What cheeses me off

[TheRealTMA]

Inconsiderate people. 4 seats next to SQ check in. An older woman sitting in one with her trolley blocking the other 3.

Time for some bedsider mannor I suspect.

 

[drron]

Unfortunately I am not licensed to have a bedside manner anymore.

 

[Hvr]

Inconsiderate people. 4 seats next to SQ check in. An older woman sitting in one with her trolley blocking the other 3.

Easily fixed, 'do you want to move the trolley, or shall I?' If no response I'd just move it and sit down.

 

[bashworth]

What cheeses me off - On a fully inclusive holiday those who think its a reason to get on the grog straight after breakfast. Especially when you are on the Indian Pacific train and harder to avoid!​

 

[TheRealTMA]

What cheeses me off - On a fully inclusive holiday those who think its a reason to get on the grog straight after breakfast. Especially when you are on the Indian Pacific train and harder to avoid!​

Scenic?

 

[Forg]

I, too, am offended that they waited until AFTER breakfast!

 

[JohnK]

What cheeses me off - On a fully inclusive holiday those who think its a reason to get on the grog straight after breakfast. Especially when you are on the Indian Pacific train and harder to avoid!​

When I'm on holiday I've been known to have a few at 10:00am. Sometimes I may continue drinking but I'm on my best behaviour.

I think these people you mention behave the same way drunk or sober.

 

[drron]

And I have been known to have a sparkling wine at breakfast on occasions when I am on holidays.

 

[tdimdad]

The quality difference should be imperceptible. YouTube music uses 256kbps AAC and Spotify premium is 320kbps ogg vorbis (at the highest quality setting).
Tests have shown that humans are generally unable to tell the difference with common audio codecs at 256kbps or above.

I've been toying between Spotify and Tidal. I started with Tidal this year because of it's supposedly superior audio quality. When you set Spotify to its max quality, it's on par with Tidal but I still sense a tiny nuance there. In my ears, it sounds like Tidal plays the overtone series or otherwise the audio a little more brightly. When attempting to discern any dynamic differences, sometimes my ears give it to Spotify, sometimes to Tidal, when listening to the same recordings.
But to really get enjoyment out of the hifi quality, you need proper equipment, too (and, alas, I lack that). To me, it's my former choir singer and violin player ears getting a new workout.

Spotify wins with podcasts and it shines in the curation of playlists and recommendations, etc. Tidal has a more quirky curation of music mixes and discoveries, leading to many nice finds (and also equally many "not my style" moments).

 

[drron]

Another thing is those arrogant people who within 10 minutes of food arriving at a hotel lounge have removed all the seafood from the seafood noodle and seafood salads dishes.
Feel like going around the room and outing them.

 

[Forg]

^ They’re saving the rest of us from that stuff!

 

[kangarooflyer88]

And I have been known to have a sparkling wine at breakfast on occasions when I am on holidays.

There's nothing quite like having a refreshing Perrier to cleanse one's palate between plates of P&Ws!

 

[JohnK]

Another thing is those arrogant people who within 10 minutes of food arriving at a hotel lounge have removed all the seafood from the seafood noodle and seafood salads dishes.
Feel like going around the room and outing them.

Isn't that the same in any lounge and not limited to seafood.

Imagine slop such as some curry in a Qantas lounge with very limited meat. It's either try to find some of meat or add the gunk to your plate/bowl.

 

[kangarooflyer88]

Another thing is those arrogant people who within 10 minutes of food arriving at a hotel lounge have removed all the seafood from the seafood noodle and seafood salads dishes.
Feel like going around the room and outing them.

Isn't that the same in any lounge and not limited to seafood.

Imagine slop such as some curry in a Qantas lounge with very limited meat. It's either try to find some of meat or add the gunk to your plate/bowl.

Sorry folks, this is amateur hour when it comes to poor buffet etiquette. How about cupping your hand and sticking it in a pot of soup to scoop up soup when a ladle isn't present? I've seen it with my own eyes and suddenly lost my appetite for eating in the lounge.

-RooFlyer88

 

[AIRwin]

How about cupping your hand and sticking it in a pot of soup to scoop up soup when a ladle isn't present?

Cold soup?

 

[Forg]

Sorry folks, this is amateur hour when it comes to poor buffet etiquette. How about cupping your hand and sticking it in a pot of soup to scoop up soup when a ladle isn't present? I've seen it with my own eyes and suddenly lost my appetite for eating in the lounge.

-RooFlyer88

Oh my!

These people would also have to be stars of the bulkhead-feet thread … and is there a not-keeping-their-children-behaving-civilly thread they’d also be quite active in?

 

[cove]

The transport rail system in Australia is a total mess. We have had 22 outages in a couple of years with derailments and floods.
Meanwhile our grocery shelves in WA are partially empty as road freight is expensive.
The money we wasted on the NBN would have been better spent on making our railroads fit for purpose.

 

[Forg]

The transport rail system in Australia is a total mess. We have had 22 outages in a couple of years with derailments and floods.
Meanwhile our grocery shelves in WA are partially empty as road freight is expensive.
The money we wasted on the NBN would have been better spent on making our railroads fit for purpose.

The extra money spent on de-rating the NBN, compared to the cheaper higher-service original plan, could’ve paid for heaps of transport infrastructure … smooth operator … smoo-ooth operator.

Neither conservative nor progressive parties like rail, because the transport companies that support either want to use roads that are paid-for by somebody else rather than pay for rails themselves. And as can be seen from the US, arguments about the relevance of passenger rail (whichever side of that argument someone might be on) aren’t relevant to freight rail!

 

[Yearlylonghaul]

The money we wasted on the NBN would have been better spent on making our railroads fit for purpose.

I cant see how money was wasted on NBN. Prior to NBN, Between my the two of us (me and mrsyearlonghaul) we had 3 internet services and none of them were reliable and were sooooooooo slow. We would experience up to hundreds of dropouts per day (measured by our ISP) and they could not handle large Excel files. My wife would go off to make and drink her coffee while downloading any reasonable size file. Our internet services were both landline and wireless provided by either of the big two. None were any good and I am only talking say 3 years ago.
We longed for the NBN to become available, and we do very little streaming of TV and no movie streaming service.
We are in a large rural regional centre not in a remote location. NBN became available in November 2020 for us and we made the move immediately.

 

[Forg]

I cant see how money was wasted on NBN. Prior to NBN,

They spent a lot of money cancelling contracts & reducing the scope/speed of the network, to ensure that they didn't get the NBN that the evil Communists Wearing Red had wanted ... smooth operator ... smooo-ooth operator ...