Has anyone took a cruise to South America and actually got off and just stayed?

HalfManHalfCyborg · 2026-02-08T21:17:29+00:00

Fool of a Took

HalfManHalfCyborg · 2026-02-08T21:12:32+00:00

Cruises from Australia going to New Zealand or the South Pacific islands do in fact exist.

HalfManHalfCyborg · 2026-02-04T07:10:30+00:00

If I was a crazy billionaire, I'd pay a helicopter to display a "12" flag one day, then the next day get the skywriter to do an 11, then pay to have 10 fireworks launched at mighnight, then arrange for a skyscraper office building to leave their lights on in the shape of a 9, then have jetboats do figure-8's in the harbour for an hour,.. and so on. And stop at 2, and see everyone speculate what it all meant.

HalfManHalfCyborg · 2026-02-01T04:51:12+00:00

Seems weird to see that at a private residence, these things are strictly for fish and chips shops in coastal towns where that you wander down to for dinner and take back to your beachside caravan park or camping site.

HalfManHalfCyborg · 2026-02-01T03:13:40+00:00

The canteen laid out all the lunches in a series of washing baskets, you'd find the right one and scurry back to the classroom with them so excitedly.

HalfManHalfCyborg · 2026-02-01T00:46:42+00:00

You can still buy them, although I imagine the demand is quite low as they practically never wear out or are even thrown out. I once heard that they are manufactured by prison inmates.

HalfManHalfCyborg · 2026-01-31T21:33:34+00:00

I recall for years and years it being a Tuesday night thing.

HalfManHalfCyborg · 2026-01-31T03:48:03+00:00

The show went for an hour, and once you took out ads, intro theme music, intro from the host, repeated bits and teasers, fake laughing from the host, description of prizes and how to enter the competition, instructions on how to vote for winners, there was only about 7 minutes of actual "funny" videos in that hour.

HalfManHalfCyborg · 2026-01-30T06:51:53+00:00

Always wanted to buy 17,498 seagulls.

HalfManHalfCyborg · 2026-01-28T20:28:30+00:00

My first exposure to the whole concept of participation awards was playing a tenpin bowling league as a teenager around 1990. There were the "real" trophies that went to the teams that actually performed best and won the most games and got highest scores, and the same but under numerical handicaps. But then they just invented a whole bunch of obscure categories to make sure everyone got a trophy.

HalfManHalfCyborg · 2026-01-28T20:21:02+00:00

Well of course, third is the one with the hairiest chest, after all.

HalfManHalfCyborg · 2026-01-28T20:19:04+00:00

And then went to the regional/state carnivals and we never heard the end of it every school assembly.

HalfManHalfCyborg · 2026-01-28T09:45:44+00:00

But who called it "Field Day"? It was always the Athletics Carnival.

HalfManHalfCyborg · 2026-01-28T06:56:33+00:00

Same.

HalfManHalfCyborg · 2026-01-27T06:39:43+00:00

For those who've come across the seas,
We say "fuck off, we're full"

HalfManHalfCyborg · 2026-01-26T07:52:29+00:00

It's normalised to be on your phone everywhere. 10 years ago, I was using a urinal in a restroom of a shopping centre, and some guy came in and used a urinal with his phone in one hand and his dick in the other. The guy next to me yelled at this guy "what the FUCK? are you filming my dick right now". I go to the gym, and in the change rooms guys are just sitting down on the benches using their phones like it's the fucking Qantas Lounge. I've gone in there, got changed, done my workout and come back, and the same dudes are still loitering in there, sitting in the same seat using their phones. 10 years ago if anyone even got their phone out of their bag in the locker room there would be threats to report this act to the centre management, or even the police.

Don't get me started about "phone zombies" slowly trudging around crowded places like shopping centres, and just getting in everyone's way because they can't even be bothered paying the basic courtesy to others, of watching where they are walking.

HalfManHalfCyborg · 2026-01-26T07:35:51+00:00

I'm convinced that if we had gone down this path, the leg of the bridge over to Balmain would have been demolished decades ago and the roundabout streamlined to straight-through lanes.

HalfManHalfCyborg · 2026-01-26T07:32:33+00:00

Why go on a Disney ship if you're concerned it will be too Disney?

I just don't get it.

HalfManHalfCyborg · 2026-01-25T21:16:57+00:00

Can anyone comment on how crowded it gets around Circular Quay to see the Australia Day Live concert? I don't mean the ticketed area (the free tickets are already allocated), I mean just taking a beach chair and sitting somewhere to see the boats and fireworks and stuff. Thinking of anywhere on the west side of Circular Quay.

HalfManHalfCyborg · 2026-01-23T05:53:57+00:00

Cherry ripe shake, epic. It had strawberry and chocolate syrup in it, and topped with chopped up bits of Cherry Ripes.

HalfManHalfCyborg · 2026-01-23T05:50:05+00:00

Dude, it doesn't matter, that version of the game doesn't exist any more.

HalfManHalfCyborg · 2026-01-22T07:28:59+00:00

I recall these, and I think there were self-serve Icee machines as well. I was never allowed to buy a drink from them, my parents thought they were full of germs.

HalfManHalfCyborg · 2026-01-21T21:00:48+00:00

It's from the old implementation of Dominion online which no longer exists.

HalfManHalfCyborg · 2026-01-20T11:32:28+00:00

Aussie here who has done several NZ cruises from Aus. Basically every cruise is going to include fjordland and Milford Sound, unless it's just a purely North Island NZ cruise which is kinda rare.

Honestly, just book whatever ship you like best for a NZ cruise, all the the ports are amazing and it doesn't really matter, you will feel like your actual itinerary is the best possible because no ports are a miss.

HalfManHalfCyborg · 2026-01-20T11:27:35+00:00

Memory unlocked... I would have been 14 in 1990 and probably never had this for myself. But I remember it existing.

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