I honestly find it hard to believe the sort of losers old mate is mentioning in the article actually exist.
You get a laugh out of Americans who refuse to travel because their country is “so diverse”. Can only imagine the wilful ignorance of someone who’s life is condensed to a few blocks radius. Brisbane isn’t big enough to stick to one side of it.
I quite enjoy the ying and yang of this post saying we’re back in covid, and your other post saying you just got over a cold. Did you do a covid test, out of interest?
Lots of people are getting “colds” which are actually covid. You just don’t notice anymore because the vaccines worked great and lots of people have them. Now instead of death we have a couple of days off feeling poorly, if that.
We do work at aged care facilities and covid never left. There was always an outbreak somewhere. They shut down areas of the building to visitors, make masks and gowns mandatory, must do a RAT test before entry, etc… But the second they open back up some relative with the sniffles is going to wander in and fire everything back up again. Obviously for the people in aged care covid is still a biggish deal.
As a side note, covid kinda proved that if a zombie virus ever does happen… we are all so dead.
I was doing really well in the footy tipping at work by always choosing the loser teams. At several points in the comp I have been on top of the leaderboard. Decided to put my money where my mouth after a perfect round and hit up the old sportsbet for a cheeky tenner per game (hey, big spender!).
Same process as before - always pick the loser team based on odds… Except it hasn’t worked since lol
RIP some dollars. Thought I’d be a high roller by now.
That’s a nice kinky submissive man story, I hope you enjoyed your drinks.
Oh wait its separate stories. Might have been a bot, just trying to get someone sucked in to replying so they could hit 'em with the old “need money for airfare, and for dildo freight charges” or whatever?
I mean I’m sure there are dudes out there looking for people to do that sort of thing, just Lemmy seems like a weird place to look for it. Small community, and I wouldn’t have thought it was the demographic that is looking for fetishes and kinks to be fulfilled (unless your kink is selfhosting something Linux related).
I’ve been on Android since 1.5 and the “snappy” claims remind me a lot of the claims every new version there too. They’re likely still going, though I haven’t been active on XDA for a long time to know.
Is it actually objectively faster? Or is it a perception thing based on the way animations and screen changes are handled?
I don’t really understand why more people don’t use Firefox. I’ve been using it almost exclusively for probably a decade without any compatibility issues, aside from the very few sites that specifically request IE or Edge (which I usually just bypass by changing User Agent anyway).
Well it’s good to know between two medical professionals we’ve got equal and opposite advice lol
Puppy toots and tails. They’re having milk.
FriYAY!
Also, here is a puppy.
a lady at the front of some shop ( she worked there ) said something to me, I got closer and said “pardon”, she muttered something again, I said “sorry what ?” She said “would you like a free hearing test today ?”
She 100% thought you were trying to be funny. How annoying that all those unoriginal jokes wore her out before your legitimate funny situation landed.
Source: Worked in customer service for a while. Hearing the same “funny” repeatedly was a bit of a trigger for me. Turns out I don’t suit that role, as evidenced by accumulating more written warnings than anyone in the store’s history. Turns out they’re bluffing with that “3 written warnings” rule by the way. I had over a dozen. Ended up quitting because if I could not bare the thought of hearing the “Cheque, savings, or credit?”…“Savings… MORE LIKE SPENDINGS, AMIRIGHT? WOOOOOO” joke one more time…
Listening to Witchcraft (Witchcraft) - Witchcraft
Dudes need a bigger dictionary or something, damn.
I actually got caught out a few years ago and learnt the hard way that you can fast for too long.
It’s because your blood sugar spikes isnt it? The last time I went to the doctor (many years…) they suggested a blood test cause I hadn’t done one in over a decade and reminded me multiple times not to fast too long or you’ll get false positives for high blood sugar. Jokes on them, I still haven’t done it. Possibly I should at some point but its like texting someone back after you forgot to reply. It’s been another few years since my last visit so its kinda embarrassingly too long to follow up.
Oh and thanks to TRK’s rec I watched “Heads of State” and can confirm that it’s a very jolly romp.
Wait, I thought I watched it because of your recommendation! Damn, who was that who suggested it originally then??
“So I was grooming this kid the other day…”
crowd laughs
Classic stuff.
My wife and I have a virtual Sportsbet account running for the drive home. There’s a merge where the Logan Motorway meets the Mount Lindsay Highway and every afternoon you get the clowns jump over the solid whites to get in the left lane, scoot up the merge/exit lanes, and then push back in ~100M further down the queue.
Our bets are placed on how many clowns we will see at the clown show. A clown car is awarded 1 point, a clown truck is worth 2 points, and you get a 2x multiplier per additional unnecessary lane change, and a 4x multiplier if they make the lane change across the painted island on the Browns Plains exit ramp.
You can generally guarantee at least half a dozen clown cars and a clown truck, the final result usually depends heavily on the multipliers.
So the rail networks are operated by private companies? I am not familiar with the various acronyms, but that would certainly explain the complexity… Everyone wanting their slice of the pie.
It certainly looks complicated:
Transport services are provided by over 40 companies. These include the Bayerische Oberlandbahn, the Deutsche Bahn that also operates the S-Bahn, the Münchner Verkehrsgesellschaft that operates the U-Bahn, tramway and city buses, together with multiple operators of regional trains and buses.
We (Queensland, Australia) have 50 cent fares at the minute - any public transport, no matter the distance / zone / etc is a flate rate of $0.50AUD. I assume any private interests are being compensated with tax dollars but at least it makes public transport simple and affordable.
There was recently a change from a Labor government (centrist?) to a Liberal government (right / conservative) so I suspect the 50c fares will be removed at some point, though they did make it permanent as part of an election promise. “Permanent” is a pretty flexible term from a politician though.
Has anyone checked on Delosmertos? I’m first in the daily thread without even cheating, and now I’m worried.
trk’s “wtf, driver?” question of the day:
Why do people speed up and chop lanes when there is obvious banked traffic ahead? It reminds me of those clowns at the Ekka that you put balls and they bounce around in to different chutes and end up winning you a flyswat or a sticky hand or whatever. Drivers act like that ball - randomly bouncing between lanes at the last second before having to mash the brakes and test out the ABS as they come to a standstill in their chute. It’s like they are placing their bets on which lane is going to “win” and they want their metaphorical flyswat by coming out the other side one or two car positions further ahead than they would have otherwise been, and bugger anyone else who’s had to brake to miss them.
I am not educated in public transport logistics, but why do they make ticket prices so obnoxiously difficult?
It’s seemingly a worldwide issue so there just be a reason.
… Which I assume is “money”.
This dude is a Korean beatboxer, and apparently we’re at a point where these dudes are just emulating entire studios now?
Haven’t done one of these for a while…
trk’s song of the day!
I suspect I’ve referenced a song by this guy before, but its almost FriYAY and I want something relaxing.
Juzzie Smith - Free As
Dudes normally wailing away on a harmonica but this track is much more relaxed. Really feel like I should be living on an island, DiaDoLeMacerena style, looking out over the water of an afternoon and drinking some sort of cold beverage.