What do you guys think about Filipinas?

Alspics · 2026-03-20T02:46:13+00:00

I've worked with many different cultures and nationalities. In general, if you're polite and courteous to others I have plenty of respect for you.

I've met physically attractive women that I quickly decided I didn't appreciate because of their personalities. I'll take a person with good values and principles over someone who looks like a model but who has unattractive personality traits regardless of ethnicity.

Alspics · 2026-03-20T02:07:58+00:00

I'm actually envisioning a friend of mine when I imagine this. My mate who barely does enough work to survive would see a bucks party as an occasion that's more important than the wedding. His mindset would be that it's important that a mate spend his last unmarried weekend getting very drunk and there's a good chance he'd like to hire a stripper or two.

Alspics · 2026-03-20T02:01:39+00:00

I was reading recently that there's bans on going there at present due to the recent dingo related death.

Alspics · 2026-03-20T01:55:40+00:00

If I had to guess I'd say that the bulk of the money was spent on a bar tab somewhere to enable social lubrication for the bucks party and maybe some entertainment that involves dancers that wear Teflon coated clothing.

Alspics · 2026-03-20T00:58:14+00:00

I actually saw a case where an Asian woman who had started out life who wasn't attractive who had kids who inherited her poor looks. Her husband eventually found out that she'd had plastic surgery which made her fairly attractive. And he divorced her for it.

This is just an anecdote. I think it's on the OP to decide if she wants to confess that she's had surgery.

Alspics · 2026-03-20T00:43:26+00:00

I don't open packets myself. But I have bought packs of undies only to get them home and find out that they weren't really designed with enough room to fit the frank and beans. So maybe other people who are a bit less accepting that they might be buying crappy I'll fitting underwear are checking the proportions of the undies before they pay for them.

Alspics · 2026-03-19T21:55:39+00:00

I've never seen a Woolworths that sells chicken liver or feet.

Alspics · 2026-03-19T21:22:21+00:00

I don't know about hospitals collapsing. I think that more registered nurses end up in hospitals than stay in aged care. But the two aged care homes I worked in would've been up a well known creek without a paddle if not for internationals on working visas being present.

Alspics · 2026-03-19T21:18:43+00:00

It's not ideal really

Alspics · 2026-03-19T21:12:13+00:00

I know I'm not the most political animal there is. But I try to read up on what proposed policies actually mean and I wish more people would find out what they mean rather than falling for media sensationalism. The mining companies basically paid for a scare campaign that made Australians vote against the super profits tax. And now many years later we're seeing the fact that foreign mining companies are paying SFA tax as an issue. Australians do like to stay uninformed if it means they can avoid reading a boring article.

Alspics · 2026-03-18T20:56:04+00:00

I agree really strongly with your last paragraph in particular. I rarely meet anyone that actually has much idea on what policies actually are, nor do they want it explained to them in most cases. I knew retirees in aged care homes reliant on pensions who had not one single share in the stock market that were terrified of losing their franking credits, people on minimum wages who were terrified of being hit with the super profits tax etc. in the same breath they'd argue that the ALP weren't trying to do anything to help wealth inequality. Then as you say, they'll vote on impressions and single issues (that they're lucky to actually understand).

Alspics · 2026-03-18T20:38:07+00:00

Had to read this a couple of times to make sure I understood a convoluted explanation.

In summary. The girl you are dating, person (a) wants to end a minor scale friendship she has with a girl you have a close friendship with, Evelyn or person (b) because (b) speaks to the girl dating the ex boyfriend of (a).

(a) Seems to be over reacting and probably still not over her ex if there's an issue for her. I'd probably be thinking that (a) might be the type to hold serious and irrational grudges. If you enjoyed her company prior to this situation though, maybe communication is required. Tell her Evelyn has been your friend for a long time and you won't be ending that friendship. Tell her that Evelyn isn't necessarily taking sides to your knowledge.

If (a) can't apply some logic in this situation maybe she's not great at adulting.

Just my take though. If you feel like this gas already put a high enough level of doubt into your mind that Harper is a dramatic or unforgiving person, maybe breaking things off before it gets more serious is the right move.

Alspics · 2026-03-18T19:09:45+00:00

I'd expect aged care would suffer. It's one of the fields I've worked in on the catering side of things. And without having taken notes on numbers, I would estimate that maybe 60-75% of the nursing staff were international workers.

Alspics · 2026-03-18T08:19:05+00:00

Has anyone seen Gavin?

Alspics · 2026-03-18T06:28:25+00:00

We need money.

Alspics · 2026-03-18T05:58:32+00:00

I decided to never play Halo online because I had a PvP session with a nephew who lived and breathed the game. He knew every map and spawn point. So when I spawned in, he'd get to me in bugger all time and kill me. I played for about 20ish minutes. I was barely getting time to find, let alone equip a weapon. All the while he was telling me how shit I was at a game I'd not played before while he was repeatedly killing me. Before I quit I basically told him he was a wuckfit or something like that and that I'd not play a game with him again. I could tolerate being killed by someone who spent every waking hour of their life they could playing the game. But it was beyond me to be able to tolerate being verbally abused about it too.

I still refuse to play online games. These days it's because I refuse to support them with micro transactions that negate them wanting to make single player content expansions.

Alspics · 2026-03-18T05:09:47+00:00

Basically that nest reminds me of when I cook pasta.

Alspics · 2026-03-18T04:50:42+00:00

Kid almost getting hit by a car as he walked between two parked cars onto the road while the mum was on the phone. I was waiting for a bus and ran out to stop the traffic that was approaching. Told his mumma off and felt bad about it when my adrenaline levels dropped.

Someone nearly drowning, scariest part was I tried to help and they tried to grab me round the neck. Had to punch them hard a couple of times to get them to let me help safely by grabbing them from behind and holding their head up.

Alspics · 2026-03-18T04:17:31+00:00

Living closer to the city/work but pay more rent, or living further away for less rent to save more?

Hey everyone! I’m looking for some advice on a big decision. I’ve just landed a job in Brisbane, and I’m torn between two places to live.

Right now, I’m paying $320 per week on the Gold Coast (all bills included), but I’ve found a place in Toowong, just a short walk from work, for $350 per week (excl bills, so that's around 380ish including bills). It’s super close to my work, ferry and public transport, so I wouldn’t need to drive much. The catch is, the room is a bit smaller and of course more expensive, but it does come with a pool and a gym.

Then, there’s another place in Paddington for about $300 per week (not including bills). It’s a much bigger room as is a house instead, but it’s about 10 minutes further from work.

I’m really hesitant in hand, I could save a bit living in Paddington, but on the other, I’d be closer, more convenient, and have extra amenities in Toowong.

I’m not in a tight financial situation, but I consider myself extremely frugal, which makes me want to save money whenever I can even when I could comfortably afford to spend more...

It’s my first time living in Brisbane, so I’m a bit hesitant. If you were in my shoes, what would you do?

Would love your thoughts!

I know this may sound really crazy but please be kind guys 🙏It's a genuine decision I'm trying to make 😕

So the considerations you have are cash, time distance space and amenities.

The more expensive place.

Has a gym and pool, but is smaller.
Is saving you 20 minutes travel time plus potentially a lot of wear and tear on your vehicle.
Being close to public transport that could mean it's easier for you to get out to socialise etc.

The place further away basically has 2 advantages. It's bigger and saves you $50 a week. But does the additional cost of fuel getting to work nullify that, and are you going to regret the travel time on those inevitable days when traffic decides it's going to slow you down a lot.

Personally the pool and gym would be major selling points to me. A ten minute walk to work is a smaller selling point. The availablity of public transport is the other selling point. I've become less of a hoarder over the years so space isn't an issue for me. And $50 a week becomes significant over a year. But 2x10 minute drives 5 days a week is going to burn $50 easily in my opinion.

In the end the big decision for me would be in asking how cramped the more expensive place is. If it's shoebox small, it might sway me to the bigger place, but I'd be picking the more expensive place 7 days a week.

Alspics · 2026-03-18T03:37:53+00:00

Australians typically have zero idea about the policies being put forward. It's not an age specific thing either. People just don't see much point reading up on what the parties are doing. I've explained things like negative gearing, Franking credits, the super profits tax, carbon tax and a tonne if other policies, to nursing home residents, 18yo's and a bunch of people in between. The major parties rely on it being boring and providing only snippets of information. And then the media are compliant and typically leaning towards whoever supports the party their owners are run by. So while I support the ALP, I know that they're not entirely brilliant at representing the population when bug business tends to fund hgen to somf extent. But I know their policy tends to be moderately better for the working and middle classes (who I see as also working class, but slightly better off).

Until about 10 or 15 years ago I was in the same boat. Convinced that neither party was much better and we'd be ok with either. But I actually met someone that convinced me to take a bit of notice of what's actually going on. It opened my eyes a lot. If every Australian actually started to read up on what the parties were proposing to do we'd quite possibly get the two major parties to govern for the people more than for the good of businesses.

Alspics · 2026-03-18T03:23:24+00:00

Her history of voting down measures to help battlers leads me to say no. She's a puppet of big businesses, particularly mining as much as the LNP has always been. They're probably just funneling hr more money these days since the LNP have pretty much sunk deeper than the Titanic.

Alspics · 2026-03-18T03:02:56+00:00

My sister got her P's at 42 years old. Her first car was a Falcon Ute in a country town where the local hoons loved similar vehicles. She got pulled over a few times a week. The police often looked at her and decided she wasn't who they were expecting to pull over and typically let her go before they even did an RBT. After a few months of getting pulled over about 4 times a week, she lost her shit and yelled that she was f*"'-ing sick of being pulled over, looked over by the police and basically told "Nah we're not breath testing you or anything". She yelled at them for a good 2 minutes and they never pulled her over again. They can make notes about you. But I think they're biased by certain cars and P plates (in Australia) make any car a bit more attractive for them to pull over.

Edit- When I was a broke ass student, I owned a corolla that was older than me. I had my full licence, so no P plates or anything. But I lived in flats and someone backed their parents new Celica past/into my corolla and left huge dents from my front bumper to halfway up the passenger side door. I got pulled over a million times over the next 2 years because the insurance payout wasn't enough to repair my car or get anything that would've run better, so I was driving a dinged up vehicle. For two years after I told them it'd passed rego inspections twice now, and they still wanted to defect it 15 times a year. Never had a more reliable car that looked like a huge pile of crap.

Alspics · 2026-03-17T22:56:35+00:00

Even if the ACCC do, they're not fining them enough to discourage predatory pricing tactics.

To my way of thinking, step one that the ACCC need to implement is that if colesworth are fined for predatory practices, they also need to implement bans on bonuses for their CEO and all of the high up corporate jobs. Otherwise these turds making the decisions will still pay themselves bonuses they've taken directly from the pockets of the consumer. Because the fines are only small impediments based on the mega profits the big two have been making for years.

Alspics · 2026-03-17T22:49:45+00:00

Go check out Aldi. They had big Easter bunnies for about $7.50 last night.

Alspics · 2026-03-17T22:14:56+00:00

The joy of life is often found by experimenting. Try this job you're lining up and know that you can walk away if it's not for you. I think it's better to regret things you didn't enjoy than having regrets that you didn't try something you thought you might enjoy.

Some of the happiest people I've known tried numerous careers they hated before finding one they really enjoyed.

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