Society & Culture Things in life you just don't understand

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He keeps bobbing up on various panel shows though as the go to Gen Y guy. Thank god I'm Gen X, I'd feel ashamed if he was representing my generation.

I hated him before I found out he was gay, although it didn't really come as a huge shock when I did find out.
Same here. Hated him and wanted to punch him repeatedly before I round out he was a baloney smoker, now.....I hate him and want to punch him repeatedly.

Sexual orientation irrelevant. Being a annoying tosser who isn't funny very relevant.
 

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Don't get why you can be waiting at a pedestrian crossing and someone will come up and press the button....Like they were the first to think of that!
I tend to do that. Its more a case of not thinking. Just instinct "lights, therefore press button" takes over. I know its pointless if I stop and think about it, but I don't tend to develop a plan for crossing a road (except maybe on holiday in some nations).
 
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How current affairs programs such as TT and ACA get away with harassing people in public (and on private propety) who are minding their own business.

If some campaigner with a camera walked up to me in the street and started bombarding me with questions about something very personal and private then they'd be sucking tomorrows lunch through a straw.
 
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That's what they want you to do.
Why don't more people do it then? I'm not an aggressive person, but if some interviewer from Today Tonight started harrassing me, my family or friends then they'd (rightfully) get a smack in the gob.

The way current affairs programs bully and exploit ordinary people over very delicate and private matters is nothing short of disgusting IMO. There should be laws against it if there isn't already.
 

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one day they'll go for some guy who just doesn't give a **** and the dickhead will end up in hospital. depending on the circumstances i wouldn't feel a whole lot of sympathy either.

the other dickhead will end up in court anyway.
 

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TT/ACA 'journos' are just glorified paparazzi. They're on the same level as those TMZ flogbags.
Hahaha TMZ.
A friend of mine went to LA like 4 years ago with his family and his dad got mistaken for Liam Neesen by TMZ.
They interviewed him as if he was Liam Neesen and were none the wiser, no idea if it went to air though.
 

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TT and ACA are just Ambulance Chasers. I can see how pissed off people would. Like someone said, there should be laws against harassing people minding their own business and putting it on TV
 

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Hahaha TMZ.
A friend of mine went to LA like 4 years ago with his family and his dad got mistaken for Liam Neesen by TMZ.
They interviewed him as if he was Liam Neesen and were none the wiser, no idea if it went to air though.
Does your friends dad have an Irish accent ?
 

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hi everyone

dunno where to ask so ill put it here.

is it illegal to reverse park into angled parking here in victoria?

i thought it was (well when i acquired license some 17 years ago)
 

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Why would you reverse park into angled parking? Most people cant even angle park as it is...
I can't understand why people reverse park into any parking spot. It takes them longer & usually many attempts to get it right, it's much easier to drive in & reverse out. Don't know when or why this style of parking started.
 

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I once took a defensive driving course where they recommended you reverse into parking spaces, driveways, etc. because reversing is the trickier / more dangerous maneuver and you are more alert and aware of your surroundings at the end of a drive than you are at the beginning.
 

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I can't understand why people reverse park into any parking spot. It takes them longer & usually many attempts to get it right, it's much easier to drive in & reverse out. Don't know when or why this style of parking started.
I don't understand why nuffies think they know anything about cars? It's actually easier to reverse into a car park because the front wheels are the ones that turn. It's the same reason it's easy to parallel park by reversing in rather than driving straight in.
 

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I don't understand why nuffies think they know anything about cars? It's actually easier to reverse into a car park because the front wheels are the ones that turn. It's the same reason it's easy to parallel park by reversing in rather than driving straight in.
Bullshit, watch the morons reverse parking it takes them ages. :rolleyes:
 
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