Roast Grumpy Old Thread- 10k posts of whinging

[Lomas]

I am in town looking after the young lad who is home from school due to a few medical appointments. He was feeling a bit flat so I agreed to buy him some fish and chips and a lemonade for lunch.

Due to not having time to duck out I used a delivery app (no places deliver during the arvo otherwise) and ordered him a lunch pack. Got myself a sneaky dim sim on the side.

An hour later one dim sim arrives, nothing else. One solitary, dry, cold dim sim in a greasy little brown bag.

I called to enquire after the rest of the order, after checking the app to make sure I hadn't stuffed it up, and they said that they missed the first two items on the order, the lunch pack and drink. Apparently someone ordering a solitary dim dim for delivery didn't seem strange. They were kind enough to say that I could have the rest of the meal if I was happy to pick up in 45 minutes.....

 

[Samsquanch]

I am in town looking after the young lad who is home from school due to a few medical appointments. He was feeling a bit flat so I agreed to buy him some fish and chips and a lemonade for lunch.

Due to not having time to duck out I used a delivery app (no places deliver during the arvo otherwise) and ordered him a lunch pack. Got myself a sneaky dim sim on the side.

An hour later one dim sim arrives, nothing else. One solitary, dry, cold dim sim in a greasy little brown bag.

I called to enquire after the rest of the order, after checking the app to make sure I hadn't stuffed it up, and they said that they missed the first two items on the order, the lunch pack and drink. Apparently someone ordering a solitary dim dim for delivery didn't seem strange. They were kind enough to say that I could have the rest of the meal if I was happy to pick up in 45 minutes.....

Did you post the dimmy on your Insta?

 

[Lomas]

Did you post the dimmy on your Insta?

WTF is that?! A complaint service?

Edit: had to give the dimmy to the lad.

 

[Samsquanch]

WTF is that?! A complaint service?

Edit: had to give the dimmy to the lad.

I have no idea. I think kangatime or SpiderBurton22 is into it. Or Ligma. One of them. Kinda like MySpace I think.

 

[Mav]

I have no idea. I think kangatime or SpiderBurton22 is into it. Or Ligma. One of them. Kinda like MySpace I think.

Ha, I’m closer to a 100 than a Duck!

 

[Lomas]

Ha, I’m closer to a 100 than a Duck!

This is just confusing. Can you explain where me lunch pack went?

 

[Mav]

This is just confusing. Can you explain where me lunch pack went?

Have you checked your school bag?

 

[Lomas]

Have you checked your school bag?

Let me tell you about school. We had bags, but they were wheat bags that we stitched into something that would work as clothing in the snow. We were lucky if the bags had a stamp to make them stand out.

 

[Gasometer]

Option b. is the only way to live in these stressful times.

Minutes can be shaved off the 45 if you pick the quickest Checkout person

 

[Samsquanch]

Let me tell you about school. We had bags, but they were wheat bags that we stitched into something that would work as clothing in the snow. We were lucky if the bags had a stamp to make them stand out.

Wheat bags...

...you were lucky.

 

[Mav]

Wheat bags...

...you were lucky.

Pure luxury….

 

[Gasometer]

Whilst grateful to share Social Gatherings after these past two years something has arisen that is requiring discussion.

Wooden utensils

Can’t chop or slice or pull apart or pick up anything

I watched one bloke yesterday have his fork break in the chicken breast. He picked it up and ate it with his fingers.

I am as green as Kermit, but seriously this is a calamity

 

[ferball]

Whilst grateful to share Social Gatherings after these past two years something has arisen that is requiring discussion.

Wooden utensils

Can’t chop or slice or pull apart or pick up anything

I watched one bloke yesterday have his fork break in the chicken breast. He picked it up and ate it with his fingers.

I am as green as Kermit, but seriously this is a calamity

They have metal cutlery now and its small enough you can take it with you and don't need plastic or wooden stuff.

 

[DaveyBoy123]

If anyone needs to whipper snipper the overgrown weeds of their investment property, here's a tip:

Don't fn do it at 8am on a Saturday morning the week before Christmas you FWits. Feel like I've been at the dentist for 2 hours FFS, when I should be sleeping in after some Friday night drinks.

I know it doesn't belong in this thread, but the optimistic angle is: I guess I'm not lighter in the pocket like I would have been had I actually been at the dentist.

 

[Samsquanch]

Whilst grateful to share Social Gatherings after these past two years something has arisen that is requiring discussion.

Wooden utensils

I am as green as Kermit, but seriously this is a calamity

I highly doubt the "green" credentials of many products in any case. While these utensils might be made from renewable resources, but highly likely that pristine rainforest is being destroyed to plant the trees that are used for these kind of things. I've travelled quite a bit in Indonesia and Malaysia and it's as plain as can be that there are vast plantations of palm oil trees and other monocrops that have replaced the natural rainforests. I get it that people need to eat and we cant preach from Australia about destruction of habitat and bio-diversity but the sad reality is that the wholesale destruction of native forests to replace them with plantation trees is an impending disaster. And to be honest, I'm only going on the things I've seen - tropical rains turning beautiful rivers brown within minutes due to the erosion and soil run-off which is uncontained as a result of undergrowth removal silting up waterways and killing fish downstream. Palm oil trees as far as the eye can see - and that includes some of the more remote islands as well as Peninsular Malaysia, Java, Borneo and Sumatra.

 

[ferball]

I highly doubt the "green" credentials of many products in any case. While these utensils might be made from renewable resources, but highly likely that pristine rainforest is being destroyed to plant the trees that are used for these kind of things. I've travelled quite a bit in Indonesia and Malaysia and it's as plain as can be that there are vast plantations of palm oil trees and other monocrops that have replaced the natural rainforests. I get it that people need to eat and we cant preach from Australia about destruction of habitat and bio-diversity but the sad reality is that the wholesale destruction of native forests to replace them with plantation trees is an impending disaster. And to be honest, I'm only going on the things I've seen - tropical rains turning beautiful rivers brown within minutes due to the erosion and soil run-off which is uncontained as a result of undergrowth removal silting up waterways and killing fish downstream. Palm oil trees as far as the eye can see - and that includes some of the more remote islands as well as Peninsular Malaysia, Java, Borneo and Sumatra.

I was joking upthread but old metal cutlery is better for the environment than new wooden cutlery. Its already made and costs nothing in resources or energy to use.

You're right about the stuff happening in Indo. China and India import the most palm oil, understandable because between them that covers 1/3 of the worlds population.

 

[krakouers]

If anyone needs to whipper snipper the overgrown weeds of their investment property, here's a tip:

Don't fn do it at 8am on a Saturday morning the week before Christmas you FWits. Feel like I've been at the dentist for 2 hours FFS.

(Puts the whipper snippet down….)

 

[Gasometer]

They have metal cutlery now and its small enough you can take it with you and don't need plastic or wooden stuff.

...are you washing 600 pieces?

 

[ferball]

...are you washing 600 pieces?

Take your own cutlery with you when you buy food that would otherwise have it, then no one washes 600 pieces.

 

[Gasometer]

Take your own cutlery with you when you buy food that would otherwise have it, then no one washes 600 pieces.

Correct; these are large lunches and dinners. Metal is not practical but these new wooden utensils may as well be cut from the Herald Sun Form Guide

 

[Samsquanch]

Correct; these are large lunches and dinners. Metal is not practical but these new wooden utensils may as well be cut from the Herald Sun Form Guide

The first time I went to Malaysia my wife and I moved on from KL and went to a local night market in Malacca. Although we'd eaten in night markets previously in Indonesia, we were not as prepared as we ought to have been as our curries were packaged into plastic bags and then wrapped in newspaper - not even in takeaway containers!!! There were tables, where we could eat, and we assumed spoons and forks would be on offer but no. Local people took pity on us and showed us how to eat using our fingers to scoop up the rice and curry after we'd laid the newspaper and plastic out on the table. As it was our first time we made an utter mess - similar to when you watch Americans try to eat with a knife and fork - a total stuff up.

While I am better at it now, we always take plastic camping cutlery with us whenever we travel nowadays (if we ever travel again we will anyway).

As we were in Malacca, we thought that we could just dive into a department store and buy a couple of forks and spoons but even though it was possible to buy full cutlery sets, nobody sold loose items. I ended up going to a Chinese market thinking that chopsticks and ceramic or melamine spoons might get us by, when like majak, an old Chinese guy came over to us hawking stuff - including metal spoons. It was a miracle I tell you.

Anyway, just let 'em eat with their fingers. Anybody can do it

 

[Hojuman]

The first time I went to Malaysia my wife and I moved on from KL and went to a local night market in Malacca. Although we'd eaten in night markets previously in Indonesia, we were not as prepared as we ought to have been as our curries were packaged into plastic bags and then wrapped in newspaper - not even in takeaway containers!!! There were tables, where we could eat, and we assumed spoons and forks would be on offer but no. Local people took pity on us and showed us how to eat using our fingers to scoop up the rice and curry after we'd laid the newspaper and plastic out on the table. As it was our first time we made an utter mess - similar to when you watch Americans try to eat with a knife and fork - a total stuff up.

While I am better at it now, we always take plastic camping cutlery with us whenever we travel nowadays (if we ever travel again we will anyway).

As we were in Malacca, we thought that we could just dive into a department store and buy a couple of forks and spoons but even though it was possible to buy full cutlery sets, nobody sold loose items. I ended up going to a Chinese market thinking that chopsticks and ceramic or melamine spoons might get us by, when like majak, an old Chinese guy came over to us hawking stuff - including metal spoons. It was a miracle I tell you.

Anyway, just let 'em eat with their fingers. Anybody can do it

You didn't use your " left " hand while eating did you SOS ?

 

[Samsquanch]

You didn't use your " left " hand while eating did you SOS ?

Why? Is that impolite or something?

 

[Hojuman]

Why? Is that impolite or something?

Your left hand is used for other things when travelling around Asia and using the old squat toilets.

 

[ferball]

Why? Is that impolite or something?

In with your right hand, out with your left...