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[–] underwatermagpies@aussie.zone 19 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Tommy Cat is 10 today. He has had prawns for tea and is now basking in the sun, pretty well satisfied with life.

[–] StudChud@aussie.zone 7 points 1 month ago

πŸ’œπŸ˜

[–] SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 7 points 1 month ago

Happy birthday, beautiful boy!!! What a stunner!!

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[–] Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

All done. Here's the world's loneliest tomato plant:

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[–] Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

Normally I love putting stuff together, like Ikea furniture etc etc

I'm now in a room with the door locked trying to build this cat tower and there's a monster on the other side of the door who is DEMANDING to be let in.

Edit: She realised if she jumps high enough she can pull the door handle down and open the door.

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[–] Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (9 children)

Bought a bass instead of the ps5. Fuck it lol. It was half the price.

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[–] just_kitten@aussie.zone 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (11 children)

At my second inspection. Crusty old dude rocks up and talks only to me and asks if I'm viewing the apartment, then asks if I'm single and gives me this creepy grin and says he'd prefer a single to move into the apartment. Oh and of course he's the owner. Shakes my hand and encourages me to apply. Completely ignores the other attendees (male).

I might've seriously considered this apartment despite the very dated kitchen and bathroom and no fly screens, it's pricey but in a very quiet green location and has a sunlit balcony... But after the above interaction I am definitely not applying wtf

E: I am meant to be cleaning the house but our purritude has other ideas. Purrhaps she has sensed my overall distress. I'll miss this lil sweetie when she leaves on Monday

little nugget on my lap

[–] Duenan@aussie.zone 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Warning signs all over the place with that one.

Avoid!

[–] just_kitten@aussie.zone 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sucks because I really might've seriously considered it for the quietness and the cleanliness. Light filled and still convenient for work. I was sat in the park wondering if I stuck on my own fly screens and everything else worked okay, could I still stick it out since there's a REA intermediary... Esp as this is probably one of the few times I have an advantage (??) as a single renter. But it's for entirely the wrong reasons

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[–] tone212_@aussie.zone 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I find it odd the LL is at the inspection if he has a REA managing the property? And the whole interaction, yikes. The LL will probably have keys. Stay the hell away!

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[–] Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] melbaboutown@aussie.zone 7 points 1 month ago

Yiiiiikes

Good call, don’t get that one.

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Breaking news - Rossmoyne Street in Thornbury is having a collective garage sale tomorrow at 10 am to 3 pm - lots of people are all coming together to put excess stoff out for sale. Just got told. See you there.

[–] Duenan@aussie.zone 13 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Of thank F…!

Commbank finally reversed the duplicate transaction that put my account into the negative by a large margin.

Spent the whole day stressing about it. I hope that’s the end of the ordeal and nothing else happens.

Might actually think about getting a 2nd bank account somewhere else just as a backup sometime.

Now I finally concentrate on doing other things other than worrying about things.

[–] Orange1@aussie.zone 7 points 1 month ago

Just don't open an account with westpac 🀣 They had issues all week

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[–] StudChud@aussie.zone 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Bailed and went home, while partner and his dad go to dinner. My everything hurts, and for the first time Macca's has made me feel better rather than worse.

Thank you nuggets and fries πŸ‘ŒπŸΌ

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[–] Duenan@aussie.zone 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (14 children)

Woke up in a massive panic this morning to an overdrawn back account message.

Panicked like hell to try and work out what happened.

Commbank have really stuffed up and duplicated transactions and now has left me overdrawn and unable to get anything today.

They better fix this up. The duplicated transaction was the biggest thing I had to pay, why couldn’t it have been an 8 dollar transaction?

[–] TinyBreak@aussie.zone 7 points 1 month ago

Time to ditch commbank if they screwed you then left you hanging.

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[–] Orange1@aussie.zone 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

Figured I'd make a new comment for visibility - for anyone trying to comment/make a post from lemmy.world instance - it isn't visible to anyone on Aussie.zone for 7 days (if it even syncs at all) There was a post explaining it months ago, seems like it still isn't fixed. https://feddit.org/post/3524876

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[–] calhoon2005@aussie.zone 10 points 1 month ago

Did my first Parkrun this morning. About 100 people. Was great. Got a PB too.

[–] StudChud@aussie.zone 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

On the rag, have to look good and go out. I hate this stupid organ. Uterus, free to any home but mine.

[–] just_kitten@aussie.zone 8 points 1 month ago

I have had pretty good luck with the IUD cutting out a lot of the nonsense. Probably is having some kind of an effect on the rest of my body but I'll take it over the nightmare of the monthly bleed and weep

[–] Alamutjones@aussie.zone 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

OK. So, say you want to have a night out by yourself on a Saturday night, where you can talk to randoms and generally be social.

What bars or what suburb is best?

Also, this is where we are at now:

[–] indisin@aussie.zone 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Easy:

The Old Bar, Fitzroy. Go out the back and feel free to join in on anyone's conversations. It's small, and is an alternative crowd.

Oscar The Wild are playing there tonight (Sat) too.

[–] calhoon2005@aussie.zone 8 points 1 month ago

I used to do that at the Old Bar like 20 years ago. Good to hear it's still got the same vibe

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[–] PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 9 points 1 month ago

Good morning everyone. Wonder how long I can get away with laying here pretending to be asleep..

[–] tombruzzo@aussie.zone 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I put on the first Paddington movie for the boys the other day because I heard it was good when it came out, and it is quite good.

It's silly and over the top in all the right ways, with a villain that's just evil with clear motivations. It felt like a 90s movie made with today's technology.

Also turns out the director worked on Darkplace and directed all the Mighty Boosh episodes so of course it was going to be good

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[–] Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] Alamutjones@aussie.zone 8 points 1 month ago

Technically Gibson gets two presents. The cat tree and the box

[–] Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

i'm putting my money on the box.

[–] Duenan@aussie.zone 7 points 1 month ago

I think the box is going to win as well.

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[–] RustyRaven@aussie.zone 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (9 children)

Anyone else having pizza tonight?

Edit:

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[–] CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 8 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Hey @Nath@aussie.zone can you please see if there are any new accounts pending approval. Seagoon has made a new account.

[–] melbaboutown@aussie.zone 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Pls look for the Goon, we need to Sea her :(

[–] StudChud@aussie.zone 8 points 1 month ago

πŸ₯

I miss her too

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[–] StudChud@aussie.zone 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The line for the ladies at Caulfield sucks ass. God fucking damn.

Edit: its the length of the bookie counter 😭

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[–] Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 10 points 1 month ago (6 children)

She's having problems getting here. If someone knows what's going on and can help that would be great

[–] Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 18 points 1 month ago

SEAGOOOOOOOON YOU ARE STUCK IN THE UPSIDE DOWN IF YOU CAN HEAR ME WE ARE COMING AND WE LOVE YOU

[–] Baku@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I was just lurking and seeing if anyone else got screwed over with the CommBank kerfuffle this morning and saw this. Figured I should try and help

I have no clue what happened or why she isn't on her Aussie zone account anymore, but she made a new account on Lemmy.world called lady_seagoon (which I think she's deleted now). Lemmy.world is currently suffering from ~7 day delays (i.e: nothing posted from a lemmy.world account will be visible here for a week or more). So nobody was replying to her posts or comments. This is because of the way Lemmy is built and Nath/lodion not wanting to invest the effort implement a fix, but that's a separate discussion

She then tried to subscribe from this community from her Lemmy World account, but when you subscribe to a community on another instance (in this case an Aussie zone community from an LW account), it will sometimes show subscribe pending. Why it does that isn't really important, but it's not because of an approval system or anything like that. It's just trying send that subscription confirmation if you will, over to AZ (which remember has a 7 day transit time before it arrives and processes)

She's best off logging back into her main account, but I'm guessing she forgot her password and didn't provide an email or something, in which case she can just choose a new username. Maybe "Seagoon__" or something, and all will be well. She'll have to be approved by Nath or lodion (because new accounts on AZ require approval by an admin). She could make an account on another instance (that is NOT LW), but it's really just easiest to make one on AZ.

To simplify what's happening, since Aussie zone is based in Australia, and Lemmy World is in Finland, you could think of it as Lemmy World sending every comment in a letter via boat. It's gonna take a while to arrive, a week in this case. Now we don't have the same issues, so you could think of us as sending comments and things by plane. The net result is that from LW you can see what's happening on Aussie zone in real time, but they can't see your responses, upvotes, comments, posts, etc for a week.

(It's caused by issues in Lemmy's code, not actually because we have a faster connection or anything. It was requested that Nath or lodion implement a fix in the meantime, but they didn't want to, so it's going to be like this until that bug is remedied, hopefully soon)

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[–] useless_modern_god@aussie.zone 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I’ve had that exact issue when subscribing to new communities but obviously not the same in this case.

In is a known issue though

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[–] TinyBreak@aussie.zone 8 points 1 month ago

Remember my little 4x4 misadventure? The service department just mentioned some minor damage to the undercarriage. Had to pretend to be shocked.

[–] just_kitten@aussie.zone 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Inspection 1 today, this was the best place I'd seen in the listings... mould in part of the bathroom and a lot darker than I expected. Given the amount it's going for though, with aircon and a nice kitchen, no surprise there's plenty of applicants - couples including with kids - suspect I won't be getting anywhere with this one. I also don't really need a 2br unit. I think I'll stick to 1br...

[–] Alamutjones@aussie.zone 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Been to gym. Been to market.

My fruit and veg people have sold up and retire next week. This is wonderful for them…but I’m kind of a little bit sad

[–] TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

You'll have to do the 'unfamiliar market' tango - find a little old lady dressed in black, and follow her at a discreet distance and shop where she shops, buy what she buys. Has helped me out both here and in France (a longish time ago). No interaction as such necessary.

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[–] StudChud@aussie.zone 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hello Canadian Club, do you come to the portable toilets at Caulfield often?

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