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Post by groo on Apr 17, 2018 5:03:56 GMT -5
Ah!
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Apr 17, 2018 6:19:09 GMT -5
I looked at the link included to weird Australian laws. One false rumour said it was illegal to walk on the right side of the road, which in fact is the reverse of sensible behaviour. As children, we were taught to face oncoming traffic (ie the right side) if we needed to walk on the road because there was no footpath. This morning, as I was reversing out of my driveway, a woman was pushing a stroller down the left side of the road, more than a metre from the curb. This road has a footpath (though patches of it are uneven). Not only that, the left side of the road is a no stopping zone for vehicles because it is the "short-cut" for road trains heading south from Queensland! Can I nominate her for a Darwin Award?
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Post by tzarine on Apr 17, 2018 18:02:03 GMT -5
oh yes, she deserves a darwin
i know i shouldn't but sometimes people wear such horrid outfits i have to chuckle like the guy @ the japanese market in his fake monk robes & cape thingy accessorized w some hideous red addidas
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Apr 17, 2018 18:59:13 GMT -5
Not sure it was the same woman, but as I drove home from lodging my passport renewal this morning, there was a woman with a stroller, two kids and a dog, spread out across the right side of the road. The strolller was the cheap variety with very small wheels, which is probably why she avoids the footpath. No wonder the local kids have no road sense!
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Apr 18, 2018 4:58:02 GMT -5
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Post by wombatrois on Apr 18, 2018 8:12:17 GMT -5
OMG, I have tears, I have tears! That must be the funniest thing I've seen for a while. I'm certainly glad I'm alone in the share house tonight - I could be accused of being demented.
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Post by tzarine on Apr 18, 2018 22:03:44 GMT -5
halcyon
that was great!
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Apr 27, 2018 3:33:42 GMT -5
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Post by fishface on Apr 27, 2018 7:10:19 GMT -5
My mother.
Usually I am more of the 'share an animal picture' -type poster on Facebook rather than the 'share funny sayings I found on the internet' person.
I made an exception and shared an image from a local website. It was along the lines of
"me: mocking my parents for not knowing how technology works;
also me: Googles how to boil an egg".
Normally I don't like the 'older people can't use technology, younger people don't have basic life skills" jokes.
Except today my mum sent me a photo of something on her computer screen. Because she knew how to send a picture from her phone, but not how to send the image from her computer. So I got a photo of a website. Thanks mum.
And then mum bought a car. And I will now have her old one. I can't drive but need to learn. ie I lack what is here considered a basic life skill.
I posted *that* image referred to above.
Mum sends me a message almost straight away saying she saw it. And HAD I LEARNED TO DRIVE BY GOOGLING YET.
Smartass.
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Post by fishface on Apr 27, 2018 7:12:00 GMT -5
I will not tell her that I youtubed how to change gears either.
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Post by sprite on Apr 27, 2018 15:51:27 GMT -5
haha!!
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Apr 29, 2018 16:55:05 GMT -5
I wrote a review of the noisy brand name caravan park where I stayed on Trip Advisor. Interestingly, most of the lowest ratings had been given by people who were angry at management for telling them to keep quiet after 10 pm! Obviously aren't campers -probably staying in the fancy cabins. Most campers are well and truly asleep by 10 pm.
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Post by Webs on Apr 30, 2018 12:58:39 GMT -5
If you've never had a need to drive, why would you bother learning.
Although I know people who never learned to drive and lived in places they needed to know how to drive to get to anything so that I always thought was weird.
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Post by sprite on Apr 30, 2018 15:16:06 GMT -5
someone recently did a cost analysis in my city and claimed that if a person didn't have a car, they'd save enough per year to take two taxi rides a week.
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Post by fishface on Apr 30, 2018 20:20:01 GMT -5
If you've never had a need to drive, why would you bother learning. I have always lived in a place either reasonably central to my work and play area, or in a home close to public transport (which isn't wonderful...but by NZ standards is great). But a few things have changed lately and will in the future so having my own car (and being able to drive the thing!) will be valuable. It's quite odd actually. I live in the one area of this country where it is *very* common to find adults who either can't drive or do not have a 'full' unrestricted licence (we have a graduated licence system). That doesn't even count people with full licences who can only drive an automatic. But I suppose it eventually catches up. I would think that of those people who have less than full licences, most have them by, say, 40. Family, kids, aging parents, living in places where you can actually park a car... 😊
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Post by ozziegiraffe on May 3, 2018 4:28:08 GMT -5
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Post by fishface on May 3, 2018 6:19:09 GMT -5
That's on my Facebook!!
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Post by ozziegiraffe on May 3, 2018 7:15:36 GMT -5
By the way, it's the article that made me laugh, not the fact that New Zealand is disappearing.
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Post by groo on May 3, 2018 7:51:47 GMT -5
I would miss New Zealnd. It is a country that demonstrates that sane and humane government can exist in the South Pacific.
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Post by leela on May 3, 2018 16:21:07 GMT -5
Ha fishy! I bet your mum enjoyed that.
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Post by Liiisa on May 3, 2018 18:49:05 GMT -5
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Post by HalcyonDaze on May 5, 2018 4:55:26 GMT -5
Richard Glover's column. Particularly this bit.
I discovered this by chance when talking about voice-activated devices on the radio. I gave the example of "Alexa – play Elvis". I was then contacted by a raft of listeners, some of them slightly peeved, who noted that their own device had heard my command and started playing Elvis. All over Sydney, the captivating sound of Blue Suede Shoes was presumably followed by the sound of people shouting: "Alexa – for God's sake stop playing that bloody Elvis." Now that I've chanced upon this power, I'm wondering how to use it. Lots of people, keen to deter thieves, leave their radio blaring when they are not at home. I could have a hundred Alexa devices carrying out my orders, unbeknownst to their owners. "Alexa – please order a hundred copies of Richard Glover's latest book from Booktopia, using the stored credit card." Or "Alexa – order gin from Dan Murphy's and send it to Glover."
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Post by fishface on May 9, 2018 1:01:52 GMT -5
Laughing because it is gross.
I broke two nails today. The first one I somehow bent and mashed. Its about a 1/3 shorter now. And yeah that bloody hurt and bled a bit. Forget that one.
My other broken nail:
At the supermarket I knocked my little finger nail when getting my reusable bag out of my handbag. The top of the nail snapped clean off and I heard it land. Except except...I have no idea where.
Part of my fingernail now resides at the New World supermarket.
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Post by sprite on May 9, 2018 12:11:38 GMT -5
um, are these natural or gel...?
this weekend, my partner found 3 cds in a box which turned out to be mine. one looked really unfamiliar to me, so i read more carefully--turns out it was the liner notes for a cd an old gf made him. i'm not sure which of us was more embarrassed, but it was pretty funny.
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Post by tzarine on May 9, 2018 17:13:53 GMT -5
some of the fashion disasters witnessed
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Post by ozziegiraffe on May 10, 2018 7:39:57 GMT -5
Groo's post in "What are you all doing today".
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Post by fishface on May 10, 2018 19:46:09 GMT -5
um, are these natural or gel...? this weekend, my partner found 3 cds in a box which turned out to be mine. one looked really unfamiliar to me, so i read more carefully--turns out it was the liner notes for a cd an old gf made him. i'm not sure which of us was more embarrassed, but it was pretty funny. Natural. My nails grow nice and well so have always had naturally good nails. I don't do a damn thing to them. But I haven't been feeling well and I am pretty sure that my nails were ready to break. So between those two things...snappy snappy.
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Post by tzarine on May 11, 2018 20:15:33 GMT -5
tzar playing cake by the ocean bc it reminds me of that crazy driver in fort cochin
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Post by poppy on May 15, 2018 16:51:50 GMT -5
Trent's bus driver is such a stirrer - told me this morning instead of signing the bus log book as KSL (name of day program) he changed it to KFC. He has been doing it for weeks and no one of importance has noticed or said anything.
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Post by tzarine on May 15, 2018 18:30:17 GMT -5
a bird pooped on me, then i got caught in the thunderstorm, but i found this purple plastic wrap (left from an nyu graduation) & walked home w a chic rain wrap
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