The totally off-topic thread

[Deleted member]

How would you go working 12 days out of 14, starting work about 7am, finishing after 6, in the heat & flies. Evening plotting up results. No company recognition of 'extra' time worked, no overtime paid. I must admit accommodation was provided by the company - camp stretcher, sheet, mozzie net; cold bush shower slung over tree branch; long-drop dunny or just a spade.

My own philosophy has always been that I get paid to get a job done, not to put in hours.

Luxury, I walk 5o miles to work, up hill, each way .........

Lol.

 

[Denali]

Hubby wants to dive the tectonic plates in Iceland, so that should be a sooner than later thing

But he also said while in SA, go to Capetown for some cage diving.

He doesnt care, hes happy to just go somewhere.

 

[Deleted member]

Didn't say that superstitions can be good. I said superstitions can be real. Big difference.

And even if we stopped believing in superstitions it wouldn't make them go away. I wish it was that easy.

It is that easy, wake up and smell the roses.
However you did denigrate science. So maybe a more broad, enlightened mind about the silliness of superstition and (some of) the vile consequences of such , in favour of peer reviewed and tested science in preserving?

 

[Happy Trails]

Standard passport service is pretty good.

Submitted at AusPost 12/1. Email today to say being printed and will be delivered within a week.

Two week turnaround is pretty good really.

For my first Irish passport, I posted the application on a Monday and received the passport, by post, two days later on the Wednesday.
That was was back in the eighties though, in the UK.

 

[Pushka]

I have zero interest in the USA at the moment, but I can tell you I am completely in love with South & East Africa. The people are warm, caring, funny and really inspiring.


Iceland is still on my bucket list. GPH talks about it quite often, so I should just ‘“make it happen” soon! Maybe the 40th wedding anniversary?

We have ours this June. Into Europe, Croatian Coast cruise then a stop in Paris on the day.

 

[Denali]

Bought our Scotland National can't remember membership today, for access to castles today.

Would have saved $ if hubby was 3yrs older!

It's a sad day, when you want to be married to a senior citizen... Where did all the years go?

 

[RooFlyer]

Didn't say that superstitions can be good. I said superstitions can be real. Big difference.

Between superstitions and reality? Sure.

 

[RooFlyer]

Hubby wants to dive the tectonic plates in Iceland, so that should be a sooner than later thing

Why, when he can just walk over the boundary at Þingvellir? (Don't worry, I know )

 

[tgh]

It is that easy, wake up and smell the roses.
However you did denigrate science. So maybe a more broad, enlightened mind about the silliness of superstition and (some of) the vile consequences of such , in favour of peer reviewed and tested science in preserving?

I opine that it isn't so easy.
Will said : There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
There is merit in this ; we really have a slim handle on who what where and it's very limiting to hang one's hat of the little bit that science explains.
Otoh , dismissing the certainties of science in favour of "faith" is pregnant with unpleasant potential.

Exec summary : Don't dismiss wonder

Addendum : The certainties of science in the field of Anthropology are indeed exciting.
DNA is telling some interesting and exciting stores about our past.
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[TheRealTMA]

Didn't say that superstitions can be good. I said superstitions can be real. Big difference.

And even if we stopped believing in superstitions it wouldn't make them go away. I wish it was that easy.

Oh enough already with medieval beliefs. No they aren’t real and if you ignore your brain induced fantasies they will go away.

 

[RooFlyer]

Luxury, I walk 5o miles to work, up hill, each way .........

I was waiting for that . My one-upmanship would be: Work in the far north in Quebec, amongst biting flies and mosquitoes, in a camp with 2 Quebecers who never washed as they then don't attract the biting flies (nor any other creature); up at 5am, cross a lake in a kayak, walk 3 km through beaver-constructed swamps, start work, dig holes as deep as the soil, reach down up to your elbow into an icy water filled hole to get a soil sample, do that several hundred times more, carry the dirt samples on your back all day, up and down mountains and return to camp on dusk, only to get ripped limb from limb by a bear . Do the same the next day, and for 2 weeks, and so on.

As you say, loooooxury! Tell people about it today, and they don't believe you!

And to continue the pythoneque theme, yes, I WAS a lumberjack:

 

[drron]

 

[TheRealTMA]

And to continue the pythoneque theme, yes, I WAS a lumberjack:

Brilliant! Show us a picture of your pressed wild flowers and you in “high heels, Suspendies, and a bra” and we’ll believe you.

 

[Denali]

About 20yrs ago, my friends sister did a student exchange program and ended up in Poland.

She literally had to pick potatoes before school and then had to walk to school.

She loves torturing her kids with this now.

Mummmmm, why can't I have a new phone!?

When I was your age, I was picking potatoes before dawn and walking 5klms to class!

 

[tgh]

Sometimes ( well most of the time ) the entertainment value of this thread is priceless...

 

[tgh]

I know a bit about dirt , I believe you roof_lyer…

 

[Milboo]

How would you go working 12 days out of 14, starting work about 7am, finishing after 6, in the heat & flies. Evening plotting up results. No company recognition of 'extra' time worked, no overtime paid. I must admit accommodation was provided by the company - camp stretcher, sheet, mozzie net; cold bush shower slung over tree branch; long-drop dunny or just a spade.

My own philosophy has always been that I get paid to get a job done, not to put in hours.

That’s our policy - you need to get the job done, how you get it done is flexible. I worked flexibly today meaning I kept across my emails and was on a teleconference but otherwise had a couple of appointments for personal things. I will work a few hours on the weekend instead.

 

[blackcat20]

No matter how old your grandparents, it's still a shock when they're gone

 

[Pushka]

No matter how old your grandparents, it's still a shock when they're gone

Oh. You mentioned she was unwell. Best wishes.

 

[SuePa]

Asked hubby what I should be planning for next year. He doesnt want to return to the US for a while so looks like either Africa or Iceland.

Iceland, Denali, definitely Iceland. I went there last September and it is a fantastic place. Amazing scenery and wonderful people, but tourism is exploding and I think if you don't get there soon, you could miss the best of it.