The totally off-topic thread

[Pushka]

I only ask as Sky News is promoting it as "100 undecided voters"

This is it. MrX is the great unknown especially in Upper house. It’s very bright in here.

VPS it’s North. Is Jays Electorate Elizabeth?

 

[JohnK]

So now what happens?

Don't know. Have to try get tourist visa again next week in Chiang Mai. Who knows how long that will take. They may not be able to come back early April.

 

[Major]

I hope everyone had a happy Pi day

 

[Denali]

Just did a drive by this mornings fatal car accident. Car has hit a tree on the opposite side of the road to my place. The usual country road fatality - straight stretch of road (though about to go into small bend) and the male killed was not wearing a seat belt and thrown from the car. Driver from a family down the end of the valley, so she still had about 10km to go to get home.
They are saying she fell asleep at the wheel, but would not be surprised if there had also been a wombat crossing the road, we have a lot of them in our area.

So sad.

Wife's Bridging B visa expires today. She's currently overseas so cannot apply for another Bridging B visa.
Totally stuffed that one up. Brilliant!

I came home to a husband baring gifts! From L'Occitane, Lush and Koko chocs..... then I found the guitar catalogue in one of the bags.

 

[straitman]

And the ban on plastic bags has done little for the environment.People now stockpile bags.
In South Australia 15% of people used plastic bin liners.Now it is 80%.
Ditching bags great for supermarkets but won't save the environment

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I heard a radio discussion recently about this. The head of the NT ‘Keep Australia Beautiful Council’ stated that in the 5 years after light weight plastic bags were banned there the usage of heavy duty plastic bags went up 500%. A much bigger problem has been created.

 

[RooFlyer]

A much bigger problem has been created.

Not the first time virtue-signalling greenies have made a problem worse. Like trying to ban coal mining in Australia or logging in Tasmania. Just sends the activity offshore into less environmentally and OH&S regulated areas, such as Indonesia or Africa.

 

[straitman]

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1298673826844832

I thought I posted this earlier but cannot find it.

 

[mrs.dr.ron]

I hope everyone had a happy Pi day

I didn't have a pi today but I did have a tart

 

[RooFlyer]

University toilet door graffiti hasn't changed much in 35 years or so ...

 

[Flashback]

Pregnant woman shames ‘disrespectful’ passengers

Ms Chapman said when she has found people sitting in priority seating who shouldn’t be there, they try not to acknowledge her. “Sometimes I ask people if they’d mind giving me their seat, and some people look at me like ‘how rude are you!’,” she said.

I can imagine most people dont make eye contact, heads down on the phone/headphones on ect.

After Mrs Flashback had a stroke, when she started going to work again part time she had a walking stick as still had weakness down one side. Not a single person would give up their seat even when asked and sitting in the priority ones. They did when I travelled with her though and made them...

So supermarkets can profit more? It's like Qantas and fuel surcharges.

If I go shopping it's usually done at short notice. I'm not going to carry re-useable bags with me at all times. It is ludicrous asking me to pay for the bags. It's not that difficult to expect that the cost of bags have already been factored as a cost of business.

What next? Charge the consumer for the packaging of products?

It's to encourage less use of plastic. Of course as noted by others it is smoke and mirrors.

I have several of these type of nylon shopping bags - I usually have one in my handbag for emergency use - and I do keep those reusable green bags from Woolies/Coles in the car - but hardly ever remember to take them into the supermarket. But I do remember them for the Saturday Farmers market !!!

Ditto! Always carry one or two of these (Ikea and M&S make nice ones) so never caught short.

 

[RB]

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1298673826844832

I thought I posted this earlier but cannot find it.

On a similar note-Can't remember the stats but our pilot had some figures when we were getting photos from our prop plane prior to landing on Mt MCKinley.
I see on google now there are questions re GoPro & drones!

 

[Quickstatus]

I heard a radio discussion recently about this. The head of the NT ‘Keep Australia Beautiful Council’ stated that in the 5 years after light weight plastic bags were banned there the usage of heavy duty plastic bags went up 500%. A much bigger problem has been created.

Single reusable made from natural gas.
Multi use from oil

 

[JohnK]

It's to encourage less use of plastic. Of course as noted by others it is smoke and mirrors.

Of course it is. No different to carbon tax and fuel surcharges.

 

[TheRealTMA]

Of all the tributes and comments on Stephen Hawking, I am taken by the tweet from CSIRO -

“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”

Vale Stephen Hawking.”

 

[sjk]

Wife's Bridging B visa expires today. She's currently overseas so cannot apply for another Bridging B visa.

Totally stuffed that one up. Brilliant!

Best of luck with that. The stress that came from our own (well, his) failure to get a spouse visa from the very beginning took us to the brink of divorce. And what I hear from friends, default mode for Australian immigration these days seems to be to assume impropriety/fraud/scam/mail-order bride/human trafficking/organ harvesting and worse and worse. They do get good super, though.

 

[Milboo]

So supermarkets can profit more? It's like Qantas and fuel surcharges.

If I go shopping it's usually done at short notice. I'm not going to carry re-useable bags with me at all times. It is ludicrous asking me to pay for the bags. It's not that difficult to expect that the cost of bags have already been factored as a cost of business.

What next? Charge the consumer for the packaging of products?

Loathe as I am to point out the obvious but consumers already pay for the packaging of a product in its shelf price.

 

[JessicaTam]

Loathe as I am to point out the obvious but consumers already pay for the packaging of a product in its shelf price.

Agreed. And ALDI doesn't pack so doesn't charge. Sorry @JohnK, but you are already paying.

 

[VPS]

This is it. MrX is the great unknown especially in Upper house. It’s very bright in here.

VPS it’s North. Is Jays Electorate Elizabeth?

Sorry been out - no it's Cheltenham way

 

[JohnK]

Forget to transfer money to credit card in preparation for balance transfer before 4pm. Check.

Stuff up visa. Check.

Lose a lot of money. Check.

Start to rain the exact second you walk out to go home without an umbrella. Check.

All you can do is laugh out loud knowing nothing else can go wrong as the day is over. Tomorrow is a new day.

 

[love_the_life]

Forget to transfer money to credit card in preparation for balance transfer before 4pm. Check.

Stuff up visa. Check.

Lose a lot of money. Check.

Start to rain the exact second you walk out to go home without an umbrella. Check.

All you can do is laugh out loud knowing nothing else can go wrong as the day is over. Tomorrow is a new day.

Sometimes we have days like that. The only biggie is really the visa so hope you can get that sorted. The others, par for the course.