While I think the obsession with how websites look has detracted from their information utility, I'm currently dealing with people who's ideas of Good Design are stuck in the Geocities era.
I need you all to understand that MY CAUSE should be the MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE IN YOUR LIFE, my people are PERFECT HEROES and any who oppose us are EVIL VILLAINS.
If you don't loudly and constantly declare your support MY CAUSE you HATE my people and you are a BAD PERSON whom everyone should LOUDLY CONDEMN.
Your own issues are unimportant next to mine and you should STOP WASTING YOUR TIME talking about them when MY ISSUES EXIST.
Yes, their food was delicious. But they also had hang ups about everything that wasn't part of their limited cuisine and wouldn't even try most of the cuisines you have available to you today.
Seeing Singaporeans and Malaysians go abroad and say "This thing in the west is so bad. It was different (better) at home" and then you look at what they did and it is just as bad but in a different way.
(I have a special interest in both countries through marriage).
Starting to think I made a mistake buying this supposedly "Australian engineered" pool robot with a Chinese control app. Fortunately most of the permissions are optional but this is going on my burner account phone.
A month and a half ago I survived a week overseas just carrying around a cabin luggage sized backpack. Now kid needs a huge suitcase for a 2 night school camp (cabins) and can't even fit in all the rubbish the school demands they take. And it's costing a lot of money too just so they can get muddy and sick at Leyland Bros World.
It's his second time going there after primary school too.
Science director, Graduate of Aus Inst of Company Directors: "I don't have an hour to listen to all these pay claims the union has been spamming me with."
"We can't afford to increase pay for existing staff to cover inflation, but we can afford to continually create new senior management positions for external people."
TV defaulted to Channel 7 Sunrise this morning and before I could switch it they seemed ropable that the recent High Court decision meant that brown people were being released from indefinite immigration detention.
Truly a racist network to the core.
So if you are wondering where your Australian neighbour without Foxtel gets their foul opinions from...
Wife's company is moving them all across to MS SharePoint and Teams. Because we both work from home and her company is incompetent at IT training, guess who will be forced to provide tech support?
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