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Discussion Thread 🌷 Wednesday 17 December 2025
Submitted 16 hours ago by YarraByte@aussie.zone to melbourne@aussie.zone
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Seagoon_@aussie.zone 34 minutes ago
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 59 minutes ago
Back from shopping, got everything on my list. Daiso have all kinds of cleaning wipes big enough to use on my floor wipe mop. Makes it easy 😀👍
And had my once yearly Honey Chicken with fried rice lunch from the mall food court. It’s nice once a year.
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 1 hour ago
There is a bit of spider web waving around in my garage and the camera thinks it is a person and keeps alerting me about it.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 6 hours ago
I went and filled up the strays water and accidentally woke them up.
That was incredibly adorable lol
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 5 hours ago
At this point they’re not strays anymore, they’re yours lol.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 4 hours ago
I’m too young for 9 cats lol
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 6 hours ago
😻
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 4 hours ago
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 12 minutes ago
Congrats to that guy on his new cat
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 5 hours ago
I brought in some bluetooth speakers and played christmas music at work yesterday, and people said it was boring. Now other people were playing music when I got in today. How about I play Slimelord’s debut album and see what they think? If you’re into sludge it’s really good and will retroactively be on your 2024 best of
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 5 hours ago
I woulda Whamageddoned everyone then played Mariah on repeat.
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 5 hours ago
We played Mariah once a few years back and one of my coworkers, who is normally quite placid, absolutely flipped his shit and threatened to walk out. It was amazing. Yes, he’s been teased about it since but still no one dares to put Mariah on again.
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 4 hours ago
I was trying to play ‘good’ christmas music but the all horn quartet of Ghengis Barbie seemed to be too relaxing. They came by the recommendation of David Byrne!
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 4 hours ago
I don’t know if anyone has had any particular problems with Logitech but I’ve been using this Rapoo mouse I got off Aliexpress for a while and I’d be quite willing to sell my soul and swap ecosystems. It’s not quite as good, but for a bit over $50 for a Master series replacement you really can’t complain.
Catfish@aussie.zone 6 hours ago
Dreamt of escaping a volcanic eruption with Gordon Ramsey on a flying ironing board. Wtf brain.
Also, have discovered mice in the backyard.
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 6 hours ago
My boss charter a helicopter to save me from people that were bombing the train I was on, but then made me write an apology letter to the Train Clansman of the region even though I did nothing wrong. I also had to hide in this (admittedly beautiful) grotto while I waited for their forgiveness. Fuckin’ brains.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 6 hours ago
That sounds cool 👍
I had a quasi nightmare. Dreamt I expelled a bad spirit from the house. an amorphous demon shaped spirit, I chased it out repeating, Leave, this is a house of good. And it did leave.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 8 hours ago
I got so much done yesterday. I can sit back today and watch the cricket, maybe with a beer or 2.
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 12 hours ago
east/west "divide" of Melbourne
Meetup event yesterday exposed the whole East/West divide amongst the locals in the group. I noticed that a lot of us stick to “our sides” of the Yarra and the CBD or just rarely venture across. e.g. there was a guy who lived in Surrey Hills and a guy who lived in Yarraville, and neither had heard of each other’s suburb. I found this so fascinating. Even inner suburbs people don’t really seem to venture much? Which makes sense because public transport can be inconvenient at times. I know we have people like Seagoon who have been the exception to this “rule”. I have to say though, the CBD makes it a bit inconvenient to get from one side to the other. Also Melbourne is quite big, with places like Pakenham and Sunbury being far out from the CBD but still being part of metro Melb. So a bunch of us are thinking of swapping sides and taking notes. We are starting in the west, with the west-siders wanting to take everyone to Yarraville as it’s one of the best suburbs in the west according to them. Admittedly, I have never been there, but I hear there is a cool theatre. Now to find the Yarraville equivalent not in the west. We are thinking of doing inner north as a buffer and then going to the east or south east.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 2 minutes ago
It’s some weird snobbery thing I guess. Like Melbourne vs Sydney which I also never saw the point of.
There are rough suburbs in the West which is where the reputation comes from but there are other perfectly fine suburbs. Fashionable inner city suburbs also have their own rough spots.
Getting around can be a pain because some areas are not walkable or have less good public transport, some areas of the city are divided by extremely annoying traffic sections, and the existing train lines are a hub arrangement that requires going into and then out of the city.
I hope there’s going to be some improvement because our population is set to grow even more with recent developments.
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 6 hours ago
I agree that people seem to mostly stick to their area - my boss rarely ventures outside of 5km from home. I’ve had a friend who wouldn’t cross the Yarra to see me, even when I lived in Southbank. Once I had a bunch of IRL PokemonGo friends while living in the South East and we’d all hang out, have dinners, visit each other, but as soon as I moved towards the city that stopped unless I went to visit them.
Now I live in a Southern suburb that no one’s heard of.
I have no issues with going to the other side of the city to go to a market or shop I want to visit. I grew up in Country Victoria so have no qualms driving an hour+ to get somewhere - I used to drive from my hometown to Shepperton because they had a Cold Rock and a JB Hi Fi before my town.
tone212_@aussie.zone 6 hours ago
The running joke in Melbourne is about crossing the Yarra (so a north / south divide), but east / west divide makes sense too. Crossing from west/north suburbs to east/south suburbs with PT or a car is a pain in the ass so that’s a huge barrier to travelling across all sides of metro Melbourne easily. The Metro Tunnel will change that somewhat from a PT standpoint.
I live in a middle/outer NW suburb so travelling to only things close to me isn’t really an option, most of my work and social activities take me to inner north / western suburbs and the CBD. Rarely do I travel to the east/south unless I visit a few friends that live in the Bayside area, or if I want to visit a bay beach. Anyway, I think it’s a great idea for your Meetup to cross over and experience places in Melbourne you haven’t visited. Yarraville / Seddon is a great pick for those from the east side.
StudChud@aussie.zone 8 hours ago
I grew up in the south east (think The Basin, Croydon, FTG, and Knoxfield areas), and have never been out west except for a few times. I’m pretty well versed with the suburbs though, having worked in call centres servicing Victorians, but there are still suburb names I hadn’t heard of before (Dallas for one, but that’s more north than west).
I have one friend that lives west, but other than that I don’t know anyone that side of town.
I think it comes down to size and travel time.
Size: Melbourne is really big. It’s urban sprawl is huge, there are new housing developments everday, new small suburbs being names and built up.
Travel: because of it’s size, it can take a while to get anywhere in Melbourne. Driving can take ages because of the roads and traffic, and PTV takes ages inherently. It takes me an hour and a half to get to Ringwood for Sunday lunch from Brunswick (train/tram into melb central, train out). Travelling across the city can be anywhere from 1 hour to 3 hours.
I think both of those factors, and others, are major contributors to many Melbournians not mingling often with areas outside of the immediate area of their homes/work.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 7 hours ago
The divide has been there in my whole memory. The prejudice is deep.
The idea is the West is a scary working class place that you don’t want to even visit.
Now swathes of it aren’t even working class, they are underclass with a poverty I have never seen in Melbourne before.
Yarraville/Seddon is nothing special, old factory town near Coode Island, badly polluted by heavy industry, with worker’s cottages that have been renovated. But it’s trendy with the young because it’s more affordable than the much nicer Williamstown.
Visit Williamstown for nice or Altona for non trendy nice working class.
bacon@aussie.zone 10 hours ago
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One cappuccino please, Mighty Chef! 🙏💜
bacon@aussie.zone 6 hours ago
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Seagoon_@aussie.zone 6 hours ago
Off to Daiso before the weather gets warm. 🙂
and I think I will buy all the kid’s presents from Miniso, that place was a hit last time with them.
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 5 hours ago
I love Miniso and am not so patiently waiting for the day their Mofusand collection comes to Melbourne. It’s currently in their Sydney flagship store and I have the compulsion to check every Miniso store I see just in case there’s something Mofusand in there.
Have fun with your shopping!!
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 16 minutes ago
spoiler
I was not able to take Melbcat out today. I genuinely don’t like being out there or feel safe in my yard. (Genuine and still relevant reason for not wanting to do it.) I try to tolerate it for my cats happiness. But this morning I just couldn’t face it. So she cried and banged on the door while I had an anxiety attack. FML.
Gonna see if I can salvage the rest of the day with unkaos but I am so tired.