Grumpy Old Man
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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
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@mikedogz said in Grumpy Old Man:
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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.
- also "skedyool"
- apostrophe abuse (still(
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Back to the original point of this thread...
My little Bosch cordless garden saw has gone and knackered itself. It won't hold a charge and the charging circuit switches off after a few minutes. I replaced the battery pack last year so I suspect the electronics have fried themselves. Really pissed off as it's been my favourite, most-used, go-to garden tool for years.
Bugger. Really annoyed.
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@victor-meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
Back to the original point of this thread...
My little Bosch cordless garden saw has gone and knackered itself. It won't hold a charge and the charging circuit switches off after a few minutes. I replaced the battery pack last year so I suspect the electronics have fried themselves. Really pissed off as it's been my favourite, most-used, go-to garden tool for years.
Bugger. Really annoyed.
As long as you don't mention German engineering.
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Lollipop men / ladies in the UK.
I had the misfortune of driving through Sth East London this afternoon when traffic is typically quite heavy.
They don’t help matters. At all. I get school
age kids and parents need to be able to cross roads safely, but surely (as we used to do in school road patrol) you wait until there’s a reasonable sized group to cross and then stop traffic when a gap appears.You don’t stop traffic several times a minute, to let individuals cross.
Old, power crazed f**ks.
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@majorrage said in Grumpy Old Man:
Saturday mornings without rugby.
You can’t just have it for 6 weeks then just turn it off. Does t work like that.
6 weeks?? How do you have just 6 weeks? I been going to Saturday morning (college stuff) up until about 2 weeks ago!
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@nepia said in Grumpy Old Man:
@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.
You right Nepia, I used to deliver parcels for Aus post, and was quite normal to just card parcels, especially if there a dog sign or anything at gate, but for plenty of other reasons too. I can verify it happens mate. Actuall unit blocks with electronic gates are another thing, I used to just write out cards and postie would put it in box quite often. But we weren't allowed to leave parcels if noone was home etc!
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@dan54 said in Grumpy Old Man:
@majorrage said in Grumpy Old Man:
Saturday mornings without rugby.
You can’t just have it for 6 weeks then just turn it off. Does t work like that.
6 weeks?? How do you have just 6 weeks? I been going to Saturday morning (college stuff) up until about 2 weeks ago!
Roll out of bed, make a coffee, sit down and watch NZ / SA / Oz / Arg. Brilliant.
