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@NTA said in Happiness Scale:
Rant 2:
I've had a winter where I've been a bit sick on and off. Flu earlier in the season which was pretty mild, but then on- and off-again colds in between rugby injuries. And I'm fully responsible for the self-inflicted stuff, I get that.
Anyway, this week was a bit of Groundhog Day. On Sunday I was out refereeing in the sunshine, and started to feel a bit poorly Monday. Tuesday was shit (probably because I dosed up the night before on cough syrup and cold n flu tabs), but been getting steadily better. Besides using a bit of nasal decongestant I'm nearly back to normal.
Mid-week, Mrs TA asks me (once) if I had a PCR. I said I hadn't and that's the discussion about PCR for the week.
Due to go help out with Ground Marshal duties at Subbies Rugby finals today. Mrs TA gets up and this was the conversation:
Part 1
Her: "Do you want to do a RAT?"
Me: "Why? I'm getting better"
Her: "Well that doesn't help the rest of us..."
Me: "FINE."Part 2
Take the RAT and it has a T line whose existence is in question. It is practically non-existent unless you're holding it the right way in the right light, and even then I don't find them accurate at all.
She starts up that I need a PCR and starts talking about the fact that if I've got COVID she needs to know because she's due to visit her Mum today in the home, and she needs to know if she's a close contact for work etc.I'm visibly pissed off at this point.
Me: "Why wait until Saturday? Was it not important when we were out at dinner last night?"
I'm picking up car keys and a mask and head toward the garage.
Her: "I've been asking you to get a PCR all week so don't take a shot at me"
Me: "I'm not taking a shot at you"
Her: "Yes you are"
Me: "OK fine I am" and leave to get the PCR while she does the grocery shopping.So now I'm sitting here in the office, isolated and catching up on my streaming. I'll be here all day, unless the PCR somehow comes back negative before I'm due to leave to help out at Rugby.
My frustrations:
Part 1: "Do you want to do a RAT?" could have just been "Can you please do a RAT as I have to visit Mum today?"
This, again, is an ongoing pattern like "Do you want to get the washing in?" just bugs the shit out of me.
Ask what you want, don't sound so passive-aggressive about it.Part 2: The retconning of statements. "I've been asking all week" is patent bullshit. Building on what I said above, I'd have been more likely to go get a PCR if she'd asked me Thursday "Can you please get a PCR today? I'm visiting Mum this weekend and just want to be sure I'm not a close contact."
Because the fact is, if I'm faintly positive on a RAT, and just got a PCR, the results aren't going to be back until it is too fucking late for your visit.
I was looking forward to an afternoon watching live rugby from the sideline, with no stress besides checking player IDs and managing any yellow cards.
Now I'm in limbo and have let people down on late notice. If that test comes back negative I'll be less than happy.
That's chicks
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@NTA said in Happiness Scale:
@NTA said in Happiness Scale:
If that test comes back negative I'll be less than happy.
Well it's positive so fuck my life.
Bugger
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@NTA said in Happiness Scale:
My frustrations:
Part 1: "Do you want to do a RAT?" could have just been "Can you please do a RAT as I have to visit Mum today?"
This, again, is an ongoing pattern like "Do you want to get the washing in?" just bugs the shit out of me.
Ask what you want, don't sound so passive-aggressive about it.I feel that frustration too. A couple of females in my life do that all the time and it cheeses me off. Just ask me to do something FFS. I hate being expected to read the female mind.
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@NTA said in Happiness Scale:
@NTA said in Happiness Scale:
If that test comes back negative I'll be less than happy.
Well it's positive so fuck my life.
Bugger. Me too. I've pretty much organised the school trip to Hillary Outdoors centre, 60 kids, 10 adults. Sorted out 30k of grants etc. Teachers job but they're stressed, new, and not great organisers. So boy 3 brought it home, I guess, him and machpanties tested positive. I felt safe, cos I've had it before. But no, myself and boy 2 positive on day 3 test, I feel shit, not going to Hillary (as staff)
Thankfully my youngest, boy 4, has avoided it, he had it before too, so he's off tomorrow to Tongariro.
Lots of beers watching rugby, I think
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@Machpants said in Happiness Scale:
Lots of beers watching rugby, I think
Yeah I'm currently streaming my local finals and the womens Test.
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@NTA said in Happiness Scale:
Rant 1:
Mrs TA goes away on a girl's weekend. Comes back with advice from one friend who is about to get into their fourth investment property, using a company to handle all the day-to-day as part of their self-managed super fund. Mrs TA remarks that it is a very good idea that we should look into.
Yes. An idea I suggested about ten years ago when it was apparent things were going stupid with property in Sydney. Where I proposed that this thing called "equity" existed within our property, and that we'd be mad not to at least look at using it for our longer-term financial health.
At the time, struck down as too risky. No discussion. Have suggested it a couple of times since, to no avail.
Yet, here we are, out of the blue, deciding it is an option based on the advice of a friend.
It is a longstanding pattern at this point; various things I suggest are utterly worthless unless a friend has come up with it, or I simply go ahead and do it and the results are evident.
I'm not saying I make every post a winner, but I'm a bit sick of feeling like my ideas and opinion don't matter.
Women are wired differently and are mental. If you’re lucky the mentalness keeps manifesting in new and continually mind boggling ways.
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@MajorRage I hope many drum kits are played to destruction to farewell Taylor. That will be a gig for the ages
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@Paekakboyz said in Happiness Scale:
@MajorRage I hope many drum kits are played to destruction to farewell Taylor. That will be a gig for the ages
Plenty of clips up on YT already
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@Crucial holy shit, caught his son playing on Hero. Far out he was fucking unreal.
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@Paekakboyz said in Happiness Scale:
@Crucial holy shit, caught his son playing on Hero. Far out he was fucking unreal.
Got a link mate?
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@voodoo equal parts amazing and cutting onions bro.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmile/comments/x56cin/taylor_hawkins_son_shane_kills_it_on_the_drums/
Apparently the live stream was accessible but MTV have turned it private till the 5th. But like Crucial mentioned there are lots of clips on the Tubes and other sites.
Enjoy!
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I watched a heap
Younger Hawkins playing exactly like nirvana era grohl a highlight
Did love Rock n Roll Star
Looked a good show
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@Paekakboyz said in Happiness Scale:
@voodoo equal parts amazing and cutting onions bro.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmile/comments/x56cin/taylor_hawkins_son_shane_kills_it_on_the_drums/
Apparently the live stream was accessible but MTV have turned it private till the 5th. But like Crucial mentioned there are lots of clips on the Tubes and other sites.
Enjoy!
Thank you sir..
That was fucking great. Gave me goosebumps. My kid watching it now. What music is all about.
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It was pretty fucking amazing. Looking back at who we saw last night is truly mind blowing. Some thoughts:
Opening with Foos and Liam Gallagher was a master stroke. Crowd nuts from the word go.
Josh Homme does a great Bowie. Less so Elton, but he’s a hell of a musician.
Chrissie Hynde still has s beautiful voice
Supergrass, oddly, had the crowd quite flat. Was s bad sound mix.
Violet Grohl has a great voice and looks like her Dad
Taylor’s son is a mentally good drummer. Future foos drummer? I can see it. Crowd were blown away.
Justin Hawkins has one hell of a set of pipes. Didn’t know most of what he sang.
Valerie was really beautiful. Such a nice quartet on stage. However they were followed by Brian Johnson and Lars.
Brian Johnson still got it. Amazing voice to fill a stadium. Two AC/DC songs were highlight of non foos.
Grohl must be shattered today. He was onstage for prob 4 hours.
John Paul Jones looks proper old now. Sad.
Wolfgang Van Halen is a chip off the old block! Fast, although perhaps a bit more about speed than anything else. Hot for Teacher was loads of fun with him and Hawkins.
Queen stuff was good, although not a highlight for me. May solo song a little boring …
Rush are seriously talented … crowd didn’t know them at all tho. Prob should have been earlier on the bill.
All My Life remains one of the best live songs you can see. Blew the roof off Wembley.
Macca is old but Helter Skelter was cool.
The stand in drummers were all amazing. Shane Hawkins the standout, but the others really not behind. Omar Hakim insane.All in all an epic experience. Lots of references to the Mercury tribute many years ago, with many speakers throughout the evening sharing stories.
No doubt a once in a lifetime event. So glad I got tickets.
Various Artists Setlist at Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert London
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@MajorRage said in Happiness Scale:
It was pretty fucking amazing. Looking back at who we saw last night is truly mind blowing. Some thoughts:
Opening with Foos and Liam Gallagher was a master stroke. Crowd nuts from the word go.
Josh Homme does a great Bowie. Less so Elton, but he’s a hell of a musician.
Chrissie Hynde still has s beautiful voice
Supergrass, oddly, had the crowd quite flat. Was s bad sound mix.
Violet Grohl has a great voice and looks like her Dad
Taylor’s son is a mentally good drummer. Future foos drummer? I can see it. Crowd were blown away.
Justin Hawkins has one hell of a set of pipes. Didn’t know most of what he sang.
Valerie was really beautiful. Such a nice quartet on stage. However they were followed by Brian Johnson and Lars.
Brian Johnson still got it. Amazing voice to fill a stadium. Two AC/DC songs were highlight of non foos.
Grohl must be shattered today. He was onstage for prob 4 hours.
John Paul Jones looks proper old now. Sad.
Wolfgang Van Halen is a chip off the old block! Fast, although perhaps a bit more about speed than anything else. Hot for Teacher was loads of fun with him and Hawkins.
Queen stuff was good, although not a highlight for me. May solo song a little boring …
Rush are seriously talented … crowd didn’t know them at all tho. Prob should have been earlier on the bill.
All My Life remains one of the best live songs you can see. Blew the roof off Wembley.
Macca is old but Helter Skelter was cool.
The stand in drummers were all amazing. Shane Hawkins the standout, but the others really not behind. Omar Hakim insane.All in all an epic experience. Lots of references to the Mercury tribute many years ago, with many speakers throughout the evening sharing stories.
No doubt a once in a lifetime event. So glad I got tickets.
Get the Various Artists Setlist of the concert at Wembley Stadium, London, England on September 3, 2022 and other Various Artists Setlists for free on setlist.fm!
I was there as well. Enjoyed most of it but thought parts of the middle section felt like some random jam session with 90 000 people looking in. Dave Grohl was fucking awesome; playing bass, guitar or drums with an eclectic bunch of musicians and just channeling raw emotion.
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From what I saw ( not much ) Brian Johnson still sounds bloody good for an old fella. You just know he’d be great company over a Newcastle Brown or 20 as well.
As expected people online are piling into Lars Ulrich which is uncalled for. Sure he comes across as a dick at times but he IS a very good drummer. Not sure why it’s so cool to hassle him ?
Glad I missed Liam Gallagher, whoever mentioned John Paul Jones ( can’t remember ) should remember he’s 76 years old ! Great that he’s still having a hoon on the bass with the young uns.
Dave Grohls nice guy act still grates but he’s obviously very good at bringing together too musos past and present
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@MN5 said in Happiness Scale:
From what I saw ( not much ) Brian Johnson still sounds bloody good for an old fella. You just know he’d be great company over a Newcastle Brown or 20 as well.
Yep. There was something about hearing his voice which just sounded right in the stadium setting. It was a real crowd lifter before they even played a note.
As expected people online are piling into Lars Ulrich which is uncalled for. Sure he comes across as a dick at times but he IS a very good drummer. Not sure why it’s so cool to hassle him ?
Yeah, he was fine and said a few words which were well received. Online dickheads can piss off. Man has more success in his left fingernail than all of them put together. Of course he's not immune from criticism, but he played brilliant, like all the drummers.
Glad I missed Liam Gallagher, whoever mentioned John Paul Jones ( can’t remember ) should remember he’s 76 years old ! Great that he’s still having a hoon on the bass with the young uns.
British crowd, so Liam was spot on. Point about JPJ is that if you compare him to Stone / AC/DC etc he looks like an old man pulled out of his nursing home. The others look like old rock stars. JPJ doesn't, at all. He just looks like an old man.
Dave Grohls nice guy act still grates but he’s obviously very good at bringing together too musos past and present
Why does it grate? Got any inside word that he's an ass? Certainly not in synch with most there!
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@MajorRage just on the drummers, I thought Travis Barker was excellent and absolutely buzzing to be playing with the Foo Fighters.
I also didn’t know that Rufus Taylor was Taylor Hawkins’ god son. And he’s got more than a passing resemblance to Taylor Hawkins too.
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