Australia!!! things – and like yeah!
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- MrT0
Apologies for using this thread but I require an Aussie perspective...
I landed the fourth series of a TV show. Happy days. But, I’ve just been informed it’s mandatory for me to have public liability insurance or it ain’t happening.
I’m contracted to supply the gfx package, use my own gear, from my own space, no sub-contractors (on those rates, Carol?) so it makes no sense to me. It's the first I’ve heard of it from any client, ever. That includes a dozen or so contracts with the same crew, and season 1–3 of the above show.
I’ve scoured the web, NSW laws etc and it doesn’t add up for a solo desk-jockey. When I called for a quote you could tell they thought I was a bit special.
Anyone experienced this, or any thoughts?
- Yeah sounds a little odd considering you are not shooting anything and your prior relationship with them. They probably had an "incident" and just doing it...thumb_screws
- ...with all their contractors. Are you working for them as a sole trader or company?thumb_screws
- Cheers. Sole trader. I know the head of the company pretty well but I don’t think that’s a good approach...MrT
- I've never heard of this..._me_
- Thx all.MrT
- Did you end up having to get public liability insurance?thumb_screws
- Yeah what's up T?sted
- No I didn’t. I went to the higher-ups, like a dick. ‘Don’t worry about it’ reply soon followed...MrT
- sted0
from the 10 news:
people evacuation
poor air quality
colder weather helps
American firefighters
no fire ban today!
- Fax_Benson1
crazy photographs of the fires / aftermath
- BusterBoy4
- Total nonsense. Everyone knows the sun starts fires and summer lightning. Death Valley the hottest place on Earth is always on fire. Fact.robotron3k
- robocockBusterBoy
- https://www.abc.net.…dmay
- Yes, robo. Death Valley is just TEEMING with combustable dry vegetation, like Australia.FNP14
- https://www.abc.net.…inteliboy
- PhanLo0
Bush fire.
- renderedred2
Aussie Drug Dealer Pledges To Donate 10 Percent Of Profits To Bushfire Crisis
- Gardener1
- What a guy. Forgot about this piece of garbage. https://twitter.com/…thumb_screws
- "They weren't that little, they came willingly, and it was a different time" GOLD.Nairn
- Australian's, both men and women, have a unique ability to access the primative parts of their brains in normal, daily conversation.robotron3k
- Somewhat ironic to hear you suggest that, given the gradual autolobotomisation your daily posts appear to point towards.Nairn
- @robo: it takes one to know one, i guesshans_glib
- I was unfamiliar and had to look this guy up. There are actual photos of his fat ass giving a heil Hitler to a swastika he shaved into his yard.garbage
- And as for opening a dialogue:
https://i.imgur.com/…garbage - lol reminded me of this skirt
https://www.youtube.…ernexbcn - https://www.youtube.…garbage
- #NoSkeletonsKnuckleberry
- Lol at bringing up NAFTA. ????nb
- BusterBoy5
44c in Melbourne today. Fark!
Parts of the country expected to hit 50c.
- And punches for Gladys who's all over the tv with her concerned dropped-pizza face. Not so concerned when she slashed fire warden funding.MrT
- 36º minimum overnight in Adelaide. Look forward to that!emphor
- :(BusterBoy
- Yep... I consider anyone able to put up with temps like that my brother / sister of the desert. Stay cool... I’ll be joining you again in about 4-5 months. <3PonyBoy
- Hit 48C in northern Victoria today.BusterBoy
- How shit is the weather! 44c is just nuts! Sat in the studio all day with the ac blastn! I can’t wait for winter!sab
- sorrz for i like thissted
- *weathersted
- drgs2
https://theoutline.com/post/7456…
https://www.pedestrian.tv/news/s…I'm browsing the net for some fun places to visit in Australia. Apparently all Australians know this, but this is the first time I've heard about it:
Australian prime minister crapped his pants in McDonald's in 1997, in a suburban town near Sydney, Engadin, and then drove home to Canberra with a load in his pants.
McDonald's, where Morrison crapped his pants, is the only attraction of that town. Good and kind Australian people are trying to add this story to Engadin's Wikipedia page every day, but Wikipedia keeps deleting it:
- _me_1
Sorry for buzzfeed post but made me laugh
- BusterBoy1
- It’s all a giant bowl of cunt soup.MrT
- He once got out of a car at Tullamarine airport while we were coming back from the F1 - I shouted that’s Barnaby Joyce everyone and he was like hello thinking_me_
- Friendly folk and then we all shouted WANKAAA - he about turned quickly went all the way down the line - but like a Mexican wave everyone shouted WANKAAAAA !_me_
- Even the security guards and airport staff were kissing themselves - good day.
What a cunt_me_ - Pissing - maybe kissing !_me_
- sted0
- It's OK. ScoMo is sending thoughts & prayers. They'll arrive shortly apparently.BusterBoy
- that map does not serve the fires justice.utopian
- And it's freaking mid November!BusterBoy
- A few to pin the blame on here. Government and Green councils refusing to allow people to undertake controlled burns.BusterBoy
- There's MASSES of kindling igniting these. And in the longer term, the Feds for sitting on their arses doing sweet FA with respect to climate change.BusterBoy
- ahaha fucking thoughts & prayers
meanwhile this is completely normal morning news with the idiot 9 year old starting local fires in sidney with a gas blowtorch.sted
- sted1