• Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Watching Who Framed Roger Rabbit and hoooly shit i forgot Donald called Daffy a hard r

  • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Junkie lady is having a meltdown next door. It was almost a perfect day. Date was awesome, the day went fantastic.

    And this is why I hate the company I’m leaving. I’m stuck here for another 6 months.

    Ah well. Can’t win em all.

  • SituationCake@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    My nose is stuffy can’t sleep. Was feeling fine today but something buggy has developed over the course of the evening and I have that cold/flu taste in back of my throat. Noooo.

  • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    Everytime I read the DDT, I am always in awe at how such a community exists. I’ve never seen any online community that’s as wholesome as this.

  • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    Might head into work early so I can sneak out early and go to the beach this arvo if the wind is not too wild. ☀️⛱️

  • MeanElevator@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Decided to go into the office today…it’s dead as.

    I’ll take it but can’t even chat to anyone.

    Booooooo

    • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
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      2 months ago

      I loved that about my old job. You’d go in to this massive empty floor of a building and no one would disturb you

      • MeanElevator@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Generally I don’t mind the quiet. Today is a bit different cause it’s totally new people around AND I DON’T LIKE IT!!

  • calhoon2005@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    Pre-teen daughter is really grinding my gears in the mornings these days…just so looking forward to the actual teen version of this.

  • Duenan@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    I think I’ve caught a cold, bleh!

    All blocked up and back drip making me cough while sleeping :(

  • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    Wondering how you’d all approach this:

    TLDR

    The only English my neighbors speak is “sorry, no English”. That in and of itself is no issue, though I am dreading when we have to speak about the fence. To say I’m not their favorite bloke is probably an understatement. But they’ve never approached me about any complaints (either cause they cant or they just prefer shooting dirty looks, who knows). Anyway they’ve recently added to the household. Guessing relatives have moved to Australia or something and are staying with them whilst they get settled. No worries.

    EXCEPT: they have a teenage daughter. At least I assume by the sound of her. And she likes to sing which she does outside. Honestly at first it was kinda nice. I have no idea WHAT she is singing, but its kinda pleasant. But she does it a lot. And she inevitably builds to a chorus where she (rightfully so) BELTS it out. And now shes added rapping to her repertoire. As a light singer she is decent and I have no issues. As a balladist or rapper she needs work. A lot of work. and I would greatly greatly greatly appreciate her doing it anywhere else.

    But last night takes the cake. Last night she was out there doing it at 9:30pm and you could hear it over the tv inside our house. Nearly went outside and shouted “if you wake the toddler I’m going to spray you with a hose!”

    I’m thinking about leaving a polite note? (rather than just shoot them dirty glares like they seem to prefer). Just saying something like “The singing is fine, but lets maybe be considerate of those around us with the volume and time of day of our performances”? We don’t share walls or anything (this isn’t Officer) but you can absolutely hear a neighbor fart in their backyard if you are in yours.

      • mysticgreg@aussie.zone
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        2 months ago

        +1 for Team Hose. Start with a nozzle set to a gentler spray pattern, but if noise persists, time to turn that dial to full-blast jet.

      • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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        2 months ago

        she does it again at 9:30pm and it may just happen. Or a bluetooth speaker blasting Blink 182’s Family Reunion.

    • Thornburywitch@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Print out the noise level requirements including times etc. from your council OR the EPA. Attach to a polite note from you saying you have a toddler that sleeps very lightly and would appreciate it if the noise could be limited after XX time. Leave in letterbox.
      If nothing happens, then record a loop of a brass band playing Colonel Bogey (look it up) at full volume, and play that over the fence whenever the noise level next door gets too loud too late. It’s nearly the most offensive tune I know. Be aware that neighbourly noise disputes can lead to knife attacks, so I reckon starting softly is the way to go. They might not realise that this country has noise limits delineated by time. And a nice ‘offishul’ document might be a good starting point.

      • bacon@aussie.zone
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        2 months ago

        Print out the noise level requirements including times etc. from your council OR the EPA. Attach to a polite note from you saying you have a toddler that sleeps very lightly and would appreciate it if the noise could be limited after XX time. Leave in letterbox.

        I’m no toddler but I did exactly that and it worked like a charm.

    • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
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      2 months ago

      Stand on something near the fence so your head is poking up. When she acknowledges you’re there, she’ll either run inside or listen to what you have to say which is when you give her a compliment sandwich. “We really like your singing but we have a small child inside that doesn’t sleep too well. Can you please keep it down at night. Feel free to sing during the day. Keep up the good work”.

  • mysticgreg@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    For the retro techies out there… I have a CRT monitor that needs repair to fully complete my retro gaming rig. Tube, cables, HV/flyback etc. are fine, it’s got other electronic issues resulting in no video, that are a little more outside my skillset to fix.

    Places willing to fix CRTs are now basically non-existent that I can find, anyone have any tips for somewhere that may repair such a thing? Most hear ‘CRT’ and nope out.

    Extra frustrating because my dad used to DO exactly this for a living! I swear I have aches that stem from helping him move mega-heavy CRT TVs around his workshop as a kid! I have no doubt he’d have been able to sort this thing out in a hour or less. 😔

      • mysticgreg@aussie.zone
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        2 months ago

        Nah degauss is all good and gives a nice satisfying clunk (I lurrrve a good degauss lmao). Not getting any kind of a picture to need it!

    • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      2 months ago

      There’s a few mobs in moorabbin that specialise in older tech - got my CD player repaired there (https://europeanelectronics.com.au/, although they mostly truck in sony). Moorabbin Television Services Pty Ltd I’ve heard good things about, apparently it’s an ex service bloke who’s just running it as a spinner on the side. AN Electronics are apparently not too shabby either, they’re in Huntingdale. There used to be a great one near the library in Mount Waverley I went to back in the day but I’m pretty sure they’re long gone.

      Basically: look to your slightly shabby postwar suburbs.

        • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Hey, you asked for retro gamer and equipment opinions :) (I keep a CRT for the atari…Games like asteroids go off the play screen on modern TVs)

          • mysticgreg@aussie.zone
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            2 months ago

            I’ve been without a working CRT for far too long, it’s time! Of course the PC I’ll connect to is currently running an IDE spinning rust disk with an OS installed from floppy disk, because I’m a glutton for punishment stickler for authenticity :D

            Next mission is to find a monitor for C64 duties (because oh my god do LCDs destroy the output from one of those no matter what you try and feed it through!)

    • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
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      2 months ago

      There’s an old guy in Hopetoun Park that does stuff like this but I’d need to wait until the man comes home from work to get the details.