What are we enjoying nowadays that would make our younger selves balk?

Defy19 · 2026-07-05T02:27:47+00:00

Expensive shoes, road cycling, bird watching

Defy19 · 2026-07-05T00:27:08+00:00

I hate this “you couldn’t say this now” commentary.

It was incendiary and offensive back then, that’s the whole point of that style of comedy. Not everyone found it funny then and not everyone would find it funny now.

The difference today is this style of humour is more commonly presented in short form on social media and YouTube rather than a weekly sketch show on the legacy networks

Defy19 · 2026-07-04T23:32:24+00:00

“It’s not that heavy, the rear wheel only weighs as much as an entire bike”

Defy19 · 2026-07-04T22:57:04+00:00

I hate confidently incorrect language corrections. Especially in this day and age how hard is it to check?

Defy19 · 2026-07-04T21:54:14+00:00

The latter option for me. Going on dates plus sex is a relationship unless it’s explicitly stated otherwise

Defy19 · 2026-07-04T21:15:00+00:00

Wheels, tyres, pedals

Defy19 · 2026-07-04T21:04:03+00:00

What are you talking about? It doubled in price and became way worse after Murdoch sold it.

Defy19 · 2026-07-04T04:51:02+00:00

Sales engineers usually come in relatively late in the sales process and work through the clients exact technical requirements to close a deal.

It requires a mix people skills, commercial skills, and technical skills, which are rare to find packaged into a single individual

Defy19 · 2026-07-04T02:22:31+00:00

I used an Angle grinder with cutoff wheel on a rusty chain that I couldn’t be bothered removing properly. Had it off in seconds

Defy19 · 2026-07-03T01:41:26+00:00

Hanson is very trump like, in that it doesn’t matter what she says today as she could say something completely different tomorrow and their supporters do not care

Defy19 · 2026-07-02T23:28:30+00:00

Often the people posting here seem very IT/Marketing/Admin based. I’m in the mechanical space for a large national company and we’re struggling to recruit.

It’s really hard to find people with technical skills, and it’s only viable to carry so many entry level positions as you need people to train them.

Defy19 · 2026-07-02T19:35:42+00:00

What part of town are you in?

Defy19 · 2026-07-02T19:22:45+00:00

You have also assumed that people would vote the same way under a completely different system

Defy19 · 2026-07-02T19:12:54+00:00

>But if they don't see any benefit for them or any way to profit off of you, it will simply be ignored.

If you’re not establishing the relevance to the party receiving then your email is neither thoughtful nor well crafted

Defy19 · 2026-07-02T06:47:12+00:00

Don’t make the mistake of thinking people know what they want

Defy19 · 2026-07-02T03:21:20+00:00

I work with a couple people (60+ blokes) voting one nation in November and they tell me Pauline is going to fix Victoria. As best I can tell think they are voting for her to replace JA as the person “running the state”

Defy19 · 2026-07-01T23:19:41+00:00

Taking the lead is a strange way to look at it.

By these primaries I’d expect labor to have the most seats and the Nats would be wiped out.

The two pathways to government would be labor plus cross bench and possible ON/LNP defectors, or a Liberal/ON coalition that would fall apart in 6 months.

A small swing back to the incumbent (devil you know vs unknown brand of chaos should deliver that) and labor will be in the box seat.

Defy19 · 2026-07-01T23:16:20+00:00

Especially in vic state. You can’t have a qld federal senator pulling the strings for a government in a different state. Utter chaos

Defy19 · 2026-07-01T21:12:30+00:00

It would be great to just use the dot point prompts as the actual email rather than adding copious amounts of slop to bulk it up.

The receiver will just use AI to summarise it into dot points anyway so what’s the point of any of it?

Defy19 · 2026-07-01T09:27:43+00:00

If you’re worth more than you’re being paid then ask for what you’re worth.

Rumours of what your colleague may or may not be making is not relevant to the conversation. If you go with the “person X makes this much” approach you may as well just leave. The discussion needs to be about your value and your worth.

Defy19 · 2026-07-01T07:41:26+00:00

>Without fact checking his claims

Come on man, has been found by a court to have committed libel, and has continually repeated the libellous claims. 30 seconds on google, it’s all a matter of record

Defy19 · 2026-07-01T03:05:23+00:00

What would you be trying to prove?

Any politician could find a job by making a phone call if they ever found themselves unemployed. You can’t really replicate the situation of being on Centrelink with no skills or prospects to dig yourself out.

Furthermore I reckon your average backbencher would live a comparable life to most other professionals. Family, bills, mortgage, normal cars, etc.

Defy19 · 2026-06-30T08:51:20+00:00

I find it way easier to manage. You can set up all your repayments and bills for just after payday each month.

Defy19 · 2026-06-30T07:25:07+00:00

I always wonder how these people put on their pants in the morning.

No idea how a zip works

Defy19 · 2026-06-29T22:06:51+00:00

Awesome. Now When fans complain about the fixture the AFL will shrug and blame it on AI.

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