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The Perth Thread - Part 4
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You fully deserve your day off ban for that.
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You my friend win the Internet today lol
Any enjoyment from a 40c+ is a definate BAN
Anyone that works in an air conditioned office has no right to complain about the heat.
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I think they're allowed to complain about the heat, what they're not allowed to do is talk about how much they 'love' the heat while they sit in their aircon all day.
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I just love the heat while sitting in my office chair watching all those poor suckers trudging up the terrace
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Loving the fact we're actually getting spring this year.
There's plenty of time for 40 degree days (which will no doubt extend into March)
There's plenty of time for 40 degree days (which will no doubt extend into March)
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The walk from the office to my car is brutal.
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My air conditioned office is colder in summer than winter. Absolute joke.
Walking into a 19 degree room makes me want to throttle whoever set it to that temperature.
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For what is hardly rocket science it is staggering just how poor a lot AC systems are.
I have one at home that is decades old and has one more summer in it at best, so I accept that if I set it at 23 it's not going to be exactly 23 in all corners of the house. But for offices with vents every few metres and sensors everywhere and the tech available why the feck is it a different climate zone 2 desks away?
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God I hate the ****ing West.
Since I've started working back in the city I've had the misfortune of that shit rag being available in the kitchen and having nothing to do while my lunch is cooking.
Ragging on the Perth Bears for 2 days straight now. It's objectively a great thing for WA (the state they apparently care about) yet are using it to score points against the political party they happen to not side with.
Time for that embarrassment to go bust.
Since I've started working back in the city I've had the misfortune of that shit rag being available in the kitchen and having nothing to do while my lunch is cooking.
Ragging on the Perth Bears for 2 days straight now. It's objectively a great thing for WA (the state they apparently care about) yet are using it to score points against the political party they happen to not side with.
Time for that embarrassment to go bust.
It's only people 60+ and offices that have a copy in the lunch room that actually buy that rag.
It's basically a Harvey Norman catalogue with a little bit of news.
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Less to do with the political party (though that's a bonus) and more to do with the fact rugby league is a Channel 9 product and competitor to 7West's AFL coverage, and the CEO is the West's former editor who cut and run after failing fairly spectacularly after being promoted to run 7.
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I can actually remember the first and last time I bought a copy of The West and it was 2007. My dad in his 70s still buys it because he is retired and it's routine, but there was nothing in it then and there's nothing in it now. It's just ads, tabloid journalism and puff pieces by people with vested interests.
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Back in the day it was respected (maybe in the 90s?) but now it's exactly as you described. Sadly, it is not the only newspaper to fall victim to the clickbait and misinformation era. Too many vested interests too, I am sure both Freo and West Coast fans have taken umbrage at the extreme biases against them when the agenda suits - and that's just sport. Imagine the coverage for things that actually matter to the daily lives of people, like politics and economics.
Fortunately anyway, the newspaper is a dying format, however it is now being supplanted by online news where - depending on your algorithms and browsing habits - you get fed whatever you need to confirm your inbuilt opinions. It allows movements like antivax and MAGA to thrive today. There is no easy solution, it's now the way it is because unless you're China you cannot stop people accessing the internet.
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I used to read the sections that interested me when I was at home in the late 90s/early 2000s because we had it delivered and the internet hadn't taken off. If I wanted to know how many handballs Rowan Jones had the Monday paper was it. Used to have a full Super Soccer liftout too with match reports from the NSL, Premier League etc. Now it's just 'What did NicNat/Harley have for breakfast?'. As an Eagles fan I don't care. Can't imagine it's of any interest to the general public.
I'm one of the weird people that doesn't really care how biased a media outlet is if they do good work. There is a dearth of unbiased outlets but by the same token there is a dearth of biased outlets that aren't utter trash also. Most things now are just clickbait headlines. If the state govt said the Perth Bears will be a private venture and receive no govt funding and are giving them govt funding that is a story. But it's not a front pager.
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What are you really voting for if you vote for Basil Zempilas?
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Not cook/saffioti ?
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Voting for Zempilas seems as idiotic to me as voting for Trump did in 2016.
People continue to disappoint me however.
People continue to disappoint me however.
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Is the rental crisis as bad as people say? It's gonna be very tough moving 4/5 20 year olds from the southwest up to the city for uni/fifo/state-sporting but its unfortunately a necessary evil in the coming months. Not at all excited
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Lines at red sea
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If he actually pick up momentum people need to dig up those videos and make em go viral, surely that'll turn the boomers off him
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Yeah, but it will swing the gen X-ers to him
