My brother had some work being done on his house when he caught one of the Apprentice on motion cam peeing on his passionfruit vine. The fun part is my brother's response to the bossman:
Hi team,
Thanks for sending the invoice through. Before I settle it, I thought I’d attach a short clip from my security camera featuring your apprentice… watering my grape vine.
And don’t worry — nothing graphic is visible. The camera must not have been able to capture anything that small at that distance.
While I appreciate his dedication to plant care, I should mention that I already have an irrigation system installed, so the bonus free-range fertiliser application wasn’t really necessary. A simple, “Hey mate, where’s the toilet?” would’ve been a much more traditional approach.
Honestly, I’m just relieved he didn’t feel the urge to go number 2 and really personalise the garden.
Look, I’m not angry. I’m just surprised that toilet training the apprentice is apparently included in the call-out rate. If this is a new service offering, feel free to let me know so I can plan my horticulture accordingly.
Anyway, enjoy the clip — it really adds a whole new meaning to streamlined service.
Cheers, (Brother)
My brother sure has a way with words! 🤣
I’ve wasted another 60 seconds……
You mean, ChatGPT has a way with words? lol
What clues do you look for to determine Ai?
mdashes this character is not found on the keyboard so humans don’t tend to use it
I hate this as someone who has always used them 😂
That's how they taught us in court reporting school as well... some people 🙄
Haha I'm a former newspaper editor who insisted on them 2010-2020 before doing an about-turn a couple of years ago.
Still better than parentheses, in journalism or otherwise.
What’s wrong with parentheses?!
Same!!! Heartbreaking 🤣
How do you type them? Does your keyboard have it? I've never seen one with it
Mac keyboard or ios keyboard can just press option + - for "–" or shift option + - for "—"
Thats why I have always found it strange people saying that people don't use them I use them all the time, and the chatgpt would have to be trained on text generated by people that use it.
It’s just two hyphens in a row — like this
No that’s a n-dash not an m-dash.
Huh, TIL
Alt 0151
Damn. I use them too. 😂
Autocorrect (or auto formatting?) creates m dashes out of n dashes routinely for me when I’m using Outlook/Word/etc other MS products.
I have the shortcut memorized on Mac OS, and always default to em dashes on mobile. Sad. That being said, em dashes shouldn't have a space between them and the next word, just en dashes.
– Medieval and Renaissance lit major who knows the difference between Chicago and AP, signing off
Thank you. As someone who has been doing em dashes with no space for years, I was very disconcerted to see all the commenters above adding spaces.
What happened to phones? I can make a — by putting two hyphens next to each other.
Auto correct can convert short dashes to mdashes
Or alt-0151
But my Android phone, at least, often changes a short '-' dash to a long m-dash with no intervention on my part.
If you type 2 dashes in a row it makes an em-dash.
See: — here’s one
And I’ll do one more for luck: —
You just do a hyphen twice. Even works on mobile. See—
I’m also an academic an chatGPT has ruined my life because I was a love of em dashes before :(
I use it. It’s just the option key + dash/minus.
Correct
This is so misleading – plenty of people use them, since it's literally just two dashes.
People who use MacBooks tend to use them more because they’re easy to produce on the keyboard
Humans use it a lot.
It's the long dashes
It just sounds like AI. If you ask chatgpt to write you an email for this scenario, it will give you a very similar sounding response
AI Slop. Replies from OP don't mean it's not.
He also said "bathroom" instead of "toilet". We don't say bathroom when we mean toilet in Australia. We say bathroom for the bathroom and toilet for the toilet.
Or peeing...
The dunny!
Is the toilet not found traditionally in the bathroom?
Many houses have toilets separate to the bathroom. In the many houses I have lived in, only one has had a toilet in the bathroom.
God no, that's gross. Toilet, dirty smelly place. Shower? Clean pleasant smelling place. Sink? Clean place. What if you need to take a dump while someone's showering? Aussies don't often have combined bathrooms.
Forgive my ignorance of your colonial ways - back here in the motherland we cram all the water-based functions into the one room so, in fine British transition, you can shamefully engage in whichever cleaning ritual without having to admit to anyone that you piss and shit. Any other way, which might result in people knowing that their neighbours had the same bodily functions, would be anathema
It's alright. You've got no room where you are, you're all living on top of each other. That's just necessity really, based on your comparatively small living quarters. You're used to it; you've got reasoning for it. We've got acres of room and larger houses on average. It's a design choice, don't be bitter 😉
Very true my antipodean friend, but on the flip side you have to share the 10% of the continent that’s actually inhabitable to humans with all of the world’s the most unnecessarily lethal insects and spiders, so I’d say it’s swings and roundabouts really!
Your leave our snakes and spider out if this, it's not their fault they're snakes and spiders, their mums and dads were snakes and spiders! It was bound to happen!
Come to Australia if you get a chance fr though. It's lovely here.
Honestly.. have you genuinely never been to a living space in Aus with a combined bathroom?
Of genuinely all the houses I've been to or lived in (both actual houses and units), I'd say around 2/3rds have had bathrooms with toilets and showers in it, other than ones solely dedicated to one or the other (or in one case, a laundry room with a toilet), but those ones are few.
One of my relatives houses has two bathrooms that are both shower + toilet (one is standing, the other is a bathtub), and they've had it for over a decade by now I'd reckon.
I'm assuming you live rural?
That's a very broad comment. Of all the houses I've lived in in the past 12 or so years (Sydney) have had combined bathrooms, or two bathrooms where the second hosta either a second toilet or a shower.
Aussies do.
Depends on the age of the house and if I understand correctly, how rural you are. I live in Sydney and of around a handful of houses, units and apartments I've lived in, one had two bathrooms (1 dedicated entirely to a second standing shower), another had two side by side where the first was just a toilet.
Me thinks your brother has a touch of the tism.
When ya gotta go, ya gotta go. Like this hasnt been done before anywhere else
Is that an invitation to come piss in your yard?
Sure... but I live in the most expensive area code in Canada so... you probably wouldn't fit in. I doubt you could afford the gas to drive up the side of the mountain either 🤷♂️ may not be worthwhile for ya... it sure is a nice view though 👍
AI slop aside… who gives a fuck if a tradie pisses in the garden once?
I do. It's fucking disgusting and disrespectful
That’s unAustralian shame on you
This reads like a shitty AI fanfic.
🙄
Yet you don't deny it..
Gaht'eem
His response is funny but i don't think I'd be upset about it honestly
Who cares if he pissed in your garden, I’d rather they pissed on my plants than walk their grubby boots through my house and piss on my toilet seat
What was the response?
The boss was appalled by his apprentice's actions, thankfully, and was apologetic towards my brother. Not sure what happened with the apprentice, but apparently his was on probation
Who cares
Who gives a fuck?
Eh, normal and to be expected.
Offer the bathroom if you really are that high strung about it.
the whole crew would just he thinking wtf why would you attach a video of that. Your brother is odd.
Where else are you suppose to go?
A bathroom?
Unless the homeowner specifically says you can use their bathroom when you’re working on the outside of someone’s house, using their bathroom isn’t really an option.
You want muddy boots in your house? Take them off!
Feet that reek from being in work boots all day? Not as easy to cut them off...
Tendency to leave your toilet bowl like a crime scene due to a diet of meal deals and white monster?
You may want to call yourself lucky.
Weird. I've never once in my life met an Aussie who uses the word bathroom when they mean toilet. Suss as fuck. I'm with the other people and calling this AI.
We use bathroom all the time instead of toilet.
If you have 1 room with everything in, it's the bathroom. If you have a separate toilet and bathroom, you say toilet and bathroom. My house, they are separate rooms. Back in the UK, it was often 1 room upstairs, and a toilet downstairs
Reading the title I original thought his brother caught a neighbor tradwife pissing in his yard.
Sorry, Aussie slang 🤣
Should’ve also said at the end. Want me to suggest more ways your employees can relieve themselves while on the clock (not on my lawn)? This is ai