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Company directors can, in theory, be held personally liable for debts incurred by a company trading while insolvent (unable to pay its debts as and when they fall due). I wonder if anyone will get done for insolvent trading in this instance. That Qantas executive's joke that the Australian...

It's occurred to me that we've just finished the longest period of daylight savings possible under the current rules. The first Sunday in October fell on 1 October, the first Sunday in April fell on 7 April, and there was a leap day in February. I wonder how often it falls that way. I used to...

Something that will interest fellow fans of the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four: today is April 4, 2024, 40 years exactly after the day when the first chapter is set. Many of its warnings are only just coming true: mass surveillance, songs and stories written by machine/AI, and the truth itself...

I'm looking at the AFL fixture ahead and half the stadium names have been changed. Stadium naming rights are stupid - they cheapen the venue's image and rip out a piece of its identity and soul, since they chop and change with the commercial winds. Places are important in our lives, especially...

It's no skin off my nose, but I find it dumb that the NRL is holding its season opener on the other side of the world, in a country where rugby league has no hope of real traction despite its large population. Someone asked me why the NRL is doing that, and my reply was 'It's just a gimmick, and...

When people have filthy lenses on their smartphone cameras and don't clean them before taking a photo. It looks like s**t. It takes 2 seconds to clean the lens.

In 2018 (don't laugh) I bought a Crows 1997-1998 premiership DVD set from JB Hi-Fi. It was the first DVD I'd bought for a couple of years. I'm pretty confident it will be the last DVD I will ever purchase.

Road tolls. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-26/navigating-nsw-rozelle-interchange-explainer/103149614 Coming from the South Australian perspective, I think charging people $11 a day to use a quicker route is disgusting. Yes these projects improve commute times and cost a lot of money to...

The seemingly new phenomenon of Aussies calling it a 'down payment'. It's called a bloody deposit - enough with this Yankee crap.

We've cut back a lot on eating out and takeaway due to the cost of living - another thing that shits me! I would say our spending on eating out/takeaway has more than halved.

Once you give tired, stressed people the option to have food delivered you can't take it away. I just think it's regrettable and not sure if it's sustainable with what Uber delivery people get paid.

Unpopular opinion: Uber Eats and the like do more harm to society than good. There was once a time when you could only get pizza delivered, and to order anything else you needed to get off your arse and collect it yourself. Now you can just press the re-order button and some below-minimum-wage...

I get it from the books.

I read a moderate amount of print, perhaps an hour a day during my commute on the bus. I read a lot more on the internet - Bigfooty, ABC News, Reddit, etc. I find that the more I've read in the previous month or so, the better my writing is. I call it osmosis - one's mind gets immersed in the...

On Instagram I got an ad for a survey from the Monash Accident Research Centre seeking opinions from drivers in the gig economy. I think they're trying to tease out answers on whether gig economy drivers feel pressured to take risks due to their earnings being task-based rather than time-based...

I agree that the shiny new SUV is the new quarter-acre block. Can't have a family without an SUV, can we?

People are obsessed with these castle-like SUVs, with teeny tiny windows and all these active safety features like auto-braking, lane departure warning, etc. I say it's leading to a complacent attitude which I would describe as: 'My car is safe because it's big with twenty airbags and all the...

It might be an illusion, but I've noticed a proliferation in people having brand-new cars, even people who I think don't have a particularly high income (though I don't know the details of their finances - just a guess). Is getting a car loan or leasing a brand-new car a generational difference?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-27/boomers-boosting-inflation-as-the-rba-lifts-rates/102610512 One of the current sore points is the idea that 'boomer' generations who have paid their house off or who have tiny mortgages aren't shouldering the burden of spiralling mortgage repayments and rents.

I think it's good that everyone has their own style. I just get pissed when I see drivel on the net, and I wonder who their English teacher was. I had a succession of grammar Nazis for teachers. I remember being really annoyed at how much one criticised my first essay in Year 9, then being very...

I've posted a few threads lately, but hear me out. This is by no means an original thought, and I'm not exactly Ernest Hemingway. But has anyone else noticed that the general standard of non-professional writing in Australia seems to be slipping and plumbing new depths all the time? You read a...

Does anyone seriously think the cost of shelter doubling every few years is healthy for society?

These things aren't necessarily restricted to certain generations, but the rise of things like Uber Eats certainly have an age component. Getting all kinds of takeaway food delivered at the tap of a screen (as opposed to just pizza) has, I think, broken through the psychological barrier of...

The more you expect human beings to use increasingly lengthy and nonsensical passwords and change them very frequently, in my view the more you encourage people to write it down and rehash the same thing.

The human brain is not built for, and is not capable of, remembering several long strings of nonsensical characters that get changed regularly. People say don't use the same password for multiple things. Who the heck can remember several passwords that are strong? Saved passwords are making that...

Does it allow you to better appreciate the flavours of savoury foods?

There is a local council here in Adelaide (the West Torrens Council) that requires relevant employees to do a food safety online course every year. Every year. heck me. And most of the questions are common sense like 'Is it OK to leave food out of the fridge for over three hours?' and 'Should...

This happened to me twice, and I think it had something to do with some small, obscure websites from which I had shopped online (clothes etc). They may have had data breaches and exposed my card. I was alerted by seeing small transactions of about $30 claiming to be from sites I'd never visited.

Via a card or the bank account itself?

Who knows? Maybe sugar-free Sunkist was selling but normal Sunkist wasn't. Woolworths has certainly stopped selling it (and there is no way I'm going to a different supermarket for some soft drink).