Yes, but in regard to the title, nobody was accused, therefore nobody can sue for defamation.

How is it defamatory? It’s not defamatory. It doesn’t accuse a specific person of stabbing anyone, and a situation can’t be defamation. Unless shopping centres or suburbs can sue for defamation, in which case, they still couldn’t, because it objectively happened.

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I ditched DVDs, but I’m actively expanding my VHS collection. They’re basically vintage now. Cool retro tech I can’t ordinarily buy/use. We do have a player, but I’m not going to dare play these because I don’t want it eating my tape. I’ve tested other tapes, and it hasn’t, but I don’t trust it

IT’S HEEEEERRREEEEE

Despite having spent ~280 hours on the series, I’ve still only seen 2 of the episodes in the box set

(Yes they’re VHS tapes)

I had a dream a few nights ago about going to Cairns and it was pretty much the same story

Vic case worker used ChatGPT to draft child protection report

Wha

Nah, but I stole the article off Reddit (although linked to a better source, because fuck 7news), and the top comment on that thread was also “Woodgrove, Melton. Saved you a click”

https://www.reddit.com/r/melbourne/comments/1fo5l9z/comment/loni1r8

This comment looks familiar…

Thanks z! I’ve updated the title

Side note: it really irks me that almost every ABC article has “allegedly” somewhere in the title.

I get they’re all paranoid about being sued, but this isn’t alleged, a kid was ACTUALLY stabbed. That can’t be disputed, and you can’t be sued for defamation for claiming that something that actually happened, happened.

For some people it’s “POV:”. For me it’s “allegedly this situation that very obviously happened, happened”.

We briefly owned a rabbit when I was younger. The next door neighbour packed all her stuff up and moved to Perth and couldn’t be bothered bringing most of her animals. She had a rabbit, 3 cats, and 2 dogs. She took the dogs and left the rest. Mum assumed the RSPCA would probably put them all down (they were all getting old), so we ended up with most of them.

The rabbit was absolutely dark magic. It got out twice, and we ended up building a little rabbit-run for it with chicken wire and wood. But we didn’t do a good enough job, and it snuck out the corner. Everytime it ran away, it ended up in the yard of some kids down the road. Eventually mum decided it was too difficult and asked their parents, and then the rabbit became the kids problem!

Today, or I guess yesterday, was such a nice day. Not a huge fan of this new day we’re doing with cold and rain again, though.

The intake or drainage hose? I’ve never heard of those breaking before the washing machine before

What? You don’t put nails through your window?

Do you even have a life bro?

Window fixed, or rather, secured

He initially just put some cardboard and duct tape over it, but then noticed some more major cracks running up the window so suggested that he could board it up as it might be a few weeks until a glazier comes to replace it.

I called emergency maintenance, because it does qualify as an emergency repair (even though he came to “fix” it on Wednesday and I just didn’t notice…). And the bloke who fixed it was from… Drumroll… McPeake!

He was actually pretty chill though, called the bloke an idiot, and said that he absolutely should not have even come to “fix” it without notifying anyone. Technically he did notify me, he said on Tuesday he’d come by the next day to fix it. But he still should’ve knocked, and he absolutely should not have just tried to do a runner after breaking the window. Tosser.

Honestly that’s most of McPeake’s staff. They have the gov contracts for all (or almost all) government owned houses (including the housing commission flats and child protection properties), so they act with immunity. I don’t know whether they’re stuck in a long contract, there’s some kind of kickback system happening, or what, but they do really low quality work

Oh, I should also add that this fuckwit turned up in a T-shirt that said “Hate to brag, but I’m pure blooded [obnoxious winky face]”. I don’t know if I’m looking too far into it, but the only 2 contexts I am aware of a bogan sounding, white aussie bloke saying or wearing anything along those lines are either anti-vaxxers (“pure” because they’re unvaccinated), or racists (“pure” because they’re white). He was just generally a dropkick as well, so I don’t have high hopes he didn’t genuinely rock up wearing a racist shirt

(and even if there’s another, more innocent meaning to it, wearing something like that to work seems very risky. That’s a phrase usually used in reference to race, and I feel like you have a responsibility to not wear anything people may find offensive to work, even if that isn’t your intention.)

If anybody’s ever thought I’m giving the McPeake people a hard time and shouldn’t call them incompetent reject tradies:

That wood at the bottom had rotted out, so he came to ‘fix’ it by putting a triangular piece of wood there. He put a fucking nail through the window.

I DIDN’T EVEN KNOW HE WAS HERE! HE CAME AND “FIXED” THE WINDOW WITHOUT TELLING ME!! THEN HE RAN AWAY AFTER BREAKING THE WINDOW!!! (I have it on camera, it was 100% without a doubt him!)

Also, I do feel a bit bad about it, and don’t blame Bunnings man for returning my order, or Amazon man for throwing my package over the fence. But Amazon has never delivered to me before mid day, and Bunnings have never delivered to me before 3pm. And I wasn’t actually expecting either of them, because Amazon said Thursday and Bunnings said today

Overall, if this were r/AmITheAsshole, I’d give the story a rating of “no arseholes here” (NAH). Thank you for coming to my self evaluation.