Banter TRTT Part 13: 2021 Goodbye (To 2022)

[Papa G]

Come on Paps, you know very well that petrol prices are an indicator. It’s not just about the fuel in the tank, it’s about the knock on effect on everything else. It impacts everyone but more-so those at the lower end of the economy because they don’t have the options to shuffle their budget.

It has a large knock on effect yes, but the actual price at the bowser, unless you are filling up twice a week is over stated.

 

[DaTBird187]

Papa's got decisions to make too......

 

[Papa G]

Actually I do feel for my business partner. I've been noticing of late hes been bringing the diesel BMW to work rather than the petrol C63s All of us need to make sacrifices I guess.

 

[JimmyBC]

Actually I do feel for my business partner. I've been noticing of late hes been bringing the diesel BMW to work rather than the petrol C63s All of us need to make sacrifices I guess.

I'm only buying 5 rare LPs a week nowadays.. living like an animal

 

[Lagooner]

Come on Paps, you know very well that petrol prices are an indicator. It’s not just about the fuel in the tank, it’s about the knock on effect on everything else. It impacts everyone but more-so those at the lower end of the economy because they don’t have the options to shuffle their budget.

They’re also more likely to live further away from town and drive an older less fuel efficient car.

 

[Launchpad McQuack]

Take the bus to work, don't have kids. Problem solved. I fill up probably less than once a month.

As bomber said though, the major problem is that petrol being expensive makes all other products which rely on petrol at some point in the supply chain (i.e. f***in everything) more expensive too.

It's not problem solved. There are areas in SA (read: essentially anywhere other than Adelaide) that do not have sufficient public transport to allow this.

 

[dirty2]

I know people lose their shit at petrol prices and the cumulative effect is big, but a 30 cent rise on your average 50 litre tank is $15. Now if you live in the sticks and have a 50km round trip to work everyday I guess it does hurt, but if you fill up once a fortnight its not that big a deal.

It's not just the fuel going up. It's everything.

Fuel, food interest rates going up.

The thought of retiring early and going on the dole/Newstart or what ever it's called is tempting.

 

[Lagooner]

It's not problem solved. There are areas in SA (read: essentially anywhere other than Adelaide) that do not have sufficient public transport to allow this.

You know it would be great if we had technology that could allow people to work from home so that they didn’t have to travel 30km each way to do the same thing in a office.

 

[JimmyBC]

You know it would be great if we had technology that could allow people to work from home so that they didn’t have to travel 30km each way to do the same thing in a office.

Papa said people turn into hermits if they don't interact in person with office fukctards daily.

 

[PowerBaz]

I admit I'm guilty of it myself James. Ill hold off filling up for 20 cents a litre cheaper yet ill have no problem dropping $100 on overpriced Peronis at the pub on Thursday night. Petrol prices just seem imbedded in our psyche but if you step back and look at it, the price increases/savings are less than the lunch they bought that day

Depends if the Peronis are made here ones or OS really doesn’t it?

 

[PowerBaz]

Papa said people turn into hermits if they don't interact in person with office fukctards daily.

I choose to work from a home studio I built for purpose after many years in the office, work for myself now.

I look back at the office environment as somewhat old fashioned, it has nothing to do with being a hermit, it moreso depends if your job allows it and you have the ability to work alone and can cope with that, that’s a personality type.

 

[PowerBaz]

I'm only buying 5 rare LPs a week nowadays.. living like an animal

I’ve stopped buying Rhone and buying discount from my clients…

 

[Capital Power]

WA isn't part of the 'national energy grid' so in Perth at least we don't have a choice of electricity provider (and only minimal choice for gas), but I'm sure they'll jump on the bandwagon of exorbitant increases in the near future, which will no doubt justify all the councils to hike their rates too.

Had to laugh when I got this email this morning - as I say, we have no choice of provider and my bills are auto debited to my account, so my 'relationship' amounts to flicking a switch on and off:

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Let's hope their supply systems are better than their spell checker (unless of course it is correct and you are their only customer).

 

[Papa G]

Papa said people turn into hermits if they don't interact in person with office fukctards daily.

I choose to work from a home studio I built for purpose after many years in the office, work for myself now.

I look back at the office environment as somewhat old fashioned, it has nothing to do with being a hermit, it moreso depends if your job allows it and you have the ability to work alone and can cope with that, that’s a personality type.

Working for yourself is different. By definition you are self motivated.
Outside the socialisation factor, the rank and file need to be supervised otherwise they will skive. Your kidding yourself if you think otherwise.

 

[Capital Power]

Papa said people turn into hermits if they don't interact in person with office fukctards daily.

Can recommend. Extended my working life by a few years just because my employer offered WFH, and gladly became a hermit upon retirement. People are overrated .

 

[Capital Power]

Unfortunately, though, high inflation also affects retirees as they don't have a commensurately rising income to offset the impact. Even bloody Lego have said they need to preserve their billion dollar profits by raising prices .

 

[Del165198]

Makes you really think hard about electric future, cars, and how governments have let everyone down compared to what’s going on in Europe, a good decade behind…

You can just say the LNP..

 

[Del165198]

Another shit take from papa.

I was paying around $1.40 a litre for diesel last year. It's now $2.20, this is before the additional 22 cents gets wacked on. Not sure where the 30c a litre increase is from, his imagination probably.

 

[Portology]

Working for yourself is different. By definition you are self motivated.
Outside the socialisation factor, the rank and file need to be supervised otherwise they will skive. Your kidding yourself if you think otherwise.

This dude one of your ancestors?

 

[Papa G]

This dude one of your ancestors?

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Looks like a Turk so hell no.

 

[Portology]

Looks like a Turk so hell no.

the coat kinda says Russian-ish but I could be wrong

 

[PowerBaz]

the coat kinda says Russian-ish but I could be wrong

Ottoman empire.

 

[Contested Marx]

Papa said people turn into hermits if they don't interact in person with office fukctards daily.

Yes. When I'm working from home I'm really missing spending time with Peroni drinking fcuktrads

 

[Lagooner]

Looks like a Turk so hell no.

Have you done an Ancestry DNA test? All the Greeks I know who’ve done it have come up majority Turkish.

 

[TeeKray]

Have you done an Ancestry DNA test? All the Greeks I know who’ve done it have come up majority Turkish.

Given the motherland was occupied by the Turks for 500 years, the ancestry test will almost certainly deliver Papa some bad news.