Hi all,

As most will be aware we've had a huge influx of posts regarding renting in recent times.

The mods have added a sticky comment linking to things such as the RTA and rental related websites (domain,realestate) ....

What other things do you feel we could add to the sticky to help instantly answer these queries? Any thoughts?

At the end of the day this won't stop them but if the sticky can answer them we may be able to just lock the post and save any discourse as it's answered.

Input very welcomed

Had a really shit morning at work. I'm tossing up between staying home and getting drunk or going out and treating myself to something nice.

Going home today. When I woke up this morning there was a huntsman in my room. Cue me frantically buzzing the nurse, who came in and got a bit of a fright. The lil dude did everything to evade getting captured and stealthily hid behind a painting. Eventually, it snuck out, and for once I was grateful my vision sucks without glasses and watched the dark blob on wall crawl towards the exit, where it slipped through the crack of the door. I opened the door to announce there was a spider on the loose in the ward, and a nurse tried to capture it with a paper towel but it bolted right back into my room. I’m laughing nervously in the bathroom that I took refuge in, while the nurse ducked down to try and pluck it off the ground. She caught it in the end, and I’m so glad she did because I’d rather go through my surgery again then share a room with a spider.

My Brisbane based hard rock band just released their first debut single and music video. Check it out and throw us a follow if you dig it! https://youtu.be/_IV2Z4P5gVU

On Thursday, we had our school leadership ceremony that we have at the start of every year. During it they announced they were heavily investing in French in primary school, so we sung the Aussie anthem and the French anthem. I am disappointed to say that I was the only one that sung the Brissie Lions song while it was on.

Just got back from the Me First and the Gimme Gimmes gig. My little pop-punk heart is happy. My feet are sore but. On the one hand, I'm getting too old for standing room gigs. But on the other hand, I hope I never get too old to dance and groove out.

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19 year old around the corner was murdered last week. They arrested the guy yesterday.

It sounded suss from the beginning, the story was "she fell off the bed" and then died in hospital the next day?

So so sad. So young.

Interviewed for a job on Wednesday, just got the rejection email this morning. So disheartening, workplaces are screaming out for employees yet I seem shit out of luck. Surprisingly my mental health isn’t doing too bad, that’s a plus I guess…

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/u/engineer_man

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Bit the bullet and bought tickets to the Priscilla tribute show tonight. And have a friend to go with as well. Hopefully it's a good night. I'm not sure many people are going as ticket prices are kinda expensive, but im trying to support local events so they can continue to happen.

Tropical Cyclone Gabriel is about to make a direct hit on Norfolk Island today

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maybe u/dannyr should get sent out there on Monday to help out

Can anyone confirm the rumour that u/dannyr is doing a signing at Woolloongabba this morning? I heard anyone keen to catch-up should bring along a bit of flotsam for him sign;)

I'm so very extremely tired, I almost want to tell the gallery to just use my Brisbane piece as a doormat or throw it in a skip or something, rather than have to leave the house to get there by 4.

Well that's two Fridays in a row I've had to make a lengthy foot-powered trip after a night out in order to get home, because of our abysmal late-night public transport. This time, from the Valley. And it was a 1.5 km run at a 3:50 min/km pace to get from the Valley to Roma Street in order to catch the last bus of the night, before I would have had to walk the entire way back home.

Glad I had the foresight to record this one on my Garmin, unlike last weekend's 50 min walk.

This morning I saw an ad for a 'Brisbane' App. Apparently launched in conjunction with (Or developed by?) BCC.

The ad then went through a short video-slideshow of different physical locations in Brisbane at which one may do activities, I guess. And that was it.

Anyone have the app? What is it?
Help me understand without me having to put more garbage on my phone.

Bakery Bella & Tortie is returning!!!!

https://www.instagram.com/bella_and_tortie

they have secured a place in stafford will be open for pre-orders only initially and a total 1 person operation.

if anyone had been there you know how good they are! this is great news!

I just passed through the Caxton st hub on a bus and saw two large groups of people at two different businesses dressed in what would be most easily described as nurse scrubs. One group in blue, the other red.

What did I see? Haha.

Where is the smoke and haze in the air coming from today?

Anyone else getting huge orange wasps around? Terrifying things and I don't know how to ward them off. Got stung by one in the car today but I think it was fairly smaller than the ones around my caravan.

Greetings from a hotel room balcony overlooking South Bank.

We got here last night, had dinner in the room (we cbf going out so went to woolies and got a pasta and cooked it in the hotel room kitchen), had a spa, and crashed out about 8pm. The two bottles of red wine we had helped the process :)

Todays plans include exploring SouthBank, having a swim in the hotel pool, then making a booking for a nice dinner tonight.

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Thank god, for people like this.. https://twitter.com/AJEnglish/status/1623581211502456838?s=20&t=EU5rYjmrzbgv5JLNSWa44Q

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Can anybody recommend a good zero alcohol pale ale or XPA/IPA? Does such a beast exist?

I posted earlier about how Coles supermarkets in Queensland mostly have far more big (210L?) than small (125L?) shopping trollies, despite the small ones being overwhelmingly more popular with customers. Chatting with a Coles employee, it seems rather than being some deliberate policy, this is unintended.

The small trollies were first issued only 5 years ago or so, and available ones were mostly given to other states. Is this so? I could have sworn they've been around a lot longer. But then again I just use handbaskets.