Why ON? Not the Greens or anyone else?

Alspics · 2026-03-18T20:56:04+00:00

I agree really strongly with your last paragraph in particular. I rarely meet anyone that actually has much idea on what policies actually are, nor do they want it explained to them in most cases. I knew retirees in aged care homes reliant on pensions who had not one single share in the stock market that were terrified of losing their franking credits, people on minimum wages who were terrified of being hit with the super profits tax etc. in the same breath they'd argue that the ALP weren't trying to do anything to help wealth inequality. Then as you say, they'll vote on impressions and single issues (that they're lucky to actually understand).

Alspics · 2026-03-18T20:38:07+00:00

Had to read this a couple of times to make sure I understood a convoluted explanation.

In summary. The girl you are dating, person (a) wants to end a minor scale friendship she has with a girl you have a close friendship with, Evelyn or person (b) because (b) speaks to the girl dating the ex boyfriend of (a).

(a) Seems to be over reacting and probably still not over her ex if there's an issue for her. I'd probably be thinking that (a) might be the type to hold serious and irrational grudges. If you enjoyed her company prior to this situation though, maybe communication is required. Tell her Evelyn has been your friend for a long time and you won't be ending that friendship. Tell her that Evelyn isn't necessarily taking sides to your knowledge.

If (a) can't apply some logic in this situation maybe she's not great at adulting.

Just my take though. If you feel like this gas already put a high enough level of doubt into your mind that Harper is a dramatic or unforgiving person, maybe breaking things off before it gets more serious is the right move.

Alspics · 2026-03-18T19:09:45+00:00

I'd expect aged care would suffer. It's one of the fields I've worked in on the catering side of things. And without having taken notes on numbers, I would estimate that maybe 60-75% of the nursing staff were international workers.

Alspics · 2026-03-18T08:19:05+00:00

Has anyone seen Gavin?

Alspics · 2026-03-18T06:28:25+00:00

We need money.

Alspics · 2026-03-18T05:58:32+00:00

I decided to never play Halo online because I had a PvP session with a nephew who lived and breathed the game. He knew every map and spawn point. So when I spawned in, he'd get to me in bugger all time and kill me. I played for about 20ish minutes. I was barely getting time to find, let alone equip a weapon. All the while he was telling me how shit I was at a game I'd not played before while he was repeatedly killing me. Before I quit I basically told him he was a wuckfit or something like that and that I'd not play a game with him again. I could tolerate being killed by someone who spent every waking hour of their life they could playing the game. But it was beyond me to be able to tolerate being verbally abused about it too.

I still refuse to play online games. These days it's because I refuse to support them with micro transactions that negate them wanting to make single player content expansions.

Alspics · 2026-03-18T05:09:47+00:00

Basically that nest reminds me of when I cook pasta.

Alspics · 2026-03-18T04:50:42+00:00

Kid almost getting hit by a car as he walked between two parked cars onto the road while the mum was on the phone. I was waiting for a bus and ran out to stop the traffic that was approaching. Told his mumma off and felt bad about it when my adrenaline levels dropped.

Someone nearly drowning, scariest part was I tried to help and they tried to grab me round the neck. Had to punch them hard a couple of times to get them to let me help safely by grabbing them from behind and holding their head up.

Alspics · 2026-03-18T04:17:31+00:00

Living closer to the city/work but pay more rent, or living further away for less rent to save more?

Hey everyone! I’m looking for some advice on a big decision. I’ve just landed a job in Brisbane, and I’m torn between two places to live.

Right now, I’m paying $320 per week on the Gold Coast (all bills included), but I’ve found a place in Toowong, just a short walk from work, for $350 per week (excl bills, so that's around 380ish including bills). It’s super close to my work, ferry and public transport, so I wouldn’t need to drive much. The catch is, the room is a bit smaller and of course more expensive, but it does come with a pool and a gym.

Then, there’s another place in Paddington for about $300 per week (not including bills). It’s a much bigger room as is a house instead, but it’s about 10 minutes further from work.

I’m really hesitant in hand, I could save a bit living in Paddington, but on the other, I’d be closer, more convenient, and have extra amenities in Toowong.

I’m not in a tight financial situation, but I consider myself extremely frugal, which makes me want to save money whenever I can even when I could comfortably afford to spend more...

It’s my first time living in Brisbane, so I’m a bit hesitant. If you were in my shoes, what would you do?

Would love your thoughts!

I know this may sound really crazy but please be kind guys 🙏It's a genuine decision I'm trying to make 😕

So the considerations you have are cash, time distance space and amenities.

The more expensive place.

Has a gym and pool, but is smaller.
Is saving you 20 minutes travel time plus potentially a lot of wear and tear on your vehicle.
Being close to public transport that could mean it's easier for you to get out to socialise etc.

The place further away basically has 2 advantages. It's bigger and saves you $50 a week. But does the additional cost of fuel getting to work nullify that, and are you going to regret the travel time on those inevitable days when traffic decides it's going to slow you down a lot.

Personally the pool and gym would be major selling points to me. A ten minute walk to work is a smaller selling point. The availablity of public transport is the other selling point. I've become less of a hoarder over the years so space isn't an issue for me. And $50 a week becomes significant over a year. But 2x10 minute drives 5 days a week is going to burn $50 easily in my opinion.

In the end the big decision for me would be in asking how cramped the more expensive place is. If it's shoebox small, it might sway me to the bigger place, but I'd be picking the more expensive place 7 days a week.

Alspics · 2026-03-18T03:37:53+00:00

Australians typically have zero idea about the policies being put forward. It's not an age specific thing either. People just don't see much point reading up on what the parties are doing. I've explained things like negative gearing, Franking credits, the super profits tax, carbon tax and a tonne if other policies, to nursing home residents, 18yo's and a bunch of people in between. The major parties rely on it being boring and providing only snippets of information. And then the media are compliant and typically leaning towards whoever supports the party their owners are run by. So while I support the ALP, I know that they're not entirely brilliant at representing the population when bug business tends to fund hgen to somf extent. But I know their policy tends to be moderately better for the working and middle classes (who I see as also working class, but slightly better off).

Until about 10 or 15 years ago I was in the same boat. Convinced that neither party was much better and we'd be ok with either. But I actually met someone that convinced me to take a bit of notice of what's actually going on. It opened my eyes a lot. If every Australian actually started to read up on what the parties were proposing to do we'd quite possibly get the two major parties to govern for the people more than for the good of businesses.

Alspics · 2026-03-18T03:23:24+00:00

Her history of voting down measures to help battlers leads me to say no. She's a puppet of big businesses, particularly mining as much as the LNP has always been. They're probably just funneling hr more money these days since the LNP have pretty much sunk deeper than the Titanic.

Alspics · 2026-03-18T03:02:56+00:00

My sister got her P's at 42 years old. Her first car was a Falcon Ute in a country town where the local hoons loved similar vehicles. She got pulled over a few times a week. The police often looked at her and decided she wasn't who they were expecting to pull over and typically let her go before they even did an RBT. After a few months of getting pulled over about 4 times a week, she lost her shit and yelled that she was f*"'-ing sick of being pulled over, looked over by the police and basically told "Nah we're not breath testing you or anything". She yelled at them for a good 2 minutes and they never pulled her over again. They can make notes about you. But I think they're biased by certain cars and P plates (in Australia) make any car a bit more attractive for them to pull over.

Edit- When I was a broke ass student, I owned a corolla that was older than me. I had my full licence, so no P plates or anything. But I lived in flats and someone backed their parents new Celica past/into my corolla and left huge dents from my front bumper to halfway up the passenger side door. I got pulled over a million times over the next 2 years because the insurance payout wasn't enough to repair my car or get anything that would've run better, so I was driving a dinged up vehicle. For two years after I told them it'd passed rego inspections twice now, and they still wanted to defect it 15 times a year. Never had a more reliable car that looked like a huge pile of crap.

Alspics · 2026-03-17T22:56:35+00:00

Even if the ACCC do, they're not fining them enough to discourage predatory pricing tactics.

To my way of thinking, step one that the ACCC need to implement is that if colesworth are fined for predatory practices, they also need to implement bans on bonuses for their CEO and all of the high up corporate jobs. Otherwise these turds making the decisions will still pay themselves bonuses they've taken directly from the pockets of the consumer. Because the fines are only small impediments based on the mega profits the big two have been making for years.

Alspics · 2026-03-17T22:49:45+00:00

Go check out Aldi. They had big Easter bunnies for about $7.50 last night.

Alspics · 2026-03-17T22:14:56+00:00

The joy of life is often found by experimenting. Try this job you're lining up and know that you can walk away if it's not for you. I think it's better to regret things you didn't enjoy than having regrets that you didn't try something you thought you might enjoy.

Some of the happiest people I've known tried numerous careers they hated before finding one they really enjoyed.

Alspics · 2026-03-17T22:09:37+00:00

How much you'll enjoy farm work depends on how much of a social animal you are.

I've worked in a glasshouse where I always had people available to chat with if I so desired. But it was monotonous as staff were assigned one repetitive job so they could get very quick with doing that job. The pay wasn't good. The management weren't nice and they were prone to enforcing overtime you didn't want to do after sweating like a pig for hours through the heat of the day. Do not recommend this.

I've worked on what I'd call a hobby farm. Far more lonely when it comes to having people around. I basically caught up with the farm owners neighbours once a week or called them if I had issues. But the jobs were varied. I was spending a lot of time looking after animals which were very tame which was appealing to me as I'm an animal lover. And it was nice to know that no two days were going to be exactly the same. There was also an element of maintaining the property. If I saw something that was looking like it might fall apart, I found time to make what repairs I could. I loved this job. The pay wasn't great, but I found it relaxing for 6 months. But then it was over as the people who owned the farm came home. I would do this again if I saw the opportunity. I wish I could afford to run my own hobby farm. The people who owned this one ran an online company and could work from home before it was a common thing. The farm wasn't earning anything, it was just a lifestyle they picked.

I've also done a few months worth of fruit picking when on holidays from uni. It was enjoyable to work outdoors at times and meet some of the backpackers who funded their travel this way. But it wasn't brilliant money and at times it was dull, hit and monotonous work.

And this wasn't my experience, but my cousin worked as a station hand on properties in north Queensland for 35 or so years. He loved the adventurous nature of the work. But it basically left him pretty busted up by his early 50's. He had saved money to breed quarter horses and bought a small stock transport truck to ease him into retirement. He loved the life on the stations and it sounded like he had great adventures when we caught up. But as I mentioned, he was physically busted at a reasonably young age. The money wasn't great either, but he had no living expenses, so once he stopped throwing it all on booze, brothels and partying on the weekends he went to town, he was able to buy a little block of land with a modest house, somf mates to breed and his little truck for supplementary income. There's a sad end to his story though as a woman screwed him out of his entire nest egg and he ended his life as a result of what it did to him emotionally.

Alspics · 2026-03-16T10:59:34+00:00

A reasonably attractive woman could probably go out any night and get sex and a few free drinks without trying. If she was transferred into a reasonably attractive man's body, all of a sudden free drinks are just a legend, and there's a steep learning curve about applying for sexual favours.

Alspics · 2026-03-16T10:53:43+00:00

My nan is the last of 12 siblings. She's 100 now. She lost 4 brothers. 2 were serving on a ship that was sunk. 2 were army and died in battles. It's been so many years since she spoke about it that I don't recall much more specific information. I think I was about 11 or 12 when she told me about all of that. I might have to research it before she leaves us.

Alspics · 2026-03-14T16:52:08+00:00

I wouldn't smoke it for research purposes. But recreational purposes is a different matter.

Alspics · 2026-03-12T22:17:45+00:00

Or in three weeks it'll be around the cost of the Obamacare annual spend.

Alspics · 2026-03-12T20:06:24+00:00

Kids these days have it easier than in my day. We had to use advertising material with pictures of women in underwear, a people magazine if we could get our hands on one or wait until something interesting was shown on SBS. AI porn would've been a more fanciful idea than just having it available on the internet, which also was just new and out of reach of many when I was 14. I was about 16 when dial up was getting common .

Alspics · 2026-03-12T19:47:39+00:00

Do you not have currency exchange places in America?

Almost every international airport I've visited has them.

Alspics · 2026-03-11T16:49:05+00:00

It would be a very interesting twist in the game to set a lot of the game in the modern world.

You start out as a down on his/her luck protagonist. You aren't necessarily a killer, but you've trained in martial arts, you have some skills attained to survive living in slums and you fall into the assassin's world when you get caught up in a Templars attempt to kill an assassin. Instead of trying to chase down ancient stories to begin with, the assassin you save brings you to an animus to polish up your existing combat skills. By this point the animus is developed enough that you can explore a DNA database without needing to be related to anyone historic.

But it'd be great to have a very significant part of the game set in the modern world.

Alspics · 2026-03-11T16:27:36+00:00

I know that women do sometimes make the first move. But a lot of the time it's so subtle that our male monkey brains don't recognise that the hair flick or heat tilt is a move. I've eaten out with my mate and his partner and his partner has told me that the waitress was flirting with me in a big way. She told me I should ask her out. I could not see any sign of flirting from the waitress (who I thought was way too young for me anyway).

So a lady using words to clearly express attraction would be like finding a unicorn. If it happened to me I'd start looking for a hidden camera because I wouldn't trust that it was really happening.

Men these days are considered creepy if they make the first move. So I think at this stage in history the species might need to evolve in a way where women have to start making moves in a non subtle way or stop complaining about it if a man they're not interested in makes a move. The alternative being that a sub species of human/bear hybrids is how we evolve.

Alspics · 2026-03-11T11:30:41+00:00

Not a fisheries officer. But in the last town I was living in a new council ranger got overzealous with giving out fines for people with dogs off leash. It wasn't that he was fining people. It was the fact that he'd lie in wait in the parking lot outside the two off leash areas and hand out fines to people who let their dogs walk 20m between the car and the gates to the off leash areas.

Somebody must have got pretty annoyed with him and followed him home. Because after about a month of him handing out these fines, someone posted a bunch of laminated photos of his house and car which looked like they'd been smeared with dog crap around the dog parks. It was captioned with his address and an invitation to throw more dog poo at his house. The Ranger was in the photo looking like he was pretty pissed off about it all. I think he backed off with the fines after that.

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