The totally off-topic thread

[JohnK]

Exactly. It just helps out a little. And then there's the shopping as well.

Shopping is not too difficult.

 

[Pushka]

Another 43 in Adelaide today. Mr P borrowed my car and it was left in the sun all day. I drove him to collect his car and it was like a furnace. Heard this popping noise then a loud bang in the boot. The coke cans I'd bought the day before were exploding. Got to the service depot and opened the boot and cans of coke just exploded. Thankfully one just hit me on the hand. Ouch. But given the whole top of the can had peeled off like it had been opened by a can opener it could have been much worse. Photos later once I dare open the boot again.

 

[Pushka]

Exploding cans of coke.

 

[blackcat20]

Well my house is out. You can hardly fit 2 people in the kitchen at one time.

Mines not too much bigger...

Exploding cans of coke.
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We've had similar problems at work this week....

 

[Flashback]

Lordy, that makes me feel soooo old.

What about if I told you I was much the same, but it was the late 90's :shock:

 

[QF WP]

Eeek Pushka - that'll teach you to leave shopping in the boot (and lend your car to Mr P)

No loss though, it was Coke

 

[NM]

Exploding cans of coke.

Got to be careful with that new Mentos flavoured Coke :shock:

 

[JessicaTam]

Got to be careful with that new Mentos flavoured Coke :shock:

Or Berocca flavoured Coke.

 

[markis10]

I wonder what Coles think as a sponsor of MKR when the show has the contestants shopping at Coles but going to the local butcher/fishmonger?

 

[Pushka]

(and lend your car to Mr P)

This. He almost killed my car.

 

[Hvr]

This. He almost killed my car.

Yet the photos show a Zero loss.

 

[JohnK]

Exploding cans of coke.

That is scary. Did you take them back to the supermarket to tell them they sold you faulty cans of Coke Zero?

 

[markis10]

That is scary. Did you take them back to the supermarket to tell them they sold you faulty cans of Coke Zero?

If it was the states it would be down to the lawyers office pronto, I mean let's face it, it's the carbon in the drinks that's causing all this global warming in the first place. Anyway I am off to support SPC Sunday, now who owns them.....I think I might be a tad cynical

 

[cove]

Is it true SPC give 9 weeks Annual leave or is that just an ill informed rumour?

 

[suze2000]

It's an ill-informed rumour.

Best I can figure: 4 weeks annual leave (standard), 10 days of public holidays (standard), and 3 weeks of sick/personal leave (seems not unusual in VIC).

Total = NINE weeks leave. (you'll note in the original claim it doesn't use the word ANNUAL - it just says "leave")

Happy to be corrected.

 

[cove]

Never trust a taxi driver then. If a company wants to be saved we would actually need the workers and the company and the State Government work in collaboration so if that isn't happening SPC can fold and SPC2 can set up in its place something like Virgin taking Ansett's place.

 

[JohnK]

Is SPC asking for handouts again? Stop being greedy.

Cabinet considered the request on Monday amid strong reservations about the intervention, in part because the company had cemented its high costs in union agreements with generous pay increases. The Australian was told that the government debate on SPC heard that many workers were earning more than $120,000 a year. The company's industrial agreements show the annual base salary for a production employee on the highest classification will be $61,308 from next month.

Workers will receive pay rises totalling 5 per cent over 10 months while some team leaders will get rises of 8.5 per cent. The company's previous three-year deal delivered wage increases totalling 10.25 per cent between 2009 and 2011. According to the deal lodged in the Fair Work Commission, 84 team leaders received pay rises of 18.75 per cent over three years to 2011.

 

[Hvr]

And goodbye to Shirley Temple.

Woodside, California: Shirley Temple, the dimpled, curly-haired child star who sang, danced, sobbed and grinned her way into the hearts of Depression-era moviegoers, has died, according to publicist Cheryl Kagan. She was 85.


Temple, known in private life as Shirley Temple Black, died Monday night at about 11 pm at her home near San Francisco. She was surrounded by family members and caregivers, Kagan said.


"We salute her for a life of remarkable achievements as an actor, as a diplomat, and most importantly as our beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and adored wife for fifty-five years of the late and much missed Charles Alden Black," a family statement said.

Read more: Shirley Temple Black dead at 85
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She certainly had an interesting and varied life.

 

[erkpod]

If you're feeling sad about being single, reading the Missed Connections on any city's Craigslist will make you feel much better.

Just hanging out with my brother from another mother in SLO...

 

[Cruiser Elite]

Some stories need to be shared....................

A person close to me has spent entire working life in education - from teaching refugee children in lowest socio-economic areas to being Principal of one of Australia's largest private schools - currently consulting to schools on individual basis across Australia.

When this person is on site at school rather than sit in staff room at lunch times they prefer to walk around outside and mingle / watch the kids. One day some time back they were doing exactly this and noticed a little boy who appeared perfectly normal until he tried to kick a football at which time he became a little uncoordinated.

Said person immediately spoke to principal of school and said 'Hey I just watched little Johnny outside and he appears just not 100% perfect - get his mother to get family doctor to give him once over'.

Parent did so - upshot was little Johnny was sent off to specialist and diagnosed with brain tumour - has had operation and is now on long road to recovery. Mother sent pic of her and little Johnny below leaving hospital to start his recovery.



As I said above - some stories need to be shared....................