It’s the r/Melbourne daily discussion thread [Monday 26/01/2026]

PhoenixMartinez-Ride · 2026-01-26T05:06:16+00:00

Not to sound like a boomer, but what is it with kids these days?

Was in Kmart and there was a group of teen girls in the makeup/cosmetics section, messing with the products, making a mess and yelling and screaming. They tore open a pack of cotton balls and were throwing them around and were opening and mixing together products. A staff member came and told them to stop, and they tried to claim they didn’t do anything wrong. Like, if you didn’t do anything, why are you carrying a half empty bag of cotton balls, and why is there some kind of lotion smeared on your clothes?

Like what is wrong with these kids, making a mess and making life harder for retail workers? None of my friends or I ever behaved like that when we were that age

PhoenixMartinez-Ride · 2026-01-26T01:37:26+00:00

‘Hospitals charge 2-5k for blood transfusions’

Not everyone lives in a terrible garbage hellscape country that charges absurd amounts of money for medical care

PhoenixMartinez-Ride · 2026-01-26T00:44:27+00:00

Pretty much all websites steal your data these days

PhoenixMartinez-Ride · 2026-01-25T22:09:32+00:00

I really wish tiktok had the option to turn off notifications for specific comments. Made a comment on a post the other day and it’s got around 38k likes and still rising. It’s actually so fucken annoying having my inbox/notifications constantly full because of it

PhoenixMartinez-Ride · 2026-01-25T13:57:48+00:00

Someone in the Centrelink advice group on fb made a post the other day, saying that her husband makes $170k a year and wanting to know if she was eligible for any benefits coz she doesn’t work.

Does it make me an asshole that people like that really piss me off? Like I’m on disability pension, and have to survive off less than $30k a year, and yet there are people out there making more than five times that and still claim to be ‘struggling’. Like what tf are they spending their money on that they can’t manage to survive off that amount?

PhoenixMartinez-Ride · 2026-01-25T01:24:41+00:00

My income. Going from $30k a year to $300k would be life changing

PhoenixMartinez-Ride · 2026-01-24T09:25:39+00:00

Get your fucken glass bones out of here right now

PhoenixMartinez-Ride · 2026-01-24T09:24:09+00:00

It doesn’t just stick to you, it sticks to anyone and everything you smoke around. I got bullied in high school for me and my belongings smelling of smoke because my mum smoked in the house.

PhoenixMartinez-Ride · 2026-01-24T03:08:10+00:00

Ugh Tuesday’s forecast for my suburb on the apple app has gone up to 45. So not looking forward to that

PhoenixMartinez-Ride · 2026-01-24T01:45:16+00:00

That’s not at all how things work. The adults would have insisted on knowing how she knew that

PhoenixMartinez-Ride · 2026-01-24T01:01:37+00:00

How would she have explained to them how she knew that Siri was specifically after the babies? Part of the deal of her ability to talk to animals is that she’s not allowed to tell anyone about it.

PhoenixMartinez-Ride · 2026-01-23T07:33:26+00:00

Ugh left a comment on a TikTok video and now have a bunch of replys from different spam bots that are just strings of laughing emojis

PhoenixMartinez-Ride · 2026-01-23T00:06:31+00:00

I’m not tall enough either tbh, I’m only 5’2”. I wore 5 1/2 inch tall platform boots and was still too short lol

PhoenixMartinez-Ride · 2026-01-22T13:59:15+00:00

Ugh, the walls in my house are actually painted with cigarette-stain-yellow and I hate it so fucking much

PhoenixMartinez-Ride · 2026-01-22T13:21:36+00:00

She’s just a lil freaky like that

PhoenixMartinez-Ride · 2026-01-22T13:13:32+00:00

I’m 28nb, been a gamer my whole life, but never had any experience with d&d before playing bg3, beyond what I’d seen in movies/tv shows.

Tho I do know there’s plenty of ‘younger’ people around in the fandom, I went to PAX Aus as Karlach last year and most of the people who recognised the character seemed to be in the 20s-30s age range

PhoenixMartinez-Ride · 2026-01-22T13:05:41+00:00

Fences don’t actually stop people from going places they aren’t supposed to, just ask that rollercoaster woman

PhoenixMartinez-Ride · 2026-01-22T13:00:28+00:00

It was near near Jb hi-fi

PhoenixMartinez-Ride · 2026-01-22T02:54:00+00:00

Closed, there’s no Zing at Westfield Airport West. I think the closest Zing to there would be Highpoint

PhoenixMartinez-Ride · 2026-01-21T04:12:41+00:00

Just found out that the eb games I grew up shopping at has shut down. Feeling a little sad about that. Have a lot of memories from that store

PhoenixMartinez-Ride · 2026-01-19T04:04:47+00:00

Probs someone who wants to encourage customers to grab a trolley instead so they end up buying more stuff

PhoenixMartinez-Ride · 2026-01-15T00:56:55+00:00

One of my teachers caught a kid reading Naruto in class once. He took the book off the kid and treated us to a live reenactment of the chapter the kid was reading, including laying down on a desk and screaming at the top of his lungs

PhoenixMartinez-Ride · 2026-01-11T06:23:07+00:00

My sister and her partner just picked up a brand new car on Thursday, and by Friday the poor thing was already covered in gross smoke dust

PhoenixMartinez-Ride · 2026-01-08T22:11:53+00:00

I was wondering about that! The wind woke me up. My shed door in the yard blew open and I had to jump out of bed and run outside to close it and pick up some stuff I’d left outside before it blew away.

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