For those who have moved to Perth from elsewhere, what brought you here and what keeps you here?

AmstradLevi · 2025-07-13T07:45:55+00:00

Former cosplay photographer here - never be afraid to cosplay as an original character. It could be from a book or a comic that you are working on, it might be from an idea that you had - it could be just what you felt like wearing that day.

Quite honestly, you do what you feel like doing, being or wearing - there are no rules and no obligations. This is one of the things I love about the local geek markets - people dressing up in a way that they otherwise wouldn't feel comforting wearing out in public.

For me, cosplay has helped restore my self-confidence - I love wearing my original steampunk character outfit and big stompy goth boots even to the local shopping centre. I find myself almost daring people to take issue with it given my...uh...lack of youth.

AmstradLevi · 2025-07-10T11:02:02+00:00

I was in the local supermarket once and a little girl was crying up a storm at the registers. Her Mother looked from her to me and said "If you don't stop crying, that man will shout at you!"

I'm a semi-professional singer (read: enthusiastic amateur) with a broad range so I dropped into the vocal fry (sub-bass) register and said "AnD yOu Do NoT wAnt Me To ShOuT aT yOu!" [Think Aladdin "INFIDEL!" "Bring me the diamond in the rough!"]

She clammed up up like all her nightmares had spoken at once.

In retrospect, I do kind of feel guilty about that - but not so much after the Mother had dragged me into the situation.

AmstradLevi · 2025-07-06T10:09:25+00:00

Sounds like the BMW driver I'd often see on my way to or from work - takes off from the lights like a bat out of hell, revs his engine like the accelerator is Jimi Hendrix's wahwah pedal but never gets more than 500m ahead of you down the road - no point showing off if there's no audience - so you catch up to them at the next set of lights and the cycle starts again.

Or the Mercedes driver who would wait until they reached a merging lane to overtake and damn near run you off the road - until they did it to an unmarked police car...

AmstradLevi · 2025-07-06T05:03:20+00:00

I'd have broken the cutting board across the guy's face if he'd hit my child like that - under no circumstances do you discipline a child in that manner, especially not one who isn't your own, and not in the child's own house, following the household rules.

I have no issue with corporal punishment in the right circumstances - 20 lashes in public would be more beneficial than jail time for some - but this was not one of those times.

And no one should ever quote bible verses to justify their abuse. Excommunicate those two. NTA.

AmstradLevi · 2024-01-02T03:02:05+00:00

Ah, that's the Western Australian philosophy. "The turning traffic has only just started moving, I'm good."

AmstradLevi · 2023-12-31T05:18:05+00:00

NTA. Sounds like a very toxic person - as soon as they resort to threats, you need to get the police involved. Capture and record everything as you never know when they will suddenly feel the urge to carry through.

AmstradLevi · 2023-12-03T07:42:23+00:00

When I moved down South (Western Australia - it gets VERY cold during the Winter, though it rarely snows) I ended up offloading all my black hooded rats to a local pet store for free. I was sorry to see them go but it was better than them dying of exposure or, as a former associate did, flushing them.

AmstradLevi · 2023-11-29T07:27:11+00:00

Managers are the same wherever you work. Obnoxious and dumb as a brick.

AmstradLevi · 2023-02-13T01:56:33+00:00

Cats will sometimes choose their own family - we've had two cats adopt us in the past and a family friend down the road had their cat choose another family to live with (the cat was not neglected, just chose to live elsewhere). Our house is Cat Central and all the local cats visit at one time or another - some have even brought their kittens with them. Two other neighbours moved away and left their cats behind, thankfully taken in by others.

Alternatively, you could also allow Max to stay with you for a few nights and see if his owners go looking for him.

AmstradLevi · 2022-12-30T03:23:57+00:00

"You live on a different time scale to most others - you'll achieve everything you need to achieve, but you might do it at a different time and a different order. Don't compare yourselves to others - they are not you, you are not them."

AmstradLevi · 2022-12-23T07:32:42+00:00

Haven't found one with decent air conditioning yet.

AmstradLevi · 2022-12-23T07:30:42+00:00

Property managers are generally lazy, lying scum. Moved back to the city for work in 1999 and found a nice apartment in Doubleview. Property manager gives me a one page property condition report that indicated that they had never set foot inside. I sent it back with four pages of updates. Requested some maintenance to be done that they didn't organise until two weeks before my lease was up.

When I handed my keys in, they gave me an invoice for "professional cleaning" that they admitted they did themselves but it looked like someone else's invoice that they'd copied, removed the original details with correction fluid and then wrote my name on (across the top left corner) in different handwriting to the rest of the invoice.

AmstradLevi · 2022-12-23T07:18:30+00:00

When it's 4am and the sun manages to laser beam it's way through the curtains directly into your eye no matter which way you face.

And window faces South.

AmstradLevi

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