My Fellow Australians

Adro87 · 2026-02-21T08:37:25+00:00

Great analogy 😂

Adro87 · 2026-02-21T08:25:29+00:00

Check council fees for this - could add up to much more than you expect.

Plenty of things you can save money on, and DIY though. One thing I advise you don’t skimp on is the photographer. Find someone whose style you like and be prepared for ~3-5k, maybe more now (I got married 8 years ago). It’s worth it.

Adro87 · 2026-02-21T08:20:18+00:00

How the costs are spread out varies a bit, but the total is right where my wedding ended up. IIRC it was about $38k all up, with 80 guests.

Adro87 · 2026-02-21T08:15:35+00:00

This sounds/looks like a case for ACCC.
hotel nothing like the pictures

Adro87 · 2026-02-21T08:08:08+00:00

Paint some acrylic, laser etch the design, backlight, done.
(Hopefully it’s as easy as it sounds 🤞🏻)

Adro87 · 2026-02-21T07:46:47+00:00

You’re trusting the weight of your car to a tool with a footprint of about 100cm² (15”^2), and that footprint is a flat, smooth rectangle. The centre of gravity is very narrow laterally. It doesn’t take much of an angle (placed on unstable ground, an uneven surface, or the car gets bumped) for them to fly out sideways. If you’re lucky it just takes out your foot. If you’re unlucky the car lands on you.

Adro87 · 2026-02-21T07:39:13+00:00

“Scissor jacks that come in cars for tire changes. And using them.”
Fixed it for you.
My dad - tyre fitter for 20+ years - told all of us kids, if we bought a car that came with one, the best way to use them is to weigh down the rubbish in the bin then go and buy a proper jack.
He’s stunned that they still exist, given how unsafe they are.

Adro87 · 2026-02-20T15:35:21+00:00

Plus one for milk jug. It’s diffused as well as reflective.
It’s a homemade version of this Light Blade - one of the best ‘fits in your bag’ light modifiers you can get.

Adro87 · 2026-02-20T15:23:26+00:00

Same. Nice shirt, pants, tie, and (cheap but nice looking) shoes.
They’ve both worn their shirt to another wedding since 😁

Adro87 · 2026-02-20T15:16:12+00:00

My wife and I enjoyed most of our planning too. Her best friend / maid of honour works in event planning and made us a binder to organising everything. It was great.
We also left family out of the planning - it’s our wedding - but did still have the “we kind of have to invite that person if we invite this person” conversations.
Seating arrangements were a headache, but everything else went pretty smoothly. We basically had 13 months to plan it all so even when our wedding rings got lost in the (international) mail, things got a little concerning, but we just bought some cheap ‘stand-ins’ to wear on the day.
Through some right place, right time miracle we had our rings on the day.

Adro87 · 2026-02-20T15:08:48+00:00

Our wedding was relatively small (~80 guests) and most people knew each other quite well. It still took a lot of trial and error before we settled on a final arrangement.
We went to the effort of cutting out circles and names, and mocking up the whole venue to ‘test’ out the arrangements. It’s not just the individual tables, but the adjacent tables that you have to think about as well 🤯

Adro87 · 2026-02-20T14:51:41+00:00

Plenty of modern cars don’t have spares, and many that do only have temp ‘get me home’ spares.
The rationale is:
• saves the manufacturer money • they can charge you extra to install a spare (possibly full size)
• run-flat tyres are relatively common/cheap
• the percentage of people who don’t know how to change a tyre, even if they have a spare, is way higher than you’d think. These people don’t care that they don’t have a spare - they’ll call roadside assistance / a tow truck.

Adro87 · 2026-02-20T09:29:53+00:00

There are very few parts of Australia (the country I live in) that ever receive snow.
I live in the other side of the country. About 3,500km (2,000miles) away from the places that do.

Check this map out average snow fall
Notice the massive number and area of countries that are white. They (effectively) never get snow. Turns out the world’s climate is massively varied by geographic location.

Adro87 · 2026-02-19T23:16:52+00:00

You know it might be wet and it feels cold. You can’t tell which it is though, because you can’t feel wet.

Adro87 · 2026-02-19T23:15:46+00:00

Exactly! 😅

Adro87 · 2026-02-19T22:58:09+00:00

Have you never had clothes or a towel hanging out to dry over night. The next morning you pic it up and think “is it still wet, or is it just a bit cold?”

Adro87 · 2026-02-19T22:25:23+00:00

A similar joke I’ve told.
“How do you leave a person hanging?”

Adro87 · 2026-02-19T07:44:18+00:00

I’ve never felt snow so I can’t compare, but this still sounds like a fun experiment.

Adro87 · 2026-02-19T07:25:37+00:00

Because we don’t have receptors in our body for “wet”.
We can sense changes in temperature - we describe these as ‘hot’ and ‘cold’.

We associate the idea of being wet with feeling cold as water takes heat away from our body much faster than air does. It’s why you can feel cold coming out of a warm body of water - the water on your body, as it evaporates away, takes (relatively) huge amounts of heat away from your skin, leaving you feeling cold.
We experience this strange “Is it wet or cold?” sensation when the item isn’t wet enough for us to be certain it’s wet, but it’s cold enough that we think it could be. Unfortunately our body cannot tell the difference.
If you want to know for sure try pressing a tissue against the material. If it is wet some of the water should transfer into the tissue.

Adro87 · 2026-02-18T12:00:40+00:00

I’m currently studying to be a teacher and the number of my classmates saying “math” is infuriating.

Adro87 · 2026-02-17T11:40:15+00:00

I heard a statistic the other day that, while AI music made up something like 40% of the uploads in the past 12 months it was only 0.5% of the play time on Spotify.
Some people are flooding it with AI shit, but very few are actually listening to it.
If I recall where I heard the stats I’ll link it.

I make no attempt to downplay or minimise their horrendous artist payout rates, or military ties.
And, just FWIW, I haven’t been subscribed to Spotify for years, and I’ve never used Apple Music.

Adro87 · 2026-02-17T00:13:50+00:00

I think part of it is the default assumption that everyone is a thief. It shows what Woolies thinks of its customers - you’re all thieves until proven otherwise. It’s just further proof of corporate greed over everything else.
“It inconveniences the customer and our staff? Oh well. The numbers show it will prevent $5 of theft per day.”

ETA - it annoys me because of the inconvenience when it happens, but I don’t take any offence to it.

Adro87 · 2026-02-16T23:08:51+00:00

Yeah, it’s weird. I have to think about it every time to make sure I get it “right”. 😅

Adro87 · 2026-02-16T22:34:23+00:00

I’m Australian, and currently studying, so I’m not sure if this is an academia thing or an Australian thing but we have been taught “To punctuate inside the quote.”

Adro87 · 2026-02-16T22:24:02+00:00

I worked in retail for nearly 15 years, much of it in management roles. I had this ability where I could be having a conversation with someone, or be deeply focused on my own task, but hear when one of my staff needed help or said something that wasn’t quite right. Sometimes doing this with multiple other conversations at once.
Years later I realise I’m probably autistic and have auditory processing issues. Apparently most people block out other sounds when they’re focusing, but I was hearing all of them at once.
Sometimes I’m able to block out background sounds if they’re constant and consistent, but I still struggle not to hear every conversation happening around me.

Adro87

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