mong summer dream (now featuring added winter, also spring)

yeah and 'er indoors insists on watching the sound of music

on that subject, kill me

/nelsonlaff.

I might step outside awhile. You know, I've whinged a lot about this house we rent but tbh I do love it, cramped kitchen aside. The only pissy thing is the rent raise. I should call them and ask not to raise it if we sign on another 12 months. I really cbf moving house.

It worked, Kit.

yes, I see

quite an display name

That's what Ed's mum said

how was daet h

p. good. just yakked over drinx for a few hrs. would daet again!

u gonna?

we'll see, maybe once this date month thing is done. think she's fairly busy with organising it!

always nice to look at v attractive person for a few hrs too, must say

tb

the things that haitch does for charidee

warms the heart tbqh

http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/about-town/a-city-divided-20120202-1quub.html

Which side of the Yarra you live on speaks volumes - or does it? Natalie Craig finds out.

I am going to start called it "the brown line" btw

the thick, ropey brown line that separates us all

The ''southside'' is not just any old place south of the Yarra. It includes suburbs between the city and the bay, such as South Melbourne, Prahran, Windsor, South Yarra, Toorak, St Kilda and Port Melbourne. It stands for bay breezes, beautiful blondes, fitness, beer gardens, footballers, four-wheel-drives, hyphenated surnames, optimism and the free market.

The ''northside'' comprises North Melbourne, Carlton, Fitzroy, Collingwood, Abbotsford, Thornbury, Brunswick and Coburg. Bell Street is the boundary for northsiders. It stands for artists, warehouse parties, bicycles, underground music, lightless terrace houses, postmodernity and ''awareness''. It likes to think of itself as Berlin.

sigh

http://images.theage.com.au/2012/02/03/2935901/an-differences-200x0.jpg

sorry to ruin your morning

yet another demonstration of fairfax muppetry
fucc dis company

- or does it?

berlin wants to be north fitzroy imo

TBH the only time I ever heard this "lol north/south" thing come up, was whe I befriended some ppl who lived in inner north areas. Id lived here for years and not really heard it before that. It seems such a fitzy fixation.

that said that article is pure troll, as was the "lol tatts make you dumb" and "flag flyers are racist" articles. It stinks of such desperation. Between this and Reinhart basically buynig the paper, I'm gonna stop reading it. Fuck if I know what to replace it with tho, abcnews I guess.

The death of newspapers is massively overstated. They'll be kept afloat by people who HAVE to complain about how awful they are for a good 20 years yet.

It seems such a fitzy fixation.

daet said st. k suxx due to backpackers ruining it and she only stays due to job being there, would prefer thee north

backpackers do tend to make everything awful so she may have a point

St k proper sux because of tourists, that I dont deny. But it doesnt mean Windsor, or Balaclava, or South Melbourne or Elwood are crap! (theyre lovely). I dont "get" the vibe in fitz/clif hill etc at all tbh :/ dunno why.

But the fake tan Dahling set are eveyrwhere now, so the whole inner 'burbs are all ruined tbh

PS woooooahhhh this sudden rainy change is AWESOME *opens all the windows*

Id lived here for years and not really heard it before that. It seems such a fitzy fixation.

The north-south difference is quite striking imo – the mood is tangibly different. Also otm about St K, especially during the festival when it's just blue-grid bogans. Really hate going to Acland St now.

I mean we're still in St K E (obv) and love it to bits, no desire to move out of the area at all. People keep telling me that Yarraville is better and cheaper (it is) but I'm happy to pay extra rent to live where I want to live ffs.

Everyone I know says the same about Richmond, and tbh, I'd not mind moving to Richmond - but the quality of rentals in the area compared to where we are is suprisingly shithouse. Nothing is newishly renovated, all the houses are dumpy as fuck, that ive been able to find.

Plus, no parking *anywhere*

True, though not even remotely a concern of mine :P (besides, its walking distance to the city!)

lets not forget this cut out and keep guide: Autumn Almanac reviews Melbourne because as an insomniac, he can't sleep just yet

I think it needs updating, through - "Look at my phone it has Bluetooth" is a very mid-00s thing.

haha I do not remember doing that

bluetooth dude bluetooth

This Christmas, give it to her in the bluetooth

bluetooth dude bluetooth

you better not be using my material on those dates as well, son

lol

on friday's evidence my 'game' appears to be based heavily on slagging fairfax, so no difference from my 'internet persona' it seems

is it a winning angle?

ask again one (1) month

can do!

Fuxake. Make a passing comment on FB about not finding as many nice places to rent at the mo as I have in the past couple months.

Annoying friend starts spamming my post with rentals in Footscray "look at how cheap these are, so much cheaper than where you are". Fuck off woman, if I wanted to live in the west idve moved a long time ago. I said I dont want to leave the area and she's still at it.

&^%#$

And yet she bitches all the time about the crappy non existent PT (mostly only busses) and dodgyness of footscy station and wonders why its cheaper?

luv the scray. never seen so many pho joints in a kilometre square radius in my lyfe

yeah i mean i have no great desire to leave my area but i don't hate on the cray, there's lots of really nice parts of it and it's probably the best value housing in town at the mo

dead set there is a footscray/yarraville rental cult atm (I even tried that on with you trayce iirc)

it's not really a surprise though imo, i mean for people who need cheaper rent but to be close to town it's entering no-brainer territories

TBH Ive only ever passed thru on the train - I'm not judging the place. I'm annoyed that saying "we have chosen to stay in this area" means getting flooded with "but lol CHEAPER HOUSES" posts and one other dick telling me i need to "lower my standards" (he is a LANDLORD - he can eff right off)

Also its worth stressing, while I work CBD, Nick actuallyt works right up our end of st kilda rd, so moving west would be insanely pointless.

"lower my standards"

for a lot of rental places i've seen, lower standards = a carport or lean-to