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ambermorn said:
woo, me too! i've been hired by telstra (retail sales) for the summer. now gotta be placed in a store and start training.
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Congrats! I'm in the process of trying to get a job in customer service with a government agency atm. I just found out I got through to the next round of interviews...really fast process. Had the phone interview on Tuesday, then they called me Tuesday arvo to let me know I'd gotten through to the group interview, which was yesterday, then they called me today to let me know that I've gotten through to the computer testing which is tomorrow. Individual interviews early next week so this time next week I should know whether I got it. Who knew government agencies could actually be efficient!? I hope to God I get it, the money is awesome and way better than my current job.
 
American TG Man said:
http://www.stopbirdporn.org/

https://pic.armedcats.net/a/an/anonymous/2008/10/22/passionwtfpo2.jpg

Seriously, what the fuck is going on in this womans head to associate bird watching with avian voyeurism?

Pay careful attention to the people she references. It horribly damages her argument when you put it together...
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What the fuck...? So because I am an avid bird watcher (and I am), that constitutes me as some degenerate pervert?

I think birds are pretty and interesting, not...sexual. Good God in Heaven, it is true; the internet has brought out the best and worst in humanity. <_<
 
melbournian said:
Congrats! I'm in the process of trying to get a job in customer service with a government agency atm. I just found out I got through to the next round of interviews...really fast process. Had the phone interview on Tuesday, then they called me Tuesday arvo to let me know I'd gotten through to the group interview, which was yesterday, then they called me today to let me know that I've gotten through to the computer testing which is tomorrow. Individual interviews early next week so this time next week I should know whether I got it. Who knew government agencies could actually be efficient!? I hope to God I get it, the money is awesome and way better than my current job.
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Oh, which agency?? Federal? State?
 
WTF :blink: :shock: :shock2:

http://www.cairns.com.au/article/2008/02/28/1839_local-news.html

Snake's wallaby meal

The former Cairns councillor was at his rural property at Bilwon last month when he heard a neighbour's dog barking and rushed down to the water's edge to find the snake devouring a full-size wallaby with a joey in its pouch.

He estimated the python was at least 5m long.

"We were more amazed than anything that a python could get its mouth around an animal of that size," he told The Cairns Post last night.

"We've seen a few snakes but never anything this big."

Mr Cleland said the experience was a good lesson for his children to be wary of all snakes.

"We figured if it could eat the wallaby, it could easily eat our five-year-old."

Mr Cleland sent the images to The Cairns Post after it yesterday revealed how a 5m python swallowed the Peric family's pet dog on Monday night.

Daniel Peric said he now would not leave his two children, aged five and seven, alone in any part of their Kuranda house.

The python was removed from the Peric's home by Australian Venom Zoo owner Stuart Douglas.

It will be released back into the wild away from humans and roads in the next few days, after being checked by a reptile specialist and officers from Queensland Parks and Wildlife.

In the meantime the python, named Fluffy because of its appetite for furry animals, is curled up in a special room at the Venom Zoo while it digests its prey.

Mr Douglas said scrub pythons grew up to 8m in length and there was documentary evidence they could break a man?s arm or strangle an adult to death.

The Cairns Post had a huge response to yesterday?s story, with more than 20,000 page views of the article at www.cairns.com.au.

had a huge response to yesterday?s story, with more than 20,000 page views of the article at www.cairns.com.au.
More than 6000 people have already viewed our python picture gallery on the site.
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https://pic.armedcats.net/a/an/anonymous/2008/10/22/snakemain.jpg

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=651337

Photos of a mammoth spider devouring a bird in a Queensland backyard are sweeping email inboxes ? and according to experts, it's all real.

The photos ? which are reported to have been taken this week in Atherton, west of Cairns ? show the spider clenching its legs around a lifeless bird trapped in a web.

Head spider keeper at the Australian Reptile Park at Gosford on NSW central coast, Joel Shakespeare, said the spider was a Golden Orb Weaver.

"Normally they prey on large insects? it's unusual to see one eating a bird," he told ninemsn.

Mr Shakepeare said he had seen Golden Orb Weaver spiders as big as a human hand but the northern species in tropical areas were known to grow larger.

Queensland Museum identified the bird as a native finch called the Chestnut?breasted Mannikin.

The bird, which appears frozen in an angel-like pose, most likely flew into the web and got caught, according to Mr Shakepeare.

"It wouldn't eat the whole bird," he said.

But the spider would probably prepare a liquid soup with the finch ? as it does with insects ? and discard of what it doesn't need.

"It uses its venom to break down the bird for eating and what it leaves is a food parcel," he said.

Greg Czechura from Queensland Museum said cases of the Golden Orb Weaver eating small birds were "well known but rare".

"It builds a very strong web," he said.

But he said the spider would not have attacked until the bird weakened.

"They blunder into [the webs] and their feathers get entangled," he said.

"The more they struggle, the more tangled up and exhausted they get and they go into stress."

The Golden Orb Weaver spins a strong web high in protein because it depends on it to capture large insects for food, unlike funnel web and wolf spiders that actively hunt their prey.

Another species called the bird-eating spider does not actually eat birds.

"If a spider gets a bird, it's a very lucky spider," Mr Czechura said.
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https://pic.armedcats.net/a/an/anonymous/2008/10/22/2210_angel_sp_lg.jpg
 
Ironlord said:
I heard another version of that story a few months ago where the python was eating a dog - one of those small yappy-type dogs that eats Cesar - and it was implied the family in question's kids would be next if they weren't very careful.

No photos on that one, though...
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Does seem to happen from time to time
 
Karoug said:
Because small dogs are roman leaders?
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It's a British thing, you wouldn't get it. :lol:

Ironlord said:
I heard another version of that story a few months ago where the python was eating a dog - one of those small yappy-type dogs that eats Cesar.
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That's one for the funny quotes thread. Made me laugh anyway.
 
watto said:
Oh, which agency?? Federal? State?
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It's a federal agency, an Australian Government Statutory agency, according to their website...not to be too coy about it, I'm just superstitious and weird sometimes!

And holy crap. That photo of the spider nearly made me break my chair as I jumped away from the computer (I am an arachnophobe. I can't even look at them)
 
melbournian said:
It's a federal agency, an Australian Government Statutory agency, according to their website...not to be too coy about it, I'm just superstitious and weird sometimes!

And holy crap. That photo of the spider nearly made me break my chair as I jumped away from the computer (I am an arachnophobe. I can't even look at them)
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If it's centrelink best of luck to you, my mum was a manager there for years and you'd never beleive what they had to put up with....

Some dude with HIV came in, smashed up a phone and cut himself and started spraying blood all over everything yelling out "i've got HIV"

Another time some guy got arrested by SOG in the carpark as he was leaving....

The stories go on....
 
^Indeed, I knew someone who once worked at Centrelink, the crap they have to put up with sometimes, it's not very cool at all.
 
Hidden_Hunter said:
If it's centrelink best of luck to you, my mum was a manager there for years and you'd never beleive what they had to put up with....

Some dude with HIV came in, smashed up a phone and cut himself and started spraying blood all over everything yelling out "i've got HIV"

Another time some guy got arrested by SOG in the carpark as he was leaving....

The stories go on....
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Yikes! Luckily I'm not going to be doing that. My position will be in an in-bound call centre.
 
Hidden_Hunter said:
Some dude with HIV came in, smashed up a phone and cut himself and started spraying blood all over everything yelling out "i've got HIV"
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Although what he didn't realise is that HIV can't survive outside its host - for whatever parameters of "survive" apply to viruses. If it did, all life on Earth would have perished a long time back into history.

It'd take him squirting blood directly down his victim's throat, at the very least...
 
Ironlord said:
Although what he didn't realise is that HIV can't survive outside its host - for whatever parameters of "survive" apply to viruses. If it did, all life on Earth would have perished a long time back into history.

It'd take him squirting blood directly down his victim's throat, at the very least...
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yeah i don't think the guy was the most intelligent guy on the block in the first place.
 
Yeah, but I bet nobody else in the immediate vicinity realised that...:p

Its like that story I read about depicting the events of The Great Escape during WWII. One escaping prisoner decided he'd pose as a Lithuanian working in Germany.
"What happens when you run into a German patrol, do you speak Lithuanian?"
"No, but I bet the guard doesn't either!"

I read an article about how Centrelink is rated as one of the worst jobs people can have as they have to deal with the scum of human society and deal with the antics they get up to when their welfare check is late, or whatever. Its like these people think the world owes them something when it should be the other way round. When I come to power welfare will be exclusively for those who genuinely need it (and hell, they'll have to prove it) and suburbs such as Elizabeth and Salisbury will be bulldozed and oh I dunno, I'll build a park or something nice like that.
 
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