The totally off-topic thread

[Bindibuys]

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06.11.1971 - 43 years ago today !!!!!!!! :shock:

Congratulations!!! Here's to many more.

 

[Pushka]

The battery thing has been around for a few years. We were asked a couple of years ago if we had spare batteries in our luggage.

 

[QF WP]

This is still ongoing so all the votes are appreciated.

I just got this from Karen

Done. 485 votes now

 

[Skyring]

I came across this from Thai - is this a new move or have other airlines got this detail? Made me wonder given 'hidden manifest' is with MH.

THAI's Spare Battery Policy Update...
Strict security measures have been imposed in compliance with guidelines set by IATA regarding items such as spare batteries.
Spare batteries are permitted in carry-on luggage based on their specifications. Spare batteries may not be placed in your check-in luggage.


NOTE: Do not have a remote control device (like car) in carry on bag along with spare batteries if going through a German airport otherwise you get a very close-up view of their chipped machine guns.

So the Thais don't like spare batteries in checked bags, the Germans don't like them in carry on and don't look after their weapons.

Geez. My spare batteries are usually randomly rolling around the bottom of both checked and carryon. As is everything else after the first dozen flights.

 

[drron]

This is still ongoing so all the votes are appreciated.

I just got this from Karen

Today for the first time I9 got a message saying I had already voted for this site.Was my first attempt today.

 

[OATEK]

Today for the first time I9 got a message saying I had already voted for this site.Was my first attempt today.

Try clearing your history cache. Its like the annoying SMH message (you have read your 25 articles). Clear the cache and everything (is often) new again.

 

[somebol]

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06.11.1971 - 43 years ago today !!!!!!!! :shock:

Congrats!!

drron looks like Steve jobs there.

 

[blackcat20]

Chocolate based smoothies? Hot chocolate?

If you use rough chocolate, just pass it through a sieve.

Just suggesting here. Of course, when I had my wisdom teeth out (two occasions: once was the first, most impacted one, then another was the other three) I didn't have any chocolate or alcohol, but suffice to say plenty of banana smoothies.

EDIT: Just remembered that as you're recovering from a tooth operation, it's probably stated to keep to simple, non-irritating like foods. Which probably means no excessive hot drinks, excessive cold drinks, high sugar.......

Got some Milo, and some Maggie Beer chocolate peanut butter ice cream. That hit the spot. Mango smoothie for breakfast today, pumpkin soup is also a go. Managed watermelon ok too. Feeli pretty good, just a little swollen around my chin.

What is the tooth fairy paying out these days?

Nothing apparently, I'm a little disappointed! Last time I had four teeth pulled I got $20!

 

[RAM]

You know how some of us like to build up point balances - maybe time to check them in HHonors...

Hackers plunder Hilton 'HHonors' rewards points, go on shopping spree

[h=1]Hackers plunder Hilton 'HHonors' rewards points, go on shopping spree[/h] [h=2]Buy a $2k telly at Harvey Norman for $18.50[/h]Some excerpts:
Scammers on website leakforums appeared to begin trading Hilton HHonors points three months ago and had sold scores of accounts brimming with up to a million points.
One eager scammer appeared to sell off 833,000 points for $20 worth of Bitcoins, while dozens more sold accounts loaded with tens of thousands of points.


One user on the FlyerTalk forum claimed to have lost 258,000 Hilton HHonors points to hackers. Many others on the site reported being scammed and subsequently reimbursed.
Prices for points varied as criminal vendors competed for custom. One bargain vendor sold 240,000 points for $3.50 and had "plenty of accounts" including some with more than 400,000. Others sold for site credits.
Cybercrime blogger Brian Krebs, reporting on a tip off from one of the forum's victims, revealed criminals had spent his 250,000 Hilton HHonors points on $1200 worth of cheap hotel reservations along the US East Coast.

While Vulture South waited on word from Hilton, users who monitored the operations of reward schemes said the company last month introduced a CAPTCHA to the login process, a measure that would not stop brute force attacks.

 

[Skyring]

Nothing apparently, I'm a little disappointed! Last time I had four teeth pulled I got $20!

Cripes. My last dentist visit wiped out my credit card.

 

[blackcat20]

Cripes. My last dentist visit wiped out my credit card.

This has too. Need to organise my refund from my health insurance ASAP...

 

[get me outta here]

I have been voting and get knocked back too. How do I clear the cache on the ipad?

Try clearing your history cache. Its like the annoying SMH message (you have read your 25 articles). Clear the cache and everything (is often) new again.

 

[anat0l]

Cripes. My last dentist visit wiped out my credit card.

This has too. Need to organise my refund from my health insurance ASAP...

One advantage when your cousin was the dentist pulling your wisdom teeth out and she works in the public system. Cost to me was zilch.

I did have to pay for my first impacted tooth to come out. The $500 or so was well worth it given I got the appointment in a walk up and extraction the same evening, putting an end to some 20 or so hours of immeasurable pain (tooth pain).

 

[blackcat20]

One advantage when your cousin was the dentist pulling your wisdom teeth out and she works in the public system. Cost to me was zilch.

I did have to pay for my first impacted tooth to come out. The $500 or so was well worth it given I got the appointment in a walk up and extraction the same evening, putting an end to some 20 or so hours of immeasurable pain (tooth pain).

I had to be put under for mine. One was partially erupted and all four were impacted. Surgery only took 30 minutes, was home by 11.30 which is pretty good.

 

[Flashback]

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06.11.1971 - 43 years ago today !!!!!!!! :shock:

Congrats on going through with it back then, even with that beard :mrgreen: Here's to many more!

 

[BadgerBoi]

Dr Google is such a 'wonderful' consultant or a totally biased adviser. i love it when patiets come in with 100pages off dr google and expect to go thru them all in 30-45minutes and still expect to be bulk billed for the 'experience'

Sometimes flesh-and-blood doctors can be a bit smug. Last year I presented at emergency with vomiting and severe abdominal pain. The triage nurse said "bet you've never had your appendix out" (I guessed that's what it was, she was making me feel surer), a few minutes later the emergency doctor asks what's wrong. I described my symptons, showed him where the pain was and told him that I thought it was my appendix.

He shot me a death stare worthy of Julie Bishop and said "been consulting Dr Google, have we?" In fact I hadn't, I just couldn't think of anything else that it might have been, and a very short time later I was relieved of my appendix, which Brisbane's finest medical minds described to me as "exceptionally manky".

I'm glad that I ceased to be in awe of doctors some time ago, despite what my mother tried to instil in me when I was a kid I understand they are not God. But I never visit my GP with a shopping list, and while I'm happy to tell him what I think might be wrong I will let him diagnose me.


Post script, if you need any bits and pieces removed I would highly recommend Brisbane's Mater Hospital. Apart from Dr Smug, the nursing and doctoring staff were exceptional.

 

[BadgerBoi]

How Australia might have looked.

...because you can never have enough State governments...

 

[mrs.dr.ron]

Congrats on going through with it back then, even with that beard :mrgreen: Here's to many more!

Oh I found some very funny photos yesterday looking for a decent one to post. 1970 - Ron looking very Svengali and lecherous ! only half a beard then :shock:

 

[RAM]

Worth looking at:

A final note on an old but ongoing scam
By now, nearly everyone who goes online should have at least heard of the infamous Nigerian-letter email scams. So you might be surprised to hear that these scams are still quite successful. There are reports that the perpetrators have netted about a billion dollars per year — for many years. In fact, a music video featuring a Nigerian singing "I go chop your dollar" became an international hit. (The song can be found on YouTube; I have to admit it's catchy.) The song is about Nigerian email scammers.
Success, of course, always breeds competition. Now folks in Ghana are competing for scam victims. In a practice called Sakawa, Ghanaians mix email scams with religion. Sakawa Boys pay a local priest or witch doctor to help them make lots of money. Some of these scams involve online dating services.
Often money goes to Africa via local grocery stores that offer international money transfers. Clerks I've talked to state that someone sends money to an unknown recipient several times a week. When I ask clerks whether they suspect the money transfers are scams, they say, "Yeah, we know; but company policy prevents us from saying anything." Some clerks say it breaks their hearts because they know the victim won't have enough money left to buy food.

In many (if not most) cases, the victims are elderly — folks with too little income and too much trust. If you have elderly friends or relatives, talk to them about scams — and do what you can to keep them from getting ripped off. For more information on new scams, check out Scanorama (whose motto is "Why should scammers have all the fun?) and fraudaid.com.

 

[Cruiser Elite]

Anybody posted this before - https://shopmate.auspost.com.au/ - Aust Post setting up distribution warehouse in Oregon to facilitate Aust residents shipping goods to Aust.