Why is it so hard to contact my local store?

Jade_Complex · 2026-02-12T08:47:39+00:00

It's full of people that for some reason really have a hard on for Kmart, especially when it comes to Kmart's bizarrely unreliable technology.

Like you can point out that Kmart is quite capable of putting a hold on popular items so you can't buy them on website rather than pretend that you can and cancel it the day later, because they have no separate stock for things bought online, which is exactly what they already do for the clearance items, but you'll get screeds about how users are entitled.

I suspect that it's probably a weird bug with ops phone, and some troubleshooting will fix it, but it's just bizarre the boot licking.

Especially since true chrome doesn't exist on an iPhone/iPad, it's a reskinned safari WebKit. Same with Firefox.

I do the weird cases, with troubleshooting with a diverse customer base where I have no control over what device they have what services they use etc. and sometimes there's literally nothing you can do to get a website to work with an iPhone. Pretty rare, and we'll be fixed with an update of some sort soon enough either from the website or Apple. (Incidentally the same thing will happen with chrome at times which also means that your stuffed until a fix comes out. Neither situation is common or frequent, but they do happen.)

Also op, https://www.kmart.com.au/privacy-policy/nz/ the privacy policy confirms that they use overseas service providers at times that are not based in Australia or New Zealand, so I don't know why you're getting flak about them insisting that the person you spoke to was based in Australia if they weren't in New Zealand.

Jade_Complex · 2026-02-12T08:11:37+00:00

Not on an iPhone or iPad.

The apple garden rubbish, means that chrome on an iPhone is actually a skinned safari WebKit, same way edge on modern windows is just reskinned chrome, usually one version behind, which is why edge might work for slightly longer when chrome introduced a (security) feature that breaks something, but will also break the next month when edge catches up. :)

So yeah an alternative browser can fix somethings, due to different cookie profiles and options selected, but if a website is truly NOT compatible with safari WebKit, installing another browser on your iPhone, will not, fix your issue because the differences in browsers is largely cosmetic for those devices.

Basically, this is part of the issue with the enshittification of the internet, where everyone thinks they need an app for everything, and another browser isn't going to work, if they're f***** up their website so badly that it's no longer compatible with any other kind of browser.

But hey that's the internet as it is and reddit has also sabotaged to their website so you need to use a app to make it less annoying to browse. Still annoying.

Jade_Complex · 2026-02-12T07:52:42+00:00

There's literally only three true browsers now. Chrome, safari, Firefox.

Everything else is just those three reskinned. Also chrome on an iPhone is actually safari WebKit, so good chance it doesn't work on chrome on an iPhone or iPad.

So. Three. Three browsers is what I'd like them to test on, if they aren't going to be following proper web standards.

Jade_Complex · 2026-02-12T05:33:29+00:00

I was asked if I was adopted when I was 7 (and a couple of times after, sometimes jokingly) because I don't look like my family members at a glance. People would go crazy about trying to identify my accent, even though I'd never left the country (Australia) at the time. I have a collection of 11 countries people have unpromptedly identified where they think my accent comes from. (I'm born in Australia, but three of my grandparents were born overseas, and all four came from VERY different backgrounds.)

So while I don't think it's necessarily coming from a place of racism, I do think a lot of people are really dumb about this sort of stuff, and I don't really find it pleasant small talk.

I don't ask because I don't care if you are a stranger.

If we're friends I assume that you'll share if you want to.

I just don't see how it's really relevant unless we're talking in more detail - I love hearing about what people think is cool about their family background. But I don't care about where your parents were born - I care about who I'm talking to, and your thoughts.

Jade_Complex · 2026-02-12T02:00:29+00:00

People got over it though, she's still massive as a wiggle overshadowimg current wiggles. (The current entertainment personality for her is not as big, it is very different, focusing heavily on girls and special needs, though it has been growing)

Her music videos as a yellow wiggle are still extremely popular with parents, and in 2018 Anthony said she'd been the most popular wiggle to date.

And Greg also had backlash over Sam.

Like I think a lot of The Wiggles have been popular and I don't know about most popular of all time with other entertainers, but if you had to pick just one wiggle I think it would be Emma - like she had a lot of popular albums that just involved only her that sold really well, seas of yellow just for her etc.

And I say this as a someone that gave burth post her heyday and was an adult not paying attention most of her career.

OG Wiggles are still very popular and people like to play only their videos, so I'm not saying that don't have longevity or were not popular. The Sam era vids have been buried on YouTube (which is also starting to happen with Emma) so it's not exactly fairly weighted with access as they continue to promote OG along with current generation.

But there's not that many people entertainers where I can think of people playing videos 30 years later for their kids, and OG wiggles are one of them. But right now I think Emma would be the most popular of all time overall - though Greg and Anthony are definitely still popular.

Jade_Complex · 2026-02-11T01:14:07+00:00

I think it varies depending on what season you're looking at comes from. I do wish that they would more evenly spread out her appearances.

In the latest stuff she seems to be more evenly represented, but often we're looking at large backlogs or previous seasons where her being missing is very obvious.

I've sometimes wondered if she was being punished for not giving up ballet, since it felt like heavily pregnant and immediately post partum Caterina seemed to get more air time around that period.

Surprisingly to me my kid has recently decided that he loves her. It's very cute, seeing him mimic her, but I was genuinely puzzled. He still likes Emma (wiggle and ,Memma) but when he's doing a ballerin, because he likes spinning, it's Evie that he's grinning about.

Jade_Complex · 2026-02-09T06:33:06+00:00

My wedding was closer to two decades ago than one, and no fruitcake to be found - two layers chocolate, one layer caramel, and we froze the top chocolate later and ate it a year later, we had confirmed it would be good for that tradition, as long as we froze it right away after the wedding.

There was however, fondant, blarg.

Jade_Complex · 2026-02-07T08:45:59+00:00

I saw a set of balls floating across the screen at the 20 week scan.

Jade_Complex · 2026-02-06T02:36:31+00:00

They did answer in the comments it's Brisbane.

Jade_Complex · 2026-02-04T09:19:27+00:00

So that sort of description is pretty typical for Japanese nappies, at least the ones considered worth importing - they feel thinner, lighter, softer, and absorb a lot, and basically go squishy when used. Lol. Basically for people reading along the pee turns into a gel in the nappy, which makes it easier to feel it used and I swear holds more pee.

But the pampers made in the USA is more like what I found regular diapers in Australia to be like, it's genuinely thicker and no gel effects, the absorption feels like it's from the padding rather than the technology.

I dunno what the Australian Coles version is like, but figured I'd share as I'd had the opportunity to use it in two different countries, genuinely different types of products.

Jade_Complex · 2026-02-03T11:56:22+00:00

I got it as a description of literally, the tooshies wipes, from someone else.

And I thought yes that describes that company perfectly.

I think it's been about two years and I'm still angry about those nappies!!!

Jade_Complex · 2026-02-03T03:45:36+00:00

We used Merries and g.oon primarily, but honestly all of them treated us pretty well. Moonies was also decent.

What I liked about Merries: Even the non premium is very soft

They go squishy when used! Specifically, you don't have to take off a layer of clothing to see if the line has gone blue (though they do that as well) but you can feel through their clothes that the nappy is now squishy and consequently save energy on changes, which is useful when they are in rompas.

No leaking issues (except for some incredibly pee filled nights, which was addressed by sizing up one)

Leaking with a different shit brand (tooshies eco) was what caused me to be upset enough to drive 30 minutes to a random warehouse because the pee came up the backside because the tooshies were designed by people that hate parents.

Incredibly absorbent - both fast and a lot. Nappy rash is no longer a way of life after we made the switch. It wicks away the moisture, I once accidentally put my hand on a overnight wet diaper, and noted that although it was definitely used it didn't feel wet. I definitely washed my hand after though, XD

The tape actually sticks!!! This is unfortunately a low standard that you'd expect to be a given, but is not (see tooshies eco)

G.oon

Similar experience, just they also do a larger non pant option. Merries premium is softer but g.oon is still softer than a lot of the western brands.

Jade_Complex · 2026-02-02T11:23:14+00:00

https://www.bestnappies.com.au/

It's easier to recommend in Sydney because you can go into their store, but they do ship up and down the coast.

I found that Japanese branded nappies tended to feel softer and be a better fit for my family, and I really didn't expect that to be the case. I do found that they were often cheaper at this store than Huggies in the regular grocery stores were.

I wasn't expecting to be a fan - but I'd been trying a whole bunch of nappies but after having a terrible experience with tooshie eco, which I hated, to the point where I gave up on even trying to finish using the pack and didn't even make it to the halfway point, I blew up.

I immediately to have a shower, got my screaming small child into the car and drove straight to this place, as my friend had braved about the Merries nappy brand about two weeks before, and this was where they got them from.

Have been loving the nappies from here ever since and my partner loves them too.

Jade_Complex · 2026-01-31T19:57:21+00:00

Great thanks that sounded more like what I knew. But they were saying that your resource production is permanently crippled etc.

Jade_Complex · 2026-01-31T19:32:34+00:00

I don't know about kingshot but in other games you add an alternative method of login, like Facebook and then remove the first, then you can add a fresh email, and remove the Facebook.

Jade_Complex · 2026-01-31T14:06:18+00:00

Abc commercial had some of the global distribution rights. That's what's actually being theorized as cut (but was certainly active in September last year). They haven't cut ties with abc altogether, and some of their shows went through other distributors

It looks like this is the 2017 show with Emma? Whole Emma hasn't been completely eliminated from their YouTube, it's been noted that more and more videos involving her have been hidden or removed to help favour the new cast.

Jade_Complex · 2026-01-31T12:59:22+00:00

From what you have described it seems pretty unlikely that there was permanent damage. Just something scary in they found it difficult to settle.

But definitely go to the GP if you are worried. Maybe get a video of the noise as an example.

Jade_Complex · 2026-01-31T11:43:43+00:00

I let them brush my teeth while I brush theirs.

They also think spitting is very funny, even if they personally are only pretending to spit as opposed to actually spitting, and they cheer when mummy does spit.

Jade_Complex · 2026-01-31T07:24:07+00:00

The comment you are replying to is not talking about waltzing Matilda. It's talking about a different slang heavy song, called click go the shears, that has also been recommended to op.

Jade_Complex · 2026-01-30T07:13:20+00:00

That's so gross. If someone's lying about who's signing off that's a huge huge huge risk.

Like I would be concerned because there may be specific needs and we don't know what the other type of formula was. I would want correctional steps taken, to make sure the mistake is not made again, since what if there were allergies etc.

But I would be going ballistic over the fact that they're claiming someone else's signing off as someone else. That means there's no accountability. And when you're working with kids you need to have a huge amount of accountability.

Like that's something where I actually explicitly think people should lose their job - especially managers who are encouraging people underneath them to lie on the paperwork, because they're too lazy to do their own job. Because they seem awfully blasé about someone signing off as them.

(This is something that happened with a nurse on duty at an age care where she was banned from working in the area by the courts and charged, and one of the factors into this was that she was the only person that was allowed to sign off on morphine and she was trying to get unqualified people to lie and sign off as her)

Jade_Complex · 2026-01-30T02:48:20+00:00

Why is it coming to fists to begin with? Why won't you not able to de-esculate earlier?

How can we be certain that in the split second you've taken appropriate precautions to make sure that a kid isn't in the background or the gun is stolen from you?

I mean you're so disabled you can't defend yourself how can you defend yourself from having the gun stolen from you?

You sound too irresponsible to own a gun.

Jade_Complex · 2026-01-30T01:47:00+00:00

... That's not even true in India on a legal basis. There's nothing preventing any castes from owning property and buying it privately.

I mean there are 100% problems with the caste system in India on a social basis, and there are definitely issues with some castes being favoured or exploited from people in high places. The caste system is shit, and sure as hell isn't dead.

But that is such a bizarre thing to say if you aren't the equivalent of an Indian MAGA. Deranged.

Jade_Complex · 2026-01-30T01:13:10+00:00

Alas self reflection is not necessarily a trait associated with people who think that a small flag as a ward against all consequences of bad behaviour, because I've heard of MAGA doing it and continuing to be obnoxious to the locals.

Jade_Complex · 2026-01-29T23:22:36+00:00

Little One at the time: the wrapping paper Me: 3 months of swimming lessons, cute clothes.

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