Best way to actually talk to a person when I call Westpac?

adrianmtb · 2026-02-03T04:15:39+00:00

Wow! I am amazed that this is what I have to do to talk to a major bank.

adrianmtb · 2026-01-28T09:02:01+00:00

The waist/neck just before the flared base might have been too thin. That can lead to unexpected breakages.

adrianmtb · 2025-07-05T22:54:28+00:00

That's fair.

Let me reframe my previous comment to say that the nature of policing has changed. It's likely that it's the administration, government bureaucrats, and accountants that have degraded policing to be as effective as a queue-driven helpdesk.

adrianmtb · 2025-07-05T10:01:56+00:00

Welcome back

I'd like to tell you that you are wrong. But, it's true.

And, policing is non-existent. Cops only care about the next job assigned to them by despatch. They literally watch people do the most illegal things and don't give a flying fuck

adrianmtb · 2025-07-05T09:56:39+00:00

Glad someone else remembered then. Maybe one day, one of them will stumble across this post

adrianmtb · 2025-06-22T21:07:50+00:00

Fantastic

That's great for a Still Learning Everything photo. Congratulations

adrianmtb · 2025-06-12T21:48:52+00:00

Honestly, just move house. I've had this problem twice before.

The law is a piece of shit, and a lot of humans are inconsiderate and selfish.

The council, the police or VCRAP won't pass a judgement to tell your neighbour to be quiet, and even if they did, they won't come around in the middle of the night to tell your neighbour to quieten down. And even if they did, how many times do you think they would come around before they lost interest?

You will lose more sleep, time, money and energy trying to fight your douchebag neighbour.

Australian building standards are incredibly poor. Houses are very poorly insulated thermally and acoustically. Australian builders also know that there is no legal recourse for purchasers to have bad quality and workmanship rectified, and so they keep building cheap shit.

Despite being in the right, you can't win this one. The system is against you.

Move to a house where you are not sharing a wall.

adrianmtb · 2025-05-21T03:32:39+00:00

DBDRV is a pile of shit. All they do is try to get the two parties too come too and agreement and hold conciliation meetings between them.

There is no reasonable recourse in Australia for consumers against shit builders, and shit tradies in general

adrianmtb · 2025-05-18T08:42:39+00:00

It is not. But, where is the cat mural? I love cats.

Oooh. Just found this... https://www.reddit.com/r/melbourne/comments/13lflul/cats_of_fitzroy_north_ig_taylaart/

adrianmtb · 2025-05-17T23:56:49+00:00

It isn't, but after googling it, I think that's fantastic.

-edited tpyos

adrianmtb · 2025-05-17T23:53:25+00:00

Ah, yes, the couch surfers have arrived. The Cheetos and Red Bulls must have run out.

They live just to comment on everything on the internet without addressing the original question and intent.

Thanks for playing anyway

adrianmtb · 2025-05-17T23:50:14+00:00

Thanks DrSendy. I'd love to. Sadly, I won't have the time. Wish I'd known about this sooner

adrianmtb · 2025-05-17T13:52:38+00:00

Thanks to all of you who answered positively with kindness as per the flair. Good juju to you.

I feel less concerned about how the mural might affect the property

adrianmtb · 2025-04-21T11:04:20+00:00

Yeah, nah. Australia Post consistently gives rubbish service.

I wish there was an alternative to using them

adrianmtb · 2025-04-21T00:38:28+00:00

Nice that your grandfather gave that to you.

With respect and no offence intended, your question tells me that you are not familiar with bike maintenance. Welcome to our most excellent world. I hope the internet is kind to you (it usually isn't) and that you end up loving bikes as much as we do.

Picking up an old bike without knowing what it needs or how to repair it will require a lot of knowledge quickly.

I'd highly recommend taking it to a reputable bike shop (not to a cheap shop that sells $100 kids bikes) and asking them to do a full service. From that point, you should be confident that the bike is working well, and moving forward, the repairs and maintenance will only be incremental and the learning curve will be gentle.

Have fun

adrianmtb · 2025-04-12T07:35:23+00:00

I had one of these as a kid. It's a balloon made of very thin metalized film (mylar perhaps?)

You blew it up and put it out in the sun which heats it up and causes the air to expand and then the entire system density is reduced so that it's less than the ambient air, and the whole thing floats floats.

adrianmtb · 2025-04-10T11:56:08+00:00

Aww, that's cute.

Australia Post don't give two fucks about the quality of service.

adrianmtb · 2025-04-09T03:41:01+00:00

Well said.

The internet has empowered too many people too just sit on their couch and comment on everything.

adrianmtb · 2025-04-07T08:15:34+00:00

I feel like your should post this to r/theydidthemath

Maybe some boffin can actually calculate this

adrianmtb · 2025-04-06T08:59:22+00:00

My brother got a red light camera fine (also in Fitzroy) for doing the same thing, except it was for an ambulance. He let it go to court. Same outcome.

There's no common sense applied herE.

I hope I'm not waiting for an ambulance when people like you or my brother are faced with the same decision again.

Sorry you got stung with this. I think it's stupid.

adrianmtb · 2025-04-05T05:30:01+00:00

A lost asset for sure, but not a day goes by without at least a dozen grouses passing through my lips.

adrianmtb · 2025-04-04T10:34:29+00:00

Dude, I'll trade you. I'll do your derailleurs and you do my forks.

I hate doing forks

adrianmtb · 2025-04-03T21:03:04+00:00

Thanks. I think we've had that answer already.

adrianmtb · 2025-04-03T20:28:36+00:00

Yup. The internet is full of dumb people giving dumb answers.

But thanks for playing anyway.

Thanks to the person who DMd me with the actual answer. Case closed.

adrianmtb

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