What cheeses me off

[JohnM]

Talking of losing things in the surf...

A few weeks ago I took my 8yo grandy to City Beach. He had his bodyboard, so we had to be outside the main swimming area, about 80m from the groyne. It was a bit dumpy, and after a while he got clobbered, surfacing with his shorts missing and just in his jocks. Couldn't find his swim shorts, so that was a cheese-off. He put on the dry pair in his change bag and went in again.

A little while later he decided, for the first time ever, that he wanted to body surf, so we moved into the swimming area near the groyne. He was in there a few minutes, got dumped by another wave - but, lo and behold, surfaces with the missing shorts that had got tangled in his feet.

 

[Quickstatus]

WCPO is losing stuff when they go to hospitals.
Dentures, hearing aids...

 

[kpc]

AFFer PMs asking for advice...I reply with detailed info....no thanks or acknowledgement of reply. Oh well,....

 

[Flashback]

WCMO ..... Aussie merchants using random holding company names, instead of anything linked to the business. Rarely in the UK am I unable to work out what a transaction is, so for that reason I've not been bothering to keep receipts. Now I can't work out what some of my spend is!

 

[Julesmac]

But problem with a voluntary jury is that you’re not necessarily going to get a cross-section of peers.

There are already exceptions… doctors, lawyers, people who say they can’t get out of work. Who does that leave?

Making jury service compulsory means you should get a better mix of people. Not just those who are retired, or don’t work, or who ‘don’t want to’. You want both old and new perspectives on a jury. Not just people who think one way due to their generation.

In my example above, you could be exactly the person they are looking for.

Who would want to be judged by 12 people not smart enough to get out of jury duty?

 

[Julesmac]

Where do papers get these 'journalists'? In this week's food section a story about new restaurants - I read 'gildas served with jamon and potato crisps'. What is a gilda? Then 'Well regarded restaurant...is about to open a sophmore location seaside'. So are we in America? We would say sister restaurant surely.GrrThe Age's Epicure renamed to 'good food' and for the last couple of weeks instead of the previous 3 page pull which has been its format for years, it's reduced to 2 pages. One restaurant review & 2 columns of fluff. No recipes or other interesting stuff. I would point out the Melbourne Food & Wine Festival runs from 21-30 March & is a pretty popular attraction. One would think maybe the food section might warrant more info not less. And while I'm at it, Melbourne is about to host the Grand Prix again. World class event, thousands of people visiting. Would it kill the City of Melbourne & the golf course to mow the nature strips along Queens Rd & whipper snip all the overgrown edges. It looks really coughpy and unkempt and has been cheesing me off ever since the GP started. Rant over

 

[Quickstatus]

Librarians love nothing more than culling!

My mother was a librarian. She says libraries are not a museum and would cull books from the shelves especially if the book sits unborrowed. there is always space limitation and requests by people to the library to hold additional books

 

[p--and--t]

Where do papers get these 'journalists'? In this week's food section a story about new restaurants - I read 'gildas served with jamon and potato crisps'. What is a gilda? Then 'Well regarded restaurant...is about to open a sophmore location seaside'. So are we in America? We would say sister restaurant surely.GrrThe Age's Epicure renamed to 'good food' and for the last couple of weeks instead of the previous 3 page pull which has been its format for years, it's reduced to 2 pages. One restaurant review & 2 columns of fluff. No recipes or other interesting stuff. I would point out the Melbourne Food & Wine Festival runs from 21-30 March & is a pretty popular attraction. One would think maybe the food section might warrant more info not less. And while I'm at it, Melbourne is about to host the Grand Prix again. World class event, thousands of people visiting. Would it kill the City of Melbourne & the golf course to mow the nature strips along Queens Rd & whipper snip all the overgrown edges. It looks really coughpy and unkempt and has been cheesing me off ever since the GP started. Rant over

Whew . Hope you feel better now