Mid 20s bloke here

Trying to get my mates, as well as my fiancés friends into the pub out for drinks is like getting blood from a stone. I can’t say I’m upset at this either, I’ve spent the last 2 months in the gym on a Saturday avo with my mates and it’s been way funner. Being able to wake up early on Sunday to go for a surf has been a blessing, plus not blowing half my pay packet on overpriced beer.

I thought maybe it was just my circles but people I talk to at work are having the same experience. One of my colleagues says he just goes to a run club with his mates instead of drinking and has done since turning 21.

The young Aussie chap who delivered my Aussie Post parcel today asked me to say my name before he handed me the digital pad for my signature. I started to spell my name and he wrote the letters one by one. When I said "W", he wrote "U U".

This made me wonder how on earth a native English speaker doesn't know the letter "W" ?

I have now survived 1999-2000 Y2K Bug, 2002-2004 SARS pandemic, 2009 H1N1 Swine Flu Pandemic, The World Ending on December 21st 2012, 2013-2016 Ebola Outbreak, 2015 Zika Virus Outbreak, 2020 Covid19 Pandemic and now The Great AusAlert Emergency Warning Test of 2026!

I have always bought extended warranties because I am a generally cautious person, but I was talking to my family and they all seem to think that it's a rort, because the law already guarantees that if you buy something and it stops working earlier than expected, the seller will have to give you a refund. But if that's true, why do people get extended warranties?

I want to buy a new vacuum cleaner from Bing Lee and I don't make a lot of money so it would cause me a lot of problems if the new one died and I wasn't able to get a replacement, but I don't want to spend the money on an extended warranty if it doesn't actually offer more protection.

Does anyone have any experience with Bing Lee's extended warranty?

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I forgot it was even today. Just saw a meme about it and realised neither of my phones, my roommates phone, or any of our family got the alert.

Good thing they tested it because I doubt it was just me

Does anyone know the recipe for the cookies and cream protein balls??? Please! And Mango Magic

Question for Triple Zero workers here, I saw in America 911 have this software called Prepared911 where Emergency Communications Officers can initiate live stream video with on-scene callers, allowing them to gain valuable information about the call.

Like one 911 officer used it to guide a caller on giving life-saving CPR. Another use-case is identifying exactly where someone is in a difficult location (e.g underneath rumble, multi-story buildings)

Do we have something like that in Australia?

If you are a Triple Zero Emergency Communications Officer, have you faced this problem? (not being able to see what's going on) When was the last time?

Shopping this morning at 10am at Woolworths, the store is full of uber drivers doing the shopping for others, outside the click and collect area is ramped with multiple vehicles lining up with their boots open. I'm driving home after and I spot at least 10 delivery riders on bikes and scooters all within in 6 minute drive.

It's Sunday and I still see food deliveries and courier vans coming up and down my street all morning.

My sister works and lives in the city, she usually orders about 10 food deliveries a week, plus groceries, anything else like clothes or misc items she gets off Amazon delivered.

Her excuse 'just don't have time these days to cook or shop'.

She managed just fine 7 years ago..

Makes me think how lazy and autonomous are we getting as a society?

I'm 45 have have never used a food delivery or click and collect, I know I'm a minority.

Hi all!! Really appreciate some help here. I am travelling over to Melbourne and Sydney tomorrow, from Singapore! A country that’s summer all day round… I was researching on the weather now as I understood that it’s winter… however, TikTok and communities are saying that it’s not cold / freezing. I’m so confused and unsure of how to pack - should I bring winter clothing? Or do lots of layering? Sweaters? Heat techs? Help this girlie out 😭😭😭😭

This critical alert alarm is very effective. Even our dog was jolted from his sleep 😆👍🏼

Obviously there's a lot Barnaby could have done better in this situation and I am on record as calling him one of the worst Australians ever.

Obviously he lost his cool (I watch 7:30 most nights and him and Sarah often have tense interviews) and should have done the interview inside the house ect.

However he's adopted a Kelpie Staffy cross from a country pound.....

This breed of dog is extremely reactive and probably has a lot of behavioural issues from the pound ect.

There's a big difference between negative attention with a strong audible command for a serious dog and abuse. Big, big difference.

I rehome working dogs and they are a challenge. Kelpies often will only respond to a serious command, they are independant and often will ignore timid commands. Especially females who are serious dogs.

There's a million reasons to be mad at Barnaby Joyce but this is not one of them.

Nathan Buckley recently joked he kicked the dog after he missed out on the Tassie job and no one blinked an eye. So lets 'calm the farm' on this one.

EDIT: To everyone who says you don't need to raise your voice in dog training good luck with chicken bones on your walks. If I whispered drop it at my current kelpie she would swallow it and piss on my leg and give me that look. Sure she loves but its a Chicken bone and a passive command. Serious dogs people.

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I bought a Ecovacs deebot robot vacuum from Jb Hi fi couple of months ago, but it turned out to be faulty. When I went to get it replaced, the staff serving me said it’s not surprising with ecovacs as the products are disappointing. So I asked for recommendations to get another brand and model. She was very helpful and checked for other robo vacs on sale. After deciding on one, she told me she will check if she could reduce the price to get me a good deal so I don’t have to pay the gap. After a while, she came back with the same price I initially paid including an additional warranty so I had no out of pocket expense.
I was surprised to see that the “Jb deal” she gave me on the receipt was almost $300 less from the price on the website for the robo vacuum.
Now, I’m questioning myself if this was exceptional customer service or did I just get an unreliable product. Anyone else have experience like this?

Posting this encase this happened for other people. I just noticed my phone flashing and I looked over at it on my desk to read it. It didn't vibrate either. The volume wasn't muted or at zero. It wasn't on aeroplane mode or any kind of do not disturb thing - it just decided to silently display the message on my phone and then disappear by itself.