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20-12-2022, 10:04 AM | #4771 | |||
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Went to the air con shop, $34, bargain. The old one had a mesh filter in it, all blocked up and corroded, no wonder the pads were never getting really wet, much more efficient now.
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20-12-2022, 12:05 PM | #4772 | |||
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20-12-2022, 02:54 PM | #4773 | ||
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After a couple of years of collecting my soft plastic waste to trawl off to the supermarket during one of my weekly shops, it's REALLY hard to now just put that into the general waste bin.
I've also noted the volume that extra soft plastic takes up. It soon adds up! I've almost gone from having a less than half full general waste wheelie bin each week to having a nearly full one. Really hope industry can get something sorted to start that recycling stream again. And soon!
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20-12-2022, 03:04 PM | #4774 | |||
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20-12-2022, 03:28 PM | #4775 | |||
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Consider myself lucky to have several good fresh butchers to buy from but occasional get stuck having to buy meat at a supermarket selling this packaged stuff. On a good note its been 12 weeks now since I vowed never to go into another Woolworth store.
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20-12-2022, 03:47 PM | #4776 | ||||
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Nearly everything you buy has some form of soft plastic on it: biscuit packets, lolly packets, chip packets, the dog's dry food, the dog's chunky meat (hard plastic tray that gets recycled, soft plastic cover), bread bags, shredded cheese bags, my bacon (again, hard plastic tray, soft plastic cover), toilet paper packaging, plastic satchels for parcels, etc. I could go on, but I think you get the drift. Far more than just the clear bags in the fruit/veg section of your local supermarket! Quote:
My local butchers uses both a styrofoam tray AND a plastic bag to wrap it in , so they're not much better than the supermarkets really. Although their food is a better standard, that's for sure.
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20-12-2022, 04:04 PM | #4777 | |||
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My butchers know not to put anything I buy in or on plastic, usually will give them a clean sheet of baking paper to first wrap the meat them normal butchers paper. One guy already uses baking (oven) paper. The butchers paper I'll reuse for paint masking or shred it along with the grease proof stuff into the compost or under the gumtree leaf mulch. The odd occasion where I'll get the hard plastic ones, a quick wash and they make good parts or paint trays.
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21-12-2022, 11:12 AM | #4778 | ||
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It’s not often I bump the trimmer head to feed it, but for whatever reason I did once this morning. Need to look more carefully first - I splodged it straight on top of a landmine.
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21-12-2022, 11:23 AM | #4779 | ||
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Lovely......
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21-12-2022, 11:25 AM | #4780 | ||
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21-12-2022, 11:38 AM | #4781 | ||
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where are the pics
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21-12-2022, 02:00 PM | #4783 | ||
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23-12-2022, 08:14 PM | #4784 | ||
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I applied for a promotion and made it to interview. I was hoping to hear one way or the other before going on leave and failing that, the end of the year but no dice.
I'm going to be really ****ed off if I get back from leave going through my emails and one of them is says I didn't make the cut. So my thinking is I prefer to take the L before I come back but nope. I hate that! |
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24-12-2022, 07:08 PM | #4785 | ||
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Mouth opened or closed??
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26-12-2022, 09:52 AM | #4787 | ||
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Had a great Xmas day yesterday but unfortunately today I'm paying for it with the overindulgence in food & alcohol, when will I ever learn.
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26-12-2022, 11:13 AM | #4788 | |||
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27-12-2022, 06:38 PM | #4789 | ||
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Supercheap, giving you loyalty credits the day after their one-day sale. If they think that deviousness is a way to consolidate their customer base, the wrong people are running it.
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27-12-2022, 10:35 PM | #4790 | ||
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I got an email from SC today, they're giving me a $15 credit because something I bought last week is now on sale, happy with that.
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28-12-2022, 09:21 AM | #4791 | ||
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28-12-2022, 09:45 AM | #4792 | ||
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Mine was only $12.50 :-(
Then again I picked up $10 in credit at Jaycar last Thursday without expecting it. Spent more there recently than Supercrap. But I’ll now get the HPR5 through Repco on the workshop account. |
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28-12-2022, 01:11 PM | #4793 | ||
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I got a 20% discount last week on Penrite 20W 60, sale + trade card discount.
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28-12-2022, 11:15 PM | #4794 | ||
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When you are queuing in a merging lane, and that merging lane is about 1km long, and an impatient driver drives up the outside and then cuts in.
Yesterday, on the Sydney M2, heading into the NorthConnex tunnel to Newcastle, a very nice white VE Commodore with 00 BROK number plates, drives down the outside of the waiting traffic, puts his Commodore about a metre in front of me, and hopes I will have some Xmas spirit and let him in. No way, as we are moving at about 5kmh, I lean on the horn, and refuse to budge, and his passenger door is getting very close to my front guard. My thoughts are, he is in the wrong trying to merge from a through lane, a front guard and bumper for a Territory is worth less than a guard and door for a VE, and he wouldn't want his very nice VE with Ford paint on it. He got the message, and forced his way in a couple of cars back. |
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29-12-2022, 11:23 AM | #4795 | ||
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I think it’s an age thing?
Years ago, yep I’d have done exactly the same. Nowadays I couldn’t give two hoots and will gladly let em in… And with a smile and a wave. Don’t fret the little stuff mate…
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29-12-2022, 11:55 AM | #4796 | ||
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I personally think people who knowingly drive up the lane that ends and expect someone to let them in are plain arrogant. If other people can indicate and merge over before the lane is completely done, then why cannot everybody.
One thing my dad used to say. So he was a director of a large company so when it came to meetings and such, quite important. He was always 5 minutes early to everything because what he said was. The people who are always late feel that they are more important then others, even if they are not. This was sorta confirmed years later. So i was working on site electricianing stuff and the owner of the builders was onsite for a site meeting. Meeting over and he started fitting the ally skirting boards. So i asked him why if he was on site for a meeting is he now fitting skirting boards? Is that not a job for the apprentice? His response was humble as. So whilst its a crap job thats not difficult, he liked to show that whilst he spent a lot of time doing paperwork to run the business, he was not above any employee and was still willing to do the **** jobs. |
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29-12-2022, 11:57 AM | #4797 | ||
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thats the fun part, little toot on the horn big smile and wave them in, they get really concerned what the hell is going on.
Had one guy trying to push in, did the welcome in and he quickly backed out.
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29-12-2022, 12:05 PM | #4798 | ||
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^^^ This.
Pushing in while everyone else is waiting patiently bugs everyone except the culprit. You even took the time to type a whole paragraph to vent out of your mind. I just allow the gap in front to open slowly, allowing a slow merge thus helping prevent queue jumpers further behind getting even further ahead slowing down the crawl even more. Life has enough to think about than give any more thought to these little inconveniences. |
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29-12-2022, 12:10 PM | #4799 | ||||
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there's a short road over here that's known for it....... have even seen one speed up to squeeze in.. Quote:
i hate people pushing in ........ had an AU do that in a single lane down here... |
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29-12-2022, 01:16 PM | #4800 | ||
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Don't know about the age thing and letting them in, I do try to take your approach but these days there is more and more of these so called self-entitled arrogant mongrels pushing their way in as if they own the roads, I think I'm losing my patience as I grow old as these queue jumpers do really p*** me off.
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