The totally off-topic thread

[markis10]

Let me know what is yours top offer. If you are not doing voice, please also inform me and I will delete you in the contact list .Otherwise you will continuously receive this email. Please feel free to contact with me for any further questions, it will be my big pleasure to serve you.

I do like the odd bit of spam we get in the office.

 

[JohnK]

Look up JohnK, I think there is something flying over your head

And that went right over my head....

 

[Flashback]

"Don't do the report, <IMPORTANT PERSON> doesn't want it any more"

I would think that sentence is quite simple. But some genius still sends me a draft report to review... sigh

Don't worry... you're not the only one to experience that, amongst other simple instructions given... :evil:

 

[JohnK]

Sydney woman defends her cat hatred after break-up text goes viral

"The text came on a Monday morning, and the weekend prior I'd been away at a friend's wedding," she said.

"He'd indicated that he was upset he couldn't attend with me, but we were only very casual as far as I was concerned and the guest list had been finalised months ago, there wasn't necessarily an option to take a plus one."

The woman said she had managed to take the break-up pretty well.

"I thought it was a bit laughable," she said.

"I refrained from sending a nasty text back."

However, the woman did admit to not getting along with her ex-partner’s cat.

"I'm completely allergic to cats," she said.

"On the nights I would sleep over, the cat would want to up at the end of the bed, but I had to insist that it was locked out while I was there.

It was a completely practical request that was obviously taken all too personally, but I guess I did tell the cat to "F--- off."

“I'll never date another guy with cats."

 

[Mal]

lol

"He was 30, had a job, a car and a house. Certainly not what I normally manage to attract, so I thought I was onto something," she told ninemsn.
Read more at Sydney woman defends her cat hatred after break-up text goes viral - 9news.com.au

Ding, Ding, Ding . We have a winner.

 

[Buzzard]

Sounds like somebody is having a hissy.

 

[Flashback]

The mind boggles as to why someone can be told to do something a certain way (when consulting said person on their opinion), but then when doing something that way ......... well, I'll let you figure out the rest.

 

[OATEK]

The mind boggles as to why someone can be told to do something a certain way (when consulting said person on their opinion), but then when doing something that way ......... well, I'll let you figure out the rest.

She works in my office....

 

[whatmeworry]

What is the etiqutte of sunglasses on a person head during a funeral?

 

[RAM]

What is the etiqutte of sunglasses on a person head during a funeral?

Only if they're in the casket!

 

[QF WP]

Philip Hughes funeral coverage on now

https://au.sports.yahoo.com/cricket...-hughes-funeral-live-stream-rolling-coverage/

I'd better get back to work, otherwise I'll be shedding more than a tear...

 

[Princess Fiona]

Philip Hughes funeral coverage on now

https://au.sports.yahoo.com/cricket...-hughes-funeral-live-stream-rolling-coverage/

Just watching it, his uncle is doing a marvellous job on the eulogy

 

[straitman]

I am surprised that people pay attention to TripAdvisor ratings.

I look at the ratings but what I look at the most is who is providing the ratings and the types of complaints.

You can look at one from me one day soon about the staff on the Hotel Queen Mary. :evil::evil::evil:

 

[QF WP]

I can't like that post, in case you get the wrong idea straitman. I guess their service was pitiful then

 

[erkpod]

lol

"He was 30, had a job, a car and a house. Certainly not what I normally manage to attract, so I thought I was onto something," she told ninemsn.
Read more at Sydney woman defends her cat hatred after break-up text goes viral - 9news.com.au

Ding, Ding, Ding . We have a winner.

It's the same break up text thing I posted here a week or so ago. It's the woman who the guy said was rude to his cat.

Too bad she didn't name herself - she might get some offers from other people who don't like living with cats.

 

[straitman]

I can't like that post, in case you get the wrong idea straitman. I guess their service was pitiful then

We accidentally left an important item in Birch Bay. Our friends sent it overnight by Fedex with delivery to the Queen Mary. Tracking info had it delivered and signed for at 1212 but it took them 6hrs+ to find it. I'm not convinced that we would have it yet if it wasn't for our persistence.

Impossible to get past the reception girls who were incompetent, didn't care or were on drugs (seriously). One who finally had the package was asking me for my name and ID whilst she was looking at the package in one hand and my photo ID in the other. Response was 'oh I thought this ID belonged to your wife' She was somewhere in a parallel universe.

We were just a nuisance to them as it was something outside their 'normal' existence.

Enough said :!:

 

[mrs.dr.ron]

"Abbott government cracks down on bizarre requests for help from Australian travellers"

Abbott government cracks down on bizarre requests for help from Australian travellers

Twenty weird requests of DFAT:
1) A traveller who was destitute in Europe refused to return to Australia without their pet bird, which could not be returned for quarantine reasons
2) A mother who wanted the embassy in Bangkok to book accommodation and a return ticket to Australia for her son, then provide an embassy driver to take him to the airport
3) A request from an Australian traveller for DFAT to feed her dogs while she was away
4) "I'm attending a conference overseas with a large group of Australians but I have heard it is a dangerous city. Can the High Commission arrange for a risk assessment and some armoured cars. We only need them for a week."
5) Multiple enquiries to embassies overseas seeking the closest pub televising State of Origin games
6) An Australian who had his laptop stolen overseas requested that embassy staff pick him up from the airport, loan him a laptop and provide him with office space for a few days
7) A traveller who asked whether the sand in Egypt would affect her asthma
8) Panicked callers regularly reporting Australian travellers missing overseas, after not hearing from them within the first few hours of arriving in country. Consular officers usually explain that getting through customs and immigration can take time
9) "Why won't the Australian embassy come and pack my bags for me? I'm an 80 year old architect travelling by myself and too old to pack my own bags"
10) "I left some items on an aircraft when I changed flights. Can the embassy collect it from the airline lost property?"
11) "Can the embassy obtain prescription medicine from Australia and send it to me so I can continue my holiday?"
12) Requests for embassies to store luggage, hold mail, provide banking facilities or arrange tours for Australian travellers
13) "What is the best way to get a polecat out of your roof?"
14) "I'm going on a cruise. What will the food be like? Can you drink the water on the ship?"
15) Some travellers evacuated from civil unrest in Egypt on government funded flights questioned why they were not entitled to frequent flyer points. Similarly, some travellers evacuated from the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami made seat requests, including for first class
16) A caller to DFAT's Consular Emergency Centre wanted to know the average salary for an expat to expect in Thailand
17) "Does the embassy know if there are any hotels in Phnom Penh with vacant rooms?"
18) "Can the embassy tell the local police that I have an excellent driving record in Australia and should not have to pay those outstanding speeding fines?"
19) "What is the best hotel in coughet?"
20) "On my last trip to the Philippines I had some trouble with the law. What is the number of the embassy in Manila so I can call them to get me out of jail when I go back?"

 

[marki]

Serious your Serious

Age of entitlement gone totally overboard

Thanks for that titbit drron. Sorry mrs dr ron

 

[anat0l]

"Abbott government cracks down on bizarre requests for help from Australian travellers"

Abbott government cracks down on bizarre requests for help from Australian travellers

...

Are people that seriously deranged? What do people actually think our consular services do? (Apart from something which I imagine is not sitting on their bottoms all day long in an outpost of the country inside another one)

Given the kind of situations people have found themselves in which consular services were "expected" to assist or break a deal in, I'm sure that Australians may need consular services, but it seems they sure as hell don't deserve them!

All said and done, I'm sure that list of reasons article has done the rounds a few times, just like those ridiculous stories of people who abuse the 000 emergency services line. But if the government wants to use that as the basis of cutting consular services in order to critically balance the budget, then so be it.

 

[anat0l]

Seen enough Facebook stories today where I wish some people would just go and jump.

Is that too harsh to ask of some people?