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Post by Queen on May 3, 2024 15:52:09 GMT -5
Finally got around to watching that Dara O'Briain bit that kneazle posted in the "life was better in the 50s" thread. He is hilarious. He also does a great bit about science... I've seen him live, in Ireland. Utter treat.
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Post by sprite on May 7, 2024 16:22:22 GMT -5
His performance about his adoption journey was equal parts tearjearker and hilarious.
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Post by Queen on May 7, 2024 16:49:49 GMT -5
His performance about his adoption journey was equal parts tearjearker and hilarious. Oh, yes! Saw that. It's the first time I've seen him not completely the master of the material - not in a bad way... just not being the full performer. Loved it when he talked about how when his brother shaved his head for a cancer fundraiser all his mates told him "you're the dead spit for yer man off the tele"
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Post by Webs on May 7, 2024 17:05:42 GMT -5
I got caught talking to myself by the CFO.
We have all the senior execs in the office for the Board meeting tomorrow and this afternoon the only open space was the desk opposite me. I like the CFO, he's a great guy, so I welcomed him and went on to do some efiling.
And because I was putting something in a folder in a folder in a folder in a folder...
I was talking myself through it. First we open this folder. And then we open the other folder, and then open the vendor folder, and so on.
ANd all of a sudden CFO stands up and says "are you singing" and I started laughing. "No I'm just trying to find the right folder in sharepoint where this document has to go". He said, "if you want to sing you can sing." And I said "No, no, my voice is still a little on the Lou Rawls end of the range."
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Post by psw on May 7, 2024 21:33:29 GMT -5
One of the advantages of living alone is being able to sing and talk to myself as I please.
Talking aloud through a complex task really helps. One phrase with an interesting rhythm can turn into a song.
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Post by tzarine on May 8, 2024 0:36:35 GMT -5
authorsatlarge.com/vietnam-2024
they used to hold them in italy & france. too expensive, so they shifted
they have a following. met a woman @ an event who goes on these annually.
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Post by HalcyonDaze on May 8, 2024 6:25:46 GMT -5
The sad news about the death of Ignatius Jones led me down memory lane and then had me laughing when I was explaining one of the times we saw him play.
It was somewhere in the city, and the liquor rules at the time (this was late 80s) for some places meant you could only buy a drink if you were dining. So when we turned up, we were pretty much told we were 'intending to dine', given a raffle ticket of all things to prove our 'intent to dine' and that meant we could buy drinks and see the band. And never actually get around to dining.
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Post by groo on May 8, 2024 7:14:36 GMT -5
Adams Hotel in George Street, same thing in the early 1960s; best jazz in town, Graham Bell, Ray Price et al, but a plate of nondescript party food was served at around 10pm to satisfy the licencing requirerments.
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Post by HalcyonDaze on May 8, 2024 23:37:50 GMT -5
Adams Hotel in George Street, same thing in the early 1960s; best jazz in town, Graham Bell, Ray Price et al, but a plate of nondescript party food was served at around 10pm to satisfy the licencing requirerments. I was telling Mum about your reply, and she was nodding her head along at the name and the mention of 'nondescript party food' as it turns out it's a venue she had been to as well to listen to jazz. And she mentioned another place called Ushers. misspent youths, the lot of you. ;-)
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Post by groo on May 8, 2024 23:49:26 GMT -5
.... and jazz at Jim Buckley's Newcastle Hotel on Geprge Street- or Saturday afternoon jazz at The Orient at Circular Quay.
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Post by groo on May 9, 2024 0:50:22 GMT -5
Or Candy's periodic drag acts at their (still sounds wrong to me - I hate using a plural pronoun for a singular entity) Darlinghurst Pub in days that were well and truly pre Priscilla.
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Post by groo on May 9, 2024 4:16:34 GMT -5
Everything's up to date ......
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Post by Liiisa on May 9, 2024 5:49:57 GMT -5
Oh my
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Post by ozziegiraffe on May 9, 2024 7:46:50 GMT -5
One of the advantages of living alone is being able to sing and talk to myself as I please. Talking aloud through a complex task really helps. One phrase with an interesting rhythm can turn into a song. I rarely do it, but my friend who stayed for a week often talks herself through things aloud. It can be distracting when we’re both together!
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Post by ozziegiraffe on May 9, 2024 7:53:33 GMT -5
Mine was yesterday. I often have to give way to a herd of dairy cows en route to work, as they cross from their paddock to the dairy. Yesterday, one wandered off on her own, tempted by a clump of particularly green grass.
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Post by Webs on May 9, 2024 16:51:50 GMT -5
Which Kansas City?
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Post by tzarine on May 10, 2024 17:31:02 GMT -5
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Post by Queen on May 13, 2024 10:40:56 GMT -5
The new head of branding has the same first name as me and a not completely different family name... same general origin country... so from time to time I get emails meant for her.
Got invited to a meeting that seemed to be not for me... but there was an outside chance it was for me. So I accepted saying "could you confirm it's about my field?"
Got no confirmation.
Got on call and first line was "you mentioned in our last call that the new brand guidelines should be applied..."
Me "is it possible this is for the other Q? because I wouldn't be telling you anything about brand guidelines"
Too funny!
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Post by sprite on May 13, 2024 13:39:01 GMT -5
"I'm sorry I haven't a clue" is playing the 'one song to the tune of another'.
"I wanna take you to a Gay Bar' to a children's lullaby from the 50s...
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Post by HalcyonDaze on May 13, 2024 18:17:23 GMT -5
Article online last night that stated fat bike riders were plaguing Manly. Noticed this morning that they have changed the punctuation to now read 'fat bike' riders. Wondering how many people queried the original, or pictured fat people on bikes.
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Post by HalcyonDaze on May 13, 2024 21:11:03 GMT -5
last week there was an article updating which RATs were currently best at picking up Covid. As there is always a lot in schools starting around now, I figured I'd buy some.
Used a company called MedCart, who group everything together and then pass the order off to third party sellers.
So imagine my surprise when I get a Tiffany blue padded envelope from a company called 'passion entities'. Very, very thankful that I got to that parcel first, before the old guy upstairs had dropped it off at my door! I picture having to explain that nope, I'm not kinky, just health conscious.
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Post by Queen on May 14, 2024 0:36:11 GMT -5
Article online last night that stated fat bike riders were plaguing Manly. Noticed this morning that they have changed the punctuation to now read 'fat bike' riders. Wondering how many people queried the original, or pictured fat people on bikes. What a shame... I always think of BillandBen when I spot headlines like that, he used submit his articles with dodgy headlines to see if he could get them past the editor. (Editor had English as a second language so it worked rather often).
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Post by Liiisa on May 15, 2024 13:52:20 GMT -5
I love this so much — Elle Cordova is a genius
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Post by tzarine on May 15, 2024 17:33:22 GMT -5
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Post by Queen on May 16, 2024 2:04:14 GMT -5
"I hear you're free on Wednesdays"
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Post by HalcyonDaze on May 17, 2024 3:04:49 GMT -5
The various Gina Rinehart in various portrait/painting memes that have been going around. I've been sharing some of the best ones on FB
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Post by Liiisa on May 17, 2024 5:30:25 GMT -5
The King Charles painting commentary has been pretty amusing as well
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Post by HalcyonDaze on May 17, 2024 6:12:54 GMT -5
The King Charles painting commentary has been pretty amusing as well Someone has done Gina as King Charles portrait.
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Post by HalcyonDaze on May 17, 2024 6:14:13 GMT -5
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Post by Liiisa on May 17, 2024 6:18:04 GMT -5
That's hilarious. I had to look up who she was!
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