The universe has spoken - Dutton’s nuclear plans are not approved of - link
Will put my tinfoil hat on now.
Hope we are training the next generation of Bruce Willis’s.
Armageddon outta here!
That is your job - inspiring the young to dramatic heights of achievement. Though stopping asteroids might be more appropriate for secondary school students but you never know with today’s younguns.
I have to say the electric blanket was a good investment, better than the heated throw. Because you’re able to use an electric blanket under the covers that traps heat and gets much warmer. Very good.
Hot water bottles are also amazing. (Just be careful to replace them every two/three years or at any sign of the rubber perishing. Or they will split/leak and scald you.)
Oooh competitive goonsy. You beat me, although you were 5 seconds early and posted this yesterday 😛
Anyways, today (after 3am) is the steam “summer” sale! Time to buy games I won’t play for 6 months :D
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I’ll just try to finish off my wishlist. I’m terrible at actually buying games.
I get an email that a game I wishlisted is on sale and I just go, ‘that’s great, good for them’ and never actually buy it
I posted this right on the clock
Not quite
the clock on my pc was 12.00
I now have to investigate this
investigation done, my clock is 8.3 seconds ahead!!
my clock is now synchronised
I had time.is up ready to beat you
As the time of posting was 5 seconds early this seems to indicate that it took about 4 seconds from when you posted it until when it was actually done. So you might need to post at 11:59:56 to get an exact midnight posting. More investigations may be required to confirm.
My sale was not very productive. I only got 3 games because I decided to buy cities skylines 2, which was only 10% off and still going for 62 bucks.
Also I don’t actually have enough space to install any of them because I left my hard drive at home
Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋
Bombe Alaska please
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🍰And now 🥃🔥 Wheeee!
Microwaved peas and corn with salt, pepper, and butter please
⚡️🫛🌽🧂🧂🧈
You can microwave my peas and corn any day
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Bacon and egg roll with a flat white plz chef
🥓🍳🧀🌯☕️🥛
Ta muchly
I’m strangely craving chicken lately.
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I have been sorting out some end of financial year stuff and am pleased to say I have exceeded my Superannuation balance goal for the year.
I also received an awesome amount of bank interest, especially compared to previous years where interest rates were so low they were barely worth considering. I do have Coles Mastercard to thank for a lot of it though, as they gave me a 0% for 15 months offer which allowed me to max out my card at no cost and leave nearly $10k in a savings account earning hundreds of dollars in interest payments.
gotten a bit more on top of mine too. staggered the progress I can make if I’m both organized AND realistic.
Another sunny day. 🌞I like the sun but the garden likes some rain. This dry weather is getting worrisome.
Apparently supposed to piss down this weekend.
I hope so
I really hope so. Don’t want to go to Firelight at all.
Had a moment today where a modern life tech thing baffled me (online access type thingy), and I got frustrated (eventually solved it). I’m not that old but I’m not young either. It used to be utterly effortless to keep up with the latest life admin requirements, but am finding that occasionally I now feel out of the loop. Is this the tip of the iceberg? I don’t want it to be. I don’t want to age and become useless at new stuff that comes out. I Do. not. like. It.
It’s the same as it always was, just read the instructions and keep trying. ( am old )
Not necessarily. Maybe it was just a badly designed website.
Cheers everyone 🍺
These things are crack! Ok, I lie, I’ve never tried that but they are bloody good.
are these mini roasted potatos topped like pizzas?
Mini stuffed potatoes, but close enough
Recipe please? Or is it your own creation?
It’s mostly from the Pooh cookbook, but riff as you will. Boil/roast pots. Halve and hollow out. Mix into the insides an egg, bacon bits, mustard, chives, and a silly amount of cheese. Stuff, top with more cheese, bake. Acidic salad advised. Food coma.
Devilled potatoes?
I do add hot sauce, so yes?
Lol 👄
Double conditioner worked to keep this mop from frizzing and tangling. Think I’ll keep my hair longish, don’t want to end up looking like Edna Mode.
Anyone know anything amusing going on next Sunday during the day? Scheduled power outage so the house will be utterly miserable. Had been thinking Deadpool but remembered the date wrong. Gah!
City or suburbs? Could do something like aquarium, gallery (Pharoh exhibition is on), museum. Or in suburbs cafe lunch, day trip, local shopping center, pub lunch, farmers market.
A little birdy told me (a reliable birdy) that hospitals spending cash like it was monopoly money during COVID is a big part of the reason they are having to make hard cuts now.
Honestly seems like there was a lot of overreacting during COVID. And the fact that no state government wants to review their actions suggests to me they know this and don’t want to be held to account.
Money was spent cause it had to be. Everyone was working with limited information which in hindsight looks like an overreaction.
Doesn’t help that we’ve got massive infrastructure projects going over budget and money is tight in the state.
This would be a perfect time to raise revenue by taxing resources and such,.and sharing it with the states.
Anyway, just my two cents
Well, my source works in the medical system according to them there was insufficient spending restraint, even with COVID.
More broadly I think we overreacted. This is an opinion, and the one way to flush out the facts is to do something like a royal commission as state level. Of course state governments won’t do this because they don’t want to be accountable.
And regarding hindsight, there was plenty of people at the time who considered it as such but they were ignored. Do not think for a minute that all decisions are rational and forward thinking. There was a lot of politics at play here.
I don’t think it was so much an overreaction to Covid or excessive spending, I think it was more a case of not spending in the right way, so most of what was spent was wasted.
The whole point of lockdowns was to slow the spread to allow medical services time to increase the capacity to deal with a higher volume of patients, but that didn’t really happen. If they had spent their money on things that would increase capacity, streamline process etc. it would have led to the ability to clear a lot of backlog of patients, reduce ramping etc. when that capacity was not needed for Covid. That obviously hasn’t happened.
I don’t work in the hospitals but I expect the experience there was similar to my organisation - the potential problems were ignored early on when it would have been the best time to do something, then when Covid hit a lot of money got splashed around on short-term initiatives so managers could feel they were doing something (thanks for the free food, but really a waste of money), but no effective longer term changes were met. This is combined with workers leaving because of overwork and insufficient staff numbers and pay making it hard to recruit and retain new people, which is the culmination of years/decades of insufficient funding.
Having gone through a few royal comissions at work I can quite confidently say it won’t do anything. A few executives get tossed out, some minor cosmetic changes get made and the staff all get new uniforms with the new logo on it. All of the real systemic and funding problems that are the root cause remain.
Oh look, I understand that health spending was mad at the time for many reasons.
I also think that in such a unique case of a global pandemic, overreacting is better than a relaxed approach.
The data from places with minimal restrictions is pretty telling.
I imagine that anyone in a position of authority would have done similar given the situation.
Second (and my preferred) job just booked me in for a preliminary interview next Tuesday 😁
Best of luck FM!
Crossing everything for you! 🤞🏼
Congrats mate 🎉🍺
Perfect news for a Friday!! Good luck and keep us updated.
good luck 🤞
Good luck! You’ll be great!
Good luck!
Can I have some karaoke recommendations please? I’ll except cheesy love songs. So far I’ve sung Rosanna by Toto. TIA. 🎤
Addicted to love, Robert Palmer
Love shack, B 52s
Kokomo, beach boys
Valerie by Steve winwood. Maneater. Babooshka. Everything I do I do it for you.
All very good selections. Thanks 👍
Sailing by Cristopher Cross
That’s a good one!
Don’t you forget about me, Simple Minds
That’s a good one! A regular that one!
Try destiny’s child - say my name. A bit sappy but still cool.
Oh and “hell in high heels”. Again sappy but good.
I just realised I listen to a lot of sappy music lol
Salt n pepa, cnc music factory. Divine.
CnC Music Factory. Long time no see. Lol.
Electric Blue
It must have been love by Roxette.
Finished writing a letter to all the submissions for my writing competition. They all did such a magnificent job, and some of the stories were genuinely really good with interesting themes and ideas and twists that I decided to make them all winners. So they all get signed copies of my book.
I went to one school on Wednesday and announced the winners at assembly. Public speaking is not fun, but I think I did ok. But what really got me was as I was sitting and waiting, one of the kids randomly asks for a high five. Which I obliged. And the girl next to him goes ‘Don’t you know who that is? That’s [my name]. The author.’, which is a all sorts of absurd and crazy and awesome and yeah.
That’s so cool and cool a kid asked for a high five and cool you obliged. 😄 Kids are so awesome like that.
They are ridiculously excited over small things and it’s so damn infectious. Certainly makes me feel better.
‘Don’t you know who that is? That’s [my name]. The author.
Bro, you made it! thats so fucking cool!
Funny but deffo NOT SFW story.
NSFW and Gross
So i was driving across town to go get a coffee from a place I like for a special treat when I’m caught by a cough and sneeze at the same time. I accidentally launch stuff out of both my nose and mouth at the same time and it lands across the lower part of my hoodie and top of my trackies, Fortunately not all over the car! I look down only to discover that thanks to the volume, thickness and colour it now looks like I’ve blown a load all over myself. Figured I’ll just go through maccas drive through, only to get parked in the waiting bay! I wipe it up as best I can with a face mask in the car, but it looks like I’ve got giant wet sticky patches over my groin. Someone comes over to the window to hand me a coffee. I think they had a funny look on their face but I couldnt be sure so i wasnt sure if I was supposed to say “I swear to god its not cum!” so I just said nothing and hoped they didnt notice. Nearly died of embarrassment.
Coffee is pretty crap too.
