Hold on now. We’re nearly there.

  • danwritesbooks@aussie.zone
    13·
    10 months ago

    Just put down a deposit for a wood heater for the living room.

    I cannot wait for winter with a roaring fire and scary movies.

  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
    10·
    10 months ago

    Lovely sunrise, hot air ballons over Carlton, biridies are up and cheeping, Bill and Ted are patiently waiting for breakfast.

    I miss the Young Seagoons already. They fill the house with so much love and joy 😭

  • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
    9·
    10 months ago

    Some dude on the escalator at Spencer Street just farted in my face. Pure, unadulterated methane right on my inhale.

    I feel sick 🤢

  • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
    9·
    10 months ago

    Marketplace win: this item is not available!!

    Miss Meow’s unused climbing poles should also be heading off soon to be destroyed by another cat that really enjoys scratching them to pieces.

    Edit: cat poles now also gone, yay!

  • Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone
    8·
    10 months ago

    Vet is giving Gibson some pain relief just in case she hurt herself, but there’s nothing outwardly wrong.

    However, I have to sedate her in advance next time as she was rather unhappy with the vet…

    • bananafungus@aussie.zone
      4·
      10 months ago

      Excellent news!! I’m glad everything went (semi) well for everyone.

      Edit - my toddler grade spelling.

  • Taleya@aussie.zone
    8·
    10 months ago

    oooh they finally were stupid enough to parrot the line that “the driveway is unsafe to use”.

    Specifically in regards to traffic during access and egress.

    I’m fairly certain both the council and vic roads are going to have something fairly expletive to say about that…

    • melbourne_wanderer@aussie.zone
      4·
      10 months ago

      I have been fighting with auspost literally for years. Finally just submitted a complaint to the ombudsman, sent the reference number to AusPost and my issue was miraculously fixed and I received two different apologies.

        • melbourne_wanderer@aussie.zone
          2·
          10 months ago

          they just stopped delivering parcels, and couldn’t give a reason why. they always gave an excuse, which I could always prove false.

          • Taleya@aussie.zone
            2·
            10 months ago

            yup, that’s ours. Oh we can’t access teh driveway oh there’s too much traffic oh it’s an oh&s issue. yeah when your own staff deliver shit on top of other vendors, it’s just one guy, that’s a pile of horseshit. Final straw was them demanding proof my driveway is safe to access. Based on an 8 month old comment by one driver. Ombudsman can deal with them.

  • Taleya@aussie.zone
    7·
    10 months ago

    According to auspost there is no driveway and even if we had one it would not be safe to use at any time of the day.

    well 1) I’m standing in it right now and 2) I got six pages (now) of logs from aramex, fastway pet circle, tnt, temu, couriers please, budget direct, amazon, soilworx, civic, eco247, DHL and indeed, Auspost yourselves that says you are fulla sheeeeeet

  • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
    6·
    10 months ago

    I have successfully completed two tasks today that required phone calls. I am really terrible at those - I’m not sure if it’s because I will take any excuse to delay a phone call or because the times I like to sit down and do organisation type stuff generally fall outside of business hours.

  • oztrin@aussie.zoneEnglish
    6·
    10 months ago

    Definitely feeling the mileage today. And that’s without taking one of the clients to Oakleigh for escorted shopping. 😂.
    In other news, the cops asked me yesterday if I had a spare key so they didn’t have to call in a locksmith, so I took it down to where the car’s being held and had a chance to look at it - it looks fine from the outside aside from missing number plates. They’ve taken a few things that were inside the car including the bluetooth thingy, but I couldn’t tell if the radio was still there.
    Just gotta wait for forensics to go over it, and then the insurance company will get it and go over it, and then all being well I get it back!

  • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
    6·
    10 months ago

    Doing my best to stay out of this “doctor killed in home invasion” and “Old man pushed into water” stories. Not doing a good job, I admit… but man what is going on here lately?! Be interesting to see how this plays out politically. Andrews would’ve already called a presser, announced another well-meaning-but-ultimately-useless-taskforce. If Libs had half a brain cell to share between them they’d be attacking the Allan government on being soft, and I hate to say it but that’d be a pretty easy picture to paint at the moment.

    • Taleya@aussie.zone
      131·
      10 months ago

      crime ain’t upticking. Reporting of crime in sensationalised ways is. The fact you went straight to the politics of it is your answer as to why.

      • Pilk@aussie.zone
        4·
        10 months ago

        It’s also a classic example of the availability heuristic.

        Two notable youth crime events happened recently; therefore, youth crime must be increasing. It’s a non sequitur. But it does unfortunately work on the populace – and has since time immemorial.

      • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
        1·
        10 months ago

        I’m not saying crime is up. I’m saying high profile things are up. yes it sells news, but then again, a doctor being killed in a home invasion probably should be news.

        • Taleya@aussie.zone
          5·
          10 months ago

          Why? I don’t want to come across as cold but a doctor is a person. They’re the same as the rest of us.

          Also i hate the term ‘home invasion’ it’s designed to incite panic. It was a robbery that turned violent when he caught the little cunts at it and went after them.

      • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
        4·
        10 months ago

        Correct. But government write the laws. They invest or ignore public housing or rehabilitation programs, drug policies. edit: Also need to point out that facts have not baring on a channel 7 “special “investigation””

        • Nath@aussie.zone
          3·
          10 months ago

          Do you think the Government should make it illegal to invade people’s homes and kill people? I thought that was already against the law.

          • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
            1·
            10 months ago

            I’ll be honest, I don’t know what the solution is. I’ll be the first to say that. I think its a balance of having serious consequences (a dude bashed a woman but was back out on bail!?) and proper rehabilitation and support services. Mental health is a joke in this country. Addiction is worse. It used to take a village to raise kids, now we have a lot of people on their own in tight economic times and we wonder why kids are falling through the cracks.

            But I think we elect people to figure out solutions to problems, and instead they’ve declared this one too hard and stuck their head in the sand. I’m not worried about today. I’m worried about where this all goes in 20 years time.

            • Nath@aussie.zone
              2·
              10 months ago

              The acts of the judiciary are by design entirely independent of the government. We can’t blame the government for that.

              Rehab and support, as well as mental health does come under the government’s remit, however. That said, the support and recognition in these areas has improved immensely since the introduction of the NDIS. IT still isn’t perfect, but it’s the best it has ever been and is still improving.

              The cost of living stuff, I’m right ther with you. It’s costing me a fortune just to live in a 3-bedroom townhouse in a reasonable area. I’m paying more to rent here than some jobs on seek are even offering. And I’m hoping to save for a deposit on a mortgage somehow. Which is going to be extra tricky, since I don’t plan to still be in the workforce in 30 years.

              But, the truth is: The ludicrous cost of housing benefits far too many Australians for the government to want to tweak that knob too much. If it were suddenly possible to buy a 4 bedroom house in the suburbs for $400k again, the net-worth of a massive chunk of Australians would halve overnight.

    • SituationCake@aussie.zone
      4·
      10 months ago

      I find it depressing. Yeah I know they are young, but there are zero real consequences for their actions, the kids are probably laughing and boasting of their horrific acts thinking they are top shit. It’ll be a slap on the wrist, released on bail and free to go do some more pushing off piers, bashing, robbing, murdering. Our government has decided this is acceptable because it’s not happening in their own back yards, so there’s no plans for rehab programs, penalties, interventions etc. It’s awful.

    • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
      4·
      10 months ago

      Melbourne/Australia just seems to be getting more feral.

      Edit: Cripes, now I’ve seen about the tent cities and shipping containers being rented out with single beds inside. It’s fucked

  • Llabyrinthine@aussie.zone
    5·
    10 months ago

    Ugh, I’m just wiped. I haven’t been consuming the best food for a few weeks and it’s starting to rear its ugly head. Gyah. Sads.

    I just want the microwave from 5th Element. I feel this would partially solve my problems. Hehe.

  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
    5·
    10 months ago

    Last night was a rough one. I got up to pee, then once I got back to sleep Melbcat stood on my locked but open laptop to restart a loud video. I settled her but a while later she was sick on the carpet, then she was fussy and got me up to sort her biscuits out a few times. I slept in stretches.

    This morning she was straining for a little pee so I need to try and get a sample or sort a lift to the vet :(