Little Things You Love

c3024446 said:
Checking the greenslip calculator and switching to QBE from NRMA. Because I'm over 23, live in NSW, full licence, no points lost in 40 months - $399. Saved $143.
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NRMA are a farquin headache to deal with. I've almost begged them to take our two cars if they can get close to QBE for the CTP where close means $20-$50 in difference. They didn't so I didn't renew with them. A waste of time so I went to town on them in the 'how are we doing' follow up email.

They tried a bit harder with the comprehensive insurance so kept it with them. The lowball market value they had me on was the bottom on as listed in the redbook. I grumbled why should the market value decrease $5k but the premium remain the same, please fix or no renewals for you. They fixed it in the end and did a agreed value $2k under last year's valuation.

Car insurance is a PITA and I just don't have faith in any of them, much less the Coles/Woolies/Budget Direct cartels when you would have to go cap in hand to get anything back if you ever make a claim.
 
12 Strava PRs including the full loop on lap 5 of 5 of my local mountain on Saturday. I'm either getting technically better or more fearless or stronger.

:)
 
droenn said:
no MS here :) ubuntu/gnome with a few tweaks.
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Lucky, I have to deal with MS shite all day... Twin 24 monitors though - its hard to go back to a single monitor. Have a 27 iMac at home (which is a glorious monitor) but twin 24 better for working on.
 
Haakon said:
Lucky, I have to deal with MS shite all day... Twin 24 monitors though - its hard to go back to a single monitor. Have a 27 iMac at home (which is a glorious monitor) but twin 24 better for working on.
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I also have a 24" in vertical next to this one for emails and a sneaky web browser. Together they make a nice wall I can hide behind! I could have gone 30" but the same resolution at that size looks bad to me now. All my personal gear is apple and retina (laptop, iPad pro, iPhone)- which has basically ruined anything that isn't close...
 
droenn said:
All my personal gear is apple and retina (laptop, iPad pro, iPhone)- which has basically ruined anything that isn't close...
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Yep - I almost regretted buying the 27 iMac due to how shit it made the monitors I spend all my weekdays looking at...

I have my twin monitors butted up together as i do a lot of big spreadsheet work, often spread things across both of them.
 
LTIL - a call from Fiat Chrysler Aust this afternoon, asking whether I'd like a replacement or refund on the lemon Alfa Romeo we bought. Looks like the saga might be over...
 
Claim irreparable emotional damage that only a 4C can fix. It is only right.
My head hurts already in sympathy.

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I should've known...and may have learnt a lesson here. I'm sitting at the entry to glenrock rock lagoon waiting for the traffic to die down a little before I venture home. I can hear a little rustling in the bushes and I have been wondering if it is the big cock..?a guy has just finished running and after. Few moments of standing around catching his breath he whips out a torch and starts rummaging around in the scrub where the big cock lives...

I figure it's time for a laugh and ask if he is "looking for the big cock?" only he thinks I'm making some kind of offer and politely declines. I try to explaon about the rooster...
 
How could you resist. Make sure you do the offer in your best Austin Powers voice and look him in the eye.

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Poodle repeat after me:

"In my pre polling of 60 year old white men sifting through the scrub on sunset in the local park, "are you looking for the big cock" is not a valid means of getting a "feel" for the sentiments of the electorate"
 
Mr Crudley said:
How could you resist. Make sure you do the offer in your best Austin Powers voice and look him in the eye.

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I tend to have something of a gravelly voice these days...fluctuating between Clint Eastwood amd tom waits.

link1896 said:
Poodle repeat after me:

"In my pre polling of 60 year old white men sifting through the scrub on sunset in the local park, "are you looking for the big cock" is not a valid means of getting a "feel" for the sentiments of the electorate"
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The yes vote is strong in my community.
 
Haakon said:
LTIL - a call from Fiat Chrysler Aust this afternoon, asking whether I'd like a replacement or refund on the lemon Alfa Romeo we bought. Looks like the saga might be over...
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Replacement of course!

Every other Alfa is built properly - yours is the only one they fucked up.
 
hifiandmtb said:
Replacement of course!

Every other Alfa is built properly - yours is the only one they fucked up.
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Of course, they're all awesomely put together by careful and dedicated artisans.

But - she has decided to have another go... If the new one is also a dog we at least have precedent for not having to live with it!
 
Haakon said:
Of course, they're all awesomely put together by careful and dedicated artisans.

But - she has decided to have another go... If the new one is also a dog we at least have precedent for not having to live with it!
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Wow...she must have some amazing headache cure to pull this off! Or you really like lemons?
 
No headache cure... I just seem to like punishment it seems. Sigh.

It's her car, she likes it and if she can get one that works she will be happy. Therefore I'll be happy.

I got a pretty good deal on it when I bought it the first time, am thinking I won't do too much cash if it's flipped at the first sign of trouble.
 
I guess it could never happen again, right. I mean surely it was just bad luck and a series of one offs, nothing systemic. It's an Alfa afterall.
 
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