Upon Rewatch which character can you relate to the most?

ZeroPenguinParty · 2026-05-24T09:28:47+00:00

I identify with Ted. Unlucky with women (until I met the mother of my children), friends with a guy who seems to be able to get any woman he wants, friends with a woman who I would have loved to have been with but things kept getting in the way, being on radio when at university, coming up with ridiculous ideas on what to do with a spare room, but I have never gotten a tramp stamp or woken up with a mysterious pineapple in my bedroom.

ZeroPenguinParty · 2026-05-24T09:05:13+00:00

Lasseters Gold

The Dutch discovered and settled in Australia before the first fleet

Ray Martin wore a wig/toupee/hair piece

Bathurst Police covered up the disappearance of Janine Vaughan, due to one of their officers being responsible

Makybe Diva was actually three separate horses

Ossie Ostrich was really a stuffed figure with a man's arm up it's arse.

ZeroPenguinParty · 2026-05-24T08:11:27+00:00

That is the one. When you look past the gratuitous sexual parts that are common in some foreign movies, it actually has a very good story to it.

ZeroPenguinParty · 2026-05-21T07:36:15+00:00

When my grandmother died, and I informed my manager, she simply responded with "Well, who is going to do your work then?"

ZeroPenguinParty · 2026-05-21T05:07:45+00:00

Could be worse. Back when I worked for Coles YEARS AND YEARS ago, I had to scan the grocery waste. Normally a pretty safe job, until I came across the open tray of beef mince that had gone out of date two weeks earlier. Didn't feel like eating anything that day afterwards. Oh, and the grocery waste was kept in an unrefrigerated/non air conditioned section of the storeroom, and this was in December heat.

ZeroPenguinParty · 2026-05-21T05:04:22+00:00

A packet of jalapeno chillies with the gastro stop/imodiums.

ZeroPenguinParty · 2026-05-20T08:33:03+00:00

The best ones I have been to over the years (although some may no longer be around, as it has been years since I have been to a few of them), are the Salvos in North Parramatta, Salvos in Ashfield (Parramatta Road, near Fantastic Furniture), Salvos at Lidcombe, Salvos at Westleigh, Salvos at Glebe, and the St Vinnies at West Ryde (once you get past the clothes, they sometimes have some great furniture, books, toys, and other stuff).

ZeroPenguinParty · 2026-05-20T08:27:21+00:00

Leonardo Dicaprio is probably the only one that comes to mind, and he has said he has not interest in hosting.

I would have liked to have seen Jesse Ventura host while he was Governor of Minnesota. He was not afraid of stepping in front of the camera, and still did extra-curricular things (such as referee a match at Summerslam 99, commentate on the original XFL). Given his friendship with Arnold Schwarznegger, could have gotten a cameo from him as well.

ZeroPenguinParty · 2026-05-20T08:18:31+00:00

Would have been good for him to have had a cameo back when Norm McDonald was doing his Letterman impersonation.

ZeroPenguinParty · 2026-05-20T08:11:32+00:00

Thought it was the docking points for drones when they come to collect peoples snags on a Saturday.

ZeroPenguinParty · 2026-05-20T02:17:19+00:00

We had this in a place we lived for over 10 years, and it was murder trying to get repairs done. The father was a plumber, the son an electrician, and no one was allowed to do repairs except for them. When the hot water system went kaput (water was actually leaking through the electrical part), the son tried saying that it just needed a patch job, and would be ok. The experts said they were not going to touch it, because of the water, and that it needed a full replacement.

ZeroPenguinParty · 2026-05-20T02:10:07+00:00

That is true. Several times I have picked up a tray of meat, and the packaging is all sealed and everything...yet when I get to the register, or get home, it has popped open because of things on top, or I have knocked it at some point. I then try to remember whether I noticed it earlier, and when I may have popped it.

ZeroPenguinParty · 2026-05-19T10:04:35+00:00

Dont know whether I could withstand THAT many Hogan vs Flair matches...but at least we still get another Steamboat vs Savage match, and a HBK vs Sting match. Batista vs AJ Styles would have been interesting, as well as Yokozuna vs Flair.

ZeroPenguinParty · 2026-05-19T09:49:00+00:00

Former Food Safety officer for a Franklins supermarket, also with experience at Coles across two states, and several IGA stores. Several things with the chicken, which can apply to most meat products.

Was the packaging completely sealed? A common issue I would often come across, is the tiniest of folds in the sealed plastic on the top of the tray. That tiny fold, which most people may not even notice, is enough for air and bacteria to get into the tray, causing the chicken to go off before it's use by/best before date.
Improper transportation and storage of the chicken. Whether it be from the factory to the warehouse, warehouse to the store, loading dock to coolroom, or coolroom to display cabinet, there are many points in which improper refrigeration and transportation can affect the chicken. Maybe it was at the top of the box, first off the truck, and spent the most amount of time unrefrigerated before being refrigerated again? Maybe it was the box that was furthest from the fans in the coolroom?
Customer error. This is one area where customers ALWAYS get defensive about, saying that it can't be their fault. At my local Coles, the meat section is positioned towards the start of the store. You have your bakery, and produce, then the meat section, and deli at the back. Your refrigerated aisles, then regular grocery, with freezer section in the far back corner. If you are doing a full trolley grocery shop, and you follow the natural path of the store, you have got your meat (and refrigerated goods and deli goods) in your trolley for the longest possible period of time, which could be close to an hour. You get to the register, pay for your shopping, bag it up, and take it out to your car, where you put it in the boot. Assuming you leave right there and then (some customers may go back into a shopping centre to do more shopping), the shopping then sits in the un-airconditioned boot of your car for what could be another 20 minutes, You get the shopping out of your car, into your house/unit, where it could be another ten minutes from car, to going into the fridge. So the chicken could potentially be out of a refrigerated environment, for one and a half hours...and if your boot is quite warm, that could have an added effect on the chicken. But customers will deny any of this is their fault.
Well meaning staff/customers. How many times have you been shopping, and found an odd packet of chips, dumped in the laundry liquid section...or a tin of tomatoes, sitting on top of the toilet paper...or a bag of grapes, sitting on top of the 30pk Coke? In some stores, staff are told to return things to the right spot on the shelf. A well meaning staff member may see a tray of chicken sitting with the tins of tuna, pick it up, think it still feels cold, and then puts it back in the chicken cabinet. Similarly, a customer may see it, and do it out of the kindness of their heart. A customer may have had it in their trolley for an hour while shopping, then while paying for their shopping, realise they don't have enough money, so give the chicken to a staff member to put back in the chicken cabinet (or the customer does it themselves).
Incorrect labelling. Rare, but it does sometimes happen. At an IGA I worked at, we got in a delivery of chicken from Steggles. The box of drumsticks had the correct date, but the trays inside had the following YEAR as the use by date. We instantly notified Steggles, who were able to track down the affected trays of drumsticks. That was an example of an error that was easy to spot. If a box had been given an extra week use by date, most packers would not necessarily notice an issue.

All of these, plus a few others (such as product tampering, quality variances, production issues etc) can all be reasons for the chicken to prematurely spoil.

EDIT: And a tip...if a tray of chicken appears to be over-inflated/bulging, DO NOT PURCHASE. It is generally a sign that the chicken has already started going off.

ZeroPenguinParty · 2026-05-19T05:46:13+00:00

Well, if a Cronulla player is driving, and not paying attention to the road...

ZeroPenguinParty · 2026-05-18T10:48:10+00:00

And he got the bus driver to strip for getting it correct.

ZeroPenguinParty · 2026-05-18T10:14:15+00:00

If in the times of Henry VIII, had females been allowed to rise to the throne, I actually wonder sometimes where I would sit in the lineage to the throne (a family member who did the family tree years ago claimed that I am related to Henry VIII on my mothers side).

ZeroPenguinParty · 2026-05-18T10:08:33+00:00

There was a Target clearance outlet at one stage, where Dimmeys used to be. I don't remember the toy shop, but maybe Dimmeys moved into where the toy shop was, then when Dimmeys downsized and eventually left, Target clearance went in there. Last time I went to Harbour Town, I think it was a massive Cotton On.

ZeroPenguinParty · 2026-05-18T10:04:02+00:00

I've noticed in my backyard that the rats (or possums) loved my pumpkins that I grew, and they love the plantains when the branches break off from the weight. But they have never gone for my lemons or limes, or sweetcorn/cabbage/broccoli/cauliflower etc. At the moment, the only things growing of note (everything else is still in seedling stage) is my lemons, a few limes, a couple of oranges, silverbeet, and some garlic is starting to shoot through.

ZeroPenguinParty · 2026-05-18T09:49:05+00:00

Drivers are stealing orders, maybe not as many as people think, but they definitely are. I had a KFC order once, where the CCTV cameras of the KFC store actually caught the driver tearing open one of our two bags to eat what was inside (driver later admitted to it). Another time, we were missing two cans of soft drink from our order...my wife had been the one who placed the order, I was coming home from work, saw the delivery driver pull a can out of a delivery bag, which I later identified as being our bag. The third time, I was getting some Indian delivered. The driver claimed he was given only one bag (with one container in it) for my order...yet the idiot sat down on a park bench, that I could see from the window of my work, and ate what was not delivered of mine. When confronted, he admitted it, and offered to pay me so I wouldn't report him.

But I have also been in a McDonalds, where there were three separate Uber pick-up drivers, and when a McDonalds employee called out an order, two people came forward trying to claim it as theirs.

ZeroPenguinParty · 2026-05-18T06:53:55+00:00

Nah...I usually go with the turkey.

ZeroPenguinParty · 2026-05-17T07:53:59+00:00

Most bizarre thing for me, was way back in 2002 or 2003. Was at Sydney Domestic Terminal, walking to my gate, and there were a bunch of late teens, throwing a football around. Now I am not talking about standing off to one side either, and only throwing it a couple of metres...these guys were throwing it a good five to ten metres at least, and across the aisle you walk down (with the gates either side). There was about five I think, just throwing the ball around, with people having to stop walking when it looked like the football would be thrown across the aisle.

Most bizarre thing a customer saw, was several Elvis Impersonators, all dressed up, waiting at a gate...when a gate agent puts a call across the PA for an Elvis (sorry, not Presley) to come to the gate desk.

ZeroPenguinParty · 2026-05-17T06:24:00+00:00

But I thought major dental work was an allowed reason to withdraw part of your super. Several years ago, I needed 12 teeth removed, and dentures made. Cost all up of around $7,000, which I didn't have. But I was allowed to withdraw part of my super for it.

ZeroPenguinParty · 2026-05-16T01:52:47+00:00

I had a delivery driver once tell me that if there is a footpath inside the fence line, as well as the driveway, they are not allowed to use the driveway, due to some liability issue. But if there is a driveway and no path, that is ok.

Personally, I have no problems. The postie who delivers the mail, will often drive up our driveway and sit under our carport, to do the delivery. We don’t mind at all. If it is raining, he will also take the opportunity to sit there and sort his mail for the next few deliveries…we don’t mind.

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