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#3243597 2-Jun-2024 00:24

Le Comte Ory French Opera at Aotea Centre vs Dawn French at the Civic. The two venues are on the same block with five or ten minutes walk between them. Both venues have a circle and row letters and seat numbers.

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#3243601 2-Jun-2024 01:28

gzt: Ticketmaster booking and payments. Working monopoly mess.

The same Ticketmaster at the center of the Tay-Tay concert lawsuit. Once the DOJ is done, it needs to set its sights on ExxonMobil, Koch Industries, NewsCorp, and many others who've perverted the public discourse.

'It is time to break up Live Nation': DOJ sues Ticketmaster parent over alleged monopoly

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#3243616 2-Jun-2024 09:03

gzt: It's even worse than that. Two ladies I talked to at interval during an event tonight said the singing was not what they expected.

Oh? Something wrong with the singing? The opera isn't French enough? You don't like the NZ setting for a French opera?

On inspection they had tickets for Dawn French. Different venue, same seat number, same row, same seating location. The electronic scanners at the door had happily passed them in.

Thats hilarious! How long did they wait for Dawn French to come on? Did the “Fat Lady Sing” at the end of the opera?

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#3243704 2-Jun-2024 12:40

I wonder whether the people who were supposed to be in those seats then got a "ticket already scanned" error.

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#3243799 2-Jun-2024 16:14

No one scanned the tickets, just looked at them. Obviously didn’t look close enough at the show title.

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#3243819 2-Jun-2024 18:56

We have this juicer, which we love.

Breville Juice Fountain Plus BJE410CRO | Briscoes NZ

Unfortunately after 15 years the filter/atomiser part has gone slightly off center with a couple of dents and it has worn an area in the part named as the collector. Following both of those links show they're out of stock

From Briscoes a whole unit is on special. Tempted to ask them to source replacement parts as per the CGA especially as they're still selling it

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#3243826 2-Jun-2024 19:50

There's 1 on TM described as new out of box no jug for $89 buy now. Pick up Albany. Appears to be less than price of parts.

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#3243835 2-Jun-2024 20:16

Some dickhead spat their gum into the kitchen sink at work where it just remained on the plug grate, amazingly not magically disappearing into the ether 🙄 Why do people have to be like this?

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#3243841 2-Jun-2024 20:53

I'd be glad to be wrong, but I gather.

That we do not have public transport cards that are interoperable up and down the country.
Auckland AT card can't be used in Northland or Hamilton for example.
Christchurch have their own Metrocard limited to them ?
Wellington snapper I guess its the same.
Beecard used elsewhere in regions including Hamilton can't be used in Auckland etc.

In some places overseas transit cards can also be used in convenience stores
,parking etc around transit centers as well.
Japan , Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan probably elsewhere.

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#3243889 2-Jun-2024 21:26

ezbee:

I'd be glad to be wrong, but I gather.

That we do not have public transport cards that are interoperable up and down the country.
Auckland AT card can't be used in Northland or Hamilton for example.
Christchurch have their own Metrocard limited to them ?
Wellington snapper I guess its the same.
Beecard used elsewhere in regions including Hamilton can't be used in Auckland etc.

In some places overseas transit cards can also be used in convenience stores
,parking etc around transit centers as well.
Japan , Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan probably elsewhere.

https://www.nzta.govt.nz/walking-cycling-and-public-transport/public-transport/national-ticketing-solution/

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#3243897 2-Jun-2024 22:05

Journeyman:

Some dickhead spat their gum into the kitchen sink at work where it just remained on the plug grate, amazingly not magically disappearing into the ether 🙄 Why do people have to be like this?

Gross! Send it to CSI for DNA analysis!

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#3243916 3-Jun-2024 00:30

ezbee:

I'd be glad to be wrong, but I gather.

That we do not have public transport cards that are interoperable up and down the country.
Auckland AT card can't be used in Northland or Hamilton for example.
Christchurch have their own Metrocard limited to them ?
Wellington snapper I guess its the same.
Beecard used elsewhere in regions including Hamilton can't be used in Auckland etc.

In some places overseas transit cards can also be used in convenience stores
,parking etc around transit centers as well.
Japan , Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan probably elsewhere.

I've got a great idea , I call it a universal voucher system, and the idea is that it can be used for any goods and services. It just needs everybody to get on board with it.

Anybody keen?

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#3244022 3-Jun-2024 07:09

elpenguino: I've got a great idea , I call it a universal voucher system, and the idea is that it can be used for any goods and services. It just needs everybody to get on board with it.

Anybody keen?

Sounds good, but you'd want to make it from plastic rather than some flimsy paper thing that'll get torn and dirty and mangled.

Also you'll have to make it so it can't be easily faked with an inkjet printer, for example by including fancy designs and maybe see-through elements in it.

Actually the more I think about it the less I think it can be made to work, it's just too complicated.

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#3244024 3-Jun-2024 07:35

Maybe you could print them and bind them into books. For ease of accounting you could print the account numbers with a scannable font using magnetic ink to aid recognition.

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#3244028 3-Jun-2024 08:25

I don't think you'd want them in books, maybe a physical equivalent of an electronic wallet. You could perhaps persuade people to carry them as fashion statements by making them from leather and other materials.

(Vegan leather if you're inclined that way).

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