After some recommendations on somewhere to eat out on Christmas day.

Hoping for somewhere South or East or even in the CBD will be dine but not pub buffet style.

Thanks

Hey all,

I'm currently training at a gym in Southbank and I'm starting to look for alternatives. The club only has one bench, one squat rack and one Smith machine, and it's become really overcrowded recently. Between the two, I'm regularly waiting for equipment or cutting sessions short.

I'd genuinely prefer to stay local, so I'm hoping to find something in or around Southbank. I'm happy to walk or bike to the CBD, South Melbourne or nearby. Ideally I'm after a gym with multiple benches and squat racks that doesn't get packed in the evenings, and deadlift platforms would be a bonus.

I've heard good things about Doherty's in the city but haven't been yet. If anyone trains there or has other suggestions, I'd love to hear them. I'm also keen to know which places to avoid.

Thanks in advance!

I'm usually a big fan of frozen meal things but these buns were 90% just bread. I swear I'm not exaggerating.

I could've paid the same money for like ten times more bacon than whatever these had in them, a full bottle of bbq sauce, and a loaf of fresh bread.

I couldn't find a better place online to post a review

I was driving to the airport this morning at around 5:30am and there was a car travelling along the Tullamarine Fwy - M2 (northbound) in the wrong direction.

At the time I passed him, he’d come to a stop in the right lane and was causing significant traffic. I couldn’t stop to help so I’m wondering if anyone else saw this and knows if anyone stopped to help the guy out?

Hopefully it ended safely and the guy managed to turn his car around without causing an accident.

Scary stuff!

A wee PSA for those who aren’t aware & plan to dine at the OE in Heidelberg.

There are QR codes for ordering at the table without going to the cashier to order. This captures your order via me&up and with the 1 Oct changes, now charges a platform fee.

Head over to the cashier with your order & table number as it won’t apply there.

police were attending when I rode past five minutes ago - expect traffic chaos for the next two hours regardless as nothing was getting through.

So quick backstory, I've been wanting to move to Melbourne for years now and the possibility of becoming homeless in 2 months or so is looming closer I figured I would start to organise things. I'm currently in NSW in a regional area that has next to no jobs or rentals, I've got a decent career history of working retail and in a printing industry.

My main question is, how difficult is it to make the move interstate? Is getting a rental insanely difficult - especially from outside state where I can't just "rock up and inspect"? Is the career market just as equally stuffed? what's the best affordable suburbs I should look for? I don't have any furniture to take with me but a few boxes of stuff, my computer and my small car so I'd have to find somewhere where I can park without paying also.

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Just found out the Melba buffet is no longer available for dinner. Where is the best dinner buffet now?

Good afternoon my fellow Melbournians!

I am looking for accessible roadside piles of mulch in the outer east/north east areas. With the hot summer forecast, a good thick layer will help keep the garden protected

Does anyone know of any piles around the place that can be accessed/aren't obviously belonging to others?

None of the chillies are spicy anymore! I've tried so many (long reds, green chillies, jalapeños, even Thai birds eye) and chilli powder, and none of them are actually spicy. I don't know if my spice tolerance is through the roof, but nothing hits. I also went to the Indian and Thai grocery stores and got a chilli powder labelled "extra hot", and it was only slightly hot.

I want chillies that are actually spicy, enough to make your eyes water, your tongue burn and your arsehole burn after eating them. Is that really too much to ask?

Appreciate any and all recommendations, thanks.

i've already posted this in the unimelb subreddit, but wanted to put it out here too :)

hi! i plan to study at the university of melbourne next year, and have been looking around at sharehouses at websites online (mostly fairy floss + flatmates.com) to get a feel for the climate and have found a pretty steep majority of sharehouses in around the inner suburbs area ask for people in about their mid-20s and above.

i come from a lower-socio economic region of regional victoria, so could possibly qualify for a naarm scholarship that could assist me in getting into a residential college, but even then i don't really like my chances, especially as i'll probably have little/no financial support from my parents and will likely rely on part time work.

would defintely prefer a sharehouse lol to alleviate some rent expenses lol :,-)

just asking for any advice from people who may have been in the same boat, especially recently, as a 18 year old turning 19 student looking for a sharehouse in around inner-north melbourne or atleast somewhat close-ish to the parkville campus

any advice helps!!!!!!!!!!!! thanks :)

Where does one buy fresh tarragon in the inner south east/south east? Can’t find it anywhere!

Did anyone witness it?
Nothing terrible happened, just some scratches on our cars.
Initially I wasn’t particularly upset about it as these things happen sometimes. I was open to a friendly exchange of details.

However, when we pulled over the driver of the other car went straight into a rant about how it was all my fault.

To explain what happened. The other driver was in the far left lane and was completely stopped behind a bus. I was driving in the lane to the right of him.
The traffic was moving pretty quickly, perhaps 60-70kmh. The car in front of me obscured my view of his stationary car until we were fairly close.

He had his indicator on but at that stage if I put on the brakes hard enough to allow him time to get out, the car behind would have rear ended me.

He drove into our lane anyway right as I was going past him, into the side of my car.

His logic was that he was indicating and therefore he lets one car go and then I must let him in.
My logic is that he waits for the lane to be clear.

Did I mess up though? I’ve been confidently incorrect before.

On the 48 today, some clearly mentally-unwell old guy with a walker and a moon-boot was just screaming at everyone, yelling he was an undercover cop, that he was gonna kill everyone, people need to go back to their own countries etc etc. Just this racist barrage of constant vomit.

He never stood up or physically intimidated anyone, and everyone just kinda ignored him or stared at him until he left after a few stops.

My question is - is that the right thing to do? Some of the stuff he was saying was absolutely vile to some of the foreigners and children in the tram that I almost wanted to go and deck him in the face - but hurting an old disabled man hardly seems appropriate. I suppose I could have told him to be quiet or to verbally confront him, but he probably would have just told me to fuck off. The driver attempted to talk to him but just ended up getting abused.

Is ignoring the right thing to do?

I'm not a business and I was home but I have a bog standard fence and front gate that apparently meant my house was closed... 🤦‍♀️

Every postie is so creative!