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Post by HalcyonDaze on Oct 24, 2022 23:05:07 GMT -5
There is a new swimming spot opening up on the Parramatta river after much work has been done to improve water quality and, I think, reclaim sand.
Anyway, the local council and other groups involved in this have done a promotional video. In reply to the question of bull sharks being present in the river, they stress how this is a good thing, because it shows how the water quality has improved. Ha! They do then go on to say they are installing a shark net, but you'd think they would start with that info before saying how lovely it is that sharks are back.
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Post by Queen on Oct 25, 2022 2:31:03 GMT -5
Anyway, the local council and other groups involved in this have done a promotional video. In reply to the question of bull sharks being present in the river, they stress how this is a good thing, because it shows how the water quality has improved. Ha! They do then go on to say they are installing a shark net, but you'd think they would start with that info before saying how lovely it is that sharks are back. Gotta love a geek - whole other priority! |
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Post by sprite on Oct 26, 2022 16:20:04 GMT -5
I'm watching QI on BBC.
So far they've been eating jelly beans with chopsticks, and trying to catch badminton birdies with chopsticks.
it is beyond ridiculous.
Then the Giant of Cerne and his penis went on screen. (spot the little girl with her lollipop)
If I was drinking alcohol, I think i'd be on the floor crying by now.
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Post by Queen on Oct 28, 2022 1:33:37 GMT -5
Happy Halloween - scary movie from Colbert productions
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Post by sprite on Oct 28, 2022 4:41:36 GMT -5
Highland Coos. What's not to like?
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Post by Liiisa on Oct 29, 2022 15:32:04 GMT -5
The Republican candidate for state governor was standing on the side of the road with a bunch of signs and some supporters, and I wasn't really paying attention and beeped and waved at him. He looked overjoyed and waved back, and then I looked at the signs more closely and realized oh crap, that's the wrong guy. It was truly absurd because the Democratic candidate is Black, but based on the neighborhood being pretty Dem, I just assumed that the guy I waved at was a staffer for the Dem.
Anyway, I now find this hilarious because there's no way in hell I'm going to vote for that guy.
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Post by kneazle on Oct 31, 2022 5:10:32 GMT -5
One of radio DJs this afternoon learning that it's opposable thumbs not disposable thumbs.
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Post by Liiisa on Oct 31, 2022 11:06:24 GMT -5
There is currently a tropical storm Lisa in the Caribbean, and my friends are being amusing about it
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Post by sprite on Oct 31, 2022 16:56:44 GMT -5
Small children telling jokes for Hallowe'en candy.
Bad jokes. Very bad jokes.
I enjoyed their facial expressions after I offered them eyeballs. (suckers with an eyeball on the wrapper.)
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Nov 1, 2022 20:52:00 GMT -5
There are some excellent jokes flying around online today about the lions 'escaping' from their enclosure at Taronga zoo.
(More likely to be keeper error and a cage left unlocked than an actual escape, I would guess)
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Post by kneazle on Nov 3, 2022 16:21:22 GMT -5
Arrogant lawyer I'm dealing with and his very obvious power plays.
His latest correspondance he directed to our CEO rather than the COO and I who've been dealing with the matter.
He also wrote:
"The company has got this process horrendously wrong and it will proceed at its peril. Kneazle and COO acted with a blatant disregard and seemingly lack of knowledge of basic employment law obligations including those arising under the Employment Relations Act 2000."
I told my boss I don't know why he hired me since I clearly don't know how to do my job!
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Post by Liiisa on Nov 3, 2022 17:25:02 GMT -5
Yikes, he sounds like a piece of work.
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Post by kneazle on Nov 3, 2022 17:47:07 GMT -5
The thing is we've been through mediation and the mediator said we'd done nothing wrong. Our lawyers also say we've done nothing wrong.
He's fixated on one thing which is completely irrelevant. The amount he wants to settle this is insane. We've counter offered so we'll see how it goes.
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Post by Liiisa on Nov 4, 2022 15:18:08 GMT -5
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Post by sprite on Nov 4, 2022 17:12:16 GMT -5
It's not wrong.
Alexei Sayle was on fire last night.
"I worry for Jacob Rees Moggs. What will he do when his looks go?"
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Nov 4, 2022 23:20:48 GMT -5
I had to google Jacob Rees Moggs. Sounds like the British version of Dominic Perrotet.
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Post by sprite on Nov 5, 2022 4:02:06 GMT -5
I'll google Parrot tits 馃ぃ
I'm probably going to hell for this, but I'm currently laughing over the person run over three times by their own car--the sequence of events is so unlikely! Of course, if she dies, it won't be funny any more.
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Post by jimm on Nov 6, 2022 15:50:45 GMT -5
They got the railway station right, Liiisa.
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Nov 7, 2022 3:00:52 GMT -5
LC has a food tech assessment tomorrow. They have had to design a meal (family dinner) and will cook it tomorrow in class. Had to be nutritionally balanced etc.
Anyway, apparently the teacher told them today she will be marking on presentation as 'some of you are really bad cooks and I'm not going to eat your food'.
I cracked up. - talk about honesty.
To be fair, with remote learning last year this group are way behind in practical lessons but doing the assessments as the other groups who had all their practical lessons last year.
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Post by sprite on Nov 7, 2022 9:49:23 GMT -5
My nephew once cooked a meal on a 'white' theme. My sister ate it. Parent of the year award. Pancakes, spagghetti, whipped cream (unsweetened). If only she'd known she was gluten intolerant!
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Post by Queen on Nov 9, 2022 3:15:23 GMT -5
I had to get a technical certification to be a site admin when I joined company, it was a horrible painful test.
I got told on Friday I would have to re-certify by repeating the test. I did not look forward to the suffering.
Read the manual and did the test on Monday and was thinking "this is much easier than last time"
Totally forgetting that in 2019 I worked on a revised manual and a new test with my IT colleagues. It's easier because I wrote the questions.
Told IT lead. He is enjoying the joke very much and spinning it that IT made the creator of the test do the test and surprise - She found it easy!
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Nov 9, 2022 3:21:02 GMT -5
Heh.
Another test related laugh.
LC had an Italian assessment at school today. Came home in a mixed mood. The test was an online one so results were available immediately, and he got 104/105.
But,
it was the wrong test.
So the results don't count and they have to sit another test next week.
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Post by lillielangtry on Nov 9, 2022 6:02:49 GMT -5
The State Treasurer for Alabama is called Young Boozer. And he's Young Boozer III, why would you pass on that name?!?
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Post by Liiisa on Nov 9, 2022 6:16:52 GMT -5
The State Treasurer for Alabama is called Young Boozer. And he's Young Boozer III, why would you pass on that name?!? People are special in Alabama |
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Post by lillielangtry on Nov 9, 2022 7:46:29 GMT -5
My friend here said something similar, and she's from Tennessee ;-)
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Post by Queen on Nov 9, 2022 11:00:34 GMT -5
The State Treasurer for Alabama is called Young Boozer. And he's Young Boozer III, why would you pass on that name?!? Somebody in one election ran an ad that included an endorsement from a guy called Dick Bigger Jnr. I know this because he turned up on Jimmy Kimmel (starts at about the four minute mark) |
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Post by Liiisa on Nov 13, 2022 8:10:16 GMT -5
Here ya go (apologies to y'all there if this is a very old joke):
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Post by Queen on Nov 14, 2022 14:33:52 GMT -5
yeah, sometimes Tassie isn't labelled as food...
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Post by sprite on Nov 15, 2022 8:07:40 GMT -5
Daniel Craig's new ad for Vodka, by the NZ director whom i like but cannot spell. (What we Do in the Shadows)
Christopher Walken did it better, but Craig is funnier.
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Post by sprite on Nov 16, 2022 10:48:58 GMT -5
Yesterday, frantically googling 'Hi together' to try and work out, during a lesson, if this was a mistranslation used by Europeans in English, or what the cool kids are now starting their meetings with.
(it's a mistranslation. phew.)
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