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[StFly]

I'm sick of living with my parents.

My mother is driving me up the wall after her 3rd stroke earlier this year.

I feel you, only on my end is the old man and forgetting almost everything where I'm now taking one day off every month just to get him dressed and out the door for a 40min appt to make sure that he gets it done and doesn't wander off into moving traffic or something. He's only had the one stroke and trip bypass though, however should really be deemed legally unable to drive as his eyes are kinda shot and memory is lets say, fading fast. Just don't have the heart for that discussion and more on "let's get an aircon so 3-4 months aren't horrible" and selling it, which with the memory thing is going as great as one might expect when I was still up at 5am on that heat day this week....

The things you do for fam...

 

[pebblesofsand]

I could bowl for Australia and SA still wouldn't make 200.

Lucky they didn't end up losing Green and Starc for a much longer period by having them bat when they really didn't need to.

Jeez - got that wrong.

SA knocked up a mammoth 204. Lucky the Aussies decided to bat on for an eternity and have that 200 run safety net.

Oh hang on - we had another innings if we needed it.

 

[George]

Jeez - got that wrong.

SA knocked up a mammoth 204. Lucky the Aussies decided to bat on for an eternity and have that 200 run safety net.

Oh hang on - we had another innings if we needed it.

Think it probably makes more sense to just load up on the first innings total if you have the momentum on your side and avoid having to bat again and avoid the risk of a collapse.

 

[ScrappyDo]

People lack the education to understand complex issues

It's not education, it's psychology. The worst attitudes l came across in my social sphere were from the most educated individuals. And on one hand there were people who took part in the XR, yet they were espousing brutalist fascism because it temporarily aligned with their sense of virtue.

 

[StFly]

Jeez - got that wrong.

SA knocked up a mammoth 204. Lucky the Aussies decided to bat on for an eternity and have that 200 run safety net.

Oh hang on - we had another innings if we needed it.

Verreynne the only solid, Saffas lucked out with Ngidi's late hitting to reach 200, Jansen is a big boi, like if 2m Peter played cricket I so want to see him batting more with Bavuma though, that shit would sell many a ticket just for the theatre of 2m with change and mighty midget;


Even if he's not at 1.6, most would look small but seriously Marco holds his hand out to stop and Temba wouldn't be able to do anything by swing his bat around "stop it, that's unfair" and when muscle mass comes along mid pitch superman swing for a sneaky third to revolutionise running between the wickets in south african cricket...

 

[bergholt]

It's not education, it's psychology. The worst attitudes l came across in my social sphere were from the most educated individuals. And on one hand there were people who took part in the XR, yet they were espousing brutalist fascism because it temporarily aligned with their sense of virtue.

I think they were just grabbing for control in an uncertain situation. Most people in this comfortable country have been conditioned to believe that everything's always nice and good and you get what you deserve if you work hard and don't rock the boat. So when a source of uncertainty like covid comes along, they get super scared and overreact.

 

[ScrappyDo]

I think they were just grabbing for control in an uncertain situation. Most people in this comfortable country have been conditioned to believe that everything's always nice and good and you get what you deserve if you work hard and don't rock the boat. So when a source of uncertainty like covid comes along, they get super scared and overreact.

Yes l think that's probably true, however l don't accept that as an excuse. Nor do l care mind you.
Like l said it just took with it my last lingering respect for humanity, which I'll qualify by saying was down to about 2% anyway.

 

[gringo2011]

It's not education, it's psychology. The worst attitudes l came across in my social sphere were from the most educated individuals. And on one hand there were people who took part in the XR, yet they were espousing brutalist fascism because it temporarily aligned with their sense of virtue.

What do you expect them to do though? They either lock down and save lives or let it run and potentially kill masses of people. It might not have ended up being the massive pandemic that they have been planning on having to combat for decades but you don't get a second chance. Some gambled on it not being the big one but also had the benefit of others locking down so limiting the export of it.

The crazies that said that the governments were using it to implant 4G microchips and turn into a dictatorial world state were wrong also. There will be more pandemics coming behind it and as it stands now even with vaccines there have been a mass of excess deaths. It seems weird how many anti-vaxx people are claiming how right they were while it's still a thing as well. The world will have learnt a lot of lessons about pandemic management from this.

The crazy cooker stuff was deliberate misinformation and was taken down, I don't know what the issue is with that. Some legit stuff was also taken down and some media probably overstepped the line. Plenty was still out there.

 

[joop]

What do you expect them to do though? They either lock down and save lives or let it run and potentially kill masses of people. It might not have ended up being the massive pandemic that they have been planning on having to combat for decades but you don't get a second chance. Some gambled on it not being the big one but also had the benefit of others locking down so limiting the export of it.

The crazies that said that the governments were using it to implant 4G microchips and turn into a dictatorial world state were wrong also. There will be more pandemics coming behind it and as it stands now even with vaccines there have been a mass of excess deaths. It seems weird how many anti-vaxx people are claiming how right they were while it's still a thing as well. The world will have learnt a lot of lessons about pandemic management from this.

The crazy cooker stuff was deliberate misinformation and was taken down, I don't know what the issue is with that. Some legit stuff was also taken down and some media probably overstepped the line. Plenty was still out there.

I mean it all happened very fast too. Of course things would change the more we learnt about the virus, but because governments & scientists didn’t get everything correct straight away people will complain. Lockdowns and masks sucked, was it the end of the world? No, pretty small sacrifice to make when there are millions of people dying in my opinion.

 

[sammm]

You must be annoyed then, prices have gone through the roof this year. My minimum repayments have jumped up about 600 per month.

my mortgage has nearly doubled on an interest only mortgage.

 

[Joffaboy]

What do you expect them to do though? They either lock down and save lives or let it run and potentially kill masses of people. It might not have ended up being the massive pandemic that they have been planning on having to combat for decades but you don't get a second chance. Some gambled on it not being the big one but also had the benefit of others locking down so limiting the export of it.

The crazies that said that the governments were using it to implant 4G microchips and turn into a dictatorial world state were wrong also. There will be more pandemics coming behind it and as it stands now even with vaccines there have been a mass of excess deaths. It seems weird how many anti-vaxx people are claiming how right they were while it's still a thing as well. The world will have learnt a lot of lessons about pandemic management from this.

The crazy cooker stuff was deliberate misinformation and was taken down, I don't know what the issue is with that. Some legit stuff was also taken down and some media probably overstepped the line. Plenty was still out there.

I know literally 8 people who died from Covid during the first wave of Covid, this is because we are older and our friends parents were in care. One friend lost both parents in the space of a week.

I can imagine the death toll if measures weren't taken. Now some want to turn it into parlour games and be amateur psychologists.
Cookers just got their arses hand to them in the recent election, the sensible centre understand how outrageously stupid and deluded these fools are. Its the usual mantra of the zealot, everyone else is stupid and only they and their tiny cohort are correct.
Ho hum.

 

[bergholt]

Yes l think that's probably true, however l don't accept that as an excuse. Nor do l care mind you.
Like l said it just took with it my last lingering respect for humanity, which I'll qualify by saying was down to about 2% anyway.

Not saying it's an excuse, but it's usually better to try to understand what people were thinking rather than just writing them off completely. Humans are humans and always will be, hoping that everyone is always going to think the same as you is a good way to go mad.

 

[George]

my mortgage has nearly doubled on an interest only mortgage.

It's been ridiculous, all since May too I believe. I pay more than the minimum so I don't really see it affect me other than it taking longer to pay off

 

[bergholt]

What do you expect them to do though? They either lock down and save lives or let it run and potentially kill masses of people. It might not have ended up being the massive pandemic that they have been planning on having to combat for decades but you don't get a second chance. Some gambled on it not being the big one but also had the benefit of others locking down so limiting the export of it.

IMO the bullshit was the messaging around it. Government is used to manipulating people so they kept on lying (masks not being needed, vaccines not having adverse events) or at least projecting false certainty (covid not airborne, vaccine stopping transmission). Too many spin doctors.

This is what generates a lack of trust in the populace. You know the government is basically lying to you most of the time. I happen to think that they're generally doing it for the right reasons and it's incompetence that leads them to choose a shitty course of action, but it's easy to interpret it as malice, that they're actually trying to do the wrong thing for their own benefit.

I hope but doubt that the outcome of this is that government gets better at being honest with people. Seems unlikely though.

 

[bergholt]

It's been ridiculous, all since May too I believe. I pay more than the minimum so I don't really see it affect me other than it taking longer to pay off

If you're ahead then you can often get your bank to recapitalise the mortgage, basically remove your redraw and take it all into account as capital/interest payments. In that case you can reduce your repayments again, but you don't have the buffer of the redraw in the where you need the cash suddenly.

 

[George]

If you're ahead then you can often get your bank to recapitalise the mortgage, basically remove your redraw and take it all into account as capital/interest payments. In that case you can reduce your repayments again, but you don't have the buffer of the redraw in the where you need the cash suddenly.

Yeah I was thinking about doing that but I love the redraw too much. I've got unlimited and free redraw so I just throw everything into the mortgage and redraw when I need it. Like a savings account basically.

 

[joop]

LOL.

 

[ScrappyDo]

What do you expect them to do though? They either lock down and save lives or let it run and potentially kill masses of people. It might not have ended up being the massive pandemic that they have been planning on having to combat for decades but you don't get a second chance. Some gambled on it not being the big one but also had the benefit of others locking down so limiting the export of it.

The crazies that said that the governments were using it to implant 4G microchips and turn into a dictatorial world state were wrong also. There will be more pandemics coming behind it and as it stands now even with vaccines there have been a mass of excess deaths. It seems weird how many anti-vaxx people are claiming how right they were while it's still a thing as well. The world will have learnt a lot of lessons about pandemic management from this.

The crazy cooker stuff was deliberate misinformation and was taken down, I don't know what the issue is with that. Some legit stuff was also taken down and some media probably overstepped the line. Plenty was still out there.

I'm not gonna get in to any of that stuff, It's a circular argument that's been done to death.
My original point was that people are shit.

 

[DougalHoward]

LOL.

why is a redpilled alpha male like him eating pizza, what a chinless fool

 

[Joffaboy]

why is a redpilled alpha male like him eating pizza, what a chinless fool

Literally never heard of this bellend until Thunberg burnt him on Twitter and his embarrassingly lame arsed comeback like he was a 13 y.o girl. Sounds like a complete idiot. Hope he enjoys his sphincter being investigated by the Romanian crims

 

[sammm]

It's been ridiculous, all since May too I believe. I pay more than the minimum so I don't really see it affect me other than it taking longer to pay off

i am paying more than the minimum as well, even on an interest only . but i do remember the days when interest on mortgages was 17%. but i didn't have such a big mortgage as i do now.

 

[joop]

why is a redpilled alpha male like him eating pizza, what a chinless fool

To TrIgGeR tHe WoKe LefTiStS

 

[sammm]

LOL.

some people are so dumb

 

[joop]

Literally never heard of this bellend until Thunberg burnt him on Twitter and his embarrassingly lame arsed comeback like he was a 13 y.o girl. Sounds like a complete idiot. Hope he enjoys his sphincter being investigated by the Romanian crims

A guy at work introduced me to him a couple of weeks ago, he’s a big supporter because apparently Tate ‘keeps it real’.

For such an Alpha he sure got triggered by Greta.

 

[joop]

some people are so dumb

Narcissists tend to look up to other narcissists.