Grumpy Old Man
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@nostrildamus said in Grumpy Old Man:
@crazy-horse said in Grumpy Old Man:
@chimoaus said in Grumpy Old Man:
Also why the fuck can cars even go that fast when the speed limit is 100. Shouldnt all passenger vehicles be restricted like buses and trucks?
Hell no!
hang on, aren't you the fuzz? Do you really want the public to have fast cars? Or have I been away too long and NZ/Australian police have followed their Italian colleagues?
Italian Police Use Lamborghini Huracan to Transport Kidney 300 Miles in Just Two Hours
I'm not sure there's anything more Italian than this.
God I love that link, that's the sort of news I like to hear about!
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@victor-meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
Dentists. Just about had bloody enough of them.
Not the individuals, mind. The mad Iranian who masquerades as my dentist does a good job and is really good with patients like me who dislike any teeth-prodding with a passion. And the specialist who did my root canal work a few months back was gentleness personified - even though I couldn't understand a bloody word she said due to her full-face Covid mask with made her look and sound like a diminutive Darth Vader.
No, I went in to prep for a crown a few days to sort out some sensitivity and put some longstanding problems to bed. Only the tooth has now morphed into an infected root which feels like someone has positioned a fucking red-hot jack-hammer under the gum.
The mad Iranian has referred me to the mini-Darth Vader for an emergency appointment ASAP so hopefully things will get sorted out quickly, but I'm seriously grumpy with the bloody pain and the thought of multiple trips to Ms Vader's couch.
Can I make a huge diva request that everyone "spoilers" dental work details please, just for me , absolutely makes me shiver, still can't unsee that tooth fairy meme. I'm fine for a check up with my lovely dentist but years of watching makeover series where people's teeth get pulled and drilled has me TRIGGGGGGERRRRED.
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@r-l said in Grumpy Old Man:
Can I make a huge diva request that everyone "spoilers" dental work details please, just for me , absolutely makes me shiver, still can't unsee that tooth fairy meme. I'm fine for a check up with my lovely dentist but years of watching makeover series where people's teeth get pulled and drilled has me TRIGGGGGGERRRRED.
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I deliberately didn't mention the gory bits.
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@r-l said in Grumpy Old Man:
@victor-meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
Dentists. Just about had bloody enough of them.
Not the individuals, mind. The mad Iranian who masquerades as my dentist does a good job and is really good with patients like me who dislike any teeth-prodding with a passion. And the specialist who did my root canal work a few months back was gentleness personified - even though I couldn't understand a bloody word she said due to her full-face Covid mask with made her look and sound like a diminutive Darth Vader.
No, I went in to prep for a crown a few days to sort out some sensitivity and put some longstanding problems to bed. Only the tooth has now morphed into an infected root which feels like someone has positioned a fucking red-hot jack-hammer under the gum.
The mad Iranian has referred me to the mini-Darth Vader for an emergency appointment ASAP so hopefully things will get sorted out quickly, but I'm seriously grumpy with the bloody pain and the thought of multiple trips to Ms Vader's couch.
Can I make a huge diva request that everyone "spoilers" dental work details please, just for me , absolutely makes me shiver, still can't unsee that tooth fairy meme. I'm fine for a check up with my lovely dentist but years of watching makeover series where people's teeth get pulled and drilled has me TRIGGGGGGERRRRED.
Dentists will always end in grumpy old man thread.. even if not physical pain it is always financial pain.
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@crazy-horse If the car was fitted with auto emergency braking it would prevent the rear end collision, but I get what you are saying. The stats are pretty clear, a car less then 10 years old fitted with the latest safety equipment reduces young peoples chances of being killed on the roads by 85%. I know what type of car I want my loved ones driving, and it's not an old car.
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@voodoo I appreciate the difficult operating environment they find themselves in, but AusPost is hardly covering themselves in glory.
Perhaps they should employ some of the Amazon logistics managers?
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@antipodean I literally could have walked over there and collected it 3 1/2 weeks ago!
Gotta laugh - well Bunnings laughed anyway when I had to go there the day before the puppy arrived to buy another one
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@voodoo Whenever my sister sends me stuff from NZ it hits Oz within a few days and then I get it a few weeks later.
I have a parcel locker too so I don't get the fake we tried to deliver your parcel card even though it's lockdown and you've been home all day.
Auspost is hopeless.
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@bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
@nepia said in Grumpy Old Man:
fake we tried to deliver your parcel card
So you're saying they deliberately go to people's places without the parcel, just to put a card through the door, meaning they have to come back?
The card usually means you have to collect it from the postshop.
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@bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
@nepia ohhh so you're saying they drive there, sneak the card into your letterbox so they don't have to deliver the parcel that's sitting in their van while they deliver the card. Sound logic 😁
He'd be correct too. Literally no knock on the door. It's as if they already wrote the card before getting out of the van.
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@antipodean very unaustralian.
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@bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
@nepia ohhh so you're saying they drive there, sneak the card into your letterbox so they don't have to deliver the parcel that's sitting in their van while they deliver the card. Sound logic 😁
You can disbelieve all you like but ask any Sydneysider (I'm not sure about the rest of Oz) and they'll have a similar story.
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@nepia didn't say I disbelieve you! We had both a milkman and a courier not deliver to our house for a week - access to our house is from a walkway which has 3 other houses between two parallel roads and one end was blocked. You can access the path from the non blocked end or halfway along, between some garages. They couldn't figure it out on multiple visits, must have thought we were trapped in our house - without milk.
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@voodoo said in Grumpy Old Man:
No risk of the delivery guy for my new dog gate getting a speeding ticket - purchased online on 20 August, packed by the shop (75kms from my house) on 20 August, shipped on 20 August - still in transit as of the 15th of September...
Well, clearly someone on the Fern works at AusPost because my new baby/puppy gate arrived today!
As I mentioned, I had to buy another from Bunnings given the delay, so I now have a surplus.
If anyone on here wants a baby gate for free, let me know, I'm happy to post it if you pay for postage.
If you're in Sydney it should get to you by Xmas.
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New Zealanders starting to pronounce words like American's, like Project, Data
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When sports reports talk about " The battle of the Bombays" When Auckland teams play Waikato teams. Fuck off, that's in the heart of Counties Country, which means it's in Chiefs Country also.
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All Blacks Haircuts. Seriously, I’m obviously at that age where I think they’re basically all terrible. Older hands like Whitelock and Retallick are doing their best but they’re fighting a losing battle against all the youngsters.
Just call me Abe Simpson
