The totally off-topic thread

[Cossie]

Has the time limit to edit a post been changed?

 

[amaroo]

Jeez, the Smart Traveller site is pretty sophisticated these days. Very rarely bother to register trips however, for the more adventurous destinations - I do. Fantastic site, very easy to register and had details for even the most remote locations.

 

[TheRealTMA]

Bought a pair of shoes a few months back and they fit ok. Went to wear them the other day and they are now too small. :shock:

So now need another pair of shoes before going to Thailand in 5 days time.

Ahhhh. Sorry JohnK! I knew you'd get too big for your boots one day!

 

[love_the_life]

This is why Im getting confused... stupid *&#9ing ads popping up in the middle of posts.

That is very weird. You must be extra special

 

[Hvr]

Well spent the day with my mother, always good. And I connected her Aldi Super Pack meaning she'll be free of Telstra and her ISP. Took a bit longer than expected because her Samsung phone needed to be manually configured and that wasn't easy.

Will save her hundreds a year not having a landline or ISP offering a pathetic plan for way too many dollars. The Aldi plan has more data per annum than she'll use so she gets to go wild on the internet.

 

[VPS]

On a train in Spain for 7 hours and only been on it for 35 minutes and one guy has been on the phone LOUDLY the whole time - a good reason not to allow phone calls on planes - and they say women can talk

 

[drron]

So QFF sent me an email offering 100 points for doing a 15 minute survey.At the 86% completed mark it would not let me progress despite several attempts.
I sent them an email thanking them for wasting my time.

 

[Pushka]

Watched the Bachelorette for 5 minutes. Cannot abide Sophie’s voice. As for the guys. Oh my gosh. Train wreck.

 

[Milboo]

This is why Im getting confused... stupid *&#9ing ads popping up in the middle of posts.

I just screen shot above for that same reason!

 

[anat0l]

Watched the Bachelorette for 5 minutes. Cannot abide Sophie’s voice. As for the guys. Oh my gosh. Train wreck.

Train wrecks bring in a lot of ratings these days. But I can't believe they got Sophie Monk / she consented to be on the Bachelorette. Obviously this is the opposite of a career-advancing move, viz. scraping the bottom of the barrel.

The trash on TV (particularly "reality" shows) these days is so intense it makes a baby's nappy seem like a perfume.

 

[TheRealTMA]

Watched the Bachelorette for 5 minutes. Cannot abide Sophie’s voice. As for the guys. Oh my gosh. Train wreck.

Serves you right! 5 minutes of your life plus nightmares you can never recover from!

 

[Flying mermaid]

The trash on TV (particularly "reality" shows) these days is so intense it makes a baby's nappy seem like a perfume.

pretty much don't watch TV at all - exceptions are budget night and elections. Friends/family recommend a series to us and if we like the sound of it we go and buy it. Limit ourselves to one episode a night. Currently watching the old Twin Peaks - missed it first time around. Totally crazy series! The advantage of being so late to it, as I told Mr FM, is that we haven't had to wait 25 years for the sequel

 

[anat0l]

pretty much don't watch TV at all - exceptions are budget night and elections. Friends/family recommend a series to us and if we like the sound of it we go and buy it. Limit ourselves to one episode a night. Currently watching the old Twin Peaks - missed it first time around. Totally crazy series! The advantage of being so late to it, as I told Mr FM, is that we haven't had to wait 25 years for the sequel

I similarly don't watch much TV at all. Budget night and elections - these days can barely put up with it, but if it's on TV I guess it's better than trash. Oh yeah, and maybe NYE celebrations, or the odd Christmas / NY filler movies.

I prefer to watch random documentaries on Youtube.

 

[whatmeworry]

pretty much don't watch TV at all - exceptions are budget night and elections. Friends/family recommend a series to us and if we like the sound of it we go and buy it. Limit ourselves to one episode a night. Currently watching the old Twin Peaks - missed it first time around. Totally crazy series! The advantage of being so late to it, as I told Mr FM, is that we haven't had to wait 25 years for the sequel

The sequel is more freaky!

Well spent the day with my mother, always good. And I connected her Aldi Super Pack meaning she'll be free of Telstra and her ISP. Took a bit longer than expected because her Samsung phone needed to be manually configured and that wasn't easy.

Will save her hundreds a year not having a landline or ISP offering a pathetic plan for way too many dollars. The Aldi plan has more data per annum than she'll use so she gets to go wild on the internet.

Changed my mobile plan from Telstra to Optus. The $40 plan was quite good for me. 15 gigs a month, 300 minutes of calls to quite a few foreign countries and pretty much unlimited calls/sms across Australia. Couldn't get Telstra to match.

Couldn't get my Mum to let go of her landline and learn a mobile phone. When the NBN comes, will probably combine the landline and net contracts. Well at least I upgraded her landline plan recently.

Watched the Bachelorette for 5 minutes. Cannot abide Sophie’s voice. As for the guys. Oh my gosh. Train wreck.

Talking to my Mum and noticed she was watching the Bachelorette. She thought the Men were getting paid big money. I said probably not. She said why is that pretty girl doing this? Told her she is a Celebrity and is she is one getting paid quite well for it.

 

[Major]

 

[Denali]

That is very weird. You must be extra special

Special enough for you to buy me jewellery, apparently.

 

[Denali]

Big W in Chrissy trouble already: Shoppers fuming after Big W removes 'Christmas' from its tree range

The only "Black Forest" im interested in is cake...

 

[Pushka]

Big W in Chrissy trouble already: Shoppers fuming after Big W removes 'Christmas' from its tree range

The only "Black Forest" im interested in is cake...

Confected outrage on behalf of other groups who probably couldn’t care less.

 

[JohnK]

Confected outrage on behalf of other groups who probably couldn’t care less.

This is so wrong that it is actually beyond belief.

We are constantly told to be respectful of everyone and their religious and cultural differences yet we are trying hard to dismantle our own.

Isn't Australia still majority Christian? And yes it is. 52.1% from last census so the highest by far of any group including atheist.

 

[Pushka]

This is so wrong that it is actually beyond belief.

We are constantly told to be respectful of everyone and their religious and cultural differences yet we are trying hard to dismantle our own.

Isn't Australia still majority Christian? And yes it is. 52.1% from last census so the highest by far of any group including atheist.

Probably the one ‘religious’ thing on which we will agree. But my main trigger for this is that non Christians would not in the main, have any issues with the celebration of Christmas. And our Jewish friends do celebrate Christmas but obviously don’t go to a Christian Church on the day. They have a tree and share presents. And his brother is an Orthodox Jew living in Israel! It’s the ‘do gooders’ who presume others might be outraged. Hence it’s confected.