Leaving Australia (again)

[StockyGuy]

This is all going to end badly IMO.
Increasing population, no increase in productivity or exports, can't end well.

I have been trying to imagine a society, nay a brewtopia, where every single adult is employed as a barista.

Picture this... get off work after a hard day's work making coffees, then off to the local cafe to share stories about making coffee with your old barista brothers from that diner where you used to make coffee together back in the day. Then off home for a nice cuppa joe before bed. Wake up with a nice cup of coffee in your favourite coffee mug. You were feeling jittery, so hair of the caffeine dog always helps. Then off to another rewarding day of serving coffee to people who are on a break from their own barista jobs at nearby cafes. But hey you're just workin' for the weekend, right? That's when you can indulge your favourite pastime... going and exploring trendy new cafes.

But now there's rumblings about coffee cost going sky high, making the dream of everyone being a barista further and further out of reach: https://www.9news.com.au/national/c...-of-2025/6ca82eee-ea91-41db-8e92-98dfb1c16332

 

[TimeISmoney]

I have been trying to imagine a society, nay a brewtopia, where every single adult is employed as a barista.

Picture this... get off work after a hard day's work making coffees, then off to the local cafe to share stories about making coffee with your old barista brothers from that diner where you used to make coffee together back in the day. Then off home for a nice cuppa joe before bed. Wake up with a nice cup of coffee in your favourite coffee mug. You were feeling jittery, so hair of the caffeine dog always helps. Then off to another rewarding day of serving coffee to people who are on a break from their own barista jobs at nearby cafes. But hey you're just workin' for the weekend, right? That's when you can indulge your favourite pastime... going and exploring trendy new cafes.

But now there's rumblings about coffee cost going sky high, making the dream of everyone being a barista further and further out of reach: https://www.9news.com.au/national/c...-of-2025/6ca82eee-ea91-41db-8e92-98dfb1c16332

I think student doctors will be taking those fancy barista jobs in WA .

 

[StockyGuy]

I think student doctors will be taking those fancy barista jobs in WA .

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Maybe the grads should aim to open a cafe that also has a little backroom that offers some basic GP services, like sometimes you see a tattoo parlour and a barber as part of the same hybrid business.

 

[dyna]

look at Costa Rica :

Next home for Mel Gibson , after losing all his stuff in the L. A . fires.

See his recent interview with Joe Rogan # 2254 on You Tube. Quite interesting until it got to his religious beliefs and his take on evolution .
Had to turn it off , after that . Mel has taken too many knocks to head during his footy playing years .

 

[dyna]

bring in grateful migrants

You Tube video just out a month ago : " Why Brits are Migrating to Australia in Record Numbers " ( 25: 13 minutes ) Towards the end ...." The weather " ...Look , even if you're born into it , you just never get used to winter in Europe . My childhood memory of 'effin Deutschland is thankfully fading fast but I do recall ,even the raindrops then , were icy cold . Cold ...is.....the... pits . Get me away from it or shoot me in the head .
Don't forget to read the all comments below the vid , either.
They are brilliant .

 

[wayneL]

You Tube video just out a month ago : " Why Brits are Migrating to Australia in Record Numbers " ( 25: 13 minutes ) Towards the end ...." The weather " ...Look , even if you're born into it , you just never get used to winter in Europe . My childhood memory of 'effin Deutschland is thankfully fading fast but I do recall ,even the raindrops then , were icy cold . Cold ...is.....the... pits . Get me away from it or shoot me in the head .
Don't forget to read the all comments below the vid , either.
They are brilliant .

I'll take the cold

 

[wayneL]

I'll take the cold

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A client just sent me this, which was taken during the above hellfire... leading me every summer to question my life choices

 

[farmerge]

A client just sent me this, which was taken during the above hellfire... leading me every summer to question my life choices

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Ah Wayne bent back and nose to the grindstone so to speak.

 

[farmerge]

I'll take the cold

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@wayneL And today more of the same So far has hit 40.8degC at about 1pm. One might say a cool change from yesterday's scorcher.

 

[wayneL]

@wayneL And today more of the same So far has hit 40.8degC at about 1pm. One might say a cool change from yesterday's scorcher.

I am hiding from everyone who expects me to do any work today... Clients, wife, everyone

 

[qldfrog]

@wayneL And today more of the same So far has hit 40.8degC at about 1pm. One might say a cool change from yesterday's scorcher.

You are right, this is terrible;
The BOZ warned us in the sunny coast of a severe heatwave:
Imagine 30c peak yesterday , 19c overnight and same today...

 

[farmerge]

I am hiding from everyone who expects me to do any work today... Clients, wife, everyone

Totally agree with you Wayne.
I was driving through the new subdivision near Midland this morning (coming back from a medical appointment) and there were a couple of blokes up on the roof of one of new homes being built, shorts and no shirts.

 

[Dona Ferentes]

millions will suffer

 

[wayneL]

millions will suffer

Ah shadup. Just the yearly bitching about the Perth summer.

 

[frugal.rock]

Ah shadup. Just the yearly bitching about the Perth summer.

Didn't ya hear? The Dr couldn't stand the moaning so has moved to the east coast.

 

[frugal.rock]

Totally agree with you Wayne.
I was driving through the new subdivision near Midland this morning (coming back from a medical appointment) and there were a couple of blokes up on the roof of one of new homes being built, shorts and no shirts.

Hope your health is improving.

I've heard of free ballin roofers getting sunburnt ballbags.
Metal roofs I believe.

 

[farmerge]

Hope your health is improving.

I've heard of free ballin roofers getting sunburnt ballbags.
Metal roofs I believe.

@frugal.rock Feb 5 is now the big day with heart specialist.
Wouldn't be surprised if the Crown Jewels weren't fried by being on a tin roof with little protection with the temps we have had recently.

 

[wayneL]

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@frugal.rock Feb 5 is now the big day with heart specialist.
Wouldn't be surprised if the Crown Jewels weren't fried by being on a tin roof with little protection with the temps we have had recently.

If I croak in the next few days, it is more likely that they'll flog off my skin as pork crackling, rather than any my other bits

 

[farmerge]

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If I croak in the next few days, it is more likely that they'll flog off my skin as pork crackling, rather than any my other bits

Today was cruel and this afternoon was crucifying with the humidity and the light sprinkle we got around 6pm.
Just made it a lot worse.

 

[wayneL]

Today was cruel and this afternoon was crucifying with the humidity and the light sprinkle we got around 6pm.
Just made it a lot worse.

OMG the humidity was brutal. We only got a few drops as well.