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Could not disagree with you more Fatpizza, the dick heads that play online with mics are half the fun of online gaming.
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I know you can have fun with them(and I did say I was egging him on a bit), but this time just annoyed me for some reason.
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| Fetidchimp wrote: | ^
tell me about it, i have lived in a lot of places in this country, and outside of queensland it is nigh on impossible to get boiled peanuts....people look at you like you are talking about some **** that came from mars, gives me the ****...
if anyone knows where to get the bastards in melbourne let me know |
Do you mean the ones boiled in their shells? I love those. You can get them in Vietnamese grocery stores in Footscray and Springvale.
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thank the gods
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Still no job. Jesus Christ I'm so poor.
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I feel you man.
>Apply for job.
>Sorry you have been unsuccessful.
>Apply for job.
>Get interview.
>Sorry you have been unsuccessful.
>Apply for job.
>Get interview with possible chance for second interview.
>Sorry you have been unsuccessful.
>Apply for job.
>Get to second interview.
>Sorry you have been unsuccessful.
It's fun!
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Riding to work today and I see a police car ahead blocking the cycle lane. oh sheet. as I rode past see a girl curled up in the foetal position, paramedics trying to get her to respond.
It's a nice reminder that when your on a bike even a minor collison can fuck you up badly.
pretty shitty way to start the day.
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Fortunately my ride to work doesn't involve much in the way of road cycling, because fuck that crazy shit in melbourne
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Annoyed that it's very difficult to have a healthy online debate about something without being called a troll or having your carefully thought-out crux labeled as "flamebait".
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| Fyuusii wrote: | | Annoyed that it's very difficult to have a healthy online debate about something without being called a troll or having your carefully thought-out crux labeled as "flamebait". |
I was having a discussion with a family member about fortune-tellers and future-seers of which she is a heavy believer, next thing I know her new status update is 'What is wrong with me today? I sure am feeding a lot of trolls'!
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oh man I work with people that are into that shit. I learnt man just don't fucking touch that subject. Let them believe in their crazy and get ripped off by charlatans. It's there own fucking problem if they refuse to realize that they're being conned.
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I read you're future Benza, $100 and I'll tell you what I saw.
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I am picking up something, it's a letter, the letter B, the B is on a road....
oh my god you must mean the time when my great uncle barry crapped his dacks while walking down the main street...oh my god i am destined to also crap my dacks on the main street, oh what a world.
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I've a friend whose very into all that. she knows i don't believe it and we're generally happy to ignore eachothers opinions on the matter. she still tells me about her sessions and i don't roll my eyes in disgust.
The other week though, she was supposed to be going on a business trip, getting all excited and thing, saw her psychic who told her the trip would be canceled on Thursday. Thursday came, and about 10 minutes before hometime, she was called by the travel agent to say her visa app contained an error (he name was mis-spelled) and so was declined. trip cancelled.
I don't think I've ever heard of such a precise prediction coming true. i wonder now if she (the psychic) moonlight at immigration or something...
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cackling gypsy tapping away on a computer in a travel agent
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| ObsoletE wrote: | | I don't think I've ever heard of such a precise prediction coming true. |
I have a mate who was a complusive gambler, used to always tell me about his latest big win. $1000 at poker $500 on the horses and so on. I took this as evidence that he was an excellent punter. The truth however was that if you bet big often enough you will regularly have a few big wins.
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| ObsoletE wrote: | | I don't think I've ever heard of such a precise prediction coming true. i wonder now if she (the psychic) moonlight at immigration or something... |
What is precise about it? Didn't the psychic just claim that the trip would be cancelled (1 of 2 possibilities - cancelled or not cancelled) on Thursday (1 of x days)?
If the psychic had a frequent hit rate, then that may be different. However, as an isolated incident, it isn't that remarkable.
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You need to work on your probability Scrav. 
Yes there are 2 possibilities but they are not equally likely. Also guessing Thursday has at best only a 1 in 7 (14%) chance of being correct.
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i forgot to mention that my friend told me this prediction on the Wednesday - she was kinda worried about the prediction, but it wasn't a case of:
"Your trip is cancelled"
"OMG my psychic told me this would happen!"
the funny thing was i actually SMS'd her trying to be smarmy and "told you so"-ish after work asking if the psychic had been right. turns out they were.
Scrav: Well, i guess i mean that there wasn't really anything vague in the prediction. usually it's as Fetid says, a lot of blind stabs and the audience filling in the gaps. this was a specific thing (cancellation) on a specific day (Thursday). it could've been something vague like "I sense not everything will go according to plan, and this may upset you" and this would 100% of the time. could be that one of the little vac-sealed milks on the plane split funny and she'd splashed herself with milk, or it could be that customs chose her for the full luggage check, and you could look at the prediction and say "yep - that happened" and attribute it to the psychic's prediction.
but JP has a point too - i don't know how many predictions didn't happen. even a broken clock is right every 43200 seconds. shoot often enough, and something is bound to hit.
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| jprockbelly wrote: | You need to work on your probability Scrav.
Yes there are 2 possibilities but they are not equally likely. Also guessing Thursday has at best only a 1 in 7 (14%) chance of being correct. |
Ah, but I said 1 of 2 possibilities, not a 1 in 2 chance. 
I don't really know the odds of not making a trip, but there are numerous variables which increase the odds of not making a plane trip at a specific time. If I've read right, the plane wasn't cancelled, but the booking for her was (if that is a factor). Two questions come to mind:
What specifically did the psychic say (as opposed to friends interpretation)?
What would have counted as a hit? For example, plane delayed (vague misinterpretation, so also a hit)
Just noticed Obs has since posted, so a little of this post may not be relevant.
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New Youtube layout.
What an absolute cluster**** of a design.
Haven't read or heard of 1 person that actually likes it.
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| DKP wrote: | New Youtube layout.
What an absolute cluster**** of a design.
Haven't read or heard of 1 person that actually likes it. |
I don't like it...
I love it (Seriously, it's far less bland now).
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