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Lamont D said:
That is used in working environments more than you would think!!!
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All of my apprentices learnt in there first year, when they start the new second year apprentice shows the new first how to cook breakfast for Saturday morning clean up.

I miss Saturday morning now I have retired, there was always something happening at the work shed when we cleaned up.
 
Antje77 said:
Wolf says she feels sorry for your cat!
This was her birthday last year... :hilarious:

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I wish this was my dog, he / she has a honest face, your dog's eyes look a bit evil.

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We had a scam phone call yesterday, and just for the hell of it and answered it.

A well spoken accent free voice recoding saying that my NBN internet connection will be disconnected because of non payment etc.

Prompt to press 1 to go to the payment part of the scam and got a real live person from the sub continent, I blew a dog whistle down the phone at him.

I hope I blew his scammer eardrum out.

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@catinahat , I suddenly got your username, you're not a woman named Catina who either loves cats or hats (I seem to have sloppily read your name alternating between 'catinacat' and 'catinahat' until now), your username is a description of your profile pic!

That was a very slow penny to drop, especially as I'd read this post yesterday, which was a dead give away :hilarious::
chrisbug said:
(And especially for #catinahat, is our cat in a hat, he's actually got quite a few hats!)
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I feel like an idiot now, but I had a good laugh over it! :D
 
Almost right @Antje77
Although I do have a soft spot for animals and quite a collection of hats
catinahat is in fact a description of me, my initials are c.a.t and since I became follicly challenged I invariably wear a hat.
 
Riva_Roxaban said:
We had a scam phone call yesterday, and just for the hell of it and answered it.

A well spoken accent free voice recoding saying that my NBN internet connection will be disconnected because of non payment etc.

Prompt to press 1 to go to the payment part of the scam and got a real live person from the sub continent, I blew a dog whistle down the phone at him.

I hope I blew his scammer eardrum out.

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Oh what a wise move, and a timely reminder of scams. This could have been particularly nasty, if you had fallen for it. There is a scam supposedly from your internet provider, where they start by telling you your internet has been in a security breach, and they need to build you a new firewall to secure it. Ask you for details, then get you to tap a few keys, and then you later discover they have got everything that is in your computer, including personal stuff, emails, bank details, photos etc. can completely clean you out.
Sadly, the people doing the phone chats, are most likely to be the ‘pawns ‘ in the bigger game.
 
catinahat said:
Almost right @Antje77
Although I do have a soft spot for animals and quite a collection of hats
catinahat is in fact a description of me, my initials are c.a.t and since I became follicly challenged I invariably wear a hat.
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I am and it has never been bovvered by it, I think it's in my genetics as my descendants soon my father's side were also have a similar hair(less)style.
One of my brothers who is in mid 70s, has a full head of grey hair. And I'm not bovvered!
 
Pipp said:
Oh what a wise move, and a timely reminder of scams. This could have been particularly nasty, if you had fallen for it. There is a scam supposedly from your internet provider,
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This scammer call I had was purportedly from the Nation Broadband Network (NBN) which sells the fibre cable connection to the ISP (not the consumer), which in my case is Optus who I pay $80.00 by direct debit from my bank account every month.

It's the same with all of these scams it relies on peoples gullibility to succeed.

The Australian government's ACCC have a Little Black Of Scams with info on all of the scams.

https://www.accc.gov.au/system/files/1557_Little Black Book of Scams 2019_FA WEB.pdf

As an aside, the word "gullible" is not in any of the online dictionaries / spell checkers.
 
Lamont D said:
So expensive here, they just don't grow on trees!
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I cut the two coconut palm trees down that we had in our front yard years ago, they were getting to be a health hazard.

Our house and contents insurance reduced by a fair bit when we renewed the policy and told them they were gone.
 
Riva_Roxaban said:
I cut the two coconut palm trees down that we had in our front yard years ago, they were getting to be a health hazard.

Our house and contents insurance reduced by a fair bit when we renewed the policy and told them they were gone.
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Why did you cut them down?
Did you keep falling off?




Did you ever climb up the Palm tree for a coconut?
 
Lamont D said:
Why did you cut them down?
Did you keep falling off?
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To many whinging complaints either from the local karen's, greenies, and assorted others who were frightened of getting hit by a incoming coconut.

The palms were about 10 metres from the fence line, it would take a strong cyclonic wind to hurl a coconut that far.

I never climbed them with out a safety climbing belt on.

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Lamont D said:
Did you ever climb up the Palm tree for a coconut?
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Sometimes if iI wanted a lot of them, but I was happy enough to wait till they fell off when they were ready,
 
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