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My buddy contacted a load of us to say that there was a band about to make it big time that he’d made friends with after catching a few of their shows and we should come out and meet them. It was the Darkness and I couldn’t be arsed at the time. Aforementioned buddy did get us into the Kerrang awar...

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Of course, perfect cloud-cover all weekend in NSW

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Thomas wrote: ↑Mon May 13, 2024 2:11 am Weirdly, it hurts to run down hills now...up hills are fine. Looks like I'm going to turn into a hill monster.

I can't run anymore due to RA in my ankle joints but back around 2010 I absolutely shredded doing stair runs in North Sydney - 4 ascents of each and a trot to the next set of stairs.

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Mr Mike wrote: ↑Sun May 12, 2024 2:54 pm Correct. The term has the gravitas of being long standing and respected, dating from (at least) the late 1900s. It was rediscovered recently in manuscripts from antiquity (Viz).

Right next to the Monkey-spunk moped edition

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Zakar wrote: ↑Sat May 11, 2024 4:20 am 100% true story, I rescued an autographed Tahs jersey from someone's council collection pile this morning.

Probably more interesting than the Tah's performance I reckon...

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Kurt, Dave and Chris: First let me apologize for taking a couple of days to put this outline together. When I spoke to Kurt I was in the middle of making a Fugazi album1, but I thought I would have a day or so between records to sort everything out. My schedule changed unexpectedly, and this is the...

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Margin_Walker wrote: ↑Thu May 09, 2024 7:54 am
DragsterDriver wrote: ↑Thu May 09, 2024 7:53 am
No knicker drawer in the office

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In my experience, people don't seem to do much work from home, They spend a lot of time getting under my f**king feet when I'm trying to work On their house. It's no different to when you have tradies working in the office - you NEVER leave them to their own devices. We know you're not to be truste...

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Sensible Stephen wrote: ↑Thu May 09, 2024 6:36 am
Adelaide's a small place, would be relatively easy to dox me.

Say Warm or Cold re my comment about Tech's responses

I've got some project work down there but sadly no travel budget - more of a thing nowadays with WFH

Was hoping for Adelaide Cabal 3:Electric Boogaloo

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bimboman wrote: ↑Wed May 08, 2024 4:21 pm I’d love to do this, how hard in the knees. Was the accommodation ok, I’ve a CPAP so need relative comfort.

You can do it in sections as well at your own pace/comfort level.

My Sister and BiL do a section each year

I plan on doing it in the future

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Sensible Stephen wrote: ↑Thu May 09, 2024 6:10 am

I don't know about that. We have always offshored, but there has been a big shift in the last 12-24 months on how we do it. Office headcount has been steadily dropping and its not due to a lack of work.

Lol, love how you steadfastly refuse to say what industry

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Far too young

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Nope. Used to be data entry and repetitive tasks. Now its whole projects with critical thinking required. Our grad intake compared to 5 years ago is less than half. No idea what industry you're in but in Tech, it's been done, rinsed and repeated many times You don't always get what you pay for The ...

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Yep. Its also so hard to train people if they aren't around. Especially ones who are not so good at being proactive. Chasing people on teams wears you down and you stop bothering so much after a while. Meanwhile the percentage of our work that we ship off to Vietnam and Thailand only increases. Tha...

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Compounding the issue is most of our team leaders are women with kids too, and it's a real nightmare trying to juggle all of that. Even if they are supposed to be in the office 3 days a week, as often as not they will have a sick child or childcare issues and end up working at home all week, or com...

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I think for experienced professionals, WFH is fine. My advice to juniors and anyone training juniors is to be in the office the majority of the time (so min 3 days). So much learning is incidental. Yep. Its also so hard to train people if they aren't around. Especially ones who are not so good at b...

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Hybrid - 3 days at work, 2 days wfh. I love it. I get a lot more done when I work from home, some of it even work-related. I agree with the comments about it being detrimental for people starting out in careers or new jobs, but for an old bastard like me who is busy counting his 17% super and time ...

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Suits are a uniform in a way - for a toff. We have a uniform and when I first started working in NZ I thought wearing a uniform was terrible, like being at school again, but now I love it, don't have to think about what to wear, don't have to buy "work" clothes, nice and easy. Don't get me wrong, I...

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The 1970s called Grandad! That line alone puts you in the grand-dad basket. Faaark knows how long ago I first read it and similar. Meanwhile and right now, dress codes are still a thing in some workplaces. [This is the bit where you say Ha ha just kidding or Get a better job] Some, yes. Nowhere I'd...

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My company offers hybrid working (2 days at home / three days a week in office ), although some people seem to have been able to negotiate 3 or 4 days at home. I don't do it, am in the office 5 days a week. I feel like it's opened so many cans of worms. Firstly, for the people who want to base them...

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100% from home. Don't think I've been in an in-person meeting for 4 years. And the 4 years before that I worked remotely while travelling around Europe and Asia. Couldn't work in an office now - after so many years, I just wouldn't be able to get used to holding my farts in again. Or belching in a ...

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I pity those of you who haven’t had the chance to watch her compelling commercials for the great state of South Dakota. https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/8abe0bb/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1059x652+97+0/resize/880x542!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F97%2F19...

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I pity those of you who haven’t had the chance to watch her compelling commercials for the great state of South Dakota. https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/8abe0bb/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1059x652+97+0/resize/880x542!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F97%2F19...

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Ted. wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2024 9:23 pm
Pat the Ex Mat wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2024 7:39 am
I guess Wellywood room temperature IS Cellar temperature
Right now, of an evening, we have to leave our brew next to the fire to come up to temperature.

It's damp up here - not cold, but feels it

My new local has Black Lager on tap which works

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towny wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2024 10:49 am
You’re arguing with someone that appears to be an expert, but no worries.

THIS is PR!

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grievous wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2024 10:48 am
OK Poindexter but they have also clamped down hard on company debt. Just refer to the construction companies going bust, 1300 since Covid.

More importantly, they are going after Breweries that are closing at about 2 a week

C'mon Albo, you said you'd help!

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Ted. wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2024 7:01 am

Well you might put it on the stove in some misguided attempt to coddle your tonsils, but civilised folk don't need to do that shit.

I guess Wellywood room temperature IS Cellar temperature

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This should of been held off until the held of the season, hideous when people are still putting in 100% every week. Not that RA would care. Yeah, very odd decision I think it comes down to creditors wanting to get more than 15c on the dollar back. If they liquidate a number of creditors will do be...

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grievous wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2024 4:12 am This should of been held off until the held of the season, hideous when people are still putting in 100% every week.
Not that RA would care.

Yeah, very odd decision

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hermie wrote: ↑Thu May 02, 2024 2:22 pm Although Phillo redeems himself (as he usually does) with
Searchlight on my trail
Tonight's the night all systems fail
Hey you good lookin' female
Come here!

In fairness, he does tell them to not be around

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Room temperature beer/ale is confirmed by boffins as being a shit way to imbibe one's tipple of choice. We all knew that anyway, but some people are innately bone headed and dogmatic with a tendency to haughtiness. Properly chilled beer / ale offers a more refined experience that may be beyond the ...

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99% from home

Having said that, few jobs here are advertised as such - it's usually Hybrid and then your boss gives you the wink

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happytramp wrote: ↑Thu May 02, 2024 7:37 pm Georgians using the power of rugby to stick to their Russian simping overlords.

https://www.reddit.com/r/rugbyunion/com ... he_riot/

Love this!

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You know what is laughable... Oh sure. If we assume that covid would have carried on like every other pandemic, at the same trajectory forever without any peaks, and variants would never have become weaker , then I guess we might maybe get to 10s of millions saved by them wonderful vaccines. Hell, ...

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Duff Paddy wrote: ↑Wed May 01, 2024 5:36 am A nice evening stroll about Balham?

I've drunk with BS, he may indeed want to get hammered.....

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Pearl Jam - Ten. Great songs ruined by the mix, which was so unprofessional . Reverber spreaded casually all over, guitar lacking grit and edge, delay abuse on Eddie, drum sounding like a meek has been placed somewhere in a room to pick it up, like in a demo. If you switch from Ten to Vs, song by s...

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ROLDY wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 6:00 am
Thomas wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 5:48 am Do we get a public holiday if the bloke carks it?
I hope so. Let’s roll this weekend on a bit longer!

The only real reason to keep Australia as a dependency of the crown shirley?

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:shock: Mr Grin, what has brought you out of the woods? I missed some of you lot. The last couple of years haven't been that great for me really, the wife decided 30 years married was quite enough for her and left, then my pug Lemmy got run over and as these things tend to happen in threes, a coupl...

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Just to add re you comments Terangi48, It worries me that there seems to be a push to socialise costs and responsibilities in relation to business activities. What ever happened to user pays but more importantly, operators being responsible and being held accountable for their actions? Is the order...

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Least of all him! He'll call you stupid! Re picking individual funds, it was hilarious "Picking" Lithium stocks over the last few years. I have a small SuperHero account I play invest in (I'm an avowed ETF fan). Not good this year! :shock: :o :lol: I posted my reply above without reading this, and ...

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