I'm very happy for them to change the date, as long as they don't remove it altogether.

Public holidays give me something to look forward to when I'm feeling burnt out with work.

It should probably be kept in summer because Aussies love a BBQ, but personally I wouldn't mind winter as I love the cold.

We have to deal with them at the moment because we're staying with an elderly relative and her house, her rules - fair - and she is worried about switching providers. If something did go wrong and she lost her number, it would be pretty awful. So we're stuck with Telstra.

We're on our third modem with them in a little over a year (had to get a decent one, working from home). The absolute shit fight to get it replaced each time only served to reinforce that we are entirely correct on our views of their business. They have made it as tangled a web as Centrelink (another org that we have luckily not had to deal with in some time), and their customer service is basically non existent.

To their credit, their store staff did their best to help but their hands were so incredibly bound by red tape that there wasn't much to they could do. Also, the credit we were promised after the second go around was never applied to the account. Wasn't worth our time to chase it, because we actually value our time and have wasted enough of it.

And that's just one consumers experience.

The stuff they do on a national level is absolutely shameful. They need to be broken up.

What didn't they do.

Or, what have they done that's worthwhile.

Bunch of parasites.

I had to zoom in, as I read the bumper sticker as:

JESUS

IN YOUR SHOWER

I'm a little disappointed.

Yep, if it connects to an external audio device first - sometimes it does connect but then disconnect, but usually it works without issue!

I have mine set to go to Airplane mode when it pairs to my car's Bluetooth.

It stops me being distracted by calls but allows me to listen to my music.

Me reading a poem.

Me rereading a poem.

😡 me giving up on reading the poem.

We're living here rent free, just paying our share of utilities and saving money while giving her company - I can't complain too much about the small things!

It's on some dual band thing which can be split - I think we forgot to set it up on the last two, only bothered on the first. I can't remember if the first went down when the microwave was used.

In Australia, the phone number is tied to the ISP, and she's with the biggest, worst one. We considered porting but the risk would be too great and she was too anxious about it.

We're living with my grandmother temporarily, and we don't want the risk of trip hazard so had to get a good WiFi router.

It goes down whenever she uses the microwave - awesome for me, as I work from home.

Also we're tied to using her ISPs router because we didn't want to risk losing her phone number and other dramas moving to ours, so the modem router we use is theirs, and it sucks and the first two have blown up in the space of a year - we're on our third.

Meanwhile our great equipment is sitting in plastic crates in the garage.

Oh well. Do it for her!

I'm so confused, I literally thought that the "what goes where" section headers were around the wrong way.

I also agree with your point about not being too strict when we're wanting the community to grow.

It sounds so dated.

Uptown mall, I'll be shopping at the Uptown Mall.

Whoever's idea this was, any compensation they received was too much.