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  • Royal Exhibition Building bought top much of all the great alcohol and condiments from the stalls!

    At a pub for drinks, getting Korean BBQ for dinner later.

    So cold, but damn I love my MIL and her partner. Never thought I'd be a part of family that's so close and supporting 😭💜

  • Slept in - for me - until about quarter to seven then was pinned for an hour by the felines.
    What a life, as the yiayia would say.

  • Was up at 3am again today, but forced myself to go back to sleep until 7am.

    Going out to see MIL today, so looking forward to seeing her. She's like the mum I wish I had. She always tells the story of when she first met me and knew her son wasn't coming back to Perth lol. Such a treasure of a human, and it's been a year and a half since we've seen her.

    Unsure if I want to go to the footy with them tomorrow though, West Coast vs St Kilda iirc. MIL's partner goes for WC, she and my partner go for Freo, of course. Here I am, lil bomber supporter. I suppose, as a Victorian, I ought to go for the Saints.

    The last time I went to the footy was back in the mid-late 2000s. My friend and her family were/are Carlton supporters, and it was Essendon vs Carlton. Essendon won that game, was close too iirc, and the drive home was AWKWARD! Took everything in me not to be all in their faces haha.

    /endtextwall

    • Go orn, go to the footy, you'll have a great time even if you all barrack for different teams. 😊

    • It might actually be a good game. They're at 15/16 on the ladder. West Coast are in their 'lose every game' phase, so in theory it'll be a Saints victory.

      In general though, I'm always going for whoever is playing the Victorian team. 😂

  • Holy crap. That wind outside is really bad. Thought the gust was about to take my roof off.

  • I braved it to the city today and back with a mask on the whole time. The most weird thing has had to happen at the end. Tram driver swapped over at Barkers Rd and the new driver was saying things to himself while setting up, like "adjusting my seat" and "reaching out for the mirror" and I thought it was some cool.OH&S thing like the train drivers pointing and naming things in Japan.

    Then he started mumbling to himself... "they said it was going to rain but it didn't..." "look at how bright those lights are"... and he had this really sullen, angsty young look about him... and before I could hear what else he had to say I had to get off.

    Where is the rain though, it's been blowing plenty but not very wet. Not that I'm complaining

  • So question: when you have to rate something that doesn't apply, do you give it a 5 or 3 star? eBay always asks me to rate seller communication, which is almost never relevant. They mark it as posted, and that's generally the extent of the "communication". I have been marking that as 3 stars, but I was thinking, that probably brings down their averages, right? I'd be annoyed if my feedback rate went from 100 to 99.97% because someone thought something was irrelevant.

    Seems like a bit of a disconnect between how I issue ratings and how I take ratings into account. All this online review stuff seems to have skewed the bare minimum rating from a 3. i.e I probably wouldn't consider a shop or seller that's only rated 3 stars, even though in my mind, 3 stars means neutral, when it comes to reviews, 3 stars seems bad

    • This is why I just don't trust star reviews - it's not only just because of fake/paid responses. There's a whole science about this sort of dissonance in perception when it comes to rating reviews etc. It happens to everybody - my personal description for it is questionnaire bias. I've never had a questionnaire or a rating review where my actual opinions and experiences were accurately reflected in the questions/ratings. My advice fwiw is just not to stress over it. Everyone has a different take on what 'excellent' means to them. For some it might be that delivery on the day specified is enough for that rating - some might consider that just normal and 'excellent' might consist of much more than that like good and timely service on a return/refund as well.

    • I don't bother with ebay or amazon ratings, it's fake

      but personal stuff, I choose what I read or watch very carefully so very often it really is excellent

      quizzes, I'm older and I have thought through nearly everything so I'm definite on a lot of things, for instance I'm adamant on tolerance

    • I always had this problem with peer rated assignments. Other people were rating absolutely everything 9/10 and I was giving honest 7 for good but nothing special. I looked mean, and thought them incapable of critical thinking…

    • 5 stars. That's the default.
      The logic to US companies is backwards to us. We think of it as earning your stars. And yeah, 3 is kinda average. Not bad, not great.

      They think of it as 5 stars is normal. Perfect every time. You lose points for imperfections.

      Example: An Uber driver would lose their job at around 4.1 average rating. So after your trip, you can say 5 stars (normal) or anything else (fire this driver).

      It's stupid, and completely ruins the point of a rating scale. Plus, it's also not really compatible with Australian culture. We would think 4 stars is good. 3 stars is ok.

  • Sending some warm, muggy, late night love…

    Man, it’s been years since I’ve spent time in the more chaotic parts of Asia. Favs atm are:

    • A passenger on a scooter legit carrying a ladder upright.
    • Gramps on his scooter living his best life riding at about 10kms an hour.
    • Women riding scooters in PJ’s

    • and nearly all are wearing sandals

    • I rode it scooter around Thailand. As it's dangerous for tourists generally, I'd pick a grandma and potter along behind her through the chaos. Never had an issue.

      • I did, too, years ago.

        Though checking in a hotel in Patong and watching a slight Japanese woman wheeled out in wheelchair after she broke both and and legs (face looked fine, luckily) on a scooter, should be enough to make some people think twice.

  • My new slippers were delivered today, but they took them to the post office for me to collect. I could have had toasty warm purple feet tonight, but instead I have to go out on a day with possible small hail predicted to collect them. ☹️

  • The Boys is such an accurate parody of The USA. It's as if the writes are writing the election cycle

    Funny and scary

  • I think a major problem with DoorDash's new drone delivery service is that it has to deliver to clear ground, which means you have to go outside to get your food, it won't be right at your door. If they really want to provide a good service they need to have drones that can open the door, come inside and drop off direct to your lounge chair or bed. Or maybe the robo vac could be taught to multi-task and meet up with the drone for the final delivery leg?

    • Roombutler, I wouldn't mind that. Fetch the newspapers dirty bird for me, Jeeves

    • My old housemates brother delivered for the local pizza place. He had a spare key. We could get pizzas delivered to our bedrooms.

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