Discussion Thread 🏟️ Tuesday 13 May 2025

Our esteemed Chef is indisposed for today. As per their request, and on their behalf, I will be serving you this fine Tuesday. Please place your orders below for promt fulfillment! 🙇🏼‍♀️

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A ham & salad bun please
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I've gotta go with the celebrity chef's tasting menu please
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How exciting, a celebrity chef for the day!
May I have a full English Breakfast (no baked beans) and a cappuccino with some sort of fancy chocolate art on top please.
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Fresh made yoghurt, stone fruits, toast and a big pot of fragrant tea please. 😘
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Can I have a Full English please? Thank you Chef!
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G (pictured with the teeth out) has been doing better since he's gotten dog chemo. Although he's not cured, he has his energy back and is eating again :)

Naaaaaaw! Glad he's feeling better :)
Love to hear it! Look at him go!

Anniversary dins with boyo tonight, I’m looking forward to it! Not going somewhere overly special, but somewhere nice and close to home. Just happy to be celebrating!

I picked up plane lurgy :(

Hope you feel better soon - maybe get some of today's glorious sunshine while we still have it.
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Hope you get better soon and it's not too bad.

Right. Sounds like just about all of us are feeling down in the dumps for one reason or another. I promised justkitten some special motivation brew, which has been accomplished. And I have ingredients left over. So tonight there will be a special brew made to cheer us all up. Should kick in overnight what with it being a full moon and all. It's halal, kosher, paleo, vegan, dairy free, nut free, sweetener free and gluten free so everyone can enjoy. Plenty for everyone so don't be shy.

PS. I also have a new cauldron that I want to try out

Thankyou 🙏🏻
This is lovely. Thank you so much. 😘
Thank you 🙏🏻 that is just perfect ♥️
Thank you, O Witch. I regret to mention that the motivation brew worked sideways - I ended up cleaning my house, which is admittedly a well-known side effect. I am definitely feeling dumpy after frittering away most of the day so I would like a portion of the mood brew please. I promise to get to work tomorrow! I have to see the doctor in the morning anyway, so it'll get me out of the house...
- Special brew for mood improvement = 🍸
  🍸 and some to put in the fridge for later.
Minimum order is 500, so I say everyone gets a cauldron?
- Of course! You just never know when you're going to need one. And a spare for emergencies.

So glad I'm wfh for this meeting. Fuuuuuuck get to the point lol

is it just me, or are the worst meetings now including a welcome to country? my office seemingly only does a welcome to country when the meeting is gonna drag on.
- should be 0nce a week, every monday morning
  or people will get sick of it and it will lose all meaning
- We don't have those. I've actually never had a meeting internally that had a welcome to country.

I'm standing under it.

Finally finished off the last of this batch of stir fry.

Stuffed it up with cooking the noodles too long or something and they weee too soft and gluggy.

Hopefully next batch will go better. If not then it’s the brand of hokkien noodles I picked up.

Everything I've eaten today has tasted increasingly weird. I think Covid might have finally got me?

Ruh-roh
Airplane lurgy is full on spicy cough?
- Don't know, but I'm wondering

I got in some morning exercise walking to Eastland and back to pick up my new glasses. I am now officially an Old Woman with both multifocals and reading glasses.

Oh welcome to a new world of constantly having the wrong glasses on!
- It is at least very obvious if I have the reading glasses on and look up at anything else. It might help keep me focused on my reading, I certainly can't focus on anything else. I'll probably only wear the reading glasses when I am sitting on the lounge reading, the multi-focals are good for everything else.

Miss Meow really likes Mr Woof's new carrier. The sheepskin rug is apparently very comfortable.

Guys, I've just realised its ONLY ONE MONTH until the shortest day of the year. Aaaaaaaarrrrrrrggggghhhhh ...

21st of June?
- Ooops I may have misread my timesheet (done fortnightly). Only 10 days out, sorry.

Yaaaawn.

Brain dead tonight. Not sure why.

Might just zonk in bed and read whilst cuddling the cat.

Goodnight all ❤️

Love an early night.
What chu reading?
- I go between reading stuff from the Scp wiki or some William Gibson stuff. I'm re reading neuromancer like I do every year lol

Todd is home, after two days away at the mechanics. New spark plugs and a new timing belt, and he made friends with another Caddy in the parking lot.

They were running a bit late so I took a cab instead of walking down, which was very quick - I barely had time to get my shoes on before he arrived!

I stood in front of my car and wondered what its name could be.
None of the options that came to mind were respectful...

yesterday I noticed my little right toe has no voluntary movement but still has feeling. I tore the tendon many years ago and it's been iffy since but this kinda made me a little sad. I've had that toe for a long time and it's like a part of me.

The little toes are nothing but a pain. Having said that I still wouldn't like to lose them but fuck they need to stay away from furniture legs.
- years ago my husband bought a little iron table and put it next to the sofa. I think I broke my other little toe at least twice before I moved that table far away from me.
He’s still there, he just needs a little help 🩹❤️‍🩹
- yes , some physio would help I think
From memory, there's three tendons in there. Grip (flexion), lift (extension) and spread (abduction).

Having a professional mycologist play Guess The Mushroom in court is hilarious.

Adding in: I get that it's hard to tell the difference between mushrooms for mere mortals... but that still doesn't explain how the poisonous mushrooms were only found in the dehydrator and the four victims?

there are fake books on amazon on mushroom identification and collecting. It's a problem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwp_WEdJaEk
acording to the latest season of Clarksons farm they are basically space penises? So is a mycologist just an expert in space wangs?
- You'd want that on a business card, hey?!

Labubus are ugly. Great, more landfill.

Up there with funko pops.
Yep. Up there with Hello Kitty anything imo. Though I did quite like the Hello Kitty sporran I saw on sale in an op shop once. Edit - it is entirely to take neoteny entirely too far.
- Hahahaha, this fully made my check myself with my love of Mofusand. I’ll take comfort in that I’m not lining up at 4am or paying someone $100 to line up for me just to buy it.
YES. Omg I don't understand this hype, they're not even So Ugly It's Cute. And it's across all ages as well.

Mediocre sunrise but nice morning moon to the Southwest.

Lots of fog heading into work this morning. It always looks cool
it was a lovely moon , soft amber pink tones

Is it normal to feel tired during the day and like you can't think or properly get words out?

I've noticed I've been really slow over the past bit, fatigued, tired and spacey. My cognitive tempo is sluggish. I don't know what's wrong with my brain. Ironically, I think it's the caffeine. I don't really remember too much of life before I started consuming caffeine, but I don't think I was this bad. I'm sick of having no energy to do things, and experiencing heart palpitations and nausea.

Until there's decaf matcha, I'm going to have to give it up.

Can also be thyroid or test (if you're a male).
I quit coffee about six months ago and steer clear of caffeine these days. I reckon I feel better for it.
I dunno if I've mentioned it but I like that you carried your random generated username over.
- Cheers, my thyroid has always been fine, but you never know. I just don't have the balls to go get it checked :D
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Vitamin D / Iron do this to me. And just general overwhelm/stress - I find myself not finding words, forgetting names, etc. Then I will crash out for a day or two and reset. I have never gone without caffiene so can't comment - I'll give up everything else but my morning espresso.
I also sometimes get on the ginko tablets after a virus etc - I find it helps a little with brainfog, for me,
- brain fog has been so bad , on and off the past year, it made me worry about dementia. ( No one in my fam for so many generations has ever had dementia. )
  but it's from covid 😔
  maybe i need some vitamins again
- Thanks for sharing :)
Could be your iron or magnesium levels are low.

So you know how everyone does Vegemite differently...? This is minicalhoon1's method... ::: spoiler spoiler

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Is this one of those visual tricks where if I angle my phone just right the Vegemite appears?
- I can see it, just a smidge down the bottom!
Is this child even an Aussie? Disgraceful.
- Dutton, if elected, would've put him in Bogan Bay detention centre.
Is the Vegemite in the room with us?
The bread looks delicious though.

I really don't understand people's obsession with using Teams / Zoom / whatever for one-on-one short meetings that are perfectly suitable for a phone call. I get it if there's more than one person involved in the meeting, or it's going to be a detailed meeting. Then I feel awkward if I leave my camera off when the other person joins with it on (and 95% of the time, it's on).

some people like to use the most advanced tech available, they think most advanced latest means best for the purpose
drives me nuts
I don't have a Web cam on my pc. There's no need to see me. I use nvidia broadcast to filter my mic too so I avoid my phone or laptops with Web cams in them.
Because it's easier?
I use teams all day and everyone is on it. So why not use it to make a voice call?
- It wasn't a voice call through Teams. When clients ask to use it, it's because they want to see you on video. And that's exactly what happened.

Look at me! I can play Piano!

https://touchpianist.com/

Bloody knackered, just got home. Can't stop yawning!

Snack to cheer me up

Air fried crispy chips.

I casually mentioned to the man that I was cleaning the sound system and behind it and he said not to use the vacuum on the speakers. Oh no of course not i replied. 😳

Oh O. How does he think I've been cleaning them all these years

I also googled it because I thought he was being pedantic and he is right.

Karcher / gerni.
- Angle grinder w/ a 40 grit flap disc
- He gives them a dust maybe once a fortnight. I think that's all he thinks it needs. I regularly suck the dog hairs off that sub woofer with the vac. I will change my ways.

Fantastic. Great move. Well done Sussssssan.

lol. Just reading up on that name change:
"she shifted her expression energy to a nine because the soul vibration is the same".
hrmm
- getting the young vote
she's going to be the new soft face of the fascists, the face that shows they believe in DEI and are nothing like Trumpists. All lies of course.
then around election time they will drop her
- Definitely a glass cliff situation if there was one. The votes were fairly close and the party is facing a lot of instability...

Am I the only one not even remotely interested in Doom Dark Ages? I liked the last 2, but I think I've had enough. Also, why are we getting a halo CE remaster AGAIN? What, 343 cant make a good halo game so they have to keep remaking the original?

Seconding the lack of interest in a new Doom game.
I've had fun playing them, but brutal FPS games with minimal story do not interest me.
- it technically has a plot, but its just nonsensical. Bit like the original titanfall, background filler to "Go here and kill this" type thing.
I'm mostly interested in PvP fps and I've got BF2042 for that. I'll probably get BF7 six months after it's release once the bugs have been a bit ironed out. I like big team fps, a lot of stuff is 5v5 which requires more teamwork than random games can supply.
Heh, I didn't even realise there was a new Doom game 😂

the kinda day where ya just wanna full-on Nadja what the bloody fuck buggering

Can anyone tell me how to open this damn toilet to put one of the blue blocks in? Neither myself nor the wife can. The lid raises like a cm or 2 but feels like it’s being held down somehow.

Grip with one hand on each side. Support lid with palms and fish around with finger tips to find the little latches inside that hold it shut. Push latch(es) in and finish raising the lid. Alternatively, raise one side by a few cms, when that releases raise the other side. Insert blue block. Replace lid until it clicks. Disinfect hands. Easy. Used to have one of these.
Unscrew the flush button
- good idea but it only rotates a tiny amount and wont turn any more. Even with the buttons pressed down.
Angle grinder, masonry grinding disc.
If it's plastic, try squeezing the sides (ends towards each other) together firmly as you pull directly up
- nah its porcelain. Or i assume so cause its heavy AF.

I enjoy all of the Doom games but, additionally, some of the music is awesome industrial metal type of genre.

A most notable composer is Mick Gordon from Queensland. His work on Doom: Eternal is a great heavy rhythmic and metallic type of soundscape perfectly suited to the game.

of course I will eventually buy the new iteration but unfortunately I think it’s a different composer this time.

They fucked him over after the 1st doom game. Only a part of his music is in eternal.
He posted what happened on reddit and he brought proof of his claims.
They really really fucked him over :(
- That’s right , was there a doco about that?

ffs, why do i always get itchy when i've just painted my nails 😟😖

I get itchy when I'm making scones or got my hands in meat or falafel.

Movie review. Holmes and Watson with Will ferral.

I am embarrassed to say I just could not finish this movie, it just didn't work for me.

The sets were beautiful, the costuming lovely. The jokes were passe, too many riffs off the series Sherlock with Cumberbatch. Too many jokes just too rude or not even funny.

Maybe it could have been edited better. 🤷‍♀️ 2 hobbits.

I think I managed 20 minutes of it before turning it off. And I can generally deal with Ferrell, even at his crappiest.
This was next level scheisse
Damn, a movie she couldn't finish still got 2 hobbits. 1 hobbit must truly be awful.
- sets and costumes were very good
I enjoy that it has a 3.9/10 rating on imdb. I'm not a Will Ferral fan and seeing his name puts me off a movie. I acknowledge I may have missed some hits (okay, I've seen Elf), but worth it for me.
- I loved him in Stranger Than Fiction, in Zoolander, he has uncredited cameos in movies like Idiocracy.
  I think he's good, he needs a good director , he needs to stop choosing crap
I walked out of Rushmore. Well it was dull, I went for a smoke, decided not to go back.

going to see Thunderbolts tonight. Dont remember the last time i was this excited for a marvel movie. maybe infinity war?

Ah yes, the thirteenth Marvel movie released in the time between Doom Eternal and Doom: The Dark Ages ;)
- ur kidding? thought Eternal wasnt that long ago, and marvel slowed the release schedule a fair bit!
- Oooo tell me more gaming / pop culture facts 🥵

Spintel has now received my personal Worst Customer Service award. I have cancelled my order with them and am going with iinet instead.

worth checking out ozbargain and picking whomevers got a good 6 month deal on an just keep porting around. works out a bit cheaper. I think I got 100 bucks cashback for signing up to exetel last time.

I made no progress on anything today and I won't think about it (a fully grown woman who still can't do her homework), but my shameful confession is that I've finished watching Animal Kingdom and dear lord that last season was painfully bad. Really, most of the last two. I had hoped it would get better without Ellen Barkin because I hated her acting but they dropped so many storylines, the characters made no sense, the heists and plot went from TNT sloppy to just bad...

I genuinely have more important things to be doing than half-assedly watching mediocre tv, but I have a stupid compulsion to finish what I start... that's entirely on me.

Now. No more tv for me until I finish this thesis. Really, it should be no phones either, I spent a stupid amount of time reading up about UK immigration changes which have nothing to do with me...

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