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@Snowy yeah my evening shift on the first night consisted of indoor cricket
Haha. We used to play cricket on the forecourt and the boss caught us. We invited him to join our indoor cricket team and then it was just practice, not misbehaving. He was a good fluffybunny and not bad at cricket either.
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BTW, the youngest (who hijacked my Fern account a while back) sits beside me and when she saw me browsing the Fern the other week announced to them all that JC was back on his incel group.
We're not incels.
We're married.
Subtle difference?
Subtleties are oh-so-important at this age.
I like cooking dogs and kids.
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BTW, the youngest (who hijacked my Fern account a while back) sits beside me and when she saw me browsing the Fern the other week announced to them all that JC was back on his incel group.
We're not incels.
We're married.
Subtle difference?
Subtleties are oh-so-important at this age.
I like cooking dogs and kids.
I like cooking, dogs, and kids.Mumble, mumble, something about helping Uncle Jack off a horse. Mumble, mumble.
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@mariner4life mobil was my first job out of school. Got a written warning after my first day.
I got a roofing job for a couple of months when I lived in Sydney, one of the best jobs I ever had!
The price of beer in Australia is fucked. I'm quite happy drinking Coors, Heineken, Guinness, fosters, bud. Probably not much more than a tenner for a dozen here, between 3-4 pound for a pint...a proper pint.
Please explain
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he wanted to show me that you had to work for money and that any job is a good job.
Probably the most important life lesson my Dad taught me too.
Had a Sunday Times paper round at 12 and worked in Woolworths after school 3 days a week and during the holidays when I was 14. Left school at 17 after getting UE but didn't go to Uni and went down the NZCE route.
With the push to everything being learned at a University and rules about employing youngsters, you wonder if kids today have the job opportunities and tertiary education choices we had.
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@Victor-Meldrew got a mate who is an accredited floor layer. They're flat out to the point where he took his son on as an apprentice. The money is amazing but the physical work is tough.
In Australia the lack of vocational training is becoming an issue
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@Victor-Meldrew got a mate who is an accredited floor layer. They're flat out to the point where he took his son on as an apprentice. The money is amazing but the physical work is tough.
In Australia the lack of vocational training is becoming an issue
Ditto in the UK. Everything is via University.
My daughter is a Uni-educated nurse and she really struggled with the mental pressure of dealing with patients and the less-glamorous side when she qualified. Big contrast to my sister who spent the 1st year of her nursing training washing patients and emptying bed-pans - nothing fazed her after that and ensured she'd made the right career choice.
Less opportunity for kids and way more pressure these days in many ways.
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@Victor-Meldrew got a mate who is an accredited floor layer. They're flat out to the point where he took his son on as an apprentice. The money is amazing but the physical work is tough.
In Australia the lack of vocational training is becoming an issue
A real problem is people tend to think of it in binary terms. A mate of mine started life as an electrician, put himself through uni to become an electrical engineer and is now doing very well thank you very much for a major mining company.
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Something else which is funny is I find middle aged woman attractive now when I never used too. Mind you I haven't stopped looking at young woman too.
I'm with you there. There is a lot to find sexy about an older woman once you realise you're married to one
However, on the younger crowd: a 40yo mate of mine found himself in a strip club talking to a stripper who just got off shift. Now of course, the caveat is she's there to keep you at arm's length and try to get you to spend, but once they got a couple of drinks in, and just started talking about life in general, he really appreciated her perspective on life.
Not burdened with kids and 20 years together, he found it very refreshing to speak to a woman who wasn't a work colleague or part of the circle of friends.
No midlife crisis just yet.
.... BTW, the youngest (who hijacked my Fern account a while back) sits beside me and when she saw me browsing the Fern the other week announced to them all that JC was back on his incel group. She thinks @Catogrande is funny, so there’s no helping her.
Any chance of a pic and following that an address if deemed appropriate?
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All jokes aside the biggest thing I note about me with getting older is boozing.
My desire just drops and drops. I still love a beer, but a pint or two is generally enough for me these days. I just can’t be bothered with the shit sleep, hangover, hangxiety and The General lousy feelings and demeanor the next day.
A mate got me going on Heineken double zeros and I’m turning for them in a big way. They really do allow you to have a session with your buddies, in a way that water, coke and line Soda don’t.
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@Catogrande said in Aging:
Something else which is funny is I find middle aged woman attractive now when I never used too. Mind you I haven't stopped looking at young woman too.
I'm with you there. There is a lot to find sexy about an older woman once you realise you're married to one
However, on the younger crowd: a 40yo mate of mine found himself in a strip club talking to a stripper who just got off shift. Now of course, the caveat is she's there to keep you at arm's length and try to get you to spend, but once they got a couple of drinks in, and just started talking about life in general, he really appreciated her perspective on life.
Not burdened with kids and 20 years together, he found it very refreshing to speak to a woman who wasn't a work colleague or part of the circle of friends.
No midlife crisis just yet.
.... BTW, the youngest (who hijacked my Fern account a while back) sits beside me and when she saw me browsing the Fern the other week announced to them all that JC was back on his incel group. She thinks @Catogrande is funny, so there’s no helping her.
Any chance of a pic and following that an address if deemed appropriate?
I’m pretty sure there are laws against that or something. She comes from Rotorua and lives in Hastings so she
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@MajorRage said in Aging:
Heineken double zeros
they must be different to the Heineken low alcohol or zero alcohol shite we get here, which is some of the worst 'beer' I have tasted.
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@MajorRage said in Aging:
I just can’t be bothered with the shit sleep, hangover, hangxiety and The General lousy feelings and demeanor the next day.
Neither can I, so I decided to invest in decent wines and cut back on the daily drinking of supermarket cheapies.
The growing collection of decent wines and continuing production of cheapo emptiies indicates it didn't quite work out the way it as supposed to...
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@taniwharugby said in Aging:
@MajorRage said in Aging:
Heineken double zeros
they must be different to the Heineken low alcohol or zero alcohol shite we get here, which is some of the worst 'beer' I have tasted.
Hold tight though. One of the biggest development and growth areas in beer/spirits is low/no alcohol with decent taste. It will take a while to filter through, especially in NZ where low alcohol anything is a hard sell. Won't take much for a groundswell via social media though.
In the meantime there are some already out there, you just have to track them down.
Seedlip 'Gin' has all the taste of normal gin without the kick and is great to alternate onto during a session. Maybe a real G&T to kickstart then move onto these?
In NZ beer wise Croucher make an excellent IPA at just over 2%. Not zero alcohol but that is at a level that your body can keep up with processing it. Even drinking something like Emerson's Bookbinder without chugging it back won't get you pissed (3.8%) especially if eating as well.
The craft beer scene in Europe is moving away from big beers that you can only drink a couple of. They want to sell more volume and customers want to drink more of it without getting drunk. Lots of experimentation is going on to keep flavours without the esters.
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Am I remembering this wrong but did you used to walk into a bottle shop and fill up your own 2l flagon of beer, cant recall seeing that here in Oz. Got stopped by the cops once walking down the street carrying two of them. Think I was 16 and drinking age was 20.
I remember my father bringing flagons home from the local.
So this prompted me to remember that my very first ever job was washing the flagons, then filling them - Lion Brown as well as Lion Red and stacking them in the chiller.
Five flagons to an ABC crate. Great fun. Big long bath thing Line a dozen dirty bottles over a pipe that squirted a pathetic amount of tepid water into them, put them on the bottle brush attachment, keeping your hands well clear if you didn't want really nasty friction burns drain them, fill them, hit the rubber seal on with a mallet, screw the top on.
It was great fun. From memory I'd get a buck for about 3 hrs work which was the cost of a movie ticket with an ice cream at intermission.Looking back my brother and I probably saved the old man half an FTE / week from about age 10 what with stacking crates of empties, doing stock takes, filling shelves, spending hours ringing up the most common cost on the till "to get the assessment right". I'd pretty much forgotten all that. I guess living in a main street with no other kids around or areas to play except the car park it was just what we did. Also made up for never having to make a bed or do any household chores, have restaurant meals (such as they were) three times a day and a kitchen to make us whatever we wanted, whenever we wanted.
Lots of lonely, young female staff too who would dote on you. Damn my parents for splitting up just as that was getting interesting....