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    It's not ok ;-)
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    My local bottle shop has a sense of humor
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    The fact that there's a highway to hell and a stairway to heaven says a lot about the anticipated traffic flow.

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    The f'ing idiots are still going on. eBay is seeing an explosion of advertisements for dunny paper at insanely inflated prices.


    Quilton 3-Ply 20xRoll Toilet Paper

    eBay current bid is at.....wait for it..... $107.50 + $15.00 postage.



    Yet, for exactly the same product from Coles is $10.00.



    eBay is $6.125 per roll (yet bids are still happening).
    Coles is $0.50 per roll.


    I am completely lost for words, even more so with those that are bidding.
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    The fact that there's a highway to hell and a stairway to heaven says a lot about the anticipated traffic flow.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Xplorer View Post

    eBay is $6.125 per roll (yet bids are still happening).
    For that sort of Money, I'll sell every roll we have in the Cupboard and buy Silk Sheets to cut up and wipe our arses on and still be ahead!

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    Now at $207

    Quilton 3 Ply Toilet Paper 20 Roll Pack Brand New


    Item information

    Condition:
    Brand New

    Time left:
    Time left: 2d 01h (10 Mar, 2020 13:55:26 AEDST)


    Current bid:
    AU $207.16
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    Got to be a stitch up.

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    Quote Originally Posted by george65 View Post
    Now at $207

    Quilton 3 Ply Toilet Paper 20 Roll Pack Brand New


    Item information

    Condition:
    Brand New

    Time left:
    Time left: 2d 01h (10 Mar, 2020 13:55:26 AEDST)


    Current bid:
    AU $207.16
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    Got to be a stitch up.

    Reality worse than fiction -->>

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    Looks like ebay are clamping down on those sales, as some of the previous outrageous sales and bidding are now deleted.
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    Last edited by SS Dave; 08-03-20 at 02:46 PM.
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    I was just about to drop this in the bin then a thought I might put it on eBay


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    Quote Originally Posted by george65 View Post
    Years ago I used to blame idiotic " Current affairs " shows for giving people a " Bogan" education.
    That has been annihilated by social media.
    Indeed it has, and the garbage described as news these days does exactly the same thing, the internet has greatly improved the ability of stupidity to spread far and wide, and quickly.

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    I never cease to be stunned at how the SM Mentality has affected such a majority of people. Be easy to write them off all as being idiots, uneducated or of Low IQ but I know of some otherwise very cleaver and intelligent people that are completely swallowed up by it.
    Fair Dinkum stuns me.
    I also struggle with how seemingly intelligent people get sucked in to all the BS, some of those intelligent people turn into complete idiots while they're on there, sometimes it rubs off and they seem to remain idiots afterwards.
    A favourite saying of mine is "Facebook = the dumbing down of the population to make burping and farting newsworthy"
    And that's exactly what's happening, we see it all around us.
    I've seen the rumours, gossiping, backstabbing and other assorted bullsh*t ruin otherwise happy families.
    Say to them "the best thing you can do is get the hell off social media, don't jump on your phone as soon as you wake up etc. etc." and they look at you like you're committing a serious crime in front of them.

    Quote Originally Posted by george65 View Post
    I looked at Twitted for the first time a few months ago. I was gobsmacked. No other word for it. Talk about a parallel universe and reality. I am obviously highly ignorant because I had no idea things were THAT bad with the way they carry on.
    Just when we think they can't get any more pathetic sites like stupid twitter prove us wrong, no wonder the world's in such a fkn mess.

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    The other day I was referred to Instagram by a client to show me something she wanted. Looking at her page it was clear to see she was one of the leftie dogooder morons I despise. Every 2nd addition some Meme and righteous but of leftie crap protesting just about everything.
    I cancelled her appointment and directed her to find someone else.

    Might be cutting myself short and maybe I should have taken her money but the fact is I don't need her money that much and I would go against my principals to work for and help anyone like her. I have enough regrets and conflicts in my head already. Loosing sleep over another one, which no question I would, isn't worth it.
    A while ago a friend of mine was telling me how good Pinterest is.
    As I'd never used it I asked her how you use it and what it does...her response was "you pin things".
    I said "what do you mean you pin things, how does it work?"
    She said "if you like something you can pin it for later use and others can see it"
    I said "And?"
    She looked at me blankly, I don't talk to her much anymore...
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    Quote Originally Posted by wotnot View Post
    Reality worse than fiction -->>
    bloody hell with those prices i could retire, i have 8 cartons of 48 pack and 20 packs of 8 x 500m jumbos in the garage
    i got 2 weeks ago for work

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jma View Post
    Say to them "the best thing you can do is get the hell off social media, don't jump on your phone as soon as you wake up etc. etc." and they look at you like you're committing a serious crime in front of them.
    I know EXACTLY what you mean.

    Seen it many times but the latest was a few weeks ago. My fathers housekeeper was saying she had to go to the school because her daughter was being Bullied.
    I said what are they doing? She said they are putting things on face book and social media. I said but what are they doing to her at school? She nothing at school, it'[s what they put on FB that's the problem, I said so what is that? She said you know, saying different things. I said like school yard gossip? She said yes but not at school, only on SM. It makes her very paranoid. They won't say it to her face, only behind her back on SM.

    I said so whats the problem? If she doesen't look at it then it can't hurt her and they are doing nothing else to upset her from what you are saying.
    She said you don't understand, it's on SM. She has to see it. I said what do you mean has to? is there somone holding a gun to her head to read it?
    She said oh, you don't get it, it's all different to our day!
    I said I don't think so. If no one said anything to me then I had nothing to worry about. If she gets off her phone and doesen't look at it and doesen't see it then how can it bother her?

    I got a shaking of the head and she walked off.
    Later my Dad asked me what he didn't understand that if the kids did and said nothing to her in person, how the fk could she be upset if she put didn't look at it? I said I know, that was my point. Dad said shes a real nice kid but she never has the damn phone out her hand and is looking at it literally every 2 Minutes.
    I said yeah, that's the whole damn problem right there.

    As I'd never used it I asked her how you use it and what it does...her response was "you pin things".
    Mrs and I were catching up with close friends we hadn't been very social with a few weeks back whom invited us to dinner in their new home.
    They are both upper/ Middle management and make real good $$ and get head hunted a lot. Very sincere, generous and loyal people.
    We had dinner which seemed to become a little rushed and then were ushered to the couch because Married without a fking clue or some such show was coming on.

    I thought it was some sort of joke and made wise cracks till I saw friends were becoming irritated and were telling me to shut up and then asking what this one or that said. During the commercials they were talking like this was life and death stuff and was seriously Important.
    I sat there wondering WTF was going on? Mate had been telling me not an hour before the place he had been managing just over a year that had been loosing money when he took over just posted a $7M profit and here he is literally on the edge of his seat totally fixated on what bimbo screwed what lug nut and whether the Bimbo with the the oversize DD implants, and that was just in her lips, knew about it.
    And She was far worse!

    I know particularly she is a real hard arse at work and I'm thinking if your staff could see you now getting all wrapped up in this horse shit, you would never be able to control them ever again.
    Soon as it was over they went back to being normal, sane, highly intelligent people.

    I don't know how many times I have been asked if everything is ok and if anything has gone wrong because I didn't answer my Mobile.
    Apparently I'm supposed to have it on me every waking moment and under the pillow every minute I'm asleep.
    I also get the "Didn't you see my message of Face waste/ Messenger? Uhhhh no? How can that be, I sent it a week ago!

    Well give it another 3 weeks and I -Might- have some reason to look there.
    BTW, Why didn't you just ring, text or email me?

    Ummmmmm.......
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    Quote Originally Posted by wotnot View Post
    Reality worse than fiction -->>
    Un Fking believable!

    I'm trying to sell a brand new stove that we had to change for our Kitchen Reno.
    I should just stuff it with a few packs of TP, add $500 to the price and I'd get knocked over in the rush.

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    Making a buck from the bumf.............

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    Quote Originally Posted by Xplorer View Post
    The f'ing idiots are still going on. eBay is seeing an explosion of advertisements for dunny paper at insanely inflated prices.


    Quilton 3-Ply 20xRoll Toilet Paper

    eBay current bid is at.....wait for it..... $107.50 + $15.00 postage.



    Yet, for exactly the same product from Coles is $10.00.



    eBay is $6.125 per roll (yet bids are still happening).
    Coles is $0.50 per roll.


    I am completely lost for words, even more so with those that are bidding.
    That ebay item has now been removed, guess it was a hoax.
    When I looked yesterday it still had 2 days to run.
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    That one may have been a hoax as one I saw from the above link that had $7500 buy it now on it but there are plenty more on there with people bidding and I doubt they are all hoaxes.

    Reminds me of what I saw a while back with those little plastic toy things Coles were giving away. The prices some of those sets were going for, well over $100, was incredible.
    You'd think they were actually something of value not bits of plastic crap designed to distract housewives from the fact the prices were going up every day for no justifiable reason.

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    Correct ~ hoaxes are easy for ebay to filter out, but legitimate use of their online marketplace is what they guarantee in result : if it's not a hoax and some numpty is prepared to pay (let alone bid on) prices like that for toilet paper, then that's good entrepreneurial endeavour.

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