So the go live was a disaster. to be fair it worked for the first 10 minutes or so. Its the 11th where we started to run into problems. Turns out when the vendor says "yep no worries". what they REALLY meant to say was "Yep? No. Worries!" We got lionel hutz'ed!
And now the blame game begins, but we cant do much when the vendor straight up lies, can we? I didnt pick the vendor or the product. And I'm MORE than happy to call the Vendor and say "Listen here fuckface, you screwed up BAD how are you going to fix it!?" but I dont think the business want me to do that for some reason.
Lack of insulation in this country is disgusting. Climate change is only going to get worse, and I'm fully expecting that people will die in their homes when it's too hot and too cold.
My buildings OC installed insulated windows in all the apartments, which has caused more condensation because they are airtight, and now it's the occupants responsibility to make sure mold doesn't occur 😑😑😑. But there no insulation in the roof as far as I can tell, so we lose heat through the roof. Either we have the split system on, which is old and inefficient, and lose heat. Or we leave it off and stay cold AS FUCK all day and night. The only saving grace is having oodies.
I seem to be living in my oodie this winter. Nice clean clothes everyday then oodie goes on top, which I try to keep clean. Looking at it carefully it's starting to wear out. 🫥
New job is in the city. Current place is pretty far, near Werribee.
I have a house to myself for a bit more than what I'd pay for 2 or 3 bed apartment closer to the city and civilisation. That's the only real draw. A house compared to an apartment.
But I need to be around people and this area is dead.
dont know if you've ever checked it out, but fairfield is pretty great. Or at least it used to be. Close enough for a cheap uber to the city or fitzroy without paying fitzroy prices. It might've got a bit more expensive since i left though.
There’s some sort of mass outage happening. Half the checkouts in Woolies Oakleigh wasn’t working and a constant announcement complex wide alerting us of a technical problem.
The Rush hour on Triple M wasn’t playing and came podcast only and have mentioned banks going down in the CBD and their own equipment wasn’t loading to air on radio.
Yeh I've been following. Unfortunately I don't have admin privileges! Many other people also will not. This probably means every single laptop or device needs manual attention from their IT guy. Very fun in today's WFH environment
Ok. Not sure if you can do this but I’d back up the file just incase.
Quoted from a website.
There is a faulty channel file, so not quite an update. There is a workaround... 1. Boot Windows into Safe Mode or WRE. 2. Go to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\CrowdStrike 3. Locate and delete file matching "C-00000291*.sys" 4. Boot normally.
thank you to all the horticulturists who breed all the beautiful flowers and the good vegetables I grow and enjoy
looking at my little balcony gardens I have plants and flowers from all over the world
azaleas from the Himalayas, chilli plants from Peru, ginger from South East Asia, cactuses from Mexico, zebra plants from Africa, irises and freesias from Europe etc etc
Was up at 3am again today, but forced myself to go back to sleep until 7am.
Going out to see MIL today, so looking forward to seeing her. She's like the mum I wish I had. She always tells the story of when she first met me and knew her son wasn't coming back to Perth lol. Such a treasure of a human, and it's been a year and a half since we've seen her.
Unsure if I want to go to the footy with them tomorrow though, West Coast vs St Kilda iirc. MIL's partner goes for WC, she and my partner go for Freo, of course. Here I am, lil bomber supporter. I suppose, as a Victorian, I ought to go for the Saints.
The last time I went to the footy was back in the mid-late 2000s. My friend and her family were/are Carlton supporters, and it was Essendon vs Carlton. Essendon won that game, was close too iirc, and the drive home was AWKWARD! Took everything in me not to be all in their faces haha.
It might actually be a good game. They're at 15/16 on the ladder. West Coast are in their 'lose every game' phase, so in theory it'll be a Saints victory.
In general though, I'm always going for whoever is playing the Victorian team. 😂
Windy. Had to brave the outside to trim some branches that the wind was blowing against the bedroom window. I considered if I could put up with it and do it tomorrow, but no, too annoying. In bed with electric blanket on now. Cosy.
Thank goodness! Nearly missed you as you were parked around the corner. Could I have a fish katsu banh mi with extra sauce please (and a large espresso martini cos Friday).
Late night run last night to the strange and liminal spaces that is bunnings after dark. Why? Well, you see, his lordship accidentally hooked his spunding valve to the beer line on a pressurised keg ferment and we realised we really, really need all the furniture in the brewery to be on wheels so we can hose that room out if need be....
^but at least it really smells like a brewery now^
Donating every piece of clothing I just bought because despite being the ‘right’ size it actually sucks.
Socks that are so tight in the ribbing they strangle my ankles. Bra with straps I can’t tighten enough to keep them from slipping off. Trackies that are waist high with wide tight/rigid elastic that feels like it’s squeezing my stomach despite fitting exactly/slightly loose, and an excessively baggy arse.
What the hell Kmart? That was a complete waste of money because despite shelling out I still don’t have what I needed.
Now I have to wait until I can get support to go shopping and see what I’m getting.
Kmart used to be decent, I had no complaints. Now even 'universal fit' types of things have to be carefully tried on in person. Apparently even baggy elasticated items and socks. Pilled on the first wash too
(The trackies also fit more like the next size up. The tight feeling came from the weird exaggerated hourglass cut. Completely different in sizing and cut to the past pairs I bought that were out of stock.)
Kmart sizing is nuts! I ordered some tops recently in 2 sizes above what I would usually wear, to make sure they’d be comfortably loose. They turned out to be way too tight, while other stuff is the right size relative to the tag. Very annoying
Undies (except the bamboo midis) must be bought one size up minimum. Usually I go to Big W for those.
Shoes are so long and narrow they must be bought a size up minimum, yet are still extremely long and narrow on feet that are naturally that way. Normal feet would require two sizes up just for the width.
Pants must be a size bigger than shirts even though my shoulders are wider than my hips (so it should be the other way around).
Tshirts are basically different sizes despite the tag.
Bras with the same tag are functionally completely different band and cup sizes.
And the trackie daks of the same size vary from small and very straight cut to running very large and exaggeratedly hourglass cut.
I unfortunately don’t have frequent opportunities to go in person otherwise I would. You really need to.
I've got a speaker from this era of Sony and it's still going strong. Cool is a good setting to avoid those big light flashes if you want the party lights on
I watched the start of the most absurdly hilarious movie last night. It's called Hundreds of Beavers and the first 30 minutes is basically a Wile E Coyote skit. My god, I was losing it.
A friend of mine asked the groupchat for a 'nostalgic' pizza place. We figured out he meant a good bad pizza, not the Pizza Hut buffet from days of yore.
It got me thinking about good takeaway pizza places where the pizza isn't fancy but it still hits the spot. Fairfield Pizza is great, I could get two large pizzas and a garlic bread for $20 back in the day. Original Sinners in Macleod is up there as well. There's a place near me called Romulus Pizza, it's a bit more fancy but still takeaway. Probably one of the best takeaway places I've ever gone to, they make their own dough and you can feel the difference.
Plotting outfit for ‘Bad Taste’ birthday party tomorrow. Currently all hot pink leopard print and safety vest orange. I do have some orange makeup, but it’s super itchy…
I rode it scooter around Thailand. As it's dangerous for tourists generally, I'd pick a grandma and potter along behind her through the chaos. Never had an issue.
Though checking in a hotel in Patong and watching a slight Japanese woman wheeled out in wheelchair after she broke both and and legs (face looked fine, luckily) on a scooter, should be enough to make some people think twice.
My new slippers were delivered today, but they took them to the post office for me to collect. I could have had toasty warm purple feet tonight, but instead I have to go out on a day with possible small hail predicted to collect them. ☹️
This is why I just don't trust star reviews - it's not only just because of fake/paid responses. There's a whole science about this sort of dissonance in perception when it comes to rating reviews etc. It happens to everybody - my personal description for it is questionnaire bias. I've never had a questionnaire or a rating review where my actual opinions and experiences were accurately reflected in the questions/ratings. My advice fwiw is just not to stress over it. Everyone has a different take on what 'excellent' means to them. For some it might be that delivery on the day specified is enough for that rating - some might consider that just normal and 'excellent' might consist of much more than that like good and timely service on a return/refund as well.
5 stars. That's the default.
The logic to US companies is backwards to us. We think of it as earning your stars. And yeah, 3 is kinda average. Not bad, not great.
They think of it as 5 stars is normal. Perfect every time. You lose points for imperfections.
Example: An Uber driver would lose their job at around 4.1 average rating. So after your trip, you can say 5 stars (normal) or anything else (fire this driver).
It's stupid, and completely ruins the point of a rating scale. Plus, it's also not really compatible with Australian culture. We would think 4 stars is good. 3 stars is ok.
@Nath@Baku
An eloquent and insightful explanation of Aussie culture there. Five stars is probably wanky overkill. Four stars sounds expensive. Three stars is normal. Two stars getting a bit bogan. One star quite feral.
@stepchook@Nath@Baku yes this is infuriating in many of the sharing/gig economy areas, and it's definitely Aussie culture but also many others, US is actually the cultural outlier here.
To the point that I basically will never allow French people in Airbnb because they ALWAYS rate low.
I always had this problem with peer rated assignments. Other people were rating absolutely everything 9/10 and I was giving honest 7 for good but nothing special. I looked mean, and thought them incapable of critical thinking…
I braved it to the city today and back with a mask on the whole time. The most weird thing has had to happen at the end. Tram driver swapped over at Barkers Rd and the new driver was saying things to himself while setting up, like "adjusting my seat" and "reaching out for the mirror" and I thought it was some cool.OH&S thing like the train drivers pointing and naming things in Japan.
Then he started mumbling to himself... "they said it was going to rain but it didn't..." "look at how bright those lights are"... and he had this really sullen, angsty young look about him... and before I could hear what else he had to say I had to get off.
Where is the rain though, it's been blowing plenty but not very wet. Not that I'm complaining
I think a major problem with DoorDash's new drone delivery service is that it has to deliver to clear ground, which means you have to go outside to get your food, it won't be right at your door. If they really want to provide a good service they need to have drones that can open the door, come inside and drop off direct to your lounge chair or bed. Or maybe the robo vac could be taught to multi-task and meet up with the drone for the final delivery leg?
Eh. I’ve given in and paid much more than I wanted for a duplicate pair of Cotton On trackies from years ago. Because these days to keep trying to get a comfortable cheap pair without the opportunity to try them on is throwing good money after bad. 🙄
(That also allowed me to get a manual paper shredder on clearance - the noise of the motorised one is intolerable so it doesn’t get used.)
I got only one pair though because I will be going through and culling my clothes in an effort to find the other cheap ones I had… they can’t have walked off on their own. Also even if the $30 ones are quality Melbcat’s claws will pull out many threads before too long, or I’ll stain them. That’s why I buy cheap… Between the two of us nice things don’t last.
Pretty angry about it. I was happy with bare bones cotton basics until they became so ill fitting as to cause discomfort. You shouldn’t have to pay premium to have a usable item.
Even just the cost of basic groceries is obscene now
I've sorted my LP collection, shucked out a dozen I will never listen to because they are just crap, right now I have on vol. 1 of the 1960 Aussie jazz festival. The other Ray Price https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNUgQdJA3g0
If it's the end of time tonight I wanna tell youse I love youse all and I'll be going out with a bang. ♥ 🍺
I see the bad moon risin'
I see trouble on the way
I see earthquakes and lightnin'
I see bad times of day
Don't go around tonight
Well, it's bound to take your life
There's a bad moon on the rise
I hear hurricanes a-blowin'
I know the end is comin' soon
I fear rivers overflowin'
I hear the voice of rage and ruin
Don't go around tonight
Well, it's bound to take your life
There's a bad moon on the rise
Hope you got your things together
Hope you are quite prepared to die
Looks like we're in for nasty weather
One eye is taken for an eye
Well, don't go around tonight
Well, it's bound to take your life
There's a bad moon on the rise
Actually, it is the bad moon tonight - 94% waxing gibbous. Very bad omen. CCR had it right.
Haha. This is my ringtone for my daughter cos she very rarely calls me.
Just kinda starting to feel understand how big this is. Biggest IT fail in a longgggg time.
Backatcha CEO. 🤟🏻 We're all snug and (reasonably) warm here and all the appliances are dumb enough that we can cope.
Pets are funny. You treat them like wheat bags but when you move you realise you're their wheat bag.
Love you too CEO happy endtimes party 🎉💚💃🏻💃🏻🎤🎶
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Love you too CEO. At least I have my pizza if the world ends today.
Let’s hope it lets me have the final AFL game as well tonight.
I hate both teams but I hope we survive to watch the Olympics.
I’ve got some tough tipping to do this week
Hawthorn Vs Collingwood Brisbane Vs Sydney
Argh! Hard games to tip and I’m leading my tipping comp at work.
Fuck yeah!
I'd go Collingwood and Sydney.
That’s the opposite of what I tipped!
I'll still pray for ya brother. 🙏 🤞
Back at ya, CEO. 🖤
♥
Good morning. 🤗 It's freezing.
Today's title is to celebrate the Fluffy Butt family's achievements and new beginnings.
That's incredibly sweet of you ❤️
shakes virtual pompoms
So the go live was a disaster. to be fair it worked for the first 10 minutes or so. Its the 11th where we started to run into problems. Turns out when the vendor says "yep no worries". what they REALLY meant to say was "Yep? No. Worries!" We got lionel hutz'ed!
And now the blame game begins, but we cant do much when the vendor straight up lies, can we? I didnt pick the vendor or the product. And I'm MORE than happy to call the Vendor and say "Listen here fuckface, you screwed up BAD how are you going to fix it!?" but I dont think the business want me to do that for some reason.
Tell me the rollout didn't involve Crowdstrike? 🤣
But yeah that is super frustrating.
Anti gratitude!
I cannot feel my toes. Left bread directly under the radiator to rise overnight. It sunk. Fragrant brick for breakfast.
My house is freezing and it hampers my desire to get out of bed.
Lack of insulation in this country is disgusting. Climate change is only going to get worse, and I'm fully expecting that people will die in their homes when it's too hot and too cold.
My buildings OC installed insulated windows in all the apartments, which has caused more condensation because they are airtight, and now it's the occupants responsibility to make sure mold doesn't occur 😑😑😑. But there no insulation in the roof as far as I can tell, so we lose heat through the roof. Either we have the split system on, which is old and inefficient, and lose heat. Or we leave it off and stay cold AS FUCK all day and night. The only saving grace is having oodies.
Hate the way we build in this stupid cuntry
I seem to be living in my oodie this winter. Nice clean clothes everyday then oodie goes on top, which I try to keep clean. Looking at it carefully it's starting to wear out. 🫥
I went to the supermarket and spent money without feeling guilty for being frivolous and buying fruit.
Felt good.
The thing I'm looking forward to the most is moving into a place that has insulation.
Wot ‘e sed 👆🏻
It's truly amazing
is your current place far from your new job? and is the new job close to where you'd want to live?
New job is in the city. Current place is pretty far, near Werribee.
I have a house to myself for a bit more than what I'd pay for 2 or 3 bed apartment closer to the city and civilisation. That's the only real draw. A house compared to an apartment.
But I need to be around people and this area is dead.
dont know if you've ever checked it out, but fairfield is pretty great. Or at least it used to be. Close enough for a cheap uber to the city or fitzroy without paying fitzroy prices. It might've got a bit more expensive since i left though.
Slept in - for me - until about quarter to seven then was pinned for an hour by the felines.
What a life, as the yiayia would say.
There’s some sort of mass outage happening. Half the checkouts in Woolies Oakleigh wasn’t working and a constant announcement complex wide alerting us of a technical problem.
The Rush hour on Triple M wasn’t playing and came podcast only and have mentioned banks going down in the CBD and their own equipment wasn’t loading to air on radio.
I wonder what’s going on.
Crowdstrike (core service) is down. Looootta shit hitting the fan. But on the up sky news is apparently utterly off air so cheers
Thank God EFTPOS at the restaurant my friend and I caught up at was fine or we or they would have been in the shit.
Yeah. Thank god my Apple Pay for commbank was working with some checkouts open too or no pizza for me.
Nah, they blow the dust off the ol' ratchet-ratchet and go manual
Read down below 👇🏻 massive IT outage worldwide Blue screen of deathing Windows laptops and servers
Bugger. Thanks. Just had a look. Got the news on now.
I was expecting my laptop to blue screen.
Oh why couldn’t it have happened when I was at work.
Some sort of issue with microsoft PCs apparently.
Bummer. This’ll be interesting. Going to absorb some news and see what happens from it.
as long as the power stays on I can play some LPs
hopefully telly is still on for later
Big W self checkouts weren't working either.
All of them? I'm lucky some werre working or otherwise no pizza for me :(
My teams work computers keep blue screening 👌
Crowdstrike lol.
I'm just watching the carnage unfold.
I’m watching the news and the newsreader (Sandra sully?) just asked some expert “and should we panic?!” 😂🤣
E: now she’s telling people not to panic. Must have got told off in the ad break
Notice she's on the couch and not the news desk?
They seem to be leaning in to the drama
haha not much else to do they're saying, time to crack open the wine!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-19/technology-shutdown-abc-media-banks-institutions/104119960
https://old.reddit.com/r/crowdstrike/comments/1e6vmkf/bsod_error_in_latest_crowdstrike_update/
Looks like I'm not going home on time tonight :|
This would be so fine with me except I use work laptop for recreational activities while not working 😔 and now I'm finished work 😔
Did yours blue screen?
My work laptop hasn’t done it yet.
Yep. Now it's in a blue screen loop. When I restart I get to log in page and it just blue screens again
There’s a manual fix which involved rebooting and deleting a file I think.
I don’t know the details of it yet.
Yeh I've been following. Unfortunately I don't have admin privileges! Many other people also will not. This probably means every single laptop or device needs manual attention from their IT guy. Very fun in today's WFH environment
Oh boooo :(
Ok. Not sure if you can do this but I’d back up the file just incase.
Quoted from a website.
There is a faulty channel file, so not quite an update. There is a workaround... 1. Boot Windows into Safe Mode or WRE. 2. Go to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\CrowdStrike 3. Locate and delete file matching "C-00000291*.sys" 4. Boot normally.
🐧🐧 here. I am just gonna sit here and be smug like the Linux user I am (yes at work too)
Royal Exhibition Building bought top much of all the great alcohol and condiments from the stalls!
At a pub for drinks, getting Korean BBQ for dinner later.
So cold, but damn I love my MIL and her partner. Never thought I'd be a part of family that's so close and supporting 😭💜
😭 that's so awesome, so happy for you
Grateful for the weight being lifted off my chest
Incredibly grateful for the help from members of this community for the help and support they've given me
Warm cat sleeping in the lounge room with the heater on now that bills will be manageable
Getting a beard trim later which means I get to go to South Yarra
Friend bought me a ticket to a gig tomorrow night to celebrate
A lot to be grateful for ❤️❤️❤️
thank you to all the horticulturists who breed all the beautiful flowers and the good vegetables I grow and enjoy
looking at my little balcony gardens I have plants and flowers from all over the world
azaleas from the Himalayas, chilli plants from Peru, ginger from South East Asia, cactuses from Mexico, zebra plants from Africa, irises and freesias from Europe etc etc
I love a good grump I does 😺
Grateful that I have stopped vomiting and can enjoy my time in Port Fairy.
Was up at 3am again today, but forced myself to go back to sleep until 7am.
Going out to see MIL today, so looking forward to seeing her. She's like the mum I wish I had. She always tells the story of when she first met me and knew her son wasn't coming back to Perth lol. Such a treasure of a human, and it's been a year and a half since we've seen her.
Unsure if I want to go to the footy with them tomorrow though, West Coast vs St Kilda iirc. MIL's partner goes for WC, she and my partner go for Freo, of course. Here I am, lil bomber supporter. I suppose, as a Victorian, I ought to go for the Saints.
The last time I went to the footy was back in the mid-late 2000s. My friend and her family were/are Carlton supporters, and it was Essendon vs Carlton. Essendon won that game, was close too iirc, and the drive home was AWKWARD! Took everything in me not to be all in their faces haha.
/endtextwall
Go orn, go to the footy, you'll have a great time even if you all barrack for different teams. 😊
It might actually be a good game. They're at 15/16 on the ladder. West Coast are in their 'lose every game' phase, so in theory it'll be a Saints victory.
In general though, I'm always going for whoever is playing the Victorian team. 😂
Hooray in the middle of the crowdstrike crisis I bought w/e goon with real cash monies :) got a few dirty looks though from goonless people.
I got really lucky. I was able to get a script done for my kid AND pay with card at the Chemist Warehouse. Otherwise I wouldn't have noticed at all
Windy. Had to brave the outside to trim some branches that the wind was blowing against the bedroom window. I considered if I could put up with it and do it tomorrow, but no, too annoying. In bed with electric blanket on now. Cosy.
Hooray. Footy tv feed is working!
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Asafoetida powder?
Now I regret not going to the supermarket yesterday.
Me too.
Me three. At least for perishables.
I swear quick oats sachets tasted way better when I was a kid. Kinda shit now? I'd prefer plain oats
I prefer whole oats to quick for porridge. Ideally with an overnight soak.
I like my oats pulverised for porridge.
All those sachets taste either too sweet or just artificial to me.
Coles site is down
Beep Beep 🚚
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Perfect timing!
Home made Burger and chips pls and thank you 🍔
🍔🍟🥤🍾🥂
Olive bread & pate please
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( I had toasted olive bread and butter for lunch !! )
A example of your refined taste 🐈⬛
Ohhh, perfect timing a fish burger with tartare sauce and chips!
🐟🍔🍯🍟🥤
Thank you Chef, even tossed in an extra drink for me!
Awesome!
Thank goodness! Nearly missed you as you were parked around the corner. Could I have a fish katsu banh mi with extra sauce please (and a large espresso martini cos Friday).
🐟🛢️🌭🍯🍯🍯🍯🍯
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Thank you! You are a genuine life saver (or Friday pm saver).
Computer says nooo.
Computer is frozen and so am I.
I'm drinking, singing and dancing for warmth.
Holy crap. That wind outside is really bad. Thought the gust was about to take my roof off.
Late night run last night to the strange and liminal spaces that is bunnings after dark. Why? Well, you see, his lordship accidentally hooked his spunding valve to the beer line on a pressurised keg ferment and we realised we really, really need all the furniture in the brewery to be on wheels so we can hose that room out if need be....
^but at least it really smells like a brewery now^
Especially if you have a blowout of the broken glass sort!
Thankfully not, we don't bottle
And unfortunately this is why I have a driver's licence and a car...hate how little mess ups like that can blow out your travel time by so much
Unfortunately it seems like it's another victim of the outage. Bummer. Hope you got to where you needed to be without freezing too much...
Cold and wimdy 🥶
Cheers everyone 🍺
Cheers 🥃🥃 pouring one out for all the SysAdmins about to have a very long Friday night
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Cheers! 🍹
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Cheers!
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Cheers! 🍕 🥤
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Cheers! 🍹
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work uses windows too but everything is perfectly fine
The piece of software that fucked everything up is one of a handful that companies use.
So thankfully not everyone has to deal with the current shit show.
Interesting time to take a nap is it back on yet?
Nope. Things still broken from what I’m seeing on the news.
I don’t think I’ll be going out shopping over the weekend with all these problems.
My commbank app was working last I checked as well.
Donating every piece of clothing I just bought because despite being the ‘right’ size it actually sucks.
Socks that are so tight in the ribbing they strangle my ankles. Bra with straps I can’t tighten enough to keep them from slipping off. Trackies that are waist high with wide tight/rigid elastic that feels like it’s squeezing my stomach despite fitting exactly/slightly loose, and an excessively baggy arse.
What the hell Kmart? That was a complete waste of money because despite shelling out I still don’t have what I needed.
Now I have to wait until I can get support to go shopping and see what I’m getting.
fucking tell me about it. Bought a pair of jeans from BigW, they lasted less than a month before the thighs and ass split open.
twenty pairs of jeans in two years from Target, Big W, and Harris Scarfe.
I've even tried Levi's and they lasted all of two weeks.
At least Nudie Jeans guarantees free repairs and alterations for life, but they're so expensive.
I miss my old nudies. $300 back in the day, hard to justify, but jeez they were very good.
Kmart used to be decent, I had no complaints. Now even 'universal fit' types of things have to be carefully tried on in person. Apparently even baggy elasticated items and socks. Pilled on the first wash too
(The trackies also fit more like the next size up. The tight feeling came from the weird exaggerated hourglass cut. Completely different in sizing and cut to the past pairs I bought that were out of stock.)
Kmart sizing is nuts! I ordered some tops recently in 2 sizes above what I would usually wear, to make sure they’d be comfortably loose. They turned out to be way too tight, while other stuff is the right size relative to the tag. Very annoying
It is very strange.
Undies (except the bamboo midis) must be bought one size up minimum. Usually I go to Big W for those.
Shoes are so long and narrow they must be bought a size up minimum, yet are still extremely long and narrow on feet that are naturally that way. Normal feet would require two sizes up just for the width.
Pants must be a size bigger than shirts even though my shoulders are wider than my hips (so it should be the other way around).
Tshirts are basically different sizes despite the tag.
Bras with the same tag are functionally completely different band and cup sizes.
And the trackie daks of the same size vary from small and very straight cut to running very large and exaggeratedly hourglass cut.
I unfortunately don’t have frequent opportunities to go in person otherwise I would. You really need to.
It's now saying it's likely to hit about midday 😭
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Already rained here for a bit :(
Put your lights on - Santana & Evertlast
I forgot about this song. So good!
Agree. I love Santana. I love Whitey. ♥
Good one
This is my favourite of Santana’s.
Smooth featuring Rob Thomas.
https://youtu.be/6Whgn_iE5uc?si=iO9PtXk6HyGhroEP
You've done good there buddy. Sony are good in the speaker department. 👍
Can you take a pic of it?
Awesome! If they can be dual paired then it would be worthwhile to get another so you can get stereo sound.
Also you have a pool table. Fucking cool!
I've got a speaker from this era of Sony and it's still going strong. Cool is a good setting to avoid those big light flashes if you want the party lights on
I watched the start of the most absurdly hilarious movie last night. It's called Hundreds of Beavers and the first 30 minutes is basically a Wile E Coyote skit. My god, I was losing it.
I hope the rest of it is just as good.
Someone recommended it to me a while back and I 'acquired' it. It's absolutely bonkers and stupidly hilarious.
It is my type of comedy.
A friend of mine asked the groupchat for a 'nostalgic' pizza place. We figured out he meant a good bad pizza, not the Pizza Hut buffet from days of yore.
It got me thinking about good takeaway pizza places where the pizza isn't fancy but it still hits the spot. Fairfield Pizza is great, I could get two large pizzas and a garlic bread for $20 back in the day. Original Sinners in Macleod is up there as well. There's a place near me called Romulus Pizza, it's a bit more fancy but still takeaway. Probably one of the best takeaway places I've ever gone to, they make their own dough and you can feel the difference.
I think I prefer this version of the song that's on repeat in my house - kidcalhoon2 would freaking love it, kidcalhoon1 not so much
I have forwarded this to the Young Seagoons. 😹
Plotting outfit for ‘Bad Taste’ birthday party tomorrow. Currently all hot pink leopard print and safety vest orange. I do have some orange makeup, but it’s super itchy…
Add feather boa - any colour that doesn't match.
I like your thinking
There's a shop just down the road from me selling leopard print and snake skin ugg boots ... or maybe these would do I want some
Yikes. Or should that be yiff?
Bad enough? I can probably find something green
Do it!
fake ear with a hole and blood coming out of it?
Ahem, missed the mark
On second thoughts, Boyo does have punched conches, I may suggest fake blood
hot pink shorts, lime green fish net short tshirt, safety vest, black runners
I saw a big hairy guy rock that on greenwich street NY , just because 🤷♀️
Don’t quite have the makings of that for Boyo 😺 also, wee bit chilly ‘eh
It was winter but at least there wasn't any snow 😹
He’s bought Kmart crocs. Idea what no go with them
kmart crocs sound perfect
Go as a catholic priest
Too far
Take inspiration from Weird Al
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zq7Eki5EZ8o
Leg warmers.
Sending some warm, muggy, late night love…
Man, it’s been years since I’ve spent time in the more chaotic parts of Asia. Favs atm are:
and nearly all are wearing sandals
I rode it scooter around Thailand. As it's dangerous for tourists generally, I'd pick a grandma and potter along behind her through the chaos. Never had an issue.
I did, too, years ago.
Though checking in a hotel in Patong and watching a slight Japanese woman wheeled out in wheelchair after she broke both and and legs (face looked fine, luckily) on a scooter, should be enough to make some people think twice.
My new slippers were delivered today, but they took them to the post office for me to collect. I could have had toasty warm purple feet tonight, but instead I have to go out on a day with possible small hail predicted to collect them. ☹️
brr, I'm cleaning the fridge and freezer before I pack away the big monthly shop
do other people do this?
I have a small freezer that needs to be defrosted every 6 months or so, so we eat everything from it, then I defrost it, clean it and restock.
The fridge I do one shelf at a time periodically.
That sounds very organised and practical
Only cos if I don't do it the door doesn't close properly.
not as often as I should!
Yes. I used to have a small secondary freezer for bulk batch tomatoes etc Miss it. But yes, when it gets low, scrub, then mega stock up.
This is why I just don't trust star reviews - it's not only just because of fake/paid responses. There's a whole science about this sort of dissonance in perception when it comes to rating reviews etc. It happens to everybody - my personal description for it is questionnaire bias. I've never had a questionnaire or a rating review where my actual opinions and experiences were accurately reflected in the questions/ratings. My advice fwiw is just not to stress over it. Everyone has a different take on what 'excellent' means to them. For some it might be that delivery on the day specified is enough for that rating - some might consider that just normal and 'excellent' might consist of much more than that like good and timely service on a return/refund as well.
5 stars. That's the default.
The logic to US companies is backwards to us. We think of it as earning your stars. And yeah, 3 is kinda average. Not bad, not great.
They think of it as 5 stars is normal. Perfect every time. You lose points for imperfections.
Example: An Uber driver would lose their job at around 4.1 average rating. So after your trip, you can say 5 stars (normal) or anything else (fire this driver).
It's stupid, and completely ruins the point of a rating scale. Plus, it's also not really compatible with Australian culture. We would think 4 stars is good. 3 stars is ok.
@Nath @Baku
An eloquent and insightful explanation of Aussie culture there. Five stars is probably wanky overkill. Four stars sounds expensive. Three stars is normal. Two stars getting a bit bogan. One star quite feral.
@stepchook @Nath @Baku yes this is infuriating in many of the sharing/gig economy areas, and it's definitely Aussie culture but also many others, US is actually the cultural outlier here.
To the point that I basically will never allow French people in Airbnb because they ALWAYS rate low.
I always had this problem with peer rated assignments. Other people were rating absolutely everything 9/10 and I was giving honest 7 for good but nothing special. I looked mean, and thought them incapable of critical thinking…
I don't bother with ebay or amazon ratings, it's fake
but personal stuff, I choose what I read or watch very carefully so very often it really is excellent
quizzes, I'm older and I have thought through nearly everything so I'm definite on a lot of things, for instance I'm adamant on tolerance
Bob Newhart has passed away. The star of the sitcom Newhart (who played Dick) as well as others.
The classic line hi I'm Larry, this is my brother Daryl and my other brother Daryl came from this show.
https://youtu.be/dBujFdeyVCk?si=SUL5iUt1VbVk4mDw
oh no
he made many best selling records of his stage shows
thanks for all the laughs
the Retirement Party seems apt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skGxsnXv_84
Brilliant. He had great comedic timing.
He did
and he also chose the most mundane topics and people , who would think accountants and air traffic controllers could be funny
I work with accountants all the time. Yes, they are funny but sometimes not in a good way.
Think I'll play my old Bob Newhart LPs today. 😿😹
The Boys is such an accurate parody of The USA. It's as if the writes are writing the election cycle
Funny and scary
I braved it to the city today and back with a mask on the whole time. The most weird thing has had to happen at the end. Tram driver swapped over at Barkers Rd and the new driver was saying things to himself while setting up, like "adjusting my seat" and "reaching out for the mirror" and I thought it was some cool.OH&S thing like the train drivers pointing and naming things in Japan.
Then he started mumbling to himself... "they said it was going to rain but it didn't..." "look at how bright those lights are"... and he had this really sullen, angsty young look about him... and before I could hear what else he had to say I had to get off.
Where is the rain though, it's been blowing plenty but not very wet. Not that I'm complaining
I think a major problem with DoorDash's new drone delivery service is that it has to deliver to clear ground, which means you have to go outside to get your food, it won't be right at your door. If they really want to provide a good service they need to have drones that can open the door, come inside and drop off direct to your lounge chair or bed. Or maybe the robo vac could be taught to multi-task and meet up with the drone for the final delivery leg?
Roombutler, I wouldn't mind that. Fetch the
newspapersdirty bird for me, JeevesMy old housemates brother delivered for the local pizza place. He had a spare key. We could get pizzas delivered to our bedrooms.
I bought a big bunch of singles at the opshop the other day, have no idea what some of them are, names and songs I've never heard of
I think I love this one , this is from 1962 , Messico https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSL2ilfF35Q
I don't know whether Google is right, but if it's really 1942, that's super upbeat for the time.
the song was written in '42, he recorded his version in 62"
Wow! That dude shure can sang! Any others in the stash?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb6Fsj519B0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0jXyosy7-k
Love me some Benny!
The xylophone is pretty cool too
Eh. I’ve given in and paid much more than I wanted for a duplicate pair of Cotton On trackies from years ago. Because these days to keep trying to get a comfortable cheap pair without the opportunity to try them on is throwing good money after bad. 🙄
(That also allowed me to get a manual paper shredder on clearance - the noise of the motorised one is intolerable so it doesn’t get used.)
I got only one pair though because I will be going through and culling my clothes in an effort to find the other cheap ones I had… they can’t have walked off on their own. Also even if the $30 ones are quality Melbcat’s claws will pull out many threads before too long, or I’ll stain them. That’s why I buy cheap… Between the two of us nice things don’t last.
Pretty angry about it. I was happy with bare bones cotton basics until they became so ill fitting as to cause discomfort. You shouldn’t have to pay premium to have a usable item.
Even just the cost of basic groceries is obscene now
I've sorted my LP collection, shucked out a dozen I will never listen to because they are just crap, right now I have on vol. 1 of the 1960 Aussie jazz festival. The other Ray Price https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNUgQdJA3g0