Topic: Let it all hang out,tell us how you really feel and what pisses you off.

[Terry in Australia]

Well I'm sitting outside enjoying a nice quite beer and then all of a sudden there's this noise on the flyscreen.
Check this out.
A bloody Geckos grabbed hold of a grasshopper and she's on. 

That's a top Gecko Mick, how big is he? My son found one on our kitchen sink a couple of years ago, I think one of the cat's caught him and spat him out, so he's living in an old aquarium with lots of toys and eating store bought grasshoppers. He's only a little feller though, so I'd love to find a big bastaard and swap them over before my boy gets back from Europe, that'll piss him off!  

[Terry in Australia]

Terry, I was born here.  I prefered it back when the southerners stopped at the Sunshine Coast.  Now we seem to be getting all their rejects . 

Yeah you're probably right Andrew, are your parents Queenslanders too? Most of the Queenslanders I knew were "First Generation" when I lived there, in the old days there was so little work available in QLD that unless you wanted to cut cane or bananas, you'd move south for work.

Actually that's happening again since the last Labour government sent the state broke, Queenslanders are migrating south for work, and being replaced by cashed up southern pensioners.

You're right about most southerners flocking to the coasts too, that's the most attractive part of Queensland of course, go inland and it's not much different from the southern states, so if the southern rejects are now moving into country Queensland voluntarily, I'm guessing that they're either on the run, or are growing mary jane..............

[FrankenFrankenstuff]

I hate the sound of my dog drinking water.

[Terry in Australia]

I hate the sound of my dog drinking water.

Me too Joe. My dog's been dead for over a year so it pisses me off when I hear her drinking water, I yell out " Stop drinking all my water, you don't need it, you're dead", but she just looks at me as if to say, "Well you can't kick me up the arse anymore, so I'll drink as much of your water as I please, and if you don't piss off, I'll start on your whisky!" Ghost dogs piss me off..............

[FrankenFrankenstuff]

Man, I have GOT to go to OZ. Thanks for the laugh Terry.

[mick7504]

Well I'm sitting outside enjoying a nice quite beer and then all of a sudden there's this noise on the flyscreen.
Check this out.
A bloody Geckos grabbed hold of a grasshopper and she's on. 

That's a top Gecko Mick, how big is he? My son found one on our kitchen sink a couple of years ago, I think one of the cat's caught him and spat him out, so he's living in an old aquarium with lots of toys and eating store bought grasshoppers. He's only a little feller though, so I'd love to find a big bastaard and swap them over before my boy gets back from Europe, that'll piss him off!

I reckon that they'd have to be 4 to 5 inches long mate and good fat healthy buggers too.
They're here all year round and are out and about at night time when the bugs come in and buzz around the windows.

They've got a good bite on 'em.
Not enough to draw blood but not a bad nip for a little lizard.
The kids use to collect Gecko eggs when they were younger but none ever hatched which use to piss 'em off. 

A couple weeks ago, I switch the aircon on in the lounge room for the first time in a few months now that the build up has started.
Anyway, it went clunk/bang and I'm thinking Fcuk, the aircons rooted.
Then a Gecko came flying out of the air vent followed by his tail that had been chopped off.
The 'ol Gecko hit the deck, got his sh1t together and bolted minus a tail.
They're pretty tuff little fellas. 

The story is that if you've got Geckos cruising around the joint, you've got a happy household.
That's true until the Wild Turkey runs dry. 

[petercb750]

Well I'm sitting outside enjoying a nice quite beer and then all of a sudden there's this noise on the flyscreen.
Check this out.
A bloody Geckos grabbed hold of a grasshopper and she's on. 

That's a top Gecko Mick, how big is he? My son found one on our kitchen sink a couple of years ago, I think one of the cat's caught him and spat him out, so he's living in an old aquarium with lots of toys and eating store bought grasshoppers. He's only a little feller though, so I'd love to find a big bastaard and swap them over before my boy gets back from Europe, that'll piss him off!

I reckon that they'd have to be 4 to 5 inches long mate and good fat healthy buggers too.
They're here all year round and are out and about at night time when the bugs come in and buzz around the windows.

They've got a good bite on 'em.
Not enough to draw blood but not a bad nip for a little lizard.
The kids use to collect Gecko eggs when they were younger but none ever hatched which use to piss 'em off. 

A couple weeks ago, I switch the aircon on in the lounge room for the first time in a few months now that the build up has started.
Anyway, it went clunk/bang and I'm thinking Fcuk, the aircons rooted.
Then a Gecko came flying out of the air vent followed by his tail that had been chopped off.
The 'ol Gecko hit the deck, got his sh1t together and bolted minus a tail.
They're pretty tuff little fellas. 

The story is that if you've got Geckos cruising around the joint, you've got a happy household.
That's true until the Wild Turkey runs dry. 

The little critters drink Wild Turkey.....?? 

[mick7504]

Well ya gotta keep the little fellas happy Pete. 
Nothin' worse than a pissed off Gecko. 

Last Sunday I was talking to the ol' mate Laurie who lives next door.
He was saying that the water pipe out the front was leaking on the footpath.
So I lodged an online fault report with the Power/Water mob that day.
Laurie doesn't know a thing about computers, just guns which isn't a bad way to be. 

Anyway, this Friday just gone, there's a Notice of interruption to Water supply pinned on the front gate.
Yep, a whole working week to come and check it out.

So I'm reading this notice and down the bottom it says "Regretfully at times circumstances prevent us from attending at the time stated on this notice" which supposed to be between 9am and midday tomorrow.

Fcukenhell you'd reckon that they'd be straight onto it.
Slack govt departments piss me off. 

[trueblue]

Terry, I was born here.  I prefered it back when the southerners stopped at the Sunshine Coast.  Now we seem to be getting all their rejects . 

Yeah you're probably right Andrew, are your parents Queenslanders too? Most of the Queenslanders I knew were "First Generation" when I lived there, in the old days there was so little work available in QLD that unless you wanted to cut cane or bananas, you'd move south for work.

Actually that's happening again since the last Labour government sent the state broke, Queenslanders are migrating south for work, and being replaced by cashed up southern pensioners.

You're right about most southerners flocking to the coasts too, that's the most attractive part of Queensland of course, go inland and it's not much different from the southern states, so if the southern rejects are now moving into country Queensland voluntarily, I'm guessing that they're either on the run, or are growing mary jane..............

Terry, I'm 5th generation of my family in this area.  We started out as timber cutters, did cattle for a while and now my 75 year old grandfather is still working as cane harvesting contractor.  He has scaled back his farm a couple of years ago, he only has 120 acres of cane now, was just shy of 1000 acres 10 years ago.  My old man also has a small cane farm, only 128 acres.  It is just big enough to be barely worthwhile.  He also works as an industrial spray painter in town .

[bear]

Well I'm sitting outside enjoying a nice quite beer and then all of a sudden there's this noise on the flyscreen.
Check this out.
A bloody Geckos grabbed hold of a grasshopper and she's on. 

Spent some time up in Torres Straight on Moe Island.
Went to a barbie one night and they had a gecko hanging from the ceiling of their verandah by one foot.
It was as dead as a dodo.
When I pointed it out to them, they said it had been up there for a week or more.
They where waiting to see how long it would hang there before it dropped.
Apparently they left the Island four months later and it was still hanging there.

Cheers,
Brian

[boatsdickson]

What pisses me off......grrrrrr

1: Living my life the responsible way although its almost paycheck to paycheck
2: Being rewarded for my hard work and knowledge by being laid off after 5 years of work just because of government and Dept of Defense lack of planning for contracts
3: Burning through my safety net of $ while waiting for a call back and making sure my family gets what it needs in rough times
4: Accepting a new job and life change-of-plans with considerably less income than before
5: Sticking to my guns of attempting to find a career that is well out of my familiarity and learn something new
6: Relearning how to create and maintain a financial budget while this gets sorted out
7: Getting my last neck mri & catscan with results that will require about the same fix as my lower spine fusion
8: Staying on the f**king wagon and not grab a liquor bottle or bag of dope to grant myself something happy

[70CB750]

Hang in there, man!

[Terry in Australia]

I'm pissed off that I don't have any reason to want to get drunk/stoned, I just want to? Fcuk it, who needs a reason anyway...........

[mick7504]

And when all else fails 
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[trueblue]

Selection criteria pisses me off.  I'm applying for a job at the local council and because it is a government type job you have a pile of bull#$%* to fill out about how fantastic you are.  It just goes against the grain a little

[petercb750]

I feel your pain trueblue....I applied for half a dozen or so jobs before I landed my new one (I was working at the time so there was no stress, just needed to change), and I got sick and tired of trying to meet criteria and telling all these people how fantastic I am...haha. Obviously, it worked for one of them!
They'll be pissed off when they find out what I'm really like....

[trueblue]

I'm pretty much in the same boat Peter.  Don't desperately need a job, but it will be easier work and better pay.  Sort of a no brainer.  It just pisses me off, because with the exception of one job I haven't even needed a resume let alone a selection criteria.  I just walk up to the boss, have a chat and walk away with a job.  It's good having a trade in a town where most people couldn't be bothered to get off their arse and get a job let alone spend the time it takes to get a trade.

[boatsdickson]

I'm pissed off that I don't have any reason to want to get drunk/stoned, I just want to? Fcuk it, who needs a reason anyway...........

Right on Terry, the wife is headin to Vegas this weekend so if you leave now, you can make it here by weekend and we'll throw us a party.   

[Terry in Australia]

I'm pissed off that I don't have any reason to want to get drunk/stoned, I just want to? Fcuk it, who needs a reason anyway...........

Right on Terry, the wife is headin to Vegas this weekend so if you leave now, you can make it here by weekend and we'll throw us a party.   

Ha ha, thanks Boat, I'd love to come over and get stinking drunk/stoned with you, but I promised my wife that I'd mow the lawn this weekend? I don't know what pisses me off most, my wife expecting me to mow the lawn, actually mowing the fcuking lawn, or not being able to fly over for the weekend so we can get smashed because I promised to mow the fcuking lawn.

Please don't tell me that there'll be bikes to ride and guns to fire in the air as well mate, or I might just have to do myself an injury..........

[mick7504]

RIP CHOPPER

You knew how to piss 'em off. 

[dave500]

neville #$%*ing bartos!perish the thought.

[vfourfreak]

What pisses me off......grrrrrr

1: Living my life the responsible way although its almost paycheck to paycheck
2: Being rewarded for my hard work and knowledge by being laid off after 5 years of work just because of government and Dept of Defense lack of planning for contracts
3: Burning through my safety net of $ while waiting for a call back and making sure my family gets what it needs in rough times
4: Accepting a new job and life change-of-plans with considerably less income than before
5: Sticking to my guns of attempting to find a career that is well out of my familiarity and learn something new
6: Relearning how to create and maintain a financial budget while this gets sorted out
7: Getting my last neck mri & catscan with results that will require about the same fix as my lower spine fusion
8: Staying on the f**king wagon and not grab a liquor bottle or bag of dope to grant myself something happy

Hey Boat,

I'm sort of in the same boat myself (sorry bad pun). Just started a new job, it pays about 20% of what I used to earn working for a famed computer company based in Texas. But you know, I am 500% happier with what I have now. No 300 emails a day (no joking) to answer , no flights to every European city EVERY week, no frikken performance reviews , no endless, boring , pointless meetings, just action. Yes I better learn Windows Server 2008 very fast (coz in the interview I said I knew all about it he he) but out of comfort zone is good,  no 
Vat of wine is now closed (and possibly empty) coz I get up at 5:30 every morning instead of the sybarite existence I lived for a while (a nice long while). Simpler life now , and I love it.

I hope you find yourself getting into that zone too !

As we say in France : Courage, mon brave  !

Kev

[vfourfreak]

but getting up at 5:30 and having to close the vat really pisses me off. But all for a good reason !

A review of the military history of the French campaign, 1940, is soon to appear if there is any interest. Result of my late summer investigations.

Kev

PS : Rumours of my death are greatly exaggerated

[Terry in Australia]

Well Kev, as much as I think of you as a Gallic brother, you piss me off. You've left a job that pays 5 times what you're still happy to earn, which also entailed you flying to every European city every week? (and hopefully overnight in said cities?) You are nothing but an ungrateful wretch!

Is your old job still open? If so, please let them know that I'll be happy to take it, I love my job, it pays well and I get to travel all over Victoria (about the same size as Europe) whenever I want to, but it bores me to sleep sometimes, and even though my memories of Europe are vague, I'd be more than happy to reacquaint myself with them.

Tell them I'll be happy to take whatever they were paying you, and (as you're obviously not to averse to "Gilding the Lilly") tell them that I'm highly qualified at whatever it is that you were doing? You still piss me off, but if you do this one thing for me, I'll forgive you.

[mick7504]

It really does piss me off to the max when ya buy a packet of smokes and there's a picture of some nerds teeth on there and they reckon that they belong to a male aged 50. 

Fcukenell, I've been trying for fcuken years to have a set of knashers that look like that. 

There again, I suppose that if ya chew on ya dogs freckle on a regular basis ya could be in with a chance. 
Colgates got nothin' on this fcuka.