was in the shops above paddy's markets today and I was really sad to see that the gundam shop that I remember seeing years ago is no longer there.
Honestly that place was waaay too expensive. Usualy double to triple the cost of a HobbyCo product. Also there was word spreading that they were beginning to sell knock-off merchandise. That place used to be amazing, but it had really fallen in recent years sadly.
I'm famblin, and [O']Blivienne mentioned having plans already. I'm on hols 'til the 8th though, so certainly up for something before I go back to work.
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As far as I'm aware, Amy and I are doing nothing. Like, on purpose? Just going to do nothing all weekend. She needs a good rest.
Y'alls graffiti is absolutely aces. I've taken to wandering around by myself in the mornings and I'm finding so many cool things in random little alleys and whatnot.
Edit: you guys need an able bodied American? I can do whatever. You need some stuff picked up? I'm really good at picking things up and putting them down again. I fucking love this country. The food is amazing and fresh and the coffee is actual coffee and there are all these little local owned specialty stores. If I never see a Wal-Mart again I'll be fine. I can't go back to SC now, man I can't.
Y'alls graffiti is absolutely aces. I've taken to wandering around by myself in the mornings and I'm finding so many cool things in random little alleys and whatnot.
Edit: you guys need an able bodied American? I can do whatever. You need some stuff picked up? I'm really good at picking things up and putting them down again. I fucking love this country. The food is amazing and fresh and the coffee is actual coffee and there are all these little local owned specialty stores. If I never see a Wal-Mart again I'll be fine. I can't go back to SC now, man I can't.
OMG come here!
we have almost all of that and none of the venomous things!
In the spirit of New Years I'd like to belatedly apologise to the 2015 PAX Melbourne people I promised to meet, though I mainly screwed myself out of meeting a bunch of awesome people so I should be apologising to myself. I had a massive anxiety attack, chickened out, and spent the next three days on a pretty self destructive self-loathing drinking bender before heading back to Sydney and failing my uni course.
Saw the Opera house and the fireworks were great despite the 1 million fucking people and also holy shit I didn't know there were flying foxes here? I'm pretty sure I saw one carry off a small child.
In the spirit of New Years I'd like to belatedly apologise to the 2015 PAX Melbourne people I promised to meet, though I mainly screwed myself out of meeting a bunch of awesome people so I should be apologising to myself. I had a massive anxiety attack, chickened out, and spent the next three days on a pretty self destructive self-loathing drinking bender before heading back to Sydney and failing my uni course.
As one of the 2015 PAXers, I just want to say it's no biggy and totally understandable. There are always more PAXs and always more dinners. 8-)
In the spirit of New Years I'd like to belatedly apologise to the 2015 PAX Melbourne people I promised to meet, though I mainly screwed myself out of meeting a bunch of awesome people so I should be apologising to myself. I had a massive anxiety attack, chickened out, and spent the next three days on a pretty self destructive self-loathing drinking bender before heading back to Sydney and failing my uni course.
Quoting to agree with Jordan and also I was there and also agree with above sentiment and also agree that we will be back and also that you will be back and this went for too long and collapsed in on itself and [it was bad] and come this year
Saw the Opera house and the fireworks were great despite the 1 million fucking people and also holy shit I didn't know there were flying foxes here? I'm pretty sure I saw one carry off a small child.
see if you can go out in the evening sometime and see the flying fox nightly migration
there are just swarms of them that fly from centennial park to the botanical gardens
Saw the Opera house and the fireworks were great despite the 1 million fucking people and also holy shit I didn't know there were flying foxes here? I'm pretty sure I saw one carry off a small child.
see if you can go out in the evening sometime and see the flying fox nightly migration
there are just swarms of them that fly from centennial park to the botanical gardens
Yeah if you come by Centennial Park around 5-6pm you'll see whole colonies heading out for dinner.
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Saw the Opera house and the fireworks were great despite the 1 million fucking people and also holy shit I didn't know there were flying foxes here? I'm pretty sure I saw one carry off a small child.
see if you can go out in the evening sometime and see the flying fox nightly migration
there are just swarms of them that fly from centennial park to the botanical gardens
Yeah if you come by Centennial Park around 5-6pm you'll see whole colonies heading out for dinner.
Urgh, why would anybody go down there. It's not like they have good shops and good coffee and good markets and nice people and all that. *sniff*
Saw the Opera house and the fireworks were great despite the 1 million fucking people and also holy shit I didn't know there were flying foxes here? I'm pretty sure I saw one carry off a small child.
see if you can go out in the evening sometime and see the flying fox nightly migration
there are just swarms of them that fly from centennial park to the botanical gardens
Yeah if you come by Centennial Park around 5-6pm you'll see whole colonies heading out for dinner.
Urgh, why would anybody go down there. It's not like they have good shops and good coffee and good markets and nice people and all that. *sniff*
It seemed to me more like a very large and very very wet patch of grass.
We chose the wrong day to walk through that place I tell you what
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Saw the Opera house and the fireworks were great despite the 1 million fucking people and also holy shit I didn't know there were flying foxes here? I'm pretty sure I saw one carry off a small child.
see if you can go out in the evening sometime and see the flying fox nightly migration
there are just swarms of them that fly from centennial park to the botanical gardens
Yeah if you come by Centennial Park around 5-6pm you'll see whole colonies heading out for dinner.
Urgh, why would anybody go down there. It's not like they have good shops and good coffee and good markets and nice people and all that. *sniff*
It seemed to me more like a very large and very very wet patch of grass.
We chose the wrong day to walk through that place I tell you what
Centrelink is such a shithouse organization I'd say this was more of a feature than a bug.
edit: I remember my friends on student benefits who were also working hospitality having similar issues back in the 90s, if they had a particularly large pay packet in one fortnight.
I very much doubt that there wasn't some IT guy going "Are you sure this is what you want?" before the policy makers bent down and quietly whispered "Do it.".
Assuming the IT guys aren't all contractors of course. Those guys will give you precisely what you ask for.
Centrelink is such a shithouse organization I'd say this was more of a feature than a bug.
edit: I remember my friends on student benefits who were also working hospitality having similar issues back in the 90s, if they had a particularly large pay packet in one fortnight.
Centrelink has been targeted for budget cuts pretty much every years since its inception. There's only so much even the most dedicated public servant can do when they are juggling the work of three people with no resources.
I very much doubt that there wasn't some IT guy going "Are you sure this is what you want?" before the policy makers bent down and quietly whispered "Do it.".
Assuming the IT guys aren't all contractors of course. Those guys will give you precisely what you ask for.
Having been involved in some government stuff, the internal IT guys would have specified what they need, the project management team would have interpreted it badly, which would then have gone to tender out to the lowest bidder, who would have misinterpreted the tender, delivered something that just held together to do what they think they might have wanted after every possible corner was cut to meet the letter of the tender if not its intent, and then would have turned it over to the internal IT staff with little to no training and then gone to the pub.
Centrelink is such a shithouse organization I'd say this was more of a feature than a bug.
edit: I remember my friends on student benefits who were also working hospitality having similar issues back in the 90s, if they had a particularly large pay packet in one fortnight.
Centrelink has been targeted for budget cuts pretty much every years since its inception. There's only so much even the most dedicated public servant can do when they are juggling the work of three people with no resources.
Oh I don't blame the individual workers. But it's been an obstructionist system (what do they call it in the Brit thread? Antagonistic welfare?) as long as I can remember. If this wasn't by design, I still doubt anyone at a policy level was too displeased by the results.
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As the IT guy doing basically the same thing across the Tasman, sometimes I look across the ditch at Centerlink and think 'yeah, I can see how that happened' but often I look over and think 'What the fuck were you thinking?'.
Professional courtesy prevents me from saying which this is, but I could make a few guesses and end up at both.
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Honestly that place was waaay too expensive. Usualy double to triple the cost of a HobbyCo product. Also there was word spreading that they were beginning to sell knock-off merchandise. That place used to be amazing, but it had really fallen in recent years sadly.
Fuck small things I can't see them well enough.
Edit: you guys need an able bodied American? I can do whatever. You need some stuff picked up? I'm really good at picking things up and putting them down again. I fucking love this country. The food is amazing and fresh and the coffee is actual coffee and there are all these little local owned specialty stores. If I never see a Wal-Mart again I'll be fine. I can't go back to SC now, man I can't.
Have to be under 31 but this is generally easy to get it think.
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OMG come here!
we have almost all of that and none of the venomous things!
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the only thing nz has that we don't have is like, lamb shanks on every menu
every menu
*sniff*
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this is....
thank you lord
Re: Midnight fireworks
As one of the 2015 PAXers, I just want to say it's no biggy and totally understandable. There are always more PAXs and always more dinners. 8-)
Quoting to agree with Jordan and also I was there and also agree with above sentiment and also agree that we will be back and also that you will be back and this went for too long and collapsed in on itself and [it was bad] and come this year
see if you can go out in the evening sometime and see the flying fox nightly migration
there are just swarms of them that fly from centennial park to the botanical gardens
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Yeah if you come by Centennial Park around 5-6pm you'll see whole colonies heading out for dinner.
Urgh, why would anybody go down there. It's not like they have good shops and good coffee and good markets and nice people and all that. *sniff*
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It seemed to me more like a very large and very very wet patch of grass.
We chose the wrong day to walk through that place I tell you what
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We're staying from the 11th to the 17th, and we're at a place in Travancore(?), between the Zoo and Flemington which looks real nice and is way cheap
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edit: I remember my friends on student benefits who were also working hospitality having similar issues back in the 90s, if they had a particularly large pay packet in one fortnight.
Assuming the IT guys aren't all contractors of course. Those guys will give you precisely what you ask for.
Centrelink has been targeted for budget cuts pretty much every years since its inception. There's only so much even the most dedicated public servant can do when they are juggling the work of three people with no resources.
Having been involved in some government stuff, the internal IT guys would have specified what they need, the project management team would have interpreted it badly, which would then have gone to tender out to the lowest bidder, who would have misinterpreted the tender, delivered something that just held together to do what they think they might have wanted after every possible corner was cut to meet the letter of the tender if not its intent, and then would have turned it over to the internal IT staff with little to no training and then gone to the pub.
Oh I don't blame the individual workers. But it's been an obstructionist system (what do they call it in the Brit thread? Antagonistic welfare?) as long as I can remember. If this wasn't by design, I still doubt anyone at a policy level was too displeased by the results.
Professional courtesy prevents me from saying which this is, but I could make a few guesses and end up at both.
Woo! You'll be a couple of kms from us! What nights do you have free?
So far we've got no actual concrete plans, and we're still making lists of things we want to do
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