Mega Thread The Random Thoughts Thread Part 1

[raman]

Broccoli > Cauliflower.

Correct.

 

[Jumbo]

Broccoli > Cauliflower.

very true

 

[Killer Power]

Channel 2 crocs vs sharks in a doco. Crocs FTW surely!

 

[Trewth]

Cauliflower is great in a bake. It needed to be said.

 

[Jumbo]

Cauliflower is great in a bake. It needed to be said.

Agree, need cheese and stuff to give it some taste!

 

[*PAF]

Broccoli > Cauliflower.

Sauerkraut made in northern Europe > Sourcrap in a can made in Australia.

 

[Stromageddon]

Taste wise, Cauliflower > Broccoli, but I'll eat either so long as they're fresh.

 

[Jumbo]

Taste wise, Cauliflower > Broccoli, but I'll eat either so long as they're fresh.

I didn't know that cauliflower had a taste other than condensed water!

 

[Powerstufff]

So Doctor Feel did something like this recently so I thought why not...

Option 1: stay in current job, been with business for five years and current role about two years, and definitely the best full time job I've had in terms of work/life balance and general ability to get through the day without murdering people. It's also nice to have been with a company long term (long service leave is an appealing concept, for example).

Option 2: take new job with a different business, on about the same salary (but with less opportunity for shift penalties so potentially less take-home pay) and a 2.5 hour shorter working week (really appealing for some reason) with more opportunity for creativity in the job role, but probably a fair bit more accountability for any creative failures. Also, it'd be a generally nicer environment, I think.

Thoughts?

So much depends on financial and personal constraints when making these decisions. Marriage (especially with kids), mortgage etc. If you'd asked me in share-house days I'd have had one answer. Then I started buying a house but rented out the spare bedrooms so probably still fairly flexible. Then met Mrs Powerstufff, life still fairly flexible - even lived and worked o/s for a few years, only warning sign was had to sell my motorbike. Then returned to SA, started producing kids AND went to Uni part-time = f*&%-all flexibility. Now well on conveyor belt to old age, realise I should want flexibility but can't remember why.
If you are near the start of this cycle make the change, just for the heck of it. Be happily restless while you can. Perhaps try to change job sectors or geographical locations while you can do so easily.

 

[raman]

So much depends on financial and personal constraints when making these decisions.

Indeed!

Marriage (especially with kids),

Well there's no fear of that!

mortgage etc.

Yeah, maybe I'll have one of those some day if I decide to stop going on holidays instead.

If you'd asked me in share-house days I'd have had one answer. Then I started buying a house but rented out the spare bedrooms so probably still fairly flexible. Then met Mrs Powerstufff, life still fairly flexible - even lived and worked o/s for a few years, only warning sign was had to sell my motorbike. Then returned to SA, started producing kids AND went to Uni part-time = f*&%-all flexibility. Now well on conveyor belt to old age, realise I should want flexibility but can't remember why.
If you are near the start of this cycle make the change, just for the heck of it. Be happily restless while you can. Perhaps try to change job sectors or geographical locations while you can do so easily.

Top advice.

Have been single for four years now and only just starting to not like being single. So probably a good time to make a change.

 

[*PAF]

There are some sad pictures coming out of the Philippines.

 

[questionable]

Irish barman assaulted, sad story. Banks who until just recently were handing out credit willy nilly, ATO not sad story. As for private loans well you're playing with fire there.

if you're a taxpayer (and you sound like the kind of person who would start sentences with "as a taxpayer, i...") then that's your money.

i don't think i'm going to penetrate the brick wall of your worldview, so it's probably best we leave it at that

 

[Stromageddon]

oh god these are lol 2

 

[Stromageddon]

i don't earn enough to pay tax lol

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

i don't earn enough to pay tax lol

You pay GST on non food, health, education, rent purchases, then you're a tax payer.

You buy petrol, LPG, booze, cigarettes you're a tax payer.

You pay for a car licence and compulsory insurance, you're a tax payer.

 

[Harlott]

if you're a taxpayer (and you sound like the kind of person who would start sentences with "as a taxpayer, i...") then that's your money.

i don't think i'm going to penetrate the brick wall of your worldview, so it's probably best we leave it at that

Brick wall world view from what I wrote? I was just giving my opinion on whether those creditors were 'sad stories'....... as a straight down the line, honest as the day, never made one more cent than allowed tax deduction taxpayer.

 

[raman]

Cauliflower is great in a bake. It needed to be said.

No, the melted cheese peeled off of the cauliflower is great. The cauliflower itself is immaterial.

People who hate broccoli generally just hate it because their mothers overcooked it. Cook it properly and it's good shit.

 

[Schulzenfest]

So, one of the questions in the Adelaide Uni Corporate Law exam was about Buddy moving to Sydney on a multi-million dollar deal. That sounds about right, uni problem questions quite often draw from real life situations ... except that this was in the 2012 exam. /twilight zone music

Next year I'm gonna slip the lecturer a $20 to write a problem question about Gary Ablett coming to Port.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

So, one of the questions in the Adelaide Uni Corporate Law exam was about Buddy moving to Sydney on a multi-million dollar deal. That sounds about right, uni problem questions quite often draw from real life situations ... except that this was in the 2012 exam. /twilight zone music

Next year I'm gonna slip the lecturer a $20 to write a problem question about Gary Ablett coming to Port.

So what were the issues involved in the question. Academic probably forget the GW part of GWS rather than any psychic powers.

 

[tribey]

People who hate broccoli generally just hate it because their mothers overcooked it. Cook it properly and it's good shit.

A billion times this.

As a youngster I loved vegetables and could never understand this great myth saying kids don't like them. Then I went over to a certain friend's house for dinner.

If his mum was my mum I'd hate vegetables too.

 

[Jim Dixon]

I've always loved my vegetables.

Is there some juicy financial scandal coming out of West Adelaide Football Club in the past four years that isn't widely known beyond SA?

 

[bomberclifford]

A billion times this.

As a youngster I loved vegetables and could never understand this great myth saying kids don't like them. Then I went over to a certain friend's house for dinner.

If his mum was my mum I'd hate vegetables too.

Mrs Bomber is of English heritage and the first time I met her parents we went to their place for dinner.

I was served up a plate with limp, boiled carrots, grey-green florets of what I assume was broccoli and something that resembled an oversized piece of jerky that someone had tried to reconstitute by soaking in a bowl of hot bovril for several minutes.

It was horrendous.

Then there was the Christmas that the same mother-in-law made 'prawn cocktails' ...

 

[Eddie Dingle]

Mrs Bomber is of English heritage and the first time I met her parents we went to their place for dinner.

I was served up a plate with limp, boiled carrots, grey-green florets of what I assume was broccoli and something that resembled an oversized piece of jerky that someone had tried to reconstitute by soaking in a bowl of hot bovril for several minutes.

It was horrendous.

Then there was the Christmas that the same mother-in-law made 'prawn cocktails' ...

You must have married one of my sisters.

My mum is the worst cook in history.

 

[Dobie G]

You pay GST on non food, health, education, rent purchases, then you're a tax payer.

You buy petrol, LPG, booze, cigarettes you're a tax payer.

You pay for a car licence and compulsory insurance, you're a tax payer.

And the GST registered businesses are unpaid tax collectors

 

[Comettski_1]

You must have married one of my sisters.

My mum is the worst cook in history.

When my mum makes a "roast" she buys the shaved roast beef from the deli at woolies, wraps it in alfoil and cooks it in the oven...