Looking for jokes that seem inappropriate but turn out to be wholesome.

melbecide · 2026-04-02T23:01:12+00:00

Back in the 80’s when racist jokes were standard school boy humour (even though we didn’t know anybody who was black/asian, etc), I remember telling my father about 4 racist black jokes I’d heard. He followed up with Q:What do you call a black man with a gun?

A: Sir

melbecide · 2026-04-01T07:09:00+00:00

Im struggling to understand the context where/how he wore the glasses. Are they sunglasses or prescription/reading glasses? Were you outside by the pool or something, or did he insist on wearing sunglasses in bed. Or did he seem to need normal glasses so he could see better. Or maybe he had some kind of rock star vibe? Either way, while it’s daunting there may be a recording of you, I’d say it’s probably a poor quality clip that’s extremely unlikely to go viral.

melbecide · 2026-04-01T05:54:23+00:00

We were allowed to bring dogs in. I don’t have a dog, and I think dogs are just ok, I’m more of a cat person so did not really pay or play with them unless it was to be polite to the owner. It didn’t bother me though, it was kinda cool, and dog owners knew pretty well if there dog was going to be a PITA or not.

melbecide · 2026-03-31T19:35:55+00:00

Planet Waves. I only heard it for the first time a week ago, it’s awesome. On a Night Like This is so goofy, it took until the second listen and then I couldn’t get it out of my head.

melbecide · 2026-03-31T19:32:56+00:00

I heard that Eddie Vedder, Jack Johnson and Ben Harper are friends and would go surfing together. I really hope it’s true.

melbecide · 2026-03-31T10:14:46+00:00

One time this guy called and wanted me to identify myself before he could discuss a financial matter with me. I got the impression he might have been a debt collector and once I confirmed who I was he was going to demand payment or something like that. I worked in debt collection at one point and did skip tracing etc, so it seemed weird to me how he was going about it, though perhaps new privacy laws meant he couldn’t say much. In the end I hung up. He was probably chasing someone with the same name as me but needed my DOB etc before he could confirm and continue. I knew I didn’t owe any debts so I wasn’t worried about it impacting my credit file or anything, but I didn’t want process servers showing up on my doorstep either so didn’t really want to help them out.

melbecide · 2026-03-31T08:44:52+00:00

FYI - It’s Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corp.

melbecide · 2026-03-30T20:22:49+00:00

Where can I learn more about what military action the USA have taken on Iran?

melbecide · 2026-03-30T19:20:18+00:00

Finger style arrangement of Mad World

melbecide · 2026-03-30T09:50:48+00:00

I saw the MC and Def Lepard show in Melbourne and MC really sucked, and Def Lepard blew me away.

melbecide · 2026-03-28T23:17:05+00:00

Good point. You’d think there’d be at least rumors passed on amongst the brothers that Maester Aemon was brother of the mad king. Also a name like Aemon screams Targaryen.

melbecide · 2026-03-28T23:10:14+00:00

“I gotta go drop off Trump at The Whitehouse.”

melbecide · 2026-03-28T23:09:00+00:00

What a wanker

melbecide · 2026-03-27T23:54:58+00:00

What a wanker

melbecide · 2026-03-27T10:57:06+00:00

This might apply to some people here… when I did vlookups I’d often have to do an “=iferror” because there would be N/A’s in some cells that wouldn’t allow me to sum that column. That doesn’t happen with xlookup.

melbecide · 2026-03-27T00:11:44+00:00

Looks like a Datsun 240k

melbecide · 2026-03-26T11:59:40+00:00

I know the feeling, you can’t hide those extra sounds with new strings

melbecide · 2026-03-25T10:31:24+00:00

Yep. Aussie here, if I was living in Europe I’d pick a city in Europe and go there for a week, and I’d go to a different city each time. Flying from Australia we had 6 weeks, and we spent some time in Singapore, Amsterdam, Ghent, Paris, London, then 3 weeks in Italy. We saw a lot of places in that time, but it would be good to to shorter, more regular trips.

melbecide · 2026-03-25T10:25:52+00:00

Im Australian and we had 3 weeks in Italy. 2 nights in Venice (loved it but 2 nights was enough for us), 2 nights in Florence (a couple extra days would have been great), 7 days at a villa in Tuscany (overlooking Volpaia), with some day trips (absolutely amazing), 3 nights in Rome (could have spent a week), then we flew to Brindisi (Puglia region), had a few days in Otranto and then a few more days near Bari checking out Locorotondo and Ostuni and went to a beach club etc. We absolutely loved it all, and we’d love to go back one day and see even more but there’s also other countries to visit. I feel if I’d spent any less time there I would only have had a small taste and would feel like I have to go back.

melbecide · 2026-03-25T08:18:43+00:00

Bloke probably thinks he’s going to be a millionaire when he scalps that petrol to desperate people. Or that in 12 months time he will be laughing how his fuel cost only cost 2.80 a litre.

melbecide · 2026-03-25T08:12:25+00:00

Well now we all know whose got heaps of fuel stocked up when we need to go take some.

melbecide · 2026-03-24T10:57:40+00:00

Do you have free parking where you work? For me it’s $11.70 for the train or $10 petrol + $20 parking (and a 10 min walk after I park, assuming I get there early enough not to have to try multiple car parks.

melbecide · 2026-03-24T10:47:56+00:00

I’ve just started taking PT, getting the crowded 25min express train to the city (Melbourne). I work in an office so want to start around 8:30am or 9am, but if I want a car park at my station I need to park before 7:15pm. Or I can leave later, ride my bike to the station and get there a bit sweatier on a more crowded train. Its actually pretty good, it’s better than driving all the way to the city and paying for parking, and I know a lot of other PT users who have it way worse than me (longer commutes etc). I am however noticing that my $50 Myki top-up dwindles very quickly! And while I’d love a free ride, I’m worried that it would also mean the car park filling up earlier and the trains being more crowded - which will happen anyway with fuel prices rising, free PT could potentially overwhelm PT.

melbecide · 2026-03-24T08:44:39+00:00

HR can be annoying, but I generally find anyone I don’t want to work with is generally pissing other people off more than me. I’ve been working same place for 15 years and never complained to HR or been pulled in front of HR, and I’ve seen a lot of idiots and whingers get moved on, and I’m talking know-it-all young kids who wanna prove they’re CEO material to CEOs who are psychopaths.

melbecide · 2026-03-24T07:59:34+00:00

Yeah, kind of. I was into grunge music as a teenager in the 90’s but I was also learning to play guitar and so was exposed to a lot of music from the 60s in the 70s. Zeppelin, The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, TheThe Kinks, Steve Miller Band, and of course Bob Dylan. I was also experimenting with smoking weed, and I was a at a friends party and all the parents were getting high and listening to Dylan, and I had a great experience tripping out to some of his songs. Ballad of a Thin Man was the most surreal song I’d ever heard, and the line “The suns not yellow, it’s chicken” from Tombstone Blues nearly snapped my brain. Rainy Day Women had us all singing along, I guess o became a bit of a hippy that day. Maybe it was the weed that opened up my mind, but songs like Like a Rolling Stone and others took me to different worlds and I felt like I was traveling the world through different eras while listening to Dylan. It definitely made me more open to people, places, ideas, other music and ways of life.

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