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Post by Liiisa on Dec 8, 2023 12:22:17 GMT -5
I genuinely enjoy it when I'm in the mood for it, which admittedly isn't always
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Post by kneazle on Dec 10, 2023 17:20:47 GMT -5
I just received an email which included this:
"I am free to have a zoo meeting tomorrow morning if you can fit it in.
Our discrepancy is the reason why your organisation n is stating employee does not qualify on all criteria."
She also said that 'we have yet to have a meeting' true, because you didn't come back to us with a time and I wasn't going to chase you.
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Post by sprite on Dec 10, 2023 17:48:21 GMT -5
I'm up for a zoo meeting.
Yesterday, I got a fit of giggles at the butchers, discussing, of all things, the environmental merits of their venison compared to Waitrose venison. It's a good thing they know me.
One of the customers asked if I was from Boston. I am reasonably sure that I sound nothing like Boston, but he was happy that he had at least guessed the correct coast of North America.
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Post by groo on Dec 10, 2023 18:19:41 GMT -5
I, too, have been accused of coming from Boston. Perhaps it's a default categorisation for people who talk funny.
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Dec 11, 2023 6:27:56 GMT -5
I’m watching Griff Rhys Jones on his slow train through Africa. He just shared his breakfast with some friendly giraffes.
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Dec 12, 2023 6:06:25 GMT -5
Checking out Mum's books at the library today. A woman, who was also in the library and a had books to borrow, looked at me checking out the books and said' oh, you must love reading'.
well yes, we are in the library!
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Post by Liiisa on Dec 12, 2023 6:19:09 GMT -5
"No, I'm forced to be here as a punishment"
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Post by Liiisa on Dec 12, 2023 7:09:05 GMT -5
I just laughed because I'd written a guy at the credit union to set up an appointment to talk about consolidating my retirement accounts there, and he not only addressed it to my last name as though it was my first name (fair, most people do that), but he signed it "very respectively." Are you high, dude?
I'll probably meet with him anyway, but it cracked me up.
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Post by sprite on Dec 13, 2023 8:26:29 GMT -5
Neighbour put christmas hats on her cats and sent over a photo. they look so miserable that it cracks me up everytime I look. I've told her to get them printed for cards next year.
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Post by Liiisa on Dec 15, 2023 17:38:12 GMT -5
I heard that Wham! Christmas song not once but TWICE at PT this morning
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Post by kneazle on Dec 17, 2023 17:35:20 GMT -5
An applicant for the HR Admin job included under skills 'photogenetic' We have know idea if they think being pretty is a skill or if they meant photography.
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Post by Liiisa on Dec 17, 2023 17:55:22 GMT -5
lol I'd be tempted to interview them just to find out. I also don't understand why you'd put "photogenic" under job skills anyway unless you're applying to be a model or an actor.
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Post by sprite on Dec 23, 2023 21:43:25 GMT -5
Lunch with my Uncle, who has Down's' and dementia, so doesn't always remember how people are connected to him. So we had a little chat, and he turned to my dad ( his big brother), and announced, "She's my uncle!"
So now everyone is calling me Uncle Sprite.
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Dec 25, 2023 6:44:43 GMT -5
Interestingly, First Nations Australians could well call their niece uncle, or their nephew Aunty.
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Post by kneazle on Dec 27, 2023 15:14:32 GMT -5
Couple of funny things from Christmas day.
My mum forgot that we'd both given dad money towards a bike rack as his main present until I gave him a small present and said 'obviously the main present was money towards a bike rack' so dad did well this year!
My dad has learnt a hack. If he buys vouchers from a cosmetic counter at the department store he can get free samples as well so we get a voucher and a perfume sample!
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Post by sprite on Jan 2, 2024 9:11:05 GMT -5
My dad's version of geopolitics: "This war in Ukraine means I can't make proper corn bread anymore!"
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Post by psw on Jan 2, 2024 15:01:08 GMT -5
Suddenly funny: news item that some celeb had "a new baby." Well, nobody ever has an old baby...
who, me, sleep-deprived?
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Post by Liiisa on Jan 2, 2024 17:24:31 GMT -5
I saw a drawing of a butterfly-woman hybrid thing that was named "Blue Morpho," and showed it to pero, saying "what is wrong with this Blue Morpho?" What I meant for him to say was that the undersides of Blue Morpho wings are brown, not blue, but he said "uh, she has hands?" This made me laugh
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Post by tinaja on Jan 2, 2024 19:21:31 GMT -5
My cousins on this one branch are so funny. One of them has a pitcher that she claims that my mom made and gave to her. Mom was not a ceramist or diddled with much of anything crafty. I don't know where she got this idea.
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Post by scicaro on Jan 5, 2024 15:36:01 GMT -5
One of the very lovely carers that comes to help with my dad and was obviously looking for something to do offered to thread or wax my eyebrows for me.
I think she was just being nice but it's also possible that she is horrified by the state of my eyebrows.
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Post by Liiisa on Jan 5, 2024 19:56:39 GMT -5
pero and I have started having google chat conversations consisting entirely of the suggested responses, like "Haha yeah, OK bye, haha"
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Post by tzarine on Jan 6, 2024 15:02:33 GMT -5
pero and I have started having google chat conversations consisting entirely of the suggested responses, like "Haha yeah, OK bye, haha" liisa that sounds like conversations i have had w several people
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Post by tzarine on Jan 6, 2024 15:02:59 GMT -5
the number of self help books the buy nothing group is giving away
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Post by Liiisa on Jan 6, 2024 16:24:17 GMT -5
I guess they either really helped a lot or didn't help at all
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Post by Queen on Jan 8, 2024 13:59:24 GMT -5
This insta post where Chat GPT was instructed to draw an Amsterdam yuppie... then more Amsterdam... more yuppie.... but sound on is also entertaining - like a Spanish person speaking who has never heard Dutch spoken before. At least two of them look a LOT like former colleagues https://www.instagram.com/reel/C114DXyvQcw
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Post by sprite on Jan 8, 2024 17:00:48 GMT -5
He's missing a calf??
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Post by Liiisa on Jan 8, 2024 17:48:34 GMT -5
That's how you can tell it's AI
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Post by tzarine on Jan 8, 2024 19:27:34 GMT -5
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Post by Queen on Jan 9, 2024 4:46:51 GMT -5
That's how you can tell it's AI that and reading a book while cycling... checking a phone maybe but a book? never seen it. (yes - weird things happening with his left foot)
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Jan 9, 2024 4:59:07 GMT -5
LC and I are amusing ourselves by pronouncing the place names of where we are holidaying with a bad French accent.
Fitzroy Falls was ok. Burrawang was mildly amusing.
But Ulladulla and Narrawallee crack me up every time. And Mollymook is pretty good as well.
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