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AusGAF 8 - Worksafe Wankers
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reptilescorpio
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Well shit, just found out that a close female friend from highschool & uni jumped off a bridge in Melbourne this morning. Never heard anything but positive energy out of her in my entire life. 
If you are feeling down make sure to talk to someone about it!
Fuck you, you lucky bugger!
If you are feeling down make sure to talk to someone about it!
Fuck you, you lucky bugger!
roosters93
Member
What's the cheapest place to buy xbox live? (Know it comes up every now and again but I never remember)
How quickly they e-mail the code is also part of my consideration.
How quickly they e-mail the code is also part of my consideration.
Gaf, help!
As of about 8pm last night, I have been unable to access any news sites.
My internet is working perfectly - youtube, facebook, neogaf, just about everything else is loading fine.
But everytime I try to log onto a news site: ABC, Guardian, Washington Post, Herald Sun, Courier Mail, Sydney Morning Herald, CBS, New York Times etc. the page just refuses to load.
I've tried to open these pages on three different computers and with every browser, to no avail.
Every once in a while, after waiting a few minutes, the page will load like this:
Am I on some government watch list or something?
As of about 8pm last night, I have been unable to access any news sites.
My internet is working perfectly - youtube, facebook, neogaf, just about everything else is loading fine.
But everytime I try to log onto a news site: ABC, Guardian, Washington Post, Herald Sun, Courier Mail, Sydney Morning Herald, CBS, New York Times etc. the page just refuses to load.
I've tried to open these pages on three different computers and with every browser, to no avail.
Every once in a while, after waiting a few minutes, the page will load like this:
Am I on some government watch list or something?
Ruthless_Barbarian
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Well shit, just found out that a close female friend from highschool & uni jumped off a bridge in Melbourne this morning. Never heard anything but positive energy out of her in my entire life.
If you are feeling down make sure to talk to someone about it!
Sorry to hear that. :/
Looks like an issue with your ISP. In any case, you should delete all the cookies from those sites.
Well shit, just found out that a close female friend from highschool & uni jumped off a bridge in Melbourne this morning. Never heard anything but positive energy out of her in my entire life.
If you are feeling down make sure to talk to someone about it!
Fuck you, you lucky bugger!
I was going to gloat til I saw the first part of your post properly. Terrible news.
On the issue of NNK, FWIW though the wizard edition was sold out in like September last year. You either got lucky or not. Not sure its worth paying $500 for like on ebay at the moment, but I really wanted the book to play along with the game. I also would have preferred the DS version come out too back when it was announced, but this more than makes up for it.
Try a different web browser, or update your current one. Pretty sure most news sites would have a similar architecture behind them, and your current browser might have (tech language to follow) thrown a wobbly.
With an icon like that? Hopefully!
Try a different browser.
Test on any other computer / internet device you have.
If either of those options work,
Clear your browser's cache + cookies. Also consider reinstalling your browser.
Let us know what works and what doesn't work.
Well shit, just found out that a close female friend from highschool & uni jumped off a bridge in Melbourne this morning. Never heard anything but positive energy out of her in my entire life.
If you are feeling down make sure to talk to someone about it!
Fuck you, you lucky bugger!
Damn, that sucks. Sorry to hear.
FormallyMegadrive
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My people. I'm not sure whether to buy a bike or a board. Bikes definitely appeal to me more but boards are so portable.
Hanson wrote the best pop song my young self knew at the time okay.
As I said, I've tried both of these with no success.
I've opened these pages on three different computers with Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer.
Deleting the cache doesn't seem to help.
I'll wait until tomorrow and if it's still a problem I'll call Telstra. Hopefully it's just a post-floods technical issue on their end.
Thanks anyway guys.
One of the greatest men of the 20th Century
Box of Bunnies
Banned
Board? Bike? Roller is king of the rink.
FormallyMegadrive
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I'm a better blader than the other two.
In Brisbane and on Telstra cable? http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=2012474&p=14
Try changing your DNS to a public one like 8.8.8.8
I almost get the feeling you're taking the piss :/
Ah, apologies for not reading correctly.
As Fred posted, Whirlpool is exceptionally good for unofficial updates to any network issues. Alternatively your ISPs advisories can be helpful, too.
reptilescorpio
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OMG! I'll bring some blue hair dye and we can do each others nails!
I've had Bleak on repeat all week long
So the rare McDonald's Monopoly pieces confirmed so far are:
- Old Kent Road
- Euston Road or Pentonville Road
- Whitehall or Northumberland Avenue
- Marlborough Street or Vine Street
- Fleet Street
- Coventry Street or Picadilly
- Regent Street or Bond Street
- Park Lane
- and Fenchurch St. Station.
- Old Kent Road
- Euston Road or Pentonville Road
- Whitehall or Northumberland Avenue
- Marlborough Street or Vine Street
- Fleet Street
- Coventry Street or Picadilly
- Regent Street or Bond Street
- Park Lane
- and Fenchurch St. Station.
I take it you aren't hungry?
codswallop
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Can't wait for the McDonald's Pandemic competition.
Box of Bunnies
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McDonald's Game of Life
Ronald and the bird thing marry. Hamburglar dies of obesity-related health complications. Grimace forever alone.
Ronald and the bird thing marry. Hamburglar dies of obesity-related health complications. Grimace forever alone.
Bring back their diseased food to the counter to enter?
Looks more like Stephen King in a wig.
That is the sort of music I can listen to quite happily, but will probably never actually seek out. The guy is versatile as hell though, never knew he had a folkish band.
Yay! They managed to hook up a generator to the local phone exchange in Yandaran and I finally got word (first time since before the weekend) from my mum that she's OK. Can't go anywhere on account of the Bundaberg-Lowmead Road being busted in a couple of places, and her generator is running low so they can only fire it up every now and then to try to keep the fridge cool, but the house is still standing and no-one's hurt, so it's all good. At least she has lots of fresh water and the mains power will eventually be turned back on...
FormallyMegadrive
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I'm buying a 2nd hand skateboard. They're cheaper than 2nd hand bikes. Maybe I can do an ollie better than I could when I was 13!
Maybe I can do an ollie better than I could when I was 13!Poimandres
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Just got home to Brisbane from Imbil (near Gympie) after being flooded in since Saturday.
Lost power for a few days, and the water was very near the neighbours property but no homes were flooded (at least not where I was). We were one of a dozen odd households marooned between two creek crossings, but we had plenty of food and drink between us so there was nothing to do but drink and eat seafood from the freezer before it defrosted and went off. One day, when supplies were running low we were forced to pick perception altering mushrooms from the fields... for protein, of course.
Lost power for a few days, and the water was very near the neighbours property but no homes were flooded (at least not where I was). We were one of a dozen odd households marooned between two creek crossings, but we had plenty of food and drink between us so there was nothing to do but drink and eat seafood from the freezer before it defrosted and went off. One day, when supplies were running low we were forced to pick perception altering mushrooms from the fields... for protein, of course.
Unlikely. You can leave McDonald's food out in the air for months and even mold won't touch it.
Exactly. If everybody won, it wouldn't be much of a competition.
Same. I only actively suck it out because it was him, but while I wasn't *that* surprised that he could sing (surprised he could sing that well though) it did kinda shock me that it wasn't really wacky, left-of-centre music. Reminded me of Jack Black's band in High Fidelity.
Box of Bunnies
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Heh
Sorry, I was going off on a tangent about how McDonald's food would never be a vector for transmitting a disease behind a pandemic since no pathogens will touch it. Kfc on the other hand has already had nasty salmonella cases.
Oh wow that's pretty cool. Are you down there? Much of a crowd?
bodyboarder
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I was out at the local pub for dinner, and afterwards figured I'd watch the fight. The closet pub with it was 20mins away, pass.
Here's hoping mundine gets flattened.
Planet_JASE
Member
This just needs to stay here. Forever.
roosters93
Member
It's the big screen at the mercury building, for some reason they didn't tell anyone. We're watching from Barca.
It's just normal barca crowd
Played my first game of Munchkin. Mixed opinions.
Players were myself, my father and my sister. We're continuing our "let's be a family" thing by playing board games. We used to do it quite often in the past and have recently picked up the hobby again. I did a brief read of the rules before playing, as did my father.
The first half hour of the game, nobody moved. Curse, high level monster, just throwing gear on our guys. Incredibly boring. Then finally the ball started rolling and we got moving through the board. And by "we" I mean "they". I stayed at level 1. I eventually drew a monster that I could at least ask for help on, and by this time my father and sister were around level 7 each. At this point the game kind of picked up, as I'd gathered a number of "fuck that player" curses and played them turn after turn. By luck and my father forgetting that elves can help people to gain levels, I managed to burst through and win the game with a level 1 slime monster I was hanging onto.
So, we had a bad start. The luck of the draw meant we had shit all to fight and shit all to equip and even when we did draw monsters they were level 18 or 20 monstrosities that didn't even affect us as we weren't past level 1 in the first place.
I'll be interested to play it again now that we're more comfortable with the rules. But I think we'll probably give Game of Thrones LCG another shot before that.
(Danoss does not get to say "I told you so" until we play at least another game)
Players were myself, my father and my sister. We're continuing our "let's be a family" thing by playing board games. We used to do it quite often in the past and have recently picked up the hobby again. I did a brief read of the rules before playing, as did my father.
The first half hour of the game, nobody moved. Curse, high level monster, just throwing gear on our guys. Incredibly boring. Then finally the ball started rolling and we got moving through the board. And by "we" I mean "they". I stayed at level 1. I eventually drew a monster that I could at least ask for help on, and by this time my father and sister were around level 7 each. At this point the game kind of picked up, as I'd gathered a number of "fuck that player" curses and played them turn after turn. By luck and my father forgetting that elves can help people to gain levels, I managed to burst through and win the game with a level 1 slime monster I was hanging onto.
So, we had a bad start. The luck of the draw meant we had shit all to fight and shit all to equip and even when we did draw monsters they were level 18 or 20 monstrosities that didn't even affect us as we weren't past level 1 in the first place.
I'll be interested to play it again now that we're more comfortable with the rules. But I think we'll probably give Game of Thrones LCG another shot before that.
(Danoss does not get to say "I told you so" until we play at least another game)
I'll cross post a message I just sent:
"Had a chat with a journalist from the mercury, said it's so small down here that Murdoch doesn't give a fuck in terms of editorial policy. They get accused of bias from all sides which is a good sign. He also agreed that piers Ackerman is a cunt. And he loves barnesy"
Think it backs up my theory that the Mercury's monopoly has made it centerist to a degree.
"Had a chat with a journalist from the mercury, said it's so small down here that Murdoch doesn't give a fuck in terms of editorial policy. They get accused of bias from all sides which is a good sign. He also agreed that piers Ackerman is a cunt. And he loves barnesy"
Think it backs up my theory that the Mercury's monopoly has made it centerist to a degree.
The lawyer unfortunately. I wish Cold Chisel Barnsy had an op-ed.
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