Lemmington Bunnie

Yeah, I’m sorry, I had to stop reading when I read that they own not just one but TWO homes. I saw red.

Meanwhile, I’m relatively terrified that my retirement will be living in a cardboard box under a bridge after suffering from multiple strokes based on family history.

I agree with your terminology - updating is for often small incremental software patches.

Upgrade would be a complete program overhaul, or more commonly in my use of it, a change to a newer, better physical product.

Every time I see these ridiculous solutions being proposed, I get so frustrated. My partner and I are trying to do the right thing, saving and not stealing from our future selves - but we’re competing against these insane policies that do nothing but drive up the price even further.

We just met our original goal, but the cost of a home in our regional area has pretty much doubled since we moved back after giving up on Sydney a few years back now, so we’re no further ahead.

My hands are also tiny and smol, and I’m also clumsy, but I have no issues with my S23 Ultra. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Did that.

Doc was 45 minutes late to work.

She was a nice lady but that had me fuming.

I then had to wait two hours for a taxi. I was in tears from anxiety by the time I got home, then had to go back to work.

Luckily I am WFH so no one could see me crying.

That was a bad day!

As a connoisseur of poh tay toes, they look gross.

Yep. Turned down one rental many years ago due to too many flights of stairs and no lift - and being too poor to hire movers.

I got a good, thankful laugh when I watched the episode a couple of years back.

Pivot! PIVOT!

Sorry, I had to.

I’m an Aussie, and a biscuit is a biscuit, plus I love Britcoms, yet I’ve never heard the term!

I love it, though.

I love horror films with terrifying vengeful spirits. I get sad when someone kills a harmless spider. I love running around the wasteland of Fallout games and blasting the baddies. I cried when a bird flew into the glass of my bedroom window and died.

Kamikaze death cult.

That completely stopped working for me a while ago, but Samsung’s Reminders app was able to do it well.

I started using it instead, and the other day, uninstalled the Google Assistant app - the only time I was opening it was by accident, when I’d drift off to sleep holding my phone, and he rudely awoken by the noise it made.

Get yourself a guy who looks like Aragorn but cooks like Samwise. 😍

They’ve both got heart.

I gave up on it entirely probably a year or so ago, as I found if anything it was getting worse.

My understanding is that the words and phrasing, and the overall scam, are a filter for idiots. Only the dumbest need apply.

We have to deal with them at the moment because we’re staying with an elderly relative and her house, her rules - fair - and she is worried about switching providers. If something did go wrong and she lost her number, it would be pretty awful. So we’re stuck with Telstra.

We’re on our third modem with them in a little over a year (had to get a decent one, working from home). The absolute shit fight to get it replaced each time only served to reinforce that we are entirely correct on our views of their business. They have made it as tangled a web as Centrelink (another org that we have luckily not had to deal with in some time), and their customer service is basically non existent.

To their credit, their store staff did their best to help but their hands were so incredibly bound by red tape that there wasn’t much to they could do. Also, the credit we were promised after the second go around was never applied to the account. Wasn’t worth our time to chase it, because we actually value our time and have wasted enough of it.

And that’s just one consumers experience.

The stuff they do on a national level is absolutely shameful. They need to be broken up.

What didn’t they do.

Or, what have they done that’s worthwhile.

Bunch of parasites.

Yep. Basically any position where you’re in some sort of service to the community.

It really gives you perspective.

Also PTSD.

I’ve said this, except you have a choice:

You can do retail, hospitality, or health services (eg cleaning hospitals, very basic patient support, anything that requires minimal training and won’t do harm to any patient in their care).

I am a Service rep and my mum was a nurse, so we’ve both seen a lot of the worst of humanity. I think people need to extend more empathy to nurses and other medical staff - I understand for many patients, it’s a horrible, scary situation, but these people are (generally) there to help and have to deal with a lot of awful stuff every single day.

More patience and empathy in general would make for a much better society.

Just assume they all are - I’d be willing to bet it would be the cheaper option than paying staff to sift through the reports then refunding the legit ones.

Burn it all down and start fresh.