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#3348696 28-Feb-2025 12:47

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Eva888:

Did a big shop, milk, meat, salmon etc yesterday evening. This morning found that the fridge had been propped open all night. It got caught on something sticking out. Shut door and don’t want to think about it.

Fridge can be not so bad - freezer can be worse.

Our freezer got caught open a touch overnight a few weeks ago.
It overcompensated and effectively blasted a hoar-frost across the open doorway.

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#3348707 28-Feb-2025 13:18

Eva888:

Did a big shop, milk, meat, salmon etc yesterday evening. This morning found that the fridge had been propped open all night. It got caught on something sticking out. Shut door and don’t want to think about it.

Friend of mine's dad went away on holiday for a fortnight. It some point the door to the mini freezer in the basement that they use for storing fish bait popped open and some of the bait bags slid out....

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#3348708 28-Feb-2025 13:31

neb:

Friend of mine's dad went away on holiday for a fortnight. It some point the door to the mini freezer in the basement that they use for storing fish bait popped open and some of the bait bags slid out....

Warm, old fish bait ... 🤢

About three weeks after Cyclone Tracey flattened Darwin, some Australian Navy crew were tasked with clearing an industrial area in Darwin town. They discovered this included a couple of storage sheds formerly kept frozen but without power for three weeks, that contained sea food, mostly prawns. You cannot imagine the stench 🤮🤮🤮
Fairly quickly, they decided the only way to do it was to treat it as a full NBCD (Nuclear Biological & Chemical Defence) contamination exercise. They found out a lot about the effectiveness & usability of NBCD protection gear in a tropical environment.

My sister's boyfriend at the time was a junior officer on the ship concerned, and got up close & personal with the whole disgusting situation. Sometimes Defence Force people are heroes in unexpected ways.

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#3348712 28-Feb-2025 13:44

PolicyGuy:

About three weeks after Cyclone Tracey flattened Darwin, some Australian Navy crew were tasked with clearing an industrial area in Darwin town. They discovered this included a couple of storage sheds formerly kept frozen but without power for three weeks, that contained sea food, mostly prawns. You cannot imagine the stench 🤮🤮🤮

From a report on problems with a freight depot at Denver airport when it first opened:

They hired hundreds of university students to clamber about the six-story warehouse to identify just what was where. The tons of frozen liver that had not been placed in a refrigerated section were found in a few days. It took much longer to find the corpses in their coffins.

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#3348715 28-Feb-2025 13:49

rb99: Being able to select a group of bookmarks and open them with the old CTRL+Click or SHIFT+Click.

In Firefox if you group bookmarks into folders you can open the entire folder into separate tabs.

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#3348717 28-Feb-2025 13:58

PBTech's "frequently bought together".

Needed a new battery for a motion sensor. Searched for said sensor on their site, saw it paired with batteries so used that as the guide and went and bought them.

Wrong size.

EDIT: And was so confident, didn't ask for a receipt.

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#3348722 28-Feb-2025 14:16

Never leave a shop without a receipt. Don't want to be accused of shoplifting by overzealous security.

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#3348729 28-Feb-2025 14:51

k1w1k1d:

Never leave a shop without a receipt. Don't want to be accused of shoplifting by overzealous security.

I know. It was only $7 so.....

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#3348750 28-Feb-2025 16:58

k1w1k1d:

Never leave a shop without a receipt. Don't want to be accused of shoplifting by overzealous security.

If they give you the option of no receipt they have no right to be asking for one. Just walk on by and say no thanks, I'm ok.

Might change with this stupid new law but for now just ignore the requests at the door if they bother you.

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#3348875 1-Mar-2025 01:18

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eracode:

Eva888:

Did a big shop, milk, meat, salmon etc yesterday evening. This morning found that the fridge had been propped open all night. It got caught on something sticking out. Shut door and don’t want to think about it.

Fridge can be not so bad - freezer can be worse.

Our freezer got caught open a touch overnight a few weeks ago.
It overcompensated and effectively blasted a hoar-frost across the open doorway.

I left my fridge unplugged for a couple of weeks during the Xmas holidays, so that the condenser could unclog. So far it hasn't leaked again, though the fridge door sometimes needs extra force to open. Maybe it's a door seal issue?

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#3348883 1-Mar-2025 07:33

Eva888:

Did a big shop, milk, meat, salmon etc yesterday evening. This morning found that the fridge had been propped open all night. It got caught on something sticking out. Shut door and don’t want to think about it.

Unless wide open, should be fine.

Doesn’t your fridge beep if left open?

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#3350207 4-Mar-2025 22:12

Air NZ Chat.

I am likely impacted by Cyclone Alfred in upcoming travel. AirNZ have said I can change my outbound flight with no penalties or costs, I wanted to know if I could my AU departure date by the same number of days I am delayed leaving by. 1 hour and still no answer that tells me for sure.

All they wanted to do was credit the flight, but the return flights are now almost double and then some.

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#3350340 5-Mar-2025 09:29

Receiving a fine for $150 in the mail for using a T2 lane on the North Shore, when the driver (my son) was alone.

Annoying because I will have to go through the dubious disputes process, as the T2 only operates from 4-6pm and the "offence" occurred at 6.19pm...

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#3350342 5-Mar-2025 09:35

johno1234:

Eva888:

Did a big shop, milk, meat, salmon etc yesterday evening. This morning found that the fridge had been propped open all night. It got caught on something sticking out. Shut door and don’t want to think about it.

Unless wide open, should be fine.

Doesn’t your fridge beep if left open?

It's a second fridge in the laundry and yes it does have a very soft beep but once the laundry door is closed and me being hard of hearing, couldn’t hear a thing.

It would be nice if they made beepers that you can turn up to a loud screech according to your hearing ability or distance to living area, especially when there’s a freezer attached. It’s not only the cost, but the hellish mess you need to sort if not found early.

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#3350351 5-Mar-2025 10:02

Handsomedan:

Receiving a fine for $150 in the mail for using a T2 lane on the North Shore, when the driver (my son) was alone.

Annoying because I will have to go through the dubious disputes process, as the T2 only operates from 4-6pm and the "offence" occurred at 6.19pm...

If the ticket says 6:19pm then it sounds like a bulletproof defense - you should be able to just write this in and be done with it. More fool them if they drag this to a court dispute and get smacked by the judge.

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