Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.

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

      No bueno! First things first, check your meter and see if the number is higher or lower than the bill; occasionally it will be an estimate in which case you should be able to provide your own actual reading to your provider, or it will right itself by the next bill.

      Next, if the read is accurate, check for leaks. Generally you will need a plumber to check for you, but better to be safe. (Edit: adding, if there is a leak you will most likely still be liable for the bill).

      Otherwise, it may just be the gas price increases have come into effect, and you’re seeing that on your bill now.

      Source: many years in energy call centres.

      • calhoon2005@aussie.zone
        7·
        11 months ago

        Reading is accurate. Haven’t checked for leaks, but my graphs don’t suddenly spike and are comparable to last year. I think shit’s just expensive…boo

        • Duenan@aussie.zone
          2·
          11 months ago

          Do you have ducted heating or something or do you get bills very infrequently?

          If you can see the metre is it going up by a lot and ticking?

          750 sounds awful.

    • just_kitten@aussie.zone
      4·
      11 months ago

      😱 😨 that’s rude. That’s very rude. Times like this I’m grateful that my place has zero gas heating. But even the freaking daily supply charge alone for a gas stovetop is $1/day.

  • bull⚡@aussie.zoneEnglish
    131·
    11 months ago

    I’m wasted on this audience (my parents). The TV just had some ad where a woman had all of her toes amputated due to diabetes, showed her nub foot. She said “you never think it’ll happen to you, but until you put your foot into someone else’s shoes…” and I said “Ha! Was that a pun?? That was toe-tally a pun…” and dad was like “yeah”.

    I crave appreciation for my comedy and I’m not getting it from these supposed “loved ones”.

  • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
    11·
    11 months ago

    Righto peeps, you’ve all heard of buses replacing trains, but what about… taxis replacing buses?

      • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        Yeah, I’ve only ended up in one once which was when vline completely screwed up their schedule and the train I was trying to take to Eaglehawk was about 40 minutes late, but they wanted to turn it around at Bendigo to try and get the return service running on time and save at least part of their timetable. The conductor came around and asked who was going to Eaglehawk and then called a taxi for the 8 or so of us that were trying to get there

        But this is slightly more interesting because this is a permanent replacement. Evidently they’ve decided it’s cheaper to just call a taxi for the people who want to get there than run a bus service anymore, but I guess for some reason they can’t actually scrap the route

      • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        Yeah it would be interesting. Part of me really wants to do it just because of the sheer oddity

  • MeanElevator@aussie.zoneEnglish
    11·
    11 months ago

    Got higher duties at work (yay extra cash).

    Tasked with performance managing someone (book extra work).

    Good news is that we have a new manager and they’ve been leaning on me to guide them through what we do and asking for my advice quite a bit. We get on well and think along the same lines.

    Bad news is that higher duties kind of require me to be in the office 3 days a week.

      • MeanElevator@aussie.zoneEnglish
        5·
        11 months ago

        I’d happily not get paid extra for the extra day that I’m at home.

        In the office I get pulled into meetings and catch ups, leaving less time for work. At home I’m actually being productive.

        Management still doesn’t see that.

  • bull⚡@aussie.zoneEnglish
    11·
    11 months ago

    Approx 6mg of gummy, a good episode of Star Trek TNG, off to a traditional no-name diner next door for a hot meatloaf & gravy sandwich and a tall cold country style lemonade… now I’ve plonked myself on a layback lawn chair in my hotels courtyard where the wifi is fast and plentiful. Not a bad way to spend a summer evening in Deadwood, SD.

    Update: I have relocated myself away from the flagpole because a thunderstorm has rolled in. Enjoy 79 seconds of Deadwood Summer Storm with me as I sit here: https://youtu.be/-OHD2UdU40c

  • bananafungus@aussie.zone
    9·
    11 months ago

    Ugh, just remembered due to schedule changes the person I am relieving tonight is someone who I dislike immensely, think I’ll forgo my strict punctuality and relieve them last minute. I hate to be rude, but with a week like the one I’ve had so far I couldn’t bare having to listen to her crap for more than a minute.

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

    I thought I had sold one of my Marketplace items, but I think it’s just a better quality scammer than the last one. ☹️

    • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
      5·
      11 months ago

      Hard agree. I have never used the downlights in my apartment because they’re white. I have yellow lamps, yellow fairy lights, and multicoloured globes, but I fkn loathe white lighting.

    • bananafungus@aussie.zone
      5·
      11 months ago

      I work nights under white light and it’s disgusting, some nights I spend the whole 8-12hrs with an awful headache. I begged to have them changed and their answer was to allow me to turn all but one light off which does shit all when it’s still bouncing off all the windows.

    • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
      7·
      11 months ago

      About a decade and a half ago, my dad’s side would hire a houseboat on the Murray, in Mildura, and we’d spend 2 weeks in the middle of nowhere wakeboarding, skiing, and drinking. My uncle has a ski boat and a tinny, so we’d hook both to the back of the houseboat when we felt like moving.

      My uncle and aunt also have a few ski-toys, like an inflatable biscuit, or these blow-up pod things you could sit in and be pulled by the boat. I was by myself on the biscuit thing, and my aunt was driving the ski boat, and she was terrifying. She would do these donuts in the water so the wake would crash into itself and get super high and choppy, and I’m bouncing around holding on for dear life. Then, the wakes coalesced and the biscuit got absolutely launched

      When I came back down, I was still holding on, but slowly let go and slid off. Totally done haha!

      Here is the pic my dad snapped of me mid-air, during that epic launch:

      image of choppy water and the underside of a watersports inflatable biscuit

      that’s my foot poking out the bottom there hahah

      Edit: to clarify, this is meant to be my ‘funny story’ contribution lol

      • PeelerSheila @aussie.zone
        5·
        11 months ago

        Epic! Nothing like a crazy boat pilot to make you feel alive (and nervous!). I’ve gotta do a similar holiday one day, always wanted to go on a house boat.

        • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
          3·
          11 months ago

          I defo reccomend it, though I haven’t been since highschool. Nowadays, with myself and my cousins being adults, we’re lucky if we can organise a weekend on Eildon in the summer haha

          But I cherish those memories, nothing but sun, water, and the bush. Bliss.

    • Duenan@aussie.zone
      6·
      11 months ago

      Something stupid this time.

      I found this in toilet on the wall one time at a public library and never forgot it.

      A sign of sitting on the toilet

    • Hongohones@aussie.zone
      41·
      11 months ago

      These any good?

      Images are top: white and tabby cat looking off camera in portrait bottom: black cat looking at camera on a big cushion with a shark plushy behind it

        • Hongohones@aussie.zone
          21·
          11 months ago

          Cleopatra she should be named, but one of her rescuers named her Ponyo. As her and her son, Calcifer came to me together. changing two cats’ names would be pretty hard. I like the names anyway.

  • oztrin@aussie.zoneEnglish
    8·
    11 months ago

    The same cat who turns up her nose at her wet food if the chunks are too large is now scoffing the tails off the prawns from the sorta-paella. facepalm

  • landsharkkidd@aussie.zoneEnglish
    8·
    11 months ago

    Finally going home, I’m just happy to get away from the tradies. So bloody loud! I don’t think anyone else was in the office complex except for me and my boss lmfao