What cheeses me off

[Pushka]

I'm too nice a person. I don't like to impose. I was waiting for the parents to offer.

I don't see this as being in any way impolite. There is a way of asking politely.

 

[Gladstone Tim]

I'm too nice a person. I don't like to impose. I was waiting for the parents to offer.

I think one needs to take the initiative in these situations. If you don’t, I consider it unreasonable to gripe afterwards. I will intentionally sit in a group of four seats on a train if only two people are trying to monopolise them….especially if it doesn’t give the friends a chance to sit alongside each other or they have to take their feet off the seat.

 

[Katie]

WCMO
Being in an outback motel room and being woken by the sound of the person in the neighbouring room talking on the phone at 5:50am.

 

[Lynda2475]

WCMO is unecessary panic buying due to egg purchase limits means there isn't an egg to be found anywhere near me.

It's worse than the toilet paper hoarding during covid.

I was requested to bake for work morning team tomorrow but no eggs means no cake.

 

[prozac]

WCMO is unecessary panic buying due to egg purchase limits means there isn't an egg to be found anywhere near me.

It's worse than the toilet paper hoarding during covid.

I was requested to bake for work morning team tomorrow but no eggs means no cake.

Same in my area. I wouldn't want to be a patisserie or some other small business dependent on egg ingredients.

 

[DejaBrew]

WCMO is unecessary panic buying due to egg purchase limits means there isn't an egg to be found anywhere near me.

And what few eggs remain on shelf are smashed in their cartons

 

[Lynda2475]

Not even any smashed ones. The local Chinese restaurant owner said he had to drive out to Paddies Flemington to bid for a few trays direct from farmers.

I have resorted to bringing timtams.

 

[RAM]

Not even any smashed ones. The local Chinese restaurant owner said he had to drive out to Paddies Flemington to bid for a few trays direct from farmers.

I have resorted to bringing timtams.

Had been our experience 2 weekends back as well across Aldi, Coles & Woolworths but this weekend one Aldi was back to normal (hundreds of cartons across every size and type (Free range & Cage). Another Aldi only had less than 2 dozen cartons of 12 though. Both the local C & W each had about half their full numbers around 9.15am in the morning.

We thought the sudden buying panic had subsided.

Does make me wonder whether anybody (never a supermarket) is trying to take advantage of the seeming panic buying?

 

[JohnK]

Does make me wonder whether anybody (never a supermarket) is trying to take advantage of the seeming panic buying?

Slowly but surely they're getting people used to obeying orders. If anyone doesn't believe me then you're not thinking clearly.

The time to reset the simulation is getting close.

 

[VPS]

Lots of eggs in my local fruit and veg

 

[ellen10]

Lots of eggs at my local IGA

 

[Pushka]

Lots of eggs in my local fruit and veg

It's easy to see that Coles and Woolies, even in SA source their eggs from interstate. Foodland Drakes etc source from within SA. Let's just hope they don't get caught up but think that's unlikely unfortunately. Farmers are trying to barn their chickens to protect them but still want to call them Free Range which is reasonable I guess.

 

[DejaBrew]

The time to reset the simulation is getting close.

Is that you, Neo?

 

[JohnK]

Joh you really didn’t read my post. I said there were J awards for 2 available most days in January. The flights that didn’t have J awards usually had Y awards so you didn’t have to fork out for J. I also saw lots of Y awards on lifemiles using TG. There they tell you how many seats are available and it was usually 4.

I don't want to leave things to chance so have been checking award availability for Apr 2025 school holidays. I want to try and go back to April/September trips instead of June/December trips.

Checked QF, SQ and VA. As you can imagine availability is not great even 9 months out. No premium seats that I could see. Just enough economy award seats to make this workable and boy am I happy.

Sunday of BNE school holidays BNE-BKK on JQ for 64,500 QFF points + $380. (I wanted the Wed flight 4 days earlier but got shot down)

Return the day after Anzac Day BKK-SIN-BNE on SQ for 93,000 Velocity points + $430.

The QF points have been gathering dust and the Velocity points were a bonus considering what SQ wanted for those awards. SQ return airfare around $3100 for 3 of us and JQ airfare around $3500 for 3 of us so got good value for those points. Need to get these points balances down.

 

[JohnK]

I've been in Brisbane 16 years and never visited Brisbane Markets. We went past today after netball and said to wife and daughter we'll go and have a look.

Signs everywhere for free parking. That's good because you're not going to charge people to park right? (Premium parking $6 whatever that means)

Parked the car and went downstairs. Something not right. Barriers everywhere. Then it all became clear. $2 entry. Seriously? Turned around and went back to car.

I'm not paying to go shopping. Sheer stupidity.

 

[Flashback]

I've been in Brisbane 16 years and never visited Brisbane Markets. We went past today after netball and said to wife and daughter we'll go and have a look.

Signs everywhere for free parking. That's good because you're not going to charge people to park right? (Premium parking $6 whatever that means)

Parked the car and went downstairs. Something not right. Barriers everywhere. Then it all became clear. $2 entry. Seriously? Turned around and went back to car.

I'm not paying to go shopping. Sheer stupidity.

Don't ever visit the UK then!

 

[MARTINE]

Staying in beautiful former palace hotel in Lisbon
You can smoke in all outdoor areas ie walled garden/poolside - ruined for non-smokers

 

[JohnK]

Don't ever visit the UK then!

My dream was to play golf in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland but at this late stage it will remain just a dream as priorities have changed.

I have no desire to visit any market that charges entry unless everything inside was free.

 

[Bigtones]

Next What Cheeses Me Off are those blonks who wear backpacks in airports or any other crowded location - they clearly have zero comprehension of the laws of physics and all seem to turn like a ballerina pirouetting and take out the closest 4 or 5 other people in close proximity - grow a brain please backpack wearers.

Yep, totally agree, I try and make an obvious barrier but they still stand in front of you. I make it obvious & have pushed through them to grab my bag many times yelling excuse me loudly to see if they’ll wake up to why they are doing

 

[prozac]

Yep, totally agree, I try and make an obvious barrier but they still stand in front of you. I make it obvious & have pushed through them to grab my bag many times yelling excuse me loudly to see if they’ll wake up to why they are doing

Talking of speaking loudly, when I see someone walking toward me in shopping centre, footpath etc., engrossed in the phone and not caring about anyone around them, I wait until they are about 1,5m away and then call out "look out!"