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Eli1 said:
Well, let us know if you're being serious with that question @Lanolin .
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yes ....and what does living on an island got to do with anything?

Is living on an island somehow inferior to living on a continent? Why are people talking ABOUT me on here when Im right here?

Islanders are people too and nobody lives on an island all by themselves.
 
Lanolin said:
yes ....and what does living on an island got to do with anything?

Is living on an island somehow inferior to living on a continent? Why are people talking ABOUT me on here when Im right here?

Islanders are people too and nobody lives on an island all by themselves.
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The island comment has to do with trying to understand each-other's joke levels based on geography.

So to answer your question: How do you bring all the kitchen on the beach?
Answer: Do you have restaurants in New Zealand?
 
I dont live on the moon...

?!

Islanders need to work too, its not like all our life is a holiday. The beach may not be right outside our door either because tsunamis. smh
 
Eli1 said:
The island comment has to do with trying to understand each-other's joke levels based on geography.

So to answer your question: How do you bring all the kitchen on the beach?
Answer: Do you have restaurants in New Zealand?
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that isnt my question

How bout this can YOU afford to go to a restaurant everyday?
 
Joke levels based on geography?

?!

Do I joke about where you live?

I mean, should I regard everyone here as a character on the Simpsons or something. Theres probably some Reverend Lovejoys and Ned Flanders on here too.

I dont know where people have this idea that I have a kitchen on the beach. You could have a fire but open fires are banned in summer and hangis take a long time to cook.

Food trucks require lots of fuel. If you want to clean and service a frying vat be my guest.

anyway, I dont know if IT people have the solution...probably advise people to buy all their cooked food frozen and just heat it up again in the microwave.
 
its ok you dont need to follow me

just joke about me and patronise me to my face, Its real fun. :-(
 
Eli1 said:
Not sure how your experience has been, but here in the Northeast it was kinda standard for I.T. people to have one day off before covid. Friday typically. After covid we got a nice 2 years off working from home and now we're back 2-3 days a week onsite.
Many people in our field, basically travel the world and do vacation and work at the same time.
I have friends who do this and my company has many people working on West Coast timezone or England Timezone.
I have the same flexibility and i took advantage of this before covid too. Now after covid i can't travel far outside of my state because i have to take care of my parents.
But this whole summer was basically working outside my house or on the beach. Planning to do the same thing the next summer God-willing.
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Because my team is in other states, I've always pretty much worked at home since I started back with this company in 2019. During Covid I wasn't allowed to go to the office because it's a data center too. Now I'm in a different office, and the requirement is 3 days in the office, but I'm exempted because I work nights & sometimes weekends for software deployments and troubleshooting. I used to travel internationally at my previous job, but now it's just 1 week per year for our annual "summit." We have a timeshare in the mountains, and sometimes I work when I'm up there, sometimes I don't.
 
Eli1 said:
The island comment has to do with trying to understand each-other's joke levels based on geography.

So to answer your question: How do you bring all the kitchen on the beach?
Answer: Do you have restaurants in New Zealand?
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They do! This is a pizza place in Auckland...
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NightTwister said:
They do! This is a pizza place in Auckland...
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you read 7 books and get a free pizza

Thats the deal

There was a pizza oven in the garden at one point but it doesnt get used in when its raining. I heard in the US people make pizzas in factories, freeze them and then just heat them up in the microwave where theyve turned to mush. I couldnt believe it.

In italy pizza was just a meal that used up all their leftover tomatoes and food they couldnt finish the day before. Tomatoes can grow year round there but the british had this thing about fresh hothouse hydroponically grown genetically engineered tasteless tomatoes cos they just really need to eat salads in the middle of their winter.
 
Half of spain is given over to plastc covered tomato growing. Then its watered by robots installed by IT people using plastic irrigation. I guess it creates jobs for people.
 
Lanolin said:
you read 7 books and get a free pizza

Thats the deal

There was a pizza oven in the garden at one point but it doesnt get used in when its raining. I heard in the US people make pizzas in factories, freeze them and then just heat them up in the microwave where theyve turned to mush. I couldnt believe it.

In italy pizza was just a meal that used up all their leftover tomatoes and food they couldnt finish the day before. Tomatoes can grow year round there but the british had this thing about fresh hothouse hydroponically grown genetically engineered tasteless tomatoes cos they just really need to eat salads in the middle of their winter.
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I didn't get a chance to go there when I visited. BTW, I do understand about the kitchen sizes in homes there. No way you could have all of that stuff out. I did enjoy the fresh vegetable markets. You can keep the marmite though, that stuff is awful.
 
I think its quite fun when the power cuts out and all systems are down.
What the teachers would say is oh we cant do anything. (take roll, issue books, check their phones or emails, use their electronic whiteboards, photocopiers or computers) lets just read a book lol
 
NightTwister said:
I didn't get a chance to go there when I visited. BTW, I do understand about the kitchen sizes in homes there. No way you could have all of that stuff out. I did enjoy the fresh vegetable markets. You can keep the marmite though, that stuff is awful.
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trying to buy a new fridge was an interesting exercise as only ONE type of fridge could actually fit in our kitchen

lol
 
Harvey Norman (australian) seems to think nzers will buy all their electronic appliances they advertise all the time but hadnt reckoned with house sizes and where to actually put everything. Or how many extension cords you would need.

Its the whole I know I will just build a bigger barn to put all my stuff again thats in the Bible. Porbably an age old problem. And..what to do when those appliances break, they dont seem to last that long.

The thing with computers, well hardware, is a hassle updating that. Software of course needs updating all the time and more and more memory, but how many iphones versions have there been now?
 
Lanolin said:
Are you saying I have a LOW standard of living. Wow. Thanks for the condescension.
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You're welcome.
I would recommend that you do some research on the topics that you comment to avoid being offended the next time.
You work in a library, right?

For example, i cannot have the same standard of living in Greece or Italy where gas alone costs like $120 dollars to fill a 1.8 or 2.1 cylinder car with an average salary of $1000 per month.
Whereas in USA even with the insane gas prices now for American standards, i can fill a 2.5 cylinder car for $40 with an average salary of $5000 per month.
 
NightTwister said:
Because my team is in other states, I've always pretty much worked at home since I started back with this company in 2019. During Covid I wasn't allowed to go to the office because it's a data center too. Now I'm in a different office, and the requirement is 3 days in the office, but I'm exempted because I work nights & sometimes weekends for software deployments and troubleshooting. I used to travel internationally at my previous job, but now it's just 1 week per year for our annual "summit." We have a timeshare in the mountains, and sometimes I work when I'm up there, sometimes I don't.
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That's awesome. God bless and enjoy.

NightTwister said:
They do! This is a pizza place in Auckland...
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Haha you've been to New Zealand too? Good for you brother.
I am grateful for what i've been given too so i'm not part of the doom and gloom brigade either who make it sound like USA is about to collapse or WW3 is about to start.
 
I dont eat marmite. Vegemite (australian version) actually tastes better, less sugar but I havent had it in ages. You meant to eat it with cheese and chips and make a sandwich

But then I guess all that goes in the exotic food thread.

pizza I only ate on rare occasions at school when someone swapped their pizza slices for my wedges.

Otherwise most schools if they did have a toaster it needed checking it didnt set the fire alarm off. One private school had a hot drinks machine but I noticed teachers tended to subsist on cereal and V8 drinks if they didnt have the school lunch.

when school lunches were bought in any hot food would be cold by the time it got to the children, I often wondered why they couldnt just make it onsite. I guess it didnt make sense to me. A lot of things dont make sense...like why have a library and then allocate no money to run it? But this is what schools do.

Then I would wonder how could their principals afford their fancy SUVs.
 
Eli1 said:
You're welcome.
I would recommend that you do some research on the topics that you comment to avoid being offended the next time.
You work in a library, right?

For example, i cannot have the same standard of living in Greece or Italy where gas alone costs like $120 dollars to fill a 1.8 or 2.1 cylinder car with an average salary of $1000 per month.
Whereas in USA even with the insane gas prices now for American standards, i can fill a 2.5 cylinder car for $40 with an average salary of $5000 per month.
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I dont really care how much it costs to live in the US

how about YOU do research before you offend someone with your arrogance.
 
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