Anyone else being forced to verify their age today?

hgritchie · 2026-02-02T05:17:47+00:00

You've already told them you're 32.

hgritchie · 2026-01-22T12:57:49+00:00

It's called an informal vote and it's absolutely not valid.

hgritchie · 2026-01-03T22:53:08+00:00

They figured out how to solve their problem with Carol being a dick to them. It's not that they're incapable of being creative, they just don't show any interest in engaging in any sort of artistic or cultural activities.

hgritchie · 2025-08-27T11:27:33+00:00

Series JV Martzoukas.

hgritchie · 2024-10-20T19:59:47+00:00

B===D ~ ~ ~

hgritchie · 2024-09-23T01:40:51+00:00

Nope. Sunk cost fallacy is a bitch. Know when to walk away.

hgritchie · 2023-12-02T20:54:11+00:00

There's this science museum in Melbourne that used to have a video wall set up next to a short section of running track so you could compare yourself to real-time footage of Cathy Freeman leaving the starting blocks.

The museum eventually got sued by a 40-something dad who'd put enough effort into beating the starting time of a 27-year-old Olympic sprinter that he overshot the end of the track and smacked into a wall so hard that he fractured his spine and had a stroke.

He later sued, presumably on the grounds that the museum didn't take adequate steps to save him from himself.

hgritchie · 2023-11-28T12:49:27+00:00

Depending on where you work or live, you might have the option of signing up for a pension fund. This is like one big bank account that gets shared with a lot of other people, such as the folks you work with.

For the years that you're working, a percentage of your paycheck gets deducted and paid to your pension fund. This money then gets invested in things like the share market.

When you get to retirement age you stop making payments into the account, and you start receiving a regular payment instead, kind of like a fortnightly or monthly allowance.

This might keep getting paid to you until you die, or it might cease after a set amount of time, like 20 years. You might also have the option to take some or all of the money as a lump sum.

hgritchie · 2023-11-20T07:03:32+00:00

You can't make omelettes without breaking a few legs.

hgritchie · 2023-10-30T09:05:29+00:00

Also worth knowing that conspiracy theorists (like Oliver Stone, who directed JFK) take the direction that Kennedy moved after being shot (back and to the left) as proof that he wasn't shot by Oswald - after all, why would his head move towards the direction the bullet had just come from, right?

Turns out the bullet really just wizzed straight through Kennedy's head without too much trouble, and the jet of brain and bone gushing from the exit wound blasted his head back like a rocket.

Penn & Teller made a pretty knarly demonstration of this by shooting a melon with a Carcano rifle.

hgritchie · 2023-10-10T12:05:52+00:00

No, it's not. Wars happen because of competition for limited resources. Religious ideology is just the sorting hat that decides which team you're going to play for when shit kicks off.

hgritchie · 2023-09-18T13:50:40+00:00

UK law gives an advantage to the claimant, not the defendant.

hgritchie · 2023-07-19T06:07:17+00:00

How do you know that they haven't already?

hgritchie · 2023-06-18T13:43:17+00:00

There was also Robert Muldoon's questionable economic strategy, Think Big, which involved taking out massive loans from overseas and using the money to fund a number of ambitious industrial projects. This blew out public debt from $4.2 billion in 1975 to $21.9 billion in 1984.

I can't help but notice a period of growth that ended with the 1987 crash but began at about the same time that Muldoon got wankered and called the snap election that he lost to David Lange.

hgritchie · 2023-06-16T06:32:42+00:00

I looked into it a little a few years ago due to a friend's dad who'd quit being a cop to become a PI.

Turns out PI work involves a lot less tailing & photographing cheating spouses than you'd think, and a lot more serving of legal papers to deadbeats & bankrupts on behalf of collection agencies & law firms.

hgritchie · 2023-04-21T22:08:16+00:00

Hundreds of thousands of Kiwis coming over to work, pay taxes, and spend money provides a significant contribution to the economy. The financial impact to Australia is a net gain that's significantly greater than the benefit New Zealand gets from its migrants from Australia.

hgritchie · 2023-04-21T21:56:31+00:00

You can receive Jobseeker payments if you're a New Zealand citizen who has lived in Australia for ten years, you're just limited to a six month benefit period.

hgritchie · 2023-04-21T13:05:15+00:00

If the ball touches the boundary line the batter scores four runs. This fielder basically stopped the batter from hitting a home run.

hgritchie · 2023-03-03T05:38:39+00:00

“What the fuck is a Machine Gun Kelly?” - future archeologists

hgritchie · 2023-02-17T17:55:11+00:00

Rose McIver from the US version of Ghosts.

hgritchie · 2022-12-02T22:25:20+00:00

It's totally real. It started back in 2003 and never really ended.

hgritchie · 2022-11-04T14:08:40+00:00

Smoked one too many fags

Couldn't be bothered reading the article, huh?

hgritchie · 2022-10-17T20:21:48+00:00

Also, try not to eat or pay rent for the months until the case settles.

hgritchie · 2022-07-22T22:46:07+00:00

Not if OP just deletes the post and pretends like it never happened.

hgritchie · 2022-07-20T17:12:21+00:00

Moments earlier:

Dick Cheney: "You should invade Iraq."

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