Comfortably numb......
Jan 2nd 2011, 8:28 am
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Jan 2nd 2011, 8:33 am
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Jan 2nd 2011, 9:12 am
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Jan 2nd 2011, 10:03 am
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Jan 2nd 2011, 10:20 am
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Jan 2nd 2011, 10:21 am
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Jan 2nd 2011, 10:22 am
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Jan 2nd 2011, 5:12 pm
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Re: Comfortably numb......
Right, time to let off steam!!!!!
1) If you are going to come and work in our office at 5am - or any other time really - please do us the favour of ensuring you don't need to spend the first half hour making loud vomiting noises into the wastepaper bin. I don't care whether its catching or not, I just don't want to listen to it
We do have toilets, go make your noises in there 
2) This is a perennial whinge of mine, this time I'm even going to take it to our media people though.
Every time there is an event big-wigs appear on the TV talking about how "Queenslanders" are pulling together and helping each other. This morning we had a senior police officer in the office saying on TV that he was "proud to be a Queenslander" as they were all busy helping their neighbours.
I'm not a Queenslander - even with an Aussie passport there is no way I can ever be a "Qlder" cos I just live here. Nor do I want to be. I'm used to the "Aussies all pulling together" stuff now, but now its got as fragmented as "Qlders" helping each other - WTF does he think the rest of us are doing
:curse:
The reason I'm going to bring it up with our media people now though is this - they are bringing in SES and paid staff from Victoria and possibly NSW to help out. So when these SES volunteers have given up their own time to come up and help out, they have to listen to someone talking about "Queenslanders" pulling together. Not even "Australians" just "Queenslanders". That - to my mind - is a bit of an insult really.
As for the police officer, well I refuse to be spoken to the way he spoke to me this morning, but if my current concoction of newts and old potatoes has the desired effect he won't be speaking to anyone for a while
1) If you are going to come and work in our office at 5am - or any other time really - please do us the favour of ensuring you don't need to spend the first half hour making loud vomiting noises into the wastepaper bin. I don't care whether its catching or not, I just don't want to listen to it
We do have toilets, go make your noises in there 2) This is a perennial whinge of mine, this time I'm even going to take it to our media people though.
Every time there is an event big-wigs appear on the TV talking about how "Queenslanders" are pulling together and helping each other. This morning we had a senior police officer in the office saying on TV that he was "proud to be a Queenslander" as they were all busy helping their neighbours.
I'm not a Queenslander - even with an Aussie passport there is no way I can ever be a "Qlder" cos I just live here. Nor do I want to be. I'm used to the "Aussies all pulling together" stuff now, but now its got as fragmented as "Qlders" helping each other - WTF does he think the rest of us are doing
:curse:The reason I'm going to bring it up with our media people now though is this - they are bringing in SES and paid staff from Victoria and possibly NSW to help out. So when these SES volunteers have given up their own time to come up and help out, they have to listen to someone talking about "Queenslanders" pulling together. Not even "Australians" just "Queenslanders". That - to my mind - is a bit of an insult really.
As for the police officer, well I refuse to be spoken to the way he spoke to me this morning, but if my current concoction of newts and old potatoes has the desired effect he won't be speaking to anyone for a while
Jan 2nd 2011, 5:16 pm
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Re: Comfortably numb......
Right, time to let off steam!!!!!
1) If you are going to come and work in our office at 5am - or any other time really - please do us the favour of ensuring you don't need to spend the first half hour making loud vomiting noises into the wastepaper bin. I don't care whether its catching or not, I just don't want to listen to it We do have toilets, go make your noises in there
2) This is a perennial whinge of mine, this time I'm even going to take it to our media people though.
Every time there is an event big-wigs appear on the TV talking about how "Queenslanders" are pulling together and helping each other. This morning we had a senior police officer in the office saying on TV that he was "proud to be a Queenslander" as they were all busy helping their neighbours.
I'm not a Queenslander - even with an Aussie passport there is no way I can ever be a "Qlder" cos I just live here. Nor do I want to be. I'm used to the "Aussies all pulling together" stuff now, but now its got as fragmented as "Qlders" helping each other - WTF does he think the rest of us are doing :curse:
The reason I'm going to bring it up with our media people now though is this - they are bringing in SES and paid staff from Victoria and possibly NSW to help out. So when these SES volunteers have given up their own time to come up and help out, they have to listen to someone talking about "Queenslanders" pulling together. Not even "Australians" just "Queenslanders". That - to my mind - is a bit of an insult really.
As for the police officer, well I refuse to be spoken to the way he spoke to me this morning, but if my current concoction of newts and old potatoes has the desired effect he won't be speaking to anyone for a while
1) If you are going to come and work in our office at 5am - or any other time really - please do us the favour of ensuring you don't need to spend the first half hour making loud vomiting noises into the wastepaper bin. I don't care whether its catching or not, I just don't want to listen to it
We do have toilets, go make your noises in there 2) This is a perennial whinge of mine, this time I'm even going to take it to our media people though.
Every time there is an event big-wigs appear on the TV talking about how "Queenslanders" are pulling together and helping each other. This morning we had a senior police officer in the office saying on TV that he was "proud to be a Queenslander" as they were all busy helping their neighbours.
I'm not a Queenslander - even with an Aussie passport there is no way I can ever be a "Qlder" cos I just live here. Nor do I want to be. I'm used to the "Aussies all pulling together" stuff now, but now its got as fragmented as "Qlders" helping each other - WTF does he think the rest of us are doing
:curse:The reason I'm going to bring it up with our media people now though is this - they are bringing in SES and paid staff from Victoria and possibly NSW to help out. So when these SES volunteers have given up their own time to come up and help out, they have to listen to someone talking about "Queenslanders" pulling together. Not even "Australians" just "Queenslanders". That - to my mind - is a bit of an insult really.
As for the police officer, well I refuse to be spoken to the way he spoke to me this morning, but if my current concoction of newts and old potatoes has the desired effect he won't be speaking to anyone for a while
I agree about the QLD bias stuff, it's almost as annoying as the media's use of the words 'battler' and 'doing it tough'.
Jan 2nd 2011, 5:21 pm
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Re: Comfortably numb......
HNY folks! I'm back in civilisation & watching ch9 in chilly but sunnier than Sydney Tokyo - how did the copper speak to you, Polly? All the Aussies I met on my trip were deferential if anything...
Jan 2nd 2011, 5:37 pm
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Re: Comfortably numb......
We are a good team, and we pull together when we have a big event, we always have. We keep it that way by remembering we are all on the same side, and we don't need people coming in and causing bad feeling
Anyway.........Happy new thingie and all that......you enjoy your trip ?
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Jan 2nd 2011, 5:54 pm
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Re: Comfortably numb......
He was less than polite when asking for - or maybe I should say demanding - info for his iTV interview, lets put it that way! Perfectly OK when speaking to his own staff, but for some reason I was the dirt under his boots - I don't think it was a pommie/Aussie thing, he hadn't even introduced himself so wouldn't have heard my accdent. I think it was an "I'm a senior police officer, you're just an office worker" attitude, thats what annoys me. Left the request till the last second, then abused me when I explained our computers run a backup at that time of day and they only work at one speed - slower than usual
you enjoy your trip ?
you enjoy your trip ?
What, did you brick yourself that much?
Fine trip thanks, was so busy didn't even get time to resort to technology. Pampered campers in the NT we were, golf on Xmas Day in the lovely Barossa Valley & enjoyed chatting Ashes with the locals wherever we went. Expensive country innit, just bought some TimTams from my local import shop here cheaper than I could have got 'em in Adelaide...
Jan 2nd 2011, 6:43 pm
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Re: Comfortably numb......
What, did you brick yourself that much?
Fine trip thanks, was so busy didn't even get time to resort to technology. Pampered campers in the NT we were, golf on Xmas Day in the lovely Barossa Valley & enjoyed chatting Ashes with the locals wherever we went. Expensive country innit, just bought some TimTams from my local import shop here cheaper than I could have got 'em in Adelaide...
Fine trip thanks, was so busy didn't even get time to resort to technology. Pampered campers in the NT we were, golf on Xmas Day in the lovely Barossa Valley & enjoyed chatting Ashes with the locals wherever we went. Expensive country innit, just bought some TimTams from my local import shop here cheaper than I could have got 'em in Adelaide...
Jan 2nd 2011, 6:57 pm
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Re: Comfortably numb......
(Also bitterly regret taking the vegetarian meal option on Qantas)It won't bother you when you're earning $AUS though - when are you off to live in the Barossa?
