I think he estimated we’d only need to work about 15 hours per week.

Tying healthcare to employment in the first place needs to end.

We should have a 4 day work week anyway, maximum.

Yeah, the looney manager was clearly bluffing. I reckon withholding your driving licence would justify calling them. That can’t be legal. I’m kind of baffled why they left it with him in the first place.

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While the glasses are definitely a problem, this seems to be more about the general manager just being an utter cunt.

“At this point, my friend’s husband’s getting frustrated, and he’s like, ‘You need to give me my ID back,’” Marilyn said. “The GM threatens to call the cops on my friend’s husband and threatens to ban him.”

“OK, call the cops.” is what they should have said.

which resulted in her considering other gyms entirely.

Considering!?

Critique the system all you like. The system doesn’t care. Call it ‘insufferable’ if you like, but ads are more insufferable. If there’s a way to solve the problem myself without waiting until some corporate overlord deigns to change anything, I’ll do that every time.

If you’re seeing ads on YouTube, you’re doing it wrong.

You’re not good looking enough to be that much of a narcissist.

Apparently, indigenous people have passed down the story for generations that when Captain Cook first set foot on their soil, he fell on his arse. I’d like to see that.

Agriculture was probably the beginning of the end. And while not necessarily a ‘technology’, the concept of land ownership was a bad idea as well.

‘Daft as a brush’ is an oldie but a goodie. I have no idea what it means.

supercilious cunt

Damn. I used that exact phrase in an email to my ex-wife like 15 years ago. It’s a good’n.

Where’s the fun in that?

That phrase could only be more Australian if it had some kind of hat on.

“Kirk leaned left at the end.”

“If all the village idiots, in all of the villages, left their villages, and formed their own village, of idiots. In that village, you would be the village idiot.” - Colin Lane

“Don’t be so humble. You’re not that great.” - Maria Bamford’s dad.

“People say you’re a real wit, but I think they’re only half right.” - me

Voltaire’s Bastards by John Ralston Saul. It didn’t necessarily radicalise me, but it certainly changed my view of the world.

The milquetoast Albenese government has been a bit of a disappointment, but it’s still preferable to whatever Dutton would have manifested. Still, how hard would it have been to not be so fucking weak?

It’s not an ‘industry’. Industries produce things. Crypto needs choking to death, and the likes of Andeessen along with it. They are only used to scam people.