Play Nice Random Chat Thread VII

[Makeshift Park]

PS If you haven't already, I encourage you to take some time to absorb this excellent feature the ABC made on what happened in 1978.

When Robyn saw the news camera flash, she knew this photo would come back to haunt her

What began one night in June, 1978, with a large crowd of partygoers ended in fear, arrests and brutal violence. This is an immersive 3D retelling of Australia's first Mardi Gras.

www.abc.net.au

 

[Themanbun]

Are any other Melbournians here totally and utterly sick of this city?

Feels like since we reopened after COVID the worst of everyone is coming out. Just this morning I had a lunatic follow me home and try to run me off the road because I dared obey the speed sign in a school zone (I set my cruise control at the exact limit in these situations so I don't get intimidated into speeding and risking a kid's life). It's a bit of a straw and the camel's back moment.

This is like the fifth or sixth incident in the last few months (hey maybe I'm the common denominator!) where someone has done something absurd either to me or another road user that I've witnessed all because they wanna go 20+kph over the limit, or can't be bothered waiting, or are too arrogant to allow people to zip merge. Feels like everyone is extra agro with the traffic and construction mayhem.

And that's just the tip of it. There's more people sleeping on the streets than I've ever seen, more people impatient, more people miserable and perpetually outraged, more people super highly strung, etc. The roads are unusable for six hours a day, public transport is packed and unreliable. Housing unaffordable. To me it feels like if you're not a pretentious rich w***er here, you're a dero and I'm meeting fewer and fewer people who fall into the normal, nice person spectrum.

Not sure if I'm just noticing it more or if it's actually on the increase but I'm genuinely feeling my mental health affected by this city.

 

[DesertRoo]

Are any other Melbournians here totally and utterly sick of this city?

Feels like since we reopened after COVID the worst of everyone is coming out. Just this morning I had a lunatic follow me home and try to run me off the road because I dared obey the speed sign in a school zone (I set my cruise control at the exact limit in these situations so I don't get intimidated into speeding and risking a kid's life). It's a bit of a straw and the camel's back moment.

This is like the fifth or sixth incident in the last few months (hey maybe I'm the common denominator!) where someone has done something absurd either to me or another road user that I've witnessed all because they wanna go 20+kph over the limit, or can't be bothered waiting, or are too arrogant to allow people to zip merge. Feels like everyone is extra agro with the traffic and construction mayhem.

And that's just the tip of it. There's more people sleeping on the streets than I've ever seen, more people impatient, more people miserable and perpetually outraged, more people super highly strung, etc. The roads are unusable for six hours a day, public transport is packed and unreliable. Housing unaffordable. To me it feels like if you're not a pretentious rich w***er here, you're a dero and I'm meeting fewer and fewer people who fall into the normal, nice person spectrum.

Not sure if I'm just noticing it more or if it's actually on the increase but I'm genuinely feeling my mental health affected by this city.

What did you expect to happen when you locked people down for almost two years?
We burnt through so many peoples dreams/lives/savings/businesses.
Destroyed families/relationships and disconnected people from social setting, for some this is the only thing they had.
And this was cheered on by the section of the community that could pick up a laptop and work from home.
I hear you, and it sucks

 

[DesertRoo]

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[Val Keating]

Are any other Melbournians here totally and utterly sick of this city?

Feels like since we reopened after COVID the worst of everyone is coming out. Just this morning I had a lunatic follow me home and try to run me off the road because I dared obey the speed sign in a school zone (I set my cruise control at the exact limit in these situations so I don't get intimidated into speeding and risking a kid's life). It's a bit of a straw and the camel's back moment.

This is like the fifth or sixth incident in the last few months (hey maybe I'm the common denominator!) where someone has done something absurd either to me or another road user that I've witnessed all because they wanna go 20+kph over the limit, or can't be bothered waiting, or are too arrogant to allow people to zip merge. Feels like everyone is extra agro with the traffic and construction mayhem.

And that's just the tip of it. There's more people sleeping on the streets than I've ever seen, more people impatient, more people miserable and perpetually outraged, more people super highly strung, etc. The roads are unusable for six hours a day, public transport is packed and unreliable. Housing unaffordable. To me it feels like if you're not a pretentious rich w***er here, you're a dero and I'm meeting fewer and fewer people who fall into the normal, nice person spectrum.

Not sure if I'm just noticing it more or if it's actually on the increase but I'm genuinely feeling my mental health affected by this city.

I love Melbourne, but we have grown too quick and don’t have the adequate infrastructure to accommodate the growth.

 

[Ligma]

People have just become ruder and have forgotten their manners.

 

[czero]

I just feel like Victoria has become a state of extremes.

Highest this, lowest that. Things are not in balance.

 

[Twinkletoes]

Insomnia is a bitch.

I’ll have that engraved on my headstone in quotation marks.

What did you expect to happen when you locked people down for almost two years?
We burnt through so many peoples dreams/lives/savings/businesses.
Destroyed families/relationships and disconnected people from social setting, for some this is the only thing they had.
And this was cheered on by the section of the community that could pick up a laptop and work from home.
I hear you, and it sucks

100% what I’m dealing with right now, fighting tooth and nail to stay afloat after a couple of years running a national business with interstate clients dropping like flies as borders remained shut. It’s been a year of scratching away trying to rebuild from a position where all positive momentum was destroyed.

I’m beyond angry but, unlike the road ragers mentioned above, I realise that taking it out on the roads would do little to help anyone. It also helps that I’m not a 20 something hothead (anymore).

Working from home nowadays means less exposure to the “rat race” but I can see what you’re alluding to man bun when I am out and about. People are going nuts, and I suspect the cost of living situ is a big reason why.

 

[Hojuman]

People have just become ruder and have forgotten their manners.

Been happening for a long time Liggers ☹

 

[Val Keating]

I’ll have that engraved on my headstone in quotation marks.



100% what I’m dealing with right now, fighting tooth and nail to stay afloat after a couple of years running a national business with interstate clients dropping like flies as borders remained shut. It’s been a year of scratching away trying to rebuild from a position where all positive momentum was destroyed.

I’m beyond angry but, unlike the road ragers mentioned above, I realise that taking it out on the roads would do little to help anyone. It also helps that I’m not a 20 something hothead (anymore).

Working from home nowadays means less exposure to the “rat race” but I can see what you’re alluding to man bun when I am out and about. People are going nuts, and I suspect the cost of living situ is a big reason why.

I closed my business down last week. It’s been brutal.

 

[Eggs11]

Well, at least we have each other.

 

[Ligma]

A change of scenery has helped me massively like going to La Trobe I don’t mean to diss it but it was so boring and like there was hardly anywhere you could go to pass time like yeah you can go to the footy ground but that’s all.

Whereas Swinburne the vibes are just better, we’ve got the Glenferrie oval and leisure centre (get free swims) and yesterday I just sat on the oval soaking up the sun and reflecting.

 

[Themanbun]

A change of scenery has helped me massively like going to La Trobe I don’t mean to diss it but it was so boring and like there was hardly anywhere you could go to pass time like yeah you can go to the footy ground but that’s all.

Whereas Swinburne the vibes are just better, we’ve got the Glenferrie oval and leisure centre (get free swims) and yesterday I just sat on the oval soaking up the sun and reflecting.

Eagle bar though

 

[Ligma]

Eagle bar though

NO

 

[Hojuman]

A change of scenery has helped me massively like going to La Trobe I don’t mean to diss it but it was so boring and like there was hardly anywhere you could go to pass time like yeah you can go to the footy ground but that’s all.

Whereas Swinburne the vibes are just better, we’ve got the Glenferrie oval and leisure centre (get free swims) and yesterday I just sat on the oval soaking up the sun and reflecting.

Bus, train, train to get there ?

 

[Ligma]

Bus, train, train to get there ?

Yep! It’s easy I only have to catch a bus to the station when I start later in the day

Interchanging at flinders is way easier than taking another bus

 

[Chadwiko]

Because there are 78ers who still carry the trauma from the violence of the original protest, and that's wholly the fault of one organisation: the NSW Police.

You're not really wrong about anything you've said Makeshift Park, but here's the thing that I feel gets so often lost when discussing the 'police in pride' debates;

Almost universally, it's the older LGBTIQ+ generations who most strongly support police participation in pride. It is the 78'ers, and it is those impacted by the Tasty raid and the beat patrols of the 80s.

The loudest anti-police voices tend to be the younger LGBTIQ+ generations who have not grown up under the oppressive and discriminatory practices of the past. And increasingly, they no longer reflect the broader community support. This year's pride march in St Kilda was a great example of this; a tiny protest group (approx 10 young people) held up the march with an 'no cops in pride' banner. And the crowd overwhelmingly booed them. And then gave the police marchers a massive supportive cheer.

I always think that's quite telling.

 

[Disco Dew]

like going to La Trobe

I do a bit of work at Latrobe (assuming bundoora) it seems like a nice place to just chill out amongst the trees.

 

[Ligma]

I do a bit of work at Latrobe (assuming bundoora) it seems like a nice place to just chill out amongst the trees.

It’s just eh it’s nice don’t get me wrong but I need that hustle and bustle stimulus if you get what I mean

 

[Disco Dew]

It’s just eh it’s nice don’t get me wrong but I need that hustle and bustle stimulus if you get what I mean

Yeah I totally get it. I was like that in my 20s but I’m the opposite now, I spend most of my working life in the cbd so any chance I get to work somewhere quiet I lap it up!


That’s why I bought a house with a backyard like this lol. I like my quiet space

 

[DesertRoo]

I’ll have that engraved on my headstone in quotation marks.



100% what I’m dealing with right now, fighting tooth and nail to stay afloat after a couple of years running a national business with interstate clients dropping like flies as borders remained shut. It’s been a year of scratching away trying to rebuild from a position where all positive momentum was destroyed.

I’m beyond angry but, unlike the road ragers mentioned above, I realise that taking it out on the roads would do little to help anyone. It also helps that I’m not a 20 something hothead (anymore).

Working from home nowadays means less exposure to the “rat race” but I can see what you’re alluding to man bun when I am out and about. People are going nuts, and I suspect the cost of living situ is a big reason why.

I closed my business down last week. It’s been brutal.

I’m so sorry to hear this,
is there anything we can do to help on here?

 

[Ligma]

Yeah I totally get it. I was like that in my 20s but I’m the opposite now, I spend most of my working life in the cbd so any chance I get to work somewhere quiet I lap it up!

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That’s why I bought a house with a backyard like this lol. I like my quiet space

Lol for some quiet time I walk over to glenferrie oval and just lay in the middle of the oval.

 

[jimandphilbadge]

A change of scenery has helped me massively like going to La Trobe I don’t mean to diss it but it was so boring and like there was hardly anywhere you could go to pass time like yeah you can go to the footy ground but that’s all.

Whereas Swinburne the vibes are just better, we’ve got the Glenferrie oval and leisure centre (get free swims) and yesterday I just sat on the oval soaking up the sun and reflecting.

It was over 20 years ago, but I did the same switch to Swinburne. Best thing I ever did education wise. Didn't have the prestige of where I swapped out of, but the environment of the uni and it's surrounds was a much better fit. That's a long time ago though and places change, but I really enjoyed my time there. And as Hoju says, it was the 2 trains but bloody hell I got through a lot of books!

 

[Ligma]

It was over 20 years ago, but I did the same switch to Swinburne. Best thing I ever did education wise. Didn't have the prestige of where I swapped out of, but the environment of the uni and it's surrounds was a much better fit. That's a long time ago though and places change, but I really enjoyed my time there. And as Hoju says, it was the 2 trains but bloody hell I got through a lot of books!

A lot of poddys!

The only downside is I don’t like the layout of the library lol

 

[jimandphilbadge]

A lot of poddys!

The only downside is I don’t like the layout of the library lol

Haven't been in there in 20 years, but 20 years ago it looked like it needed a facelift 20 years before that