Is there really no other pubs in Geelong showing Aus vs Egypt even after the liquor licence extension? I've found some in Torquay and Angelsea hosting events and opening early. The Sporting Globe has fully booked out so there's obviously interest but I can't seem to find any other pub opening up.
Not planning on opening one just to be clear, just trying to gauge an idea of other peoples thoughts.
Streaming services were good for a while but they are getting out of hand now. They have price increases every year and seem to have less and less content every day. And the content they do have jumps from app to app. Which makes you feel like you need to have several, and new ones keep getting released. Then they won't let you share with friends and family, add ads and tiered packages that all cost more, and add on sports packages. Then they put certain shows and TV shows behind paywalls anyway.
The entire thing is making me miss physical media more than ever. My partner and I borrow DVD's from the library but they don't have a huge range.
If a DVD/blu-ray rental store opened today would you use it? Or is the call of piracy too strong for those who also hate streaming?
Hi all,
I've been really wanting some comfy/slouchy corduroy pants recently. And I work with a woman who was wearing a pair that basically looked ideal and exactly what I wanted. I asked her the brand and when she told me I googled and they are basically only sold on Shein and other really crappy fast fashion sites.
I've never shopped on Shein or Temu and I usually try to avoid those sites.
For example these are the exact pants she was wearing: Shein Pants
I've seen some from a site called Halara that look similar but that looks equally as fast-fashiony and low quality.
Does anyone know of any actual good or ethical brands that make corduroy pants similar to the one in the Shein link? Any Australian made? Or not Aussie made but just better overall than Shein?
I have a feeling this issue has to do with the average age group of the suburb, as it certainly seems to be the older demographics that do it, but please stop dumping your old food all over the nature strip.
Things my partner and I have seen on nature strips while walking our dogs: Fish and chips, bread, full slices of pizza, cereal, spaghetti, random mystery meat etc. And that's just from the top of my head. I know there's a very old fashioned mentality of "feeding the birds" or that this is somehow more environmentally friendly but it isn't. Literally all of that food is awful for all of our native wildlife species.
I used to work in wildlife rescue and rehab, and am still close with some friends who operate shelters and the amount of sick birds that come in is crazy. Especially magpies. And their main issue is that they have metabolic bone disease which is a deficiency from eating a poor diet. Bread products especially are killing our native birds. The only animals this may be benefiting are introduced rat and mice species which most people don't want to attract to their houses.
Not only that but it's ugly. It looks so trashy to walk around a neighbourhood and see the front yards covered in literal garbage.
And for us dog walkers it's a nightmare to try balance letting our dog have a sniff around while walking but also trying to stop them from eating stuff that could be bad for them. One of my senior dogs has health issues and is on a restricted diet and we've had to wrestle the most random shit out of her mouth on walks.
Please just tell your parents or grandparents or whatever to stop.
I read all the Redwall books as a kid/teen but back then I borrowed them from the school library. I'm now in my mid 30's and thought I would love to have a full physical collection of the books but I'm having a really hard time finding them.
For years now I check every bookstore I go in but I've never seen a single one stocked. And when I look at online sellers I see a really mixed bag. Some sites may have one or two books. Or they may have more but each one has a different cover. Some may be $13 while another is almost $60 for a paperback.
I've tried to google it but I'm getting mixed results as to whether the books are still being published or not. I would love to have a complete series all with consistent covers from the same release but that seems impossible now.
Is anyone else having this problem? I wish they would re-release them with new or classic cover art.
I find it kind of funny that Redwall-like things are so popular now. Think MTG Bloomburrow, the tabletop game Everdell, the new video game Hawthorn etc. The people crave Redwall but it's so hard to buy original Redwall. What's it like in other countries?
Unfortunately this story seems to be an exclusive to The Age, which I know a lot of people can't access so here's an excerpt:
The largest data centre ever publicly proposed in Australia is being quietly mapped out for Melbourne’s outer west, with the 350-hectare mega-hub so big it will need its own gas turbines to avoid tripping the power grid.
Dubbed the “Victorian AI Hub”, the precinct aims to attract global tech giants with a planned 2.4-gigawatt capacity, representing a maximum power demand that exceeds the total output of Loy Yang A, the state’s largest remaining coal plant.
At 350 hectares, the project would cover the equivalent of 175 MCG playing fields.
Its developer Syncline Energy says the hub in Plumpton – 30 kilometres north-west of Melbourne’s CBD – will enable Victoria to capitalise on the AI boom, and be a job creation centre for the northern and western suburbs.
I know this is Geelong but those Western Melbourne suburbs aren't that far away and if this goes ahead it will affect us as well. This is a drought-stricken country. This whole state and area has been in and out of drought for as long as I've been alive. I remember when we were told to have 3 minute showers and you could be fined for watering your garden, and now this!
These data centres are absolutely catastrophic for the environment and usually anyone living near them. Also, "job creation centre" is bullshit. Just look anywhere else in the world where these monstrosities already exist. Yes it creatres jobs while being built. But once built it only takes somewhere between 20-30 people to run.
"Proposed data centres in Melbourne's west are estimated to use nearly 20 gigalitres (almost 20 billion litres) of drinking water collectively each year. This is equivalent to the annual water consumption of 330,000 residents."
That number is from the ABC. 20 billion litres of water used to cool data centres in a drought prone area makes absolutely no sense. You just need to look the the US to see whats happening to the small towns there. Residents are posting videos of their taps running dry or brown murky and unsafe water coming through their pipes ever since data centres opened up. All because the water is being diverted away from residents to the centres. It's absolutely ridiculous that they are even considering building one here. All so that people can continue to lose the ability to bloody think for themselves thanks to generative AI.
But yeah keep using ChatGPT to generate ugly ass business logos that are proven to drive people away from your services. It will all be worth it when we have no clean water to drink.
Hi all,
I work at a primary school in a non-teaching role. And I also work at a TAFE in a different role.
I've been noticing more and more, especially in the primary school that it's never just a teacher anymore. There will be a teacher, and at least one or more ES or SEA staff members. I've had a class with about 15 students have 4 adult members supervising the class.
I almost can't remember the last time I saw just a teacher and their class with no other staff members. Is this unique to my school or is this very common? I grew up in Australia in the 90s and early 2000's and I can't remember almost anytime at all that we had extra staff other than the teacher in our classroom with us.
I own dogs and have worked with animals both domestic and wildlife. And one thing I've noticed is that medication is always VERY reliant on body weight. You have to get a precise body weight of every animal before giving them any medication, even just a mild one. But that doesn't seem to be the same for people.
I know your weight is taken into account for really serious things like anesthetic or something like that, but in every day medications like pain medication it isn't. For example, a common pain medication here is paracetamol (different name in some countries). And the box just says adults take two 500mg pills. That's it.
My GF weighs around 57kg and I'm close to 100kg. Not quite double but it's a big difference, and yet for almost all medications we are told to take the exact same dose as long as we fall into the "adult" category. If two dogs had such a huge difference in body weight their pain medication would be very different. How does this not seem to effect people so much?