Public transport works quite well in London and Sydney. It kind of works in places like Brisbane and Adelaide, if you dont mind waiting ages. In places like Cairns, maybe it works if you live near a bus stop and plan your life around the one or two busses that might or might not come. Where I am, there's maybe 3 busses some days (2 of which are school busses) none on weekends or public holidays, and the timetable at the bus stop is completely unrelated to if or when busses come. Its great.
I think they're shooting themselves in the foot. Already, here in Australia, they've changed it so you order your food and pay for it, then they take the next order and you've got to wait for your number to be called, depending how many more orders they can take after you ordered.
Drive through is even worse, the last time i tried to get a simple breakfast meal, they wanted me to go and park away from the service area and presumably wait until they had nothing better to do than serve customers. I'm like- its just a coffee, either make me a coffee or give me my money back and I'll go elsewhere and see if they're not too busy to serve people. Caused all sorts of problems, I was obviously getting in the way of serving the next person. But in my defense, I had ordered and paid already, and felt that maybe they should serve me before trying to take more orders.
Like I said, it was the last time.
Its a competitive market, fast food. I find hungry jacks (burger king) is at the very least, still fast. The chicken place is pretty efficient, though they mostly serve chicken related products which wont help if you want a burger. Subways not too bad, but one has to choose things they dont microwave the heck out of (Italian BMT).
They're trying to promote it as some kind of gourmet experience, ordering your own food via self service. From what I can see, its mostly Asian tourists perhaps with limited English, that choose the self service.
Hey I'm as unrealistic as the next guy, and to be honest I dont make any effort at all here. Leaving aside, there are only something like 4 and a half Australian women on here...
You got rid of the lady garden? I guess it must be summer over there. You'll probably be able to swim laps in the pool a bit faster, less drag. On the downside, if you go skydiving it will probably make a whistling noise.
The thing is, once I get going its quite incredible really. In fact, I recommend any potential partner wears leg pads like the cricket batsmen do. Last thing a lovely lady needs on date night, is a compound fracture of the femur.
It goes both ways, I'm not looking for a crazy middle aged woman with orange teeth and as many problems as me. Or a sensible woman who lives in a shoe with her 9 children either actually.
We call it the 24 hour famine here, to raise money for them to waste on weapons to fight each other or themselves, while we try to raise money for all the starving kids at the same time.
Yes, but you must have weighed up whether you'd prefer roadkill or randoms enchilada... Its all good, we all do these calculations from time to time, so to speak.
Yeah Eva was kind of okay-ish for the day. But apparently he had a bent kabana and a taste for the excreta side of things. Whether its factual or not we shall never know, but its a good story.
I have no interest in poetry whatsoever. Its not that its too deep or whatever, its like rap music. I switch it off and find something better to listen to.
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Public transport works quite well in London and Sydney. It kind of works in places like Brisbane and Adelaide, if you dont mind waiting ages. In places like Cairns, maybe it works if you live near a bus stop and plan your life around the one or two busses that might or might not come. Where I am, there's maybe 3 busses some days (2 of which are school busses) none on weekends or public holidays, and the timetable at the bus stop is completely unrelated to if or when busses come. Its great.