I lived in Bilinga for five years of my childhood. So I know exactly where you are.
This bit of shrinkflation amounts to a 20% price rise. For what is already a luxury/occasional purchase.
Err, I'll take the big one thanks, Aldi. And I probably won't be buying this treat very often any longer.
Some nerd like me will be affected by this one day and then script up something that emails them from 10,000 different email addresses that all bounce. Pollute their database.
It's hard to say whether we are having a moment, or if we are paying extra attention. Another name to keep an eye on: Luke Webber. He's only 13/14, but has taken out the 200m and 400m state records as well as taking out the 100m final (just didn't break the record doing it).
They don't do Nationals at his age, so he went and ran against kids a year older. Still won.
The dietician has taken ham and salami off my wife's menu to address cholesterol. It should likely apply to me also, but I'm not organised enough to book things like "check ups" and dieticians. So I bought a large whole chook last weekend and we roasted it. It's going into sandwiches this week (and will likely be a weekly thing for the foreseeable future) instead of ham/salami. So far, everyone likes the change. It works out far cheaper also: over 2kg of chook is about he prices of 500g of ham/salami.
So I was the pied piper on the weekend and took a troop of kids to see the Minecraft Movie. It was an experience.
The movie itself was pretty typical middle-aged kids' fare. Fairly awful dialogue and cliched characters. Jason Moama was a surprise, I thought Jack Black was the only famous star in it. I have a feeling that in the right role, Jason would have some wonderful comedy chops. This movie was not it. Stiffler's Mum was funny, but all I could see was Stiffler's Mum. I think the two female leads were great and a good foil for the Jack Black/Jason Moama antics. Pity the girls didn't really have a lot to do in the plot.
If I'd been watching it on Blu Ray or streaming, I might have turned it off. As a movie, it's not great. However, watching it in a cinema on opening weekend in a room full of kids really made it wonderful. They were cheering at obvious fan-service references that I didn't get. Screaming out at "Chucky Chicken!" and I can't remember other bits. But you get the idea. The energy in the room was great.
So while I didn't particularly love the movie, I loved the experience of watching it.
Amaze! Jazz hands!
Ha! A day later, I see the thing! It's real all right:
His deteriorating health was big news when the second Top Gun movie came out and we found out he couldn't actually speak any more.
Adobe Havenโt these dickheads been charging Australians more for their products than anyone else for decades?
I think it's more aligned these days. But it used to be cheaper to fly to the USA, buy a copy of Adobe creative suite, go to Disneyland for the day and then fly home than it was to buy Creative Suite in Australia. It's all subscription-based, now.
Such an underrated film. Everyone in it is great.
You don't have to vote. You only need to get your name crossed off. You are then able to just leave if you really want.
And while those 'how to vote cards' (and their pushers) are annoying if you don't need or want them, they do help people get something close to their wishes down on the ballot.