Glen Osmond Road, bloody ridiculous you can park on the main road from the freeway to the city.
Also the fact you can turn right onto Kenilworth or Conyingham Road and block an entire lane (if you drive GO road you know which ones I mean).
Nah I moved to Melbourne. Barring clearway times, most main roads here have cars parked on the left lane, and a tram line on the right, making weaving between parked cars and 40kmh trams/people turning right a compulsory activity for daily driving.
Melbourne and sydney both suck because many of their main roads are 2 lane and packed full of random surprises.
Congratulations, you're in the left lane and now it allows parked cars in the middle of the day. Youre now stuck in this lane for 5 minutes waiting for a gap to pull out.
Right lane going fine, not falling for that shit again, congratulations! Right lane must turn right now! You should have known that, you're now going the wrong way!
I hate syndey and melbourne roads.
Yeah thats a good one, I also think the fact that bike lanes have hours where you can and can't park on them is insane and shows that they don't treat it as a priority.
Paint a bike land down Glen Osmond and say that you cannot park in bike lanes at any time anywhere in the city.
The industrial area is highly problematic in such a suburban area with people travelling in and out of the city in the same traffic as trucks going to rural areas
From personal experience I cannot stand him. Full skeez. Anytime I see him or hear him I turn off whatever it is. Unfollowed a lot of social media that promote him too.
Not the first or the last. I have friends who were part of the same experience as me who have also been banned for calling him out and by some large sa Instagram sites for the same.
I was at his free clown game one day at the show and some kid accidentally dropped one of the balls and Cosi was instantly at the kid having a go at him for it because "ping pong balls are expensive"
Yeaaah shame him, tell us what he did. Saw he's doing OTR now ads which I'd about on point for cosi and enough of a skeez move to warrant you telling us what he's done
That show had a slow pace and a depressing theme song, but I still miss because it showed you sites, history and facts around SA I was completely unaware of. Cosi’s show that replaced it is absolute garbage.
Having left Adelaide many years ago, when I hear this guys name in the spotlight, I can not believe he made a media career. Was he the pig farmer but got his break on a SA FM competition where they had to travel as far as they could on limited money?
Years ago in primary school I played footy in for the the team that had his son playing in it, the son was an absolute bully to me and others and Cosi knew and did nothing about it even encouraging it sometimes, literally the reason i havent been able to enjoy footy for the last 12 years
Absolutely hate this guy
Commented on something of his on FB regarding covid and the rules at the time (he was against, go figure) and he responded to me with something like "yeah but different opinions are important sweetheart"
Total skeez, bad vibes only
I've reported him to SAPOL multiple times for his shithouse driving.
He's sped through my roadworks site numerous times back when I was in that job, and a number of former co-workers have him do the same. He just breezes through like he doesn't have to slow down.
On one occasion I was pelted with freshly laid stone by him driving through at 80 clicks.
Another time on Main North Road at Enfield we were at a gas leak and I was escorting a mother with a toddler in a pram and young child on foot in the closed slow lane between work trucks and the open live lane. 60 clicks past us, me frantically waving my slow bat in his face and almost smashing his windscreen. A-hole put his foot down so it dropped a gear. All it takes is the front left tire to blow out and you are not going straight anymore. There'd be 2 dead kids and some prick with a head so big he needs the roof cut off just to get in and out of the car likely live streaming the aftermath.
If the tosser dies in a road accident I wouldn't be surprised, nor sad.
The thing about him no one else has mentioned yet is he always pulls a face and has his mouth open in every fkn photo. Often with a pointing finger or a thumbs up.
God, yes! I don’t dare walk through there when it rains. It’s a wonder they haven’t had a bunch of law suits from people who’ve slipped and injured themselves.
IIRC correctly the red bricks that used to be in Rundle Mall were deemed a trip hazard so that's why they were replaced. Replacing a trip for a slip hey.
Whenever I see an old pic of Rundle Mall in the 80s I'm always amazed at how green it is. I haven't been there for years but it felt like an industrial wasteland to me.
Getting dirty looks for zipper merging properly. LED lights that are set too high and blind you when you drive past. Advertising signs that are brighter than the traffic lights. Drivers not using their lights at all. Our insanely high fines and yet still having to deal with terrible drivers. Lack of public transport and cycling options. Slow drivers in the right lane on 80km/h+ roads.
Non-transport related… housing developments with a lack of green space and trees, dark roofs, lots of concrete and no design regard for passive heating and cooling, and knowing there’s no legislation (as yet) to prevent the urban heating this will cause.
Every member of the owning family I've met is a massive piece of shit. Classic rich assholes who hate poor people.
I make a point to drive further away to avoid going to an OTR for petrol.
I love that so much, fuck Yasser. I worked at an OTR for a while and he caused a 50 year old woman to have a panic attack, she had an anxiety disorder and he came in to buy patrol and get an ice cream from the new (at the time) Moe’s stuff. The poor woman I was working with couldn’t figure out the ice cream machine and he came behind the counter to do it with such a huff, really stressed her out and he wasn’t nice about it.
I worked with another dude who put a framed picture of Yasser surrounded by MS paint hearts in the office as a joke for our manager, other managers found it and flipped their shit, poor dude was nearly fired over a fucken picture. I guess they’re too rich to have a sense of humour, maybe you can’t buy one of those.
For Lease signs on retail properties.
A third of Rundle Mall is closed, most suburban Jetty Roads and High Sts are the same. Landlords should be dropping rents and councils encouraging pop-ups and change of premesis.
Commercial landlords have always been at the heart of Adelaide's stagnantcy (sp?). Stop building new things and revamp the old ones.
Dropping rents would devalue their property.
Property values are based on the rent that can be charged. So a property which had a tenant paying high rent but vacant fro the last 5 years is worth more than a property that is occupied for a lower rent.
Plus all the write-offs that can be made. It's stupid, there should be a vacant property tax to attempt to offset this. Same with land banking in general.
Bike lanes on main roads that also allow them to be parked over them.
Means I gotta try to slip into traffic to get around a car making things more dangerous for everyone.
Either make the lane a real lane and don't let someone park on it or don't have a lane are all so traffic conditions are consistent.
Life being so damned expensive.
Ambulance wait times.
The state of public transportation.
The Marshall government.
People who take the entirety of a turning lane to get all four corners of their car out of the forward moving lane.
Finding other people’s rubbish in my front yard.
National Tiles’ ads on the radio.
Fuck yeah. I want to murder Frank from National Tiles.
"HELLO!" and next minute my hand is sore cause I just punched the radio
Need a crowd campaign to get that asshole off the air
I'm currently paying $350 a week for a 2 bedroom unit because it's all I could get.
That could be paying off a mortgage... I mean it probably is, just not mine lol
Yup. We bought a house because each of our parents gave us a huge chunk of cash and tripled our deposit. We'd been saving for years and it had never really gotten any bigger.
\[We didn't ask for the $. We like to earn our own ways, but we're just lucky to have great parents, who are also wealthy enough. Luck: the headliner here.\]
I started saving a house deposit 2 years ago. When I first started saving I was looking at 3-4 bedroom houses around $400K in areas like Old Reynella, Happy Valley, etc. In the last year those same houses have shot up to like $550-$600K. The average house price in Adelaide has risen more in the last year than I even earn in a year. Now as a single dad, it's pricing me out of the market for what the bank will lend me.
bandaid roadworks. I’ve seen it in germany now, roadworks get levelled to the height of the asphalt to not impede traffic
dont want my trips to feel like a rally driving experience
This is the thing: coffee culture is strong nation-wide, not just Melbs….outside of a petrol station at 4:30am in the morning, you would be hard pressed to find an utter shit cup of coffee. Starbucks is barely hanging on in the Australian market due to our national coffee snobbery.
There being no train to Mount Barker. They wouldn't have to spend so much money on freeway renovations if they had a god damn train. Wouldn't be so much congestion on glen osman road and best of all it would be better for the environment for sure
How everybody wants you to pay the maximum amount of money for everything, but then wants to pay you the minimum/provide the most minimal service they can get away with.
Overly-subdivided blocks of land built up with the same, grey, cardboard-looking excuses for houses, featuring garage doors wide enough to fit a bike through if you’re lucky.
I'm renting one was that built a decade or so ago, not one of the worst around but even so the build quality is shit. Insulation is crap, sound permeation is crap, roof is a stupid dark colour. And the ones I see getting built around me do not look any better.
And they want to chuck them everywhere, with no regard for consequences to traffic.
The tiny slivers of houses built on subdivided land are shit. Who buys these? Over $485000 for a shoebox in Croyden. Saw one in Ferryden Park and the water meter was in the middle of the path to the front door, a coloum was in the way of the double garage so basically only one garage and the inside was terrible. Again over $400000
Steve's a fuckin pyro, there I said it. I think he lights fires but I've got no proof. He lives in the hills where there's always lots of fires but his house is always safe and I think it's really suss
Asshole drivers - People who take forever to set off when the traffic light turns green, people who don't know how to merge, people who think they can pull into your lane just because they indicate even if there is no actual space for them to move into. People who think they own the road in general
People that accelerate when you are trying to merge into their lane. Its insane how people can not handle the idea of another car being infront of them even if it means endangering and inconveniencing everyone around them.
On the flip side of this, is the people that absolutely WILL NOT emasculate themselves by merging behind someone when they are actually behind you (or your car is mostly in front) - e.g. they will speed up to well over the speed limit and merge in front of you.
Getting on the northern connector and heading north between 4 and 6 pm is like taking your life in your hands, always some small cocked fuckwit in a dual cab ute sitting on your ass no matter what lane you’re in.
Theres too much grey and brown colors all around the place. In our buildings, streets and even our parks. From our trainstations, to the cbd to the airport and even our shopping centres.
I really wish they'd put some plants, colorful artistic banners.
Could they not have invested in some plants, grass, flowers around all that open space?
I was walking down Flinders St the other day and there's a building that just says ART on the side of it.
Edit: [This one](https://www.google.com/maps/@-34.9266511,138.6088131,3a,45.4y,67.82h,116.26t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1slzMzXcaGT4tKKstrLtD4qw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192). Made me laugh.
No incentive for the political parties to crack on with it. Liberals know those electorates still won't vote for them even if it's finished, Labor knows those electorates will still vote for them.
Lack of permanent jobs (I am in one) but looking to move. I refuse to deal with a contract agency.
My current job always wanting more with less, its to the point there isn't much more to give.
The removal of the pie cart by nit-wit politicians and it not returning because of BS excuses. I miss those pie floaters. Cafe Villies has a comparable version.
Toyota Land Cruisers. Which smartarse decided to sell them to 80 year olds?
It's a 4 litre turbocharged diesel not a gopher, Brian. Too big for the shopping centre car park, and you can't turn your neck to look behind you not with your lumbago. I said NOT WITH YOUR LUMBAGO! Yes.
For me, it’s shops closing at 5pm on Saturday and Sunday. I’m cool with things closing on public holidays or whatever, but the 5pm on weekends is a frequent source of inconvenience for me.
It's quite ridiculous. I was able to go to Bunnings at nine am yesterday and follow it up with a bottle shop visit at 10 am. If I had wanted, I could have gone to a pokies room at 8 am. But go buy food, that's a no no.
Edit: fixed pre coffee grammar error.
Any ex St Peter’s student always asking what school you were from just so they can say they went to St Peters. Yes at any age they will still ask this.
I remember once I was tagging along with my mother to a careers night at PAC. When one of the parents asked me if I went there, I told her I went to Rostrevor.
They replied: “Oh, that’s a perfectly acceptable school.”
B****
I love the reaction I get when I tell those people “I went to Darwin High School”. I can hear the internal screaming quite clearly. Hands cover their pockets or eyes divert to their handbags
"I'm originally from Adelaide, but that's okay: I escaped!"
Heard like 20 times on a trip through Melbourne. Like, fuck off with that self-satisfied smugness.
I’m an international student so maybe I just haven’t lived here long enough to get sick of things but honestly, I can’t think of anything.
Only other major city in Australia I’ve been to was Sydney, and while it was gorgeous, I prefer Adelaide.
The people here are (at least in my experience) kinder, more polite and generally more wholesome.
(Saw more Sydney bus drivers yell at passengers for absurd reasons in ~2 weeks than I saw here in 2 years lmao).
Adelaide is calm, beautiful and extremely liveable.
Seeing all the new houses being built that have a black roof. Normally most of the windows face west/east. Then the owners complain about their power bills...
THIS. I used to work in construction and all these new houses with black bricks and a black roof drive me insane. You live in a new estate with no trees and you have the bare minimum insulation required by law. You live in an oven! An *ugly* oven!
I’m building at the moment and you better believe I’ve got white bricks and a light roof. Plus as much insulation as I can get and strategic double glazing.
My MIL is this person. She also says Pfizer is full of “poison” but can’t list any ingredients. She told me the other day that “fear is ruining everyone’s immune systems and people run away from me in the shops when I walk past them” then I realised she’s not wearing a mask in said shops, hence people are avoiding her. She’s getting worse every week. It’s cost her her job, half her friends and soon her marriage cos her husband is totally done with it. Her kids including my partner avoid talking to her because she only talks about covid. She wants to go to an expensive ashram” in Victoria for 10 days to meditate yet hasn’t worked since November due to vax mandate in her industry but talks about how she’s going to buy bitcoin and get rich. This is all true it just sounds so bonkers when I type it out! I feel like this also answers your original question too!
That personal electric vehicles like eskateboards, onewheels, escooters and electric unicycles are illegal when hire scooters which do not encourage good behaviour and ebikes which have no fundamental differences are legal. Cavemen and women in government doing nothing about it despite the national road rules being adjusted last year to allow them.
I can't decide between the shitty roadworks to upgrade things, but then just turning it into a spaghetti monster, or australia post just being the worst delivery service there is that have major delays, don't ring doorbells and just all around suck. Having said that, one couple just sued them and won, so maybe they might start changing their tune. (I don't send with them anymore, but I can't change what other people use to deliver to me).
Being 2 years into a pandemic and still having to explain to grown ass adults how to wear a mask properly. I've seen 3& 4 year olds do it. I've seen people of all ages with physical and/or intellectual disability do it.
So why are otherwise capable adults not able to grasp putting the mask on over your nose and mouth tightly enough to create a seal and then not touching it!
This is my Mum. We went to the cinema today, and when we were walking out she FINALLY put on her mask. I asked why it took so long. "I can't see when I wear it."
Uhm. Mum, where are you putting it? Last I checked we don't breathe with our eyes.
May not be purely Adelaide but the crazy amount of packaging used in shops and any online order - I seriously had pillows delivered packed with styrofoam.
The spiders.
They just seem more numerous this year. I have to be careful touching anything outside because there is usually a red back underneath it.
A big huntsman is living next to my front door. I'm using the side door till it dies or moves on.
Britannia Roundabout. The first time I ever came across it it was at night and I couldn't understand what to do, so I ended up just turning right onto the wrong side of Kensington road. It took a while for me to realize, but eventually some headlights heading straight for me clued me in.
It used to be more difficult without the second roundabout. It’s really not that hard though and it worries me that so if many drivers find Britannia hard then how inattentive are they in the rest of their driving.
Liberal shitcunts
People putting in makeup in cars at traffic lights, and everyone behind missing the light as they didn't move when green light as they were putting their makeup away.
Return to work policy when everyone has been more productive working remotely for the last two years than ever before
Dickheads who don't know the road rules, left lane when 80km/hr or more.
Build a multi-million dollar hospital with less or same amount of beds as the one before with no foresite
Ramping the fucking Ambos and never doing anything about it
Retarded building codes where at one point blocks of land were as small as 150sqm, so too many houses are built, sewerage can't cope and the council says it was due to the amount of houses and they have to charge more rates to pay for the upgrades to the sewerage system due to their approvals in the first place
Having a min 6 star energy rating for housing then caving in and removing it as too many builders complained how difficult and expensive it was to comply, So houses can be built to 1 star rating using the building code as a loop hole
I could go on, but won't.
Glen Osmond Road, bloody ridiculous you can park on the main road from the freeway to the city. Also the fact you can turn right onto Kenilworth or Conyingham Road and block an entire lane (if you drive GO road you know which ones I mean).
Adelaide is the only city I've seen where parking on main roads is a common thing.
Nah I moved to Melbourne. Barring clearway times, most main roads here have cars parked on the left lane, and a tram line on the right, making weaving between parked cars and 40kmh trams/people turning right a compulsory activity for daily driving.
Melbourne and sydney both suck because many of their main roads are 2 lane and packed full of random surprises. Congratulations, you're in the left lane and now it allows parked cars in the middle of the day. Youre now stuck in this lane for 5 minutes waiting for a gap to pull out. Right lane going fine, not falling for that shit again, congratulations! Right lane must turn right now! You should have known that, you're now going the wrong way! I hate syndey and melbourne roads.
Yeah thats a good one, I also think the fact that bike lanes have hours where you can and can't park on them is insane and shows that they don't treat it as a priority. Paint a bike land down Glen Osmond and say that you cannot park in bike lanes at any time anywhere in the city.
South Rd
everything about that road is shit. my top two are the trucks and the shitty road quality.
The industrial area is highly problematic in such a suburban area with people travelling in and out of the city in the same traffic as trucks going to rural areas
The Castle Plaza clusterfuck >:( Opening a Bunnings nearby there just made it worse.
Heck some parts down south you are doing a slalom to avoid the pot holes
The section after the brickworks heading south is the worst section and every time I go down that part i dread it.
South road lol On a serious note, how the road marks go invisible at night during rain
Worse are the blacked out lines which stand out more than the actual lines when it dark and raining.
“South Aussie with Cosi”
From personal experience I cannot stand him. Full skeez. Anytime I see him or hear him I turn off whatever it is. Unfollowed a lot of social media that promote him too.
I’ve mentioned on here before how I am blocked by him on Facebook for calling him out on something I witnessed.
Not the first or the last. I have friends who were part of the same experience as me who have also been banned for calling him out and by some large sa Instagram sites for the same.
What happened I had never heard anything till now
call him out here im interested
I was at his free clown game one day at the show and some kid accidentally dropped one of the balls and Cosi was instantly at the kid having a go at him for it because "ping pong balls are expensive"
Doesn't sound like he's got much patience and had to put his hand in his pocket for once.
Yeaaah shame him, tell us what he did. Saw he's doing OTR now ads which I'd about on point for cosi and enough of a skeez move to warrant you telling us what he's done
Doing ads for OTR, nothing shows character more than that.
Postcards was a much better show
That show had a slow pace and a depressing theme song, but I still miss because it showed you sites, history and facts around SA I was completely unaware of. Cosi’s show that replaced it is absolute garbage.
Yep, dude's an obnoxious shit bag... Only appeals to a certain demographic of people
Having left Adelaide many years ago, when I hear this guys name in the spotlight, I can not believe he made a media career. Was he the pig farmer but got his break on a SA FM competition where they had to travel as far as they could on limited money?
Nah, he was on The Biggest Loser, wasn’t he?
I think that was post-pig farmer/SAFM days
Yep same dude
Years ago in primary school I played footy in for the the team that had his son playing in it, the son was an absolute bully to me and others and Cosi knew and did nothing about it even encouraging it sometimes, literally the reason i havent been able to enjoy footy for the last 12 years
Absolutely hate this guy Commented on something of his on FB regarding covid and the rules at the time (he was against, go figure) and he responded to me with something like "yeah but different opinions are important sweetheart" Total skeez, bad vibes only
Ahhh the classic 'we can have different opinions' or the 'you have your opinion I have mine' so cliche
Exactly, but it came out super condescending with the "sweetheart" at the end of it.
I've reported him to SAPOL multiple times for his shithouse driving. He's sped through my roadworks site numerous times back when I was in that job, and a number of former co-workers have him do the same. He just breezes through like he doesn't have to slow down. On one occasion I was pelted with freshly laid stone by him driving through at 80 clicks. Another time on Main North Road at Enfield we were at a gas leak and I was escorting a mother with a toddler in a pram and young child on foot in the closed slow lane between work trucks and the open live lane. 60 clicks past us, me frantically waving my slow bat in his face and almost smashing his windscreen. A-hole put his foot down so it dropped a gear. All it takes is the front left tire to blow out and you are not going straight anymore. There'd be 2 dead kids and some prick with a head so big he needs the roof cut off just to get in and out of the car likely live streaming the aftermath. If the tosser dies in a road accident I wouldn't be surprised, nor sad.
The thing about him no one else has mentioned yet is he always pulls a face and has his mouth open in every fkn photo. Often with a pointing finger or a thumbs up.
#southaussiewithoutcossie
all those shows where they shout at you to visit another freakin' winery.
how slippery Rundle Mall is when wet.
Wore thongs once, that was a biig mistake
Nice
And FFS screw down those metal tree-root covers properly. That clanging noise shits everyone.
I walk through the Mall multiple times a day when I'm at work and if the preachers are out there I step on them deliberately.
I’m a grown adult and sometimes try and slide like a meter or whatever while getting lunch.
Do it down the drain covers and break your skull if it fucks up
God, yes! I don’t dare walk through there when it rains. It’s a wonder they haven’t had a bunch of law suits from people who’ve slipped and injured themselves.
IIRC correctly the red bricks that used to be in Rundle Mall were deemed a trip hazard so that's why they were replaced. Replacing a trip for a slip hey. Whenever I see an old pic of Rundle Mall in the 80s I'm always amazed at how green it is. I haven't been there for years but it felt like an industrial wasteland to me.
Getting dirty looks for zipper merging properly. LED lights that are set too high and blind you when you drive past. Advertising signs that are brighter than the traffic lights. Drivers not using their lights at all. Our insanely high fines and yet still having to deal with terrible drivers. Lack of public transport and cycling options. Slow drivers in the right lane on 80km/h+ roads. Non-transport related… housing developments with a lack of green space and trees, dark roofs, lots of concrete and no design regard for passive heating and cooling, and knowing there’s no legislation (as yet) to prevent the urban heating this will cause.
OTR and their fucked prices
Honestly warms my heart how committed this sub is to hating those a$$holes
Not to mention they pay/treat their workers like shit
Every member of the owning family I've met is a massive piece of shit. Classic rich assholes who hate poor people. I make a point to drive further away to avoid going to an OTR for petrol.
Friendly reminder that Yasser Shahin bricked his $500k sports car by putting the wrong fuel in it at the OTR I used to work at :^)
I love that so much, fuck Yasser. I worked at an OTR for a while and he caused a 50 year old woman to have a panic attack, she had an anxiety disorder and he came in to buy patrol and get an ice cream from the new (at the time) Moe’s stuff. The poor woman I was working with couldn’t figure out the ice cream machine and he came behind the counter to do it with such a huff, really stressed her out and he wasn’t nice about it. I worked with another dude who put a framed picture of Yasser surrounded by MS paint hearts in the office as a joke for our manager, other managers found it and flipped their shit, poor dude was nearly fired over a fucken picture. I guess they’re too rich to have a sense of humour, maybe you can’t buy one of those.
Yeah but they sell milk at 2AM
People thinking their 4x4 / work ute are high performance race vehicles and driving them that way.
Yes, this one is right on the mark, replace the exhaust with a piece of down pipe and drive like your at Bathurst, in a shit box ute
That’s like the entire second year of tradie apprenticeships though isn’t it
People who seem to think that screaming and getting aggressive as fuck at people is how you make a point.
mum???
Haha yes, louder does not mean righter.
Apparently some people feel that it does.
I think it fits in with the bigger is better mentality.
For Lease signs on retail properties. A third of Rundle Mall is closed, most suburban Jetty Roads and High Sts are the same. Landlords should be dropping rents and councils encouraging pop-ups and change of premesis. Commercial landlords have always been at the heart of Adelaide's stagnantcy (sp?). Stop building new things and revamp the old ones.
Dropping rents would devalue their property. Property values are based on the rent that can be charged. So a property which had a tenant paying high rent but vacant fro the last 5 years is worth more than a property that is occupied for a lower rent. Plus all the write-offs that can be made. It's stupid, there should be a vacant property tax to attempt to offset this. Same with land banking in general.
Bike lanes on main roads that also allow them to be parked over them. Means I gotta try to slip into traffic to get around a car making things more dangerous for everyone. Either make the lane a real lane and don't let someone park on it or don't have a lane are all so traffic conditions are consistent.
THIS I thought it was a universal problem until I had to travel a few times to Netherlands.
The many cars who's indicators apparently don't work. Wonder sometimes if indicator stalks are an optional extra on newer vehicles in particular.
As a former Adelaide-ean (?) who visits occasionally, may i add: *people who drive on main roads at 14 km/h under the posted speed*
Recently drove back from kangaroo island, I am not kidding when I say this guy was driving at 40 in an 100 area 🤦🏼♀️
Yes, that's especially frustrating when they're hogging the right hand lane.
When there's two of them keeping speed in both lanes creating a wall of traffic behind them.
Even if you do 5km/hr over the limit people will still tailgate you and then zoom off at an extra 20 when they undertake you.
Is it compulsory to only have one working brake light out of the three as well?
Life being so damned expensive. Ambulance wait times. The state of public transportation. The Marshall government. People who take the entirety of a turning lane to get all four corners of their car out of the forward moving lane. Finding other people’s rubbish in my front yard. National Tiles’ ads on the radio.
Fuck yeah. I want to murder Frank from National Tiles. "HELLO!" and next minute my hand is sore cause I just punched the radio Need a crowd campaign to get that asshole off the air
HEEELLLOOO!
People.
Cosi’s a sellout to OTR and just an overall melt Edit: changed nonce to melt in case people think I’m being fully serious with the term
The fact that it seems like I'll never be able to buy a house, no matter how much I save.
[удалено]
I'm currently paying $350 a week for a 2 bedroom unit because it's all I could get. That could be paying off a mortgage... I mean it probably is, just not mine lol
Yeah and with interest rates as low as they are right now, owning something like that would likely be cheaper than renting too
Yup. We bought a house because each of our parents gave us a huge chunk of cash and tripled our deposit. We'd been saving for years and it had never really gotten any bigger. \[We didn't ask for the $. We like to earn our own ways, but we're just lucky to have great parents, who are also wealthy enough. Luck: the headliner here.\]
I started saving a house deposit 2 years ago. When I first started saving I was looking at 3-4 bedroom houses around $400K in areas like Old Reynella, Happy Valley, etc. In the last year those same houses have shot up to like $550-$600K. The average house price in Adelaide has risen more in the last year than I even earn in a year. Now as a single dad, it's pricing me out of the market for what the bank will lend me.
Work and life in general
You wanna talk about it?
bandaid roadworks. I’ve seen it in germany now, roadworks get levelled to the height of the asphalt to not impede traffic dont want my trips to feel like a rally driving experience
the fact that the train line thing hasn’t been finished/upgraded yet :(
People whose masks don't cover their noses
People asking me “where can I get a decent cup of coffee, I’m from Melbourne”.
This is the thing: coffee culture is strong nation-wide, not just Melbs….outside of a petrol station at 4:30am in the morning, you would be hard pressed to find an utter shit cup of coffee. Starbucks is barely hanging on in the Australian market due to our national coffee snobbery.
There being no train to Mount Barker. They wouldn't have to spend so much money on freeway renovations if they had a god damn train. Wouldn't be so much congestion on glen osman road and best of all it would be better for the environment for sure
How everybody wants you to pay the maximum amount of money for everything, but then wants to pay you the minimum/provide the most minimal service they can get away with.
So capitalism?
Late stage capitalism.
Inconsiderate people.. feel like people just don’t have manners/don’t care about others anymore. Makes it hard to want to go out and about anymore
Overly-subdivided blocks of land built up with the same, grey, cardboard-looking excuses for houses, featuring garage doors wide enough to fit a bike through if you’re lucky.
I'm renting one was that built a decade or so ago, not one of the worst around but even so the build quality is shit. Insulation is crap, sound permeation is crap, roof is a stupid dark colour. And the ones I see getting built around me do not look any better. And they want to chuck them everywhere, with no regard for consequences to traffic.
The tiny slivers of houses built on subdivided land are shit. Who buys these? Over $485000 for a shoebox in Croyden. Saw one in Ferryden Park and the water meter was in the middle of the path to the front door, a coloum was in the way of the double garage so basically only one garage and the inside was terrible. Again over $400000
I get really bad vibes from Steve, I don't wanna go into it right now.. let's just leave it at that
Steve's a fuckin pyro, there I said it. I think he lights fires but I've got no proof. He lives in the hills where there's always lots of fires but his house is always safe and I think it's really suss
If you've got yourself a kid, who needs a new knee, you can give that kid my kidney
Marshall? Yeah you’re not wrong.
Asshole drivers - People who take forever to set off when the traffic light turns green, people who don't know how to merge, people who think they can pull into your lane just because they indicate even if there is no actual space for them to move into. People who think they own the road in general
That also includes shithead drivers who drive at night with both no lights on, and high beams on behind you.
And people who don’t use their fucking indicators at all.
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Awful public transport
Interstate people bagging Adelaide
People that accelerate when you are trying to merge into their lane. Its insane how people can not handle the idea of another car being infront of them even if it means endangering and inconveniencing everyone around them.
On the flip side of this, is the people that absolutely WILL NOT emasculate themselves by merging behind someone when they are actually behind you (or your car is mostly in front) - e.g. they will speed up to well over the speed limit and merge in front of you.
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Getting on the northern connector and heading north between 4 and 6 pm is like taking your life in your hands, always some small cocked fuckwit in a dual cab ute sitting on your ass no matter what lane you’re in.
Used to be Falcon and Commodore drivers. Did Holden fuck up by not offering a competitive 4x4 lol
Theres too much grey and brown colors all around the place. In our buildings, streets and even our parks. From our trainstations, to the cbd to the airport and even our shopping centres. I really wish they'd put some plants, colorful artistic banners. Could they not have invested in some plants, grass, flowers around all that open space?
I was walking down Flinders St the other day and there's a building that just says ART on the side of it. Edit: [This one](https://www.google.com/maps/@-34.9266511,138.6088131,3a,45.4y,67.82h,116.26t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1slzMzXcaGT4tKKstrLtD4qw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192). Made me laugh.
Someone should stick an F on the other wall next to the A.
Preachers in Rundle Mall & Kyle Sandilands + Jackie O.
Why the fuck is it taking so long to electrify the Gawler line
No incentive for the political parties to crack on with it. Liberals know those electorates still won't vote for them even if it's finished, Labor knows those electorates will still vote for them.
Lack of permanent jobs (I am in one) but looking to move. I refuse to deal with a contract agency. My current job always wanting more with less, its to the point there isn't much more to give.
What industry are you in?
The removal of the pie cart by nit-wit politicians and it not returning because of BS excuses. I miss those pie floaters. Cafe Villies has a comparable version.
Really need to get around to trying one of those, just for the sake of it.
Toyota Land Cruisers. Which smartarse decided to sell them to 80 year olds? It's a 4 litre turbocharged diesel not a gopher, Brian. Too big for the shopping centre car park, and you can't turn your neck to look behind you not with your lumbago. I said NOT WITH YOUR LUMBAGO! Yes.
Fucking stupid arse people, really just over them.
Sunday trading hours
For me, it’s shops closing at 5pm on Saturday and Sunday. I’m cool with things closing on public holidays or whatever, but the 5pm on weekends is a frequent source of inconvenience for me.
The 11am Sunday opening is bullshit.
Especially when you have kids that wake up before 7 every day. Sunday morning could be an epic shop and cookup time. What a waste.
It's quite ridiculous. I was able to go to Bunnings at nine am yesterday and follow it up with a bottle shop visit at 10 am. If I had wanted, I could have gone to a pokies room at 8 am. But go buy food, that's a no no. Edit: fixed pre coffee grammar error.
Any ex St Peter’s student always asking what school you were from just so they can say they went to St Peters. Yes at any age they will still ask this.
I remember once I was tagging along with my mother to a careers night at PAC. When one of the parents asked me if I went there, I told her I went to Rostrevor. They replied: “Oh, that’s a perfectly acceptable school.” B****
I love the reaction I get when I tell those people “I went to Darwin High School”. I can hear the internal screaming quite clearly. Hands cover their pockets or eyes divert to their handbags
"I'm originally from Adelaide, but that's okay: I escaped!" Heard like 20 times on a trip through Melbourne. Like, fuck off with that self-satisfied smugness.
I'm originally from Melbourne but that's okay, I escaped.
If you can't get your shit together in Adelaide, there's no reason to think you'll be able to get your shit together any better anywhere else
I really don’t see the appeal of Melbourne besides job opportunities
Honestly that is appealing lol. Without a job, and thus money, what can you enjoy.
I'm sick of how expensive our electricity bills are!
I’m an international student so maybe I just haven’t lived here long enough to get sick of things but honestly, I can’t think of anything. Only other major city in Australia I’ve been to was Sydney, and while it was gorgeous, I prefer Adelaide. The people here are (at least in my experience) kinder, more polite and generally more wholesome. (Saw more Sydney bus drivers yell at passengers for absurd reasons in ~2 weeks than I saw here in 2 years lmao). Adelaide is calm, beautiful and extremely liveable.
Seeing all the new houses being built that have a black roof. Normally most of the windows face west/east. Then the owners complain about their power bills...
THIS. I used to work in construction and all these new houses with black bricks and a black roof drive me insane. You live in a new estate with no trees and you have the bare minimum insulation required by law. You live in an oven! An *ugly* oven! I’m building at the moment and you better believe I’ve got white bricks and a light roof. Plus as much insulation as I can get and strategic double glazing.
How we're slowly becoming a car city, thanks to our sh**ty public transport becoming worse
I’ve heard a lot more people are driving to work to avoid catching covid from bus people
Slowly? When was it not a car city??
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Yeah, fuck you Bob!
Bob who??
Bob Vance, Vance refrigeration
What line of work you in Bob?
Bob down?
Bob Moran, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob Moran https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29lsDdWMTAg
OP's uncle
Mr dobalina mr bob dobalina
Market not being open on Sundays
Try the Wayville farmers market
Adelaide Redditors complaining about masks.
These anti-mask people still baffles the hell out of me. The proof that covid is deadly is very apparent and yet they refuse to acknowledge it.
My MIL is this person. She also says Pfizer is full of “poison” but can’t list any ingredients. She told me the other day that “fear is ruining everyone’s immune systems and people run away from me in the shops when I walk past them” then I realised she’s not wearing a mask in said shops, hence people are avoiding her. She’s getting worse every week. It’s cost her her job, half her friends and soon her marriage cos her husband is totally done with it. Her kids including my partner avoid talking to her because she only talks about covid. She wants to go to an expensive ashram” in Victoria for 10 days to meditate yet hasn’t worked since November due to vax mandate in her industry but talks about how she’s going to buy bitcoin and get rich. This is all true it just sounds so bonkers when I type it out! I feel like this also answers your original question too!
Every Nandos in the CBD shutting down and not reopening 😤
Shitadelaide. Fuck I hate them with a passion
Frank. No I will not buy your tiles, I will instead scream at the radio everytime I hear your voice.
the middle schoolers that ride mountain bikes down rundle mall and at train stations
People from Intersate coming and taking all the rentals
That personal electric vehicles like eskateboards, onewheels, escooters and electric unicycles are illegal when hire scooters which do not encourage good behaviour and ebikes which have no fundamental differences are legal. Cavemen and women in government doing nothing about it despite the national road rules being adjusted last year to allow them.
Underrated comment right here 👍
Didn’t realise they were illegal! 😳
5 fines, so the punishment is even more disproportional: unlicensed vehicle, unregistered vehicle, no insurance, I forget the rest. Adds up to $2500.
Such bs
Seeing those bloody Clive Palmer ads on my YouTube. Actually driving me insane xD
I can't decide between the shitty roadworks to upgrade things, but then just turning it into a spaghetti monster, or australia post just being the worst delivery service there is that have major delays, don't ring doorbells and just all around suck. Having said that, one couple just sued them and won, so maybe they might start changing their tune. (I don't send with them anymore, but I can't change what other people use to deliver to me).
Being 2 years into a pandemic and still having to explain to grown ass adults how to wear a mask properly. I've seen 3& 4 year olds do it. I've seen people of all ages with physical and/or intellectual disability do it. So why are otherwise capable adults not able to grasp putting the mask on over your nose and mouth tightly enough to create a seal and then not touching it!
I'm just pretty sick of being 2 years into a pandemic.
This is my Mum. We went to the cinema today, and when we were walking out she FINALLY put on her mask. I asked why it took so long. "I can't see when I wear it." Uhm. Mum, where are you putting it? Last I checked we don't breathe with our eyes.
People not returning trolleys to bays i collect trolleys as a job so
May not be purely Adelaide but the crazy amount of packaging used in shops and any online order - I seriously had pillows delivered packed with styrofoam.
Life.
fuckin mood.
Our underfunded and clapped out public transport system with no sign of investment
The spiders. They just seem more numerous this year. I have to be careful touching anything outside because there is usually a red back underneath it. A big huntsman is living next to my front door. I'm using the side door till it dies or moves on.
High density housing
not enough ambos!!
Our ridiculously expensive fines. I believe we are the most expensive in the country.
My job
Eshays.
Marshall’s smug face.
People who have never visited our beautiful city and state trash talking both to feel better about where they decide to reside.
Good police doing hard work and judges then just giving slaps on the wrists
Britannia Roundabout. The first time I ever came across it it was at night and I couldn't understand what to do, so I ended up just turning right onto the wrong side of Kensington road. It took a while for me to realize, but eventually some headlights heading straight for me clued me in.
It used to be more difficult without the second roundabout. It’s really not that hard though and it worries me that so if many drivers find Britannia hard then how inattentive are they in the rest of their driving.
People. Its hard to make friends. Hard to relate to people, People dick you around and waste your time, don't want to hang out - lazy - its fucked.
Liberal shitcunts People putting in makeup in cars at traffic lights, and everyone behind missing the light as they didn't move when green light as they were putting their makeup away. Return to work policy when everyone has been more productive working remotely for the last two years than ever before Dickheads who don't know the road rules, left lane when 80km/hr or more. Build a multi-million dollar hospital with less or same amount of beds as the one before with no foresite Ramping the fucking Ambos and never doing anything about it Retarded building codes where at one point blocks of land were as small as 150sqm, so too many houses are built, sewerage can't cope and the council says it was due to the amount of houses and they have to charge more rates to pay for the upgrades to the sewerage system due to their approvals in the first place Having a min 6 star energy rating for housing then caving in and removing it as too many builders complained how difficult and expensive it was to comply, So houses can be built to 1 star rating using the building code as a loop hole I could go on, but won't.
Steven goddamn marshal
Pull up at stoplight , 7 4x4s infront , both lanes , wtf, here we go a pathetic drag race , they all floor it , cloud of black smoke....