Discussion Thread 🗳️ Saturday 3 May 2025

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• calhoon2005@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Cracked 26min at my Parkrun this morning and felt really good too… 😳

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• TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The ‘live’ results on the abc news live coverage have been updated after a couple of hours of just sitting there static - Labour = 81 seats!

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  • Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    86 now

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    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      senate 🤞

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    • Alamutjones@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      87

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    85

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• Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Damn, it was called early. What happened? I thought it was going to be a close one.

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  • underwatermagpies@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Dutton happened :)

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    • Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      And he loses his seat too, nothing better.

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• sqgl@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  People here probably don’t need the warning but the Trumpet of Patriot Image are disingenuous.

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  • dumblederp@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Anyone who doesn’t know Palmer is a piece of shit is maliciously ignorant at this point.

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    • Salvo@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I hesitate to say he is full of shit because shit has more substance than the lies he has been spouting via SMS.

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  • Salvo@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I think he is being as contrarian as possible to lift up his pet I dependants. His party should receive no votes, but he wants to divert those angry votes to the Independents that still take his money.

    If you vote independent, (which I believe everyone should), make sure it is for someone who is honest about where their funding is coming from.

    However, I’m sure that if anyone campaigned on changes to the SPAM ACT to remove political exemption, they would win by a landslide.

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    • sqgl@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      An email or SMS seeking to influence your vote or opinion is rarely covered by these rules – they do not need your consent to send it, and do not need to include an unsubscribe.

      One friend was getting multiple spams on his phone each day from Clive (from different numbers) with no way to legally stop it.

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  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Oh yeah don’t worry I peeped them

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• dumblederp@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I think I can talk about AEC work now that I’ve withdrawn. The offer I got was Sat night, 8pm start, minimum wage ($30.14), expected 3am finish (casual, maybe early dismissal) counting votes at an OPC (cold warehouse). I wouldn’t take that shift for any job TBH. Maybe I’m being too picky but that’s atrocious pay and hours for a one off ~7 hour job.

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  • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Fuck all that. You’d think they could offer more considering what the job actually is.

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    • dumblederp@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      They gave me a two month window then two days notice for sat night at shit pay. I’m in bed by 9pm most days, I’d be falling asleep on the job.

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  • briongloid@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Isn’t the day of $800 for any hours?

    I feel like some would take the $30/h just to be in it for the main day.

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    • dumblederp@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Some would, but not me. I’d be unreliable at that time of the day.

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• StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Antony Green said it so it’s true!

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• kruetz@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The school down the road did not have a barbecue, or food of any kind. But I had a nice chat with one of the canvassers while in line.

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• Bottom_racer@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Trying to convince the p’s to ‘let’ me install a grab rail in their shower.

  There is so much stigma to it it’s ridiculous.

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  • dumblederp@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Come out of the shower with fake blood running down your face and say you slipped.

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  • PeelerSheila@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Grab rails are also handy when I’m cleaning the shower and don’t want to step in.

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  • TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s a great place to hang the face flannel.

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    • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Actually that might help persuade them.

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  • anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    When my very frail (and very stubborn) MIL stayed with us when recovering from an injury, I had grab rails installed in the shower and next to the loo. She got really angry and refused to use them.

    I’ve found them really handy though, both for holding on to and propping things on in the shower and for lifting myself off the loo after too much ‘leg day’ exercise.

    Maybe try to sell them as chunky towel rails and shampoo holders?

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• calhoon2005@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You know that bit where Mr Burns laughs at the injured Irishman…? Can someone redo that but with Dutton losing?

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• Alamutjones@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  My train ride home intersected with a bucks party. Nice boys

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• Alamutjones@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Docker flavoured fudge

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  • anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That’s very purple. Thought it was soap on 1st glance

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    • Alamutjones@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Blackberry fudge. Tasted it before I bought it

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    • dumblederp@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I still think it’s soap.

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    • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      spoiler

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  • TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Noooooooooo

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    • Alamutjones@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Fear not, I tried it before I bought it. Quite nice blackberry stuff

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  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That looks delicious

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  • Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Don’t forget tonight, it’s between you and me buddy!

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    • Alamutjones@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I have yet to find my pub for the evening to watch it

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• just_kitten@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’ve done my duty in the Tropical Soup 🫡 things are far more streamlined here because we’re lucky to have any kind of opposition at all in the first place, and there’s only one house in the government, and it’s just FPTP without preferential voting… Got in and out in about 3.5 minutes and used an inked stamp to press X on one of two boxes.

  I wish I could vote in Australia but that likely won’t happen until my mum passes away and I can finally let go of my original citizenship. So for now I will live vicariously through everyone else - and have to tolerate 7 hours of uncertainty on the flight that leaves just as polls close 😭

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• briongloid@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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• Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Home made kofta kebabs, retro video games, music and cat cuddles.

  Heaven.

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• Alamutjones@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Change of plans. Weather shit, so will quokka another day. Have caught train to Freo

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  • anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Are you going to check out the the prison?

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    • Alamutjones@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      They may not let me out now I’m here

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• Force_majeure123@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I am an an honest to goodness train eeeeeee
  I think I have been on a train about five times in my ~10 years in Melbourne

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• Alamutjones@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Happy voting day, everyone. Eat your sausage

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• melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s great to have got the libs out.

  But I still feel uneasy. In addition to Cheeto Chaplin’s attacks the UK recently ruled that trans women legally aren’t women and are banned from women’s bathrooms, and in Australia there have been recent protests against trans people and against anti-hate speech laws protecting LGBTIA+.

  Regardless of laws Australia picks up culture wars like a sponge.

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  • Alamutjones@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Go through life trying to be decent to people. That’s within your reach, and is an excellent start

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    • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’m trying. It doesn’t seem to do much.

      Edit: There’s also the additional bonus of it marking you out as an easy target

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• melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m already stressing about results. What if I somehow miscalculated and helped allow dipshits in. Too late now.

  I wish I could distract myself

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  • Alamutjones@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Your single vote will not empower dipshits.

    Even if it could…voters are never wrong. Sometimes the choices of voters have unforeseen consequences, but as a voter exercising your rights you cannot make a wrong choice doing it. Whatever you picked is right.

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    • princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I think that any one voter can still have voted “wrong” in terms of their own beliefs and desires though?

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    • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I just didn’t have time to research properly, and wasn’t familiar with a couple of independent candidates.

      I did a quick google and put them just ahead of Pauline Hanson but am wondering if there were any things I missed. Whether my choices aligned with what I wanted.

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• Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  voting done, no sossage, safe labor seat, no liberal canvassers

  ewaste taken to drop off centre

  bunnings run done, got paint for furniture, semi gloss kara sea colour and some new brushes

  walk down beach , today there was a bloke in a straw boater hat standing out on the sand flats playing guitar to his dog

  a little bit of gardening done

  time for coffee and a little lunch

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• tombruzzo@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Has this ever happened before? Has the opposition leader ever lost their seat in an election. It feels huge

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  • briongloid@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Well he wasn’t opposition leader, but John Howard as PM in 2007.

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    • tombruzzo@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I heard that on the radio. The liberals lost anyway but imagine the prime minister losing but the party wins

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  • MeanElevator@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Nope. They just spoke about it now.

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    • tombruzzo@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I heard that too. The worst part is they kept him in for so long

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• briongloid@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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• Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  omg, those are some huge swings to Lab. I think it’s the trump effect. We don’t want cunts like that or cunts who support trump in.

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  • briongloid@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’ve been worried for months that took many Australian’s where like Trump’s supporters.

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    • Alamutjones@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      If we hadn’t just been shown exactly what that actually means - behold, the United States! - it might be more popular. But we have, and for all that Australians love a good bitch about politicians…we don’t love it enough to burn the place down

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I have a bad feeling

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    • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I am starting very slowly to hope but too scared to admit it

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• melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Postal voted ready to be witnessed and mailed right after, and my antibiotic script ready to be fill. I’m really not feeling tops but need to sort these things out, try and get out of these weeds.

  I fumbled an earlier dental appointment and was extremely upset about it but touch wood I can be seen this week.

  TW dental, pain management, pain meds

  I am a bit worried about pain management post extraction though. I’m leaning toward refusing the prescription painkillers though and wondering if I will be able to power through with just Panadol and ibuprofen. For what it’s worth the root canals were surprisingly bearable, couple of Panadol the first few days and fine at least until the infection returned. But this is a second molar extraction while awake and the roots may be a bit oddly shaped. And I’m fretting a bit about dry socket. I do know not to take ibuprofen too soon after due to the risk of interfering with clotting.

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• tone212_@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  My first choice of polling booth had no democracy sausages so of course I left to find another with them.

  The entrance to this polling booth is quite narrow so I got assaulted with how to vote pamphlets on entry.

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  • underwatermagpies@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Mine had run out of sausages when I got there at 1pm. Undemocratic I reckon.

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• Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I was so tired. Slept way past midday.

  Plans for operation laundry have been set back :(

  Still doing it though not sure it’ll be dry by tomorrow.

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• Alamutjones@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I always forget that the seat of Bradfield exists.

  The Bradfields are my people. There has been at least one famous one

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• Salvo@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I wandered in to my poling place wearing a TShirt by a Band that is favoured by the Progressive Political People.

  The drone handing out A3-sized Greens How-To-Vote broadsheets offered me one and I said “no thankyou”. He aggressively replied “Typical!” to his contracted colleagues.

  One of them then thrust the so-big-it-was-impossible to read Labor HTV card at me, “what about one of these ones”.

  I decided to jump on my anti-HTV soapbox and let them all have it with both barrels, including describing them as a “Corruption of Our democracy”.

  The next 5 voters who queued also declined HTV cards.

  When the Environmentalist party is littering the suburbs with non-recyclable single-use plastic corflutes, fastened to signs with single-use plastic cable-ties and then wasting paper like this, you really have to wonder about their commitment to the Environment.

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  • Pilk@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Corflutes and HTVs are used widely by all parties, not just the Greens. But the Greens are the target of your critique because someone allegedly hurt your feelings? (Both materials are 100% recyclable, by the way.)

    I’m more concerned about the dozens of new coal and gas project approvals under Labor. Billions of tonnes of pollution is a bit more impactful that a few thousand printed pamphlets and signs, that everyone else is doing anyway.

    Guarantee your outburst was completely pointless and quickly forgotten.

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    • Salvo@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      My feelings are not hurt, my tolerance for hypocrisy is what being tested.

      Don’t get me wrong, the Greens are currently the only way out of the Fossil-Fuel-Funded Two Party system we are currently in, but do they really need to do the exact opposite of what they are campaigning for?

      Things that are 100% recyclable are not always (actually hardly ever) recycled at all, let alone to 100%. They should be using biodegradable, renewable materials, or even better, don’t publish them in the first place. The absence Greens Junk Mail would be a better message to send their constituents than continuing to status quo.

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  • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    How impressive of you.

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• RustyRaven@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  For some totally non-election related discussion: what is your preferred style of bed? I’m seeing a lot of fabric covered bed heads around, and I really don’t like that idea from a cleaning/hygiene perspective.

  I’m looking at a dark stained wood frame bed, a fairly minimal design with raised legs and no footboard. My current bed is nearly 30 years old, the options have changed considerably since then.

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  • TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Fabric headboards are a complete pain to keep clean, especially if you have pets. The amount of hair that accumulates is mindblowing, and I worry about fleas/bedbugs etc. as they’re impossible to wash or clean properly. I have a wrought iron decorative head & foot, with sturdy iron rails holding them apart and sturdy slats. Its quite tall - mid thigh when standing next to it, but the underbed space holds my two spare guest mattresses easily and more besides.

    Slats are a major point of failure in cheap beds, so if you get a Cpt Snooze or Fantastic Furniture bed, replace the slats with tongue & groove boards laid a little apart for ventilation. This also prevents cats from climbing up into the mattress from below and getting squashed by the coils (if any).

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  • Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Woodframe all the way. Fabric heads scream hotel to me, and I want the storage and ventilation of a non solid base. And no need for those hideous frilly things.

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  • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Am also a fan of minimalist wood frame. Latex mattress to seal the deal.

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  • dumblederp@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Generally whatever has been $50-$100 bucks on gumtree. Mostly some kind of wood number. Head, foot, rails and slats. Were I to buy something I’d be looking at included storage.

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    • RustyRaven@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Some years ago my dream would have been to have every cm of space under the bed usable for storage, possibly with a bookshelf headboard too. These days I’m trying to be more minimalist, plus I have more room in general, so I’m prioritising a more open design that lets my pets wander freely underneath.

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  • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I recently bought a bed from Quokka Beds. They are a little joint in Perth that premake beds out of wood. I got one out of Tassie oak. Really simple. Easy to put together and I am really happy with it.

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• StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I did the vote compass quiz thing, just to see where I land. Smack bang between Greens and ALP apparently lol.

  I saw there is a rep for a Libertarian party in my seat, so I went to their website to check their policies and this gave me a chuckle

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  Stop treating me like a CHILD! I want to RIDE HORSES and PROSPECT in Victoria’s National Parks! I’m an ADULT and I want THE GOLD RUSH AGAIN!

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