The totally off-topic thread

[rogerkambah]

Used to live in MGB - it's wet too, but still a great place to live I found.

 

[love_the_life]

Pfft, that's not west.

Let's just say that when I was there a couple of weeks ago, I went to Mt Gambier for lunch.

That's west!

I like that. Cousins from the UK somehow had the impression that when we said that MrL_t_L's sister lived west of Melbourne she lived near Perth!
Brother was married in Hamilton and lived in Portland for quite a while. I remember the family driving there from northern Victoria when he was there. It was a few years back now
That area (if you could pop over to Mt Gambier) is way out west!

 

[TheRealTMA]

Just because the beer is cheap doesn't mean it's not drinkable.

Now 7-Eleven has been ripping me off. The sticker price is 38 baht yet the cash register is charging 39 baht. Should I complain?

So you think the beer should be ​$1.446 AUD and they charging you $1.484 AUD, so almost 4 cents extra. I would have though you have bigger issues to deal with than the rounding up of 4 cents.

 

[coolumbla]

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To complete the dedication Matt Hall arrived in a real Mk8 Spitfire and gave us a handling demonstration.


is that the temora spitfire?

 

[wandering_fred]

Pfft, that's not west.

Let's just say that when I was there a couple of weeks ago, I went to Mt Gambier for lunch.

That's west!

If you said your were going to be my neighbor in Albany I might consider that west...
Real west is Port Augusta (or maybe Capetown :shock:)

Hope the move is happy wandering (even if it is not really west)

Fred

 

[MEL_Traveller]

I believe it is only supermarkets that follow that code of conduct. It is voluntary.

There is a bit of discussion here: https://choice.community/t/barcode-scan-price-errors/2879

Humpf. Thanks for the correction. I'll know not to throw a tanty at Bunnings then!! :shock:

 

[Pushka]

So our EA 'missing wallet for 11 years' has gone international!
And they took photos from her Facebook page!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...eturning-wallet-stolen-11-years-ago-roof.html

 

[TheRealTMA]

Interesting site with some good deals apparently. Anyone have any first hand knowledge?

 - Cheap flights from Australia & New Zealand

 

[JessicaTam]

If you said your were going to be my neighbor in Albany I might consider that west...
Real west is Port Augusta (or maybe Capetown :shock:)

Hope the move is happy wandering (even if it is not really west)

Fred

Well, west in a Victorian sense.

So our EA 'missing wallet for 11 years' has gone international!
And they took photos from her Facebook page!
Adelaide woman praises builder for returning her wallet stolen 11 years ago | Daily Mail Online

Did they ask permission?

 

[JohnK]

So you think the beer should be ​$1.446 AUD and they charging you $1.484 AUD, so almost 4 cents extra. I would have though you have bigger issues to deal with than the rounding up of 4 cents.

Did you miss the humour in my post?

 

[TheRealTMA]

Did you miss the humour in my post?

No I thought you were serious as usual. I would be shocked to think you'd give away a 4c tip!

 

[Pushka]

Well, west in a Victorian sense.

Did they ask permission?

Not at all. She emailed me first thing this morning and was extremely surprised about the Facebook photos.

 

[Princess Fiona]

Not at all. She emailed me first thing this morning and was extremely surprised about the Facebook photos.

Those are public photos on Facebook (Profile and Cover photos). You can pretty much expect anything that's public to be used freely by the media without requiring permission.

 

[Pushka]

Those are public photos on Facebook (Profile and Cover photos). You can pretty much expect anything that's public to be used freely by the media without requiring permission.

Yes - I figured something like that. I guess news.com.au wouldn't let them use the photos they took. My facebook picture is one I took of the Eiffel Tower. I am so boring.

 

[JohnK]

No I thought you were serious as usual. I would be shocked to think you'd give away a 4c tip!

LOL. Serious as usual?

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Interesting site with some good deals apparently. Anyone have any first hand knowledge?

*- Cheap flights from Australia & New Zealand

You can go to ozbargain and see the same fares but the name airline is mentioned in the title (on ozbargain) so you don't have to click each 'deal'. Many flights are Air Asia.

 

[TheEmu]

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To complete the dedication Matt Hall arrived in a real Mk8 Spitfire and gave us a handling demonstration.

is that the temora spitfire?

Temora is home to both of the flying Spitfires in Australia.
The other is a MkXVI.

 

[straitman]

Temora is home to both of the flying Spitfires in Australia.
The other is a MkXVI.

The significance of the Mark VIII is that 420 of Australia's 600 odd Spitfires were Mark VIII.

 

[Foreigner]

There are reports of a Saudia airplane isolated at Manila airport but it seems the alarm of threat is false:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...ter-pilot-reports-threat-police-a7317746.html

 

[GarrettM]

MrsGM bought a little slide to digital file converter from Aldi yesterday. So I've been going through dad's slides from the mid to late 60s. Never seen any of them before, and as far as I know they haven't been looked at by anyone in decades.

Some remarkable stuff so far, although obviously mostly only of personal interest. But at least a couple pics from a visit to the Albany whaling station back when it was still operating. Eye opening.