• Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    19 days ago

    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?

    • indisin@aussie.zone
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      19 days ago

      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.

    • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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      18 days ago

      Depends. Am I going to hook up or just meet friends? I’m kidding. I don’t know where to go to find either haha.

  • TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    18 days ago

    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.

    • Nath@aussie.zone
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      17 days ago

      Alas, no. I’m actually pretty quick on those usually. Much quicker than normal Lemmy usage.

      • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
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        17 days ago

        Thank you for checking. Can you please do me a favour? Can you type out the exact instructions on how to sign up for aussie.zone and I will copy and paste your words to Seagoon. I know she uses a browser and not an app. I have run out of ideas. Thank you.

        • Nath@aussie.zone
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          17 days ago

          There are two pathways:

          Option 1: Sign up for a new account

          Go to https://aussie.zone/signup and fill out the form. I’ll see that and approve it lickity-split!

          Option 2: Change the password to Seagoon_

          Go to https://aussie.zone/login_reset and enter your email address. If it is on record, the site will email a link to you which will take you to a page where you can change your password.
          Note: We’re having trouble with Google/Gmail email addresses. Google keeps blocking aussie.zone emails. If Seagoon_'s email is at Google, we may run into extra dramas

  • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
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    18 days ago

    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

  • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
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    18 days ago

    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

  • bacon@aussie.zone
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    18 days ago

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  • just_kitten@aussie.zone
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    18 days ago

    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

    • tone212_@aussie.zone
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      18 days ago

      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!

      • just_kitten@aussie.zone
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        18 days ago

        Yeah it smacked of over-involvement. No thanks! Luckily I’m not being made to vacate so I don’t have as much pressure, I’ll keep looking.

      • just_kitten@aussie.zone
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        18 days ago

        Yeah he seems like the kind of guy who lives nearby and might get… too involved in a bad way. He told the REA to send him a report of all the applicants immediately for his review, within earshot of us all. I can’t think of any reason why a LL would prefer a single tenant over a couple except that a single person is easier to bully/manipulate. I think I’m going with my gut on this one

        • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
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          18 days ago

          Yep. More than that he might have keys and could randomly let himself in when you’re not home, place hidden cameras, invite himself over when you are there and push boundaries…

          He dived to try and create a situation where he could have a massive power differential with/access to a single woman. Which is not a safe situation.

          And being a single isolated person does make you easier to bully/manipulate.

          He seems like a massive creep and a danger

          • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
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            18 days ago

            Letting himself in when you are not home is probably a best case scenario. When I used to work at Legal Aid they had a case where they were doing an urgent Intervention Order for a woman who had woken up in the middle of the night to find the landlord and his son in the bedroom.

            • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
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              18 days ago

              Yeah. It seems fucked up and extreme that women have to consider these possibilities but yeah.

              Whether this guy “only” planned to become overfamiliar and harass a lone female tenant or he planned to push the boundaries in another way, this guy very obviously didn’t have good intentions.

              Kind of stressed out for any woman who can’t find somewhere else before her lease ends or if he learns to be less obviously creepy upfront

    • Duenan@aussie.zoneOP
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      18 days ago

      There’s something about the eyes of Soxcats that always stand out.

      Don’t know if it’s the colour and the shape but Soxcat always looks so serious.

      • just_kitten@aussie.zone
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        18 days ago

        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

        • Duenan@aussie.zoneOP
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          18 days ago

          Yeah. That’s not the sort of advantage you’d want for sure, it’s creepy and puts you in danger I’d say as well.

  • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    18 days ago

    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.

      • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
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        18 days ago

        I think Orange1 is on another lemmy instance, so maybe something has gone wrong and it’s gone through the process to try and create a new account elsewhere.

        Maybe try logging out and making sure to be signing in as Seagoon_ on the aussie-zone page?

        Edit: maybe need to clear cookies in the browser too?

        • Orange1@aussie.zoneEnglish
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          18 days ago

          Yep I made a new account on Aussie zone to reply to this. I was previously on lemmy world and there was a post months ago saying sync between world and Aussie instance could take 7 days (if it did at all) I think seagoon misunderstood when I was trying to explain. Early days it seemed to work fine, then I noticed no one replying and realised due to the post explaining the delay. I was too lazy to make a new account and just stopped commenting!

      • 🇦🇺Baku@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        18 days ago

        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)

        • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
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          18 days ago

          I don’t know why she’s unable to use her original account. Maybe you could contact her through reddit to see if you could help.

        • Orange1@aussie.zoneEnglish
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          18 days ago

          Welcome back? I did edit my earlier comments with a post that explains in more detail - I think you also made a post a long time ago highlighting the issue.