Play Nice Random Chat Thread VI

[Swallow_Wood]

The zoom out is pretty cool

One astronomer mentioned it was like focussing on the equivalent of holding a grain of sand at arms length.

Mental.

 

[ferball]

That is how far you are looking when you look out at the night sky.

And they reckon they have data that is even further away (in spacetime) being picked up by the telescope but haven't processed it yet.

 

[Tectonic]

So I've been working on a little project for the last few weeks



This is Audrey, she shares a birthday with JHF as it turns out



First time for me and the misso, never realised how awesome being a parent actually is until now. Time of my life.

 

[Massive Unit]

So I've been working on a little project for the last few weeks



This is Audrey, she shares a birthday with JHF as it turns out

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First time for me and the misso, never realised how awesome being a parent actually is until now. Time of my life.

Congratulations to the Tectonic family. That is just awesome!!

 

[Hojuman]

So I've been working on a little project for the last few weeks



This is Audrey, she shares a birthday with JHF as it turns out

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First time for me and the misso, never realised how awesome being a parent actually is until now. Time of my life.

Well done Mrs. T. ! Audrey, great name

 

[ferball]

Congtrats to the Tectonics

 

[blackshadow]

So I've been working on a little project for the last few weeks



This is Audrey, she shares a birthday with JHF as it turns out

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First time for me and the misso, never realised how awesome being a parent actually is until now. Time of my life.

Congratulations!

Enjoy the journey!

 

[gokangas]

So I've been working on a little project for the last few weeks



This is Audrey, she shares a birthday with JHF as it turns out

View attachment 1446519

First time for me and the misso, never realised how awesome being a parent actually is until now. Time of my life.

What's her membership number? No number, it didn't happen. Congrats to you both and a long, happy healthy life to Audrey.

 

[Hojuman]

Ligma.

Is that lady who does the annoying menulog ad with the cheese hat somebody ? Like Pink ? Or Adele ? or sumfink ?

 

[Twinkletoes]

So I've been working on a little project for the last few weeks



This is Audrey, she shares a birthday with JHF as it turns out

View attachment 1446519

First time for me and the misso, never realised how awesome being a parent actually is until now. Time of my life.

Brilliant mate. Congrats to you all. It really is the best!

 

[Val Keating]

The adds on this site are out of control at the moment. Going to have to put an add blocker back on.

 

[goalieboy82]

A couple is walking in St. Petersburg Square on Christmas Eve They feel a slight precipitation. "I think it’s raining," says the man. "No, it’s snowing," replies the woman. "How about we ask this Communist officer here? He is always right!" exclaims the man. "Officer Rudolph, is it raining or snowing?" "Definitely raining," Officer Rudolph replies before walking off. The man turns to his wife with a smile. “See? Rudolph the Red knows rain, dear.”

 

[Lomas]

Have we lost a few posters this week? Did they get a little over enthusiastic on opposition boards?

 

[Val Keating]

The UAE just snatched up Khashoggi’s lawyer while the whole world is watching the meeting with Biden. I mean that’s just brazen.

Ex-Khashoggi lawyer sentenced to 3 years in prison by UAE court, state media says

US citizen Asim Ghafoor, the former lawyer of murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi, was sentenced by a court in the United Arab Emirates to three years in prison, state news WAM reported Saturday.

www.cnn.com

 

[koshari]

Cam smith a ripping back 9 to win at st andrews.

 

[Hojuman]

Cam smith a ripping back 9 to win at st andrews.

Wish he'd put a Storm jumper back on. We need him

 

[Ligma]

I must say there is so much stress on the ambulance sector it’s so sad but at the same time frustrating.

First QTR of my game on Sunday a girl from the opposition brakes her leg the same way Will Powell did in a tackle. At the end of the game she was still in the club rooms waiting for the ambulance.

We have quite a few nurses including an emergency one for the childrens and she said it’s totally typical of ambulances to take forever to come.

 

[Themanbun]

I must say there is so much stress on the ambulance sector it’s so sad but at the same time frustrating.

First QTR of my game on Sunday a girl from the opposition brakes her leg the same way Will Powell did in a tackle. At the end of the game she was still in the club rooms waiting for the ambulance.

We have quite a few nurses including an emergency one for the childrens and she said it’s totally typical of ambulances to take forever to come.

Triple 000 literally weren't answering at points in the past few weeks. It's ****ed.

 

[Ligma]

Triple 000 literally weren't answering at points in the past few weeks. It's *ed.

FFS it’s so ****ed like the poor girl is sitting in a room with literally her foot facing the other way I felt so bad for her

 

[Themanbun]

FFS it’s so *ed like the poor girl is sitting in a room with literally her foot facing the other way I felt so bad for her

Come November I'll be voting for whichever candidate (probably greens?) offers the most funding for healthcare. And the healthcare system was still f'ed and dramatically underfunded before COVID, it's just significantly worse now because of it.

 

[Massive Unit]

FFS it’s so *ed like the poor girl is sitting in a room with literally her foot facing the other way I felt so bad for her

I've got close friends who work in this space (paramedics and hospital admin) and they tell me that ambulance ramping is out of control at the moment. It's ridiculous!!

 

[Emma12]

Spent 25 years in health care many of which were in ED & ICU & left just in time
Had lunch with 7 former workmates last week & they said it is diabolical now & most of them are looking to leave
Our local hospital put out on stalkbook today asking for people not to go to ED for the next 24 hours unless really urgent as they are under the pump

 

[Themanbun]

It's not even just emergency stuff. 'Elective' surgeries getting indefinitely delayed which significantly impact quality of life, the absolute shambles of treating even simple things like broken bones, all the way through to the extreme difficulty of finding half decent GPs, specialist wait times, wait times for scans, the unavailability of scans/reluctance of doctors to order them meaning people go way too long undiagnosed, etc. It's fuarked and has been for so long, and it's not because of a lack of talent, I hugely respect the field (although we're gonna lose a lot of great people from the industry soon).

For a country that focuses so much on sport to have such an unsupportive healthcare system for injuries is just absurd.

Emergency response is obviously the worst because it's literally life and death in the moment, but just about every single layer of our health care system is cactus. Covid is really pushing it to breaking point but I'd be incredibly disappointed if it swept under the rug decades of underfunding.

 

[koshari]

Spent 25 years in health care many of which were in ED & ICU & left just in time
Had lunch with 7 former workmates last week & they said it is diabolical now & most of them are looking to leave
Our local hospital put out on stalkbook today asking for people not to go to ED for the next 24 hours unless really urgent as they are under the pump

lot of industries are in the same boat, glad for you that you left as its no fun being in that environment. it is sad regarding the bigger picture though, however ones own welfare comes first.

 

[koshari]

Come November I'll be voting for whichever candidate (probably greens?) offers the most funding for healthcare. And the healthcare system was still f'ed and dramatically underfunded before COVID, it's just significantly worse now because of it.

there are huge fundamental issues regarding health, it begins with funding, the current model where you are forced to take private health insurance or cop an extra 1 percent levy taxed on your income tax but then get left with out of pocket expenses if you actually use your cover and go private rather than go public is completely insane.