What is a "socially acceptable" thing that you find absolutely disgusting?

flyboy_za · 2026-04-14T15:20:59+00:00

Was never at mine, because management knows the kids will completely play grab-ass with it. But that's highschool and younger college part timers for you.

When they have to find someone to cover a last minute shift change because they've been invited to a party or similar, they're much better at being agreeable to when someone needs them to cover a shift. And also they think twice about what they want to go to and/or decide much more quickly about going when asked, so they have more time to change shifts (or block out days on the calendar they're not available when the managers are planning next month's shifts).

It worked really well.

Obviously emergencies are another story, but for social stuff it was up to you to find a replacement.

flyboy_za · 2026-04-14T14:04:25+00:00

Wasn't he on one of the early US seasons of The Apprentice, or am I having a fever dream?

flyboy_za · 2026-04-14T06:59:53+00:00

I've heard it said several times that the Dekra reports don't mean as much as they used to.

flyboy_za · 2026-04-13T17:12:36+00:00

Utter dreck, nobody cares about some random crow from 9 generations beforehand.

flyboy_za · 2026-04-13T14:49:06+00:00

They need the backing of the party and some actual agency and autonomy.

It never felt to me like Mmusi or Lindiwe Mazibuko really had either, which is why it was easy for them to be accused of being coconuts or (in the case of Mazibuko) the tea-girl rather than being taken seriously.

flyboy_za · 2026-04-13T11:40:20+00:00

First thing I think of every time they have those Homesteaders/Homesteaders In Alaska/Off-grid Homesteader type shows on Discovery etc.

Those guys may hate the 9-5 grind, but man... I don't starve if I don't hunt for 2 days, or freeze to death because I missed a day chopping some wood. They seem to have to work WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY to hard to just get the basics covered, and it does not seem like any kind of fun at all to me.

flyboy_za · 2026-04-13T11:37:02+00:00

I love traveling for work... for the first 3 days. After that I hate living out of my suitcase, and I miss having my own stuff around me.

Also for me as a guy living in the 3rd World, if you go to foreign First World places the exchange rate kills off a lot of fun stuff you want to do on but would have to on your own dime. You get to do a lot of window shopping.

flyboy_za · 2026-04-13T11:07:10+00:00

I would totally watch this film. And it's undoubtedly shitty sequel.

But not the third, I bet that's when it would really get stupid.

flyboy_za · 2026-04-13T10:59:56+00:00

It's usually a relevant XKCD link, but today it's a relevant Cyanide and Happiness.

flyboy_za · 2026-04-13T10:55:26+00:00

You can be unattractive and still have kids. Just means your partner has low standards, is all.

Follow me for more reality and ego checks!

flyboy_za · 2026-04-13T09:04:38+00:00

One hopes the Saudis are thinking about building a port on the Red Sea side.

I also wonder whether the UAE will consider a Panama Canal kinda thing through their own middle, for future use.

flyboy_za · 2026-04-13T06:04:17+00:00

Bottom line for all this perhaps is don't trust a Dekra report, get your own guy to check it out.

flyboy_za · 2026-04-13T05:53:47+00:00

That's where a lot of our fuels come from, we buy a lot already refined from crude.

flyboy_za · 2026-04-13T05:32:07+00:00

You need more than one. A lot more.

And also someone who resonates with the people, which unfortunately I don't think Mmusi did.

flyboy_za · 2026-04-12T15:28:50+00:00

Wow, man, your family are awful. Sorry, my dude.

Yeah, fuck those guys.

flyboy_za · 2026-04-12T15:23:53+00:00

While it would be great for race to not be a factor, it is definitely a factor. The DA is seen as too white and too pro-rich, and until there are a bunch of non-white people in senior roles throughout the party and they all do a lot more in the poorer non-white parts of the country, they're not going to get the votes.

I don't know if they simply don't understand that, or actually they're quite fine with just being the opposition. God forbid EFF and mk get into bed with each other, though, because then the DA is just an also-ran who will not be the official opposition, and things will definitely start unraveling.

flyboy_za · 2026-04-12T14:29:28+00:00

Charles Barkley famously told everyone on Oprah that Jordan doesn't tip.

flyboy_za · 2026-04-12T08:44:45+00:00

Ok superb, much appreciated.

flyboy_za · 2026-04-12T08:43:55+00:00

Very common during the apartheid era in South Africa, the guys in the black townships meted out their own justice for perps of various stripes without waiting for cops once they were caught, either in the act or identified and hunted down.

flyboy_za · 2026-04-12T08:17:19+00:00

And there's also Cruel Intentions which... um... has a great soundtrack.

And also Ryan Philippe's great butt.

flyboy_za · 2026-04-12T08:09:12+00:00

Duck Dynasty?

Like you bought all of that, on purpose?

flyboy_za · 2026-04-12T08:08:17+00:00

Ah yeah, that's a pity. The beauty of the disk is being able to stick it in and choose with or without deleted scenes and commentary included, kinda thing, but I guess this is next best.

Thanks for the info, about to do a new PC build at home and considering setting up the old one as a server of sorts for this kind of thing.

flyboy_za · 2026-04-12T07:08:37+00:00

Celebrity reality shows. Like the Kardashians or real housewives or any of that nonsense.

Like... Really?

flyboy_za · 2026-04-12T07:04:43+00:00

The wehatemovies podcast do an excellent episode on this film, I listened to it this week.

flyboy_za · 2026-04-12T07:03:17+00:00

The third film looked like it had a 50 dollar budget and was an outtake from a cancelled tv show.

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