[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)

[Tiste Simeon]

That's pretty much exactly how I imagine life in Australia to be...

[Tiste Simeon]

I just signed up to do the Great North Run next year. I am a bit overweight and terribly unfit so I'm now panicking about the decision! I know there's a year to get fit but shessh why did I do that??

Anyway I think it is a good decision though I will no doubt hate myself for it many times over the coming year... It'll be a good motivator to get fit and I'll be raising money for Alzheimer's Research UK so it's all in the name of a good cause.

[TheRetiredBridgeburner]

Tiste Simeon, on 20 September 2018 - 01:00 PM, said:

I just signed up to do the Great North Run next year. I am a bit overweight and terribly unfit so I'm now panicking about the decision! I know there's a year to get fit but shessh why did I do that??

Anyway I think it is a good decision though I will no doubt hate myself for it many times over the coming year... It'll be a good motivator to get fit and I'll be raising money for Alzheimer's Research UK so it's all in the name of a good cause.

It's amazing what a date in the diary will do to motivate you - I couldn't get myself out the door to exercise for love nor money earlier in the year, then when Dad and I decided to do the Three Peaks I've genuinely not had a problem with it since. Goals are great motivation - best of luck!

This post has been edited by TheRetiredBridgeburner: 20 September 2018 - 01:37 PM

[QuickTidal]

TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 20 September 2018 - 01:36 PM, said:

Tiste Simeon, on 20 September 2018 - 01:00 PM, said:

I just signed up to do the Great North Run next year. I am a bit overweight and terribly unfit so I'm now panicking about the decision! I know there's a year to get fit but shessh why did I do that??

Anyway I think it is a good decision though I will no doubt hate myself for it many times over the coming year... It'll be a good motivator to get fit and I'll be raising money for Alzheimer's Research UK so it's all in the name of a good cause.

It's amazing what a date in the diary will do to motivate you - I couldn't get myself out the door to exercise for love nor money earlier in the year, then when Dad and I decided to do the Three Peaks I've genuinely not had a problem with it since. Goals are great motivation - best of luck!

^This.

Tiste, you'll do great! A year is plenty of time to ramp up to the challenge ahead. And I bet you'll feel amazing about doing it.

[Tiste Simeon]

Thanks both. Got to wait to hear if ARUK will accept me as one of their runners. I only went with them cos they are who my friends are running with, but they are going with a group organised by someone whose spaces filled up very quickly so I have to sign up as an individual. Not sure what I'll do if they don't accept me but I don't see any reason why they won't...

[Macros]

Just get someone to be at the finish line with a beer and a cheeseburger for you.

Record times ho!

[Tiste Simeon]

Macros, on 20 September 2018 - 03:32 PM, said:

Just get someone to be at the finish line with a beer and a cheeseburger for you.

Record times ho!

That... Would actually work!

[JPK]

So the Mrs and I have been planning on when we want our second kid and have decided to aim for 2019. Well, I got to work this morning to find that they're implementing a new 8 week Parental leave in q1 2019 and that it can be started after the short term disability pay of 8 weeks that the Mrs will qualify for when she delivers.

Long story short, she'll now qualify for 16 weeks full pay, and I'll qualify for 8 weeks full pay when we'd have another kid. We're in the States so this is huge for us.

[Slow Ben]

JPK, on 20 September 2018 - 05:12 PM, said:

So the Mrs and I have been planning on when we want our second kid and have decided to aim for 2019. Well, I got to work this morning to find that they're implementing a new 8 week Parental leave in q1 2019 and that it can be started after the short term disability pay of 8 weeks that the Mrs will qualify for when she delivers.

Long story short, she'll now qualify for 16 weeks full pay, and I'll qualify for 8 weeks full pay when we'd have another kid. We're in the States so this is huge for us.

Damn progressives. It should be 8 week unpaid for the mother and none for the father like everywhere else.



But seriously, thats freaking awesome.