What R U doing...... RIGHT NOW!!?

[Breakfall]

Shoutbox for Site Supporters being added... tomorrow.

Oh it’s gonna be on and crackin’.


Im sitting here irritated. That time of the month is approaching.

We all knew that! Trololololol

 

[Breakfall]

Having a breather after some bromeliad division. Itchy sheeeeeet!

 

[Swamp-Duck]

Crows bring me gifts. For feeding them, best ever today...

 

[Oerdin]

Sitting in my back patio, smoking, and surfing the net.

 

[Dove]

Scrolling market place looking for dressers and hutches I could turn into kitchen cupboards. I'm super stuck on this today.

 

[Frood]

Yeah I worked with a few white Afrikaners when I worked in Fort MacMurray. Our Doctor was also Afrikaans and there is no problem with them coming here at all, they will be welcomed.

The doctors of old South Africa used to be second to none. After all the first successful heart transplant in the world was by an Afrikaner in 1967, Dr Christiaan Barnard. The pass rate for university to accommodate the blacks is now 30%...at that rate one couldn’t sew a stitch.

Diversity hiring sucks...

 

[Bastard Factory]

Shoutbox is 0pen

 

[Froggy]

Eating Shepherd's Pie, drinking Orange Crush, and posting shit online

 

[Oerdin]

Looking at prices of used 1994-1995 Land Rover Defender 90s with despair. I can remember being 18 years old and seeing a Bahama Gold version. It was the two door soft top with V8 engine and 5 speed manual transmission. I barely had two pennies to rub together so there was no way the teenaged me was going to have the money to buy it but, boy, did I lust after it. I remember the prices was an outrageous $35,000.

Fast forward to today and I happen across a used car ad for virtually the same car with the same options only a 1995 model year. It has 71,000 miles and the prices was... wait for it... $79,000! My dreams of buying a cheap used copy of my teenaged dream off roader have been dashed because, fuck you, I will not pay twice the original MSRP for a 26 year old SUV with over 70k miles. :(

 

[Oerdin]

Toyota CJ Cruisers (looking for the 2014 final edition) also seem to be stupid expensive. They are also selling for more than they cost when new.

 

[Dove]

Just got back from sitting at my moms doctor app for the past several hours. Sitting here with some coffee watching Squish sleeping between tuxedo cats ♡

 

[Oerdin]

I saw an ad for a 2014 CJ Cruiser, final edition with skid plants and TRD package, 68,000 miles, six speed manual, V6, 4x4, and a nice interior. Asking price $38,000. Original MSRP $41,000.

FUCK THESE THIEVES! In a sane market (without shortages of new cars) the price would be around $20,000.

 

[Mr. Whipple]

searching for a pistol grip for a 1973 crossman 38 t or c ....

Pellet gun

 

[Oerdin]

My wife and two boys came home with Chic-Fil-A. I decided not to point out to my wife that we still have leftover lausaungia. I do wish she'd use up to old before buying new though.

 

[Dove]

My wife and two boys came home with Chic-Fil-A. I decided not to point out to my wife that we still have leftover lausaungia. I do wish she'd use up to old before buying new though.

Chic-Fil-A is ALWAYS awesome.

Michigan has a few and I finally live within an hour of one......and yeah we drive that 35 minutes lol.

 

[Oerdin]

They even have a good number of them in commie-fornia.

 

[Frood]

Toyota CJ Cruisers (looking for the 2014 final edition) also seem to be stupid expensive. They are also selling for more than they cost when new.

There's a used and new car shortage right now due to a semiconductor shortage. Used vehicles have increased in price 25-40% all over.

 

[Frood]

About to shower and drinking coffee.

 

[Breakfall]

Decided to have a long weekend as of now...surf is going to be a decent size!

My gun...

 

[Frood]

 

[Breakfall]

You only need 1/4 of a pinky nail to fly like a kite. I’d double-check that and your constitution mind you.
:Drunk:

 

[Frood]

You only need 1/4 of a pinky nail to fly like a kite. I’d double-check that and your constitution mind you.
:Drunk:

That chunk wasn't me... there's a small mammal doing a rip van winkle nearby for the next couple of days...

 

[Swamp-Duck]

 

[Breakfall]

Yeah I worked with a few white Afrikaners when I worked in Fort MacMurray. Our Doctor was also Afrikaans and there is no problem with them coming here at all, they will be welcomed.

The doctors of old South Africa used to be second to none. After all the first successful heart transplant in the world was by an Afrikaner in 1967, Dr Christiaan Barnard. The pass rate for university to accommodate the blacks is now 30%...at that rate one couldn’t sew a stitch.

Diversity hiring sucks...

If you have your own business in South Africa, by law you have to hire a black person before a white person. And then they have to be represented by their union. How fucked is that?

 

[Swamp-Duck]

Yeah I worked with a few white Afrikaners when I worked in Fort MacMurray. Our Doctor was also Afrikaans and there is no problem with them coming here at all, they will be welcomed.

The doctors of old South Africa used to be second to none. After all the first successful heart transplant in the world was by an Afrikaner in 1967, Dr Christiaan Barnard. The pass rate for university to accommodate the blacks is now 30%...at that rate one couldn’t sew a stitch.

Diversity hiring sucks...

If you have your own business in South Africa, by law you have to hire a black person before a white person. And then they have to be represented by their union. How fucked is that?

They’ll find an excuse not to turn up anyway, so don’t worry about it...

 

[Breakfall]

Yeah I worked with a few white Afrikaners when I worked in Fort MacMurray. Our Doctor was also Afrikaans and there is no problem with them coming here at all, they will be welcomed.

The doctors of old South Africa used to be second to none. After all the first successful heart transplant in the world was by an Afrikaner in 1967, Dr Christiaan Barnard. The pass rate for university to accommodate the blacks is now 30%...at that rate one couldn’t sew a stitch.

Diversity hiring sucks...

If you have your own business in South Africa, by law you have to hire a black person before a white person. And then they have to be represented by their union. How fucked is that?

They’ll find an excuse not to turn up anyway, so don’t worry about it...

Hahahahahahaa...I have that same issue with employees in Australia, not rocking up. I end up using Brazilians on work visas instead and backpackers when available. Hard to find good workers these dayz!

 

[Frood]

Yeah I worked with a few white Afrikaners when I worked in Fort MacMurray. Our Doctor was also Afrikaans and there is no problem with them coming here at all, they will be welcomed.

The doctors of old South Africa used to be second to none. After all the first successful heart transplant in the world was by an Afrikaner in 1967, Dr Christiaan Barnard. The pass rate for university to accommodate the blacks is now 30%...at that rate one couldn’t sew a stitch.

Diversity hiring sucks...

If you have your own business in South Africa, by law you have to hire a black person before a white person. And then they have to be represented by their union. How fucked is that?

I got passed over for 3 promotions here in Oz between 2008-2011, in my specialty, while in a 2IC capacity, and running the operations tight as a ship since my report managers fled the sinking ship early...

I got passed over because:

1. I was male.

2. I was white.

3. The company had an active global HR diversity initiative.

4. The managers were powerless to promote an experienced person doing the job against inexperienced females of colour in other departments who WANTED the job.

They fought and fought for me each time... kept me abreast of what was going on behind the scenes, and were told each time to drop it if they didn't want to be dismissed themselves.

Such was the level of integrity and trust between us that they'd entrust me with the pure honesty that could screw them should I make too much noise about what was happening.

It was soul destroying to keep quiet. My hate and anger for these birds gaming the system was immense....but I come from a military family and if you don't like shit, excuse yourself from the situation and find a new one. Orders must be followed even if you disagree with them or they're unethical.

None of these chicks got the jobs... I was too qualified to be refused and in these months long interviews too far invested that if it went to litigation, no court would have ruled in my disfavour... but it would have been a black mark on my future, so I'd politely pull out of the process after a few months each time and waited for a bobblehead to report to... never happened.

In the end... I got interim status, they left, and I saw out the closure of our branch.

...all that to promote unskilled minorities.... all that effort by me, the bigwigs above me to get a job done in the face of woke corporatism...

It was absolutely soul crushing and it's taken years to get over those escapades.

Since then, I've refused to interview for any global company.... and that's a real shame. They're generally the best or had been the best for advancement. Local and regional companies have a whole slew of issues with unchecked behaviours and nepotism.

I remember my dad saying that he became a surveyors assistant when he was 19 and a director of an 800 engineer strong design company by the time he was 55...no degrees... but he talked of the "glass ceiling" when he had too many beers....the fact that he could command so many resources at his disposal despite abandoning a free degree from Drexel when he and my mum were trying to start a family.

Back in the day, we were results driven...

 

[Swamp-Duck]

Polishing my bommy knocker...

 

[Breakfall]

Polishing my bommy knocker...

Feck...I had to google that one just to be sure! ;)

 

[Froggy]

Getting lost with whisky and music? anything and everything it seems right now. Reality can come back to me on Monday.