Missing in Action
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izmeinaThe last time I darkened the door of the room with the Big Mac was more than four weeks ago. It did not take too long to remember exactly why,
I used to leave it in sleep mode but have taken to turning the infernal thing off lately since I so rarely go near it. So I was not amused to be confronted by a spinning beachball when I had nothing open but 2 web browsers. I restored Chrome but in spite of having only 7 tabs, the spinning beachball from hell was back in action. It took ages to be able to force quit only to get a bright shiny new Chrome icon that bounced up and down but would not open. Firefox with no restored tabs was not much better.
It takes ages to load anything and by the time the DW post page turned up, I was just about ready to call it quits. But I said, it would be crazy to go to all that effort with nothing at all to show for it.
So I decided I would lurk until 8pm before hitting the hay. Because if I had not already been tired before dealing with this infernal beast, I am absolutely exhausted now.
Unfortunately, I cannot log out for another 4 weeks because I have the pesky job mob to deal with which is the only reason I am here now in the first place.
There has been lots of things happening in Dursleyville. The zoo is open until 7.30pm for the duration of the school holidays. I normally wouldn't be caught dead near the place because of my allergy to kids but most of them have gone home by 5pm and the zoo really is very different at dusk. The birds and frogs start partying and an assortment of interesting weeds unleash their bewitching fragrance after dark.
There have also been 2 baby giraffes born in the last 4 weeks.
So I have been to the zoo 4 times last week and intend to go at least 3 times this week. That's where the annual zoo pass comes in handy. No need to DO the zoo. I just turn up for between 2 and 3 hours and lurk in one section.
Then there was Night at the Museum on Friday 24th September. Since it wasn't well promoted, I ended up having the whole top floor to myself where lots of interesting stuffed critters and corals lurk.
There has been lots of dramas with the plumbers who finally turned up to start the job six whole weeks after I paid the deposit.
The drains and tiling are now done and the only things left are a paint job, installing the shower screen and the shower itself.
It turns out that the hospital is also on Plumber Time. That letter saying that as a Priority 1 patient, i would have my operation within 30 days was just an empty promise. That 30 days expired on Friday 3rd September and any time I ring them, they just keep saying 'next month'
But the drama that just appeared out of nowhere and is totally doing my head in, the manager at one of the charity shops where I work has gone totally down the CovidCon anti vax rabbit hole.
All she now talks about - not talks but hisses and snarls - is the Global Elites, Communist Cabals, The New World Order, Illuminati etc etc.
Covid is a hoax, the vaccines are the work of the devil, the government is going to make cash illegal and all the parliaments of Australia both state and federal are all corporations. She waves some A4 sheets of paper around with the various ABN numbers as proof.
I said that every business entity requires such a number to deal with customers, suppliers etc for tax purposes. Now if you see the Parliament listed on the Stock Exchange, it's then I might be convinced.
But most amazing of all, this woman who used to loathe and despise trump is now spouting the "Stop the Steal" mantra saying that there is footage showing votes being switched in the 2020 election.
I replied that trump had his Stop the Steal appeals thrown out by not 1 but 60 courts.
Of course - the courts have all been BOUGHT and are under the thumb of the Evil Globalist Elite. It's like conversing with a clueless unicorn but in real life. At least on Twitter, you can always ignore the idiots.
As well as preaching at work, she has taken to sending me emails with the latest doings of the Communist Cabal who also happen to be filthy rich squillionaires pulling the strings behind the scenes. This was then followed by a barrage of text messages. She was angry because I did not reply to her email. Turns out she is sending this stuff to everyone on her contact list.
Soon she will be scaring the customers away too with her Infowars waffle.
At the rate she is going, I'm going to have to make an Illuminati 666 buzzword bingo card.
I used to leave it in sleep mode but have taken to turning the infernal thing off lately since I so rarely go near it. So I was not amused to be confronted by a spinning beachball when I had nothing open but 2 web browsers. I restored Chrome but in spite of having only 7 tabs, the spinning beachball from hell was back in action. It took ages to be able to force quit only to get a bright shiny new Chrome icon that bounced up and down but would not open. Firefox with no restored tabs was not much better.
It takes ages to load anything and by the time the DW post page turned up, I was just about ready to call it quits. But I said, it would be crazy to go to all that effort with nothing at all to show for it.
So I decided I would lurk until 8pm before hitting the hay. Because if I had not already been tired before dealing with this infernal beast, I am absolutely exhausted now.
Unfortunately, I cannot log out for another 4 weeks because I have the pesky job mob to deal with which is the only reason I am here now in the first place.
There has been lots of things happening in Dursleyville. The zoo is open until 7.30pm for the duration of the school holidays. I normally wouldn't be caught dead near the place because of my allergy to kids but most of them have gone home by 5pm and the zoo really is very different at dusk. The birds and frogs start partying and an assortment of interesting weeds unleash their bewitching fragrance after dark.
There have also been 2 baby giraffes born in the last 4 weeks.
So I have been to the zoo 4 times last week and intend to go at least 3 times this week. That's where the annual zoo pass comes in handy. No need to DO the zoo. I just turn up for between 2 and 3 hours and lurk in one section.
Then there was Night at the Museum on Friday 24th September. Since it wasn't well promoted, I ended up having the whole top floor to myself where lots of interesting stuffed critters and corals lurk.
There has been lots of dramas with the plumbers who finally turned up to start the job six whole weeks after I paid the deposit.
The drains and tiling are now done and the only things left are a paint job, installing the shower screen and the shower itself.
It turns out that the hospital is also on Plumber Time. That letter saying that as a Priority 1 patient, i would have my operation within 30 days was just an empty promise. That 30 days expired on Friday 3rd September and any time I ring them, they just keep saying 'next month'
But the drama that just appeared out of nowhere and is totally doing my head in, the manager at one of the charity shops where I work has gone totally down the CovidCon anti vax rabbit hole.
All she now talks about - not talks but hisses and snarls - is the Global Elites, Communist Cabals, The New World Order, Illuminati etc etc.
Covid is a hoax, the vaccines are the work of the devil, the government is going to make cash illegal and all the parliaments of Australia both state and federal are all corporations. She waves some A4 sheets of paper around with the various ABN numbers as proof.
I said that every business entity requires such a number to deal with customers, suppliers etc for tax purposes. Now if you see the Parliament listed on the Stock Exchange, it's then I might be convinced.
But most amazing of all, this woman who used to loathe and despise trump is now spouting the "Stop the Steal" mantra saying that there is footage showing votes being switched in the 2020 election.
I replied that trump had his Stop the Steal appeals thrown out by not 1 but 60 courts.
Of course - the courts have all been BOUGHT and are under the thumb of the Evil Globalist Elite. It's like conversing with a clueless unicorn but in real life. At least on Twitter, you can always ignore the idiots.
As well as preaching at work, she has taken to sending me emails with the latest doings of the Communist Cabal who also happen to be filthy rich squillionaires pulling the strings behind the scenes. This was then followed by a barrage of text messages. She was angry because I did not reply to her email. Turns out she is sending this stuff to everyone on her contact list.
Soon she will be scaring the customers away too with her Infowars waffle.
At the rate she is going, I'm going to have to make an Illuminati 666 buzzword bingo card.
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Date: 2021-10-04 08:06 pm (UTC)Maybe it is not your old computer that is the problem. There was a change in the internet from October 1 which would theoretically block old iphones and I assume Macs as well as older android and Microsoft operating systems from accessing the internet. I only found out about it from a brief news segment on Channel 7 two days before hand and had to check the age of my operating systems on my PC and laptop and the smart phone that I finally had to have in order to remain legal in lockdown city. They were all up to date enough to pass muster. Here is a website which explains it - https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/388125
As you have had very few covid cases in Perth why is the hospital waiting list so long? It's understandable here where all surgeries that were not required to save your life has been suspended for months even in the private hospitals so there was sufficient capacity to treat all covid patients. There was already a backlog from last year's lockdown. Good thing you have that zoo pass to enable you to enjoy some time with the critters. Our zoo re-opens next Monday,
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Date: 2021-10-05 04:28 am (UTC)In large font
AWAKEN!
Turn towards the light and the goodness within
Turn away from hate, deceipt, manipulation and lies.
Proud as punch she asked me what I thought. I replied that the first part of the message seemed very incongruent with the second and was just about to add that the second line reads like a collection of conspiracy theory buzzwords. But a customer turned up at that point.
Just as well because that would have been like a red rag to a bull.
I did notice that the sign was not there yesterday. Not sure if other staff or the management took it down.
All the people including managers who work in this shop are volunteers. Sophie only works on Mondays.(using a fake name for obvious reasons)
The anti vaxxers are a common garden variety of conspiracy theorists but Sophie has been drinking all the Infowars Kool aid she can find. Because of course Alex Jones is a far more credible source of information than channels 2, 7,9 or 10.
She's spouting stuff about a conspiracy to make cash illegal, that all the parliaments in Australia and USA are corporations controlled by the globalist elites.
She is big into wellness. The sort who is into numerology, chakras, crystals, paleo diets and Pete Evans. They seem particularly susceptible to this nonsense.
Like you, I thought that the 60 plus people would be far more sensible. They have been vaccinated for assorted diseases all their lives. Some are old enough to remember rubella and even polio.
She even turned the Royal Show into an opportunity for a conspiratorial rant. All the stupid sheeple who kept talking about having to buy tickets online because they believed the BULLSHIT spouted by the mass media. Controlled of course by the globalist elites.
She bought her ticket at the gate. But payment was card only.
I had already said that I did not go when I saw the advert saying online sales only.
You fell for their lies. Gotcha.
I replied, this information was not on TV but in the newspaper and it wasn't a story but an actual advert from the Royal Agricultural Society.
I asks her - why would they pay a lot of money for an advert only to tell lies?
She could not answer that. But I did. I said the likely explanation is that they realized having no ticket sales at the gate could drastically reduce sales so they simply changed their minds.
But Ockham's Razor and logic are Kryptonite to these clueless creatures.
The old 1998 Big Mac still works but it is just extremely slow but I am worried that the unsolicited update of the Chrome browser - a so called update - it keeps giving me security messages with half the websites I want to visit. This site is not secure etc. The same page works perfectly on Firefox.
This seems to match the article you posted but it is weird that it is doing this with what is supposed to be a new version of Chrome.
With the hospital, it is likely to be the usual explanation. In spite of bucket loads of cash pouring into the treasury thanks to digging up holes in the ground, the state government has done something like the Feds and the ABC trick. Just keep the funding the same or cut it slightly and slowly over time, inflation will reduce its value.
Also, like the shortage of truckies in Britain, the whole Hermit Kingdom thing here in the wild West means that they are not getting the usual supply of overseas nurses and doctors and after 18 months of this, the system is stretching at the seams.
The receptionist who answered the phone told me that the Gynaecology wait list is always particularly long. So even being Priority 1 is not much use. What she didn't tell me and what I knew from keeping up with the news is that the main maternity & women's hospital has had wards and operating theatres shut down due to lack of staff and that was before the storms two months ago that flooded half the ground floor. I was originally supposed to have my op there and I was glad to be moved to the more modern hospital.
So it is literally a perfect storm.
I forgot to mention, my sister in Amsterdam is also being pestered by an anti vaxxer. They all seem to have in their arsenal footage of heavy handed cops in Melbourne. But it's not a work relationship.
One thing I have noticed with the most rabid anti vaxxers - they ALL have Facebook accounts. The stuff that is coming out from assorted whistle blowers explains a lot.
Maintain the RAGE because that keeps viewers engaged and clicking.
Scheissberg and Merde-och really do need to be in the dock for crimes against humanity. The 21st century Iago.
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Date: 2021-10-05 02:39 pm (UTC)Visiting the zoo in the evening sounds very intriguing. Inspires all kinds of creepy imagery, like all these horror "night in a museum" movies.
LOL at the paranoid colleague, must be amusing if it weren't so sad... Luckily, I don't interact personally with antivaxxers, but I know there are plenty around here, though usually it goes together with religion. I think it's easier to believe in 666 impossible things simultaneously than in one, if you have the right mindset.
The Dark Side
Date: 2021-10-10 01:45 pm (UTC)Is Microsoft Edge the latest incarnation of the ancient Internet Explorer or is it something else entirely?
As for paranoid people. I could deal with a plain vanilla anti vaxxer but this one has swallowed the whole bingo card. Globalist elites, New World Order, Sovereign Citizens (the nutters who believe that parliaments are corporations and birth certificates are a share certificate in disguise -ie the government is selling off the citizens) Bilderbergs, Bohemian Grove, Satanic rituals. Everything except the lizard people and Jewish Space lasers.
But she already calls the federal treasurer Josh FRAUDenberg (Frydenberg is his actual name) so she is probably half way down that rabbit hole already.
She is one of those chakra, crystals, numerology and wellness sorts who form a surprisingly large section of the CovidCon crowd. And she is really pissed off that I am not buying into her bullshit.
I'm already dreading going to work tomorrow because she will turn any topic into a conspiracy rant.
Re: The Dark Side
Date: 2021-10-10 06:45 pm (UTC)Hey, looks like you've got a great character for the upcoming Nano... :P