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Mattress salespeople are absolutely insane.
Kept feeling like I was a hot chip surrounded by seagulls.
I’m amazed we made it out of Nunawading alive
Did you make out alive with a mattress, or was mission unsuccessful?
We’re really just dipping our toes in the water to see what we like.
If they’d been a bit more chill we would have stuck around and bought something.
But each area felt too staked out. We had 6 different salespeople try to get us at Snooze.
Massive turnoff. Just wanted to get out.
Ick. That’s a large part of why I ended up with a mattress-in-a-box instead, I really didn’t want to deal with all that. And I’ve been pretty happy with it - plus they are sending me a new mattress topper which the Koala matresess all come with now (but didn’t when I bought mine) so it might even get better when that arrives!
I’ve tried floating the idea to Mr Smeg before but he’s very insistent on try before buy.
So I feel there will be more pushy salespeople to deal with in my immediate future.
Might try the FTG store next time
I liked that you could try out the mattresses and return them if you didn’t like them for a full refund - most allowed around three months. Just lying on them in store isn’t the same as actually sleeping on them for a full night. I figured worst case scenario I didn’t like any of them and just bought myself some time to make a final decision. But I was happy with the first one.
I love the concept but Mr Smeg is a NO person by default.
For the same reason I wasn’t able to convince him on certain couches only available online that were the perfect fit for our tiny loungeroom.
If it’s not in a physical store it doesn’t exist to him.
You should have laid down on the mattress and when they ask “Can I help you with anything?” you reply “A cup of tea would be great thanks”.
Or asked for some lube if I really wanted to make them uncomfortable
And some bikkies
I blacklisted a store, the mattress sales people were so weird and pushy.
Snooze Nunawading may be blacklisted after this
Oasis Sleep near Savemore supermarkets was the place.
This modern trend of inaudible dialogue in film and TV is irritating.
Oh, but don’t worry! As soon as action starts, it’ll blow your eardrums out :)
Omg sometimes I’m tempted to bring my earplugs to the cinema.
This is why I’m team permanent subtitles
Same. Too bad the option isn’t available in cinemas. They should have sessions where the movie has subtitles throughout the whole movie
That’s my dream one day
How good would it be to be able to understand the whole damn movie. Like it’s 21 century and yet when they have characters speaking in another language often times instead of translating in English so we know what’s been said it show [speaking in insert that countries’ dialogue] so you’re just sitting there like, wtf did they say though. Ok so it’s that countries language but what’s the conversation if you don’t know that language. Like what is that?!?! How do they get away with doing that so often?!?!
Me too, although I hate it when the subtitles spoil the punchline of a joke.
A small price to pay
I’ve turned on subtitles for so many shows recently, it’s ridiculous.
I have solutions for this depending on which device I’m using.
If I’m watching my TV, my soundbar has a Voice button which has 3 levels which it will boost the center channel to help with it, or I can connect my bluetooth headphones and they handle it better.
If I’m watching on my PC, I use some free software called FxSound which is an equalizer for Windows. Even just installing it and using the General profile is a noticeable improvement over the default balances but it also has sound profiles for Movies, TV, Transcription, Music, Voice, Volume Boost, Gaming, Classic Processing, Light Processing, Bass Boost and Streaming Video. I recommend installing FxSound for all Windows users, I have it on all of my computers.
If for some reason I’m using my phone, or using my phone to Bluetooth to my headphones or to my car stereo I use an equalizer on that (Android) called REEQ which has preset profiles or you can make custom ones. That app has definitely increased the quality of the audio from and streamed from my phone.
My current workaround is subtitles.
It’s infuriating sometimes. I think a dedicated centre channel might be the go.
It’s so annoying. But why is it so? Never used to be a problem with regular tv, or dvds, is it a feature of streaming technology, or is it just currently fashionable to make voices indiscernible? I always have to watch with subtitles on.
hello hello everyone! how are we all on this fine day?
Hi I’m great. Just did a bit of gardening and had a small chat with neighbour. I’m hungry now🙂
Getting some cooking done. 1 cake down, now spag bol to go
ooh. cake. what variety of cake?
Choc. It may not last the day given there’s a teenager lurking
You need to make a diversion cake to keep the teenager occupied, and have a second backup cake on hand to snack on yourself.
Ha! Good idea! Will try that next time. There is a good chance the teenager can eat 2 cakes in 1 day, though. I might have to resort to hiding one
Not bad, a bit vague.
Just spent the last few hours at the office “redecorating” for a coworker who’s back from leave tomorrow. Cow themed. I’ve never been more productive
So were you mooving things around?
Is the theme because they are a coworker?
A former coworker who mooved on to greener pastures left a couple cows as mascots. They’ve now taken over and are demanding higher pay(hay?) And greener grass hehehehe
I’m sure your co worker will be udderly delighted by your very mooving gesture.
Reminder if you haven’t yet to pop yourself and any others contacted on Bacon’s spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oMhrX4Pal2el0Km6l_1C_INnqUCpr_E-L0NPYyYb49o/htmlview#gid=0
Seeing that Snazzy21 has been ‘contacted by god’ gives me the giggles each time I see it.
God works in mysterious ways
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Oooh this was a co-ordinated migration to aussie.zone? Explains why /c/Melbourne is by far the most active community here 🙂
Not sure how co-ordinated it was but there’s definitely a story here. I sort of migrated earlier than most here. It’s an impressive community and I hope everyone wants to stick around the fed.
What would you guys’ love to see added to Lemmy? Personally, I kinda miss the Reddit trophies, how am I going to feel superior to all of you who signed up 4 days ago if I can’t flex ending up in the x year club 2 days earlier???
You make an interesting point. I was reading Lemmy documentation and some GitHub discussion regarding gamification. I did like the little fun things/quirks of Rdt, but can also understand the reasoning for why/why not.
I am honestly just impressed that members of the DT have put effort in to keep going. So just seeing everyone’s posts for the time being is enough for me. Funny how when it closed the first time, I had things that I was like, I’ll do my little brain dump/share to DT, and then realised I couldn’t and it was admittedly silly and sad at the same time.
Automod tools and the ability to pin comments within posts is high on my list at the moment. But mostly better sort tools and the ability to create custom feeds. Although working with a couple of different accounts is a bit like having custom feeds.
Oh yeah, I keep forgetting we don’t have automod
The midnight crew have been doing a great job starting the new daily post each day. The person who does it gets naming rights to the day.
I kinda like that. If we do eventually migrate to a bot, I’d love it if we could get the community to propose ideas for names and the bot to randomly pick one
Instead of cake day you get pikelet day, that’s what happens. Whether or not this is ‘superior’ depends on context.
For starters, a Terms of Service might be a good idea.
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Hehe i love strategic dashes!
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Have packed another couple tea mails for swaps overseas Last one i gave out 2 teas i dont drink and got 10 teas i do drink in return. So awesome 👌
Winning
@Goddess_Amaterasu@aussie.zone
is the Fiji water photo at sunrise today.Now I’m in Suva after having spent the week on an island paradise but still a few more days before flying back to cold Melbourne.
Oh the pic is gorgeous. I’ve heard of Suva. (Never been) thank you for posting the photo. Have an amazing rest of your trip. Drink up that warm weather as you’ll be sad when you get back. We have a whole top of 11C tomorrow 😢
Also thank you for adding the little description, helps for any vision impaired people
Look at that calm Pacific water. So beautiful. 😍
Are you on Leleuvia?
Good spotting! I sure was.
I was there last year and took pretty much exactly the same photo!
Have been to market. I bought bread, I bought milk, I bought veg, I bought meat, I bought Turkish delight, I bought baba ghanoush…
I feel as though I’ve at least brushed against the food pyramid
I buy according to colour, which is a system that has just as much scientific validity .
It’s really hard to find blue food. 😉
Love me some good baba ghanoush, it’s probably my favourite!
This prompted me to google “microwaved eggplant”. Watch this space
TURKISH DELIGHTTTTTTTT!
Oh no. I just came to Bunnings to buy a rake. But I’ve just noticed that it’s bare root rose and fruit tree season…
Those fruit trees will drop leaves logic is sound.
do it, fruit trees are always a good choice
All those trees in need of a new home. You can’t just leave them there, you have to help!
You sound like me when I go into Officeworks
Some of my favourite home things are from officeworks!
This is why I try not to go there at this time of year. I have no more garden space for ~those lovely lovely fruit trees. ~
I’ve sat down to do the theory work for my first aid and cpr training tomorrow and I’m already falling asleep, curse my uninterested brain.
Air fryer owners. What is the cleaning situation like? I have not joined the air fryer revolution yet. It’s seems like they might be good, but is the time saved in cooking negated by time spent in cleaning? I’m thinking compared to using normal oven, which does not need cleaning every use and baking sheet is easy to wash or put in dishwasher.
I actually can’t get mine properly clean. I’ve tried soaking with dishsoap but stays greasy and smelling like a dirty bbq. I’ve been putting off trying something more drastic, I should get onto that.
It cooks the hell out of potato gems, I can tell you that much. Early days of having it I made pork crackling too (which worked REALLY well) but I’d recommend not trying that with your air fryer indoors, especially if you live in an apartment. I had to run it on my balcony so I didn’t set off all of the smoke alarms lol
I’m a bit late to this party, but while I don’t have one myself, we have an airfryer at work. It’s one with a separate basket inside a drawer that comes out completely from the machine. My boss uses it to grill meat as he’s into keto/paleo. IT IS A PAIN TO CLEAN. The basket and drawer have to be soaked and then scrubbed because it didn’t take long for the non-stick coating to give up the ghost. Work does not have a dishwasher (other than me and my slaves). So it doesn’t get done more than once a day in the morning having been soaked overnight. One of these days in the not too distant future I will defenestrate the entire object. With happy squeals of delight.
Depends on the kind of airfryer you have. Mine is basically a toaster oven. It has a drip tray, so I can just yank that out and clean it properly every so often.
It also toasts better than my oven or toaster, so it ends up being used for a loooot of things. Fantastic thing. Got it from Harris Scarfe in a new years sale for like… I think $200?
I have a tiny one. I always use baking paper or ensure I clean up straight away.
The one I was given has a large lid, which opens above the whole 20 cm round tray which is non stick, easy to remove and really simple to clean.
I have a smaller air fryer, where the basket and draw are completely removable, and seperate to the heating element. I just soak it with hot water & some dishsoap, and it wipes clean pretty easy most times.
I use it 99% of the time over the oven as I live alone, and it doesn’t really require any pre-cooking time.
They’re…ok. Smaller capacity means quicker heating time, so can be useful for small apartments with no oven. They do make nice crispy food that would usually be fried, and that’s nice. However, the treats for mine have to be hand washed which is a bit of a pain. There’s also a weird bit between the door and the oven which is a little crumb magnet but you can’t get them all out. That’s pretty annoying.
It depends on what you cook in there. Sometimes I just wipe out the drawer and the basket with paper towel then wet the towel and give it another wipe. If it’s really grubby I’ll soak it in the sink.
Harry Belafonte has been ear worming me this week.
Day-O and Jump In The Line keep getting stuck in my head.
I blame/thank Tim Burton
I want my kids to be old enough to watch Beetlejuice so bad.
I’m more than old enough, but have never watched it. I should get around to that…
Do it, tonight. It’ll be worth it. Legitimate options - https://www.comparetv.com.au/streaming-tv/beetlejuice-movie-live-stream-australia/ And obviously on the high seas.
I support and encourage your endeavours
Hopefully they’ll get into it when they’re old enough.
One of my all time faves
I really hoping the upcoming sequel adds to the legacy rather than ruins it.
Yeah I have concerns.
I’ll still watch it either way
I mean, the cast is pretty damn good. (Haven’t figured out this image direct to thread thing yet)
Catharine O Hara is a treasure
Watching a new to me movie everyday, not just lotr & hobbit 😏
Today was Good Will Hunting. I had been putting off watching this for decades because … “reasons”
Yes, it hit as hard as I thought it would. But I’m older now and can see that movie was written by kids, genius kids but kids. 😉
It’s true, easy work is relaxing, it leaves the mind free.
Luck is more important than most people know.
Choices in life aren’t usually dichotomous, you don’t have to choose between a person/people and opportunity. If you can, choose both.
Still shits me that society thinks smart people have a duty to self actualise and serve society. If there is duty the duty goes both ways. You want what brains can give, then give brains some support and respect their freedom of choice.
This is true. Find your people.
The apples line is one of my all-time favorites.
“how’s them apples?”
I recently read “Outliers” by Malcolm Gladwell, which looked at what leads people to make extraordinary achievements. Basically, genius is not enough, there is also a lot of luck and social support required. I highly recommend it, and it definitely supports what you are saying here.
