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16 hours ago, Devon Malcolm said:

Anyone else's developed this obsession?

Mine have never been arsed with that, the youngest of the two has been known to switch the washing machine off if she knows that I'm washing something of hers so that I'm fooled into thinking the cycle's done. Works every bloody time as well.

Yes - Our boy is diagnosed level 2 ASD with a learning delay as well as a Chromosome 9 deletion. He's obsessed with washing machines to the extent that we have (on random weekends) visited homeware stores so he can have a wander round and poke buttons.   He loves IKEA because all their little display homes have washing machines in them.  He'll occasionally come to my work at the end of the day (i work in childcare) and he will pop into the laundry room to see whats happening.   Hes also an absolute wizard with LEGO (hes currently working on a supermarket with delivery trucks) as well as cars - he can quote stats, recognise cars at a distance by shape, knows all about engines - weirdly isnt interested with things like Formula 1 or NASCAR etc.  

Its occasionally hard work, we are currently managing his sleep issues and melatonin therapy effects arent really working for him any more.  Plus his proprioceptive sensory issues make home schooling hard as he needs lots of big physical play which he gets at school on the big climbing frames but not so much at home. HIs NDIS (We're in Australia) is thankfully partially funding a Vuly frame for him.

On 8/17/2020 at 8:23 PM, Ralphy said:

What part of Oz is this? I loved Australia so much when i went, well, except the prices! 

Mornington Peninsula

Proper Aussie

Absolutely right - Fleetwood Mac Rumors is an amazing Album. 

David Grays' White Ladder was pretty perfect.  Not a song i'd skip on the album

The Aussie version of the Cadbury chocolate snack bar gets my vote.  It's a Cadbury chocolate block but each square has a different flavour. These flavours include pineapple, coconut ice, orange and Turkish delight. Bloody lovely. The Cadbury coconut rough is also a bit good.

7 minutes ago, Keith Houchen said:

That's "The Jinx" isn't it?  It just gets more and more disturbing, doesn't it.  Incredible piece of television.

Thats the one - you're right, absolutely incredible. I did find the interviewer guy a bit annoying - and he looked slightly like a working mens club version of Tony Stark which was distracting. But the revelations and the stories involved are just astounding.

Ive been watching The Life And Deaths of Robert Durst. Uncomfortable and weird stuff to watch.  

I started with BRAWL in Northants as a manager, eventualy graduating to one or two spectacularly awful matches - managed a few different wrestlers, worked on shows as a mangager (and sometimes ring announcer) for KStar, Sovereign, SBW and a few other promotions.  Ran a promotion called UWL for a year then quit wrestling - about 15 years ago now.

I love wrestling, made some really good mates and learned a lot, but i was never good at it by a long shot.

EDIT: If I joined this site in 2006 like my profile says then its actually about 13 years. Still a long time 🙂

On 12/23/2018 at 10:15 PM, Thunderplex said:

Sounds bloody terrible.  Represent our country next year and show her how it’s done!

We got maccas on the way home, it was magnificent. 

The subject of taking over some of the cooking was broached and rejected. Next year im getting smashed on baileys while we drive up to the city. 

Christmas in Australia is a genuine culinary despair. We all go to the in-laws, 20 people, all adults or teenagers apart form our two - and she does a leg of lamb that i'd do for me and my little family of 4 and a chicken. No pigs in blankets, no yorkshire pudding, no bread sauce or cranberry sauce - trimmings dont exist. Its just roast meat, a bag bag of frozen mixed veg and roast potatoes (which are actually just boiled potatoes which she sprays oil on and grills for 5  minutes.

I've offered to give money for more food, or just cook and bring trimmings myself and have been told what she does is enough.  So we have a big christmas breakfast, the kids eat at the in-laws because theres never food left for us and we all get maccas on the way home.  I'd love to stay home but it just aint going to happen.

I live there - cereals, sauces, yoghurt, condiments, anything in a packet realls

Big Block Sing Song is some profound shit. 

All Australian food tastes like someone threw in a spoon of sugar.

Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead are really crap.

Cant remember how it works in the UK but here in Oz we have something called a working with childrens check - anyone working with children has to have them - including parents who just want to volunteer for school reading problems etc. There is a paid one for if you work with children - where its a requirement of the job, but also a free one which anyone can apply for - with the same level of detail as the paid one, but it covers you for volunteering at schools, if you're a scout leader, volunteer life guard or SES etc.  

Is there anything comparable in the UK? 

1 hour ago, Lord-Mountevans said:

This surely differs from one training school to another?

I traded stories of general sleaze with another pupil (we both started together & quit after six years) within an hour we came up with 20/30 examples of dodginess, which implicated literally everyone who attended regularly ie. promoters/talent/trainees/auxiliary, apart from about three people. Those same same three people are still friends with me today. So i guess without sounding self righteous, the good guys & the bad ones tend to stick together.

I'm not just referring to training, but traveling and doing shows for multiple promotions. I do take your point and can only comment from my experiences.

My experience in the wrestling industry is a good fifteen years old, but quite vivid. I remember being asked if I f****d guys at training, creeping hands, accidentally being walked in on getting ready at shows, questions about my boobs being real (with at least one guy grabbing for a check)and a host of other things. Frequently happening in sight and earshot of my now ex boyfriend. I also remember I was supposed to get "jumped" at one show in the ring and being stiffed because the booker didn't like me (the sight in my left eye was blurred for a few days after). I took it all in stride, it was banter, it was how things were done and I was always under the impression that wrestling is a man's industry and I should be grateful to be allowed in to the party. In hindsight it's shitty, and I know that there were other women, some younger than me that had it harder than I did.

In hindsight it's absolutely unacceptable, I would never have accepted it working in an office. But I went in to it knowing I was tits and ass and a bit of novelty, I was actively told I had no value in a show and was just a distraction. 

I also know from experience that the sleazy ones are the exception and not the rule. I have wrestling friends I haven't seen in a decade  that I still catch up with on social media and for my part believe they are decent blokes. having talked to a lot of female friends and family over the past few weeks about #metoo most of us have a shit list of male colleagues, acquaintances etc to actively avoid and not be alone with. Which is depressing.

It's absolutely unsurprising that people would use pro wrestling as an opportunity to predate on women, men and underage men and women. Is unregulated, no one needs a police check, no one checks references, it's open season. You have to trust relative strangers with your physical well being and that makes you vulnerable.

I'm sure I had a point when I started typing and it's kind of lost now. But the general summary, massively unsurprising it's going on, im pretty sure that a lot worse happens  in the industry that may or may not  come to light. I feel bad for the ladies involved, and some of the responsibility is mine because I never had the guts to say anything stronger than a jokey fuck off.

Anthony Edwards has come forward about being a victim

https://medium.com/@anthonyedwards/yes-mom-there-is-something-wrong-f2bcf56434b9

Curious about how its being reported in the UK - seems to hardly be mentioned in Oz, a few comments in the entertainment news and thats it.Depressing how many people are being speculated about on forums though - heaps of names popping up. 

The sheer numbers are depressing but as someone already posted, you kind of assume that celebrities are all some degree left of normal anyway.  

I'd prefer it if they had just said nothing and let the regeneration be a surprise. Mainly because my husband is a ridiculously massive fan and I cant stand it and now have 5 months of commentary on it to look forward to.

We have that in Oz.  It works a treat. Last thing you want is a hot shit smelling dunny.  have a hot lemony smelling one instead.

Its winter here and im still in flip flops :-) 

34 degrees is an average summer day for us - get thee to the beach, or get a paddling pool and unload your ice machine into it (theres a reason we all take a month off in January though) 

Huntsmen arent dangerous - just big fuckity jumpers.  Not too many snakes down south which is good, but when theres a big storm puffer fish get washed up on the beach near where we live.

On the plus side we see loads of wild kangaroos and out local birds are mainly parakeet types so look really cool. Down side - they're noisy bastards. 

Theres no excusing possums though. Noisy scream shagging bastards.

There was a big fuck off hunstman in the bathroom this morning - i would have taken a picture but being in the shower and screaming kind of distracted me.  Nasty fuckers always look like they are perving on you, and they have their wavy furry front legs.  Utter spider bastards.

But then spiders down here are fucking evil, even Peppa Pig isnt allowed to have them.

Absolutely, they're brilliant and silly and loud and irritate the fuck out of my perfect in laws and their genius kids in their pristine white houses.

But I'd still love a coffee.

Karma - in the time it took to type that, my son emptied a large can of instant coffee into the carpet, and then rubbed it in. 

Yeah - being a stay at home parent is awesome.  My little ones are 5 and 2.  The 5 year old is constant questions, she knows a ton of swear words (mostly learned form me) and will only eat pasta, cheese and jam sandwiches.  The two year old likes to take his nappy off as soon as he has done a poop.  He will literally hide from me to do it. He also refuses to talk.  He can - he talks to other relatives, just not to me. 

I can go weeks without talking to any adult other than my husband, because my OH works he gets to lay in til 8am because he needs his rest for work.  Unless I can force him out of bed early I either have to shower with my kids (who get me up at 6am), or skip showers. If im not super quick off the mark, my 2 year old will accompany me to the toilet too.  He's helpful, he will pass me toilet roll. Lots of it. 

I used to do project management, have a social circle, go out, now i know most of the words to most of the Wiggles songs, and carry a military grade bag of wipes, nappies, bags, creams, ointments, child friendly cutlery and toys.  I am a hard core ninja that can walk - unfearing and oblivious to the sea of lego blocks, mega blocks, stickle bricks and bits of train track that are scattered about the house - regardless of how often I tidy.  I know 5 different songs about the phonetic alphabet and can simultaneously carry a baby, cook a curry and supervise arts & crafts (which is kid speak for glueing sparkly shit to everything). 

Anyone who says stay at home parenting is easy either doesnt have kids, has some kind of weird kid that at no point has a melt down, needs to eat, sleep, go to the toilet or move, or is just being a bag of dicks.  

I havent had more than 5 hours of consecutive sleep since 2014.