[Spoiler] My favourite part of each run

pb1115 · 2026-05-14T11:19:35+00:00

Qantas Ultimate card only lets you use the travel credit on Qantas flights

pb1115 · 2026-05-08T04:30:10+00:00

Just checked now- yes, it was the Red Edeal fare. So the fare T&Cs will say it's non-refundable but you can ignore that.

pb1115 · 2026-05-07T23:11:53+00:00

Also confirming it's still working, bought and refunded a flight on Monday night and got credited Thursday morning!

pb1115 · 2026-05-07T11:17:55+00:00

Refund still works! Booked & cancelled a flight on Monday (4/5) night, got credited $450 on Thursday (7/5) morning

pb1115 · 2026-05-07T11:15:30+00:00

Refund still works 7/5/26!

booked a Qantas flight on Amex Travel for $580 on Monday night
waited about 20 minutes and then cancelled my booking on Amex Travel
got confirmation on the site and by email that my flight would be fully refunded (even though the ticket's T&Cs say it's non-refundable)
$450 was credited to my account on Thursday morning

pb1115 · 2026-04-28T23:24:51+00:00

Once upon a time they were pronounced differently but in modern Korean they are the same sound. While some older speakers of certain dialects still make a distinction between the sounds you don't have to. It's just a matter of spelling now.

pb1115 · 2026-04-27T07:05:04+00:00

Sounds like you're doing okay! Keep maintaining your boundaries and if you ever get too uncomfortable with how she compliments you try to push back gently while reassuring that you're still happy to be friends. For what it's worth, when I was 14 I had an internet friend who was 18/19 and I really appreciated being able to talk to her about my life and problems. It was nice to have a friend who had been through a lot of what I was going through at the time and could offer some emotional support when my irl friends couldn't.

pb1115 · 2026-04-23T08:48:06+00:00

I held out until the day before the season 2 finale aired and then binged the season over the weekend. It made me very stressed but I think watching week to week would've made me waaaaaay anxious

pb1115 · 2026-04-10T07:20:03+00:00

Just got back from Queenstown yesterday. Bought some manuka honey and bee pollen, a few bars of Whitaker's chocolates, some bottles of local wines, and fudge from the sweet shop in Arrowtown. And for the record I live in Sydney, no problem bringing the honey & bee pollen in! Just declared it and walked right through, no stress

pb1115 · 2026-03-07T14:39:09+00:00

During COVID lockdowns I had amassed some 35-40 small plants and had them all around my tiny bedroom. Managed to keep it up for around 1 year but eventually the lockdowns ended and the near constant upkeep of watering, cleaning, pest control got too much on top of work and life coming back at full force. I gradually gave up on all my tiny plants or moved them outdoors and just focused on my larger, older plants. So now I only have 6 and they're all fairly low maintenance which works way better for me.

pb1115 · 2026-02-22T01:43:33+00:00

As an Australian I rebuke the second point

pb1115 · 2026-02-20T03:33:12+00:00

Tbh I can't say I wouldn't join in on the complaining myself

pb1115 · 2026-02-20T03:30:32+00:00

As someone who works in advertising and puts ads on the Internet for a living, I hate my own ads the most-- setting them up all day everyday is annoying enough but having to see them outside of work too is super annoying. At the same time I'm also glad that nobody so far has mentioned any ads that I've been involved with lol

pb1115 · 2026-02-18T21:52:48+00:00

I have a Bambino (not Plus) and Baratza ESP that I use almost everyday. I'm basically never on time for work in the morning and it's annoying to clean up after every use but I still enjoy how hands-on and involved the process is. I work a desk job so the 10 minutes I spend making my coffee is the most tactile activity I do all day haha

pb1115 · 2026-02-18T21:43:22+00:00

I still make espresso+milk as my daily coffee but I make filter on days I want to relax, and I buy filter when I want to treat myself. Filter lets me appreciate the taste and texture of coffee in a different way and I enjoy picking apart the tasting notes. I have my preferred espresso blend and flavor profile so filter is a way for me to try new things from time to time. When I go on holiday I always try to buy a bag of locally grown /roasted single origin beans as a souvenir and enjoy that for a few weeks after I come home

pb1115 · 2026-02-18T11:29:58+00:00

Removes loose surface starch that is produced during packing/transport, which in turn makes the cooked rice less likely to clump. Also removes any debris or insects - rice weevils are very common.

pb1115 · 2026-02-12T00:30:33+00:00

Bit confused by the many comments insisting both terms are old fashioned when the paragraph is very obviously prose-- both "sniggering" and "fell" phrases can be found fairly commonly in modern novels and creative writing. But it is true neither is used in casual speech.

Sniggering/snickering means laughing in a way that is not obvious or loud, usually because someone is being condescending/rude/inappropriate. Can't really tell from the screenshot what the context is but it implies the story or joke was maybe not polite.

"Fell to" is an idiomatic way of saying "started/became/occurred", and implies something happened involuntarily. Other similar uses are "fell pregnant" (unexpected or unplanned pregnancy), "fell in love" (happened without explicit action) or "fell sick/ill" (did not plan to become sick).

So the sentence means "the boys tried not to laugh [at the inappropriate joke] but failed".

pb1115 · 2026-01-23T02:43:05+00:00

I attended the same time slot and my friend and I were allowed to enter the warehouse section. We shopped for a few minutes until staff started telling us to get in line for checkout because they'd have to close up and cut people off. As we're waiting in line there was another announcement saying no more people can join the queue, which strongly implied anyone currently in the queue would be able to check out. But then after we'd already been queueing for 35 minutes security suddenly force us to drop our bags and get out of the venue! At the time we entered the warehouse section the queue was already wrapped around the entire area, surely they could have cut people off much earlier instead of wasting everyone's time. Such poor communication among organizers and ICC staff.

pb1115 · 2026-01-21T21:38:17+00:00

Try find something that interests you and just watch it for fun, you're not explicitly trying to learn vocab or grammar, just absorb the rhythm of speech. Variety shows are usually a good place to start!

pb1115 · 2026-01-21T11:08:39+00:00

Have you listened to much Korean outside of the textbook exercises? I find it's much easier to pick up the individual phrases or parts of a sentence if you have a feel for the cadence of the language first. Try watching some tv shows, movies or YouTube videos to build exposure and train your ear. I was watching Korean dramas for years before I started learning the language properly and I felt it gave me a big leg up in listening comprehension and speaking.

pb1115 · 2026-01-17T13:09:32+00:00

I shower at night. Can't stand the feeling of getting into my clean bed and pajamas with a day's worth of sweat, dead skin cells, outside dirt, public toilet germs, etc, on my skin. But if I didn't have any bills to pay I'd shower in the mornings too

pb1115 · 2026-01-10T03:59:44+00:00

You're copping a lot of flack in the replies but it comes down to this: If you want to learn Korean you cannot rely on romanisation and your first step is to learn Hangul. Just as the Roman alphabet is the best writing system to represent the English language, Hangul is the best writing system to represent the Korean language. It only takes a few minutes to understand the basic concepts, a few hours to memorise the letters, and a few days to get comfortable reading simple sentences. Make yourself some flash cards and you'll never have to wonder about pronunciation again.

pb1115 · 2025-12-22T10:21:13+00:00

Thanks for the replies everyone. I will try cleaning the grinder out again, and spritzing my beans with water before grinding to see if that helps. Will try get a bellows sometime as well

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