GRIPES

[Jerry_Atrick]

Yeah... wasnt picked up at home. .Was picked up in London, given the speed the tyre deflates and when it was first showing up. I was driving home laast night, and about half way home the warnign came on. Pulled into the next services and topped up the tyre and by the time I got home, it was on again.

 

Could be it moved and opened the hole a bit, but it is wedged in almost sideways;

 

Either way, It has made me very grumpy..

[facthunter]

Is it Insurance claimable?  Nev

[facthunter]

 Sometimes it can be Plugged. Is it tubeless?  Nev

[spacesailor]

Even " tubeless " tyres can have a proper repair done .

After the tyre is demounted the

" vulcanising patch " is applied inside the tyre .

A lot of places will tell you the plug is as good as a " vulcanised patch " repair , which is B S .

spacesailor

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[Jerry_Atrick]

14 minutes ago, facthunter said:

 Sometimes it can be Plugged. Is it tubeless?  Nev

Yeah, it's repairabvle. £25 is not worth claiming; it is more finding the time to drop off at the tyre place.

[Marty_d]

15 minutes ago, Jerry_Atrick said:

Yeah, it's repairabvle. £25 is not worth claiming; it is more finding the time to drop off at the tyre place.

Especially if you're tyred.

[red750]

I went to the chemist (Chemist Warehouse) with a repeat prescription authorisation (the yellow one) showing a issue date of 09/06/24, so still current, and number of repeats left, 5. They refused to fill the repeat because it did not have the original prescription (blue) attached.

[nomadpete]

That isn't a problem if you get your GP to issue an Escript. This comes to your phone. It is also sent to a gov website that the pharmacist can access (with your permission).

 

The paper system is planned to be phased out in coming years.

[spacesailor]

After all the 'war babies ' are gone .

spacesailor

[Jerry_Atrick]

The Dunning-Krueger (sp?) effect.. Cut a long story short (very unusual for me), inherited a team where one of the members seems to acutely and chronically suffer from this effect. What an absolute pain to deal with and a huge time-waster. Yet, this team member thinks they are the best on my team. F! Sometimes the US system of at-will employees (i.e can leave or be fired at will) has its advantages.

[old man emu]

The Dunning-Kruger effect describes a cognitive bias where individuals with low ability in a specific area overestimate their competence. In pre-PC days, wasn't that called the Peter Principle?

[octave]

It is often a case of not knowing what you don't know.   I spent most of my working life teaching music, and I have had more than one of these students, four lessons in, and they believe they are close to knowing it all, whereas those who have been learning longer tend to appreciate how much they have yet to learn.

 

[Jerry_Atrick]

Yes.. and some never progress beyind the furst curve peak...

 

 

[rgmwa]

Especially some pilots.

[nomadpete]

13 hours ago, old man emu said:

The Dunning-Kruger effect describes a cognitive bias where individuals with low ability in a specific area overestimate their competence. In pre-PC days, wasn't that called the Peter Principle?

Hey!

Don't go blaming ME!

[facthunter]

There is the Petering out Principle ,  Peter the rock. and the over-promotion level of Peter, to name a few  Nev

[old man emu]

I have a burning gripe with the media today is the way it reported the result of the election of Susan Ley as the new leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party.

 

Susan Ley has been the Member for Farrer since 2001. Twenty-four years' political experience. In that time she has held a number of important posts in both Government and Opposition. Despite her being a member of a Party I do not vote for, I can at least respect her political abilities.

 

So what is my gripe? It's the fact that the media has published reports with this headline: Sussan Ley elected first female Liberal party leader. If the leadership ballot had gone the other way, and Angus Taylor had won, would the headline read  Liberal party elects a male leader ? I think not. I don't give a rat's about the gender (and I use that in the 2025 meaning of the word) of the leader of any political Party. I'm just looking to the competency of the person to fulfil the role. Are we going to see a repeat of the sort of misogynistic attacks that plagued Julia Gillard's time as leader of the Labor Party? One would hope that society has moved on from that era.