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Mar 22, 2018 10:02
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I grew up in the Huon when it was all working class depression and alcoholism and now its all mid-winter festivals and cider houses. The town I grew up in now has a sushi bar. The weird thing is though the locals themselves haven't changed a bit. Its derros in ug boots sipping sav blanc and eating fancy cuisine. Such amazing times we live in.
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Mar 22, 2018 10:10
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Wrageowrapper posted:I grew up in the Huon when it was all working class depression and alcoholism and now its all mid-winter festivals and cider houses. The town I grew up in now has a sushi bar. The weird thing is though the locals themselves haven't changed a bit. Its derros in ug boots sipping sav blanc and eating fancy cuisine. Such amazing times we live in. yes! it is so weird to me that it's become such a desirable location. I lived in Huonville in the 90s and it was definitely not mid-winter festivals and cider houses. There was, however, a chicken feed within walking distance.
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Mar 22, 2018 10:15
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Our family left Huonville when I was a toddler because they didn't want us growing up there.
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Mar 22, 2018 10:22
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let's just say, when my parents tried to rent our house out after we moved to qld, the youngest kid of our neighbour (who would have been like 7-10, I forget which year it happened) threatened to rape the pregnant lady that moved in.
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Mar 22, 2018 10:28
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The Before Times posted:yes! it is so weird to me that it's become such a desirable location. I lived in Huonville in the 90s and it was definitely not mid-winter festivals and cider houses. There was, however, a chicken feed within walking distance. I remember when chicken feed was an awesome liquidation store full of cool cheap poo poo. Then it turned into a lovely cheap import store. And then one day they all vanished. The Tasmanian dream folks.
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Mar 22, 2018 10:30
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Huoff
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Mar 22, 2018 10:35
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All the cool kids called it Hoonville
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Mar 22, 2018 10:36
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https://twitter.com/Rob_Stott/status/976628097410740224 Holy poo poo his wife looks like him. E: oh it's his sister lol I would blow Dane Cook fucked around with this message at 10:49 on Mar 22, 2018 |
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Mar 22, 2018 10:46
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The Before Times posted:I lived in the huon before it was cool Do you still pine for it?
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Mar 22, 2018 11:04
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You Am I posted:Do you still pine for it? You die for that.
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Mar 22, 2018 11:06
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Annoyingly they are not even a pine but a conifer.
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Mar 22, 2018 11:11
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Wrageowrapper posted:Annoyingly they are not even a pine but a conifer. That's amazingly pedantic yet very informative. I'm torn.
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Mar 22, 2018 11:15
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I've thought about it and I can see some good in a small fee per parcel. Cheap Chinese goods are allowed to come into the country for next to nothing and local retailers can't hope to compete because they actually have to pay for shipping. It's ridiculous that local mail carriers have to eat the cost of that shipping as well. There are obvious problems with collecting the revenue, and I'm aware this will affect other nations mail as well, and I don't trust this government not to gently caress it up, and it may run afoul of international mailing agreements. But I don't have an issue with forcing businesses that have gotten a free ride for the last decade to actually pay for the services they use.
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Mar 22, 2018 11:19
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hiddenmovement posted:I've thought about it and I can see some good in a small fee per parcel. Cheap Chinese goods are allowed to come into the country for next to nothing and local retailers can't hope to compete because they actually have to pay for shipping. It's ridiculous that local mail carriers have to eat the cost of that shipping as well. I think I heard Jon Faine say the proposal was only going to be applied to online vendors that have over $75,000 in imports
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Mar 22, 2018 11:26
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Maybe we can all start ordering from Australian retailers instead of from overseahahahahhaahhaha
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Mar 22, 2018 11:29
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hiddenmovement posted:I've thought about it and I can see some good in a small fee per parcel. Cheap Chinese goods are allowed to come into the country for next to nothing and local retailers can't hope to compete because they actually have to pay for shipping. It's ridiculous that local mail carriers have to eat the cost of that shipping as well. Yeah, a bunch of my friends are into that stupid Wish app and a lot of the time it's cheap junk that'll be tossed shortly after arrival. Sorry, but I don't see any intrinsic value in Australia having more low-value tat.
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Mar 22, 2018 11:50
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hiddenmovement posted:I've thought about it and I can see some good in a small fee per parcel. Cheap Chinese goods are allowed to come into the country for next to nothing and local retailers can't hope to compete because they actually have to pay for shipping. It's ridiculous that local mail carriers have to eat the cost of that shipping as well. I loving don't see the value in it, as a major part of my hobby requires me to buy items from overseas since the Australian distributors suck loving arse.
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Mar 22, 2018 11:53
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It's so BorderForce and it's ReichFurher can get their own budget without having to go the Finance Minster. He's got his own private army, now to get his own moneypot to set up a state within a state.
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Mar 22, 2018 12:09
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Even ignoring the cost-price issue with Australian retailers there is practicalities of stock and line management. It will get worse rather than better because globalisation is creeping further and deeper every day because of the internet, and riding sidecar is review culture/reviews as content and human nature to have "the best". Beauty V/Bloggers are a really good microcosm. One person reviews a (probably) local product, turns into purchases by their audience which typically includes other v/bloggers, which leads to more reviews and wider audiences, and then the cascading ripples of it turning up in product comparisons or shop the look or daily routine videos or the 10 best creams for XYZ. Consumers gonna consume and if they get it into their heads they have to have X product because it's perfect for their Y that's what they'll do. By the time local vendors have the opportunity to recognise and cater to that market people have already found ways to buy it through overseas vendors and peer networks - though in truth reatilers don't bother unless it's a real money-printer, they just stock the brands they stock and maybe if you're lucky one of those "locally stocked" brands does their own take on the product that started the ripple. Besides which, by the time they build the import relationships and get their palate of stock another Holy Grail Trail has begun on another product. I think it could actually be the fragile beginnings of the anti-mass market movement, but I'm not sure whether people are ready to start turning over retailer's shelving in protest of the one product line suits most model. I do think it's impossible to put online ordering back in the box now it's out, there's just no real way for a single or even national market to accommodate every product ever made at your fingertips.
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Mar 22, 2018 12:12
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Honestly, I'm not going to shed any tears for the Australian retailers. During the 80s and 90s, they gouged customers for whatever they could because there was no alternative. It really was the boom time for retail and they expanded like crazy thinking that the cash cow would last forever. Even with a $7 tax/fee for packages, in the majority of cases it's still cheaper and the range is far better than what's on offer in bricks and mortar retail. In addition, the major retailers in Australia have been very slow to adapt to online shopping and, honestly, their online shopping is just simply poo poo.
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Mar 22, 2018 12:24
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Myer won't exist in like 5 years.
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Mar 22, 2018 12:48
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Kmart is the own zone though. That place just keeps getting better.
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Mar 22, 2018 12:55
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Anidav posted:Myer won't exist in like 0.5 years.
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Mar 22, 2018 12:58
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What the gently caress
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Mar 22, 2018 13:01
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CrazyTolradi posted:Honestly, I'm not going to shed any tears for the Australian retailers. During the 80s and 90s, they gouged customers for whatever they could because there was no alternative. It really was the boom time for retail and they expanded like crazy thinking that the cash cow would last forever. Yeah paying $7 or even $20 frankly wouldn't make me blink when I want to order stuff online. Still crazy cheaper than buying retail anything. When you can order stuff overseas, get it shipped air priority and still save significant cash from walking to a store then their business model is terminal. I also blame the national distributors gouging everyone.
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Mar 22, 2018 13:12
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Don Dongington posted:Kmart is the own zone though. Just try not to think about what labour costs they're paying to keep poo poo so cheap
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Mar 22, 2018 13:17
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DancingShade posted:Yeah paying $7 or even $20 frankly wouldn't make me blink when I want to order stuff online. Still crazy cheaper than buying retail anything. It's not going to affect the big ticket things (like getting my current new phone for at least a hundred cheaper) but it's sure going to put a dent in my purchases of $0.50 crap from Aliexpress.
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Mar 22, 2018 13:22
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MysticalMachineGun posted:Just try not to think about what labour costs they're paying to keep poo poo so cheap Look if you don't pay the bottom of the chain workers fifteen cents an hour then how is that exec going to afford to expand their investment portfolio and exotic car collection? Have some heart people.
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Mar 22, 2018 13:23
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I hope the $7 goes on digital transactions just so I can watch the meltdown.
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Mar 22, 2018 13:28
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Transactions not so micro any more.
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Mar 22, 2018 13:59
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Border Force begins scanning all digital downloads for foreign spyware.
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Mar 22, 2018 14:52
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The Before Times posted:I lived in the huon before it was cool I am in the process of buying a 40 acre plot right outside Huonville. Such a gorgeous area.
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Mar 22, 2018 15:05
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MysticalMachineGun posted:Just try not to think about what labour costs they're paying to keep poo poo so cheap Compared to the poo poo on AliExpress and also pretty much anything available from online retailers, I think I'll take my chances. There is no ethical consumption: just $7 golden elephant doorstops; $9 frying pans and $15 board shorts for the 2 days a year you suffer the sun enough to go swimming.
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Mar 22, 2018 15:37
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Inescapable Duck posted:Transactions not so micro any more. $7 surcharge on candy crush and Game of War and Mobile Strike micros
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Mar 22, 2018 15:39
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ogj5ztTE0zw
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Mar 22, 2018 15:43
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For every small package sent from China, they must accept 0.5kg of our recycling
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Mar 22, 2018 22:20
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Donald Trump is going to start a trade war
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Mar 22, 2018 22:42
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Anidav posted:Donald Trump is going to start a trade war In the gay bar gay bar gay bar
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Mar 22, 2018 22:48
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Anidav posted:Donald Trump is going to start a trade war Yeah he just did it. We need to hitch onto CHINA.
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