The totally off-topic thread

[amaroo]

Anyone else seen The Greatest Showman yet? Saw it on the weekend and loved it and have already gone through the soundtrack several times on Spotify since.

Maybe they were not true to the story but the production is phenomenal.

The girls saw it on the weekend and loved it. Hoping they don't change the soundtrack from Hamilton, I'm still rocking out to that one.

 

[Denali]

I feel the same way about the fruit bats and coughatoos.

They eat the fruit (berries, mandarins, mangoes ect) and then throw the fruit all over the ground and the bats poop blackberry diarrhea on the driveway and sometimes the car and occasionally the house.

We had so much fruit (mandrins) all over the driveway, road, footpath that someone asked if kids where throwing fruit at our house.

But. I do like having the fruit trees - got our first mangoes the other day.

 

[amaroo]

I’d rather possums than the rat issue we have!

Based on discovering a mound of dirt in my shed (which I have NFI how it got there given it’s on a concrete slab) I’m a little concerned they have gone under the slab. And if so, there is absolutely no access back there to try and deal with the issue.

Kind of tempted to just set fire to the lot!!!

IIRC you like dogs? Get some ratters...

 

[blackcat20]

IIRC you like dogs? Get some ratters...

Daisy (our Jack Russel) caught her first rat the other day...

 

[tgh]

Possums are not loved around here.
I know many who who operate a relocation service, a far more pleasant solution for the client than the swimming lessons others promote…..

 

[Pushka]

Possums are not loved around here.
I know many who who operate a relocation service, a far more pleasant solution for the client than the swimming lessons others promote…..

Legally you can’t relocate more than some silly little distance that is useless.

 

[Hvr]

Legally you can’t relocate more than some silly little distance that is useless.

So if the possum asks for a lawyer you're in trouble?

 

[Pushka]

So if the possum asks for a lawyer you're in trouble?

Yeah. Get caught and our greenie Govt will go pro bono on their behalf.

 

[Denali]

Did you hear about the vegans that crashed a Melb steakhouse yesterday, screaming about animal "dead bodies were being consumed".

I would counter protest but Kale is a weed and no one needs to shout on its behalf.

 

[drron]

I just ask them what sort of shoes they are wearing.
leather=hypocrite
Synthetic-supporting the plastics industry which causes the death of millions of birds,fish=hypocrite.

 

[JohnK]

Or someone who would have otherwise had a middle somewhere down the back decided to take 4 middle?

Could well be. Sometimes I'm not sure which is better. Row 4 aisle with someone in middle seat or row 6 aisle with vacant middle seat.

 

[TomVexille]

I just ask them what sort of shoes they are wearing.
leather=hypocrite
Synthetic-supporting the plastics industry which causes the death of millions of birds,fish=hypocrite.

I must remember that

 

[JohnK]

I just ask them what sort of shoes they are wearing.
leather=hypocrite
Synthetic-supporting the plastics industry which causes the death of millions of birds,fish=hypocrite.

So if they're wearing any form of footwear they're a hypocrite?

 

[drron]

I just cant stand people who believe in any particular lifestyle thinking they have the right to try and indoctrinate,humiliate and insult people who do not share their beliefs.
Militant vegans really get up my nose.If the above doesn't work I ask them why they were born with incisor teeth and no rumen.We are designed to be omnivores.
In the words of Anthony Bourdain-"your body isn't a temple.It's an amusement ride.Go out there and enjoy yourself.

 

[Denali]

I think the message should be just dont go screaming about dead beef in a steakhouse and disrupt and scare other people that are simply trying to enjoy something that is perfectly legal.

Would we accept Hillsong going screaming into a mosque? Steak holds a lot of meaning to people, its their food altar.

Notice the lack of people screaming into vegan restaurants, complaining about the abuse of gluten? No, why? Because we have bacon and are far, far happier.

 

[Pushka]

Could well be. Sometimes I'm not sure which is better. Row 4 aisle with someone in middle seat or row 6 aisle with vacant middle seat.

That’s a no brainer for us. I usually pick rows 6-9 and better chance of shadow. I have a bit of a giggle when I see rows 4-5 fully taken and rows 6-9 with spare middle seats. And I know those middle seats are usually last minute nabs when the front rows open up to all.

So if they're wearing any form of footwear they're a hypocrite?

That’s it. And if they wear anything cotton then the water needed for that crop means that they are have abused the worlds water supply.

 

[TomVexille]

So if they're wearing any form of footwear they're a hypocrite?

Self woven hemp thongs aside I suspect

 

[love_the_life]

Daisy (our Jack Russel) caught her first rat the other day...

Hope she was safe

 

[TomVexille]

Hope she was safe

She nearly caught a second on Sunday

 

[JohnK]

I just cant stand people who believe in any particular lifestyle thinking they have the right to try and indoctrinate,humiliate and insult people who do not share their beliefs.

I know you do. You've accurately described a few people I know who think they have the answer to everything and think they are right.

It's a funny world we have developed. Not much longer till the end of Western society as we know it.