The totally off-topic thread

[drross]

Especially if then going to rub your eyes...

thank goodness we males don't cook naked too often

 

[JohnK]

Amazing what you can forget over the years! Always wash your hands (thoroughly) after handling chilli :shock:

I learnt my lesson the hard way.

Many years ago (1989 to be exact) working at Botany I went outside for cigarette break. Some wiseguy thought it would be a brilliant idea to plant chilli bushes at eye level. I must have admired one or 2 of those chillis. Back in the office an hour or so later I wiped my eyes. Boy oh boy. No amount of water and first aid could help. I couldn't drive so someone drove me home.

Not game to touch chillis now.

 

[SeatBackForward]

quick way to restart the world economy, is for the World bank to reduce every countries debt by 25%

I often wonder about that. Even with all this debt, the world is still turning. And who is it that is owed all this money? They seem to be doing ok with or without it.

And on another note, how did finance become such a big industry, it's essentially the transfer of something that is supposed to have no value of itself.

 

[Cossie]

Loved the movies 'Go Trabi, Go!' And 'Go Trabi, Go! 2'. Always wanted a cardboard car.

Sorry to dissapoint you, but they were not made from cardboard. from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trabant

"The Trabant was a steel monocoque design with the roof, trunk lid, hood, fenders, and doors made of Duroplast. Duroplast was a hard plastic (similar to Bakelite) made of recycled materials: cotton waste from the Soviet Union and phenol resins from the East German dye industry. This made the Trabant the first car with a body made of recycled material and was partially responsible for the misconception that it was made of cardboard."



I also enjoyed the "Go Trabi, Go" movies.

 

[Pushka]

thank goodness we males don't cook naked too often

I know of one gent who did the ironing in the buff. Until...

 

[anat0l]

It dates back to the communist era: Skoda Jokes

"She'll go three hundred hectares on a single tank of kerosene..."

[video=youtube;07vdtBMG4Kg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07vdtBMG4Kg[/video]

 

[amaroo]

Yep. Especially as all our Super Funds were plundered yesterday.

HUA ... luckily, I'm an age away before I need to worry about incidental blimps.

 

[Pushka]

HUA ... luckily, I'm an age away before I need to worry about incidental blimps.

At my stage they seem like mountains.

 

[drron]

All the usual suspects I see

Don't worry.I had a head start.You'll soon pass me.

 

[rogerkambah]

Like I said, when I drove it on the test run it looked and drove like a mini version of the Tiguan. Just cuter. I was thinking of buying a car as a filler until I could justify the Guilletta which is not a car <...snip....>

Not sure that everyone needs to experience the pain of being an Alfa owner. I had a coupe for about 3 years and it was painful. However, when everything was going well (50% of the time) it was a great car.

 

[JohnK]

thank goodness we males don't cook naked too often

One of the good things of living alone.... Ahhh, scrub that thought....

 

[TheRealTMA]

Not sure that everyone needs to experience the pain of being an Alfa owner. I had a coupe for about 3 years and it was painful. However, when everything was going well (50% of the time) it was a great car.

Love Alfas, has several. But one never owns an Alfa - One pays the asking price then keeps paying forever. Plus, the Alfa dealerships in Australia make dealing with real estate agents and bank managers a dream. Brisbane dealers ripped us off for many years and did things like want timing belts changed after 30Km for a few grand, charged us $30 for windscreen washer fluid then $20 for cleaning rags. And when the wonderful 156 dropped its auto transmission in peak hour traffic they said they were too busy to send someone out to help. After having it put on a RACQ truck and taken to the Valley, they said it was a failed 'actuator' fault, which they claimed to have fixed a month earlier at the 40K service, and for the (in Europe) $100 part, they wanted $5000 to fix it. When we tried to trade it they said that these Alfa autos were known to be very unreliable... I drove the car now working again miraculously from their workshop to another dealer and bought another make.

But the new Giulia looks interesting so I have to be strong and not follow in the words of that great Who song.

 

[whatmeworry]

Well done to Frances Abbott.

late entry into this year’s Archibald Prize has left judges stunned, as the daughter of Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott submits the first official portrait of her father. According to the Herald, it has been revealed that the trustee board of the famous art prize made an exception to all submission deadlines, due to the young creative designer’s inability make the friday entry date.

Archibald 2015: Frances Abbott Submits The First Official Portrait Of Her Father | The Betoota Advocate

 

[vetrade]

Yep. Especially as all our Super Funds were plundered yesterday.

Your super fund wasn't plundered - you just made a poorly timed decision to buy shares when you did (apparently you don't read the papers and don't remember what has happened every few months for the past few years when Greece's payment to creditors is due and they can't pay it ........again. World markets have been reacting predictably (dipping) in unison with Greece's woes consistently so what is happening now was to be expected - with the only unknown being the size of the fall).

Of course, if you had "kept your powder dry" the present market would have been a great buying opportunity.

The consolation is that your share values will almost certainly recover before too long so provided you didn't panic sell (thereby materialising your losses) all you have to do is wait.

FWIW our market had sizable dips in Dec 13, Feb 14, Oct 14 and Dec 14. Each time it recovered quite quickly. The more abruptly the market falls, generally the quicker it recovers. Following the most recent sizable dip last December our market gained around 20% by the end of Feb.

 

[Buzzard]

This is a local Internet for local people, there's nothing for you here!

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Sorry Tubbs

 

[Buzzard]

I remember the first time I went into East Berlin in 1970 and smelling and seeing this noisy smoke belching car chugging around the streets. Quite amazing

Was it a Skoda:what:

 

[amaroo]

Greece is a joke!

The Q for the weekend election...



Courtesy....

 

[Pushka]

Your super fund wasn't plundered - you just made a poorly timed decision to buy shares when you did (apparently you don't read the papers and don't remember what has happened every few months for the past few years when Greece's payment to creditors is due and they can't pay it ........again. World markets have been reacting predictably (dipping) in unison with Greece's woes consistently so what is happening now was to be expected - with the only unknown being the size of the fall).

Of course, if you had "kept your powder dry" the present market would have been a great buying opportunity.

The consolation is that your share values will almost certainly recover before too long so provided you didn't panic sell (thereby materialising your losses) all you have to do is wait.

FWIW our market had sizable dips in Dec 13, Feb 14, Oct 14 and Dec 14. Each time it recovered quite quickly. The more abruptly the market falls, generally the quicker it recovers. Following the most recent sizable dip last December our market gained around 20% by the end of Feb.

I havent bought shares in a while. It was my current portfolio.

 

[whatmeworry]

Greece to be fixed by "Successful Greek-Australian businessman to return to Greece to fix everything".

He settled quickly in to Sydney’s Earlwood Greek community, scraping together enough money to start a fruit shop on Homer St, which snakes through the inner-southwestern suburb.
Joined by his brother and cousin in the early 1960’s, the humble shop that adorned the Earlwood shopping strip of cafes, restaurants and generals stores, quickly became an empire.

Successful Greek-Australian businessman to return to Greece to fix everything | The Betoota Advocate

 

[JohnK]

Greece to be fixed by "Successful Greek-Australian businessman to return to Greece to fix everything".

If Greeks are not careful they will lose everything.

What utter stupidity to have a system where if you work in the public service for 35 years you are entitled to a EUR2,000 month pension tax free + a lump sum payment. Say you started working at age 17 that means you are a pensioner at age 52. And it does not stop there. You can then continue working paying very little tax and earning your pension. Total and utter stupidity.

The Greek people have plundered Greece. They are as much to blame as the politicians. One political promise after another to get re-elected. The money had to come from somewhere.