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Yep, she won a trophy. So did a couple of her friends who are talented.
And the other little fuckwits just bobbed around like demented squirrels on speed.
The only highlights were a couple of her instructors - in their early 20s - doing a bit of wiggling themselves.
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the conversation between @Snowy and @booboo in the cricket thread reminded me.
I travelled with a work colleague yesterday. A good few years younger than me. Arranged to meet at the lounge.
He was unaware that you didn't need to print your boarding pass, amazed that the Air NZ app would recognise you were at the airport ad ask if you wanted your normal coffee, couldn't get his hot spot to work and didn't know you didn't have to go into the settings menu to change things, wished he had brought his kindle with him and didn't realise you can read kindle e-books on other devices, was complaining that he couldn't work out how to play his CD's on his new car and all he could find for music was spotify "WTF is that" and when I tried to explain and show him how connected the world is nowadays by letting him switch on my home lights camera's etc he didn't believe it was happening "you're shitting me!!"
How do these people survive? He has a senior executive position and is clearly no dummy but it seems his ability to process technological change has atrophied.
More worryingly how long before I find myself unable to understand the most mundane tech improvements. Seriously I think this guy would have been less surprised if we had caught a pterodactyl to palmie than he was at your phone knowing your coffee preferences.
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@MajorRage Totally get where you are coming from. In my defence I have responsibility for nine locations in NZ and have successfully avoided Palmie for almost a decade. We are in a serious contract dispute so I took my punishment like a man.
I was there less than 12 hours so shouldn't have contracted anything?
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Standing in a bar queue to get drinks now fucks me off.
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@mariner4life said in Dying:
Standing in a bar queue to get drinks now fucks me off.
Having to queue to spend my money anywhere fucks me off. The pricks wanting my money should be ones in the queue, not me.
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Not sure where to post this but I have just seen in action how old people kill toddlers in car parks.
Done my blood test (see Lockdown check in thread), called into office and pulled up to supermarket car park.
In the aisle across from me older lady (obviously nurse of some kind, had branded nursing home uniform and one of those upside down pin on watches so she allowed in to the early hour, so still working age but only just) pulls into space one over from me to my left.
Obviously misses the brake so scoots forward so slams harder on the accelerator. Right through the park, up and over the kerb, and raised concrete and into the luckily empty space next to me.
Sheesh.
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We had a lot of these in the Police, one I remember was the old lady didn't have a seat belt on, was just moving car in driveway, door was open, hit the gas too hard, fell out the car and ran herself over. Not sure how it was physically possible but she did it.
Unfortunately there are a lot of tragic accidents that occur on a far too regular basis. Plenty were preventable but many were just bad luck, wrong place, wrong time.
Some of the hardest ones are when a parent reverses over and kills their child.
Thankfully cars are getting much smarter these days. I think I read somewhere if you took all cars older than 5 years off the road the road toll would drop dramatically.
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@Machpants Bugger, kids ok? We used to play in the car all the time as kids, pretty sure my folks took the keys with them though.
