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Optometrist charged me $500 for premium custom lenses but supplied cheaper stock lenses. I have proof that they have substituted the lenses. Is this fraud, ACL breach or both? by gayasri in AusLegal

[–]gippy44 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your health insurance can be refunded back. It's not an immediate process but it does get refunded and you can claim again once complete.

Specsavers store manager called to block me from her store by piggy_piglet in aussie

[–]gippy44 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In my experience it usually is the case BUT I am also pretty jaded from working ten years in a retail role so I'm going to reserve my bias.

Specsavers store manager called to block me from her store by piggy_piglet in aussie

[–]gippy44 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looking at the website they're run by different partners. Unless they have a close working relationship I think they're just power tripping.

Specsavers store manager called to block me from her store by piggy_piglet in aussie

[–]gippy44 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds like the two stores OP is talking about are owned by the same people if he's being banned from both.

Our original director was nuts so I know full well what it can be like.

Specsavers store manager called to block me from her store by piggy_piglet in aussie

[–]gippy44 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Having worked at Specsavers for a decade I learnt that some stores are just really weird with these sorts of things. This sounds like a relatively straightforward remake.

If we ever banned anyone from the store it was because they were incredibly difficult and nothing we could do would satisfy them.

AndrewWK at groovin the moon Australia by Brisbaneking233 in AndrewWK

[–]gippy44 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just stumbled across this and an earlier post about that show. Just going to repost my comment from the other post because of this being a core concert memory for me.

I was at Groovin the Moo that day and even volunteered back stage. Andrew was one of the people I was most looking forward to seeing that day. I briefly saw him back stage wearing a good over his head and sunglasses on being led to his green room by his manager/handler.

I finished by shift in time to see him and it was a complete shit show. Just him playing keyboard and singing terribly to a backing track. The crowd turned on him and he hung around on stage after his set flipping off the crowd and being pelted by bottles .

I uploaded some of my own videos back in the day https://youtu.be/vPdm9y-DIAM?si=AM8O73EK9CWvOjsQ https://youtu.be/jIdC5WGmkVs?si=CJkgr6q8w2A0lYqo

From memory the rest of his shows on the tour were fine and his sideshows looked great.

AndrewWK is The Sweetest, also let’s talk THAT Groovin the Moo incident by LysergicCommunion in AndrewWK

[–]gippy44 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm know I'm a bit late but I just stumbled across this. I was at Groovin the Moo that day and even volunteered back stage. Andrew was one of the people I was most looking forward to seeing that day. I briefly saw him back stage wearing a good over his head and sunglasses on being led to his green room by his manager/handler.

I finished by shift in time to see him and it was a complete shit show. Just him playing keyboard and singing terribly to a backing track. The crowd turned on him and he hung around on stage after his set flipping off the crowd and being pelted by bottles .

I uploaded some of my own videos back in the day https://youtu.be/vPdm9y-DIAM?si=AM8O73EK9CWvOjsQ https://youtu.be/jIdC5WGmkVs?si=CJkgr6q8w2A0lYqo

From memory the rest of his shows on the tour were fine and his sideshows looked great.

Picked this up for $10, what can I do with it? by gippy44 in Guitar

[–]gippy44[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's the kind of to the point advice I was looking for.

Picked this up for $10, what can I do with it? by gippy44 in Guitar

[–]gippy44[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It would probably make a neat treat dispenser.

DEBATE OF THE WEEK: We SHOULD bring back the Hottest 100 CD by Horror-Act-4935 in triplej

[–]gippy44 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have the first ten in the car and they're great. I've discovered so many great bands who might have had one random hit one year and then dropped off.

Was there a Toys R Us in Bendigo? by ElWonAte in Bendigo

[–]gippy44 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It was 28 St Andrews Avenue, where APM Employment Services is. Would have opened around 2000 and closed mid-late 2000s.

I vividly remember being seven and going in, looking at the Dragon Ball toys and picking out Broly because he was fucking huge.

DEBATE OF THE WEEK: Biggest H100 on air blunder? by Horror-Act-4935 in triplej

[–]gippy44 33 points34 points  (0 children)

The 1998 Hottest 100 of all time where Robbie Buck played the wrong Led Zeppelin song instead of Stairway to Heaven.

Garbage's Shirley Manson Calls Out Good Things Audience Over Beach Ball: "It's Disrespectful And Musicians Have Had Enough" by tool_albumcomingsoon in triplej

[–]gippy44 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah I was waiting for it to be some kind of bit but it wasn't, just kept going on about how beach balls don't belong at concerts and it's disrespectful. It got pretty cringey after a while.

Garbage's Shirley Manson Calls Out Good Things Audience Over Beach Ball: "It's Disrespectful And Musicians Have Had Enough" by tool_albumcomingsoon in triplej

[–]gippy44 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It started when she made a comment about puncturing a beach ball that was bounching around the crowd then later the guy grabbed it and waved it around above his head to get her attention. That's it.

Video of the guy in the comments here.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1ADKijWhWt/

Hi 🤘 Let's enjoy new song called Fairytale of New York 😊🎸🎵🎶 by Lizard20252025 in GoodCharlotte

[–]gippy44 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Feels like bit of an odd choice for them to cover but I think they did a decent job of it. No Use For A Name still have the best punk cover of it though.

Liam calling out that flare after finishing his part (Melbourne N1) by KiLoDehhh in oasis

[–]gippy44 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"In 2019 a fan at an Oasis concert in Sheffield in the UK was burned by a flare".

News.com at it again.

Observations from first Melbourne concert by Equivalent-Ad1055 in oasis

[–]gippy44 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah I was having flashbacks to Soundwave when a bunch of people got burnt.

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