Daily Discussion Thread 🦦🦦🦦 Saturday, August 3, 2024

Hi everyone, just a quick heads up that I've created an account on Aussie Zone directly, instead of cross-posting from Mastodon.

So if you've noticed my username has suddenly changed, that's why 😊

so many hugs 😘
- Thank youuu 🥰
  So yeah, no more @ing half a dozen people on every reply.
  (Yeah, that one was starting to annoy me too!)
Ah welcome entirely to this wholesome place haha
I do think mastodon is such a cool name for it tho
One of us, one of us!

Always shake out your bags before going to market.

Void says don't forget treats or I'll bite your fingers.
Hi,
Please be advised that I am going to meme your cat.
Thank you for not objecting.
Kind regards,

Bookends.

Hahaha. Gargoyles.
Guardian lions. I love the colour of your couch, too

Well, yah Llab has levelled up in the migraine game. Forced ED visit was a first.

Feeling human at this point, highly underrated.

Thank you, thank you, thank you to people who made drugs.

Oof that sounds rough. :( hope it's a quick recovery and stays that way for you here
- Thanks so much!
  Much, much better now. Never say never, but praying this is my first and last (visit).
hope you feel better real soon
migraines can be scary , just rest now , so many hugs
- Thanks so much! Rest was definitely advised.
Migraines are vile. Are you on preventative meds? It could be time to revisit your neuro if things have changed.
Yay for feeling human!
- Thanks! Definitely revelling in my humanness today!

new to me cabinet is here, Bill Cat loves it. It really needs a clean and I'm stripping out the contact someone had put in

it's perfect for my shell collection 😊🐚

Ooh keen to see the shell collection when it's done :)

God I'm annoyed.

Old man is 80 attempting to clean gutters (that I've already cleaned). Ladder would be 2.8m high. When I wasn't looking he moved the ladder which I had anchored and tethered at the correct angle on flat gravel. At 80, doing it in inappropriate footwear, moved it to undulating wet grass with a running hose (going all over the ladder).

So I gave him a lecture on how fucking stupid that was. He didn't take that well.

Just last month putting blinds up inside, he was scaling a step ladder in socks.

Fucken death wish.

Stubbornness at its best. My dad’s prone to it as well.
Sigh
- @Duenan @Bottomracer And people wonder why I'm scared of ladders!
Well, one of the highest %age of falls includes a ladder.
May or might not help: https://www.health.gov.au/resources/publications/dont-fall-for-it-falls-can-be-prevented?language=en
(Hmm, just realised I have no links markup button.)
Anyhoo, facts: risk of falls is higher post surgery. Does he really want to risk a break or joint replacement (NOF breaks do not equal fun). There will be pain, recovery and restrictions.
Not to mention all the other nasties you can do.
Nothing is a good as your own stuff is you if don’t need it replaced. (Pride before fall. Pun intended.)
- seriously, if you use a ladder wait until you can get someone to help
- And I'll add to this that the 12 month mortality rate post hip fracture for those over 65 is around 50%. It truly is life changing and not in a good way.

Attempting this for dinner - Air fryer nachos

Edit - goddamn! That was really f-ing good and the kids loved it. Win

You NEED to let us know how you go
Oohh nachos. Sounds yummy!
omg, that could feed like 3 people, 4 tops

Yay: brain fog seemed to be clearing

Nay: got short sharp shock diarrhoea immediately after eating out today

Yay: recovered quickly and took my young relative on her first ever drive and it went well

Nay: brain fog returning and can't have tasty dinner :(

Yay: I have no commitments for the rest of the weekend and a light week next week, and can just sleep, and sleep, and sleep.

Damn. Really riding that roller coaster there.
What’s for dinner tonight?
- Just plain clear soup and toast. Not gonna be too hard on my tummy for tonight at least

Went shopping for a birthday gift for 10yo, who apparently is into Rainbow Friends. Ugh, I hate buying Roblox game merch, like they need my money. Minipeelers started to get shitty at each other, so I bought them each a $5 pool noodle and had them fight it out in the park next to the train station. They had fun with it, and it made a few people smile as they went past.

That's brilliant!!!
- @CEOofmyhouse56 @PeelerSheila Reminds me of a few years ago, when I had to go along to a friend's kids' birthday party.
  I really didn't know what to get as a prezzie. I ended up picking a stuffed pink unicorn toy that cost maybe $10.
  Fast forward to the party.
  The kids parents and grandparents absolutely spoiled this kid.
  I'm talking hundreds of dollars worth of toys. It was just obscene!
  The living room of their house ended up filled with them. A Barbie doll house that was taller than this kid. A ride-on toy car. Half a dozen battery-powered things that made annoying noises.
  Anyway. Eventually the kid opened my present.
  Hrr eyes lit up. She grabbed it, cuddled that unicorn, and left all the other toys on the ground.
  Her grandma and grandpa were visibly miffed.
  So yeah. Sometimes a cheap, fun toy trumps hundreds of dollars of overpriced plastic crap. 🧸🦄🎁
We're running a roaring trade off in gift bags with a roblox gift card and giant bags of mixed Lollies in my 10yo's friend group.
- I'm gonna keep that in mind for next time, that's a good one.

The dog and I had a synchronised snooze on the couch. The kid walked past and took a photo because we looked "cute" and also to deposit a dropped chicken nugget into his bowl. He did not wake up. I have broken a Jack Russell.

Doggo rigidly respecting the 5 second rule.
- He must of been in a deep sleep because he can hear a dropped nugget from three rooms away.
Now I want chicken nuggets
Related: has anyone tried snchitz's nuggets (which they lovingly entitled "Schnuggets")? I haven't because they seem ridiculously expensive, but then again, they all at the moment
- No I haven't tried them
  Buy some spicy chicken tenders from the freezer at Aldi. They are very good.
Did he get his nuggs in the end? My heart is breaking thinking that the poor critter is starving.
- Yeah he got his nugget and of course he wanted more.

Fell asleep on couch for hours. Would've stayed there if I hadn't turned off the heater at some point. Moved to bedroom which should've been pre heated between 8-11pm but the heat had all dissipated by the time I ambled in at 2:50am. I'm under so many layers but now I can't go back to sleep, grrr...

On the upside, first night without any coughing at all, probably from sleeping on the couch with my head raised much higher.

I fell asleep sitting up too and felt ok. In the past everyone used to sleep sitting up in box beds, they thought it was healthier. Maybe sleeping with lots of big pillows is not such a bad idea?
- I think I'd need to push my bed up against a wall so I can prop pillows up against it for sideways support. I tried sleeping with lots of pillows in bed when my cough was worse but would keep sliding off

Good morning everyone. Happy Saturday

Happy Saturday! I trust Chook is in fine feather?
- He’s singing joyously and doing laps of the living room
Happy staurday!
Morning mum. Welcome to the weekend 🥰

I have finished bg3. And I am heartbroken. It wasn’t the destination, it was the journey. And the characters will have a lasting effect on me. 10/10 perfect game.

Time for another play through and a different ending
- Honestly no idea what I’m gonna do next. Gonna give Bg3 a bit of time to mellow I think.
I felt the same about suzerain. Kind of broke me for a few days afterwards. There's nothing really sad, but being completely engrossed in a story of your choosing for 15-20 hours tends to make your character feel like an extension of yourself. Hard to snap out of it
- Exactly, the character WAS me. And he got a happy ending of sorts but it was about the family made along the way and some tough losses.
What did you play as?
- Wizard. With Karlach, shadowheart and lazel as my main party.

Dunno if tradie do the ones your looking for, but been pretty happy with the boxer briefs I got from them. I’d wait for them to be on sale though.
- Yeah maybe
@melbaboutown @Seagoon I've definitely noticed a decline in their quality, especially with their elastics, stitching, and fabric quality.
Also, any "lace" trims will begin to fray in a wash or two, even if you handle it carefully.
It's very frustrating.
I have no idea what to do. Maybe try Zara or H&M.
- Uniqlo seems to be pretty good quality still for reasonable prices. Their stuff lasts well.
  But yep, so much cheap crap out there. It's really alarming. It's not just ripping people off but also filling up landfill.
- Maybe if I get a chance to try on

It's Saturday night and I'm so stressed because I was worried I'd made a mistake on an order and was ready to write my resignation to my boss. I think that it's time I get a new job.

Just check your work, fix mistakes if you can. hugs
- Thanks, I did log on and check and it's right, but I had a meeting with the higher ups yesterday that just didn't feel good and now I'm second guessing everything. Thanks for the hugs :)

For Low. 💖 These are the best mustelids I could find.

Good night everyone, sleep well and have sweet dreams. 😘

They are very cute!!

New account same fluffy butt

Will you grace us with a pic of said fluffy butt? :3
- In a calmer moment. Also I'm going to finish depth level 3 today, I've got all day in bed.
without a pic we must assume you are an impostor
- Ta da!
All good, G?

Just slept 13 hours. Hopefully I have paid off some of my sleep debt.

I don't know what to do with my life. The only thing that remotely appeals to me is secondary teaching. I gain satisfaction from seeing lightbulb moments after teaching someone how to do something, I think of myself as a relatively patient person, I care about student welfare and am passionate about the subject areas I want to teach.

I've always struggled with school (partly due to undiagnosed ADHD that I'm still not medicated for) and also I know I'd be perceived as a pushover and not know what to do when a kid is behaving poorly. I was perceived that way when tutoring.

My parents say they don't see me in the classroom. They say to do something in the medical field that's not medicine or nursing.

I'm in my last semester of my degree majoring in psychology. I've been merit listed for HR jobs which probably means I won't get something. I will probably end up going into further study, but even teaching is starting to not appeal to me anymore. I don't know what to do and the pressure is mounting to decide.

Part of me just wants to run away to the other side of the world and work as a bartender, because it would work with my sleep schedule and making drinks seems fun.

I mean, no one has it figured out. We think we do, but we don't know what the future will bring.
Those teaching course should help with teaching you how to handle certain kids, so I wouldnt stress about that. No matter what you do, you won't be stuck. It's okay to decide later that something isn't right and to make changes. If you want to go across the world, or take a break and be bartender here or there, then you should. It may help with you deciding what you want to do. You'll meet new people and gain different experiences, and all that will contribute to who you are and will be, and help you decide what you want to pursue. But ultimately, you will always have a choice. You can do study later on, change jobs and careers, etc.
I'm sorry you feel under pressure though, it sucks feeling like a deadline is looming :(
- Thank you <3
I feel you.
I'm (going to when they fucking reply to my fricking damn fricking emails and enrol me) studying community services, and know that I want to do something vaguely in community services, but I don't know what exactly appeals. I'm sort of hoping that after I complete the cert III and decide on a cert IV, I'll be placed somewhere and discover my passion.
For me though, I do have ideas of where I want to be in the future, which will probably act as a guiding light. I'm certain I'd like to emigrate to somewhere in the EU, and I'm currently thinking Sweden. The easiest way to do that is most likely to go down the work visa route. Sweden doesn't seem to split their workers into skilled and unskilled, but there is a requirement that you can only apply if the role has been advertised within Sweden, Switzerland, and the rest of the EEA/EU first. Meaning I'd probably only find a job with an employer willing to sponsor a work visa if I am uniquely skilled. That only really leaves me with a few options, so that's what the goal is. I'd rather suck it up and work in a job I don't like to move to the EU than for money anyways
I've always struggled with school (partly due to undiagnosed ADHD that I'm still not medicated for)
Fucking FELT
I gain satisfaction from seeing lightbulb moments after teaching someone how to do something,
You can get this from helping people in psych therapy/counselling
- I'm still thinking about pursuing that pathway but hmmmmm decisions, decisions, decisions :p

Went to watch Deadpool & wolverine with the fam tonight.

What a culmination of the last 30 years of Super hero movies.

Hit the right feels, whilst being stupidly violent and funny as shit.

This weekend is going to be so chill, it’s great

Good morning everybody. Did we all have fun last night?

I did. I finished work then immediately hit the pub (Drunken Poet is love, Drunken Poet is life) and had some tonkotsu ramen. A pleasant start to the weekend
I did. 😊
Meh. I went to sleep late, but I don't even remember why. I think I was just laying in bed watching YouTube.
Also, I dared to try and sleep with the washing machine on while still half traumatised from recent events, so I woke up a dozen times at every little noise thinking somebody was breaking into the house, until eventually I was so tired at about 4 that I just passed out (I first started trying to sleep at 2:30)
I did. Watched a very good game of footy last night.
Eagles Vs Suns

Goodnight all

Sleep well, Gib and Gibson 💜

I have been Deadpooled

Was it good?
- It’s fun, loud, messy, and silly. Not High Art.
  And anyone who believes Hugh did that without pills I can offer a great deal on the Opera House.

The last of the shitty brickwork is outta the grouuuund!!!

Since i need to put in drainage anyway, thinking of maybe dropping french drain lines along the original dividers. Hubby quite liked them, but they were shot to shit and in the way of my planned wicking beds.

Yay 🎉

@Seagoon Let's get the ball rolling...

Much on over the weekend for everyone?

At my end, some of it will be spent planning last minute anniversary surprises for wifey. It's on the 12th of August, so I've really left it to the last minute 😔

Suggestions welcome...

I'm sick, so video games and making music.
And a long session of playing "fetch" with the cat lol

No reply from trampoline guy. Ass kinda saved.

- 🥹🥹🥹
  He owns ferrets, and I'm assuming he has also realised it's better for the brain to pat them instead of engaging with me ☺️☺️

Holy crap.

My 🐱 giving me anxiety with such a close win tonight.

Wish they’d stop doing that to me!

For all contributors to my poll below, please DM me for lottery numbers. I will take 25% of winnings and offer no refunds or compensation thankyou
If you did not contribute this becomes 65% of winnings and if you lose you owe me 25% of losses

As a Fire Snake who has a Scorpio Moon I choose to keep my gambling money in the freezer with the hemaroid cream
- Everything of mine is in scorpio. Apparently that's weird

everything I put out for people to take for free has gone, all the dvds, the knickknacks and the jigsaw puzzles

I also took two big bags of miss seagoon's clothes and some blankets to the opshop

tomorrow I put more stuff out

I came home with some LPs and a small 1960s maple glass cabinet to put my shell collection in. I'm trying to get things kind of tidy.

You didn't happen to put out a wall clock and some kitchen stuff and over the door storage hangers? Because Mr P has come home with a car load of stuff from someone's nature strip!
- No. 😹
  But I do love the community recycling here. It's neighbourly.
  I have a garden table I'm putting out next week and more books.

Seeking contribution from resident qualified numerologists, acupuncture practioners, and horticulturists: please select one option from the following:
Seven
Orange
Tarantula
Aquarius
*Please list your qualifications

Aquarius.
*Have listened to the Hair soundtrack, which taught me that when the moon is in the seventh house, and Jupiter aligns with Mars, then peace will guide the planets, and love will steer the stars. Which sounds sorta nice.
- Thank you 🙏
Tarantula.
I like spiders and think they're neat!
- Thank you 🙏 follow up question: how many tarantulas would you own if you could
Seven
My friend told me yesterday that seven is the best number, and I should hold that as a fact, not opinion.
- I like your style. Thank you 🙏
None of the above. Because.
- Go one at random then, c'mon
Oranges. Degree in horticulture.
(Did you mean horologist or are you seeking plant advice?)
- I am seeking advice from a horticulturist, though it does not concern plants
Aquarius
I once owned fish
- Thank you 🙏
Orange.
I have grown citrus trees and read books. 👍
- Thank you 🙏
Seven
I have at least that many toes
- Thank you 🙏
Seven and oranges.
Symbolic and tasty if sweet.
Tarantula
There are several plants in my garden that I have managed not to kill (and many spiders)
- Thank you 🙏

Beep Beep 🚚
🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋

Cold and flu tablets pretty please 🤧
- 💊💊
umm, some spring rolls please
- 🫔🫔🫔
84 gallons of fake blood please
- 🛢️🛢️🛢️
A nice selection of bits of meat & veg on skewers, dripping with hot sauce and a cup of tea please.
My neighbour's jasmine is fat and heavy with flower buds - spring will be here soon. You heard it here first.
- 🥓🥩🍗🍖🍡🍢
  🌶️🍯🌶️🍯🌶️🍯☕️
HSP would go down well plz chef
- 🥩🍟🍯
A coffee, a very good cup of coffee please.
- ☕️
A peanut gallery please
- 🥜🖼️

😹 I sorted my dvds and put out a dozen for people to take for free. A neighbour beat me to it and had a pile out there already. I brought two in but I've still got ten less than I had. 😹😹

Oooh I need to come to your area

Feeling supremely unmotivated after this morning's early activities, not helped by both Zooki and Sammi pinning me to the couch. Did manage to get a load of washing on though.

Another Gold for the Aussies 🥇

Mens doubles tennis

Oh dammit. I missed seeing Matt Ebden play tonight :(
- Don't worry they'll replay it again tomorrow morning.

I do most of my shopping in Brunny and I just want to shout out and say everyone there dresses so stylishly. They might not have designer clothes but what they wear they wear so well and confidently.

i

The cost of basic fabrics is pretty extravagant, even when you shop around. Sewing your own stuff isn’t thrifty anymore. It’s even probably a luxury hobby by now.

*I’ve checked clearance and discount fabric sites and wouldn’t want the stuff that’s affordable. The selection is not good

Yup! And finding non poly stuff is getting harder and harder. Where you really blow money though is on the bits people don’t always think of. Zippers, facing fabric, the amount buttons go for is obscene!
- I’m not even after quality! Just looking for cheap as chips trackie pants fabric in a generic colour. And only because the current clothes are so bad.
  Edit: I’ve still got some zips and buttons from long ago op shop hoards
I agree with Seagoon - 2nd hand is the way to go. Op shops have sheets and often leftover fabric that's been donated. Sacred Heart has a better selection than Vinnies. A single bed sheet is ample for a lot of projects. If you need a zip, rather than paying $12.50 in Lincraft, look for a garment with the right colour and length zip for $2. The crappiest garments often have good buttons or zips.
- Absolutely. I used to haunt the local op shops. Unfortunately I’m not getting many opportunities these days. Pretty grumpy about it
- I have no idea what the actual cost of my sofa Reno is. Some of the fabric has been in stash for 20 years. Buying it all at once right now would likely cause an embolism…
I buy second hand items to use the fabric. Just have to look very carefully.
if what you want is fabric for warm comfortable trackie pants try looking at some new fleece blankets
- Way ahead of you. They looked like they’d be recognisable as blankets though (at least the lighter colours that would show less white cat fur)
Ditto with yarn. It'll cost you a fortune to knit or crochet yourself a jumper, like a couple of hundred dollars.
Op shops sometimes have fabric, but you have to be lucky, and have the time/energy/transport to travel around.
- My best op shop find ever was lots of yarn. I got there just as they were putting out what must have been a knitter's whole stash, and included real wool yarn, in large quantities of matched lots. I bought enough to make four or five jumpers, at something like $1 a ball.
- Yep. Energy and transportation are what’s missing.

Doctor ordered the routine blood tests and the closest place was still the Highett place, so drove up and am sitting in a cafe in Cheltenham waiting on my breakfast. Charman Rd carpark is already filling. (Locals will understand.)

My Lemmy crashed when I was halfway through writing a long comment :( and I can't be bothered retyping everything

Spotify crashed too, which was odd

vocal fry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDfJn1kcQuU

fuck i hate it

Anti-gratitude thread.

What I just paid out of pocket for a Saturday GP appointment. 💀💀💀 All because I missed their call on Monday, and they hadn't been able to get back to me since.
- I feel this pain in my bones.
  It almost feels like a fine...
Still sick 😢
I woke up after midday today which was unintended.
I’m also running out of peanut butter :(
I still have half my work day to go.

I had a couple of replacements arrive this week, but I haven't had much of a chance to play around with them. One of them was an old Oppo AX7 that I had laying around. It was actually just about completely dead. I got it in 2019, and it was the first sort of decent phone I had. It was 300 bucks, and I paid for half of it, with the last place I was at paying for the other half. I used it for a couple of years, before eventually dropping it so many times that the LCD broke and a black blotch started spreading along my screen. Still worked. Until in the middle of the night it stopped working. I purchased a new screen for it in 2023 planning to fix it up and use it as a wardriving device, but I couldn't get the fucking screws out. I tried everything, and even asked 4 different people to give it a crack. Damn Oppo really don't want you fixing their phones. I did some googling, and found that someone suggested using a tiny bit of super glue to bind it to a screwdriver and get it out. That didn't work. I gave up with half (4) of the screws left. Gave it to one of the techy workers, and he managed to get 3 out using a bit of solder, but that one was forever stuck. That's actually why I bought the S8. Had it and the screen replacement in a little bag I was planning on taking to ewaste, but then old mate snapped it in half. So I got a working phone out of a broken one lmao

The other notable thing was the MacBook that was stolen. I got it back in 2018 and was the first laptop I had. In 2020 my charger broke, and I asked my last place to get me a new one. That got me some dodgy knockoff from eBay, and after a few weeks, it sparked when I plugged it into the port and charred one of the ports, burning out one of the pins on the charger. I cleaned it up a bit and borrowed a genuine one from my school which charred and burnt out too (no sparking though). I deemed it mostly a write off and put it in its box and kept it in some drawers, intending to replace the I/O board when I had $150 to spare. When I moved in here, I decided to order the cheapest eBay charger I could find, just to see if it would happen again and determine if it was worth replacing the I/O board. It worked, and never had another issue. Funnily enough though, in 2018 a kid at a previous placement got shitty with me and scratched the back up quite a bit, so I also basically got an upgrade out of this one too.

Although oddly, both of these arrived completely filthy. The phone was bought from CeX and the MacBook from some refurbishment shop. I can understand why the person Hocking them wouldn't clean them, but why wouldn't the shop? I'm not a huge fan of fingerprints all of my screens. Takes 2 seconds, and a 3 cent alcohol wipe (or free with a zinger meal) to take the condition up a few notches

Restaurant reservation made for next Sunday, flowers sorted.

I mentioned to wifey not to make plans for next Sunday.

"What's happening next Sunday?" she asked, then looked it up.

I think she'd forgotten, and took it as a less at hand subtle hint 😂

Gratitude thread :)

Grateful for my dog.

I am grateful my work day is half over.
The weekend is here!
Grateful for book club. And my local fancy yarn shop with super lovely and helpful staff.

@CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone

💙🤍 💙🤍

Good one!

Time for my game next.

Go 🐱!

WE WON?
Shit
- Yup! Thought you would have been watching it!

Apparently Officeworks will sell you a pack of iced vovos for $3.54 at any time. Coles or woolies are $4. You can get them on special for 2 bucks every couple of months, but if anyone wants them noooow, Officeworks have your back

love ya, offeys. Plus, free delivery if you have onepass 🤷‍♂️

Apparently nine life (like the tv channel?) will sell you a pack for $78.00. But don't worry - they're on sale. Previously $130.00.

(I genuinely can't tell if I'm missing something. it seems like they're actually selling a single 210g pack for $78, not even one of those boxes they come in they put onto the shelves)

They’re selling all SORTS of weird shit. Among their best sellers are imported aspirin, fancy toothpaste and a “posture corrector”. The iced vovos are only the start
- Many companies have started an online "marketplace" for other traders to use their brand page as a sales space. Eg Bunnings Marketplace. Basically somewhere to re-sell temu/aliexpress.
They used to sell 5kg boxes of fizzy lifesavers, but sadly stopped. you can still get like 1000 teabags and 4kg of biscuits for reasonable prices
Edit: realised far too late i'd typed 300 teabags. You can get boxes of a thousand.

I just had the fun of watching lot of cars figure out what to do with a Fire Truck behind them. Lots of attempting to move out of the way by changing lanes at the lights, which all turned out to be not helpful at all because it went around the corner.