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#3359288 31-Mar-2025 23:53

The cutaway from the camera when the rocket did a u-turn was misguided.
At this stage of project disappointing but if it was easy.

Propane fueled so something quite innovative with advantages if they can make it happen.

Though Propane had me thinking of King of the Hill.
One small step for a Propane Cylinder

Though Britain , could have been the first for Europe.
Back in 2007, it was so close, only if.

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#3359553 1-Apr-2025 18:22

A game called "Palworld" had is often described as "Pokémon with guns" Nintendo has filed a lawsuit against Palworld's developer, Pocketpair, claiming patent infringement.

Palworld has teased a new game that's may or may not be an April fool's joke.

You'll Soon Be Able To Smooch Your Favourite Pals From Palworld In This Newly Revealed Game: The Gamer

"What lies inside the mysterious World Tree? An exciting school life filled with cute Pals!" the Steam description reads. "Will you remain friends or fall in love? Or dismantle and eat them. Your dream school romance starts here in this Palworld dating sim!"

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#3360948 5-Apr-2025 12:32

How millions of gullible Americans are falling for a TikTok tease about 'British tradition that happens every day: DailyMail

From our love of queueing to apologising for everything, England has a long history of confusing foreigners with its quirky traditions.

But a fresh craze relating to our tea-drinking habit has really taken the biscuit – with Britons piling in to compound the misery of utterly bamboozled Americans.

A viral social media trend shows British TikTok users dropping everything to make a cuppa due to a so-called 'tea time alarm'.

Designed to playfully tease US-based onlookers, the make-believe alert reminds the British public to drink tea each day.
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The Tea Time Alarm Explained

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#3361057 5-Apr-2025 20:07

kingdragonfly: A viral social media trend shows British TikTok users dropping everything to make a cuppa due to a so-called 'tea time alarm'.

Perfectly believable, it's the British version of the muezzin's call to prayer: "Tea is great. There is nothing worthy of worship except a good cuppa. ...".

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#3361407 6-Apr-2025 20:01

Would woulda thought you can get mains cable in 28AWG?

And it's CCS to boot. Which is useful because if the heatsetting gun it's connected to ever dies you can use the cable to melt things.

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#3362016 8-Apr-2025 16:37

The number of executions in China, Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia - countries we will never travel to out of boycott.

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#3362225 9-Apr-2025 09:11

From TVNZ:

"TVNZ commissions ITV Studios Australia for a four-episode special of The Chase New Zealand, with filming taking place in Sydney, Australia.

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As The Chase New Zealand will be recorded in Sydney, Australia, any travel and accommodation costs are at participant’s own expense."

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#3362228 9-Apr-2025 09:21

I just assumed they would be?

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#3362232 9-Apr-2025 09:40

networkn:

I just assumed they would be?

You assume that expenses to appear in a TV program as a contestant (not audience) are paid by the participant?

If you are attending a recording as the audience, sure, it's your money.

If someone is a participant, the whole reason for the TV program to exist, then I'd expect that person to appear for free, but expenses covered.

I would think very hard before paying my way to be in a program that TVNZ will profit from. And it's not even like going across the city to participate. It's going to another country.

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#3362237 9-Apr-2025 09:59

Looks like a bolt on to the Australia version, which is currently casting in OZ
https://go.mycastingnet.com/Apply/Show/TheChaseAustraliaS15

"Kiwi contestants will go head-to-head with The Chase Australia’s Chasers,

ITV Studios Australia has been commissioned to produce the limited run, with filming taking place in Sydney, Australia."

The OZ studio doesn't pay travel/accom expenses for OZ contestants, so I'm guessing we get the same treatment,

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#3362238 9-Apr-2025 10:08

Contestants in the UK version get travel costs (including mileage if driving) reimbursed but not accommodation.

The Expected Value (expected winnings minus appearance costs) of an appearance on The Chase in Oz must be highly negative for Kiwi contestants - and probably for Aussies too.

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#3362356 9-Apr-2025 18:27

Wee rant. I’ve decided that everyday technology is a curse bestowed on a once relaxed society. You can’t avoid it but are now forced to indulge for day to day life management. From phones to apps that you must have but can’t register in because some sneaky glitch won’t accept what you type and throws up that dreaded red inked error message so you re-type even more logical options until thwarted. Think filling in NZ phone numbers in apps…wrong, that then ask for a zip code but hey, we don’t have those so you put in your area code. Wrong! Repeat variations on this theme ad nauseum.

Then there are fields that require dates where the option in the drop down menu uses words so 22 March 2020, yep, click, but in the field it inputs numbers 03/22/2020 and then keeps spitting out in red that the date inputted is wrong format. Yes agreed, but your system is putting in the wrong format not me you shriek at it.

The more tired you become the grumpier you feel but being a persistent sucker for punishment you go on into the night, rinse and repeat. Brain neurons stop firing in disgust at being kept up so late with impossible tasks.

I sit and recall the days where your travel agent handed you the tickets in a nicely embellished folder and you did nothing more but sashayed up on the day fully rested to your vessel or plane. Now you need to complete so much online yourself plus protect yourself from trickery which is possibly why you need the holiday.

Did I mention Qantas not spitting out a boarding pass on check in and instead flashing a 'you must arrive three hours early and go to the counter to collect your boarding pass.' What does this mean you ask yourself, are they perhaps randomly choosing to bump me because they overbooked the flight? So 24 hours of niggly suspicious thoughts and no sleep until you race earlier than usual to the airport, just in case. 'But why,' you ask them at the counter. 'Oh it sometimes happens' he says nonchalantly.

I am now off to listen to a choir of little darlings singing their hearts out to the rapturous applause and admiration of their families.

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#3362357 9-Apr-2025 18:32

Eva888: What does this mean you ask yourself, are they perhaps randomly choosing to bump me because they overbooked the flight?

Probably.

Eva888: I am now off to listen to a choir of little darlings singing their hearts out to the rapturous applause and admiration of their families.

I'm sure it will be a fine and in tune performance. Oh, hang on...

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#3362359 9-Apr-2025 18:46

Eva888:

Wee rant. I’ve decided that everyday technology is a curse bestowed on a once relaxed society. You can’t avoid it but are now forced to indulge for day to day life management. From phones to apps that you must have but can’t register in because some sneaky glitch won’t accept what you type and throws up that dreaded red inked error message so you re-type even more logical options until thwarted. Think filling in NZ phone numbers in apps…wrong, that then ask for a zip code but hey, we don’t have those so you put in your area code. Wrong! Repeat variations on this theme ad nauseum.

Then there are fields that require dates where the option in the drop down menu uses words so 22 March 2020, yep, click, but in the field it inputs numbers 03/22/2020 and then keeps spitting out in red that the date inputted is wrong format. Yes agreed, but your system is putting in the wrong format not me you shriek at it.

The more tired you become the grumpier you feel but being a persistent sucker for punishment you go on into the night, rinse and repeat. Brain neurons stop firing in disgust at being kept up so late with impossible tasks.

I sit and recall the days where your travel agent handed you the tickets in a nicely embellished folder and you did nothing more but sashayed up on the day fully rested to your vessel or plane. Now you need to complete so much online yourself plus protect yourself from trickery which is possibly why you need the holiday.

Did I mention Qantas not spitting out a boarding pass on check in and instead flashing a 'you must arrive three hours early and go to the counter to collect your boarding pass.' What does this mean you ask yourself, are they perhaps randomly choosing to bump me because they overbooked the flight? So 24 hours of niggly suspicious thoughts and no sleep until you race earlier than usual to the airport, just in case. 'But why,' you ask them at the counter. 'Oh it sometimes happens' he says nonchalantly.

I am now off to listen to a choir of little darlings singing their hearts out to the rapturous applause and admiration of their families.

Maybe semi-smartphones should be a thing - like a normal smartphone but without WiFi or Internet capability, or a dumbphone with PDA features such as calendar, clock, music and USB.

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#3362490 9-Apr-2025 22:20

freitasm:

You assume that expenses to appear in a TV program as a contestant (not audience) are paid by the participant?

If you are attending a recording as the audience, sure, it's your money.

If someone is a participant, the whole reason for the TV program to exist, then I'd expect that person to appear for free, but expenses covered.

I would think very hard before paying my way to be in a program that TVNZ will profit from. And it's not even like going across the city to participate. It's going to another country.

Yeah, for something like The Chase where it's likely perhaps a 1 day committment and at the end you could walk away with serious money.

I watched AU Wheel of Fortune when stranded in Brisbane, had it on in the background. The guy took about 80K in prizes, one of the other contestants took away about 4K in prizes, and the third got nothing.

I mean I see your point about TVNZ profiting from it, but comparing it to Lotto that I imagine people could spend $1000 a year on, on the odds of winning that....

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