Okay - I'm, getting so fed up with Government organisations.  I've been trying to move into local governemt with my employment for the batter part of fice years and having no success, so I'm now looking at Commonwealth government.  I've now been waiting for three week for them to say that I have a job.  COME ON YOU BASTARDS. GIVE ME A MOTHER LOVING JOB OR I'LL MOTHER LOVING COME OVER THERE AND... Puppy's head explodes

The worst government department I've ever had to deal with would have to be the Motor Registry offices in each state. I head in on my lunch break and it goes something like this: Me: "Hi I'd like to register my car" Them: "Fill out these fifteen forms and then go and stand in line again for two hours just to get a number and then wait another two hours until we call you" And guaranteed that when I get back to the counter you wont be able to help me then either, or you'll tell me that you forgot to give me one more form to fill out so I'll have to go through the whole process again and then come back another day because "We're closing in 5 minutes"

Well how 'bout I drive my car through the side of the building and run you bastards over! ... Then after that they'll probably deem it "unroadworthy"

Bastards.

I've just been told, after three weeks of waiting for the call back, that there are going to be further delays and that they'll call me back later.

Damn Puppy.... wish you all the best with that one!

One would need to love paper to work for the govt....

Morgan ... Qld as far as I know is the easiest State to get around "forms" and the "roadworthy" issue. It only has to pass at the time of transfer and usually someone knows someone who knows someone who will pass it sight unseen. The stipulation is that roadworthies are valid for 30 days so there is an unwritten "thank-you" not to drive "much" in the first thirty days. Once that period passes, the dodgy certifier has no liability and your away. Though sadly the issues as you state them are certainly true here. The trick is to get there first thing in the morning otherwise it fulls with bogans faster than the Hyperdome carpark on a Thursday night. Same goes for Medicare except it fills with all walks but mainly bogans.

Don't love paperwork - love dealing with people and I'm good with numbers.  Just been in banking for the past 9 years or so.  At least here I'm making people's taxes work for them rather than making their money work for shareholders.

Oh....

Hey, wanna do my taxes? *grin*

I wouldn't Dek.  Anyone with a name which includes an immature dog coupled with a radio station and admits to being a Sherman Tanker is bound to be the last person who can do tax...

You could always have an affair with him and take him for every penny he has.  Which would be nice because he keeps refering to me as a bastard.

Sorry Arthur.  I promise that I'll stop referring to you as a bastard... you bitch!

Ooh.. Arthur as a bitch.... who's the butch? 

hahahahahaah

Thanks for the advice Mr Dent. You always have my welfare at heart. Ok... will consider the affair then

Ummm... I'm unemployed - have about 23 cents you could take... Hang on, Sherman Tanker?

Who be that?

Merchant Banker.

Oh - No I was just a private banker - a banker of money - do what you want me to do.
I'm your private banker - a banker for money - any old moola will do.

I'm going to have that stuck in my head all day now...

I just want moniez... why you all be confuzzling moi?

Great... that just got the song 'the way i are' in my head.

Thaaaaaaannnnnkkksssssss.......

*bashes head against the wall*

ROFL!!

I didn't have a connection, but thanks for putting it into my head now!

The first verse goes like this:

I ain't got no money
I ain't got no car to take you on a date
I can't even buy you flowers
But together we can be the perfect soul mates
Talk to me girl....

*thinks: how did we go from government departments to timbaland songs?*

Oh, and in no way am i suggesting that i actually like timbaland, its just that when you work in bars and clubs forever, its all they seem to play... so unfortunately I know this. I love getting home though and listening to my own music. There is a time for timbaland, and now is not it!

I have no idea who you're talking about except the Timberland that does interior mouldings.

I do like Timbaland. Well, some of his songs anyway

Yeah me too.. like I said, there's a time and place for timbaland..

LOL

Fair nuf....

Cept YOU brought it up!!

But.. but...

darn my stupid head making connections to random messages....

either way, I've now got this song stuck in my head

I'm not even gonna click on that....

I have 'I'm so waaaaasted on you' in me head, and I wanna keep it there!

Oohh... nice! Wish I had something like that...

*lets Morgan into her head*

Hmm.. thought it'd be really scary, but its a lot like mine in here.... *sigh*

*curls up into a corner and relaxes*

hahahahahaha

I love you

Well you'd better because I'm not going out of here anytime soon! 

LOL!

Yay! Someone actually wants to stay wif me!

Well, that didn't seem to last for long

Although I'm concerned about the discussion of going into each other's head finishing with Dek's last emoticon.

What concerns you about that?

Well, when you put it that way... whatever floats your boat I guess

LOL!!

Eggactly

*nods*

Just as long as I can get the video evidence...

errrrrmmm..... Is someone filming the inside of my head??

This could get really messy

It's okay... I'm happy inside my head as well - the voices are all so nice to me...

*phew* It's  not just me

No - the voices in my head are KILL! KILL! KILL! nice to you to

ummm yeah, I have that too.... ummm.... sometimes

Ummm... ok, a lot of times

Have what? NO MUMMY, DON'T PUT THE KNITTING NEEDLES IN MY EARS! I don't know what you're talking about?

wow I think I walked in here at the wrong time!!

Good lord... I think I might have too

I still don't NATAS PIHSROW NATAS PIHSROW understand what you two are on about?

Tis ok. We're talking to that other bolder voice of yours

I don't have a Sssh! he doesn't know that we're here.  By the way have I ever told you that you have a lovely smile?  No?  I can't believe that, how remiss of me.  Please allow me to introduce myself.  I am Sir Puppion de Radio the third, although my friends call me Mr Tickle. bold voice, what are you talking about?.

Dear PupRad, you know I love you, but will you shaddup and let the other voice thru? The one that's a Sir? He sounds nice...

Oh my dear, I do hope not to cause any conflict between the two of you.  I hope that you can see that the two of you are both my friends, my compatriots, and that I couldn't live without either of you.  But having said that Dek, you are like the oxygen that I live on.  I breathe in every word that you say as it is my fuel, my life, and in return I use that same breath to whisper back to you these flowery words, but alas they are merely the faintest whisper of a shadow of the impact that you have on my existence.

ROFL!!!

If only

My dearest darling heart.  Have I never given you any reason to doubt the obvious depth and sincerity of my words, and the strength of my overriding fondness, obsession, and even, dare I say it, love for you.  You are the apple of Eden, that tempting fruit that is just out of reach, that is forbidden to touch, but is so desirable and sweet that I, as the merest of mortals against your obvious divinity, cannot bear to leave alone.

Why are you talking to your heart?

Do you doubt, my sweetest and most radiant jewel that you are Dek, that my heart has become so full of you and so enamoured of you that it no longer performs the most mundane of functions such as pumping the fluid through my veins.  Instead it is the vessel upon which I bear my soul in order to grant it to you, my sweetest Dek, as you are my new divinity, my one true worship. 

ROFL!!

Ok, you're a good wordsmith... I give you that sir

*enters thread*

*reads*

*backs away slowly*

LOL SK!

It's ok.... you can come back in

Felt it more appropriate to go in here:

FUCK THE FUCKING PASSPORT OFFICE!!!!!!

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

So the story goes that I was going to South Africa next year for the FIFA world cup. But to buy tickets (as a non-SA-resident) they need information like your passport number, identification, etc basically they need to know who you are and what you'll be doing in their country. So I dig up my passport (which has expired) (GAH!!) (and let me inform you that I never went overseas, not once) and so I find I have to renew said passport. Now the Australian Foreign Affairs commision has decided to change the way our passports look, as well as the specific identification numbers/images/security details on the bloody thing so I have to (basically) get a brand-friggin-new one, "at the cost of a renewal, of course!"
Only problem is, that once they sent it back to me (came in the mail today), all the bloody tickets are sold out!!!


(of course all the tickets aren't sold out, just the Team-specific-tickets for Australia) and the draw for the groups and rounds doesn't happen until the end of this year!! so unless I wanna wait around until then to find out what matches we actually play, there's no bloody point is there!!!!!

FIFA world cup dream crushed (for the second world cup in a row) 

Morgan is not happy.

Wait... what??

So you aren't going?

there is still hope. my friends went to germany for the last WC and same story. no more tix. BUT they were outside the stadium for all the matches and the ambience is just as good. and you have a good following of those who are in your similar shoes i.e. ticketless.

i say you still make the trip.

Yeah. That's what I was thinking. No need to miss the whole thing just cos you can't get those tics?

No, evidently not. There's no point going to the world cup if all I can do is stand outside the stadiums and watch on the big screen. I may as well sit at home and watch sbs.

It's totally different

Plus I'm sure you can get other tickets!

i'd pay to be outside the stadium then watch it on TV actually.

Totally. Same here.

Nothing can beat atmosphere

Yeah me too... but.. I dunno... this just brought me down today.. I'll re-assess my plan, and do some more thinking about what I'm gonna do.

Yeah, don't let it get to you.

The one thing I've learnt is that life is about experiences. Not necessarily grand experiences, but things outside your comfort zone. Go for it. You have no idea where you'll be in 8 years

Life is a heap of shit then you die.

Actually, not quite true.  Some people do die happy and others die really happy.  Meaning that by the time they die, they never got to realise that life is a heap of shit.

Hey!! That used to be my line!

Actually I enjoy life.  Learnt a fair while ago that there is no point in railing against that which you cannot change, and I'm seriously just a leaf in the wind for most of what happens in my life.  But no matter what does happen there is always something there that you can find joy in.

ie. Puppy loses his job - but his job was horrible and he has time to meet new people.
Puppy has very little money for food - but it means that Puppy is looking into cheap ways of making food interesting
I could bury my head in my hands and cry, but where would that get me.  Carpe Diem. Suck the very marrow out of every second.  JFK used to say "Live every day as though it would be your last."

There's also Ghandi - "Live as if you would die tomorrow, learn as if you would live forever"

I would paraphrase it to change "learn" to "plan", but the original stands as good...

Yeah, I've recently changed my main thinking to 'life is experiencing'. And that includes good and bad.

On the other hand...

 
(originally from http://9gag.com/gag/6523/)

"Nothing is good or bad but thinking makes it so"  Shakespeare

ROFL SK!

It has a point

"I dont get people who say life is short. Life is the longest bloody thing anybody ever does!! What else can you do that is longer?!"

hahahaha

It is though. There just ain't enough time to do all one wants to do

Hence multitasking I guess

mutli-tasking *boy scratches head* what's that?

That's ok... there's only a few of us who do that really well...

I believe Science has come to the conclusion that no-one really multitasks. Not in the sense of doing 2 things at once and doing them both just as well as you could do them individually. Our limited brains mean that trying to do two things at once typically ends up as doing one thing at a time but switching task at short intervals. Some people have more of a knack to resuming each task without having pause to get themselves going, others take a while to get back into it if they get at all distracted... that's the difference.

With some exceptions though, certain combinations of inputs/outputs can be combined without detriment. I forget what they were but it's something like responding to sound by speaking doesn't interfere with responding to visual cues by doing something with your hands. So you can carry on a conversation while doing something, so long as you keep your eyes on what you're doing... maybe. That might be right, or it might be some other combination of "doing X in response to Y doesn't interfere with doing A in response to B" and the whole thing likely breaks down if either one of your tasks demands too much attention.

It's a near impossible thing to monitor - I read a brief on the study I think you're alluding too, came out in about 2004 or 05, but the problem with it is the initial supposition is that multitasking is near impossible to do to a full extent, so therefore having that as the outcome is not a surprise... I wish I could remeber who did the study now and I'd be able to explain what I meant...

hmmm.....

I'm working and having fun. How abt that?

But seriously SK.... I'm thinking abt it. I'll pay more attention to me brain when I'm multi tasking.

I mean, there certainly are times when I'm doing two things at once and not quite paying attention to one or either. And it certainly is hard to so something which requires focus while doing something else.

But I can cook and have a philosophical debate at the same time, and do both really freaking well.

1. Have people play Tetris while talking to you about something.
2. Have other people play Tetris while not talking to you.
3. Compare scores to assess average ability to multitask.
4. Repeat for other combinations of tasks and publish results. Done.

Heh... I'm shit at Tetris anyways.

But that's what I mean about different types of tasks

If you're cooking while talking... that either falls under the category of "things that we actually can do together", whichever specific combination that was, or you were cooking mostly during the gaps in conversation, and conversing mainly during the breaks in your cooking.

Nope. No gaps.

"Things we can do together" - that's just a different way of saying what I was? That there are different types of tasks?

Yeah... there are some combinations where they found that multitasking could be done. But generally speaking, not as much as people think.

LOL!

After all that, we're in agreement

If I remembered it correctly, and the good combination is Task A: Respond to sound with speech, plus Task B: Respond to visual input by doing stuff with your hands, then having a conversation while cooking would fit right into that template.

Or talking on the telephone and doing everything else?! There's not much I cant do while I'm on the phone....

I don't drive and talk

Can't watch tv and talk either.

Ooohhhh I hate it when other people watch tv when I'm on the phone with them.. its sooo frustrating, because you know they're not paying attention to you. As soon as I get that impression, or I start to get the "What..? Huh..? What did you say? No, I am listening!" I just hang up.

Yeah, same.

Which is why I don't do it. Unless I want to

Tetris example - used to play a game of 2-player co-operative tetris with my brother.  We were both about as good as each other - okay, a lie, I was better then him but not by enough of a margin that what I'm about to describe should happen.

If he played l;eft and I played right, we were able to get up to level 9 and we usually died there... if I played both sides by myself I would be able to get to level ten and continue playing for a fair while (the levels only went up to 10 on this version.)

Admittedly I was doing a very similar task with both hands, but the area I had to concentrate on doubled and the amount of hand eye coordination required doubled as well.

I think Einstien said that; Time is really useful because it makes sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

Cept sometimes it fails at that...

Change the title to more encapsulate the changing moods of this topic...

LOL

And some mother (extremely romantic act that is performed only between mummies and daddies) idiot on Uncyclopedia is going to get a smack upside the head if he's not careful... Thomasfan666 - I'm watching you!

*checks her name*

Oh phew

Why, what's he doing?

Wow, I didnt even notice LOL

He's given a review on a piece of work I did that it doesn't appear that he has read...

Oops

Incompetency rulez

It's okay... I decided to return the compliment by giving him a review on a piece of work that he's claiming credit for (apparently hasn't even done) and told him to come back to me when he'd made the changes I suggested.  Either he'll go into hiding now, or he'll spend the better part of three days making changes on it, and either way I get my revenge.  Bwahahahaha!

Ooops, forgot for a second there that puppies aren't supposed to have evil laughs...

hahahahaha Too late.

Puppies can be evil, but not as much as miaos

hahaha... I don't think I've mentioned but my partner is also known by the handle "Miss Kitten"

LOL! So cute, puppy and kitten

What would that make the kids though?

Theoretically, badly house trained

Realistically, teenage boys

Not much different really...

HAHAHAHAHAHA