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Old 07-06-2021, 06:25 PM   #1501
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From a kosher point of view - which will be similar - you can’t prepare treifah (non kosher items) using surfaces or utensils ritually codified for kosher use.

So it (your pork kebab) would likely require separate kitchens, utensils, all handling and cleaning up facilities. You can’t even wash mixed cutlery. Just not economical.
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Old 07-06-2021, 08:42 PM   #1502
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Why is it I cannot find a pork kebab? The Koran forbids muslims from eating meat from this animal however it does not say anything about serving it as food for other people.
Maybe you have to find a blind chef with no sense of smell, lol.

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Old 09-06-2021, 03:54 PM   #1503
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…That earworms are often horrible tunes?

Currently battling to banish Jingle Bell Rock!
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…That earworms are often horrible tunes?

Currently battling to banish Jingle Bell Rock!
Damn, the shops are introducing Christmas carols earlier and earlier, aren't they?!??!
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So I’ve got a Mazda CX-3 hire car this week.
Why is it that the door lock buttons are on the SIDE of the key and are a whopping 3 mm x 8 mm and are of course black in a black key.

FFS Form over function crap again.
And the steering wheel offset is huge. Idiots.
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Currently battling to banish Jingle Bell Rock!

I've had 3 Roxette songs on earworm rotation for over a fortnight!
I can't stand these songs.


(did they have more than 3 songs? we can only hope not)
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I've had 3 Roxette songs on earworm rotation for over a fortnight!
Also have an ongoing earworm of Get Back. I watched the Rooftop Concert last night in hope of sating the earworm beast. It’s been moderately successful.
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Old 10-06-2021, 11:10 AM   #1508
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There’s aural nutrition where you put a track on repeat until you tire of it, and yet aural ear worm pollution is a thing.
Strange.
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... When you drop a nut or washer, it never lands where you expect to find it?

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... When you drop a nut or washer, it never lands where you expect to find it?
Well, are you going to bloody tell us or just keep us in suspense?...lol...



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Old 11-06-2021, 12:30 PM   #1511
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Also have an ongoing earworm of Get Back. I watched the Rooftop Concert last night in hope of sating the earworm beast. It’s been moderately successful.
Thats an earworm I can live with.
I posted that Rooftop set in the Entertainment thread just the other day
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Why is it that if I pay cash for something its rounded to the nearest 0, 5 or 10 cents, if fuel is $20.02 cents i only pay 20 bucks at the till, but if I use a plastic card I am charged to the "cent" with no rounding out?
I thought that was law?


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Old 11-06-2021, 06:19 PM   #1513
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Isn't it obvious? They don't have to round up or down with cards. A bit hard to pay that 2 cents when our lowest denomination is 5c in cash and I'm pretty sure they have even stopped or will soon stop making those

1 & 2 cents – rounded DOWN to the nearest 10
3 & 4 cents – rounded UP to the nearest 5
6 & 7 cents – rounded DOWN to the nearest 5
8 & 9 cents – rounded UP to the nearest 10

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Isn't it obvious? They don't have to round up or down with cards. A bit hard to pay that 2 cents when our lowest denomination is 5c in cash and I'm pretty sure they have even stopped or will soon stop making those

1 & 2 cents – rounded DOWN to the nearest 10
3 & 4 cents – rounded UP to the nearest 5
6 & 7 cents – rounded DOWN to the nearest 5
8 & 9 cents – rounded UP to the nearest 10

https://www.accc.gov.au/media-releas...s-transactions

Its not obvious.
Money is money cash or card, if the Government wants to do away with 1 and 2 cent coins as legal tender then should that not apply to cards too, if 1 and 2 cent coins don't exist in reality then how do they exist in theory on plastic?


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If you buy something for 92c you pay 90c. If you buy two you pay $1.85.
It's a conspiracy!
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the conspiracy it things are usually priced so they can round up

and i had this question to a fuel place i use to use
once it was able to be rounded down but they didnt
next time it was closer to be rounded up and they did
and i queried it with the counter clerk who didnt want to know , also went as far as to go get the previous receipt from the car to prove
and short story is i dont use them any more and now use a fuel station where you pay your self and its charged on exactly what you use and cheaper than others

the question should be
why is it
they charge in a way that requires rounding down or up when they know it cant be paid this way by cash payments
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Its not obvious.
Money is money cash or card, if the Government wants to do away with 1 and 2 cent coins as legal tender then should that not apply to cards too, if 1 and 2 cent coins don't exist in reality then how do they exist in theory on plastic?


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There's more....... Now you can pay 0.0003 Bitcoins* for your coffee and theres no coins or plastic

*(didnt do the maths here, just making a point)
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Mmm, so unsolved eh?



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There's more....... Now you can pay 0.0003 Bitcoins* for your coffee and theres no coins or plastic

*(didnt do the maths here, just making a point)
And the coffee comes in plastic!.lol



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From a kosher point of view - which will be similar - you can’t prepare treifah (non kosher items) using surfaces or utensils ritually codified for kosher use.

So it (your pork kebab) would likely require separate kitchens, utensils, all handling and cleaning up facilities. You can’t even wash mixed cutlery. Just not economical.

If find it ironic that people who are concerned about cross pollination of food are the same people who use their hand instead of toilet paper to clean their sphincter after a bowl movement.
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Why is it that you can't contact a seller on Carsales once a car is on hold.

Been watching a few that have been on hold for a month.

It's either sold or available...

Probably deserves to be in the Geeze I hate that thread too because I really hate that...

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If find it ironic that people who are concerned about cross pollination of food are the same people who use their hand instead of toilet paper to clean their sphincter after a bowl movement.
Cross-pollination ? Cross-contamination.
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Mmm, so unsolved eh?



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No, it's (re)solved. At the end of the day if paying in cash, you can't physically pay in any other increments other than 5 cents. But you can on a card.
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Why is it I cannot find a pork kebab? The Koran forbids muslims from eating meat from this animal however it does not say anything about serving it as food for other people.
Where are you?

I can suggest a few places in Sydney that do something close to a Pork kebab.

Bloody delicious too.
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…A primary school can tout itself as this-and-that; technology, excellence, top results, yada yada - yet nobody is smart enough to program its “bells” to stop chiming on public holiday weekdays?
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Yep.... same thing happens for daylight saving.... Bells become out of whack 1hr.

I guess both situations can't be planned for
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Why is it I always get the clunker trolley at the Supermarket.

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Why is it I always get the clunker trolley at the Supermarket.

Bang, bang, bang, bang..........................

Its apparently due to you only taking one trolley, all the other trolleys are clunkers but you don't know that because you are only pushing one of them!

Or it could be trolley "karma" or even "Murphy's Law" have you ever talked to your trolley in a demeaning manner?..or cussed?...trolleys may have feelings too you know!...



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I see it as a life metaphor. Got the idea right, but needing constant input to keep on the path.
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