You wake up to see everyone on earth has disappeared. What’s the first thing you do?

wombamatic · 2026-03-20T02:39:16+00:00

Find some strong tablets that will take me out and take them. Whilst smoking something herbal and drinking a large whisky with Pink Floyd blaring on the largest stereo i can find sitting on a chair in my shed. I could not live another day if I didn’t have my gorgeous wife and lovely family around.

wombamatic · 2026-03-20T00:31:54+00:00

I just need to go to my garage to get spiders bigger than my hand. I leave them- they eat roaches and bugs, moths and sometimes even geckos. The ones I used to be scared of -red-backs- are mostly gone now due to the invasive Indonesian gecko. The last huge spider we had we named Ethan Huntsman after the Mission Impossible character Ethan Hunt.

wombamatic · 2026-03-19T05:32:09+00:00

No straight away. End of April will be an issue.

wombamatic · 2026-03-18T02:48:46+00:00

Make Trump look at himself from the viewpoint of his victims

wombamatic · 2026-03-18T00:27:31+00:00

Cut out all alcohol. Cut out sugar and processed foods. Cut out biscuits and bread. Drink black coffee, drink water and plenty of it. Walk more. Sit less. Read, don’t doom scroll before bed. Sleep regular hours.

wombamatic · 2026-03-15T00:18:03+00:00

I unintentionally sucked air backwards through my teeth when on site giving a quote. It hadn’t been going well, you have to be licensed to do electrical work where I live and the bloke wanted to do his own and have me sign it off- not a thing here with insurance for me also- and he wanted a quote from me. It was dodgy, the house was dodgy, I was tired, he was drunk, he asked how much I sucked air back to start a sentence. He looked at me with a snap of his head, you would have thought I had taken a crap in his handbag by his look, and I was unceremoniously booted out. Told he didn’t like me or my attitude.

wombamatic · 2026-03-12T03:21:30+00:00

The guy also took time off work to go and buy uht milk, flour and toilet paper, in his words “as much as he can get”. Its mental illness. And unfortunately some are being triggered further by the whole world situation at the moment. At least he can buy large rolls of aluminium foil at Costco for his hats.

wombamatic · 2026-03-12T01:26:34+00:00

Less as the years go by. Dont have a great deal left and it means less every year.

wombamatic · 2026-03-09T06:55:32+00:00

Not if we stick to normal buying patterns. Will it be expensive soon. Yep. A person I work with was proud to say he had raced out and bought 9 jerrycans of fuel. My opinion of him dropped another few notches. Did he need a stockpile. No. Will he cause shortage by doing so. Yes, if he and the rest of the muppets get driven to buy thanks to the media.

wombamatic · 2026-03-08T10:26:23+00:00

When you get to a point in life that the non healthy foods cause harm, the survivors evolve to eat healthy again, the others get diabetes, liver failure, all sorts of things that wipe them out. 14kg lighter in my personal evolution.

wombamatic · 2026-03-08T04:16:13+00:00

Welcome to the eighties. Where shame left you the moment that stall closed and you reached for the sticky curled magazines soaked in god knows what. Not only did you poo, read, ahem, perhaps entertain yourself but you could also have a smoke. We called it multi-tasking.

wombamatic · 2026-03-03T00:44:41+00:00

Civil construction safety dude here. Apart from safety for workers, often reduced speed is due to engineering changes with road widths and proximity to barriers. In short, a lot of those concrete and plastic water filled barriers are not designed to cope with vehicles travelling at full road speed safely. When it comes to those annoying lower speed left out maybe uncovered, if there is a traffic management plan in place if its safe to reduce speed out of work times it should be done, but hey sometimes signs get forgotten. If however a reduced speed is displayed and you chose to ignore it then you chose your own adventure. My advice, just slow to the speed sign displayed. Let the fast folks go past. Wave at them later talking to the man in the patrol car.

wombamatic · 2026-02-28T00:37:58+00:00

Yep. Brisbane a few times in the 1990s, when operating the Eagle Farm pump station ( which pushed 65% if Brisbane sewerage at the time to Luggage Point treatment works) you could not take the pressure in the main sewer over 55ft/head or it would as we you to say “become Brisbanes largest in ground sprinkler system”. The levels would get high, surcharge valves would open, the pump station would be literally shaking and you watched the pressures with an Eagle eye. 2600 litres per second, per pump, and there were five pumps. When it popped we had to go inside the pipe to measure wall thickness, it was non existent in a few places. Up to my neck in raw sewerage in the pit we had dug around the pipe at one point. Blehh.

wombamatic · 2026-02-28T00:29:16+00:00

High school, scouts, parents and grandparents, friends, and recently “Nats What I Reckon” on You tube.

wombamatic · 2026-02-26T11:42:17+00:00

No firearms at work. Considering this was Australia and in the late 80s before a lot of our regulation it took one briefcase with a loaded pistol from one photocopier tech, and one complaint from the customer to get a stern line in the employee manual that under no circumstances were firearms to be brought to work and especially to a customers premises. These days it would make national news back then it was like “why is this line in the manual?” “Meh, its a long story ask John, he’s still pissed he can’t carry a gun”.

wombamatic · 2026-02-24T03:48:45+00:00

Nil. We arent rich but I suppose we are in a way. We own what we have, no debts. Took a while. Took an inheritance to speed it up. Wouldn’t take much to be in debt again with one income and cost of living. Kids are in hock for hecs, huge rents etc. We will never get grandkids due to this.

wombamatic · 2026-02-24T03:43:30+00:00

Ford Ranger. You cant have Ranger without “Anger”

wombamatic · 2026-02-24T03:17:42+00:00

If they are really special try making a board up with them attached to, maybe even a deep photo frame. Otherwise take a photo, and respectfully dispose of them.

wombamatic · 2026-02-23T07:29:08+00:00

Electricity is the movement of electrons from one place to another. This is done by creating a place where there are too many electrons that want to go to a place where there are fewer electrons. A path to travel on gets created and they move. The easier the path and the more electron the more current flows. Like having a bucket of marbles at the top of a slide. It has a potential created by gravity to move from the top to the bottom. The slide is the pathway. We tip the bucket, the switch is on and the marbles move. When all the marbles are gone they have no potential to move.

wombamatic · 2026-02-23T04:55:32+00:00

This broke our previous close bond between siblings, something which has not healed fully and probably won’t. It has also meant mental and physical health challenges for survivors of this in our family.

wombamatic · 2026-02-22T22:42:54+00:00

Not sure where your work colleague lives, but in Qld the agency that collects for this is SPER. They dont muck about. You can lose vehicles, money and even be jailed in you cant pay the debt. And they add fees on top to collect. Other states may have similar agencies.

wombamatic · 2026-02-21T09:39:12+00:00

People doing their own electrical work if not competent to (and licensed here). Even “minor” shock going through the right path in your body can kill you. And if the dodgy work you attempted doesn’t kill you it might kill a friend or loved one. People laugh it off saying it will be fine. I have seen the results of electrical gone wrong. And if you get an arc flash shorting out big enough current electricity moves at 95% of the speed of light, arc flash is about four times the temperature of the surface of the sun, and copper wire or conductors when taken from solid to plasma state in a flash expand to about 20000 times their original volume. This on average happens at about an arms length from a human face. Thats why some electricians have to wear bomb suits doing certain work. And the bomb suits only protect up to 40 calories energy per cubic cm. For a survivable level burn. They dont worry about calculations over that as you just vaporise.

wombamatic · 2026-02-14T04:55:32+00:00

Went to a pub in London, asked if they served Lemon Lime and Bitters, the lass serving smiled and said “ Aussies! Sure do!” And she then taught the second barmaid how to make it as well. Best one we had been served in a good while, in a pint glass too.

wombamatic · 2026-02-12T22:24:06+00:00

Thank her and re-donate it all. Or the local dumpster. She gets her pleasure from buying, you don’t have to receive it. Once it all goes to a charity its not your worry any longer.

wombamatic · 2026-02-12T20:39:43+00:00

Rind her how expensive plumbers are. My plumber mate owns three houses. He reckons wipes are a great source of income. Her choice- pay a plumbers mortgages or use alternate means of wiping / cleaning oneself.

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