Was great to catch up with Poss! Nearly froze when I got back to Canberra - the landing was beautiful could not even feel the wheels touch down! The head
steward was bragging about it before hitting us with the current temp at 7.30 was 7 degrees and raining. We have not gone past 12 degrees this month yet - 10
as a high today ( 1 atm)- it was so nice and warm in Sydney but the traffic would drive me nuts.
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Posts: 8125 ( 4-Jul-09 09:04 AM) |
Touchdown in the rain is always smoother...no idea why.
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Posts: 29291 ( 5-Jul-09 12:14 AM)
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I've noticed that but hadn't really thought about it. The smoothest landing I've ever experienced was in heavy rain in Manilla. Didn't even
know we'd landed until we slowed - perhaps we were aquaplaning a bit?
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Posts: 16517 ( 5-Jul-09 05:33 PM) We shall only be gone |
Wow, considering I am deathly afraid of flying but maybe going OS later in the year..I will now be hoping it rains. Who'd have thunk it.
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know tho. 
Life is pretty much the same for me atm..I'm permanent p/t now and have 9 shifts a fortnight which is good. I work both days every w/e but the money is heaps better so all is good. Loving the work and the ppl so can't ask for more than that!   |
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Posts: 29312 ( 5-Jul-09 05:40 PM)
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That's great MP. Knowing that you're permanent makes such a difference too.
Had a very bludgey day today. Slept in to around 9am, had breakfast in bed and read until I'd had enough. A little bit of housework, chatted to a couple of mates, more reading, and now I'm just deciding if it's worth getting more dressed up than trakky daks, ug boots and a singlet to pop around the street for a few messages. Or, whether the cat and I can cope without going out at all today. It's lovely to be doing nothing for change so I suspect I won't go out. |
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Posts: 16528 ( 5-Jul-09 06:03 PM) We shall only be gone |
Sounds like a great way to spend the day AP! Sounds a bit like my days off hehe. I have even adopted a cat too..a gal at work needed to find a new home for
her..and I had a mouse (or 2 or 3) in my ceiling..so solved both our problems. She is a Russian Blue and is more like a dog lol. Tis nice to have company tho..
*pats her - literally*
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Posts: 11175 ( 5-Jul-09 06:55 PM) Plenty of ASS experience |
The 'casualisation' of the workforce is a trend that worries me. I understand the SHORT-TERM advantages for a company, being able to chop and change
rosters as suited for the business but I tend to think there will be no loyalty from staff. At my store they are not employing any more full time staff, in
line with what head office has said. I doubt you are going to find casual staff sticking around for 10-15 years like they would if they were offered a full
time position. It's a slap in the face for employees that their positions are deemed so disposable. Now I've just gotta change it all once I'm in
the workforce...Wish me luck...
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Posts: 8142 ( 5-Jul-09 08:47 PM) |
You go boy!
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Posts: 11314 ( 5-Jul-09 09:37 PM) Lost on a tangent. |
Casual employment works somewhat for some areas but I agree not at all for others. Nursing has a lot of casuals some that belong to the hospital and others
that travel constantly. At times in your life it works but ultimately if you are serious about increasing skills and knowledge you need to concentrate for
awhile in one area rather than flitting day to day from ward to ward or hospital to hospital learning bits here and there rather than consolidating knowledge
in one area for a while. I imagine it works the same in many industires.
Plus of course the loyalty factor - casuals can drop a shift when they want - me I've been sick all weekend - probably influenza A (despite the flu shot) or Swine flu as we've had patients with it, but I have committments the next week so will drag myself in. |
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Posts: 12710 ( 6-Jul-09 10:30 AM) Shiver My Timbers |
Hello MP...what a nice surprise seeing you swing past!!!
Just had a weekend away with two single Mums and 8 kids between us.....to celebrate my 'indepence day' coming around finally. Was great fun, but very tiring...I am so glad my children aren't preschoolers anymore....gee they whinge incessantly....hahahaha I actually thought my teenagers were better....because at least if you shout at them they storm off, rather than following you around! |
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Posts: 8148 ( 6-Jul-09 10:53 AM) |
so glad to hear that twig...finally a little light appears at the end of the whingeing[sic?] tunnel!
Should I be congratulating you on your 'independence day'? |
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Posts: 35015 ( 6-Jul-09 10:56 AM) An also-ran in
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That is the day that Jeff Goldblum and Will Smith flew into the alien mothership to scramble its computers, and Bill Pullman and Randy Quaid led the air
squadron to kick the aliens' ass, right?
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Posts: 35024 ( 6-Jul-09 11:41 AM) An also-ran in
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And as for your teenagers Twig, that sounds OK. Just don't prompt them to doing what this teenager did.
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Posts: 23593 ( 6-Jul-09 01:24 PM) Net Junkie |
possum9999 wrote: you're right it was before christmas. But we had a mini meet for when Starry was up in january as well. Hi MP! 
at home sick today. Had a big one friday night and it totally killed my immune system. On the bright side, 4 weeks till I cruise today. And met my other cruise buddies fri night who were brilliant. Will be a great cruise. 
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Posts: 29322 ( 6-Jul-09 01:36 PM)
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Wow, so soon already, Em. Great that you could meet up with people beforehand.
The police have been out and about cracking down on jaywalkers in town lately, and this morning it was my turn. I was crossing St Kilda Road from a tram stop, and did what I always do which is to take out my MP3 player earphones and look carefully before crossing. Nothing was coming as far back as the Shrine, so I crossed to the nature strip, and then repeated the process before crossing the service lane. When the police asked why I'd jaywalked, I told them it was because I could see back to the Shrine and nothing was coming, had removed my earphones so had no distractions, and had repeated the process before crossing the service lane - which I rate as the most dangerous bit. Lucky for me they'd seen it all clearly and I didn't argue the toss with them, so I got off with a firm talking to. Many of my colleagues and others who work around here weren't so fortunate. If the police come back at peak hour, they'll make enough in fines to fund a new road trauma wing at the Austin Hospital. 
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Posts: 35025 ( 6-Jul-09 01:41 PM) An also-ran in
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If any policeman tried that in Sydney they'd be laughed at.
I remember how shocked everyone was when I strolled across Elizabeth St at the first ASSpoc. It's a way of life here. Mind you our city streets are much more narrow and many are one way.
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Posts: 23599 ( 6-Jul-09 01:41 PM) Net Junkie |
Yep time's flown AP!!
That jaywalking stuff in melbourne would be so annoying. We always cross whenever in Sydney lol. Sydney pedestrians don't give a shite.
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Unfortunately a lot of Melbourne pedestrians haven't been giving a shite either, which is why so many of them have been injured over the past few months -
leading into the crackdown.
I do jaywalk a lot, particularly near work as it seems silly to wait for the lights when nothing's coming. But, I'm very careful at night, in wet weather and when crossing the service lane. A Senator was hit by a car and died in the service lane not too far from where I jaywalk on a regular basis, so that's often in my thoughts as a cautionary reminder. I'm also less likely to jaywalk in City Road now, as there's been a few too many speeding incidents there lately, including a very nasty fatality. |
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I was nearly hit by a car recently - but it was while I was crossing at a legit pedestrian crossing.
It was in the Rocks on a Friday night in reasonably heavy rain so I waited until there was a significant gap in the traffic on George St and started walking slowly across the crossing so that I didn't slip on the wet road. A car was coming towards the crossing and actually sped up. It put its brakes on too late and I had to jump out of the way or it would have hit me. It stopped about a foot beyond where I was. I banged on the bonnet and pointed at the pedestrian crossing sign.
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That mirrors my experiences of close encounters with vehicles. All of my near misses have been while crossing with the lights or at a zebra crossing. The
trucks on City Road are shockers.
The one time I really did get hit was while alighting from a tram and helping an older lady climb down, so had my back to traffic. It was in Sydney Road and so crowded that the car wasn't travelling at any great speed, so I ended up on the road, grazed and dazed, but no real harm done. Fortunately it was also in the days of conductors and the conductor went into overdrive berating the motorist for running over one of his passengers to the point where I almost felt sorry for the idiot. I think he was genuinely relieved when the police turned up to rescue him from the conductor, driver and other passengers, who'd all joined in and were probably building up to a lynching. Great stuff. |
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- Survivor
- Other Shows That Suck
- Big Brother
- Talent That Sucks
- Spoilers
- Anything you Pleeze!
- At the Movies
- Outplay Outwit Outlast
- Santa's Sack
- Spam Central
- Admin Blitz
- Other Shows That Suck archive
- Big Brother Archive
- The Mole
- Australian Survivor (Celebrity and Otherwise)
- Survivor 12: Exile Island & Survivor 13: Cook Islands
- Survivor 10: Palau & Survivor 11: Guatemala
- Survivor 8: All Stars & Survivor 9: Vanuatu
- Survivor 7: The Pearl Islands
- Survivor 6: The Amazon
- Survivor 4: Marquesas & Survivor 5: Thailand
- Aussie Survivor Sucks Pool: S12
- JurASSic Park
- JurASSic Park II
- JurASSic Park III
- Survivor 14: Fiji
