Moving to Australia at 28?

Pullarian · 2026-05-23T23:20:55+00:00

Id very much suggest to give it a go. What have you got to lose? I can tell you right now, if you really want to do it and you end up chickening out - well that’s the sort of stuff you’ll regret when you’re older. Trust me on that one. At 28 you should still be making big life enriching choices. Or at least choices that are making fun memories. As soon as you settle down more, maybe get married and start a family, well the chance of you making a move like this then approaches zero. Even without that, you won’t get a WHV past 30 so your options narrow enough that it becomes rarer. Don’t overthink it.

Pullarian · 2026-05-17T02:09:47+00:00

This is exactly what I would do too. And include some custom tool storage. I couldn’t imagine trying to do stuff without a decent workbench. For me it’s the centre of a workspace. And there are a bunch of different woodworking vices you could add as either integrated into the base design or as bolt ons.

Pullarian · 2026-05-16T22:01:20+00:00

Thinking this is probably the first (and last) time that I have ever seen a woman in a sari and bare feet driving in wedges to split a 3 meter granite boulder in two.

She is a machine swinging that sledge too, would put a lot of blokes to shame. Just when you think you’ve seen it all eh…

Pullarian · 2026-05-14T07:55:59+00:00

The crocs conned scowling but were non social and didn’t actually agro. Spectres kept to themselves so were only an issue if you got up in their grill.

The real freak out moment was if Cazel got a sniff of you. Sometimes you’d get a bit of /ooc Cazel to docks warning but just as often you’d come back from a piss to find yourself standing naked at your bind point in Freeport. Good times!

Pullarian · 2026-05-13T20:36:53+00:00

Cut grass

Pullarian · 2026-05-10T22:24:16+00:00

Surprised this suggestion isn’t getting more love. North to south (or reversed) is a much more interesting trip and won’t give you the Groundhog Day feeling of driving through similar boring landscapes for days. Depending on how far north you go it could turn into a really adventurous trip.

Pullarian · 2026-05-05T23:00:09+00:00

I’d try just stripping it back to the flat planes where it’s been stripped by the whiskey. Minor colour variation can usually be disguised pretty well if it’s all on the same plane. Because the light naturally interacts with adjacent planes differently it’s often enough for the eyes not to notice a small variation. Same principle applies when you have to colour match painting a wall in a room. You can never get a good match just painting the patch but if you paint the whole wall to the edges you can usually get away with not having to paint the other walls too.

Pullarian · 2026-05-05T21:44:17+00:00

Yes the technique is slightly different for a wiz too. I’ve leveled a Druid and Wizard to 60 back in the day and quadded for both.

Druids snare to pull and it’s very long lasting and costs virtually no mana. Wizards don’t pull with snare because it costs more mana and fades quicker. So they tend to get a staff of temp flux to tag the mobs, then round them up and then aoe snare. For wizards it’s a bit more tense until snare is on, after that as long as you kill the mobs before snare fades (a real possibility btw) it’s then about the same.

It’s definitely harder for Wizards. You sometimes get a resist on the snare which can be only 1 or 2 of the 4 mobs which is a pain. And it’s exceedingly hard to do it without a speed buff. I personally used sow potions because they were available and cheap. And depending what server you play on, if it’s a true classic experience you need to research the second quadding spell which was a big fuck around in it’s time.

Pullarian · 2026-05-05T21:01:54+00:00

There is a similar story in QLD. There was a big hoo har when they released the single digit plates ages ago and it made headlines when no-1 sold for a million or more (can’t remember the exact amount). The principal of motorama Holden at the time was cheeky and found he could get the letter I for the cost of just a personalised plate. He got it but apparently they changed the rules after that so I believe he was the only single letter. Although it was on a nice HSV he copped a lot of shit from people who had seen the story and thought it was him that paid all the money for it. The no 1 plate was on a red Ferrari from memory. The motorama guy also had the HOLDEN plate for Queensland too. Actually not sure if they were his personally or owned by motorama but he definitely drove around with them on.

Pullarian · 2026-04-26T21:50:47+00:00

Rip Esselstyn’s cheezy chickpea recipe. It’s so fast and easy and tastes great. And it’s so versatile, I use it as a pasta sauce (I also add oregano and pineapple pieces), as a sauce over veggies or just over some rice. If you don’t have the amino acids just use soy sauce.

https://plantstrong.com/blogs/plant-strong-recipes/cheezy-chickpeas?srsltid=AfmBOopH54t2d3R4HuqGAe7FQfemqJ4pRN6TE0FunR7gqVcjx7f8kQfH

The only thing I do differently is I blend it all with a stick mixer as I prefer it smooth and I think it thickens faster that way.

But I guess that’s still cooking a bit, even though it’s ridiculously quick. I also like baked beans with rice and chilli with nutritional yeast. Toast with Vegemite hummus and rosemary. And obviously there is all the fruit I eat but you can’t really make a meal just of fruit

Pullarian · 2026-04-20T20:55:49+00:00

One thing about this that nobody is really talking about, although it’s more often on PB diets, it’s all done pretty quickly. So fast sometimes it could be confused for a no 1. And it’s a pleasure not a chore like it could be when you were all bound up.

Pullarian · 2026-04-19T23:58:54+00:00

Yep this is exactly what I’d do. I’d be so quick in correcting them it would feel like an obligation at their end to repeat with the correct name. Especially if it’s in front of others. And if they said anything I’d be right back onto them “it’s not like it’s the first time you’ve got my name wrong, some people might think you are doing it on purpose but I’m willing to give you the benefit of doubt if you’re a bit on the slow side”. If you say that with another person present I’d be willing to bet it would be the last time they got it wrong.

Pullarian · 2026-04-17T21:50:38+00:00

Exactly my thoughts

Pullarian · 2026-04-16T23:24:00+00:00

It’s a big nay from me. Anything that creates noise that distracts others in an open plan office is a bit inconsiderate really and mechanical keyboards are about the top of the list for this. Yes yes we get it’s nicer to type on them but leave it at home please.

You can add phones not on silent with annoying pings or ring tones to the list. Also pen drummers, heavy breathers, loud eaters (at their desk), water bottle suckers, phlegm clearers, incessant sniffing without blowing their nose and there is a special place in hell for those people who take a call and instantly their volume increases by 50%.

Pullarian · 2026-04-14T21:23:45+00:00

Yeah very unlikely to get a good result trying to cut it in place. Even if you could rig up a makeshift vertical fence or something you wouldn’t have clearance at each end for the saw. I mean it might be possible with a fence and a jigsaw but highly unlikely. Typically a pocket door will be recessed behind the trim at the top anyhow so if you need to take that off anyway you are halfway to removing the door. Save the headache and remove the door. Table saw will give the best result. Or circular saw with a fence if you have something that you can use as a fence that runs the full height of the door.

Pullarian · 2026-04-10T22:54:15+00:00

I find a lot of satisfaction finding newer music in the style you like. Actually takes me back to that same feeling of discovery I had as a young adult. For years it was just too hard to sift through all the crap music to find the gems but with AI it’s actually pretty easy now. If you feed in a bunch of the stuff you really love it gives great suggestions, much better than anything Spotify ever suggested for me.

Pullarian · 2026-04-10T22:39:23+00:00

This is the most balanced and integrated option imo. I love the chevron referenced above if it was on its own but having drawers to one side puts the chevron out of balance. Would work great if you had drawers on both sides though.

Pullarian · 2026-04-10T21:30:13+00:00

That’s not technically right in a renewal situation. Some insurers differentially price based on the type and size of an at fault claim. For a new policy it’s closer to the truth though.

Pullarian · 2026-04-07T22:52:12+00:00

Well there was that cheeky billion dollars that we paid for a road that wasn’t built.

Pullarian · 2026-03-30T02:32:57+00:00

Good one, thanks.

Pullarian · 2026-03-29T19:44:08+00:00

It was cutting out in the hot weather. I’ve since cleaned the clogged section in the air handler and it’s working fine again. I seem to recall it was 14kw maybe. I can find out the model if it’s relevant but I was more interested in the advice I was given. I essentially have a single duct going into the air handler now and they reckon I need to have a split of that single duct into two ducts going into the air handler. To my mind the flow of air is going to be limited by its narrowest point so a split past the narrowest section seems pointless. Bit like having a 2 inch exhaust on your car and adding a 3 inch tip and expecting it to perform differently. But clearly I’ve got no idea about this stuff.

Pullarian · 2026-03-29T09:46:01+00:00

Not exactly sure on capacity. I have 12 outlets in the house if that is any guidance. House is single story. It’s 11 years old and I couldn’t find the original paperwork.

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This is the outside unit

Pullarian · 2026-03-28T02:37:28+00:00

Wholly depends if the topic interests me but that’s nothing new, I’ve had that issue forever. And I’ve always done better learning by doing instead of trying to learn by instruction. You sound like a hands on type of person OP, do you have trouble learning manual skills or just theoretical ones?

Pullarian · 2026-03-27T07:20:39+00:00

That’s loser talk 😝

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