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Maximum Sexy Pigeon posted:gently caress, 3 dead. Treated as murder. Old guy who jumped from the building probably won't survive and there's still at least one unaccounted for. Even if the owner doesn't live here, surely they've heard by now. They've got some 'splaining to do, for sure.
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Speaking of burgers, this week's Burger Scholar Sessions is on how to make a Burger with The Lot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzlB7V23CNY
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Laserface posted:reading about the place in the articles and some FB posts it seems that it was dodgy as gently caress and poorly maintained with one room not having enough space to easily open the door because a bed was blocking it. Yeah, plenty of those places around the area. Stuff a bunch of lonely pensioners in a bunch of tiny bedsits, take in the rent, and never spend a cent.
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Maximum Sexy Pigeon posted:Yeah, plenty of those places around the area. Stuff a bunch of lonely pensioners in a bunch of tiny bedsits, take in the rent, and never spend a cent. Councils are complicit. They know these places are breaking all regulations but never inspect them and throw the book at the owners. I wonder if any developers had approached the owner lately.
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Laserface posted:https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...315-p5a4nm.html “It was a disaster waiting to happen. The outside is not too bad, but the inside is not too good.”
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Lolie posted:Councils are complicit. They know these places are breaking all regulations but never inspect them and throw the book at the owners. I doubt it, they go for big blocks atm the make massive footprint apartment blocks on, not pissy shoebox lots that cost a fortune that you have to buy out from under 10 or so different owners. It's too dense in that area for mass development, it's the business and commercial buildings they're snapping up in the area, like all the old warehouses in Camperdown that are now apartments and offices.
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Lolie posted:Our food standards and those of NZ are some of the highest in the world. America has just the worst food safety standards. For instance, their allowable levels of things like rat faeces, insect "filth" and chemical contamination is just huge. The FDA Food Defect Levels Hankbook "allows for up to 13 “fragments” of rodent excreta in a 24-ounce (700ml) container."* In the rest of the developed world, it's zero. * a medium sized soft drink bottle is 600ml. Call me crazy, but if I found _12_ bits of rat poo poo in my Coke, I would not react well to being told it was legal.
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well why not posted:I think when Subway hits, it his harder & when it misses it's absolutely beyond disgusting. KFC is always at least KFCish. Subway can go higher and lower because there's more factors. I'm kinda lucky in that every KFC near me is owned by the one franchisee and they are all loving terrible. Soggy unsalted chips and limp greasy chicken. Is there any greater crime than a fast food place that's too goddamn cheap to even salt their chip? That sort of corner-cutting bullshit tells you everything you need to know, right there. All the Subways are also owned by one family* but they're all incredibly clean and the food is great. Which is great incentive to eat healthier. * different family, natch. Big extended Indian family and just the nicest friendliest bunch. Sure as hell better than some faceless rich guy too cheap to even put salt on his loving chips. Megillah Gorilla fucked around with this message at 07:20 on Mar 15, 2022 |
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Just got my PCR test result. A quick turnaround time, even though I don't need it now.
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Strained my bloody calf out running Not sure how bad it's going to turn out but I use running to help manage the depression so down time really blows. Good thing I found some weights in someone's hard rubbish the other day, might give me something to do.
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Lolie posted:I do this all the time. I don't like their chips so when we order their meals I sub the chips for P&G and coleslaw.
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Lolie posted:Councils are complicit. They know these places are breaking all regulations but never inspect them and throw the book at the owners. I wouldn't be surprised if there were also an element of councils deciding maybe targeting landlords preying on the vulnerable is effectively the same as targeting the vulnerable, because... well, when these places get closed down, where are those residents going to go? Note that I am not defending these places or these landlords, nor am I defending the councils. It's more I want there to be more acknowledgement that desperate people do desperate things (such as trading off between affordable, sheltered and safe), predators like the monster(s) who owner this place cheerfully exploit that, and councils are often dragged into the middle of the situation only once they've spun well and truly out of control and/or people have died/been injured as a result. It's very easy for us to wax lyrical about how awful this situation is, but it would be very hard for us to tell however many people crammed into the illegal flophouse that society is so darn concerned about their "safety" that they're going to be turfed onto the street. After all, who would really believe that they would be safer sleeping in a park in the rain, at a shelter run by religious nutters, or couch surfing, than they are living in the place they could afford? Everything is terrible. Ugh. Those poor people. froglet fucked around with this message at 16:29 on Mar 15, 2022 |
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they got a suspect, supposedly a tenant https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-16/newtown-fire-police-investigate-suspicious-blaze/100912718 The article also suggests that someone was playing firebug with other houses in the area and that someone caught them trying to set their fence on fire - its not clear if this is the suspect or not, though.
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Lawnmower guy is here and the grass is super long and soaking wet. Sigh.
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What was the culture shock like when you moved to Australia?
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One of the magpies in my back yard caught a frog. I've never seen frogs in my yard before.
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Lolie posted:One of the magpies in my back yard caught a frog. I've never seen frogs in my yard before. This could be the magpie saying "Hello!", or "You're loving next"
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Lolie posted:One of the magpies in my back yard caught a frog. I've never seen frogs in my yard before. with this much rain, everyone should have a frog or two in their yard.
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Laserface posted:with this much rain, everyone should have a frog or two in their yard. Poor frog. Escaped the lawn mower only to get eaten by a magpie.
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Lolie posted:Poor frog. Escaped the lawn mower only to get eaten by a magpie. that frog was no angel
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Red Rooster have started pouring spicy, kind of sweet oil over their fried chicken as an option. It's uh, pretty fucken great. Hot and Spicy 3-piece box with the fried pineapple is just a hell of a thing. A messy affair.
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OOo they have something like that at Chicken V. I love it, it's like some kind of oily, spicy honey. I really like their chips there too.
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:What was the culture shock like when you moved to Australia? The lack of any black or brown people was pretty startling. I came from living in a predominantly black area in the states to North Brizzy.
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That's Nashville hot chicken style by the sounds gently caress, I am gonna annihilate some off diet. Craving it bad as well as dosa.
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Poohs Packin posted:The lack of any black or brown people was pretty startling. I came from living in a predominantly black area in the states to North Brizzy. Strangely I had the same reaction moving from Brisbane to Canberra. Canberra is on a whole other level when it comes to (lack of) diversity.
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Imma ask around and find out who Arsonist was. I have two suspicions. No, 3.
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masterpine posted:Red Rooster have started pouring spicy, kind of sweet oil over their fried chicken as an option. It's uh, pretty fucken great. Hot and Spicy 3-piece box with the fried pineapple is just a hell of a thing. A messy affair. its grouse, OP
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Actually, four, but I haven't seen him around for some time now.
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Maximum Sexy Pigeon posted:Actually, four, but I haven't seen him around for some time now. they published the name of the accused in the article this morning.
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Laserface posted:they published the name of the accused in the article this morning. Whoa, never saw that. He's kinda familiar... Still certain one of the old fellas out front in one of the pics from the fire is a regular at Kelly's.
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It's kind of funny the things that are coming out about Ben Roberts-Smith during the trial Dudes a goddamn nutter
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SuddenCactus posted:It's kind of funny the things that are coming out about Ben Roberts-Smith during the trial Makes me think about how about a decade ago Yumi Stynes made some joke on TV about Ben trying to look for his brain down in the bottom of a swimming pool and the media and general public tore her to shreds over it. Hard to imagine that old mate who literally shoots people for work got so butthurt about it, I wonder how he's feeling about all this other stuff coming out about him
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bee posted:Makes me think about how about a decade ago Yumi Stynes made some joke on TV about Ben trying to look for his brain down in the bottom of a swimming pool and the media and general public tore her to shreds over it. Hard to imagine that old mate who literally shoots people for work got so butthurt about it, I wonder how he's feeling about all this other stuff coming out about him Didn't she make some joke about him having a small dick or something? Like it was clear she was joking and people still got all worked up about it cos he has a vc
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The best thing about the Ben Roberts-Smith stuff is that most of this stuff would never have come out if HE didn't bring the lawsuit against the age himself.. Turns out a reputed media agency did it's research and had evidence for it's claims, but not only that, people were lining up to give evidence against him and document his war crimes.
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It's been such a poo poo show I keep forgetting Ben Roberts-Smith isn't the one on trial. He's just bringing this all on himself willingly. It's bizarre.
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SuddenCactus posted:It's kind of funny the things that are coming out about Ben Roberts-Smith during the trial Streisand Effect in full swing basically. Like sure maybe one or two of the stories may have been embelished, but just day after day of "And what did Mr Roberts-Smith say before he punched on?" "  "
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BrigadierSensible posted:The best thing about the Ben Roberts-Smith stuff is that most of this stuff would never have come out if HE didn't bring the lawsuit against the age himself.. My favourite part so far is definitely BRS hiring a private eye to low-key threaten people, and then turning around and threatening the PI to keep his mouth shut. Or maybe him burying and then digging up mycrimes.usb as soon as the war crimes investigation started. He's just the world's worst criminal mastermind. (In my opinion only, please don't sue me BRS your reputation can't take anymore.) Ed: the real criminals here are the investigators from the honours part of Defence, did they actually check with anyone before they slapped a VC on this guy?
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Poohs Packin posted:The lack of any black or brown people was pretty startling. I came from living in a predominantly black area in the states to North Brizzy. echoing above I also had the reverse sensation when I left Australia for the first time and landed in London It's obviously not the most non-white place in the world, but it felt like something out of a movie to be around so many black people. It wasn't a bad experience just a striking one because it threw the cultural hegemony of Adelaide into sharp relief as a young adult please don't cancel me for this masterpine posted:Red Rooster have started pouring spicy, kind of sweet oil over their fried chicken as an option. It's uh, pretty fucken great. Hot and Spicy 3-piece box with the fried pineapple is just a hell of a thing. A messy affair. gently caress me I gotta get some Red Rooster
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