What pisses you off?

[Woods Of Ypres]

busting my arse for 8 years to save money for a home deposit. Losing my job, but then told by Centrelink the money saved must be used up before I Newstart Allowance will be approved.

sick

[John Wren]

^ yeah, that's a killer. sorry to hear about your job.

[Kingswood]

playing far cry 2 for about 30 hrs only to get to 88% and have a glitch in the game stop me from going any further.

busting my arse for 8 years to save money for a home deposit. Losing my job, but then told by Centrelink the money saved must be used up before I Newstart Allowance will be approved.

sick

LOL...

but seriously sorry to hear that mate.. chin up

[stui magpie]

busting my arse for 8 years to save money for a home deposit. Losing my job, but then told by Centrelink the money saved must be used up before I Newstart Allowance will be approved.

sick

That is so bullshit isn't it. The bastards get you every which way.

Withdraw the money from the bank, buy a small fireproof safe, bolt it to the floor under your bed and stick the money in it.

Go back to centrelink and tell them you spent it. If they ask "what on" tell em you were depressed, got pissed and spent it on booze and hookers and wasted the rest.

Or, stick the money into your super fund. (just make sure it's not locked in there until you retire. If you put extra in post tax, you should be able to withdraw the principle, not the earnings, at any time).

The longest they should be able to withold payments for would be for the duration of any leave you had paid out on termination. ie, if you got paid out 6 weeks leave/notice, they can withold payments for 6 weeks.

[Miss_Lisey_Molloy]

My nephews Kinder making this weekend our 'Kinder Clean Up' weekend!!

In the pouring rain, we had to go out and clean the animal pens, put food out, sweep like a kilometre of path, and tidy up the yard!!

$275.00 a term, and they make us clean up!! It's crazy!!

Me and my sister are petrified of animals, and one of the rabbits got out. It took me like 15 minutes to catch it, and I was terrified! Haha yes, I am scared of bunnies

Love always, Alyssa xoxo

[stui magpie]

F*cking power keeps going out. Something's tripping the safety switch. Either I have a short in something or it's the dodgy weather. Nothin new has been plugged in, but happened 4 times today.

[BlackAndWhiteSince87]

I'd say its the weather.Our internet has been really slow as of it all day.

[stui magpie]

I'm gonna crack the shits big time real soon. &*( safety switch is going ballistic. I've been going round the house turning things off and it still trips. Lost count how many times now. I'm really getting pissed off.

[Piethagoras' Theorem]

You may have a water leak that's setting it off stui

[stui magpie]

It seems to have settled now. I've turned off everything I'm not using. I'll go round tomorrow and hit "test" and turn things on till I find it, unless it was a leak after all this rain.

[Dale61]

the government giving handouts to dole bludgers who use it to buy alcohol. I could have done with $1400 myself, but since im fractionally above the breadline I miss out as usual.

Dole bludgers don't get the bonus, so I don't know how you came up with that!

It's single pensioners who get the $1400; couple pensioners get $2100 between them; eligible families get $1000 per child; eligible carers get $1000 per person they care for.

[Piethagoras' Theorem]

It seems to have settled now. I've turned off everything I'm not using. I'll go round tomorrow and hit "test" and turn things on till I find it, unless it was a leak after all this rain.

You haven't set up xmas lighting as in Chevy Chase in National Lampoons have you?

[stui magpie]

^

Nah, No Xmas lighting. Up half the night turning the freaking power back on.

Rang up a sparky first thing this morning. He came out, I unplugged everything and he's running tests. Can't figure out what it is. No one thing is actually shorting and there's no evidence of a water pool anywhere.

Unplugged the back shed, it was giving a reading, but hasn't fixed it.

In the end, after an hour of f*&king around, I got him to install multiple circuit switches, so the power in the back of the house trips a different circuit to the front. It's the front that's causing the problem, just don't know WTF it is.

I've plugged the frisge and freezer into an extension cord and ran it to the back room, so it's not going to go down if the frnt trips again and bought new powerboards for the computer and AV equipment.

$200 for the call out, $300 for the hours work plus the 3 new circuits, plus another $100 for the 2 power boards.

I'm going to get a beer.

[BlackAndWhiteSince87]

I still think it was the weather yesturday Stui.
Just hope for you and your bank accounts sake it isnt!

[stui magpie]

^

I'm sure the weather has something to do with it, but it's not that simple. The sparky couldn't track any particular fault. if it was a water leak somewhere, he would have found it.

FIIK.