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13-12-2023, 06:55 PM | #5401 | ||
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It's back on now thankfully, was predicted to be out until 12.30am! A/C is on Arctic blast at the moment!
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13-12-2023, 07:09 PM | #5402 | ||
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13-12-2023, 08:34 PM | #5403 | ||
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it is for Victorians
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13-12-2023, 09:20 PM | #5404 | |||
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13-12-2023, 09:23 PM | #5405 | ||
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Those are the storms that have come across from Adelaide (you’re welcome). It’s doing my head in, twice in 2 days I’ve had to pull up stumps and hide from lightening, rain one minute, then the burning sun comes out to make it humid, next it’s a howling gale. My lungs and eyes are full of crap, and the lawns are growing inches per day.
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13-12-2023, 09:45 PM | #5406 | |||
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14-12-2023, 09:31 AM | #5407 | ||
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Once you cross that range, the heat is intense in country Victoria, nothing like coastal Melbourne weather.
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14-12-2023, 09:36 AM | #5408 | ||
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You’ve travelled, how does it (inland Vic heat) compare to places like Ganmain on a 35° day with stiff hot breeze from the south? I’ve only spent time in Echuca and that was warm in peak summer.
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14-12-2023, 09:46 AM | #5409 | |||
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Most of the summer charges come blowing in from the south west, my go to was if its going to be hot in Adelaide one day, 2 days later it will be super hot there. Only difference is coastal SA will have their storms and things will settle. South west changes that make it as far as the Vic/NSW border usually have to be large ones with a couple of day of rain to help cool. Otherwise it is like DFB states turns it into a humid hot bath for a day then back to hot dry conditions.
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14-12-2023, 05:31 PM | #5410 | ||
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Eyre Peninsula SA is usually 5* cooler in summer than Adelaide and 4* warmer over winter.
Summer its the water on 3 sides then across 1 gulf to Pirie and sweet hell its often 8-10 warmer in summer than us. Last week it was 18* warmer
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14-12-2023, 06:10 PM | #5411 | |||
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I was doing a delivery in a semi rural suburb called Worongary. Road works we’re taking place and one lane was closed so I had to wait a while for a green light A traffic controller nearby the car a young blonde girl was really struggling in the 34 degree plus humidity The gear traffic controllers have to wear in heat is obscene Hard hat Long sleeve shirt Long pants Boots And a high viz over the shirt Surely their bodies are overheating - it’s unsafe work practice |
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14-12-2023, 06:17 PM | #5412 | ||
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Traffic controllers were at their 'flashiest' in the 80s in Far North Qld.
Young, trim young ladies in a hard hat and a bikini |
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14-12-2023, 06:26 PM | #5413 | ||
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14-12-2023, 06:28 PM | #5414 | ||
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Was positively beautiful today, light cool breeze, warm but not horribly uncomfortable like yesterday. I guess this doesn't belong in the "hate" thread.
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14-12-2023, 06:45 PM | #5415 | |||
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buggaa offf Tonz ............ i got looks our last hot down here .... sitting outside in the pergola [?] enjoying me lunch break.. was quite noice i turn down the portable aircon down in the kitchen area [at home] .. coz she used to have it set on 17º . . . . . i have it on 20/22º so i don't freeze! [especially at night]. i normally [on hot days] have to go outside to warm up...... i try to stay out of the lounge on hot days ...... Quote:
was still a little muggy down here |
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15-12-2023, 08:30 AM | #5416 | |||
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I can remember the inclement weather temp for all outdoor workers then was 34deg. Problem these days is, everyone has since given up their own workers rights through fear of being sacked if they spoke up.
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20-12-2023, 04:01 PM | #5417 | |||
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And weeds, yep I hate that. Ducked off the roadside maybe 60km before, to see a man about a dog, and spotted this horror in rude health. |
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20-12-2023, 05:15 PM | #5418 | ||
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What a shame. Are the Victorian railway carriages still down the road.
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20-12-2023, 05:20 PM | #5419 | ||
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I didn’t notice any, but the old station is steadily falling down. Whole place is going to #2, that idiot burning down the servo probably hasn’t helped.
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20-12-2023, 05:37 PM | #5420 | |||
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NSW RTA at the time said we are burying the tracks when the bypass gets done. Didn't think they are allowed to do this as the tracks are still down. They couldn't even be bothered building a tunnel under the Superslab where the existing line is for the future. Would have brought cyclist to the area, may have even saved the pub and motel but no, cost to much. NSW one day is going to wake up and realise just how much cycle tourism makes for country town economies. No vision these people.
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26-12-2023, 07:39 PM | #5421 | ||
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Hot cross buns are out in the supermarkets already
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26-12-2023, 08:08 PM | #5422 | ||
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The company I work for is contracted to RAC and has to be open all working days of the year.
I Forgot to put my leave in this year which I do every year and now I have to work tomorrow, Thursday and Friday, while the rest of my family and friends are all off till the 8th of Jan :( |
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26-12-2023, 08:59 PM | #5423 | |||
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I work for a small family business that is open 7 days a week. Because I'm not part of their family, and I basically have no family or children, why would I need time off at Christmas, right? This is not to disrespect those who have decided to have children, a significant other, a family, but it's like society deems me an invalid human because I don't, and that somehow I wouldn't know hardship because I chose not to bring another human into the Earths hell hole. They way society is built, and the mechanics around it, means if you don't fit that specific mold, you spend your life on the backfoot. The above probably should be in the depression thread. And yes, I'm working tomorrow too................but hey, merry-fu.king-Christmas and happy holidays........or not.
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27-12-2023, 12:33 PM | #5424 | |||
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27-12-2023, 12:40 PM | #5425 | |||
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27-12-2023, 12:46 PM | #5426 | ||
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I worked in an emergency service for nearly 40 years, was entitled to every 3rd Christmas off. Still managed to drop by home once in a while whilst working and have a fruit mince pie with my family.
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27-12-2023, 01:08 PM | #5427 | |||
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Both Mumma Bear and I were the same, she is a ICU nurse/unit manager, me on call 24/7 in my previous life. I even got to cruise the harbor on Boxing day on the PL Valiant (back when you could get away with doing that) Once we had a kid things improved for us but it was normal for both of us that with no kids we would work for those with preteen kids, and they did the later shifts. Even with my own workshops I always took on Christmas and Easter, my staff all had little ones and then I take time off when it suited me. Best amount of call outs on Christmas day/Boxing day (7) Some I couldn't fault but still had to swap them over. Sometimes its annoying especially if you have someone who just has to have a whinge about the Boss getting Toil, some just don't think and seem to believe that I enjoyed being at work and not at home have a feed or a beer etc. It all works out in the long run.........so I've been told. Terry aka Tbro |
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27-12-2023, 01:11 PM | #5428 | |||
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I know that in 18 years I worked 9 Christmas days, despite me putting my name on the list to be rostered off. Boxing Day, New Years eve or day, Easter, Anzac Day ..... what did they mean to me ........ time and a half, or double time, or a day in lieu, and at the meal break, complimentary bowls of chips and nibbles and a can of Coke, and the well-wishing (joke ha ha) of the great unwashed general public. |
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27-12-2023, 01:27 PM | #5429 | ||
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Aussie grown, Asparagus a week before Christmas $1.60 a bunch.
Aussie grown, Asparagus a day before Christmas $3.20 a bunch. Aussie grown, Asparagus today $3.90 a bunch. No, supermarkets aren't ripping us off.
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27-12-2023, 01:38 PM | #5430 | |||
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Prior to the week before xmas: $2. Week leading up to xmas: $4 Xmas eve: $3.50. Haven't been near the shops since, so don't know what the current price is.
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