GRIPES

[red750]

My gripe today. That bloody Aldi advert with the helicopter. That's it.

[Jerry_Atrick]

The virus lockdown got me into internet banking. Only new to it but love it. I wouldn't go back to not having it. A few clicks and I can check account balances, transfer between debit and credit accounts etc..

Back in 2003, I was working on the internet banking team for a Tier 2 regional bank in Aus. I had just come back from the UK and that bank's internet banking was miles ahead of what they had in the UK. It still is.. We put in the ability to to real time iinternational payments (gross settlements as they call it). I think the fee was $8 while the UK banks still require you to walk into a branch! But they are closing their branches...

 

For mamy people, there will come a time in their lives where, regardless of the reachable accessibility technology, they will not be able to use computers of IoT devices.. but by then, they will probably need help with more every day things anyway.

[willedoo]

Back in 2003, I was working on the internet banking team for a Tier 2 regional bank in Aus. I had just come back from the UK and that bank's internet banking was miles ahead of what they had in the UK. It still is.. We put in the ability to to real time iinternational payments (gross settlements as they call it). I think the fee was $8 while the UK banks still require you to walk into a branch! But they are closing their branches...

 

For many people, there will come a time in their lives where, regardless of the reachable accessibility technology, they will not be able to use computers of IoT devices.. but by then, they will probably need help with more every day things anyway.

I got a shock back in the 80's at how backward the Greek banking system was. I was in Asia for quite a time where places like Singapore and Thailand had modern systems of wiring money from my bank in Australia. After knowing a few Australian Greeks, I thought Greece would be relatively advanced and wasn't prepared for a third world banking system. I went into the main bank in Athens and had to stand in a long line. The first teller pointed me to the next teller etc. until I was finally redirected back in a circle to where I started. After about an hour, I was finally told that they didn't do transfer requests to foreign banks, that I had to contact my bank and get them to send it to the Greek bank.

 

This was pre internet and mobile phone days so the only option was to ring my bank in Australia. Only problem was that Greece didn't have any ISD public phone capability. The only option was to go to the central international phone office, pay your money, take a ticket and wait your turn until a booth was available and the operator would put you through. The only hitch was that the phone office closed before Australian banks opened, and the Australian banks closed before the Greek phone office opened. Eventually, I had to ring a relative in Australia and get them to drive into town to my bank and ask them to send the money. The good old days.

[Old Koreelah]

Cryptos allow ordinary people all over the world to bypass all that rot.

[Jerry_Atrick]

Maybe we should take this to a separate thread, but if you can explain why, I would be most interested to hear...

[Old Koreelah]

Maybe we should take this to a separate thread, but if you can explain why, I would be most interested to hear...

Go to Cryptocurrency

[spacesailor]

Like Loyds of London.

Fisrst in best dressed.

Last in carried All the risk! .

spacesailor

[old man emu]

How do you get rid of gremlins in your workshop? I'm sure a couple hitched a ride in my tool box at the airport and alighted from it when I got home. How else can I explain the facts that if I put down a tool, screw, nut, bolt, lamp or whatever, it's gone when I go back to it? And it stays gone through all the most diligent searches and interrogations, only to reappear as soon as I give up the hunt.

 

[nomadpete]

Turbs, are those

maps the same as the ones that forgot to show Tasmania?

[nomadpete]

Turbs, are those

maps the same as the ones that forgot to show Tasmania?

[onetrack]

OME, I'm glad that your workshop possesses the same gremlins as my workshop. They are certainly very prevalent, and very mischievous. I hate the ones that return the missing item, right after you just bought, or made, a new item.

[pmccarthy]

My workshop has gremlins that catch the free end of cables and hoses when you are moving things. Three times yesterday when moving a pressure washer and a shop vac. I stop and say “ you've got to be kidding” or something worse.

[Jerry_Atrick]

lol... Reminds me when I put cables in a bag - neatly sorted.. the bag doesn't move but when I go to retrieve them, they are a tangled mess of spaghetti! WTF.. The laws of physics are still rudimentary - even quantum mechanics can't explain that...

Edited July 10, 2020 by Jerry_Atrick

[Marty_d]

12 hours ago, nomadpete said:

Turbs, are those

maps the same as the ones that forgot to show Tasmania?

Maps of Tassie used to be quite prevalent back in the 70's.  They've gone out of fashion now.

[nomadpete]

I was referring to a time when maps of "Australia" often failed to show insignificant islands such as Tasmania, but did show the important ones such as Fraser, Morton Is and Straddie.

 

Maybe you didn't see these maps down there ?

 

We mainlanders did, but few people noticed the 'error'.

[Marty_d]

Damn good idea if you ask me.  If the mainlanders hear about our lovely weather, clean air and water, delicious produce and reasonable house prices, we might get too many of the buggers...

[nomadpete]

Weather?

Surely you aren't trying to brag about the weather in Tasmania????

 

The only reason Tasmania has clean air is because it gets washed every day!

 

I know there is a lot of weather south of the 40th parallel, but "lovely" is an adjective seldom used to describe it.

 

I'd prefer that Tasmania secede from the Commonwealth, and then Australia can happily delete it from their maps and we can set about stopping the boat people. Especially the Victorian ones.

Edited July 12, 2020 by nomadpete

[facthunter]

Taswegia nearly came to a bad end sometime ago, when a friend of mine working for the opposition Airline (starts with "A", )  dropped the seven two in a bit hard  at Hobart, an exiting passenger opened the cockpit door and informed him "Another Landing Like THAT, Captain and you'll SINK this Island" . Must have been a close thing.. Nev

[nomadpete]

And you let him get away with talking to you like that?

[Marty_d]

19 hours ago, nomadpete said:

Weather?

Surely you aren't trying to brag about the weather in Tasmania????

 

The only reason Tasmania has clean air is because it gets washed every day!

 

I know there is a lot of weather south of the 40th parallel, but "lovely" is an adjective seldom used to describe it.

 

I'd prefer that Tasmania secede from the Commonwealth, and then Australia can happily delete it from their maps and we can set about stopping the boat people. Especially the Victorian ones.

Must be because I was born & bred here.  My parents moved us to QLD when I was 11, and I remember sweating copiously on a daily basis from then to age 15.  Thankfully they came to their senses and moved back.  

Ah, the relief of crisp cool air after that muggy heat.

[nomadpete]

I won't hold that against you Marty.

I guess you had to experience Queensland in order to really appreciate Tassie.

Now you understand why we live here. I was a slower learner than you. It took me 30 years to come to the same conclusion as you. But I still tell all my mainland mates that it's always raining and cold. It's already too crowded.

[facthunter]

Crowded means people like it. Not crowded=s Not nice so few go there unless  it is to get away from crowds which make it NOT nice, If it was nice originally before it got crowded. .nev

[Yenn]

It is what you get used to. I am cold here in Qld today. The temp hasn't got above 21 degrees and I am just frozen.

All winter we have had forecasts higher than achieved temperatures and actual weather more like Victorias. I just want that clear blue winter sky all day.

[red750]

What's blue winter sky? 

[Bruce Tuncks]

Tasmania is the only place known where civilization moves in reverse. It is due to be back in the stone age in a few hundred years.