Mega Thread Things that Shit me the Thirteenth

[Gough]

Reminds me of a Hoodoo Gurus song.

Hugely underrated band. There were very early spruikers of You Am I.

 

[Scotland]

Reminds me of a Hoodoo Gurus song.

I just wanna stay right here. Safe and sound.

 

[FRUMPY]

Older work colleagues - get your shit together ffs and live/work in the now

 

[Scotland]

Hoodoo Gurus are awesome, Dave Faulkner is GOAT.

 

[Beerfish]

Prefer Martin Plaza but yeah Dave goes alright.

 

[Procrastinator35]

Prefer Martin Plaza but yeah Dave goes alright.

I keep reading the blurb beneath your Avatar as 'Lifestyle influenza'.

 

[Beerfish]

I keep reading the blurb beneath your Avatar as 'Lifestyle influenza'.

You should probably see someone about that then.

 

[Procrastinator35]

You should probably see someone about that then.

I'm happy to accept my ostensible faux pas in this instance, as more of an unconscious conceptual insight.....A Freudian Slip if you will.

 

[Beerfish]

I'm happy to accept my ostensible faux pas in this instance, as more of an unconscious conceptual insight.....A Freudian Slip if you will.

Quelle suprise

 

[RU_]

myGoldCoast

The Gold Coast's Best Music Variety

www.mygc.com.au

18 years of life gone just like that on what is meant to be your celebratory week.

 

[craigos]

myGoldCoast

The Gold Coast's Best Music Variety

www.mygc.com.au

18 years of life gone just like that on what is meant to be your celebratory week.

I know it'd be hard to stop your kid attending these events when all their friends are but geez it must be distressing for parents. I remember a group of about a dozen of us did our "schoolies" away at a holiday house of my parents and whilst we got loose it feels like the peer pressure aspect must be amplified at these events now.

 

[Scotland]

I went through school (WA) when you still finished at 17 so "schoolies" (leavers) was all about underage drinking. Unless you were a total dickhead about it a lot of places were pretty lax about a bunch of 17 year olds boozing on. Can't really relate to everyone going to places like Kuta and Surfers and going to pubs and clubs etc. as school leavers. Cannot even imagine what the parents and friends of the 18 year old above are going through.

 

[RU_]

I went through school (WA) when you still finished at 17 so "schoolies" (leavers) was all about underage drinking. Unless you were a total dickhead about it a lot of places were pretty lax about a bunch of 17 year olds boozing on. Can't really relate to everyone going to places like Kuta and Surfers and going to pubs and clubs etc. as school leavers. Cannot even imagine what the parents and friends of the 18 year old above are going through.

It’s still 17 year olds that graduate typically I believe.

 

[edgie]

Our school formal was in late November at a private venue, most kids had already turned 18. A few hadn't. I believe the school accepted that secondary supply was unavoidable. Nobody got hurt.


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[Procrastinator35]

It’s still 17 year olds that graduate typically I believe.

The cut-off date for school entry these days is April I believe, which would make the majority of 'Schoolies' at the end of November, 18.

 

[Scotland]

It’s still 17 year olds that graduate typically I believe.

In WA now if you are born January-June you start school the year you turn 6, if you are born July-December you start the year you turn 7.

When I went through you only turned 18 in year if you had been held back a year for some reason.

 

[PT Bar None]

It's a tough age. Adult body. Child mind. No experience. Poor Judgement. It's an unpopular view, but there's so much luck involved in getting through it.

I'm sure we've all been to funerals for folks who've been taken too soon, and stood their feeling slightly sheepish because you've done exactly the same thing as the dude in the box, only you rolled a four and a three and they rolled snake-eyes.

I came from a world where no one did "schoolies", yet we still lost plenty.

None of which makes any difference to the parents. They'll hurt and blame themselves for the rest of their lives. I hope they've got plenty of good people around them. A parent outliving their child is about the most horrible thing I can imagine. Feel so sorry for these folks. Doubly so, because really, they're just "unlucky".

 

[Off The Couch]

Sick of feeling so negative. Sick of being disappointed.

My gf’s workplace has a new CEO and board and they have done a spill and fill for all positions!

so my gf and everyone else are unemployed and having fo apply for their jobs again which have been advertised too

pretty tough out there atm job wise. Youngest has graduated as a teacher and can’t get a job - she’s applied for about 60 and only had one interview and that was at a school about 3 hours from Perth - it was the same response as she has been getting from those who have bothered to reply “looking for experience”

Not hard to start becoming a bit disillusioned by the whole process.

 

[Hawk Dork]

pretty tough out there atm job wise. Youngest has graduated as a teacher and can’t get a job - she’s applied for about 60 and only had one interview and that was at a school about 3 hours from Perth - it was the same response as she has been getting from those who have bothered to reply “looking for experience”

Not hard to start becoming a bit disillusioned by the whole process.

that is weird for a teacher had a relative in the same position last year and finally got one and is happy

 

[Procrastinator35]

Why am I being subjected to this tool 'James' & his cheap-assed $2 William Painter sunglasses ad, in every fricking YouTube video I try to watch…..Is there nothing sacred from this advertising virus anymore?.....God-damn-it.

 

[Off The Couch]

that is weird for a teacher had a relative in the same position last year and finally got one and is happy

Just seems to be far more graduates than spots - got a young girl working with us that’s been two years out and just can’t get a foot in the door anywhere

Teachers just aren’t retiring but universities are still pumping them out - she was a mid year grad and 500 graduated that day and that’s just one university

 

[Plugger35]

I went through school (WA) when you still finished at 17 so "schoolies" (leavers) was all about underage drinking. Unless you were a total dickhead about it a lot of places were pretty lax about a bunch of 17 year olds boozing on. Can't really relate to everyone going to places like Kuta and Surfers and going to pubs and clubs etc. as school leavers. Cannot even imagine what the parents and friends of the 18 year old above are going through.

We went to Rotto for our schoolies and the cops there would just let us booze on as long as we didn't cause too much trouble and stuck to our designated areas like tentland, they didn't care if we were underage as long we behaved ourselves.

You'd have to be an exceptional dickhead to get deported back to the mainland, ie. vandalising property, burning bikes, playing quokka soccer etc.

Quokka soccer was outlawed by the time we were there, not that I'd ever be involved in it anyway as I love the little buggers.

I did unintentionally ride over a quokka on my bmx though when I was about 12, there was a bmx track there with jumps and one hopped in front of me and I couldn't avoid it. I thought I had killed it but then it just hopped off into the scrub like nothing had happened.

 

[Gough]

We had an afternoon at Timezone.

 

[Billy ray]

We had an afternoon at Timezone.

40c games?

 

[Over The Post]

All youse smart bastards who finished high school.