Daily Discussion Thread 🎾🥇 Sunday, August 4, 2024

Tucked-in Mickey

Kitty!!!!!
Nawww 😻
Best cat. Deserves all the scratches behind the ears ❤️
He’s smiling
I want to join him
Hi Mickey. Luv U 😘

going to do the good old fashioned walk into a place hiring with a smile and a CV and maybe a handshake

big pay cut if i get it but it is the line of work i’ve always done and enjoyed instead of this random job i have right now

it will also bring regular breakfast back

Good luck chef! Applying for jobs is daunting but you sound like you've got it together 🦾
There's definitely something to be said about doing work you enjoy even if it pays less. We won't complain about regular breakfast returning either.
- Thank you!! It’s the exact line of work I’ve been telling people I want. I will feel much more relaxed too given it is work I’ve been doing on and off for a very long time. Offers some future too unlike what I do right now.
- Hey Kitten. Not sure if you’ll see this.
  I sent you a PM, would you be able to take a look at it?
Good luck!
- Thank you!!
Good luck Chef!
- Thank you!
Crossing all bits for you chef!
- Thank you!!
Good luck!
- Thank you!
🤞🤞🤞
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bought ticket for 1pm deadpool

i should really get up

got up 12 minutes before the bus arrives
- Performance: optimised
- My anxiety could never

I had a night like that last week but I aired out my house today so it's gotten a little cold again. I can't wait to not need heating daily. Just about a month to go...
- I aired the place due to damp and it is freezing

It's been a tough day in the office for Mr Snowy, who's now falling asleep at the desk.

Mr Snowy is a very handsome boy

I want cooookiiieess to go with my evening cuppa... but I'm too lazy to wear real clothes to go to the shops... I'll save myself some calories tonight then 😮‍💨

So Mr P tested positive for covid today, but via some miracle or misadventure all the rest of us have tested negative. Thank goodness, as Miniest was at a party earlier and if she'd tested positive I'd have had to contact the parents 😬Now he is quarantined in his room moaning and demanding things lol.

Oh that's no fun — poor thing 😔😷
I remember a couple of months back when my partner had covid, it was a logistical nightmare.
She got the bedroom, I got the living room and slept on the couch.
We both wore masks if we had to be in the same room for any reason.
And then one day I gave her a bowl of soup and she managed to spill it all over the bed. (Thank heaven for mattress protectors!)
Making the bed while wearing gloves and a mask is not an experience I'm keen to repeat anytime soon!
The good news is she started getting better after a week or so. And had completely recovered after a month.
She first noticed her sense of smell was returning while walking past some smokers in front of Woolies.
"Do you smell that? Wait — I can smell that! I can smell the smokers!" I don't think I've ever seen a nonsmoker so overjoyed at the smell of cigarette smoke! 😆
Anyway wishing Mr Peeler a speedy recovery. Yeah, it'll be tough, but hopefully he'll be feeling better in a week or two. Take care 💜🫂
- Thankyou for your kind thoughts 🙂 It's awkward here as he's walking through the lounge to use the bathroom frequently enough for me to be concerned about mine and the children's health. So I hunted up my family's old chamber pot (mum called it "the gazunder" because it gazunder the bed) and gave it to him to use. But, like all diehard smokers, he still goes out to smoke 😠
- Hubs lost his sense of smell and taste both times with covid - the one time I caught it i didn't. He's still scuntch about it.
I had covid recently and my OH and kid didn’t get it, despite all being together in the house. Fingers crossed you’ll avoid it (and I hope Mr p has a speedy recovery)
- Thankyou Springy, here's hoping all our previous practise with masks and sanitiser pays off!

Straight into the mud.... At least he's now ok with getting in the shower.

Aaaaand....

He's a goalie!
- Gooooooaaaaaaaalll!

It has always been like this.
For a few decades the middle class forgot they were still part of the proletariat and weren't really independent bourgeoisie.
Occupy was a Russian front, ignore it.
What the Marxists never say, or maybe they never figured it out, is that America and Australia only had good post war living standards for the working classes because they were the only western countries that hadn't had their factories bombed to the shithouse. It meant we became primary and secondary industry powerhouses. But once industry had enough money again and factories could be built in places with cheaper labour we were doomed. That's what capitalism is.
me and my husband had to get professional jobs overseas to escape the old boy network and that was 25 years ago
- Just last week, John Quiggin released a book on pretty much this exact topic, called "After Neoliberalism".
  You can download the eBook for free, or order a printed copy here: https://press.anu.edu.au/publications/series/global-thinkers-series/after-neoliberalism
  If you're interested in an in-depth look at the economic and government policies that erosion of the middle class happened, it's worth a read.
It's going to keep getting worse too. I give us about 4 years.
@melbaboutown @Seagoon
Apparently the revolutionary French visited Australia and declared Australia practised "Socialism without doctrine". That was long ago and trades hall today is a museum of collapsed trade unions. Both left and right totalitarian systems are currently regarded as frightfully modern era and intemperate. I can't wait to see what comes after post-modernism.

Random question: have you heard the phrase "(he / she /it) went mad and we shot them" in response to a query, or even just answering the phone? It's something quite commonly used in my family, but when i answered a work call with it "not here, she went mad so we shot her" the zoomer on the other end lost their shit.

Edit: might be worth dating yourself, genX here

Yep. Most frequently used when people are looking for the Team Leader at work.
Yes. My dad said it all the time.
I've never heard it, but it's the sort of thing I could imagine an old person saying/having been popular many decades ago. Probably not suitable in a work enrolment, but I see the humour in it either way
(I wrote this before your edit, forgot to hit post. Pretty firmly gen z here)
- Spot on. Would def be a survival from days when nearly everyone had a rural background or on a farm. Probably originally referred to dogs ... even though rabies has been eradicated from Australia for a very long time.
I have never heard of it.
Yes I’ve heard it many times, but now that I think of it, not recently. Did zoomer loose their shit because they thought it funny, or thought it offensive?
- Just couldn't handle it. They weren't offended per se, but there was a lot of "oh my god what???"
I’ve heard it, but not recently, and certainly not at work! It’s a pick your audience carefully sort of dark humour. Xer
- Second nsfw comment. Not sure if me being terribly ASD or working in cinema too long.
Yeah it was a common one growing up.
Along with ‘you might be a pain/pane but we can’t see through ya’ and ‘I’ll give you something to cry about’.
- That last one needs to die.
  Thebother two may be black humour, but something to cry about is flat out abuse

Anti-gratitude thread.

Got like five hours of sleep and woke up late for work. Was a minute late. Every Sunday it's the same and I feel like I'm sacrificing my mental health for the sake of this three hour shift. But it's the only consistent shift I get. Time to look for a new job I reckon. Once I finish uni, I shall exit retail.

It's a beautiful looking day outside and I am once again trapped inside at work.
no buses and trams in the city 😡
I have to do something today I really don't want to, but I have no choice. Ah well, it won't be long now.
- Good luck 🫡
I have some mince which I think is freezer burnt :(
- Freezer burn is just a bit dehydrated, it should still be fine for most things. If it is very bad use it for something like bolognese sauce that gives it lots of moisture and time to rehydrate.

Back from the bellarine with yet another big bag o' lemons. Never ends! will have to give more away.

Starting to get thoughts about doing icy poles though.

Basically squeeze them into ice cube trays. thaw them out come summer. Chuck it in moulds (with water / sugar and some berries).. wait for it to freeze. Grab a drill, pour liquid-ish icecream in the holes, partially re-freeze, jab the stick in, then back in the freezer... hrmm.

Preserved lemons
https://www.maggiebeer.com.au/recipes/preserved-lemons
- ooh yep that one is on the cards!
Did this all the time as a kid. You want just enough sugar that they set softer than plain water ice. Milo ones are great.
Kmart sell an icey poll mould. I think they're 2 bucks each
worth a try Does make great lemonade.
- Ooh interesting. Have to try and find some tartaric acid!
If you have an electric kettle, chucking the leftover peel/skin/remnants into the kettle and boiling it twice (30mins break in between) is a great fuss free way to clean it! Less recommended if you have the type with a coil inside.
- @justkitten @Bottomracer
  I miss the old HECLA jug.
- @justkitten @Bottomracer put trapdoor spiders in the kettle

My first headache in years. Ouch. I think it's dust from the new old cupboard and spring glare

Hope it goes quickly! 🖤
- Thanks, I had some aspirin and rested , it seems to be better now

I had a dream last night that the woman buying my sewing machine on Marketplace accidentally gave me way too much money (like a couple of thousand instead of a hundred). I knew the right thing to do was to let her know and give the extra cash back, but holding a big wad of money was way too tempting. I was still wrestling between my decision as to whether to do the right thing or keep the money when I woke up.

Keep the money and invest in avocados. She clearly doesn't need it
Interesting…
Wrestling with any big decisions?

I am not ashamed to say that I cried at the end of Deadpool when the song came on.

A major difference between my wife and I:

I spent 10 minutes banging a wooden spoon on a standard kitchen knife trying to open a coconut. I give up after the wooden spoon disintegrates, the coconut still closed.
My wife comes into the kitchen and swings the same knife at the coconut a few times. Less than a 30 seconds later, we have access to coconut water.

You obviously loosened it for her
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  I'll see how long it takes her to open one from the mostly-original state next time we're in the kitchen.
I grew up watching my mum crack open coconuts all the time though I've only done it myself a couple of times. I think you have to do it perpendicular to the seam. Whereabouts are you getting fresh coconuts? Are they any good? I've wanted to have a go at getting some but for grating the flesh, not for water.
- We've gotten it from a few vendors over the months, like from Queen Vic market, Footscray, and most recently yesterday in Springvale Central.
  My wife otherwise thinks they're all not fresh - it lacks the taste of when the young coconut is opened freshly chopped down from the tree. I thought it's so sweet it's almost artificial.
  In my wife's home town home we have a rather large heavy knife. A few well placed hits is all it takes to get the water.
Use a drill.
- Oooh bringing a drill to a coconut fight.

Planning has begun for a trip to LA28 Olympics. Might as well tick that box before departing this mortal coil.

So jelly.
- It’s a long way off but the spark of a plan is there so that’s something.

Rookie numbers.

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Why isn't it listed in descending order, or even alphabetically?
- I think it’s ordered by lane they were in.

My hair turned out really nice today. Not sure why, I washed it with a detergent ’soap’ bar and haven’t cut it yet.

I think the issues I was having were only from hair being a bit too long and not remembering to brush it enough. I might grab a large paddle brush to make it easier

This is a really lovely win amongst the sea of other challenges you routinely face!
- Yeah, life sucks but at least my hair looks good

Random sunday braindump:

Had a BIG reset sleep last night. Feel asleep at 5:30. Woke up at 8 for a bite to eat and listened to podcasts for.a while then back asleep round ten for around 11 hours.

I knew I had not given myself enough rest to get over that flu and my brain has been ramping up in tighter and tighter circles all week. I feel calm finally today.

Today I will clean the sheets and make some food basics for the week and catch up on a little bit of planning work.

I think I need to reset my bujo rhythm too - it's turning into an unmanaged Todo list of doom. I think I am going to try to enforce 20 mins at either end of the day to sit down with a cuppa and review/plan/organise.

That's awesome that you achieved a big reset sleep!! Envious - I seem to be getting it in bits and pieces but never quite enough to feel fully recharged. I think I got 60% of the way there last night and hoping to try and get the rest in tonight.
I haven't got the discipline to BuJo but my general to do list is chaos too, everything needs doing so I feel like doing nothing. Inspired by your comment, I shall grab onto a wisp of good mood/motivation with the sun this morning to prioritise tasks and de-doomify the list
- We got this!! 💪🏻

🎶it’s a DAAAAMN COLLLLD niggght🎵

This morning was rough. I had a sleep in, and it was still like 5 degrees when I woke up. 12.5 in my room, but I slept with the electric blanket on low last night, so my fingers and toes were really chilly.
First thing I did was get up, turn the electric blanket onto high to defrost, then hit the heater and go back to bed for an hour until it warmed up
- I had to remove the electric blanket yesterday to clean a spill and let the sponged spots dry. Suffering. I make two hot water bottles now
- I’ve been sleeping with mine on 1 or 2 overnight for like a month now.
- I really wished I had a hot water bottle for my feet last night. Gonna make one up tonight. I hate how my feet turn into iceblocks
I'm waiting for the nights to get warmer so I can finish some painting outside
- 🎵Won't you Take me by the hand Take me somewhere new I don't know who you are But I... I'm with you 🎵

Just two more points and the Hawks would have knocked off GWS.

So disappointing 😞

Yeah. It was so close. I tipped the hawks to win that one as well :(

This just appeared in the abc newsfeed - home sewers welcome apparently Still fairly exxy by the metre. Just better than fabric lab or rathdowne remnants.

Ohhhh. Sew-ers. 🪡
That's cool and much nicer then the "home sewer" my brain visualised... 💩
- Both kinds of home sewers are very much still welcome 😆
Excellent, Thanks!
I've read this about 5 times, and it only just clicked that this is sewing related. I was confused about how much the sewerage market fluctuates, seems like it's the sort of thing that would remain fairly consistent
- Fabric shops are charging eye-watering prices for pure cotton and pure linen. Some of us do home sewing either of clothes or furnishings, either for fun or for better fit or to indulge our creativity. This website offers nice fabric at a reduced price. Sorry if this has confused you.

Gratitude thread!

The sun :) and only a few weeks (??) left hopefully of super coldness. Every year, I forget when it starts to warm up.

I have both bocconcini and bolognese sauce to use for dinner tonight.
Sun sun sun sun sun 🌞
Super grateful that my diarrhoea episode ended very quickly and my guts don't seem to be too damaged.
Grateful for dishwashing machines taking off a lot of the daily load 🙏
And so grateful for a flexible workplace so I don't need to feel doom about starting tomorrow at a set time for set hours

Sanity check: I’ve got a little bit of chicken alfredo pasta left over. Not enough for a serve by itself, but I was thinking maybe chucking it in the jaffle maker for lunch tomorrow? Mrs says that sounds horrible, but she also says a bakedbean jaffle is gross and hates a hot chip sandwich so I’m not sure I can trust her judgement.

Pasta in a jaffle? Go for it!
My late bloke used to shudder when I put leftover curry in jaffles, but he and the boys still ate them. I recently sprung my older boy doing curry jaffles to impress his girlfriend.
- Oh my god yes that sounds amazing! What kind of curry?
- You'd be surprised how robust jaffles are.
I think you should do it. Would I do it? No.
Disregard MrsBreak, I say give it a go
It will be delicious but the carbs will wreak Vengance.
Signed: a lover of alfredo sammiches

Saw Deadpool. My review: Lots of sharp self aware humour, and perfectly ridiculous high energy action sequences. Silly plot but it that’s all it needed to be. Had a good laugh.

A laugh can be a very powerful thing.

Watched Fried Green Tomatoes. What a sweet and very 90s movie. I felt all the warm and tinglies. Jessica Tandy was very lovely but her accent was all over the place which was distracting...

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Be chef
Ask hungry people for breakfast orders
Fall back asleep
- I think the food truck has moved on to another location.
I had a very vivid dream of a banquet with heaps of pastries and berries and stone fruit and rich, creamy sauces and pasta bakes and potato gratins...
... I'll just have a soup and some toast please ;c
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Corn pone and bacon please chef, and coffee.
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A big pile of waffles covered with cream and maple syrup please.
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Big stack of pancakes with maple syrup and bacon plz chef
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Soup sounds good. Potato & leek please. With bacon bits and cheesy croutons.
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Flat white with an extra shot, and a bacon, egg, avocado and cheese roll please
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I’ll have what oztrin‘s having, please chef

So, for the last week or two, my zygomatic bone (the corner of my eye socket furthest from my nose) has been hurting. When I blink or touch it, it hurts a lot. There's no bruising though, or any real swelling. But it's painful and sore.

I'm low key stressed it's something serious, but it could also be a small fracture from when Mickey pounced on my head. Could be nothing. I should go to the doctor, will have to make an appointment this week.

Got a tuning fork? One lecturer told me an old timey approach to diagnose broken bones was to hold a tuning fork to it and see if the broken bits vibrate causing pain.
- I do not! But I expect my GP to whip one out 😂

Got an 8am shift tomorrow morning, so today is relax and play games, and some study.

Tuesday and Wednesday will be my big study days, got a project to make for my prac which will be interesting bringing in on the bus lol.

quiz

35/50 - quite proud of myself

An abysmal 5/50.
30/50
Yes!!! I did it!!!
0/50!!!!
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25/50
Normally I’m hot garbage at these… But today I’m 7% up in average.
What sorcery is this? 😂
15/50 🥰
35/50 as well! That was a fucking hard one though, I should have given a crazier answer for Florida lol

Woot! Free cast iron griddle. Not the same colour as my other stuff, but who cares about that.

The birds are singin'. 🕊️🐦🎼

I have a local magpie that learner to sing last spring and now random sings at all hours of the night. It's lovely
True. I just wish they weren't lorikeets.
- we have thrushes here, they have lovely songs

Late night Movie Review. The Gold of Rome. Italy.1960. Re-enactment of German occupation of Rome in wwii and the extortion of the Italian Jewish population.

3 hobbits.

The Abandoned. 1955. Italy. wwii Italy, a young aristo is challenged to become involved and join the cause against Germany when refugees from the bombing of Milan are assigned to his villa.

3 hobbits

Both these B&W movies are beautifully shot and acted and they add to understanding modern history of Italy.

I love your rating scale.
- Thank you. 🧙‍♂️

🎶WHEN I WAS

A YOUNG BOY
- MY FATHER