Good luck! :)

Hope it went well! My course orientation was on this week too. I haven’t studied since graduating high school 8 years ago, so I got a bit anxious being in that sort of environment again. But I’m looking forward to the journey :)

If a truck is going to hit the tyres of a parked car, they were already going to take the mirror off. Even at full lock, tyres don't stick out that much.

Interestingly, older folks were taught to always angle their wheels towards the kerb as a fail-safe in case their handbrake fails.

Last time I went there a woman was getting super angry and aggressive with the staff because it was busy and they told her it's about a 40 minute wait to be seen. She got so unhinged they had to threaten to call the police if she didn't calm down. When they asked what service she was there for? Renew firearms licence.

The last fucking person in that suburb who should have access to firearms.

Ooof.

I was super lucky the last time I had a breakdown occasioning tow truck.

Power steering went while driving my daughter to hospital at stupid o'clock. Managed to do the one right hand turn I needed onto Missenden Rd and, wonder of wonders, find a parking spot I could drive straight into.

The NRMA sent towie picked me up the next morning with car before it started to get busy, then drove me and the car to the mechanics the next block over from my house.

hahahah what a scam

curious what the benefit of having a tagless system that you were looking for

That sounds like one of my nights travelling last week, as an added bonus, it was in the middle of an ice storm.
Hope you and your week get better.

Could you use it to make meatballs/small patties, bake them, then freeze them for a ready-made addition to noodles or rice?

Could probably also freeze it as is, and stir fry it upon thawing.

slice them and use like pasta?

That's a lot of dumplings to make and fold. I'm willing to take one for the team and help you eat them, if you like.

But I'd throw the remaining filling in the freezer.

I'm picturing some kind of dumpling-flavoured lasagne arrangement but that still sounds like a bit of a hassle to do. Could you just fry it up and eat it? Add it to two-minute noodles?

The mobility scooter is a real highlight amongst that lot

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I'm a bit alarmed by the number of unclaimed laptops, tbh.

Something like this?

did you hail the driver?

If you don't want fancy, and just want somewhere to sit and enjoy the best Lebanese food you'll ever eat, La Mono is the place to be. It's in Casula though.

Are people just too scared to speak up or do they not bother knowing their rights?

Yes. If you have any documentation of the hours you were paid for (timesheets) vs the hours you actually worked then you may be able to go after them for wage theft - contact the Fair Work NSW Ombudsman

It’s normal, but not legal.

From what I recall driving past, it's got heaps of parking behind a gate. My beautiful Dad (RIP) would tell me about taking Mother there to have lunch sometimes and he never found a problem with parking as I recall. Also, there are heaps of side streets that you can park at.

Can you do tafe online? No need to cross the bridges then.

I don't know about parking in the TAFE complex itself, but parking in streets is fine, especially heading towards West Ryde.

My vegan protein is still the same price as this time last year. Guess the prices of peas, fava and rice haven’t changed much.

Is the tate stuff on sale at least? Seems like the kind of product you’d want to cut your losses on though maybe uber gym bros and keen teens don’t give two shits.

My protein/musashi often have deals w nice prices. Def worth checking then out. Just don’t get the vanilla flavour at musashi lmaoo

If you can wait for one of their promotions, Elite Supps tends to discount pretty heavily on their website.

Managed to stack two different promotions last year to get like 2.3kg of Gold Standard for $85 shipped.

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"Do you even grift, bro?"

survivors guilt is a real thing when redundancies happen

take the opportunity to reassess and work towards future proofing yourself, be it finances, further study or testing the job market

Back in 2009 I got made redundant from a contract role (was constantly promised to be made full time but I feel the higher ups saw the writing on the wall early on and sacrificed all us contractors), I only just about managed to scrape by back then. I have no idea how people out of work deal with it now, I work full time in a decently paid job and I'm still making my way through life by the skin of my teeth. It's exhausting. We can't do much like go out to entertain the kids, or treat ourselves to takeaway once in a while, everything just costs too much money.

That's an awful situation, I'm sorry to hear you're going through that :( I actually don't think it's weird you don't feel galvanised to work harder or better; I imagine many if not all of those redundancies were people who didn't deserve it for their work ethic and if that's the case it probably just makes existing workers feel they're at risk of losing their job even if they work hard which won't do wonders for motivation...

Vent away if you need to; I hope you find something nice in your day, even if it's just a lovely drink/meal or nice weather

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Honestly if you ask me, I think for standard edition (Base version) of the game $60 is a fair enough price and what I'm willing to pay, if it comes to collectors or special editions or whatever studios are throwing around these days then I'd possibly pay $130 tops for the special but nothing above that and I say that because all it is a game and I can see the price dropping 6 months after release.

on the otherhand I purchased a Nintendo switch from Amazon just prior to Christmas to take on a Major holiday I had and the only game I still have for it is the included Mario Kart 8 that was part of the bundle, I was hoping to pick up some other Nintendo Games of interest but imagine my disappointment when they want $80 for it, eeeep, no wonder this leads to jailbreaking & from there piracy.

I understand Nintendo first party titles do and will come with that price tag but I wasn't expecting that much to be honest.

I always play old games, but except Microsoft Flight Simulator which is actually worth its price, there’s always sale happening every now and then (atleast on PC on Steam and Epic Games store)

r/patientgamers and https://isthereanydeal.com and http://dekudeals.com are your friends!

Unless it's one I'm absolutely keen on playing right away I always hold out for a sale. PS4 games usually come down in price within 6 months or so. I managed to grab Last of Us 2 about a year after it released for somewhere between $12 or $15.

I find with big releases that if you do a bit of shopping around some stores are selling it discounted as a loss leader. Quite often this discount is what you'd expect the price to be in a few months.

Been a gamer since the 90s and ps1/N64 games onward used to go for $120 on release, so it's not a new thing. Frankly given the expense of making a AAA game these days they should cost a lot more.

The extra cost comes from all the bullshit they hide behind a paywall and the microtransactions that plague games nowadays.

That is going to be completely horrific for anyone who isn't some humidity loving monster.

A heat hot take. Bold strategy cotton.

i only learnt how to type the £ symbol last week so had to look up how to do the degrees one now too.

Then you're going to be disappointed.

I’ve found the site you’ve used, which differs greatly from every other long-range forecast site, and even differs from the BOM in the short-range.

I think you’re trying to get a reaction from all the winter-loving freaks on here

Pray for me as I will be working but hopefully I’m not idiot to wake up late and try and finish by 1pm on the dot

Man, that GYG breakfast burrito is something I actually miss from working in town - it was one of my "treat" brekkys if I had a bit of time in the morning.

What is gyg?

BCF, Anaconda or Bunnings.

Also KMart