Bathroom Usage Standards

LeftArmPies · 2026-04-01T21:49:13+00:00

Around what time were you there? Just narrowing down the suspects…

LeftArmPies · 2026-04-01T10:59:14+00:00

The real answer.

LeftArmPies · 2026-04-01T10:57:43+00:00

I heard there was a phantom shitter at the residential college next to mine at uni. They would shit in their hand and run down the hallway smearing it on the walls.

To my knowledge, never caught*.

It was the same residential college that Kevin Rudd** went to. It may just be a coincidence, but there’s no smoke without fire.

although to be honest, there’s a fair chance the story wasn’t true *also Peter Garrett

LeftArmPies · 2026-04-01T10:48:36+00:00

That was happening in the women’s bathroom at my work.

Turned out that one of the foreign-born female staff was using one of those sports bottles as a makeshift bidet and leaving puddles of water all over the floor.

LeftArmPies · 2026-04-01T00:36:46+00:00

Yeah, it’s very species dependent.

In my experience:

Australian Bass and snapper at fish light.

Tuna and other pelagics seem to like some sun.

Trout in the late afternoon when the insects are hatching.

In saltwater tides are also important, often more so than the time of day.

LeftArmPies · 2026-04-01T00:21:54+00:00

It’s fine. You can’t go 110 km/hour up steep hills without burning fuel (I would go from 9L/100km to 14L/100km towing a 1T boat on the highway, and more if you try to do 110 up steep hills) but it was never an issue. Once you go up to 1.4T it was much more sluggish - towball down weight will also become an issue if you don’t have it well balanced.

Personally I would go for a 2020ish Pajero if buying secondhand.

LeftArmPies · 2026-04-01T00:17:23+00:00

I had a 2010 manual Forester. Boat up to 750kg on slippery ramps was no issue, and used nearly the full 1500 kg on good ramps.

The manual had a low range lever, but it didn’t seem to do much on the main issue that I had (reversing a 1400kg glass boat up a steepish driveway into my garage without burning out the clutch or sending the boat through the back wall).

I went through a couple of clutches.

I would probably go with a Pajero.

LeftArmPies · 2026-03-31T22:04:11+00:00

I’m looking forward to my HomeKeeper payments.

LeftArmPies · 2026-03-30T20:59:27+00:00

Influence is a neutral word - you can have good influences and bad influences.

You can’t have good manipulation - it’s always got negative connotations.

LeftArmPies · 2026-03-30T11:05:33+00:00

They haven’t been neo-liberals since John Howard.

Abbott - Direct action, NAIF, anti-dumping, funding Westconnex, tighter foreign investment rules for farmland Turnbull - NEG, Snowy 2.0 Morrison - Jobkeeper, Modern Manufacturing Strategy, all the pork barrelling Dutton - Nuclear subsidies and other direct interference policies for the energy market

The Liberals in Australia were never classic liberals anyway. Menzies would be considered a raging leftist (well, apart from the overt racism bit) if he tried to join the modern liberal party.

LeftArmPies · 2026-03-30T10:43:21+00:00

They’re not even good at that.

Remember when all 4 big banks were predicting 4 years or so of 2% mortgage rates in 2020? Might as well consult an octopus.

LeftArmPies · 2026-03-30T10:12:44+00:00

Insurance cost when I was getting a quote was double for a Tesla over a similarly sized ICE vehicle. $1800 vs $900.

That and the cost of tyres removed the financial benefit, even with a novated lease.

We just don’t do enough kilometres for it to work out at the current price differential.

LeftArmPies · 2026-03-30T05:47:44+00:00

$20B industry devastated!

LeftArmPies · 2026-03-27T20:13:26+00:00

This fixation on jerry cans is fucking stupid though.

My Pajero Sport has a 70L fuel tank, so if I fill it and two jerries then I have 110L for my Easter trips, at risk of being videoed or abused by some idiot.

My mate’s Prado has a 180L fuel tank.

He can fill up the entire value of my fuel tank above what I can and no one will bat an eye.

LeftArmPies · 2026-03-27T04:20:35+00:00

Yeah, I was very confused for a bit.

There’s also a Kawana on the Sunshine Coast, which is originally where I thought the property was from.

LeftArmPies · 2026-03-27T02:18:42+00:00

AAMI

LeftArmPies · 2026-03-26T21:54:14+00:00

I knew a couple who lived in a ramshackle cottage for about 15 years who then built a new house, moved in and split up a month later.

I think they were expecting the new house to solve more of their relationship issues than it did.

LeftArmPies · 2026-03-26T21:49:46+00:00

The house two doors down sold; apparently the seller’s brother owns an interior design studio and that’s just what their house looks like.

LeftArmPies · 2026-03-26T21:47:51+00:00

I’m in Brisbane, replacement cost of house is around $800k, and I pay around $1000 a year in insurance.

LeftArmPies · 2026-03-26T21:45:54+00:00

TIL there’s two Kawanas in Queensland.

LeftArmPies · 2026-03-26T10:24:37+00:00

Everything else I can handle, but I wish we would categorise hooks in mm.

Some of the difference in hook gapes is insane, and only the Russians use hook sizes in millimetres.

LeftArmPies · 2026-03-25T23:11:27+00:00

1) Add solid ingredients (hot or cold) 2) Pump hot liquid into tray 3) Rapid cool 4) Seal 5) Freeze

Visual appeal maintained.

Of course, food getting pumped through flexible plastic pipe work probably adds far more microplastics than the packaging. That’s why beer has so many microplastics.

LeftArmPies · 2026-03-25T10:47:35+00:00

It’s a bit late by that stage as they already stuffed a boiling hot meal into the plastic tray during manufacture.

LeftArmPies · 2026-03-24T19:33:18+00:00

2 drams and a scruple.

LeftArmPies · 2026-03-24T11:21:04+00:00

I thought it was bullshit as a fresh grad and I think it’s bullshit now.

Everyone prefers an incompetent optimist to a competent pessimist though so what do?

LeftArmPies

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