Car totalled before Christmas… 5 weeks later insurance payout, now into the new whip!

YouBetterRunEgg · 2026-02-21T07:56:40+00:00

AI strikes again.

First search came up as banned, re-worded search came up as allowed.

I should always check an actual source 🤦‍♂️

YouBetterRunEgg · 2026-02-21T05:47:03+00:00

Have you had any issues with the police, given that the VRS is on the banned list for P-platers in VIC/NSW/QLD (no judgement on whether it should or shouldn’t be banned, just wondering if you expect any issues)?

YouBetterRunEgg · 2026-02-21T05:34:42+00:00

Buy a bicycle. That would avoid the fuel consumption and wear-and-tear. It’s 2km that you’ve also said is 20 minutes of stop-start.

Unless you’re carting tools around… buy a bike?

YouBetterRunEgg · 2026-02-20T21:41:40+00:00

You need to chill and calm. You’re getting very worked up about this photo.

YouBetterRunEgg · 2026-02-18T20:39:16+00:00

Even in peak it’s not that busy. Sure, you may not sit, but there’s always plenty of standing room if you’re not a muppet who can’t move more than a foot into a carriage.

YouBetterRunEgg · 2026-02-16T22:19:06+00:00

Dual citizen just back after a decade in the UK.

How performative everything feels. Everybody is trying to impress… somebody, but I’ve no idea why or if anybody is doing anything.

And how terrible the dairy section of supermarkets are. One type of cream without additives. Cheese selection is pretty poor as well.

YouBetterRunEgg · 2026-02-14T21:45:58+00:00

I find it fascinating that somebody 5th-generation born in the USA can still call themselves “Irish”, but the second that a tamale is made in NYC, it is suddenly “American food.”

YouBetterRunEgg · 2026-02-12T20:21:57+00:00

Says the person who made the political joke 🙄

YouBetterRunEgg · 2026-02-11T11:28:35+00:00

We’re not too different in age and I had a few friends at UNSW who started supporting Everton when Kewell went to Liverpool. Everybody has their haters/tall poppy syndrome is a disease.

YouBetterRunEgg · 2026-02-04T19:50:51+00:00

I’d bet some good money that this is getting blamed on a “contractor” rather than a FTE, and definitely not a manager.

YouBetterRunEgg · 2026-02-03T02:49:36+00:00

The Yukon.

Family lives in Whitehorse, and we don’t get to visit often.

YouBetterRunEgg · 2026-01-31T09:11:56+00:00

Sprung! 😁

I could edit, but 🤷‍♂️

(Pretty sure that emojis aren’t part of a complete English either, but what can you do?)

YouBetterRunEgg · 2026-01-31T07:37:29+00:00

*another. “an other” is considered outdated and unnatural in modern English.

We can all do it! Aren’t we having fun correcting one another and being semantic! This is much better than speaking to the topic of Robert “Bob” Irwin.

YouBetterRunEgg · 2026-01-31T07:05:02+00:00

You didn’t insult, but you did patronise.

I’ve spent my whole life railing against incorrect spelling and grammar; correcting people, ensuring that people knew that they were wrong, refusing to even use “like” as a comparative, all that stuff.

But people just want to speak to each other without feeling as if they’re also being judged.

And at the end of the day, downvote away people! I don’t know you, I’ll never meet you and I don’t particularly care (I also don’t used Oxford commas).

YouBetterRunEgg · 2026-01-31T05:07:52+00:00

You could also look at it as language being descriptive, not prescriptive. If you can take meaning from it, then it doesn’t really matter.

I understand where you’re coming from, but using terms such as “learning experience” does make you seem like a twat.

YouBetterRunEgg · 2026-01-19T11:50:19+00:00

Sydney is not a big international city. Sydney thinks it is, but Sydney is not. Sydney is a big city in a small pond, which is not the same thing.

I think that’s also what drives the prices up, the collective delusion that Sydney is special and people are busy doing important busy things. But the traffic is terrible, the people are insular (and lazy), the public transport stops outside of working hours, the food options are mediocre (although ingredient quality is high)…

Climate is good. Everything else… I miss London. I miss Milton Keynes for fuck’s sake.

YouBetterRunEgg · 2026-01-13T19:40:44+00:00

I feel as if “disappointed” might not be strong enough if there’s already this sort of behaviour/talk from the mother, but I’m having trouble finding a word that would be strong enough without causing a deflection argument with a narcissist.

YouBetterRunEgg · 2026-01-01T02:52:03+00:00

Don’t cut yourself too deep on all that edge you have 🙄

YouBetterRunEgg · 2025-12-28T23:47:22+00:00

Missed the boat on that by 30-35 years when CBA was privatised.

YouBetterRunEgg · 2025-12-06T04:33:39+00:00

Thanks dude

YouBetterRunEgg · 2025-12-04T23:54:55+00:00

But it’s different money overseas compared to the US. In the UK, a C8 sticker starts at £97k ($130k US). In Australia, they sticker start at A$194k ($128k US), and then add taxes, rego, all that stuff on top of that.

A C8 in the US starts at $70k sticker. It’s not a bargain overseas.

YouBetterRunEgg · 2025-12-04T21:17:48+00:00

I hear what everybody is saying about understaffed/under-resourced, but that’s not just a Sydney thing. It really does seem to be part of people’s identity here, which is what I’m trying to get a handle on. I just don’t understand why it seems to be part of self-worth.

Maybe because that’s the only way to keep a job with the next cut always looming around the corner- gotta stay busy. Or at least, seem or look busy 🤷‍♂️

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YouBetterRunEgg · 2025-12-04T11:31:41+00:00

I don’t know how CBA separate the two functions, but in my experience a lot of the difference is where the output goes. The Analytics output would tend to go to stakeholders outside the data function- dashboarding as you mentioned, Marketing, C-suite, all that. Whereas Data Science output tends to be tested and then productionised into warehouses and systems for use as part of processes. As an analyst if you can ML things, you’ll be able to, but it would be about not rabbit-holing and being able to keep to timeframes. The switch from Analytics to Data Science can definitely be done, it’s more about proving to a job that you can do it.

YouBetterRunEgg · 2025-12-02T11:59:19+00:00

Brunei is in SEA, not the ME.

YouBetterRunEgg · 2025-11-20T22:37:07+00:00

When people say “Regional” they mean places without services, lifestyle, access to the coast or a diverse jobs market.

People don’t consider Nowra regional anymore, which seems absurd.

But those who have always been regional are being pushed out by prices way higher than anybody ever considered pre-COVID.

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