, but if you fail that quiz with answers like that, it would be because you deliberately did so.

# ¿ Jul 31, 2020 03:10

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Tiggum posted:

"Unrecognised ID or password."

Which one? Did I get the username wrong, or the password? It would be extremely helpful to know!

Yes but there's a good reason for this. You shouldn't tell people "yeah the account exists but you got the password wrong". Makes it significantly easier for someone to attempt to get in elsewhere if they have breached one site and start to enumerate where else that account name/email exists.

# ¿ Jan 30, 2023 09:01

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I don't really think that Barbie v Oppenheimer (aka Barbenheimer) is that funny or interesting. Amazing: two movies with different themes released at the same time! :regd08:

Guess I just don't get why this is a thing.

# ¿ Aug 3, 2023 08:59

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Edgar Allen Ho posted:

People that can’t take cardinal directions

Especially bc this is the US. The whole city is a grid lined up with impossible to avoid water features. If you know “go to the River” you know “go south on st Ferdinand” but no motherfuckers gotta be like “right or left tho”

You are 35 learn your directions

Slightly less annoying than in NYC where the literal East River couldn’t clue in some people

Some people just don't understand them because they've never used them. I think they would be better off setting map apps to use North facing instead of forward facing.

It makes it way easier to orient yourself if you know which direction you're travelling and have to take a detour for whatever reason (road closed, accident, poo poo traffic, lost etc)

# ¿ Aug 5, 2023 12:33

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Butt Detective posted:

Also my peeve is “cute” animal vids where the animals have clearly been drugged and arranged to look like they all fell asleep cuddling together in ~cottagecore~ settings

Or just straight shopped/edited. Like it's extremely obvious that the cat didn't just soccer kick a ball but all the comments are variants of 🤩

# ¿ Nov 10, 2023 08:40

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Hirayuki posted:

Some idiot in Japan (well, several idiots, but one is particularly egregious) thinks my Gmail address belongs to her.

Yeah I have this - at least one of them thinks their email is firstnamelastname@gmail.com - but I only exclusively use firstname.lastname@gmail.com so it was easy to set filters to hide those. But others don't! So I keep getting invoices or sign up requests. How do they not know their own email???

# ¿ Nov 10, 2023 23:27

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Arrath posted:

Suddenly the 3 bathrooms for 69 seats my office complex has feels luxurious

E: oh I've got one. Email read receipts. gently caress you, I habitually click NO when that question pops up.

We have 3 stalls and 2 urinals for 20 dudes and somehow the stalls are all in use 50% of the time I plan to use them. There are 3 stalls (I think - never been in there) for the 4 women.

And one of the dudes destroys the toilet so you gotta either hold your breath or come back later anyway

# ¿ Dec 6, 2023 06:23

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Silver Falcon posted:

In English, you spell out numbers less than ten and write digits for numbers great than ten. I forget if you also spell out 10 or just put the digits.

I've never heard this. I'm pretty lazy so if I can press one key instead of seven, I'm doing so!

# ¿ Dec 6, 2023 21:26

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Unlike others, I simply rise above emotions like "hungry"

# ¿ Dec 8, 2023 07:52

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I would simply not have children

# ¿ Jan 8, 2024 01:40

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Brawnfire posted:

Not really a pet peeve per se, but I just saw someone finish their opinion with "and this is the hill I live on"

Like wtf are you a Peppa Pig character, that's not what the phrase is

The only thing worse would be "the hill I unalive on"

Like you can even say die/killed on TikTok, that app is the most cargo-culty social media I've ever seen. It's the worst because people on other sites start using "corn" instead of "porn" and saying "unalive" now

# ¿ Jan 10, 2024 06:25

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 22:40

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CelticPredator posted:

yeah well don't say you got something until you have it.

Getting a "Certified On the Spectrum" certificate is basically pointless for me as an adult who has learned to manage it, and in my state may actually disqualify me from driving unless I pay even more money to have a doctor certify me Safe to Drive (despite me having driven safely for 20 years) because they are fascists

(I have never asked for accommodations and don't use it as an excuse, but it can be an explanation for stuff)

# ¿ Mar 17, 2024 01:07

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