[Mentalist]

 Gintokian, on 12 September 2018 - 04:02 PM, said:

Sorry to bring it back to the weather debate, but it's been so nice this week and it's making me happy right now.

I worked landscaping/snow removal for years, going out in the hottest days (40+ C with high humidity) and the coldest nights (we usually started our snow removal at like 1am) and I have to say the winter was much better. In the summer at that heat you have to take breaks every few minutes if you don't want to pass out, plus the humidity just makes you feel exhausted and makes it harder to catch your breath. In the winter working (snow blowing mostly) it warms you up and when you're done a place hopping in the truck and warming up was great, sure it gets cold but once you're moving you heat up pretty quickly.
But I have to say, Fall/Spring are my favourite seasons, cool enough that you can wear a sweater and walk around without sweating. Sad that those seasons are so short here, I swear Spring this year jumped from -5 to 30 C in like two weeks.

Depends on the person, I guess.

I'm not a fan of sweaters though, so I like going straight from winter jackets to short/no sleeve.

[Macros]

If you do that you won't have to worry about any panicked visits to the clinic

[Slow Ben]

 Macros, on 12 September 2018 - 03:32 PM, said:

And a load of the alumni really. Toby et al

Toby was back a few months ago for about 30 seconds.

[Tiste Simeon]

 Slow Ben, on 12 September 2018 - 05:43 PM, said:

 Macros, on 12 September 2018 - 03:32 PM, said:

And a load of the alumni really. Toby et al

Toby was back a few months ago for about 30 seconds.

He contacted me a couple of weeks ago. Life is busy for him I think.

[Dutch]

 Tiste Simeon, on 12 September 2018 - 02:39 PM, said:

Holy crap I have an interview to start me on the path to become a detective. This is something I really want and I found out today that they are telling people pretty much as soon as the interview is over! This is all happening quite quickly - it's on Monday morning!

DC Tiste Simeon?

[Gintokian]

 Briar King, on 12 September 2018 - 04:37 PM, said:

I want to run naked but with shoes in the snow.

It's not as uncommon as you think, especially in university towns...
A friend once tried to do just that and then go swimming in the frozen river but we stopped him before he did, seeing as he'd die and all. Ah alcohol.

[worry]

[Puck]

 Cause, on 11 September 2018 - 01:15 PM, said:

I am sad I did not receive a bread making machine though, is chocolate chip, cinnamon bread a thing? Puck you should make that!

I think the thing you're looking for is named cake. Though bread rolls with chocolate chips and cinnamon are actually a thing here. Now I want those, damn it. But I've got onion bread for this week, will be hard enough to finish that since I'm alone at home for a couple of weeks.

 Tiste Simeon, on 12 September 2018 - 02:39 PM, said:

Holy crap I have an interview to start me on the path to become a detective. This is something I really want and I found out today that they are telling people pretty much as soon as the interview is over! This is all happening quite quickly - it's on Monday morning!

Nice! Fingers crossed for you!


Making me happy is that I got a haircut today. I love haircuts, they feel so refreshing!

[Slow Ben]

 Tiste Simeon, on 12 September 2018 - 06:44 PM, said:

 Slow Ben, on 12 September 2018 - 05:43 PM, said:

 Macros, on 12 September 2018 - 03:32 PM, said:

And a load of the alumni really. Toby et al

Toby was back a few months ago for about 30 seconds.

He contacted me a couple of weeks ago. Life is busy for him I think.

That urchin cutpurse racket is no joke.

[Cause]

I have no memory of a Toby.

I'm watching. Junior genius. It's fun. Parts anyway. Why are these kids training to spell things backwards?

[TheRetiredBridgeburner]

 Puck, on 12 September 2018 - 07:43 PM, said:

Making me happy is that I got a haircut today. I love haircuts, they feel so refreshing!

Yes, they do! Doing the same this evening!

[Morgoth]

 Cause, on 12 September 2018 - 10:08 PM, said:

I have no memory of a Toby.

I'm watching. Junior genius. It's fun. Parts anyway. Why are these kids training to spell things backwards?

Yeah that's right. He left us, so fuck him! I too have no memory of Toby.

[Tiste Simeon]

Thelomen Toblerone, aka Toby. Real name was Greg.

[Messremb]

 Tiste Simeon, on 13 September 2018 - 07:19 AM, said:

Thelomen Toblerone, aka Toby. Real name was Greg.

Past tense DC Simeon? Either Toby has assumed a new name or you've got bad news for us?

Didn't realise the scamp was 30

[Tsundoku]

From the people who brought you ... every British detective show ever

https://www.ranker.c...eries/ranker-tv

Now watch the greatest of them all:

DCI Tiste Plod

No corpse left undisturbed.

[Cause]

 Briar King, on 14 September 2018 - 03:25 AM, said:

Certainly happy that Florence has downgraded all the way down to Cat 1 instead of that 140mph Cat 4 monster it was yesterday. It is still going to flood the shit out of the Carolina’s but hopefully some of the older homes/trees will now remain standing vs their chances just 24 hrs ago.

Dammit, that pastor will never let us hear the end of this

[Gnaw]

 Tsundoku, on 13 September 2018 - 08:48 AM, said:

From the people who brought you ... every British detective show ever

https://www.ranker.c...eries/ranker-tv

Now watch the greatest of them all:

DCI Tiste Plod

No corpse left undisturbed.

Wire in the Blood is 40???

No. Just no. Top 10!

[Puck]

I'm not on the verge of a panic attack anymore when my phone at work rings, despite just having had a rough week with a surprise depressive episode. I call that a victory

[amphibian]

 Puck, on 17 September 2018 - 12:00 PM, said:

I'm not on the verge of a panic attack anymore when my phone at work rings, despite just having had a rough week with a surprise depressive episode. I call that a victory

You sound so much more resilient than you were a couple years ago. Way to go. I'm really happy for you.

[Tsundoku]

This made me chuckle.

https://www.facebook...997492420294122

How to be Australian. (I will translate)

be Australian
>alarm goes off at 6.30am
>still wearing hivis from yesterde (still wearing high visibility vest from the previous day's work)
>three different Prime Ministers have come and gone overnight (a recent unfortunate tendency for Prime Ministers to not last a full term of Parliament - 3 years - and be usurped from within their own Party)
>fourth one is about to be sworn in
>make brekky (make breakfast)
>bite into strawberry
>cop a sewing needle through the roof of the mouth ( a recent high profile news story about needles being put into strawberries, causing widespread concern and plummeting strawberry sales. Needles are now being found in other fruit in copycat incidents. Annoying)
>can't feel it because still pissed from the fifteen cans of Emu Export last night (cannot feel because still rather drunk from 15 cans of a rather crap beer last night)
>drive to site
>Fooeys are playing on Triple M, fucken grouse (The Foo Fighters are playing on the nationally syndicated rock radio station, this is pleasing)
>bite into a meat pie at lunch (yum!)
>full of sewing needles and redback spiders (Redback spiders have a fearsome reputation but generally will only make you sick, not kill you. Unless you're old, young, or sick already)
>drop pie and make apprentice pick it all up (good old workplace bastardisation, a hot topic for years)
>knock off at 2 (cease work at 2pm)
>straight to bottleo (go to the liquor store, pronounced "Bottle-oh", with no pause)
>block of bushchook and a pouch of white ox (a 24 or 30 can cardboard box of Emu - hence "bush chook (=chicken)" Export beer and a pouch of rolling tobacco)
>open pouch to roll a smoke
>full of sewing needles and blue ring octopuses (a fairly nasty venomous octopus. Mostly won't kill you, but the venom will probably make you beg for death. Not as bad as the irukandji jellyfish though. Or stone fish. Or dozens of other nasties)
>get stung and stabbed multiple times
>she'll be right mate (Things will be fine, my friend. Nothing to worry about)
>crack tinnie (open can of beer)
>turn on telly
>another leadership spill means a fifth Prime Minister is being sworn in
>NSW government has just banned nightclubs, festivals, alcohol, cars, walking, sneezing, and the concept of joy (nanny state tendencies from the New South wales state govt. Started with reducing opening hours for licensed premises in the central area of Sydney and rolled on from there. In response to late night alcohol fuelled violence)
>absolute bloody outrage this is (how annoying)
>walk back into kitchen and open fridge
>full of sewing needles and a great white shark (self explanatory)
>get eaten
>it's me RDO tomorra so she'll be right (I have a Rostered Day Off tomorrow, so nothing to worry about)