Things that annoy you...

geez =\
how many got-danged pigeons y'all got up north?

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"My Dionne Warwick understanding of your dream indicates that you are ambivalent on how you want life to eventually screw you." - Joel

"Ever try to forcibly pin down a house cat? It's not easy." - Captain Steel

"I just can't get pass sticking a finger up a dog's butt." - John Dumbear

pretty sure "bouldering" is at 1:58 in this clip. i can't explain it other than aussie's are wonky folk

When people make you look at or watch things on THEIR cell phone.

I have one cousin who will try to show you a hundred photos on his phone while he holds it... while outdoors...
You can't see anything unless it's at a perfect angle, and you have to hold it yourself to get the right angle - but my cousin wants to narrate and tell you what each picture (that you can't see) is of. Even when you tell him you can't see it due to reflections or the sun or the angle, he'll just move it a bit... and you still can't see it... and just keep going through them as if you're looking at an old fashion photo album.

I always get the moms with their newborns. Thank you, one photo of a two-months old is fine. Don’t need more. 😎

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This reminded me of a guy I worked with who brought his daughter's wedding photos to work.

He bugged me all day to look at them, I finally conceded in the last hour of our work day. He had a stack of photos about 6 inches high (several hundred). As he went through them (slowly and meticulously) he'd tell me who each person was, their name, their relation to him, etc. Since the wedding party was the same people over and over - after about the 10th photo, I started telling him their names & relation.

He didn't take the hint and just kept going, spending about 2 minutes narrating each photo.

After a half hour, and seeing the stack of photos still had about 3/4 left to go, I realized I was undergoing some weird form of torture that might not end even after the work day was long over.

bouldering is like rock climbing but without using ropes

Could have said, "She's hot! Can I give her a go when the marriage fails?"

Ugh, what a pain. I can’t even.

Job interviews.

I've come up with answers to common interview questions that guarantee me NOT to get the job...

Q. Are you a self-starter?
A. No, I require a rip cord... and about three pulls.

Q. What would you say is your greatest deficit?
A. The difficulty I experience in answering questions that require me to deprecate myself.

Q. Why does your resume contain such long gaps between jobs?
A. I didn't want to include that, between jobs, I kept going back to work at The Gap.

Q. How are you at multi-tasking?
A. Not very good because newer statistics show that those who take tasks one by one, completing each one before starting another are ultimately more efficient, more focused, make less mistakes, are better at becoming specialists and are more dependable workers.

Q. Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
A. In the year 2027. (Do you mean if living or dead?)

Q. Do you consider yourself a go-getter?
A. If coffee is involved, then definitely!

Bring me a medium coffee & the job is yours!

I love the show "Battlebots". Coming from an engineering background, I can appreciate the designs of competitors. But in its current format, it is unwatchable. I record the three hour episodes and condense the viewing to a mere thirty minutes of action.

I had this one job where I was hired as a temp. Unfortunately, the direct employees were under the impression that any temps were there to take their jobs & replace them, so they refused to even speak to me or the other temps.

However, I was ordered by my supervisor to approach the other employees daily and request they train me for the job I was hired for - they all refused.

So, each morning I'd go to each employee's cubicle, remind them of what I was instructed to do and ask if there was anything they'd like to show me or anything I could help them with.

The answer I got was "I'm too busy to train you. Go away. Go bother someone else."

So, before I left I'd always ask if I could go get them some coffee. Or I'd say, "In that case, I'm gonna go get some coffee - do you want me to bring you back one, and if so, how do you take it?" (No one ever took me up on the offer.)

On the upside there was one girl who'd deal with me (she usually just gave me stuff to file in cabinets which allowed me to at least "look busy" for part of the day.)

I was let go after 4 months because I pretty much did nothing all day because no one would train me, give me access to necessary computer programs (which they were supposed to have done during my first week) or give me assignments - it was like a George Costanza job, working on the Penske file!

Not Country music (though sometimes), but rather the subject of this lovely ballad...

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"Film is a disease. When it infects your bloodstream it takes over as the number one hormone. It bosses the enzymes, directs the pineal gland, plays Iago to your psyche. As with heroin, the antidote to Film is more Film." - Frank Capra

A million years ago I had a temp job in London. As I was walking into the office I heard two women loudly complaining that “this place is going to be full of bloody temps!”. And then I walked in.

Yes. It gets run down quite a lot by people who haven't seen it since it's heyday or Aussie's (who usually haven't seen it in forever either and watch Home & Away, its 'rival') but it's got quite the resume, is one of the more progressive soaps (especially in Oz) and, pretty much, is responsible for training most of the Australian film services for the last 30+ years. A few former cast members you might've heard of

https://variety.com/lists/neighbours...a-lee-furness/

TBF, some of those were only for a few episodes or minor/guest characters, but there's also a few which aren't on that list or which US audiences might not know, but UK/European ones would. A few more you might know include Alan Dale, Radha Mitchell, (Eliza Taylor, Bob Morley and Dichen Lachman from The 100) Jesse Spencer, Ashleigh Brewer and Delta Goodrem. There may well be others who I just don't know have turned up someone on US TV or a streaming show.

Some of us are still hopeful, but while I still have hope, I have to admit it does seem to be a very long shot that someone will change their mind and pick it up.

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⬆️ Interesting. I hope it continues for you & other fans.

Coronation Street is still going, isn’t it? (Which is hard to believe.)

sunburned

More Australians have skin cancer from the sun than any other country. Sunblock!

dont think thats true theres other countrys get alot of sun . i never get sunburned, its my first time getting sunburned.

Added fees.

I bought a pair of concert tickets. Face Value: $240.00 each
Amount charged to my credit card? $566.80

Screw you, Ticketmaster.

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