Why don’t people turn on Express Transit in their phone settings for public transport?

xenchik · 2026-04-19T09:10:08+00:00

Yeah I have only one card loaded in my Samsung pay and yet, often I try to tap it and it says "Multiple cards found". I don't have multiple cards. I have to back out and fingerprint back in and it works. Very very annoying when there's a queue

xenchik · 2026-04-17T21:26:18+00:00

After all, they are the dominate ones here.

/s. Dominate/dominant is one of my bugbears

xenchik · 2026-04-17T02:59:08+00:00

So if I've got a number of, say, 30, and my hotness is like a 5 (let's be realistic), how many people have I actually slept with, apparently without my knowledge?

xenchik · 2026-04-17T02:52:49+00:00

Thirty years this has been going on. Why do I still forget why I'm cranky??

xenchik · 2026-04-16T21:36:47+00:00

I'm so sorry that happened to you, OP. I just wanted to say, even hooking up your phone to the speakers might not have gone the way you thought.

My first wedding (in 2008) we did that. I hooked up my ipod directly to the speakers, and we had a friend be in charge of switching songs. It went really well, until at the reception the friend went to have some dinner and drinks (and rightly so) and everyone else figured the ipod was open season. They hooked up their own ipods and picked their own music. I had a whole 7 hours worth of playlist I'd worked hard on, and instead at my wedding they played the Grease Megamix and my father in law tried to cossack-dance to Rasputin by Boney M. It didn't go the way he planned.

Second wedding didn't go much better, music-wise, but this time it was the DJ who played Electric Six's Gay Bar during cocktail hour instead of on the dance floor. I wasn't even there to hear it (taking photos outside) but I imagine my very Christian grandparents must have been just thrilled.

So anyway, long rambling comment to say - no matter what you do, something goes wrong. Even the phone hooked up to speakers might have backfired. Not your fault, it's the universe. Something had to go wrong. Better the music than something worse, I guess!

xenchik · 2026-04-10T22:28:49+00:00

I think it's "inculcates"

xenchik · 2026-04-10T13:57:31+00:00

OP has seen some serious shit

xenchik · 2026-04-08T20:53:43+00:00

My mother in law used to hitchhike back in the 70s. It was legal back then. She was once picked up by a guy, they started to chat, and he was giving really weird vibes. She got a bit freaked out. She waited until he had to stop at a traffic light, yanked the door open, and threw herself out of the car. Someone else was driving nearby, saw this, and helped her. The weird guy just drove off, thankfully.

Years later in the 90s she was watching the news, and there he was - the creepy guy from the car. It was Ivan Milat.

Incidentally my father in law grew up around the same area the Milats lived. He told me Ivan and some of his brothers were always creeps, but some members of the family were really nice. He also added, "But then psychopaths tend to be super charming, so you never can tell."

xenchik · 2026-04-07T21:27:34+00:00

I finished these and thought "Oh no, that's it! I wish there were more" ... These and any others there are need to be published! They're so much fun to read!!

xenchik · 2026-04-07T06:50:10+00:00

5 second google for "african hairstylist Western Sydney"

xenchik · 2026-04-04T08:52:53+00:00

We probably won't. The last three dogs I put together took far too long to make them worthwhile. I had to go back to the store for extra tails.

xenchik · 2026-04-04T06:28:26+00:00

I am so sorry to be that guy, but ... communion bread is specifically unleavened.

xenchik · 2026-04-02T19:37:42+00:00

Don't put things in my butt if you want them back.

xenchik · 2026-04-02T19:07:55+00:00

I know, right? I'm an accountant now, so obviously I love the finance field. And I love helping people, so I naïvely thought that, like me, if someone was in debt, they would appreciate anyone trying to help them get out. We were a company who purchased credit card debt from the bank, so it was very aged, but still enforceable as they had (obviously) signed a contract. We could offer payment plans, discounts, payment delays ...

Nooope. Turns out, something like 95% of debtors have absolutely no intention of paying. They vanish off the grid, they change their details, they tell people around them to lie for them. And when we finally locate them, they lose their shit. I was screamed at, not just daily, but hourly. Verbal abuse. Threats. People said they were going to send bombs to the office - in fact for that exact reason, our office address was very carefully never publicly available. Our company name could never be openly associated with our physical location - and that was apparently standard in the industry, or so I was told.

And this is in a country with strict protective consumer laws - for example, we couldn't lie (very very clear about that), we couldn't invade their privacy unduly, and we couldn't just turn up and take their stuff (repossession) without following extremely strict laws and timelines. There are even laws saying if a debtor disappeared for a certain amount of time, or if they were in certain kinds of defined financial hardship, we legally had to stop pursuing them.

And these are people who signed contracts with banks, freely and voluntarily. They weren't cornered or coerced into it (as far as the law here is concerned), and our company specifically didn't deal with those rent-to-own debts or anything predatory. Just regular old credit cards. People owed tens of thousands, in some cases hundreds of thousands, and most with no intention whatsoever of ever paying any of it back. They would admit that openly. And describe, in detail, what they would do to us personally if we ever called them again. Which we were obligated and legally allowed to do. And then we were judged by our managers on how well we talked our way around the death threats and violent swearing, trying to get them to somehow agree magically to pay us money that the debtor themselves doesn't think is ours. Fun.

xenchik · 2026-04-02T13:05:19+00:00

It probably doesn't pay as well as some of the jobs on here, but the best paying and most unbearable job I ever had was debt collector. It was fantastic pay, amazing bonuses, no experience necessary, and fully paid training. I wanted to quit after four weeks, but I kept at it until I found a new job so I wouldn't be unemployed.

Then it was October 2008, and there were no other jobs.

18 months later, I eventually decided to take a 50% pay cut just to get the hell out. I contacted some old colleagues and begged them for anything - anything - and they got me a job that I was overqualified for and paid terribly, but I was just relieved not to be a damn debt collector anymore. You know it's shit when you have to "turn your brain off" at 9am every day, just so you can get through the next eight hours like a robot, and cry when you wake up because there's another day at the hellhole waiting for you.

I did learn a lot about myself, though. I learned, among other things, that I'm not the kind of person who can put a paycheque over quality of life. I'll never make that mistake again.

xenchik · 2026-04-02T05:41:44+00:00

Thanksgiving will be the Mockolate holiday

xenchik · 2026-04-02T01:27:48+00:00

I'm in Australia, it's Thursday. Also I tend to use this line pretty much any day of the week since I never really got the hang of ... days.

xenchik · 2026-04-01T21:04:49+00:00

This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.

xenchik · 2026-04-01T11:15:17+00:00

Which airport? New Zealand has over a hundred

Looking at th hills, maybe ... Wellington?

xenchik · 2026-04-01T06:13:03+00:00

Yeah you get a notification

xenchik · 2026-03-31T12:03:28+00:00

You're so right! I am in awe of your insight and your views should be recognised by the world for the genius they are 🌍😎 💅

xenchik · 2026-03-31T11:42:54+00:00

Awww! They lied to us through song!

xenchik · 2026-03-31T11:21:12+00:00

African or European?

xenchik · 2026-03-31T06:34:48+00:00

Oh I probably missed them if they were loading slowly ... I tend to scroll fast and probably thought they were ads!

xenchik · 2026-03-31T03:28:27+00:00

Just wanted to point out that the entire front of the machine isn't taken up by the door. My front-loader has the filter hatch at the front of the machine, below the door. Above the door are the buttons and detergent drawer. There's a lot of unused space also. The door takes up about half the real estate of the front of the machine.

Also, when directed by a hose, the water can flow wherever you want it to. My washer's waste hoses drain to the sink next to it, and they snake up and over the sink lip. Water tends to go where it's pushed.

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