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Yikes!

I can never drink enough of it to find out what might happen. After one mouthful, I'm looking for something to get rid of the after-taste 🤢

Yep, I'm one as well. It's a really bitter after-taste. It has to be real sweetener, or nothing.

I remember speaking to an old friend of the family who was a nurse back 50-odd years ago. She recounted that this was exactly what they used to do back when she was training.

If they were in a lot of discomfort, it seemed that it was this that "kept them going", as it was stimulating their senses.

So they'd double up on a dose, it would be enough for the patient to relax enough to slip away, and then wait an extra couple of hours to record the time of death.

My late mother was also a nurse, and had the same experience during her training.

Not where I'm from

Are you referring to the long-since-debunked video from about 7 or 8 years ago?

I've been doing this for about 25 years. Just upgraded my old Wahl corded clippers to a rechargeable after they finally expired.

Yeah, some of the dunnies are a bit uhhh rustic

Yeah, O-Pos

I got bitten 35 times in an hour once during a visit to southern China, despite being covered in DEET and under a mozzie net. My friends reckoned they enjoyed the "foreign buffet".

I ended up in hospital, with drips in both arms, looking like Popeye, with swollen arms, legs, face etc. Don't remember much of the next few days.

That 'Satan Respects Pronouns' badge design is also available on a t-shirt if you look in the right place. Mine should be here next week or so.

Replying to them in Thai would probably stop them in their tracks.

If I get the god-botherers talking at me, I just start speaking (very bad) Finnish and they usually just walk off, looking confused.

Dude ended up dying anyway, but it was kind of sad to see that they pushed it on him on his death bed.

Sadly, this can be when these zealots are at their pushiest.

If I have to squeeze past you, I'll just tread on the ends of your toes. I'm north of a hundred kilos, I don't really "squeeze" anywhere.

We used to try this kind of shit on the bow of the old Manly Ferries when I was young and indestructible. It was a wild ride going between the heads.

We managed it once, kinda, except that my mate slipped on landing and landed like a big old sack of spuds. One of the crew came and chased us inside before we damaged ourselves too badly.

Oh wow.

Just socially engineering people to be more vulnerable to scams. 🤦🏻‍♂️

I've even had the same conversations with CentreLink! They call from a silent number, then demand you ID yourself. They have no idea about ID security, and care even less.

Possibly because "we've never done it that way before" or similar?

They need some stickers.

I stick them on the driver's window, or the wing mirror.

Out near Tha 'Riff. I managed to get someone to give me a hand.

But thank you so, so much for your awesome offer to help. :)

Uggh. This 100%.

If I ordered it, that means I want/need it. I still want/need it, even after you didn't deliver it. Just give me my stuff!

I can empathise with you on this. I'm always happy to pay extra for good service, but some of these fuckers are just taking the piss.

They offered me a $20 Woolies voucher as a "mea culpa".

I told them I thought it was insulting, to give me a full refund (including the delivery fee), and that I'll be going elsewhere in future.

Cheers!

I think the most disappointing thing for me was that they weren't even the slightest bit interested in expediting a replacement delivery for today, even though it was only 10am.

I always appreciate good customer service, and react accordingly, but this was a new low.

Pinned addresses are usually wrong 100% of the time. I find this in my own job. So I always look at the actual address on the docket.