The totally off-topic thread

[Princess Fiona]

When Shrek was away last week, I was glad I had some company

( He's never normally allowed upstairs never mind on beds )
It is so easy to become very attached to pets and so difficult when you lose them.
Best wishes to you and your family simongr at this time

 

[Pushka]

Thanks Pushka - actually made me smile thinking about her!

You're welcome. It will get easier as you remember all the quirky loveable (and sometimes not so loveable) things Rosie did. That's what pets do for us. And it sounds like she had a great and dare I say, pampered life being with your family. As she deserved.

 

[TheEmu]

I can certainly relate to the pet thread here being a fairly new cat owner, a rescued Burmese if you will. She is very demonstrable and wags her tail quite a lot, especially when she's not happy.

She will greet me at the door when I return home and demands tummy tickles before I enter the house properly.

One thing about Burmese cats is that they are very heavy, she's 5kg with no fat. The fur lined brick that you really notice when she is sitting on your lap as you watch television together.

We played host to a series of Burmese overlords throughout my childhood - all real characters and long-lived.
They are very particular about who they have as friends so you're very fortunate.
Sounds like she has trained you up quite nicely so you can look forward to a long happy relationship.

 

[JohnK]

maybe it all starts with people not believing that rules, instructions and procedures apply to them?

what is the difference between a oafish lout saying 'these rules don't apply to me' and a person with status saying 'these rules don't apply to me'?

You are sadly mistaken if you think there is even the slightest similarity between your 2 examples.

 

[amaroo]

Apologies if this has already been posted.

Nice video in todays local rag Video captures aircraft performing scary, steep take-off | Sunshine Coast Daily Isn't this standard stuff when departing places like Kabul & Baghdad:shock:

Like the caption at 1.28min mark.....spotters hill.

 

[ReLoad]

This is a friendly reminder.

The QFF lounge is a nice place.
That is all.

This message was brought to you by expensive alcohol, good food
, a massage and a dirt cheap JQ ticket.

 

[JessicaTam]

This is a friendly reminder.

The QFF lounge is a nice place.
That is all.

This message was brought to you by expensive alcohol, good food
, a massage and a dirt cheap JQ ticket.

Thank you for the reminder. I expect 35 AFFers (and counting) are nodding sagely right now in expectation of the weekend's events.

 

[anat0l]

Thank you for the reminder. I expect 35 AFFers (and counting) are nodding sagely right now in expectation of the weekend's events.

35! I think that's pushing one of (or the) record.

And this isn't even a JQ flight... this is a QF flight (albeit the last of its kind).


I was too young to appreciate what Margaret Thatcher offered to the world. The only memory that I can think of was a supposedly insulting reference which I read in high school, in the story The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ by Sue Townsend:

Thursday February 18th

This morning the whole school was ordered to go to the assembly hall. Mr Scruton got up on the stage and acted like the films of Hitler. He said in all his long years of teaching he had never come across an act of such serious vandalism. Everybody went dead quiet and wondered what had happened. Scruton said that somebody had entered his office and drawn a moustache on [a picture of] Margaret Thatcher and written 'Three million unemployed' in her cleavage.

He said defiling the greatest leader this country has ever known was a crime against humanity. It was tantamount to treason and that when the culprit was found they would be immediately expelled. Scruton's eyes bulged out so far that a few of the first-years started to cry. Miss Elf led them outside to safety.

The whole school has got to have handwriting tests.

 

[ReLoad]

Here's a tidbit of info, the spa closes a 3pm in the QF Mel F lounge, just prior to the QF9 boarding call.

 

[MadFairlane]

I think I have decided that the impulse buy 13ft diameter trampoline I got yesterday could be the best thing ever.

And I'm 28, going on 11...

 

[Pushka]

So today one of my staff was assaulted at work. Someone refused to move their car from our clearly marked car park and so this woman tackled her. Cuts and abrasions. Police called in and as there are so many independent witnesses they are going to arrest the woman as we had the car registration. Someone's day is about to get a lot worse. And of course Workcover now involved. The Police were excellent.

 

[Hvr]

We played host to a series of Burmese overlords throughout my childhood - all real characters and long-lived.
They are very particular about who they have as friends so you're very fortunate.
Sounds like she has trained you up quite nicely so you can look forward to a long happy relationship.

Thanks I do feel very fortunate. Lort Smith are very careful with their adoption, I had to be interviewed by both the staff and the cat to see if we were compatible.

She is absolutely hilarious and when she wants to be very affectionate and quite aloof when she wants to let me know she's in charge. I've been well trained by her and she likes the current set up. Long may it last. We're both enjoying our new relationship.

 

[whatmeworry]

Bit of a funny story after Thatcher's death.

Judy Garland's Ding Dong the Witch is Dead races up charts after Margaret Thatcher's death | News.com.au

 

[simongr]

We have different definitions of funny. Half the pictures of people I saw celebrating her death weren't even born during her period of government.

 

[medhead]

I read with sadness the posts about people's dogs. Anyway talk of tablets reminded me of our German Shepard. Tablets involved opening his mouth, tablet down the throat and hold the mouth shut. He was pretty good about it all really.

I think I have decided that the impulse buy 13ft diameter trampoline I got yesterday could be the best thing ever.

And I'm 28, going on 11...

I thought that as well, until the first time I mowed the lawn.

 

[whatmeworry]

We have different definitions of funny. Half the pictures of people I saw celebrating her death weren't even born during her period of government.

They might not have been born during her era but the socially attuned youth realise because of conservatives like her, Ronald Regan, John Howard we live in a more divided society more concerned about their pay packet then the welfare of their fellow person.

 

[Pushka]

They might not have been born during her era but the socially attuned youth realise because of conservatives like her, Ronald Regan, John Howard we live in a more divided society more concerned about their pay packet then the welfare of their fellow person.

Love a good generalisation.

 

[Must...Fly!]

We have different definitions of funny. Half the pictures of people I saw celebrating her death weren't even born during her period of government.

That is the story of my facebook timeline last evening...I was not alive either, but I did not make any references to her death either (such as 'the witch is dead').

Also hope you and the family are OK after reading earlier posts in the thread regarding your dog - never nice to lose a pet. Our family only had one dog, and it is one of the greatest regrets of my childhood that I personally didn't do nearly as much as I should have both with and for him.

But all I can do is ensure that if we do ever get another, I treat it with lots of love and care, like your family did with your dogs

 

[medhead]

Love a good generalisation.

True, They used to hate the ruskies. After Old Ronny and Margs dealt with that lot, there was no one left to hate. So they had to find someone.

 

[JohnK]

People celebrating someone's death?