Conversations that make you want to facepalm

And i'm sure they will rack up more RR debt once that remaining money is depleted.

 

Its funny in Elizabeth how the rental companies try to squeeze themselves in next door to centrelink

 

Clever marketing/positioning more like it

 

Umm, I believe penicillin is natural...

 

Do we need to do this?

In my role as a subspecialty cancer surgeon, I have never seen a cancer cure from any treatment that the patient has pursued instead and independent of the recommendations made my myself and my multi-disciplinary team.

The ' ' around 'natural' implies this is not my term, but that of the patient.

The use of the terms 'cure' and 'natural' are typical lay vernacular, and I'm frankly surprised they can be misinterpreted in the context of my post, and even less so in the context of all my posts.

I would think it unlikely that I would make a palliative care referral to someone as a consequence of them declining to take penicillin, but thank you for the 'facepalm' within this very thread.

 

@Sim1 I think we need an emoji that does "air-quotations" - two fingers from each hand.

 

@Simon Hampel ... i'm thinking poor Sim1..... being tagged accidently... and it's not the first time it has happened either!

 

oops thanks for that. Think that's the 2nd time I've done it on this thread! Facepalm.

 

I know they wouldn't see the sense in it, but then they could use all of their Centrelinks for the grog and ciggies.

 

This here reminded me of when I went to visit some friends while they were in town in their hotel room. While there they rang through room service and handed the phone on to their 10yo daughter to order what she wanted. When finished she went to hand the phone back to her dad and he just told her to hang it up. After a quick glance at the phone in her hand she looked up blankly and said "how do I hang it up?'

it was at this point we all kinda realised she had never seen a landline phone before, only ever used smartphones. No idea that you have place the handset back in the base and was looking for the hang up button on the hand piece

 

Haha.
What is this strange, ancient - yet alien - technology?

 

This was a clip I saw on Facebook lol

I guess it could happen anywhere though

 

It also happens in IVF quite a bit.

One example would be where two embryos are harvested at the same time then put on ice. One is used immediately, the other a few years later. They're essentially from the same batch but born years apart. I know a few couples where this has occurred but it can be argued that they're not genetically identical and thus not twins - although that's not the qualifier for twins.

By the same argument it could also be argued that two embryos implanted aren't twins unless they were harvested in the same batch. Two kids from the same Mum born on the same day, but they're not twins?

IVF throws a lot of ideas out the window. "Throw the baby out with the bathwater", was never more ironic.

 

My common face palm moments is when I ask people what debts they have against a property and two weeks later the bank comes back asking about an undisclosed line of credit.

 

Oh yeah, there are those vids where they ask little kids what some 80's or 90's gadgets are, has them bamboozled.

 

Terrorists... ?

 

Datto, if these tyres are now down to the steel belts, re-reading Post # 16 would indicate that Bayview might be able to get them replaced for you cheap, and they should still be very safe.

And then you can antagonise that shopkeeper all over again (assuming he wasnt a Dick Smith franchisee, whose share price very recently experienced the same thing your old tyres experienced...)

 

I'm sure BV has well priced tyres, however, there are plenty of wheels and spares floating around the Druitt with price tags no retailer could possibly match.

Eg four tyres and wheels for $100. Sure, they came off a written off car that hit the gutter at 80 ks but that forms part of thrill.... will these tyres burst today? Nah, lets smoke 'em up at the local shops!

 

President Obama had just about every other world leader face palming when he said this in Paris on Tuesday.

Obama Is Wrong: Mass Shootings Do Happen Elsewhere, And More Often

 

They aren't clever enough to do that. Another huge facepalm moment I had was a guy also in Elizabeth had been working at a factory job for 15-20 years and was made redundant, not holdens but similar job, and received a big redundancy package 50k

He then told me that Centrelink will not give him money because he has this money in his bank and they said when that money is gone they would start paying him Centrelink wage.

I said invest it in something or with draw it bit by bit and he said nah "they would know"

So he proceeded to spend/waste all of the money $50k on rubbish so he could start receiving $xx per week Centrelink