Grumpy Old Man
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@machpants our dog sits on the back of the couch (is only a little dog who sounds much bigger);and when he sees people walk past our place out on the road, he barks, but are parts he can't see them due to trees.
I have since worked out the bits he sees from the couch, he thinks us his areas, when we walk, other dogs in that area, he barks at them, yet he happily says hi to them on areas on our boundary he can't from the couch.
Most dogs, like people have personal space too, and think they are protecting yours.
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@machpants said in Grumpy Old Man:
@booboo said in Grumpy Old Man:
@machpants said in Grumpy Old Man:
Or neighbour is a mate, works at school like me, has a retriever that goes mad when we're at the shared section of the boundary fence. If I jump the fence I'd get nothing but love. But still goes mad at everything on the other side, so be prepared for a dog that knows you took still go nuts!
It's a retriever and is barking at you to come and play.
Nah it's defensive bark, you can tell the difference. Just dumb dog brain, or dog is the same. Barks like hell when someone comes, soon as he gets to them is all love. Even if he's never met them before
Retriever brain.
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@maroon said in Grumpy Old Man:
@crazy-horse
There are other peoples’ dogs, and then there are your own.
I looked out of the window, and there was one of our dogs eating the other one’s fresh shit off the grass.
I don’t like that sort of thing.Leave it to the dog then
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@booboo said in Grumpy Old Man:
@machpants said in Grumpy Old Man:
@booboo said in Grumpy Old Man:
@machpants said in Grumpy Old Man:
Or neighbour is a mate, works at school like me, has a retriever that goes mad when we're at the shared section of the boundary fence. If I jump the fence I'd get nothing but love. But still goes mad at everything on the other side, so be prepared for a dog that knows you took still go nuts!
It's a retriever and is barking at you to come and play.
Nah it's defensive bark, you can tell the difference. Just dumb dog brain, or dog is the same. Barks like hell when someone comes, soon as he gets to them is all love. Even if he's never met them before
Retriever brain.
He's a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, inbred upper class idiot!
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I've been doing some work recently with tight timelines, that had more piled onto it at the last minute - very stressful.
I had a rant to my boss this morning about how it got to here, having given him some details previously about expectations and some roadblocks. I was mainly blowing off steam.
He says "I'll tee up a meeting, but don't bring your emotion into it".
We have a call 5 minutes before, and I explain to him what my concerns are and how I'll approach it in the meeting.
We're in the meeting, and after my questions and the other side answering, my boss starts to get aggressive, jumping in on stuff I'd communicated to him before, and trying to railroad the whole meeting.
Now I'm the bad guy for him getting angry. "Don't get emotional"
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I hate almost everything about televised rugby. The dribbling build up, inane crosses to players and coaches, terrible in match commentary and the utter lack of analysis afterwards.
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Uber
(Before I start Mrs Boo took the wind out of my GOM sails when, sitting in a 6th floor apartment having a quiet in Cotton Tree, looking out over the Alexandra Headland beach across towards Mooloolaba, and whinging about getting a ride from the water front restaurant on the Maroochydore River that hey we've got it good, we're not in Ukraine, or Lismore, or south west Sydney ... so fuck it first world problems ... )
But Uber.
First time I've ever used an Uber (Ms BooJr does it all the time), and worked brilliantly to get to dinner about 5 mins away.
Impressed. This techno shit works.
Getting home though ...
Hook up on the Uber app. Dude is 5 mins away. Cool. Track on the app. Wait on fulla you've gone past us! Oh, ok ... you're on a job and you'll get us next, cool ... hang on why are we looking for another driver? Oh ok, got a driver here in 5 ... Wait! What? Why are we looking for another driver... another... another... 7 fucking drivers!
So I rang a cab and he's here in 5 minutes.
Fuck this Uber shit where they can ditch you. Accept a job and honour it you fluffybunnies.
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@booboo I HATE Uber. Refuse to use. It's a good front-end app, but everything else sucks.
Your driver is 7minutes away! The fuck he is.
7 means 13 every time.
$10 fare tonight, no way, surcharge! That'll be $27 please!
I call my local cab company whenever I can.
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@voodoo said in Grumpy Old Man:
@booboo I HATE Uber. Refuse to use. It's a good front-end app, but everything else sucks.
Your driver is 7minutes away! The fuck he is.
7 means 13 every time.
$10 fare tonight, no way, surcharge! That'll be $27 please!
I call my local cab company whenever I can.
Always had an issue with Uber v Taxi given the cost and regulation of a taxi license. Am leaning towards sticking with the cab companies.
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@voodoo said in Grumpy Old Man:
@booboo I HATE Uber. Refuse to use. It's a good front-end app, but everything else sucks.
Your driver is 7minutes away! The fuck he is.
7 means 13 every time.
$10 fare tonight, no way, surcharge! That'll be $27 please!
I call my local cab company whenever I can.
You want to try Ola then if you think Uber are a pain. They're probably worse.
But then cabbies are often piston wristed gibbons too. On a holiday to Sydney one time I once had one drop me a km in the opposite direction of where I wanted to go because the ride was too short.
And even though I'm in the city it's usually quicker for me to get an uber than a cab.
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@machpants said in Grumpy Old Man:
@booboo said in Grumpy Old Man:
First time I've ever used an Uber (Ms BooJr does it all the time), and worked brilliantly to get to dinner about 5 mins away.
Miss BooJr, you need a new way to describe your daughter on the fern
Hmmm .... don't know what you mean ...
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@booboo said in Grumpy Old Man:
@machpants said in Grumpy Old Man:
@booboo said in Grumpy Old Man:
First time I've ever used an Uber (Ms BooJr does it all the time), and worked brilliantly to get to dinner about 5 mins away.
Miss BooJr, you need a new way to describe your daughter on the fern
Hmmm .... don't know what you mean ...
It might be an initials thing...
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@booboo said in Grumpy Old Man:
(Before I start Mrs Boo took the wind out of my GOM sails when, sitting in a 6th floor apartment having a quiet in Cotton Tree, looking out over the Alexandra Headland beach across towards Mooloolaba, and whinging about getting a ride from the water front restaurant on the Maroochydore River that hey we've got it good, we're not in Ukraine, or Lismore, or south west Sydney ... so fuck it first world problems ... )
I've been living here 6 years now and I still think people just make random names for places.
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@bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
@booboo said in Grumpy Old Man:
@machpants said in Grumpy Old Man:
@booboo said in Grumpy Old Man:
First time I've ever used an Uber (Ms BooJr does it all the time), and worked brilliantly to get to dinner about 5 mins away.
Miss BooJr, you need a new way to describe your daughter on the fern
Hmmm .... don't know what you mean ...
It might be an initials thing...
What initials?
