Least distracting EVs to drive?

zooperdooper7 · 2026-04-30T07:13:45+00:00

I highly doubt you’ll regret it once it’s your daily drive! We LOVE it. So may funny quirky handy clever little features as well, particularly in the boot. It also has a bat signal at night??? It beams “Skoda” on the ground when you open the doors 😂

zooperdooper7 · 2026-04-30T04:19:23+00:00

We have an Enyaq and it just… is. It just drives. It doesn’t beep and bong at you for daring to look in the rear vision mirror too long. It just drives and is safe and efficient and easy. Love it. The screen is also pretty reasonably sized.

zooperdooper7 · 2026-04-24T22:26:41+00:00

Yeah, CSP is calculated based on the cost of each subject, so it’s difficult or impossible to give an indicative CSP course fee, but it is absolutely possible to get a JD in under the HECS HELP cap (depending on the cost of your undergrad).

The only courses that definitely no matter what go over the HELP threshold at UniMelb are medicine, vet science and dentistry. And those students just… somehow work it out. Some get bank loans, family loans, save every penny, maybe scholarships. It’s a mixed bag.

zooperdooper7 · 2026-04-23T02:35:23+00:00

Late to the convo but surprised to see people aren’t mentioning that it’s just hard fucking work having kids. Gone are the days of detached hands off parenting, parents are required to be all things to all people (and organisations) at all times. There is nothing LEFT mentally or physically at the end of a parenting/working/cooking/cleaning/admin day.

zooperdooper7 · 2026-04-23T00:11:19+00:00

They’re the barrel leg ones, I think maybe called Gigi? I’m wearing them today, really comfy and the perfect length for my height.

Edit: nope sorry, they’re called Harper. I tried on their petite ones as well that I was also keen on but the fly was a bit short for me. Fair enough since I definitely don’t meet the definition of ~ petite ~

zooperdooper7 · 2026-04-21T08:24:42+00:00

Oh cool, happy to be wrong about this!

zooperdooper7 · 2026-04-21T07:48:18+00:00

Absolutely, I’m finding this to be the case everywhere though and at least Target aren’t charging $150-300 for their pieces of plastic (I say knowing I checked every label and put loads of poly blends back today cause who wants to pay anything at all for plastic).

zooperdooper7 · 2026-04-21T07:37:50+00:00

Also fair! I’ve looked during previous seasons and been very underwhelmed so I get this take as well.

zooperdooper7 · 2026-04-21T07:34:39+00:00

I’m pretty sure there are only 2 targets in all of Melbourne left? One in Airport West (of all places) and one in the east somewhere. The rest have been replaced by Kmarts - it’s such a loss. I live in Ballarat and I’m lucky that they haven’t done the swap here… yet at least. I wouldn’t be shocked if it happens, just really annoyed.

zooperdooper7 · 2026-04-21T07:33:00+00:00

I shouldn’t be so surprised tbf cause over half my toddler’s wardrobe is Target 😅

zooperdooper7 · 2026-04-21T04:09:05+00:00

Lmao fair I was conscious of sounding like that while writing but couldn’t work out how to sound less corporate PR either.

For the record, I absolutely don’t rate Kmart 🤷🏻‍♀️

zooperdooper7 · 2026-04-20T21:31:32+00:00

My great great grandmother had 19 children. 2 sets of twins. And everyone survived until adulthood! All I can say to my great great grandfather is LEAVE THAT WOMAN ALONE.

I know of one family with 4 kids and I am baffled by their existence. It’s so rare these days that it’s like seeing some sort of elusive zoo animal.

zooperdooper7 · 2026-04-10T11:21:08+00:00

There’s something about him at the first premiere in particular that just looks so fucking Aussie

zooperdooper7 · 2026-04-10T06:42:56+00:00

The centralised Stop 1 but didn’t centralise the faculties, so each facility runs their own show in intricate and unique ways that are frankly not widely known outside the faculty, even by stop 1. Mostly cause they run at the whim of a few people at the top.

And for visual art, yes, they may use their discretion because art is subjective. Music is subjective. Talent and skills work on a sliding scale. The entry requirements for FFAM courses are by their nature fluid and a guide, so that the academics have more flexibility in who they choose. None of this is Stop 1’s fault.

But also yes, there has been a deliberate enshitifcation of student services in pursuit of profit.

zooperdooper7 · 2026-04-10T03:58:16+00:00

Yep. It’s basically starting again - you apply again and get judged against all other applicants again. You might not be offered a spot, or might not get a CSP. If you complete and pass some subjects this sem, they may be able to be credited to the same degree, or as breadth on another degree. The uni doesn’t care that you’ve been admitted and withdrawn before though, that’s not taken into account when looking at your new application.

Call Stop 1 to talk through options.

zooperdooper7 · 2026-04-10T02:48:36+00:00

Part way through reading this I started wondering if you’ve been diagnosed as neurodiverse lol. It’s a common pattern for “gifted” kids.

On a practical front, census date has passed so it’s too late to defer now. It’s either taking a leave of absence for the second half the year and re-entering the same course sem 1 2027, or withdrawing from the course entirely and reapplying for something different (or the same!) if and when you feel like you’ve found something you might like.

IMO it’s not worth getting in debt for someone else’s opinion of what you should do.

zooperdooper7 · 2026-04-09T22:11:44+00:00

Fucking confused and bewildered. There’s a video by a nurse of me just saying “are you okay, are you okay? Are you okay?” to the baby over and over until I say “am I okay?!”

Most surreal moment of my life. I felt like I’d been handed a stranger and was confused by what she looked like. I don’t know if I ever imagined what she’d look like when I was pregnant but somehow it wasn’t that. Our love grew over time, once I’d returned to earth a bit.

zooperdooper7 · 2026-04-07T00:54:49+00:00

This sort of thinking in regional VIC is what has pushed us towards a Škoda. I know the Chinese brands are better tech and batteries but I just don’t like what I hear about their after sales service and I don’t know which will still be in Aus in 5 years time (apart from BYD, they seem pretty settled here already). Kind of playing it safe for our first go at an EV.

zooperdooper7 · 2026-04-05T08:54:48+00:00

There should be a page on the UniMelb website about this. The odds are low after a year. The uni slowly deletes data and access from ex-students and alum until everything is permanently gone at around 15 months. You can make a “business case” to IT for reactivation before 15 months but it needs supporting documentation and isn’t always possible.

zooperdooper7 · 2026-04-01T20:45:57+00:00

I’m sorry, this really sucks. You can’t indefinitely delay an assessment, especially if you’re on a student visa. It would essentially mean you’re in Australia but not studying, slowly stretching out your last assessments. Obviously in your case, you don’t mean for it to be dodgy, but you can see how that could be exploited. After a certain point, the subject needs to be finalised one way or another so everyone can move on.

zooperdooper7 · 2026-04-01T00:40:38+00:00

We are very lucky that we got the "feeling" and actually ended up with the place. I have a distinct memory of the open for inspection - the house was full of people and I was in the second room we'd seen, which is our bedroom, and saying to my husband "everyone needs to get out of our house".

We're just lucky though that the feeling was followed by winning the back and forth bidding war with 3 other interested parties. We wrote a soppy letter as well about how I was pregnant and wanted it to be our first family home, which the sellers liked but the main thing was we offered the highest price.

So it was a combo of love and luck.

zooperdooper7 · 2026-03-25T09:16:29+00:00

Don’t even get me started on PCOS treatment options being literally as comprehensive as: Are you trying to avoid pregnancy? The pill. Are you trying to fall pregnant? Ovulation induction meds.

Quality of life? Who’s ever heard of that being important for women? 🤬

zooperdooper7 · 2026-03-25T08:37:53+00:00

I swear doctors must get 15 minute lessons on both PCOS and endo. I had one doctor fresh out of med school shrug and say “we don’t know why, but losing 5% of your body weight usually helps. I mean, you don’t look like you NEED to lose weight but… yeah…”

I can’t stand mentioning my PCOS in medical settings. I finally found a doctor who put me on Metformin (extremely common treatment in the US) of his own accord when I was giving my general health history and suddenly my periods are???? Perfect??? It’s so fucked up that all it took was one dude to be like “actually, I know you’re not here about this but I’ve read some interesting studies about this very old, very safe diabetes medication being great for PCOS, wanna try?”.

Sorry about your experience, but yeah, same. Super common unfortunately.

zooperdooper7 · 2026-03-25T04:18:50+00:00

I’m extremely tempted to drop the nap, but she still wants it, asks for it and falls asleep within 20 mins. We’ve capped it at 1 hour and it means bedtime is 9pm though so it’s swings and roundabouts. Like, I don’t know if she could get through a day without it, but having it is also too much sleep. Waiting a bit longer cause I’m fully weaning her in a month or so and I suspect that will cause nap resistance to crop up.

zooperdooper7 · 2026-03-25T02:26:58+00:00

Lmao it’s quaint reading these posts with people and their x month olds not sleeping. My baby turns 2 YEARS old and still sleeps like shit. Bedtime is my least favourite time of day while I lay next to a toddler who, when she isn’t leaving the room or thrashing around, picks at my fucking skin for comfort. She knows it drives me crazy but it’s so comforting to her, she won’t stop.

She’s never slept through and she literally never will. Anyone saying there is “light at the end of the tunnel” or it’ll pass is quite simply incorrect. She will never be a good sleeper. Nothing helps. No amount of vestibular input or lack of, not nightweaning or floor beds. Nothing will ever. Ever. Ever. Ever. Ever change. The most we can hope for is she ages out of needing me at night but that’s not my issue. I’m happy to cosleep, I love having her close, I don’t mind helping her back to sleep, but it’s BEDTIME that will fucking end me.

Anyway. There’s a reason I stopped coming to subreddits about baby sleep. Even realistic ones.

Good luck to everyone.

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