a 14 yo local kid has started an internet business

good to see a local on the narrow road to success.

a lot of pensioners on this site have never reached this level of "personal autonomy'

how timid and mediocre  :'( :'(

https://ozsox.au/?fbclid=IwY2xjawFwd7VleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHSQDGi59ssjiuN_h1QRd3i_qD3K7iStqWbhDEgw8pVUCrB4ihD8V-YvB1w_aem_V6IaoBtNJNlhv4bs3QMO9A

How awesome is that, eh?  8-)

Speaking of pensioners, you know what else is awesome?

It only took Centrelink 2 weeks to process and approve my age pension application which I lodged on September 16th.  :o

It was approved on October 2nd.

And, they've already backpaid me to September 16th.

But, what's really awesome is that I still have 4 months of my superannuation pension left as well.

Looks like I'm well on my way with that "narrow road to (retirement) success".

Party time !

:)

aquascoot wrote on Oct 7^th, 2024 at 6:18pm:

a 14 yo local kid has started an internet business good to see a local on the narrow road to success. a lot of pensioners on this site have never reached this level of "personal autonomy' how timid and mediocre  :'( :'( https://ozsox.au/?fbclid=IwY2xjawFwd7VleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHSQDGi59ssjiuN_h1QRd3i_qD3K7iStqWbhDEgw8pVUCrB4ihD8V-YvB1w_aem_V6IaoBtNJNlhv4bs3QMO9A

Unfortunately I wouldn't pay that for a pair of socks and I don't wear clothing that makes me a billboard. Hope he does well though. Perhaps he could slip a cock sock or two into his line up with greetings like Happy Anniversary, Christmas, Birthday, Valentines Day, etc. Might make his brand a little more, umm... varied.

Aquascoot must have bought about 10 pair of socks at $16- $45 to spur this kid's career.

Who were the other 5 buyers? Mum, dad, uncle, +2?

Carl D wrote on Oct 7^th, 2024 at 6:39pm:

How awesome is that, eh?  8-) Speaking of pensioners, you know what else is awesome? It only took Centrelink 2 weeks to process and approve my age pension application which I lodged on September 16th.  :o It was approved on October 2nd. And, they've already backpaid me to September 16th. But, what's really awesome is that I still have 4 months of my superannuation pension left as well. Looks like I'm well on my way with that "narrow road to (retirement) success". Party time ! :)

You just moved from one payment to another? It's those that need to go through the whole trials and tribulations of having to deal with them for the first time that have extended waits.

Setanta wrote on Oct 7^th, 2024 at 7:25pm:

You just moved from one payment to another? It's those that need to go through the whole trials and tribulations of having to deal with them for the first time that have extended waits.

My superannuation pension payments don't come from Centrelink, they go directly into my bank account (monthly) from the Super Company as they've been doing since I retired from work 5 years ago.

But, I've had a Centrelink CRN since 2017 when I applied for a Low Income Health Card after I changed to working 2 days a week for the last few years before I retired.

Carl D wrote on Oct 7^th, 2024 at 7:32pm:

Setanta wrote on Oct 7th, 2024 at 7:25pm: You just moved from one payment to another? It's those that need to go through the whole trials and tribulations of having to deal with them for the first time that have extended waits. My superannuation pension payments don't come from Centrelink, they go directly into my bank account (monthly) from the Super Company as they've been doing since I retired from work 5 years ago. But, I've had a Centrelink CRN since 2017 when I applied for a Low Income Health Card after I changed to working 2 days a week for the last few years before I retired.

And there's your answer. You've already done the hoop jumping.

Anyone can start a business. Most businesses fail.

Technically I started a business (got an ABN number) but it was only because my uptown employer required me to. They just wanted to avoid insurance, superannuation and employee protection laws.

If I lodged a tax return for that year, I might get something back. But I'd prefer to think that I paid taxes.

What kind of bullshit is incorporation? You can buy the company car, at a good price, the week before your company goes broke. The bank gets whatever assets your company still held, while providers of goods and services to your company get nothing. Employees get nothing, not even back pay. Everyone gets screwed EXCEPT the failed businessman.

Carl D wrote on Oct 7^th, 2024 at 7:32pm:

But, I've had a Centrelink CRN since 2017 when I applied for a Low Income Health Card after I changed to working 2 days a week for the last few years before I retired.

Health Care Card is good, it gets you discounts on pharmaceuticals and access to more free doctors.

But the pensioner card is better. You get daily public transit for under $3 and access to private sector discounts. It's much easier to get if you're over 55, though if you're disabled it's available at any age.

Aurora Complexus wrote on Oct 7^th, 2024 at 9:47pm:

Health Care Card is good, it gets you discounts on pharmaceuticals and access to more free doctors. But the pensioner card is better. You get daily public transit for under $3 and access to private sector discounts. It's much easier to get if you're over 55, though if you're disabled it's available at any age.

I'm in Perth and the WA Seniors Card (which I've had since 2020) is even better for public transport (buses, trains and ferries).

You get free off peak travel Monday to Friday and all day free travel on weekends and public holidays. If you travel during peak times (7am to 9am and 3:30pm to 7pm  Mon-Fri) it's a concession fare.

There's also a "Seniors Week" every year here in November and Seniors Card holders get free public transport all day, every day for the entire week.

Carl D wrote on Oct 7^th, 2024 at 9:59pm:

Aurora Complexus wrote on Oct 7th, 2024 at 9:47pm: Health Care Card is good, it gets you discounts on pharmaceuticals and access to more free doctors. But the pensioner card is better. You get daily public transit for under $3 and access to private sector discounts. It's much easier to get if you're over 55, though if you're disabled it's available at any age. I'm in Perth and the WA Seniors Card (which I've had since 2020) is even better for public transport (buses, trains and ferries). You get free off peak travel Monday to Friday and all day free travel on weekends and public holidays. If you travel during peak times (7am to 9am and 3:30pm to 7pm  Mon-Fri) it's a concession fare. There's also a "Seniors Week" every year here in November and Seniors Card holders get free public transport all day, every day for the entire week.

My mother and I were in WA for a few hours (off the cruise liner, onto a plane) and I noticed that she got to ride for free. I had to pay $2 for a half hour bus ride.

Way better than NSW. I'd probably pay $8 for that.

I think the NSW government has already calculated full fare, discount fare, and pensioner fares to pay for their investments in public transport. They would need to cut somewhere else, and Kristina Keneally's dreams are dead.

What they need to understand is that drivers are clogging the roads BECAUSE it is no more expensive (and it's undeniably more convenient to have your car at each end.) But cars are not more expensive. Everyone they can entice to public transport is one less car off the road. It benefits everyone to have cheap public transport.

Tech-savvy children these days are spoiled for choice in the internet age.

When I was 14 years old, we had access to the internet, or the usage of the home phone line. Only the well-off had use to both.

Knowing what I know now, at age 14, I would have bought myself a simple 486 black and white computer and learned how to machine code, C program, and Basic, before figuring out how to C++. I would have been a tech billionaire by the turn of the century.

I would probably also be meeting with Monica Seles on rare Down Under tours, wondering how to better equip tennis security in Melbourne's Rod Laver Arena. The answer: more security cameras.

UnSubRocky wrote on Oct 7^th, 2024 at 11:24pm:

Tech-savvy children these days are spoiled for choice in the internet age. When I was 14 years old, we had access to the internet, or the usage of the home phone line. Only the well-off had use to both. Knowing what I know now, at age 14, I would have bought myself a simple 486 black and white computer and learned how to machine code, C program, and Basic, before figuring out how to C++. I would have been a tech billionaire by the turn of the century.

I expect you remember "demos" which were pointless eye-candy. Assembler or machine code kids touting for business.

I expect most of them got jobs in game programming. There was a lot of money there.

Meanwhile other kids hacked anything they could see, and got even better jobs in computer security. Some of them got poached by government, for good pay and legal immunity.

But some of them died. "Come work for us" is an offer you can't refuse.


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I would probably also be meeting with Monica Seles on rare Down Under tours, wondering how to better equip tennis security in Melbourne's Rod Laver Arena. The answer: more security cameras.

Hmm. Monica Seles was a favorite of mine too. She was small, but she grunted like a 200 kilo hog. That asshole who stabbed her should have gone to the gallows.

Aurora Complexus wrote on Oct 7^th, 2024 at 11:34pm:

Hmm. Monica Seles was a favorite of mine too. She was small, but she grunted like a 200 kilo hog. That asshole who stabbed her should have gone to the gallows.

I also remember when I was 14 years old, watching Seles play tennis. I think I usually grunted a few times, too, listening to her on the portable radio, whilst I was preoccupied down the hallway.

I think I went through more toilet paper than any member of my family -- at least until my younger brother took that "Grand Champion of Kawana" title, two years running, in 1997.

Turns out that my brother was not much of a tennis fan. He had developed a fascination of jumpin' castles. He caught me "helping my friend Christine with her yoga exercises". After that, he started "gaming" LAN tournaments.

UnSubRocky wrote on Oct 8^th, 2024 at 12:24am:

Aurora Complexus wrote on Oct 7th, 2024 at 11:34pm: Hmm. Monica Seles was a favorite of mine too. She was small, but she grunted like a 200 kilo hog. That asshole who stabbed her should have gone to the gallows. I also remember when I was 14 years old, watching Seles play tennis. I think I usually grunted a few times, too, listening to her on the portable radio, whilst I was preoccupied down the hallway.

She was always sexy. It's hard to pin down exactly why, because she was always professional and efficient in her game. Little details I guess, between shots, how she walked and tucked away the balls.

To be brutally honest, I think it was because she became a contender while she was still young, and always kept the habits of a girl.

She played like Navratilova (her childhood idol) and I remember adoring her too. Sort of. Navratilova was a bit scary.


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I think I went through more toilet paper than any member of my family -- at least until my younger brother took that "Grand Champion of Kawana" title, two years running, in 1997. Turns out that my brother was not much of a tennis fan. He had developed a fascination of jumpin' castles. He caught me "helping my friend Christine with her yoga exercises". After that, he started "gaming" LAN tournaments.

Let that be a lesson to you young UnSub-whatever. You can contribute to society, in ways that don't involve young children.

Aurora Complexus wrote on Oct 8^th, 2024 at 12:38am:

She was always sexy. It's hard to pin down exactly why, because she was always professional and efficient in her game. Little details I guess, between shots, how she walked and tucked away the balls. To be brutally honest, I think it was because she became a contender while she was still young, and always kept the habits of a girl. She played like Navratilova (her childhood idol) and I remember adoring her too. Sort of. Navratilova was a bit scary.

Yeaaahh... Kind of reminds me of Claire. The way she would tuck away my balls, and have me hard and pinned down. Exactly why she was always professional with her little details. Guess how she walked between shots? Always sexy, she was.

Claire did play a bit like Navratilova. 173cm tall and left-handed. But, I knew that I was the only guy for Claire. Literally.

She found it refreshing that there was a guy like myself out there that could satisfy her pre-match warm-up routines, including the various yoga poses. I made a few secretive photographs of Claire, whilst she was about ready to play. Made about $4000 from submitting the artwork to various men's magazines.

Of course, being 18 years old at the time, I was naive and disrespectful enough to actually go through with getting cash payment at a local nightclub.

Having figured out that she was the one that backed into me with her ambulance. She told me that if I had waited out the weekend, she could have gotten me $20,000 with those photos taken to the Gold Coast nightclubs, and we could have split the money.

I have always wondered why her employer reprimanded Claire by making Claire pay for the damage to the front end grill of the ambulance...

Our mutual adoration of the unobtainable might be leading us astray from the thread subject  :)

Most business startups fail. Some continue for five or ten years, and then fail. Most likely we're looking at business startup with no capital and no reasonable business plan, BUT with some internet hype, which might actually succeed.

That's what I would do, if I had an idea. I would talk it up on the internet, garner some supporters who will buy in when I go public (ie sell shares.)

That's a bullshit company.

Trying to attain the allegedly unattainable, or going against the flow of expectation, is what is essentially pertinent, in this forum topic.

UnSubRocky wrote on Oct 8^th, 2024 at 1:09am:

Trying to attain the allegedly unattainable, or going against the flow of expectation, is what is essentially pertinent, in this forum topic.

A fine ripost, but to make a sally you must talk about business.

Of topic, but three of my early romantic interests were named "Sally". I only achieved satisfaction with one of them: the first. Sally 2 defeated my advances then turned up with a viable partner her own age. Sally 3 probably wasn't pullable at all, I think maybe she was a lesbian.

Somehow, I get the feeling you would have no trouble going after Sally 3 "on the rebound".

Aurora Complexus wrote on Oct 7^th, 2024 at 9:39pm:

Anyone can start a business. Most businesses fail. Technically I started a business (got an ABN number) but it was only because my uptown employer required me to. They just wanted to avoid insurance, superannuation and employee protection laws. If I lodged a tax return for that year, I might get something back. But I'd prefer to think that I paid taxes. What kind of bullshit is incorporation? You can buy the company car, at a good price, the week before your company goes broke. The bank gets whatever assets your company still held, while providers of goods and services to your company get nothing. Employees get nothing, not even back pay. Everyone gets screwed EXCEPT the failed businessman.

anyone can start a relationship

most relationships fail

do you recommend only fans and a crusty keyboard as a thriving love life

Carl D wrote on Oct 7^th, 2024 at 9:59pm:

Aurora Complexus wrote on Oct 7th, 2024 at 9:47pm: Health Care Card is good, it gets you discounts on pharmaceuticals and access to more free doctors. But the pensioner card is better. You get daily public transit for under $3 and access to private sector discounts. It's much easier to get if you're over 55, though if you're disabled it's available at any age. I'm in Perth and the WA Seniors Card (which I've had since 2020) is even better for public transport (buses, trains and ferries). You get free off peak travel Monday to Friday and all day free travel on weekends and public holidays. If you travel during peak times (7am to 9am and 3:30pm to 7pm  Mon-Fri) it's a concession fare. There's also a "Seniors Week" every year here in November and Seniors Card holders get free public transport all day, every day for the entire week.

so the highlight of your life is getting "discounted public transport"

thats the definition of chode mediocrity  :'( :'( :'(

aquascoot wrote on Oct 8^th, 2024 at 2:18pm:

so the highlight of your life is getting "discounted public transport" thats the definition of chode mediocrity  :'( :'( :'(

Not really since I probably only use public transport once or twice a year.

And I haven't used the Seniors Card for anything else since I got it 4 years ago.

That reminds me - when I receive my brand spanking new Pensioner Concession Card in the next 2 weeks I'll have to remember to register it with the Department of Transport so I can get half price car registration and a free drivers licence renewal from now on.

Oh, and I'll have to see my GP's medical practice and register the card with them too.

:)

Carl D wrote on Oct 8^th, 2024 at 2:27pm:

aquascoot wrote on Oct 8th, 2024 at 2:18pm: so the highlight of your life is getting "discounted public transport" thats the definition of chode mediocrity  :'( :'( :'( Not really since I probably only use public transport once or twice a year. And I haven't used the Seniors Card for anything else since I got it 4 years ago. That reminds me - when I receive my brand spanking new Pensioner Concession Card in the next 2 weeks I'll have to remember to register it with the Department of Transport so I can get half price car registration and a free drivers licence renewal from now on. Oh, and I'll have to see my GP's medical practice and register the card with them too. :)

make sure you take as much as you can carl

the secret to a happy life is to be a very selfish parasite  ;)

aquascoot wrote on Oct 8^th, 2024 at 2:41pm:

make sure you take as much as you can carl the secret to a happy life is to be a very selfish parasite  ;)

The "secret to a happy life" for me today is to watch you apparently foaming at the mouth when I post something like that.

Has it ever occurred to you that I'm doing it deliberately just to see your reaction?

And it's always so predictable.

;D

Carl D wrote on Oct 8^th, 2024 at 2:53pm:

aquascoot wrote on Oct 8th, 2024 at 2:41pm: make sure you take as much as you can carl the secret to a happy life is to be a very selfish parasite  ;) The "secret to a happy life" for me today is to watch you apparently foaming at the mouth when I post something like that. Has it ever occurred to you that I'm doing it deliberately just to see your reaction? And it's always so predictable. ;D

thanks for reacting to my post.  must have hit a nerve  :D :D

Carl D wrote on Oct 8^th, 2024 at 2:53pm:

aquascoot wrote on Oct 8th, 2024 at 2:41pm: make sure you take as much as you can carl the secret to a happy life is to be a very selfish parasite  ;) The "secret to a happy life" for me today is to watch you apparently foaming at the mouth when I post something like that. Has it ever occurred to you that I'm doing it deliberately just to see your reaction? And it's always so predictable. ;D

what's the joy in playing the gimme parasite?

Frank wrote on Oct 8^th, 2024 at 6:01pm:

Carl D wrote on Oct 8th, 2024 at 2:53pm: aquascoot wrote on Oct 8th, 2024 at 2:41pm: make sure you take as much as you can carl the secret to a happy life is to be a very selfish parasite  ;) The "secret to a happy life" for me today is to watch you apparently foaming at the mouth when I post something like that. Has it ever occurred to you that I'm doing it deliberately just to see your reaction? And it's always so predictable. ;D what's the joy in playing the gimme parasite?

centrelink is the consolation prize for failures

aquascoot wrote on Oct 8^th, 2024 at 3:16pm:

Carl D wrote on Oct 8th, 2024 at 2:53pm: aquascoot wrote on Oct 8th, 2024 at 2:41pm: make sure you take as much as you can carl the secret to a happy life is to be a very selfish parasite  ;) The "secret to a happy life" for me today is to watch you apparently foaming at the mouth when I post something like that. Has it ever occurred to you that I'm doing it deliberately just to see your reaction? And it's always so predictable. ;D thanks for reacting to my post.  must have hit a nerve  :D :D

Actually, this is all about you reacting to his.

You know, in your haste to put another poster down so you can fell better about yourself?

As you do all day, every day.

aquascoot wrote on Oct 8^th, 2024 at 6:10pm:

Frank wrote on Oct 8th, 2024 at 6:01pm: Carl D wrote on Oct 8th, 2024 at 2:53pm: aquascoot wrote on Oct 8th, 2024 at 2:41pm: make sure you take as much as you can carl the secret to a happy life is to be a very selfish parasite  ;) The "secret to a happy life" for me today is to watch you apparently foaming at the mouth when I post something like that. Has it ever occurred to you that I'm doing it deliberately just to see your reaction? And it's always so predictable. ;D what's the joy in playing the gimme parasite? centrelink is the consolation prize for failures

I've said it before and i'll say it again. Horseboy is just pure evil.