At my second inspection. Crusty old dude rocks up and talks only to me and asks if I’m viewing the apartment, then asks if I’m single and gives me this creepy grin and says he’d prefer a single to move into the apartment. Oh and of course he’s the owner. Shakes my hand and encourages me to apply. Completely ignores the other attendees (male).
I might’ve seriously considered this apartment despite the very dated kitchen and bathroom and no fly screens, it’s pricey but in a very quiet green location and has a sunlit balcony… But after the above interaction I am definitely not applying wtf
E: I am meant to be cleaning the house but our purritude has other ideas. Purrhaps she has sensed my overall distress. I’ll miss this lil sweetie when she leaves on Monday
little nugget on my lap
Yiiiiikes
Good call, don’t get that one.
Ewww! Even with the positives it’s not worth dealing with that. Plus, if he’s really dodgy you don’t know what he might do
Yeah he seems like the kind of guy who lives nearby and might get… too involved in a bad way. He told the REA to send him a report of all the applicants immediately for his review, within earshot of us all. I can’t think of any reason why a LL would prefer a single tenant over a couple except that a single person is easier to bully/manipulate. I think I’m going with my gut on this one
Yep. More than that he might have keys and could randomly let himself in when you’re not home, place hidden cameras, invite himself over when you are there and push boundaries…
He dived to try and create a situation where he could have a massive power differential with/access to a single woman. Which is not a safe situation.
And being a single isolated person does make you easier to bully/manipulate.
He seems like a massive creep and a danger
Letting himself in when you are not home is probably a best case scenario. When I used to work at Legal Aid they had a case where they were doing an urgent Intervention Order for a woman who had woken up in the middle of the night to find the landlord and his son in the bedroom.
Yeah. It seems fucked up and extreme that women have to consider these possibilities but yeah.
Whether this guy “only” planned to become overfamiliar and harass a lone female tenant or he planned to push the boundaries in another way, this guy very obviously didn’t have good intentions.
Kind of stressed out for any woman who can’t find somewhere else before her lease ends or if he learns to be less obviously creepy upfront
I find it odd the LL is at the inspection if he has a REA managing the property? And the whole interaction, yikes. The LL will probably have keys. Stay the hell away!
Yeah it smacked of over-involvement. No thanks! Luckily I’m not being made to vacate so I don’t have as much pressure, I’ll keep looking.
That’s sooo fucking creepy!! What the hell1!
There’s something about the eyes of Soxcats that always stand out.
Don’t know if it’s the colour and the shape but Soxcat always looks so serious.
Warning signs all over the place with that one.
Avoid!
Sucks because I really might’ve seriously considered it for the quietness and the cleanliness. Light filled and still convenient for work. I was sat in the park wondering if I stuck on my own fly screens and everything else worked okay, could I still stick it out since there’s a REA intermediary… Esp as this is probably one of the few times I have an advantage (??) as a single renter. But it’s for entirely the wrong reasons
Yeah. That’s not the sort of advantage you’d want for sure, it’s creepy and puts you in danger I’d say as well.
Run from that holy shit.
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Distributing Mushroom compost today which calls for an early satdee rave choon
All done. Here’s the world’s loneliest tomato plant:
Does a tomato need that much room?
It’s a little shy so thought I’d introduce it slowly before the friends arrive. It’s also a guinea pig in case I fucked the soil mix but I didn’t tell it that.
edit: fuck I missed that pun
How did you miss that quality opportunity to make a mushroom compost pun. For shame
My pun game is so off atm :( there is mushroom for improvement.
Good work man!
Looking good. I’ve started weeding my raised beds which got a bit overgrown over winter and found a few volunteer tomato seedlings have already made a start for me.
Checkout the florida weave trellis technique if you’re growing a row of tomato plants.
I put on the first Paddington movie for the boys the other day because I heard it was good when it came out, and it is quite good.
It’s silly and over the top in all the right ways, with a villain that’s just evil with clear motivations. It felt like a 90s movie made with today’s technology.
Also turns out the director worked on Darkplace and directed all the Mighty Boosh episodes so of course it was going to be good
Yeah for real, they’re solid flicks for all tastes and ages.
I put on the first Paddington movie for the boys the other day because I heard it was good when it came out, and it is quite good.
It’s silly and over the top in all the right ways, with a villain that’s just evil with clear motivations. It felt like a 90s movie made with today’s technology.
Also turns out the director worked on Darkplace and directed all the Mighty Boosh episodes so of course it was going to be good
Of thank F…!
Commbank finally reversed the duplicate transaction that put my account into the negative by a large margin.
Spent the whole day stressing about it. I hope that’s the end of the ordeal and nothing else happens.
Might actually think about getting a 2nd bank account somewhere else just as a backup sometime.
Now I finally concentrate on doing other things other than worrying about things.
This happened to someone I know today as well! Apparently something happened with their system.
They did maintenance last night and when it came back live it started duplicating transactions I made on Thursday, which happened to be when I had some payments to make.
It really sucked and just shows if something like that happens the bank won’t be there to cover you.
Fantastisch to hear!!
Excellent news!!!
That’s a relief for you!
I have accounts with a couple of banks for that reason. I’ve considered starting an additional one too, but I’m not sure if that’s overkill.
Yeah so it doesn’t leave me in a bind like this even though it’s exceptionally rare.
Anyway I’m going to destress tonight if I can. I’ve wasted basically all day monitoring it all.
Just don’t open an account with westpac 🤣 They had issues all week
o/
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Unsure if this going to edit my previous reply, or make a new comment. Does anyone else use connect app on Android? Whenever I try to make a new comment it ‘restores from draft’ and prefills the comment block with my last comment.
I’d recommend Jerboa. Super easy to use and has never crashed.
I use Jerboa too. Every now and then it takes too long to load and times me out, and I can see stuff but not do anything until I assume the mods tick a box.
Woke up in a massive panic this morning to an overdrawn back account message.
Panicked like hell to try and work out what happened.
Commbank have really stuffed up and duplicated transactions and now has left me overdrawn and unable to get anything today.
They better fix this up. The duplicated transaction was the biggest thing I had to pay, why couldn’t it have been an 8 dollar transaction?
It looks like it’s affecting heapssss of people. What a major fuck up. So many weekends ruined and much more than that. Wow
Yeah this is looking like a major issue. Who the fuck rolls out a system update on a Friday night/Sat morning
Has it been fixed yet?
It has not been fixed and now the banking app is down as well.
I feel like I’ve wasted an entire day staring at something I have no power to influence.
Following up. It now has been fixed for me. Finally!
👌👌👌
Mind you it stuffed up my day pretty badly.
Time to ditch commbank if they screwed you then left you hanging.
Ah fuck, that sucks the worst when it happens on a weekend! I hope they can fix it up asap. I once had a monthly rent payment duplicated when the REA payment systems changed and that damn near gave me a heart attack
Yeah. I’m hoping it gets fixed soon. This isn’t helping my stress at all.
Really need it fixed as soon as possible.
Sent you a message. Check your DMs
Oh man that really sucks I’m sorry. Have you got them on the phone yet?
I tried but was stuck on hold for awhile.
Was browsing online and they’ve acknowledged the problem but still doesn’t help me since I have payments coming out tomorrow and on top of that I can’t go out and do anything today.
Yeh fair. I just logged in to check mine and there was a pop up about it. Hopefully because it’s a widespread issue they’ll fix it in a few hours or something
Figured I’d make a new comment for visibility - for anyone trying to comment/make a post from lemmy.world instance - it isn’t visible to anyone on Aussie.zone for 7 days (if it even syncs at all) There was a post explaining it months ago, seems like it still isn’t fixed. https://feddit.org/post/3524876
Is this is regards to Seagoon?
I’m not sure how her sign in was done and which instance it was originally linked to.
I actually thought she forgot her password again.
I saw some posts by her mentioning she was invisible, I could see them on my lemmy.world account because her new account was also on world
FYI https://feddit.org/post/3524876
There was another post originally explaining it, but this one seems to have some info
She has now signed up through aussie.zone so just waiting for approval.
Ah ok. Now it’s all up to Nath!
Tommy Cat is 10 today. He has had prawns for tea and is now basking in the sun, pretty well satisfied with life.
Happy Birthday Tommy!
💜😍
Please tell Tommy he is the loveliest floof and give him a scritch from us
Hippo birdies Tommy 🦐🍤
Fluffy baby!!!
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Happy birthday, beautiful boy!!! What a stunner!!
The new Preston Bunnings sucks. Such a pain to get in and out of. I guess at least it encourages me to go to other hardware stores.
DC coffee and the Italian supermarket next to it had to leave so that place could be built, it’s good to know there are more reasons to hate it
Breaking news - Rossmoyne Street in Thornbury is having a collective garage sale tomorrow at 10 am to 3 pm - lots of people are all coming together to put excess stoff out for sale. Just got told. See you there.
Most underrated band of the 80s and 90s…I’ll start
REM
Challengers are welcome
I’m going to go with Roxette.
One of my favourites.
My first concert was Roxette. My big brother took me!
To me they’re more 80s but still awesome.
RIP Marie 😥
Rip. Went far too young 😭
I’ll bite and I’ll say Aerosmith.
Good candidate but they were big in the 70s and 80s
Not discounting their 90s influence though.
Liv Tyler and Alicia Silverstone…so many dead children lost to those videos
Cake.
The album is “Fashion Nugget”.
I saw them in concert (free tickets)
Didn’t appreciate them then, absolutely appreciate them now.
Strong candidate for 2nd
I love Cake. Unfortunately the drummer is a convicted pedo.
Oh noooooooo. That fucking sucks! What a giant piece of shit.
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Where Seagoon 😔
She’s having problems getting here. If someone knows what’s going on and can help that would be great
I think Orange1 is on another lemmy instance, so maybe something has gone wrong and it’s gone through the process to try and create a new account elsewhere.
Maybe try logging out and making sure to be signing in as Seagoon_ on the aussie-zone page?
Edit: maybe need to clear cookies in the browser too?
I have sent this to her.
Yep I made a new account on Aussie zone to reply to this. I was previously on lemmy world and there was a post months ago saying sync between world and Aussie instance could take 7 days (if it did at all) I think seagoon misunderstood when I was trying to explain. Early days it seemed to work fine, then I noticed no one replying and realised due to the post explaining the delay. I was too lazy to make a new account and just stopped commenting!
I was just lurking and seeing if anyone else got screwed over with the CommBank kerfuffle this morning and saw this. Figured I should try and help
I have no clue what happened or why she isn’t on her Aussie zone account anymore, but she made a new account on Lemmy.world called lady_seagoon (which I think she’s deleted now). Lemmy.world is currently suffering from ~7 day delays (i.e: nothing posted from a lemmy.world account will be visible here for a week or more). So nobody was replying to her posts or comments. This is because of the way Lemmy is built and Nath/lodion not wanting to invest the effort implement a fix, but that’s a separate discussion
She then tried to subscribe from this community from her Lemmy World account, but when you subscribe to a community on another instance (in this case an Aussie zone community from an LW account), it will sometimes show subscribe pending. Why it does that isn’t really important, but it’s not because of an approval system or anything like that. It’s just trying send that subscription confirmation if you will, over to AZ (which remember has a 7 day transit time before it arrives and processes)
She’s best off logging back into her main account, but I’m guessing she forgot her password and didn’t provide an email or something, in which case she can just choose a new username. Maybe “Seagoon__” or something, and all will be well. She’ll have to be approved by Nath or lodion (because new accounts on AZ require approval by an admin). She could make an account on another instance (that is NOT LW), but it’s really just easiest to make one on AZ.
To simplify what’s happening, since Aussie zone is based in Australia, and Lemmy World is in Finland, you could think of it as Lemmy World sending every comment in a letter via boat. It’s gonna take a while to arrive, a week in this case. Now we don’t have the same issues, so you could think of us as sending comments and things by plane. The net result is that from LW you can see what’s happening on Aussie zone in real time, but they can’t see your responses, upvotes, comments, posts, etc for a week.
(It’s caused by issues in Lemmy’s code, not actually because we have a faster connection or anything. It was requested that Nath or lodion implement a fix in the meantime, but they didn’t want to, so it’s going to be like this until that bug is remedied, hopefully soon)
Welcome back? I did edit my earlier comments with a post that explains in more detail - I think you also made a post a long time ago highlighting the issue.
I don’t know why she’s unable to use her original account. Maybe you could contact her through reddit to see if you could help.
I’ve had that exact issue when subscribing to new communities but obviously not the same in this case.
In is a known issue though
I don’t know how to help 😔
I’m assuming that’s Reddit ? There’s a r/Lemmy she can post in for help as well.
Also, the GitHub discussion boards
SEAGOOOOOOOON YOU ARE STUCK IN THE UPSIDE DOWN IF YOU CAN HEAR ME WE ARE COMING AND WE LOVE YOU
