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Post by tzarine on Aug 14, 2024 14:03:57 GMT -5
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Post by Queen on Aug 15, 2024 15:07:04 GMT -5
Wow, well it's a statue alright!
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Post by groo on Aug 15, 2024 18:03:25 GMT -5
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Post by kneazle on Aug 15, 2024 21:28:25 GMT -5
Funny in 'how dumb are people' way. If you're on a Final written warning for vaping at work - maybe don't show up stoned.
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Post by sprite on Aug 16, 2024 15:39:14 GMT -5
to be fair, vaping... stoned... different things, surely? Which is what I imagine their logic was?
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Post by kneazle on Aug 17, 2024 0:01:37 GMT -5
I don't think logic entered the equation at any point.
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Post by Liiisa on Aug 17, 2024 9:18:50 GMT -5
"If I'm not allowed to smoke up at work, I'll just do it on the way in"
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Post by kneazle on Aug 20, 2024 6:29:18 GMT -5
My cat is snoring loudly right now.
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Post by tzarine on Aug 20, 2024 21:18:57 GMT -5
seen @ local shop "your longevity destination"
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Post by whothingie on Aug 21, 2024 16:25:04 GMT -5
9.am, wearing my dressing gown, sitting at the table eating breakfast. Looked up and there is a tradie on the roof next door, waving. When I waved back he gave me a thumbs up and disappeared down the ladder.
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Post by sprite on Aug 22, 2024 11:38:04 GMT -5
Partner just called me in to assure him he wasn't hallucinating. He was looking at an Excel sheet with lots of text, where every.single.D had been replaced with an E. big and small letters. all of them. and then the owner of the sheet sent it out to dozens of people around the world...
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Post by Queen on Aug 24, 2024 13:16:40 GMT -5
Watching Midsommer Murders, and one character has my name and people keep calling her. And every time I respond "I'm here!".... I'm home alone cracking myself up. If she gets killed off it's going to ruin my evening. she got killed... but kinda deserved it
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Post by sprite on Aug 24, 2024 16:51:51 GMT -5
I feel like I remember watching an episode and thinking, hmm, this name is familiar...
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Aug 25, 2024 7:25:00 GMT -5
I’m reading a book with a character callled Harold Holt. (Australian Prime Minister who disappeared at the beach, presumed drowned.)
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Post by lisamnz on Aug 25, 2024 16:20:01 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? tena koe - hello to one person. There's a song kids learn in preschool/playcentre/kindy: Tena koe, hello to one tena korua, hello to two (two is rua) tena koutou, hello to all, haere mai everyone, welcome everyone.
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Post by groo on Aug 25, 2024 16:53:07 GMT -5
I’m reading a book with a character callled Harold Holt. (Australian Prime Minister who disappeared at the beach, presumed drowned.) I was in a ship off Wilsons Prom when he disappeared. We received a signal from Navy Office to keep an eye out for the PM.
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Post by Queen on Aug 26, 2024 11:13:15 GMT -5
Oh Randy!
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Post by jimm on Aug 27, 2024 18:29:00 GMT -5
A comment in 'The Guardian' on an article about the TV series 'The Walking Dead'. (The writer had only just started watching it - 14 years late)
"The walking dead? That's the fourth guardian article on the oasis reunion today! Sheesh!"
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Post by groo on Aug 27, 2024 21:53:11 GMT -5
From this afternoon's online Sydney Morning Herald.
"A junior doctor took intimate photos of patients and secretly filmed his colleagues getting changed at a major regional NSW hospital for sexual pleasure, court documents reveal."
I have an op coming up and would like it to be at that "major regional NSW hospital for sexual pleasure."
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Post by kneazle on Aug 27, 2024 23:29:39 GMT -5
I love 'Catless Child person'
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Post by psw on Aug 27, 2024 23:43:21 GMT -5
lisamnz - I listened to several of those songs and a couple of them are old US tunes with Maori words. What a surprise!
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Aug 28, 2024 3:23:21 GMT -5
A comment in 'The Guardian' on an article about the TV series 'The Walking Dead'. (The writer had only just started watching it - 14 years late) "The walking dead? That's the fourth guardian article on the oasis reunion today! Sheesh!"I've had a lot of laughs around the Oasis reunion - the comment about it being the only time it would be necessary to buy gig insurance for cancellation was gold.
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Post by lisamnz on Aug 28, 2024 16:14:51 GMT -5
lisamnz - I listened to several of those songs and a couple of them are old US tunes with Maori words. What a surprise! I think the idea is that the songs go with such familiar tunes that it makes it easier to remember the unfamiliar words. They are probably common tunes in many many places... nursery rhymes tend to use the same few tunes also.
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Post by psw on Aug 28, 2024 17:12:30 GMT -5
Two of them were You Are My Sunshine, fine, but Ten Little Indians was a bit much - so not-PC these days.
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Post by Liiisa on Aug 28, 2024 17:57:20 GMT -5
You Are My Sunshine makes me miserable for some reason - I cannot listen to the entire thing.
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Post by lisamnz on Aug 28, 2024 18:28:17 GMT -5
Ten Little Indians was a bit much - so not-PC these days. I had to look that up, not knowing it at all. That tune is really familiar but absolutely with different words. I can't quite put my finger on the words now though, having heard the other version...
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Post by Liiisa on Aug 28, 2024 18:29:50 GMT -5
I got your lyrics right here:
"One little two little three little Indians, four little five little six little Indians, seven little eight little nine little Indians, ten little Indian boys"
I guess it could be referring to a group of 6-year-olds from Delhi
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Post by lisamnz on Aug 28, 2024 18:31:08 GMT -5
Fingers. WE sang about fingers.
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Post by lisamnz on Aug 28, 2024 18:32:05 GMT -5
I got your lyrics right here: "One little two little three little Indians, four little five little six little Indians, seven little eight little nine little Indians, ten little Indian boys" I guess it could be referring to a group of 6-year-olds from Delhi no, that's what I mean. The song had the same tune as the 'little indians' that you've got here but we definitely didn't sing about little indians. It was fingers, learning to count to ten on your fingers.
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Post by Liiisa on Aug 28, 2024 18:34:45 GMT -5
Oh oops I thought you wanted to know about the "Indians" version
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