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  • Wellington Hostel Fire

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    @MN5 said in Wellington Hostel Fire:

    @SynicBast said in Wellington Hostel Fire:

    I'm all good. Thankfully I live in a boarding lodge in Mt Vic overlooking the Basin rtahre than Loafer's Lodge which catered for a rather different level of clientele. I've been working 7 days a week until very recently which is why I've been absent (that and falling out of love with rugby).

    Really appreciate the concern.

    As long as you’re still in love with cricket, I imagine the views of the basin would be magnificent.

    Yeah, although the hedgerow has grown so much it obscures the view from our deck, but up on the second floor I am perfectly positioned at the southern end , around wide mid on. Still bitching mightily about makeweights like kuggeleijn being preferred to Boulty

  • Eurovision 2023

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    Finished semi 2, and the final. Enjoyed it actually. Amazing how quickly a tune can earworm with just a second listen.

    Still not as good as last year, though, which was a cracker.

  • Old internet videos - the classics

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    @Tim She could make a video about washing clothes and I would watch. 😉

  • Auckland Summer

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    @taniwharugby Yes lots of people will be harrowed by this for life.

    I cannot understand why these poor decisions were made. My only guess is over-familiarity meant that the risk was undervalued. Like people driving worse in their own neighbourhood or from a personal perspective doing dumb shit in my home DIY that I would never accept at work. But I don't short-cut when I have responsibility for others.

    I have a soupcon of sympathy for those being deemed culpable, as they will have to live with this for the rest of their lives, but at least they have a rest of their lives.

  • Anzac Day

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    @MN5 said in Anzac Day:

    Thank goodness there are avenues to try and address this nowadays.

    Not sure how those 'avenues' would cope with large numbers but yes, any forces member that comes back from a war zone goes into a decompression programme on return now.

  • Deep and meaningful shit

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  • Star link

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    @NTA said in Star link:

    @Kirwan said in Star link:

    @Hooroo said in Star link:

    Big box arrived with Starlink on it.

    Too scared to open it!!

    Is it a mission to set up?

    So jealous, I want pics please. And do a speed test for us nerds.

    Wouldn't be able to touch the fibre connections you get over there for speed, surely?

    No it doesn’t but sits nicely in the gap between copper/wireless/cellular and fibre.
    Comfortably capable of being a work horse for two working from home running concurrent teams meetings.
    The modem/router that comes with it is much better quality than your usual ISP rubbish as well. I have it set up out in the paddock where I have the office/caravan but connect a TV to it in the house 40 metres away to stream sport.
    Haven’t brought the Ethernet adapter so I can set up mesh yet.

  • Latitude credit identity data breach

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    @Tim Received an email from Latitude as I have a Gem Visa card for hire purchases (hardly ever use it). However, it appears I don't need to do anything, as they'll have an old version number of my driver licence. I signed up for the card in 2015, and replaced my licence in 2017 when it was due, so it'll have a different version number. I must say the email I received wasn't hugely clear.

  • Gluttony / Indulgence ...

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    @Hooroo said in Gluttony / Indulgence ...:

    @mariner4life said in Gluttony / Indulgence ...:

    @voodoo said in Gluttony / Indulgence ...:

    I draw the line at cheerios. Disgusting little things

    fuck off fluffybunny

    @Smudge @Hooroo fight this fucker

    Fuck that dickhead!!!

    Oi!

  • Parenting

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    @gt12 said in Parenting:

    @antipodean said in Parenting:

    @Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @antipodean said in Grumpy Old Man:

    @No-Quarter said in Grumpy Old Man:

    A thread for grumpy old men that complain about kids

    I do like how old people complain that children have access to quality of life improving innovations.

    In all seriousness, I think kids today have as rough a life as any generation. Materially better off, but life throws them much more shit like cyber-bullying than in days gone past.

    I remember bullying as a kid and I can't think of much worse than being exposed to it 24/7

    I guess it's easier at my age to say it, but the earlier kids can learn not to give a flying fuck what their peers think about aspects that don't matter, the better. The difficult bit from where I stand being the determination of what matters.

    Then there's the bit of me that looks at what's going on and thinking perhaps a bit of peer pressure to conform isn't as bad as contemporary perception would have us believe.

    Having seen a bit of how my students interact, all I can say is thank fuck we didn’t have this technology when we were younger.

    I don’t disagree about the peer pressure part, but equally I’m not sure that the peer pressure is in any way pushing conformity as anarchy. Maybe that’s a local thing here though (see the sushi licking thing for examples).

    When the web and social media took off, it was said that people took their everyday values/morals online. You have to ask if this is now the other way around with today's kids - the first generation to grow up fully with social media. Hardly a week seems to go by without some murder or act of extreme violence cooked up by social media being reported and growing up just seems worse than when I grew up.

    At 17, I was getting drunk, falling off motorcycles, making an arse of myself with women and generally endangering myself - but somehow survived. When I look at kids today, there's a lot more societal fear and control around and less opportunity to simply go out and explore life, fuck up, learn and move forward.

    They seem to live a more straight-jacketed life than my generation did and I think it's a tougher life, mentally and emotionally, in many ways.

  • Microsoft edge

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    @nostrildamus said in Microsoft edge:

    @Kruse said in Microsoft edge:

    @nostrildamus Hmmm... I'll look at Brave, hadn't heard of it before.

    Basically Chrome with far less tracking and seems a little quicker (but have not tested). I suspect it doesn't tax the processor as much as Chrome, but again haven't tested.

    Yeah - from some cursory research... like many of the new generation - all based on Chromium (even Edge is based on Chromium, ffs) - slightly less heavy than Chrome, with less of the tracking shit by default.
    But once again - the classic axiom: if the 'product' is free... YOU are the product. So, gotta wonder how they're making their money. Perhaps via that BAT system, which looks intriguing?

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  • Your personal bottom 10 songs

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    I gotta add a couple of absolute pieces of shit from Pearl Jam

    Wish List

    And fucking Last Kiss

    Just awful

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    Have searched my playlists for artists that meet the thread title and all I can come up with is a couple from a list where Paul Weller has provided songs (or collaborated with) other artists. He often hears a voice and thinks he has a song for it that he wont use himself. Neither of these are artists that I would listen to anything else of theirs.

    Olly Murs - Let Me In
    Gabrielle - Why

    Plenty of 'one song' artists but I wouldn't say I don't really like them. They just had one song that I do like listening to and a bunch I could take or leave.

  • WTSF - Classic Rock Radio That Rocks

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  • A-Z of Songs with Girl's names in the title

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  • Uncool music you like

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    Does Horrorshow qualify?

  • Alec Baldwin

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    Reckon he’ll end up on the chain gang. Not.

  • Mountain biking?

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    Hot but enjoyable trail ride yesterday from Coronet to Arrowtown.

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  • Skeletons in the closet

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    On a family holiday to Oz when I was 10 a visitor turned up to our Sydney hotel.

    He was quite chatty and knew some really keen card tricks which my Mum wasn't keen on us learning.

    It turned out that my mums Dad dies when she was six. The four kids were farmed out for a few years to various rellies - my Mum lived with her grandparents.

    Then my grandmother got the family back together again in a new home complete with a boarder. This was quite the sensation back in the 1930's especially as the 'boarder' was a Jew.

    Our visitor was my Uncle David, the result of the boarder and my grandmothers 'flatting arrangement'.

    David had fled to Oz in the early 60's to escape the NZ Police. Obviously not serious enough to be extradited, but he was a definitely a wide boy. Very flashy. lots of cash. Most interesting for a young lad the model for the nude model at the Three Sisters in the Blue Mountains was his girlfriend.

    He was shot dead two years later in a gang related incident in west Sydney, so that was the only time I met the guy.