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Post by tzarine on Oct 15, 2023 0:40:29 GMT -5
another avo toast joint opened up there's 2 w/i 2 blocks of the casa
miss the family run diners they replaced
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Oct 15, 2023 2:23:29 GMT -5
The family run fruit shop in our neighbourhood recently changed hands when the owners retired. They’ve renamed it the Smashed Avo.
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Post by Queen on Oct 15, 2023 10:02:42 GMT -5
this is very very funny... esp if you've seen the Barbie movie...
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Post by sprite on Oct 15, 2023 14:04:56 GMT -5
That was just... um. I need to see Barbie?
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Oct 15, 2023 16:32:01 GMT -5
Not available here
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Post by Liiisa on Oct 15, 2023 18:29:47 GMT -5
Telling my mom how the local vegans were picketing the new local fancy butcher shop and when she expressed surprise, we both exclaimed in unison "it's in Takoma Park!"
(Takoma Park being a notoriously lefty/green and often humorless sort of place)
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Post by tzarine on Oct 16, 2023 1:14:18 GMT -5
Big Zuu: "We’re a multicultural society. I’m eating fish and chips – in a pitta!"
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Oct 16, 2023 4:25:47 GMT -5
Laughing, but also frustrating..
The text I had from the bank was legit, and there had been suspicious activity on my card.
But what triggered the alert (based on spending patterns etc) seemed to be the chain pizza store payment in Old, and not the several hundred dollars worth of airline tickets!
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Oct 16, 2023 6:43:06 GMT -5
My bank once queried a Brisbane airport parking payment of a few dollars, when I’d been withdrawing cash overseas for a month. Parking payment was legit.
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Post by sprite on Oct 17, 2023 4:57:00 GMT -5
My father is complaining because he wants to do 2 more rides on his motorbike before it hits the mileage where he has to take it in for a service (to keep the warranty). He doesn't have enough kms left, he says, to do 2 more rides.
He has 900km left on the clock. That's not enough.
Also funny was him trying to explain why my nephew's rugby match was so good. The only person in our family who knows anything at all about rugby is my nephew.
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Post by Liiisa on Oct 17, 2023 8:57:43 GMT -5
Remembering a song last night from childhood that went “everybody’s doin’ it, doin’ it, doin’ it, picking at their nose and chewin’ it, chewin’ it”
Not sure what I think is funnier, the song itself or pero’s horrified disbelief when I sang it to him
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Post by psw on Oct 17, 2023 9:08:06 GMT -5
"They think it's candy, butitsnot"
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Post by Liiisa on Oct 17, 2023 10:44:26 GMT -5
!!! Forgot about that part
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Post by sprite on Oct 17, 2023 15:46:06 GMT -5
We are watching a show about tigers in Bhutan, and a warthog just came on camera.
So I sang the opening lines of Harkuna Matata but partner never watches disney, so he didn't get it.
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Post by Liiisa on Oct 18, 2023 4:44:11 GMT -5
I wouldn't have gotten it either!
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Post by sprite on Oct 18, 2023 9:25:34 GMT -5
I mean, Pumba the Warthog is quite the operatic tenor, the song is good fun despite how annoying the phrase became.
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Post by Liiisa on Oct 18, 2023 11:03:18 GMT -5
Noted
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Post by tzarine on Oct 18, 2023 14:10:35 GMT -5
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Oct 19, 2023 3:09:08 GMT -5
The conversation during my surgery was about the ophthalmologist’s collection of elements from the periodic table, and the difficulty with storing fluorine. Thorium was also mentioned. The orthoptist back at his office says he’s having difficulty obtaining a uranium sample.
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Post by sprite on Oct 19, 2023 5:04:20 GMT -5
That Mahjong set is lovely, but a) you'd need great eyesight (or be Chinese) to keep the pieces straight, and b) you'd have to be damn good to win back the cost of the set.
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Post by Queen on Oct 19, 2023 6:10:38 GMT -5
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Post by tzarine on Oct 21, 2023 2:07:12 GMT -5
the very animated local weatherman lonnie
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Oct 22, 2023 1:36:11 GMT -5
Yesterday's laugh.
When we went to pay for LC's shoes yesterday, I noticed the two staff members at the counter both had the same name on their slightly differently designed name badges (both official store ones). And I was guessing that it was possibly similar to when I worked in a bank, and staff had to wear a name badge when working. That it was likely they weren't both called Fred (made up example name) but that one 'Fred' had forgotten his badge and borrowed a spare.
Kind of like the day there were 3 Claras working at my bank......
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Oct 22, 2023 2:00:36 GMT -5
Nigella is cooking curried banana skins on tv. She said they reminded her of an unpronounceable Klingon delicacy.
By the way, who knew curried banana skins were a thing?
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Oct 22, 2023 2:12:07 GMT -5
I knew banana skins could be a thing. it was an online craze a while ago.
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Post by psw on Oct 22, 2023 8:25:00 GMT -5
Still laughing after last night's Randy Rainbow for President show! A great mix of live new material and a some of his greatest video hits which covered his costume changes. He must have cornered the sequin market! An hour and a half of non-stop hilarity with Randy and a three-piece combo of piano, bass & percussion. Just what I (and a whole bunch of other people) needed on a rainy Saturday night!
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Post by tzarine on Oct 22, 2023 19:47:35 GMT -5
our cranky irritable sometimes drunk neighbour has been coming all day to tzar bc the heat isnt on in the building!
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Post by sprite on Oct 23, 2023 4:32:40 GMT -5
Went for dinner on Friday and my Thai curry was significantly hotter than expected. I had to wave a waiter over, and ask, "What's the fastest bowl of rice you can bring me?"
90 seconds later I had a bowl of steamed coconut rice. Relief.
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Post by kneazle on Oct 23, 2023 15:34:32 GMT -5
Just had a conversation with a manager about an employee who hadn't shown up for work.
I was confused because the employee said that they'd be back on Monday and didn't show up yesterday. It took me a bit to realise that yesterday WAS Monday but because it was a public holiday and I didn't work I'd forgotten what day of the week it was.
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Post by sprite on Oct 24, 2023 3:22:56 GMT -5
Sister and husband landed in Brisbane, and decided to put their carry on bags in lockers while they headed out to take advantage of their very expensive transit visa.
to get to the lockers, they had to pass a small area of greenery and a printed A board, clearly used on a regular basis.
"Snakes sighted in this area."
She can't wait to get to NZ.
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