Banter TRTTT Part 16 - How good are fingerless gloves

[Doctor Feel]

Those old timer campaigners built bloody good houses man

Woke materials ruining houses

 

[JimmyBC]

Woke materials ruining houses

Real bricks are racist.

 

[raman]

We'd use the ac at least 4 times as much in winter than summer. 100 year old house stays cool until the 3rd or fourth very hot day in a row. Might go on tomorrow

I’m also in a ~100 year old double brick
house with decent ceiling insulation but do you think you can convince an autistic 8 year old to keep the ****ing doors closed?

 

[SparklingAle69]

Finally a proper summer of sorts. Haven't had one in a long time.

 

[Festerz]

Look at all these GenY/Millennial softcox whining about the friggin hot weather. Pampered pussies.

Spent the first 3 years of my time at Woody High in the mid 70s in timber portables that used to heat up to 50° in summer. In first year they used to drop the back escape door down on hot days to provide some relief but that was stopped when Spoggy Starling threw out a few yankee crackers out of it just for laughs. Teacher had us boys line up to attention in the hot sun until someone owned up to it but no one did. We just took turns to smack Spogs on St Clair Oval after school.

A huge innovation by the way of plastic ceiling fans were installed in those tinder boxes in year 9. But that just provided a launching pad for all sorts of missiles when the teacher was out of the room.

Fast forward to the 2010s and my kids' school installed a BigAss Fan in the gym in addition to the air-conditioning because they were concerned about poor air circulation.

It's never talked about publicly but being unable to afford a home is the punishment that my generation have dished out to Millennials as punishment for being so friggin' soft.

 

[raman]

Fans are just things that distribute dust all over your room because you haven’t turned them on for the past nine months.

 

[Festerz]

Fans are just things that distribute dust all over your room because you haven’t turned them on for the past nine months.

Yeah - and I'm certain the instruction to get on a ladder to flick that that little switch on the fan to reverse direction for winter/summer operation was made up bs from the manufacturers to remove dust from both edges of the fan blades to avoid warranty claims.

 

[SC_Power]

Look at all these GenY/Millennial softcox whining about the friggin hot weather. Pampered pussies.

Spent the first 3 years of my time at Woody High in the mid 70s in timber portables that used to heat up to 50° in summer. In first year they used to drop the back escape door down on hot days to provide some relief but that was stopped when Spoggy Starling threw out a few yankee crackers out of it just for laughs. Teacher had us boys line up to attention in the hot sun until someone owned up to it but no one did. We just took turns to smack Spogs on St Clair Oval after school.

A huge innovation by the way of plastic ceiling fans were installed in those tinder boxes in year 9. But that just provided a launching pad for all sorts of missiles when the teacher was out of the room.

Fast forward to the 2010s and my kids' school installed a BigAss Fan in the gym in addition to the air-conditioning because they were concerned about poor air circulation.

It's never talked about publicly but being unable to afford a home is the punishment that my generation have dished out to Millennials as punishment for being so friggin' soft.

You were from rich Woody High!

I went to poor Croydon High down Torrens Road. We could only dream of escape doors and yankee crackers.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

My cousin played 400+ games for Austral Phoenix (Women)

My Dad played for SA and my Uncle played for Australia and is in the Australian Volleyball HOF (as a pioneer).

I'm shit and didn't ever play volleyball.

Australia should be good at volleyball given its an Olympic sports, but there is no money in it, so players don't have a career path, unless they go to Europe or win a scholarship for US colleges. So they go off and play other sports where they can make a living from those sports.

Apart from Volleyball and Handball, Oz sends men's and women's teams to the other 6 Olympic team sports nearly every Olympics with the exception of men's football, who have missed the last 4 Olympics.

There is no real national league in Oz. Its a classic chicken-egg situation, need money to attract players, need players to make sports attractive for fans to pay to attend, and TV to pay rights to broadcast.

I spoke to our former China venture head Andrew Hunter about the issues in Oz. He played 10 years in Europe professionally and said there was no chance to get a career out of the game in Oz.

 

[NoddyHolder]

I’m also in a ~100 year old double brick
house with decent ceiling insulation but do you think you can convince an autistic 8 year old to keep the ****ing doors closed?

Probably not. Do you want me to come around and have a go anyway?

 

[Steve Dore]

Unless you live in Alaska there is no need for AC in winter you wuss.

Disagree. I rarely use my AC in summer. Might run it for a couple of hours over the weekend if the house starts to heat up a bit. The only time I run the AC regularly is in winter.

I'm in a 100 year old double brick house that takes a long time to heat up but once it gets hot it holds the heat. That's why we run the AC for a few hours, between 1000 and 1500, on really hot days.

 

[240volt]

Woke materials ruining houses

Everything is done on the cheap. Even the light switches fall apart in no time.
Shit electrical fittings not like the good old Clipsal stuff.

 

[raman]

Everything is done on the cheap. Even the light switches fall apart in no time.
Shit electrical fittings not like the good old Clipsal stuff.

Friendly ahem that this is unequivocally
due to capitalism not “woke”.

 

[NoddyHolder]

Friendly ahem that this is unequivocally
due to capitalism not “woke”.

Capitalism is woke. Techno-feudalism is what the cool kids are into now

 

[manureid]

My cousin played 400+ games for Austral Phoenix (Women)

My Dad played for SA and my Uncle played for Australia and is in the Australian Volleyball HOF (as a pioneer).

I'm shit and didn't ever play volleyball.

I have been on the committee and coached and bith my kids have played for Austral. I would probably at least know of your cousin.

 

[jb04]

Everything is done on the cheap. Even the light switches fall apart in no time.
Shit electrical fittings not like the good old Clipsal stuff.

Private inspectors rubber stamping some of the most heinous of building sins. No accountability for shitty workmanship and even less accountability for the builders contracting it out.

My house has some minor issues but I always manage to bail up whichever trade comes to my place to hear horror stories of how it could be worse. Makes me feel better in a shitty sort of way.

 

[Schulzenfest]

Literally twice in the last two pages somebody has made a sarcastic "lol isn't it funny when boomers say this silly thing" post and 240volt has immediately come along and unironically said the silly thing.

 

[Doctor Feel]

 

[gbear]

Rendering medical assistance at rod laver arena this evening was not on my 2026 bingo card! Bloody pulled a muscle climbing over three rows of seats as I am a short arse. Thankfully the lady eventually was able to eventually walk out of the arena unaided.

 

[gbear]

Look at all these GenY/Millennial softcox whining about the friggin hot weather. Pampered pussies.

Spent the first 3 years of my time at Woody High in the mid 70s in timber portables that used to heat up to 50° in summer. In first year they used to drop the back escape door down on hot days to provide some relief but that was stopped when Spoggy Starling threw out a few yankee crackers out of it just for laughs. Teacher had us boys line up to attention in the hot sun until someone owned up to it but no one did. We just took turns to smack Spogs on St Clair Oval after school.

A huge innovation by the way of plastic ceiling fans were installed in those tinder boxes in year 9. But that just provided a launching pad for all sorts of missiles when the teacher was out of the room.

Fast forward to the 2010s and my kids' school installed a BigAss Fan in the gym in addition to the air-conditioning because they were concerned about poor air circulation.

It's never talked about publicly but being unable to afford a home is the punishment that my generation have dished out to Millennials as punishment for being so friggin' soft.

I remember going to school with no air conditioning. Precious petal as they are

 

[Festerz]

EvilI remember going to school with no air conditioning. Precious petal as they are

And don’t get me started on corporal punishment.

I got the cane more times than anyone in my year to the point where I wore padding in my jocks and practised timing at home so my hand went limp just as the cane was about to strike my palm.

But I bear no grudges. I am a better man because of the punishment.

 

[NoddyHolder]

Rendering medical assistance at rod laver arena this evening was not on my 2026 bingo card! Bloody pulled a muscle climbing over three rows of seats as I am a short arse. Thankfully the lady eventually was able to eventually walk out of the arena unaided.

Good work gbear. Did it make it onto the telly?

 

[soafraid]

BREAK OUT THE ZOOPER DOOPERS

 

[soafraid]

THANKS ARTHUR!

 

[Grave Danger]

Good work gbear. Did it make it onto the telly?

I didn't switch to Channel Gem quickly enough to catch the kerfuffle - Nine's 6.00pm News waits for no-one.