Idiot. You’re supposed to mix a nartinit, drink it, and give her the dry glass. Bro probably just cock blocked himself.

Oh this is fucking bullshit.

Chris T. is clearly Jesus mooching again. You know what that motherfucker can do with water, right?

Thank you for your service

I hit the comments first to affirm clear clickbait. You didn’t have to, but you did so the rest of us didn’t have to.

o7

24!

I’m not bold enough to choose picking 2 numbers, but I hope to be like you one day. Thank you for helping me get out of my shell.

Only on the way back from the bar.

Recently had acid at a concert, figuring we’d handle the Uber home fine. Nope… nooooo… The driver was super chatty. A guy didn’t use his indicator and the driver complained about it, kicking off a friend ranting about how it in itself is an indicator of the beginning of the downfall of society. We’d literally just covered a block and our plans to just shut the fuck up have already unravelled.

I’m thinking to myself, “Please shut up. Please shut up.”

Then I intervened and tried to get everyone acting cool again before my own brain started going down rabbit holes mid-sentence faster than my words could keep up. Suddenly I’m on the rant for what feels like forever before I catch myself, realise it wasn’t that long, and we’re barely a few minutes into a 15 min ride. It was then I realised we were in trouble and had an eternity of this to go.

It was all catastrophic when someone’s rant ended in crippling silence and someone would get the bright idea to try recover by small talking with the driver. The poor guy…

When we got home, I was suffocating in awkwardness, and got out of the car like someone just did a horrible fart in there. My brain’s battling itself over whether to apologise and say we’re philosophy majors or something and thank the driver. But I knew that was going to be fuel on the fire and envisioned myself talking this guy’s ear off on the street while he’s awkwardly trying to drive away from my 30 minute long apology; that was 10s apology and 29m analogies and tangents justifying my train of thought until I’m convinced the guy gets it. Just had to focus on shutting the fuck up, walking forward, and getting inside the house.

We all got inside and were immediately relieved. I tried to say, “Well, I think that went well.” but we were in stitches before I could finish the sentence.

In hindsight, we’re experienced enough, and I dunno why we thought it’d be fine and wouldn’t play out exactly like it did.

In Australia, this would be fine if the position description clearly states required experience. But even then, you better believe the right people are getting hired with some weeks or months for training time if they initially lack ithat experience.

Honestly, sounds like you just dodged a bullet big time. They’re reactive hiring—probably from bad culture resulting in high turnover rates—but are banking on their size and brand being attractive.

I know from first-hand experience that Apple does this, for example. However they get away with it in Australia by heavily utilising employment agencies as a buffer, and then competency tests to filter prior to joining and training. One of the groups in my workforce planning folio peaked at 62% annualised attrition, but it kept performing by acquiring talent that way. Absolutely miserable culture, but fresh meat kept lining up with sparkles in their eyes.

Don’t fall for it.

Well, yeah. What was the reason behind freezing the assets for again? Invasion of Ukraine, right? Right?

So what’s the solution here? When walking down the road with three buddies, skulk around in a combative stagger formation in case the IDF thinks you’re combatants and hopefully 3 of you make it to cover in time?

Apparently wouldn’t work since they used two hits anyway.

I actually like cargo capris haha. Excellent for rugged hiking in summer. Great for rock climbing in winter. Also super practical for music festivals and skating. The trick is to give off the “rocking it” vibe. Make your critics feel left out for being too insecure for cargo capris.

“3/4 cargos? Fucking loser.”

“Fuck yeah I am! Woooo!”

“…I wish I was him.”

I find it so weird and creepy that strangers are obsessed with the sexual activity of other strangers. Or just anything that literally has zero impact on them, but is suddenly an issue once they know it exists.

Makes me think of a Marcus Aurelius quote…

Take away your opinion, and then there is taken away the complaint: “I have been harmed.” Take away the complaint that “I have been harmed” and the harm is taken away.

It’s no one’s problem but your own and no one can fix your problems but you.

Revelations is going to be entirely man-made, huh?

And then it’ll blow over without a Judgement Day at the end, just another, “Whoops… How did we let that happen?”

That seems to be on point with how our species’ legacy’s gone so far.

Vietnam had leadership stability once?

Maybe this?

I know most people know this as a kneel, but one leg is standing. Just gotta somehow get more than 50% of your weight on the standing leg, thus technically resting the back knee, and this would be kneeling, while standing.

Knowing how far the wheels are from scraping the curb during a parallel reverse park.

Redbellies are only aggressive if threatened, unlike the browns that gets territorial and will go you. Redbellies aren’t lethal as far as I know, but they’ll mess up the body bad, especially a kid; necrosis from clotting, nerve damage, huge swelling, etc. Also definitely depends on the bite. Used to be friends with a snake handler who got bit by a coastal taipan and got anti-venom within the hour, but ended up being a dry bite (or mostly) anyway.

The one I hit with the mallet had just been knicked by the neighbour’s chainsaw cutting up the log out of a huge fallen tree. I had the mallet because I was doing my kid best to hit steel wedges in to help split the wood off. Suddenly, very pissed off snake going toward me fast.

Haha yeah. It’s from a really old Pearl kit from the 60s that I’ve had since I was 6 after finding it at a garage sale. It sounds gorgeous, especially for jazz. Unfortunately I can’t set it up where I am at the moment but we needed a coffee table, so a $10 second-hand piece of glass later, ta-da!

Not in my current house which is more in a city area, but I am about to move back into more bushland so, yeah. A sharpened shovel for the yard and garage. But with this new property, I should really only need to cover any gaps under the fencing with chicken wire and the grass beyond in the bush doesn’t get too tall. Need to do that for fires anyway.

His breed is a dog. Ha, really that’s how it translates. The breed is a Finnish Lapphund. “Hund” is German for “a dog” and the rest is just geographical, where Lappi is Finnish for the Lapland region in the far north parts of Finland. So he’s “a dog from Lapland in Finland”.

But anyway, shedding. Double-coated breed (obviously since homeland is in the Arctic Circle). Really active herder/working breed that handles Australian summer temps totally fine (he’s camped in 43C). But also in the alpine region he’ll choose to go into the howling wind, dig a pit in the snow, and sleep there like it’s heaven.Super minimal shedding all year round, basically nothing.

“But how is that possible?”

The answer is October. He “explodes” the undercoat over a few weeks and it’s fucking insane. It just keep fucking dropping. I don’t know where it all comes from! After that, he just stops growing more until it starts cooling again. Imagine this brushing damned near daily for 2-3 weeks.

His natural version of taking off the ski jacket, jumper, shirt, and thermals to get down to the shorts and singlet I guess.

Right now, my shoe.

This is his standard. Loves a pat, but love his own space to sleep. Can’t even get a couch cuddle for more than 30s until he plonks off and sleeps on the cold floor. Maybe up in the snow this season he’ll be forced to cuddle me, but his breed is made for sleeping out in the snow so probably not.

Edit: He’s moved further away to colder floor :( And no, it’s not hot. It’s 8C (46F).