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Post by ozziegiraffe on Aug 7, 2024 21:58:42 GMT -5
I heard our Aussie PM, Anthony Albanese, comment that we speak the same language, but sometimes don’t understand each other. Aotearoa is fine, but what does Tena koe mean?
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Post by jimm on Aug 8, 2024 0:33:01 GMT -5
I chuckled at this too:
( ‘Don’t kill the actors’: three friends’ quest to stage Hamlet in Grand Theft Auto
When Sam Crane and Mark Oosterveen decided to stage Shakespeare’s tragedy in the anarchic online game, unexpected humanity emerged from the mayhem )
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Post by sprite on Aug 8, 2024 9:19:36 GMT -5
yesterday I commented on an article on FB about a new active travel path. There are a number of people raising the bizarre objection that this path is made of concrete and removed trees, and is therefore bad for the environment. So that was a 'wtf??' laugh.
today, I see I have over 20 notifications on FB, where I usually have 4. I predict frothing.
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Post by Liiisa on Aug 8, 2024 12:22:58 GMT -5
I got an email inviting me to serve on the Harvard Business Review's advisory council, which is hilarious since i haven't even read any of their articles in maybe 6 months. Unsubscribed
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Post by Queen on Aug 8, 2024 13:33:40 GMT -5
I got an email inviting me to serve on the Harvard Business Review's advisory council, which is hilarious since i haven't even read any of their articles in maybe 6 months. Unsubscribed but wait... was it really them and was it a paid gig?
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Post by Queen on Aug 8, 2024 13:37:58 GMT -5
There's a Chinese style bakery on my street that provides those cakes that are mostly cream and e numbers with five segments of oddly sour mandarin on the top. I have never made a purchase but it's popular.
I was walking home and I saw a whole family picking up their order... and they'd brought a wheelchair to transport a huge cake in a huge box...
But granny came with them to pay for the cake (OK that bit I am guessing)... so first they had to get her out of the wheelchair, so one grandchild is balancing the cake and pulling one arm, and the other grandchild is pulling the other arm and trying to stop the wheelchair rolling away.
I had to walk quickly past them because laughing and pointing is apparently rude.
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Post by Liiisa on Aug 8, 2024 13:54:38 GMT -5
I got an email inviting me to serve on the Harvard Business Review's advisory council, which is hilarious since i haven't even read any of their articles in maybe 6 months. Unsubscribed but wait... was it really them and was it a paid gig? It was from hbr.org, so I assume so. It reminded me that I'd meant to unsubscribe
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Post by Queen on Aug 8, 2024 14:25:23 GMT -5
LOL fair enough
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Post by Liiisa on Aug 9, 2024 7:26:39 GMT -5
Our phones both started making this loud howling beeping with a flash flood warning, and we both screamed in unison
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Post by Queen on Aug 11, 2024 4:20:18 GMT -5
US outrage at the fact that other countries in the world count floors in a building differently.
Apparently it's very distressing that the ground floor is 'zero' in the elevator.
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Post by Liiisa on Aug 11, 2024 4:26:52 GMT -5
US outrage at the fact that other countries in the world count floors in a building differently. Apparently it's very distressing that the ground floor is 'zero' in the elevator. We do? Sometimes I wonder if I'm really from here
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Post by jimm on Aug 11, 2024 4:38:35 GMT -5
In Oz the ground floor is G. The next one up is 1, and so on.
4 3 2 1 G
Which is a bit odd - if I was to add another storey to my 1 level house, I would say I'm adding a 2nd storey.
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Post by Liiisa on Aug 11, 2024 4:44:59 GMT -5
Some building to go to rather regularly (which I can't remember why at the moment) has a ground floor on 2 -- 1 is a ground entrance, but it's in the back or something
These things are not important
I guess I'm a coastal elite
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Post by groo on Aug 11, 2024 4:57:47 GMT -5
Indeed no.
I am currently under the thrall of a haematologist. His building is on a very steep hill but the floor designations conform with the rest of the hospital, so his street level entrance is B2 on the lifts (elevators to some) and I must ascend 3 levels to his rooms on the first floor or 1 level (B1) to the transfusion unit.
At first it was all quite confusing.
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Post by Queen on Aug 11, 2024 5:45:54 GMT -5
In Oz the ground floor is G. The next one up is 1, and so on. 4 3 2 1 G Which is a bit odd - if I was to add another storey to my 1 level house, I would say I'm adding a 2nd storey. Yes, this is the sort of logic the USers are throwing into the mix. I want to recommend they visit China, where some buildings skip level 4, 13, 14. Four is unlucky in Chinese, and they've heard 13 is unlucky for foreigners, so they kindly skip that as well.
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Post by Queen on Aug 11, 2024 5:46:29 GMT -5
Sometimes I wonder if I'm really from here Same, Liiisa, same.
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Post by Liiisa on Aug 11, 2024 10:50:58 GMT -5
Like I said, I'm a coastal elite
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Post by psw on Aug 11, 2024 11:54:21 GMT -5
Buildings on hillsides sometimes have main entrances on "odd" floors.
Elevators around here mark their floor-buttons with a star for the one that will get you outdoors on the main floor.
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Post by groo on Aug 11, 2024 23:12:18 GMT -5
Mongo.
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Post by Queen on Aug 12, 2024 10:44:41 GMT -5
Randy is a childless cat lady...
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Post by Liiisa on Aug 12, 2024 11:38:15 GMT -5
Dang Queen, I thought for ONCE I was going to beat you to posting one of those, I literally just saw it five minutes ago. That one is pretty great.
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Post by Queen on Aug 12, 2024 12:07:52 GMT -5
What can I say... he knows I'm a fan and he sends me a special message
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Post by sprite on Aug 12, 2024 16:24:55 GMT -5
Me to neighbour kid: why are there apples on your roof outside my kitchen window? Neighbour kid: my sister was playing 'apple family' and decided they wwere going to hawaii, and hawaii is on the roof...
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Post by Queen on Aug 14, 2024 2:10:43 GMT -5
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Aug 14, 2024 2:23:39 GMT -5
We have local council elections coming up in September. The deadline to submit paperwork for people to stand was today. The Liberal party stuffed up and did not submit the paperwork on time for a lot of councils. Sadly, they did manage to do it for my council, so we are stuck with our idiots. But there are other councils where this will be interesting. Including one where apparently they already have the corflutes out and advertising their people who won't actually be running.
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Post by groo on Aug 14, 2024 2:58:23 GMT -5
.... and remember, alienfolk, that "Liberal Party" here equates, in most cases, to rwnj elsewhere.
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Aug 14, 2024 3:13:46 GMT -5
Indeed.
I wonder if the 'independents' who run for council after resigning from the Liberal party also managed to put their paperwork in on time? That would be telling.
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Post by Liiisa on Aug 14, 2024 5:47:04 GMT -5
That's hilarious. Is there something about incompetent people, that they feel like they have to be authoritarian to compensate?
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Post by jimm on Aug 14, 2024 6:10:07 GMT -5
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Aug 14, 2024 6:14:23 GMT -5
Ha, I haven't read the article, but Clipper did. And those aer the two jokes he read out to me!
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