That was my first reaction too. You've got to be kidding!

So we are going to help the environment by increasing, rather than reducing, emissions. Riiiiiigh. FFS.

The kids have their pressies sorted. I's thinking of getting a lunch box/bag for her. Currently spreading her work lunchea across two containers which take up a lot of room in her bag.

This looks fun

This comment thread is making me regret posting this story. Fucking christ, this is such a skin crawling comment section! 😂 ugggh!

nope, grew up in an old farmhouse and remember feeling a mouse run across my bare leg in the middle of the night

The yuckiest thing I read was that women who put on face cream at night would be woken up by the rodents licking it off their faces.

That's a new one for me. I'm surprised they'd approach a person, even when they're asleep.

Been doing work in my roof space after 50+ years of it being essentially untouched. The amount of piss and shit is just disgusting. My partner said the other week, why don't we just leave a spot that was hard to get to. No way, it was covered in shit, just disgusting to know what we've been living underneath.

Last big one here in SA I didn't keep on top of them and just about everything stored in the shed got covered in mouse shit and piss or chewed up even if it was in drawers or cupboard or stored in plastic bags. Lots of damage to books and magazines I didn't have room to keep inside that had to be thrown out. They can make a hell of a mess.

Thanks for the warning. I will have to make sure the traps are set and check things are stored securely. Might be my project for the next week or so.

We need more snakes!!

Even one inside the house is one too many.

They piss and shit everywhere.

Really highlights the lax building standards we have tolerated for so long in this country that houses are not air tight let alone mouse tight.

I always feel like we've been spoiled by not experiencing some of the harsh realities of country life.

I remember reading about rodent plagues in the 19th century in the Oz country, beyond the more obvious things of them getting into food etc

A ham was in the larder, hanging from a hook. The mice worked out to climb across a ceiling beam, down the rope and ate the ham from the inside out, leaving just the outer skin, with a bunch of dead mice inside it.

People would put each of their 4 legs of their beds in a bucket of water in an attempt to keep them off the bed and get some sleep. Each morning, the buckets were full of drowned mice.

The yuckiest thing I read was that women who put on face cream at night would be woken up by the rodents licking it off their faces.

I thought they meant the mice had the plague but no they’re saying mouse populations are at plague levels

“Mice aren’t like other problems that farmers have. Because, if you’ve got a drought, you can go inside, and close the door and switch on the air conditioner and get a bit of respite from it. But, if you’ve got a mouse plague, you go inside and the mice are in the house and you literally can’t get away from them.”

I know this feeling of constant pressure from just having a few around and about the house. Knowing theres tens or hundreds...

Nah, there are plenty of local acts that I would think of as the States best loved artists. I don't just mean the unrealistic ones like AC/DC - they're too big to play at some hick town like Perth unless it's in the Stadium.

We have:
The Waifs, John Butler, Eskimo Joe, San Cisco, Karnovool, Hoodoo Gurus, Tame Impala, Birds of Tokyo.
(This is by no means an exhaustive list. Just pointing out that there are very different names I'd put on a 'best loved artists of WA' list)

I don’t know anyone either but I just like a day of a diverse mix of music. Went to Melbourne last weekend for Melbourne Popfest ‘26, knew barely any of the bands but was pleasantly surprised and discovered a couple of new-to-me favourites.

I haven’t been to ITP in person since 2013, that was a banger of a lineup.

Couldn’t make it in person as I have work to catch up on, so streaming it loud in an otherwise empty office. Probably for the best that it’s a Sunday, Halo of Teeth might be a bit too much for cow-orkers.

There definitely will be. But I don't know it. 'Reasonable person test' will surely make up a part of it.

Edit: Found this, not the kind of legal test a judge would rely on, but a good indication.

While it is not abundantly clear what determines ‘excessive force’ during an arrest, there appears to be a distinct relationship between the force a police officer may be permitted to use, and the behaviour of the person being arrested — whether the person is obstructing an officer in the line of duty, defying arrest, or being physically violent.

Andrew Williams Lawyer

tbh I think it's just a regular sign of American oversaturation

I recently saw a comparison between American brands and European brands and even Europeans were struggling to recognise their own local variants vs Coke/Pepsi/McDonalds/etc

Very curious to hear both sides of the story here, at the very least.

Yeah... right...

"These are children, they haven't learnt behavioural and emotional control yet. Their brains aren't developed.

And then when they're older it's inter-generational trauma, an excuse for all seasons!

"There were many ways he could restrain her that would not have involved the level of personal touch and force that we witnessed in the video," Dr McGowan-Jones said.

Feel free to get out of your desk job and help out then, different world when you're being punched in the head by feral teenagers

I'm firmly in the old and not with it camp!

I'll be elsewhere dancing to DnB.

I readily recognise that I'm old and out of touch, but I've never heard of any of "Twenty of the state’s best loved artists".

Is anyone looking at this lineup with excitement?

I'm no connoisseur, but Brotzeit in Joondalup has some good savoury ones.

Honourable mention to the UWA tavern Oktoberfest pretzels, they always hit the spot.