Lord Presents..What Made Your Day + What Ruined Your Day IV

[NZTailender]

Originally Posted by Goughy

Good question. I picked up a cheap USB (called the 'Smart Bro') with a few hours of slow wireless internet access preloaded. Convenient in a crisis but hardly the stuff for day-to-day use.

Sounds alright for an emergency though

[andyc]

Originally Posted by silentstriker

I'm really against that too tbh, but much less so. But there are people who send their kids to school within the same compound. They literally never go outside except maybe once or twice a year. That's a cult, not a home. It's an isolated, sterile little world and I find it elitist, depressing and in many cases - creepy as hell.

Whoa. The compounds in China generally just had houses and a gym, pool and clubhouse. Definitely no school. That's freaky.

[Top_Cat]

SS, is the one you're talking about of that ilk owned by Disneyland? Creepy as ****.

Ruined

RFB;

"Ricky Ponting's Cricket 2005, med trundles in off 5 paces and bowls a short ball at 55Km/h. Next ball is full and straight, same action and run-up, 154Km/h, middle peg nearly impales slip.

Ah, now I remember why I hate this game so much....

*click*"

**** you, Codemasters. Lucky this game cost me all of $5.

[pasag]

Originally Posted by Top_Cat

SS, is the one you're talking about of that ilk owned by Disneyland? Creepy as ****.

Ruined

RFB;

"Ricky Ponting's Cricket 2005, med trundles in off 5 paces and bowls a short ball at 55Km/h. Next ball is full and straight, same action and run-up, 154Km/h, middle peg nearly impales slip.

Ah, now I remember why I hate this game so much....

*click*"

**** you, Codemasters. Lucky this game cost me all of $5.

Best game ever. Can only score effectively cutting and glancing though.

[pasag]

Made

Finished off my survey and in pre-test stage. Will launch it on CW on Tuesday, hoping to get a good crowd.

[silentstriker]

Originally Posted by Top_Cat

SS, is the one you're talking about of that ilk owned by Disneyland? Creepy as ****.

Nah, places like this. Depressingly, it's becoming increasingly common everywhere, including the US.

[Craig]

Originally Posted by silentstriker

Nah, places like this. Depressingly, it's becoming increasingly common everywhere, including the US.

Designed to protect people from the 'big bad outside world'? People need to HTFU and stop being so paranoid if that is the case.

[Top_Cat]

Originally Posted by silentstriker

Nah, places like this. Depressingly, it's becoming increasingly common everywhere, including the US.

Hilarious they think they can relax about their child's safety because everyone knows each other. Just makes grooming easier if you're a kiddie fiddler.

EDIT: haha, love the talk about child safety but not a seat belt amongst them in the car.

[silentstriker]

What about the part where they were looking for beggars, or the part where their maid is not allowed to leave the compound and has her room inspected? Ridiculous. That documentary pissed me off so much.

[Jakester1288]

Made

Work was good, just orders and cleaning the shop etc

Had first go at driving a box trailer. Was going well until I lost sight of it (sloping downhill) so I had to pull her up there. Still good fun, good skill to learn.

[Jakester1288]

Ruined...badly

Found out that mum can check who I'm texting and when I'm texting/using net etc etc from my phone on the optus site. My lifes basically over. If you knew her, she doesn't give two ****s about my privacy and tries to read my texts and whatever at any chance, now she'll end up asking who everyone that I text is.

FML

[social]

Originally Posted by andyc

Lived in a compound (same dealio, different name) in China tbh. A lot of fun for kids, and the hugely expensive prices meant that the only people that oculd afford it were other expats whose companies were paying for the accomodation. Provided a great place to play and socialise in, but at the same time completely blocked us off from the real Chinese population. While I can definitely see the argument for them existing in an expat setting, there's considerably less reason for them to exist in other places.

Main reason is security and there's a massive market for those types of communities in many places

[Mr Casson]

Originally Posted by silentstriker

I'm really against that too tbh, but much less so. But there are people who send their kids to school within the same compound. They literally never go outside except maybe once or twice a year. That's a cult, not a home. It's an isolated, sterile little world and I find it elitist, depressing and in many cases - creepy as hell.

There are a lot of schools in South Korea situated at the bottom of or adjacent to high-rise apartment compounds too. I haven't seen your Youtube link yet so I don't know how they compare, but from my point of view it's not necessarily a bad thing. It would certainly be a positive for parents who do long commutes to work and can't drop off/pick up their kids.

[pasag]

Originally Posted by Jakester1288

Ruined...badly

Found out that mum can check who I'm texting and when I'm texting/using net etc etc from my phone on the optus site. My lifes basically over. If you knew her, she doesn't give two ****s about my privacy and tries to read my texts and whatever at any chance, now she'll end up asking who everyone that I text is.

FML

Pay for your own phone...

[ripper868]

haha yep, well put saggers.