Daily discussion thread: 🌞 Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Depends on the calibre of what you're reading... Tbh I find most commercial news in Australia to be exactly that, parochial and petty bourgeois

Ironically, Ms Faranda was politely asked by hosts of The Project to hand her baby to her partner last night after the child's crying disrupted the interview.
HA!!
Yeah, I took the kids out all the time when they were babies. Shops, markets, cafes etc. I never took them to a cinema or a show, because that would be inconsiderate.
I'm all about parental rights, and absolutely all about parental facilities catering to dads. But my rights end at the point where they impinge on yours.
- I took little miss seagoon to see bambi when she was five, matinee of course, at valhalla
  I also took her to see Cats when she was about 7
  here's the thing, by considering the needs of the child the child will be content and happy and easy , any place where where the child is going to miserable you don't take them and that also works out for the other people there
  I feel so bad for that baby in the news

Hot take Tuesday. Whenever I'm scrolling on news sites or the other place and I come across headings like "What is this thing?" or "You'll never guess what someone found in their Big Mac?" I don't want to know. I'm not clicking.

Same.
I can't be bothered with teaser headings, that includes on news articles.
- @Seagoon @CEOofmyhouse56 And more often than not, the answer is lame.
  "You'll never believe what this '90s heartthrob looks like now!"
  It looks like him, but 30 years older.
  And I would believe it, because he was famous 30 years ago.
  "You'll never believe what the kids of this celebrity are doing now!"
  Going to uni.
  Because they're in their early 20s.

Made grilled chicken with mash and Brussels for dinner, but also a casserole to simmer away. It smells bloody lovely and I can foresee a second dinner being partaken of 😆

Also I ripped out a molar which has been giving me the shits for a while, rotting away right up the back there. It feels great! I feel strangely fantastic! I can smile without something jabbing me in the cheek! I can eat without accidentally chomping down on an out of place tooth!

Sounds like a great dinner. But wait, do you mean at dentist or DIY?!
- DIY. I've known this tooth was a gonner for over 10 years as a result of consulting a periodontist all those years ago. Lately it got a bit loose, so I've been working on this tooth for a month or so, just wiggling it and gently twisting. Today I figured it was probably at the stage where it'd actually come out. Horrid thing it was, glad to be finally rid of it.

Sitting in a city office, after having spent 2 hours getting here. Wearing a with mask, listening to all the coughing around me. Doing work that I could do just fine at home. Wearing headphones with music on to block out the noise from all the other people on teams meetings, so no “culture and collaboration” is happening. How has the world come to this absolute bullshit of “return to office, Covid is over, back to having no life”?