The totally off-topic thread

[anat0l]

Just watched My Kitchen Rules for the first time tonight. Any of you that watched tonight would've seen the two friends blunder through a decent entree (I missed watching this part) followed by a far-too-long-to-prepare and poor main and finalised by a dubiously inedible dessert.

It makes me think that this show is far removed from actually show casing any cooking or cooking skill. It is more like Survivor or Big Brother - simply seeing what people's reactions are like, particularly when you inject that competitive / cutthroat spirit. It's a war waged with death stares, silent back stabs and schadenfreude. Basically like putting a bunch of animals in a cage and poking them with a stick until they all kill each other with a sole survivor. The "stick" in this case is the cooking and judging.

There's more pleasure in seeing failure and people blow up about things than actually seeing praise, support or encouragement. What a society we have become.

 

[drron]

Good wasn't it?

 

[anat0l]

Good wasn't it?

How am I supposed to respond to this?

 

[drron]

How am I supposed to respond to this?

Youre not!

 

[Hvr]

Good wasn't it?

For what?

In fact it sounds offal, or even a whole lot of tripe.

 

[QF WP]

I watched the previous nights' episode, with the AJ's from TSV, who made hard going until they reached dessert. That was enough for me. Saw the shorts and knew that tonight was a disaster - so no need to watch.

 

[Storyteller]

At 33,000 feet over Idaho, enjoying the wonders of cyberspace, & listening to the chat on this thread. And a fine salad & cardonnay.

It gets complicated when you have the State & federal tax, the room tax & the city tax. Then there's the tourism tax. And different for different states. yikes :shock:

 

[Mal]

At 33,000 feet over Idaho, enjoying the wonders of cyberspace, & listening to the chat on this thread. And a fine salad & cardonnay.

It gets complicated when you have the State & federal tax, the room tax & the city tax. Then there's the tourism tax. And different for different states. yikes :shock:

I'm always jealous when I get GoGo updates of a person's travel. Makes me wish I was flying somewhere today!

(And yes room tax, state tax, tourism levy, build a convention centre levy, city tax, "invent a new name for a tax" taxes are just frustrating .... )

 

[drron]

I'm always jealous when I get GoGo updates of a person's travel. Makes me wish I was flying somewhere today!

(And yes room tax, state tax, tourism levy, build a convention centre levy, city tax, "invent a new name for a tax" taxes are just frustrating .... )

My favorite was when staying in a Holiday Inn in Arizona.Big sign outside saying no government taxes.Was on a Navajo reservation.Next morning there definitely no State,Federal or County taxes but the Navajo Nation tax was more than the lot of them put together.Did tell them they really should change the sign outside.

 

[Storyteller]

I'm always jealous when I get GoGo updates of a person's travel. Makes me wish I was flying somewhere today!

(And yes room tax, state tax, tourism levy, build a convention centre levy, city tax, "invent a new name for a tax" taxes are just frustrating .... )

The view of the Rockies has been amazing today. Will have to add to my cross country flights again this year. BNE DRW PER ADL DRW MEL DRW SYD sounds like just the thing to do.

 

[Nigelinoz]

Maybe on topic but this is interesting-

KLM’s ‘Meet & Seat’ social seating lets passengers pick an interesting seat mate

airlinetrends.com » KLM’s
Sort of thing an airline like Virgin would implement?
Cheers
N'oz

 

[drron]

Maybe on topic but this is interesting-

airlinetrends.com » KLM’s
Sort of thing an airline like Virgin would implement?
Cheers
N'oz

Well that would be no good for me.Everyone would want to sit next to me and that seat is reserved for mrsdrron!

:shock:

 

[Nigelinoz]

How would you feel if you put a flight on Facebook and nobody wanted to sit next to you.(Maybe that is some peoples idea of heaven )
Cheers
N'oz

 

[serfty]

26 posts that were far too ON TOPIC have been moved to a new home:

http://www.australianfrequentflyer....ions/anyone-know-of-gst-calculator-36509.html

 

[QF WP]

Believe I have fixed the issue now JohnK. Not sure the picture is big enough...but you get the idea from the description.

Attachment is not loading for me. Something about an invalid link and to contact admin!

 

[Must...Fly!]

I'm in one of those moods. You all know what I'm talking about.

The well known and often feared "should I take my bank account from decrepit to clinically dead just to book more flights" mood. I feel as though it will eat away at me until I pull the trigger. I have an addiction

In other news, I presented flight options to my brother that I found which are significantly cheaper for our trip to Europe in July ($700 savings, and all on QF with BA flight numbers, greAAt result ). You know what the first thing he asked me was? "Is it all in economy?"

I feel, as a brother, I have done a good job

Although I do wish I knew about the 1:1 AA/BA earnings a month ago...

 

[straitman]

Well that would be no good for me.Everyone would want to sit next to me and that seat is reserved for mrsdrron!

:shock:

You're delusional again drron :!:

 

[drron]

You're delusional again drron :!:

The delusional world is far better than the real one.everybody should try it at least once.

 

[Nigelinoz]

The delusional world is far better than the real one.everybody should try it at least once.

Very easy to do as well,if you drink enough cheap wine that is :!:
Cheers
N'oz

 

[drron]

Very easy to do as well,if you drink enough cheap wine that is :!:
Cheers
N'oz

Even better with the good stuff.