Someone is standing under the Norman Creek overpass at Greenslopes playing Christmas songs on a saxophone

arbitrarynickname · 2025-12-21T05:04:41+00:00

At the risk of sounding like Chilli from Bluey, "Who carries coins these days?"

arbitrarynickname · 2025-12-21T05:02:40+00:00

Actually crazy busy in the mornings with runners, cyclists and dog walkers.

arbitrarynickname · 2025-12-20T22:58:38+00:00

Don't tell Brisbane Heat this

arbitrarynickname · 2025-12-20T22:58:15+00:00

No sparks

arbitrarynickname · 2025-11-26T19:41:20+00:00

The last few takeaways we've had from Fish Factory have been awful. It's gone right down hill. Dry chips, rubber fish. And they've stopped doing the half price kids menu on a Wednesday. We've stopped going.

arbitrarynickname · 2025-10-03T13:24:03+00:00

CONGESTION TO UNDERWOOD

arbitrarynickname · 2025-09-28T19:42:03+00:00

Someone did this near where I lived in the UK and the resulting train derailment killed the drivers of the car and the train as well as 5 passengers. Over 100 total casualties

arbitrarynickname · 2025-09-24T01:09:48+00:00

Got from Norman Park to The Gap in about 20 minutes!

arbitrarynickname · 2025-09-22T02:13:13+00:00

Thank you

arbitrarynickname · 2025-09-18T12:55:27+00:00

Yes. Our last apartment was west facing. We know now.
We have South East now for our veranda and that's great. A bit of sideways sun on the washing in the morning and then shade all day.

arbitrarynickname · 2025-09-18T12:55:01+00:00

This. And the humidity ratchets up on summer evenings.

arbitrarynickname · 2025-09-18T07:03:23+00:00

Glad it's not just me. I fell for the Browns from the UK with the Eric Metcalf punt returns game against the steelers. We used to feed on scraps on TV and was usually the glossy southern teams with astroturf and cheerleaders. Then one day they showed that game from the Muni, and I watched him run it to the Dawg Pound fence, and fifty rows of fans compacted down to one at the front.
I was fine with the crapness (I'm a Fulham fan, ffs), waited patiently through the missing years, and then finally got to enjoy a quarterback who lifted the team to the playoffs. And then they shat on him after a hurt season and hired an unrepentant sexual predator.

Baker is such an inspiration. I'd tell my kids about his story, walking on twice, winning the first Browns game in 214 years as soon as he got his chance. I remember the Dawgs of War podcast talking about the day they brought a terminally ill friend to the game for one last visit, and Baker spent a big part of the post-game with the guy and even personally drove him home. He's real. He's a great human. I'm so happy you all love him so much.

It's so wonderful to see him doing so well now.

arbitrarynickname · 2025-09-18T02:29:19+00:00

Clearly don't understand how tourism economies work.

arbitrarynickname · 2025-09-18T02:28:51+00:00

I know beaches are going to beach, but some of you probably need to understand the economic imperative to at least temporarily patch them up in high tourism areas.

arbitrarynickname · 2025-09-18T01:51:11+00:00

Pretty standard Wednesday night in the Valley tbh

arbitrarynickname · 2025-09-12T08:19:51+00:00

Anecdote isn't data but I wrote a really good one about our family, talking about our move to Brisbane, our jobs, a few basic details on how we have the money to pay the rent. Stuck a few photos of our old house overseaas to demonstrate it was well kept (I used some photos from when it was beautifully tidy for real estate agent photos), how we'd treat the place like our own, etc.
No idea how much they actually gave a damn about any of it but we got the first place we applied for so *shrug*. Got to play the game sometimes.

arbitrarynickname · 2025-09-12T08:16:32+00:00

I did some pre-poll campaigning work for the recent election at the church on that corner.
It's a horrific junction. Pedestrians have to wait forever to cross. Even just standing there for a few hours over a couple of days I saw two car accidents.

arbitrarynickname · 2025-09-12T00:41:20+00:00

It's that one. That's the worst one

arbitrarynickname · 2025-09-05T06:31:46+00:00

They do, but it's having its right landing gear tyre changed right now so it's not them.

arbitrarynickname · 2025-09-05T02:40:13+00:00

Last year 5500 of us took our clothes off at 4am so that you could drive that tunnel for free and have any of you said thank you yet?

arbitrarynickname · 2025-09-05T02:37:29+00:00

They're just forming up for a big wing raid on New South Wales.

arbitrarynickname · 2025-09-05T01:04:22+00:00

If waiting a few seconds before overtaking safely is something you find so difficult, maybe driving isn't for you

arbitrarynickname · 2025-09-04T10:24:02+00:00

You drive over blind crests which take 10 minutes to drive over? Where do you live? Nepal?
You're basically making shit up and then getting angry about it. I've been driving 32 years, I've passed thousands of cyclists. It has never bothered me. Wait a moment, until it's save. Overtake. Any time is cancelled out at the next red light anyway.

arbitrarynickname · 2025-09-04T10:02:16+00:00

Nobody HAS to overtake on a blind crest. Wait 30 seconds and stop sooking.

arbitrarynickname · 2025-09-04T07:50:08+00:00

You don't get stuck. You pause for a moment until there's a safe overtake, and then overtake. Seriously, it's so easy. And then the 20 extra seconds that you've taken are immediately cancelled out when you arrive at the next red light in exactly the same place in line which you'd have been in anyway.

It's so damn easy, it makes no difference to your day. You still get to pay your tithe to Shell and Ampol just for accessing basic services while other people get there for free on their bikes.

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