Ironic that Mao is discussed and the biggest culprits in the housing market are (allegedly) Chinese nationals.

Reportedly, in certain Chinese cultures, men (and young men) do not have access to women and you women unless they are a land owner. It doesn’t matter if the land they own is a single-room apartment that has room for half a single bed and never has any tenants, they own land so they get a root. This also explains all those huge ghost cities in China which are all unoccupied high-rises.

Sign up on the DoNotCall register.

https://www.donotcall.gov.au/

It will stop the honest ones from calling and when the dishonest ones do call, ask them for their business name and ABN and they disconnect very quickly.

It doesn’t make you immune to Political or Charity cold-calls, but if you mention that you will never vote or donate to someone who does cold calls, you get out on their internal DNC list very quickly.

It also doesn’t stop Scam/Illegal spam calls, but if you ask for their legal business name and ABN enough times, they soon get the picture and will disconnect the call.

Good luck. I hope you got your car running and managed to get out for your coffee.

My #Jimny is getting its 2-year service and I am hoping I don’t have any nasty surprises.

Spent the day in the local town, visiting cafés and parks, waiting for the Phonecall with quiet optimism.

Happy Birthday for yesterday.

January (and late December, early February) birthdays are unrewarding. “Sorry we didn’t get you a present, we re still broke from Christmas”.

Good luck with getting a redundancy and payout, as long as it doesn’t come at the cost of any mental health.

I’ve been working in the yard for the last nine days. My poor, abused and reconstructed shoulder is painful but today is a rest day.

Two days of working in the Garage after this and then back to they Yard…

The problem with short work weeks is that you have to squeeze in 6 days of work into 4 days.

Usually you only have to squeeze 6 days of work into 5…

Melbourne has some of the most potable tap-water in the world.

Instead of an advertising campaign, why don’t Metro invest in infrastructure of hydration stations?

Because the only vehicles on the market suitable for Australian conditions are off-road vehicles.

Just like how some people with sports models of road cars feel an obligation to defend their brand by taking off fast at traffic lights, some people with off-road vehicles feel an obligation to defend their brand by driving through floodwaters.

It is a way to overcome your buyers remorse and feel better about the 10’s of thousands of dollars that you owe the finance company.

In their defence, they were probably overworked and stressed from Summernats, and so used to getting unilateral right-of-way that they forget that Rhinos on Skateboards supersede their right-of-way.

Is there (currently) much Light Rail in Canberra?

That said, they are still Fucking Idiots, just like anyone who fails to give way to Trams.

As someone who once tried to flush my sinuses when I had a nasty cold, I can emphasise.