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I'm serious, I've never been called Karen before.

However the gripe wasn't about the cost, I even stated as much, it's about the fact that their website claims one thing while the operator on the gate does something else.

The council tip takes bricks for nothing and trucks it to the concrete recycling place where they are not charged for dumping it. If I'd put the same load in a 7 tonne truck and driven in I wouldn't have been charged. The recycling place advertises on their website site that they take it for nothing but then charge a fee upon arrival. It doesn't matter whether that fee is 50c or $500, it's dishonest and bullshit.

It's not even about making money to keep their operation afloat because they make more than enough selling the final product. I can get a tipper and dog of 20mm crushed rock delivered for $60 a cubic metre. Recycled concrete in the same size would cost me $135 a cubic metre.

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Jokes aside it's not a hand out or tip anyway. It has to go through the books because they have to receipt every load with the type of load, a vehicle registration, the driver's first name and the fee charged. It's all to do with being recognised as a company that works in a sustainable manner. So the dude on the gate may be able to use his discretion when it comes to who pays but it has to go through the books.

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By regulation he had to receipt the vehicle and the load he wasn't taking a bribe he just wasn't adhering to the price posted on their website. And even if I complained they'd simply say it was an error on their website and have their tech savvy 6 yr old change it. Like I said I don't give a shit about the price, $20 to get rid of a trailer of bricks that are no use to me is nothing. It's the principal of false advertising which the company can easily get around even when pointed out to them.

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On 7/7/2022 at 4:13 PM, Sardonicist said:

It sucks to be this fictional character on this imaginary planet. 

Especially when I am not even the protagonist but some faceless, nameless extra in a cast now numbering billions.  At least the writers have managed to revitalise the plot line with COVID, war in Ukraine, circus style politics,  economic and environmental woes.  The whole thing was getting boring after 30 years of the boring happy numb ignorant consumers plot line .

 

Not Steven King or even Clive Cussler but it's an improvement.  😜

 

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I wouldn't be so sure that not being a main protagonist is a bad thing. Do you really want all that stress and judgment?, I mean clearly Hitler was just looking out for his people, oh I mean clearly Pol Pot was just looking out for the working class, or something, that so many people are convinced makes sense. I mean like clearly all the evidence shows that saturated animal fat is the most healthy essential nutrient for humans, but this so called most exceptional multi kulti society can't update the data, so you continue to Kill your selves on low fat propaganda... No this inviting new people into your glove does not result in higher knowledge.  Australian public service announcements that HAM is as carcinogenic as PLUTANIUM or CIGERETTE BUTTS is totally swallow able. Just for a moment swallow.  And eat more salad man. The thing that humans never ate before. 

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6 hours ago, Sardonicist said:

I wouldn't be so sure that not being a main protagonist is a bad thing. Do you really want all that stress and judgment?, I mean clearly Hitler was just looking out for his people, oh I mean clearly Pol Pot was just looking out for the working class, or something, that so many people are convinced makes sense. I mean like clearly all the evidence shows that saturated animal fat is the most healthy essential nutrient for humans, but this so called most exceptional multi kulti society can't update the data, so you continue to Kill your selves on low fat propaganda... No this inviting new people into your glove does not result in higher knowledge.  Australian public service announcements that HAM is as carcinogenic as PLUTANIUM or CIGERETTE BUTTS is totally swallow able. Just for a moment swallow.  And eat more salad man. The thing that humans never ate before. 

Yeah and not only that but two of the three Abrahamic religions forbid the eating of that carcinogenic ham (and I think maybe shellfish?) while the other one says no problem dudes pork it up, eat all you want. Except for a certain medium sized subset of them that were told to eat their ham & bacon & sausages but just not on Fridays, by their funny hat wearing protagonist in the vatican. What's that all about? Is that swallowable? Who's the real antagonist now? You say it's broccoli, Jon-O says it's beef cattle, internet says it's the evil food industry pushing their carbs and sugar on us. Me I say fuck it, life is too short. They all could be right or they all could be wrong. I'll eat what tastes good and let the chips fall. Meat & veg just go together. You'll have to pry the marbled rib eyes and roasted asparagus from my cold dead hands.

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Every week the news here reports that something we eat is going to kill us. Every other week the news reports that some thing we were told was bad is now good for us. Even the actual studies that these reports are based on are not as cut and dried as "don't eat this", "don't eat that". As a cured meat Ham, like bacon, is often on the hit list of nutritionist because most people don't know or care how much salt is used in the process of getting it to the store. I've decided the only way to live a long and healthy life is to listen to news reports and eat only what the nightly news tells me is safe.

 

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