[Smile] What's something small that really makes you smile?

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#3070177 1-May-2023 21:27

Journeyman:

The Herald's hilarious special subscription offer:

... is available for $99 for the first year.

Even taking into consideration that you can cancel any time, I still wouldn't pay 50cents a week for the Herald! 😂

And they assume? that people will renew an annual subscription after paying for it for a year!

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#3070549 2-May-2023 16:48

That despite my reservations to the purchase of MightyApe by Kogan, things seem to be pretty stable and I haven't noticed a significant drop in service.

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#3070550 2-May-2023 16:51

msukiwi:
And they assume? that people will renew an annual subscription after paying for it for a year!

If it's on auto-renew then yes, that's pretty likely. People stick with defaults/the status quo, this has been heavily researched with things like organ donors where you can change a country's organ donor level from (say) 5% to 95% just by making that the default on driver's licenses.

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#3070556 2-May-2023 17:15

A relatively short wait time on phone to VF and despite being overseas helpdesk, still managed to sort my admittedly simple problem quickly and efficiently.

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#3072558 5-May-2023 06:50

A workmate is doubly Star Wars related despite her parents not being Star Wars fans

She is the fourth child, born on May the fourth, named Mei (pronounced May)

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#3072559 5-May-2023 06:59

Does she also have 4 fingers and 1 thumb on each hand?

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#3072597 5-May-2023 09:26

networkn:

The magical connection that my daughter has with one of our kittens. They are just so intune. We are a family of animal lovers, but there is something quite fantastic about the way this cat interacts with Miss 11. He won't do it for anyone else. She even sleep pats him!

It's all just so heart warming

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Finding out Meatstock Sydney is on during my trip to Sydney!

Yummm, animals. Heart warming, and also tummy warming.

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#3072644 5-May-2023 12:04

networkn: Does she also have 4 fingers and 1 thumb on each hand?

Feel better after crapping on a little thing I found amusing?

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#3072655 5-May-2023 12:47

Finally getting a call from the Project Manager that the house rebuild is about to get moving again.

Dreading dealing with the insurance company again about getting paid for accommodation, but it's just such a relief to know that actual progress is about to start...in about 2 months' time.

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#3073536 7-May-2023 22:14

More a "smile" than a "Ukraine": Ukraine reported that it shot down a Russian hypersonic missile, specifically a Kinzhal, which is actually an Iskander with the word "Iskander" painted out and "Kinzhal" painted over the top. It's launched from a Mig31, so they include the range of the Mig in the claimed range of the Kinzhal because the Iskander itself is quite short-range.

So Russia touted its fake hypersonic missile and Ukraine called their bluff by publicising the shooting down of said fake hypersonic missile.

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#3073591 8-May-2023 00:40

neb: … by publicising the shooting down of said fake hypersonic missile.

Including the MiG-31? 😎

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