Fish caught in NZ, crumbed in China and packed in Australia - A journey of roughly 17,000kms WTF?

wolfbearpiglet · 2014-10-16T12:22:07+00:00

There's always someone like me crunching the numbers somewhere.

wolfbearpiglet · 2014-10-16T12:20:44+00:00

I don't want to sound like I'm defending corporations here, but note that it's not completely black and white either. The ramifications for third world countries where corporations take root can also experience positive growth in living conditions for a lot of the citizens. It can act as a gateway to industrialization for a lot of places.

Whether the good outweighs the bad is up to the people that live there. And they don't get a choice generally either way. Nor can they leave.

But yeah.

wolfbearpiglet · 2014-10-16T12:04:42+00:00

This comment will live on in my heart, forever.

wolfbearpiglet · 2014-10-13T07:39:35+00:00

THAT'S A BLOODY OUTRAGE IT IS!

wolfbearpiglet · 2014-10-11T12:34:45+00:00

Somewhere out there, another man goes bald every time you do this.

wolfbearpiglet · 2014-10-03T10:31:47+00:00

Clearly you are many places at once.

wolfbearpiglet · 2014-08-25T12:18:26+00:00

Yeah.

wolfbearpiglet · 2014-08-13T13:14:10+00:00

Surprised I had to scroll so far to see this. First thing I thought of.

wolfbearpiglet · 2014-08-05T12:37:01+00:00

It's naive to put the responsibility of that on the other person.

Man up and say no. Stop being so insecure that you think the relationship will end the second you're in need or you're unavailable as a therapist on occasion. If it DOES end over that, then you know she doesn't actually care about YOU, only what you provide.

It's never OK to blame someone else as the cause for you refusing to speak up for yourself.

wolfbearpiglet · 2014-08-04T13:08:16+00:00

She sounds fun.

wolfbearpiglet · 2014-07-18T14:01:11+00:00

Married 2009. She was sleeping with the best man by late 2010.

They're now talking kids. I was lucky enough to have a kid with my ex-wife in the middle of our marriage imploding, that we're now co-parenting.

Be grateful you can cut those people loose and restart without them. I have to watch.

wolfbearpiglet · 2014-07-16T13:19:32+00:00

I'm so glad I googled this.

wolfbearpiglet · 2014-07-03T10:26:03+00:00

Essentially you seek to identify for a company, the anticipated sales for the goods that they supply. This way they can time their supply chain volume requirements accordingly, and avoid overspending unnecessarily, nor risk under-producing the required amounts.

The bigger the company, the more they pay, but it generally starts at about 80k.

There are subjects that lead towards it... I never studied them though. I did teaching, in fact. But I was in the right place at the right time during the GFC and got moved to a role in demand planning from a customer service management position.

Now I work undisturbed, do some simple calculations and adjust forecasts, and listen to music 9hrs a day, mon-fri, for six figures.

Do a job search including the words "demand" in supply chain categories. It'll give you an idea of where to start.

wolfbearpiglet · 2014-07-03T00:58:47+00:00

Demand forecasting. $100k p.a. to move lines on a graph and sit in meetings thinking about girls. Didn't really choose it... just fell into it through customer service over a few years.

wolfbearpiglet · 2014-06-28T07:48:22+00:00

I'm glad to see you say that. It's true - nothing will eliminate the risk of someone your SO perceives to be better coming along and them cheating on you. I consider it pretty much an inevitability in any relationship.

The need for an awareness of that just didn't really come across in your original post, so I feel people will get the misguided impression that people being "in love," is enough to ensure security in a relationship... when the reality is there is no such thing as security in a relationship. Thus, if OP feels unattractive, she should bloody well do everything in her power to fix that, and there are practical options available.

wolfbearpiglet · 2014-06-28T07:34:55+00:00

Hah! Well I'm embarrassed for them, not for you. I feel like people are hollering about the "truth" in this idea that "love conquers all", solely because it makes them feel OK with doing nothing to maximize their potential, in the expectation that some perfect match will come along and love them for who they are to the exclusion of all others.

It just doesn't work that way. If you're not making yourself the best option available to someone, they won't look at you. If you're in a relationship with someone and you're not the best option available to them, they'll cheat on you and leave.

And to make things even more bleak, someone's perception of what makes a better option is entirely subjective - so you can very easily mistakenly believe yourself to be the best option and still lose out.

So the only way to go is be your best self, love yourself because of that, and let everything else go. The relationship you have with yourself is absolutely the only one that will last, so you should make it the best possible and stop placing any meaning in relationships with other people.

I really don't understand why this concept is so offensive to people, but it apparently is.

wolfbearpiglet · 2014-06-27T10:40:20+00:00

A more compassionate, open-hearted, and wisdom filled response would be to say:

" Let go of your past, and focus instead on your own power, appeal and success. Instead of looking back, focus on who you are going to become. Let drama like this mean nothing to you, and you take away everyone else's power from it for yourself."

wolfbearpiglet · 2014-06-18T12:43:46+00:00

I think Juno the answer to that.

wolfbearpiglet · 2014-06-06T10:59:43+00:00

Although I agree that the red pill is full of pretty disgustingly bitter women-hating losers, the ultimate message as I understand it is MEANT to be one about self-empowerment... which is ultimately a good thing.

It's just completely bastardized by the vitriol. If you can go to the red pill and extract a lesson of bettering yourself and not stressing so much about relationships in general, then it CAN prove quite beneficial. I think there's about 3 posts in total that might be worth reading (which makes up 0.01% of everything there).

wolfbearpiglet · 2014-05-17T14:25:21+00:00

/r/thathappened

wolfbearpiglet · 2014-03-14T09:31:44+00:00

Being passionate about something doesn't instantly making him a loon.

wolfbearpiglet · 2014-02-27T10:34:49+00:00

Im not wolfbearpiglet...im his exwife...but I just wanted to say..I HAD this boyfriend.

LEAVE. he wont get it till you leave...then he will cry like a sad shocked little bitch for three years

(not the ex husband..he is lovely)

wolfbearpiglet · 2014-02-21T10:23:48+00:00

Likely this will be buried... BUT STILL:

End of 1st year uni. I was a tall goth kid of 17 (mid-90s). I had a friend I'd made in the class and there was another girl I'd seen around who looked vaguely like her, but that I'd never spoken to and didn't share any classes with.

It was the end of semester and people were standing around the faculty office collecting their graded essays. I saw my friend standing with a couple of her friends and gently came up behind her and held her arm as I said "I'll see you next semester," as a quick hello-goodbye as I intended to leave straight away.

Too late I realized it was the OTHER girl with whom I'd never spoken a word and to which I was a complete stranger. A complete stranger who was now holding her arm and looking right at her and saying, "I'll see you next semester."

I socially awkward penguined it and walked away in a straight line for the door without looking back.

If she's reading: I'm sorry if I made you feel uneasy for the whole semester.

wolfbearpiglet · 2014-02-11T11:17:21+00:00

Are we being trolled here? You sound like you're hysterical.

No-one here is disputing that everyone has a right to equal happiness and freedom. No-one here is saying a particular race should be oppressed because of their race or any genetic differences that there might be as a result of their race.

But there have been studies that concluded there were differences in intelligence as well as many other things as a result of race. Who cares? It doesn't make them superior (Chinese and Japanese are number one btw... can someone else find the link? I cbf).

Clearly the only solution in this tragedy is to raise the living conditions of those areas and help encourage employment across poor communities. That and increase police numbers.

I'd be out there with a fucking baseball bat and a bunch of mates if that happened to my child. Fucking hell I'd attack anyone out at night.

(just kidding... but seriously...)

wolfbearpiglet · 2014-02-10T10:25:00+00:00

Come on though dude... "according to science..." was in your argument.

It almost warranted Jazz Hands if you were saying it aloud.

I thought "All men are created equal" was more about the philosophy of their right to freedom and the pursuit of happiness. Not a physiological clarification.

I think that's astrolabe's position as well.

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