Smurph Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 Probably shouldn't have woken up at 9pm. Ended up going back to bed at 10pm and been awake since 4am. 20 hours sleep was pretty decent but I can feel myself tiring already. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swarley Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 Genuinely confused as to why your new Fiat would have fibre cabling for a second there You get the impression over here that the Aussie government finds the Internet a bit of an inconvenience. Is that fair to say? The previous government had this grand plan to implement a new network called the NBN (National Broadband Network) that would see fibre laid in every street and connected to every house in the country. The current governement came in and said whoah that's going to cost a fucking fortune let's just lay fibre in the street and then connect each house to the fibre with copper. The whole project will take decades to complete, millions if not billions of $$$ and by the time it's finished it will no doubt be years out of date! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swarley Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 Try some Boags, Coopers or James Squire brews afore ye go plus any of the smaller craft breweries like Burleigh Heads Brewing Co. Yeah I like the Boags stuff. The ice rooms in the off licenses are by far the best advance I've seen in the science of selling bevvy anywhere in the world. I tend to stick to Pure Blonde, but I do like Boags and James Squires range. Bit partial to the odd Tooheys New or XXXX Gold though, the "cooking lagers" of Australia. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swarley Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 Visitors who constantly whine that they don't know where anything is (plates, cutlery, cups, food etc etc). Why don't you open a couple of cupboards and have a look? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheScarf Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 That pisses me off too. More so when they aren't visiting for the first time. Surely they have a rough idea where the fucking cutlery drawer is. It hasn't fucking moved since the last time you were here. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swarley Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 It's the same when they wash the dishes. It's appreciated that the dishes have been washed and dried but then they are left scattered all over the kitchen because "we didn't know where everything went"! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 That pisses me off too. More so when they aren't visiting for the first time. Surely they have a rough idea where the fucking cutlery drawer is. It hasn't fucking moved since the last time you were here. You should now move it for a laugh 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shotgun Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 More to the point, doing something difficult/unpleasant/embarrassing. Growing a stupid 'tache, running 26 marathons in 26 days, eating a bowl of live insects. Not drinking for a month is a piece of piss, going trekking in South America is a holiday. I'm not sponsoring you for either. Many years ago, a friend and I cycled from Lands End to John O'Groats. I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of seethe we generated by 'not' collecting money for charity as part of the process. I kept explaining to people that we were merely going on a cycling holiday and that I didn't see why that obligated us to raise money. Eventually I started saying "OK, fine. Give me a pound and I'll donate it to charity. Or better yet, give the pound to charity yourself and leave me out of it." 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1320Lichtie Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 The previous government had this grand plan to implement a new network called the NBN (National Broadband Network) that would see fibre laid in every street and connected to every house in the country. The current governement came in and said whoah that's going to cost a fucking fortune let's just lay fibre in the street and then connect each house to the fibre with copper. The whole project will take decades to complete, millions if not billions of $$$ and by the time it's finished it will no doubt be years out of date! Lived in Oz 11 year ago, mind visiting my dad when he was on a building site, pulled up at the edge of site, OYF.... Boys walking about barefoot just with shorts on away up scaffold etc. Crazy b*****ds. So backwards in so many ways. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 The previous government had this grand plan to implement a new network called the NBN (National Broadband Network) that would see fibre laid in every street and connected to every house in the country. The current governement came in and said whoah that's going to cost a fucking fortune let's just lay fibre in the street and then connect each house to the fibre with copper. The whole project will take decades to complete, millions if not billions of $$$ and by the time it's finished it will no doubt be years out of date! BT were going to start building a national fibre optic network back in the early eighties before they were privatised. Instead we had several cable companies digging up the same streets until they went bust, and fibre still only reaches exchanges which can be streets away from your house. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invergowrie arab Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 People who sit out on the final table of a poker tournament hoping to survive to the money. Sub human scum. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zidane's child Posted January 8, 2015 Share Posted January 8, 2015 People going crazy for health and fitness around this time of the year. They go through the same rigmarole every f*****g year just to chuck after the first two weeks! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karpaty Posted January 8, 2015 Share Posted January 8, 2015 People who sit out on the final table of a poker tournament hoping to survive to the money. Sub human scum. That happened to me when I was fannying about with Play chips, was my first final table too (of a decent sized field). Went heads up technically but the fud who was sitting out nabbed the second cash, 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1320Lichtie Posted January 8, 2015 Share Posted January 8, 2015 Having so many different passwords for every fucking thing 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex Machina Posted January 8, 2015 Share Posted January 8, 2015 Went to McDonald's for a Crunchie Mcflurry yesterday and it cost me £1.19. Sickening. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monster Posted January 8, 2015 Share Posted January 8, 2015 Funnily enough we polished off the Tooheys New and I picked up a case of XXXX Gold and XXXX Bitter at the bottle shop. You talk like a native already. "Bottle shop" indeed! Bloody convicts. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IainMorton Posted January 8, 2015 Share Posted January 8, 2015 (edited) Visitors who constantly whine that they don't know where anything is (plates, cutlery, cups, food etc etc). Why don't you open a couple of cupboards and have a look? What kind of host are you? Why are your visitors looking for that stuff? Shouldn't you be preparing their food and drink for them? Edited January 8, 2015 by IainMorton 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swarley Posted January 8, 2015 Share Posted January 8, 2015 What kind of host are you? Why are your visitors looking for that stuff? Shouldn't you be preparing their food and drink for them? I'd agree if they were only visiting for a day or two but they are here for two months and have visited before so frack that! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shotgun Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 People who assume that because I'm British, I'm by definition, a fan of the Royal family. Just had an old woman gush to me about how adorable 'your prince' is. Bleh 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightswoodBear Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 You talk like a native already. "Bottle shop" indeed! Bloody convicts. Stopped off at the Pie Shop as well for a breakfast pie, then jumped in the Ute back to the house to watch the cricket this avo. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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