Lucky for some. Number 13🍀
I went on Bumble BFF to make some friends and I suspiciously have 40 matches in one day.
I have a sneaking suspicion that it’s not just friends people are looking for…
Daily Discussion Thread: 🍅 Wed 13 March 2024
Submitted 8 months ago by CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone to melbourne@aussie.zone
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Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone 8 months ago
TinyBreak@aussie.zone 8 months ago
They deffo are sorry to report.
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Bugger…
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Today’s project completed: one large tote bag to carry my meals to work. The fabric is designed for outdoor furniture, with a lining of the type of fabric used for packs and sportsbags. This should mean it will last well - the old bag got quite manky because of the condensation formed by ice bricks. It did make it hard to sew though, both because of how thick it is and because the lining fabric was slippery. Miss Meow did her best to assist. Spoiler: it didn’t help.
useless_modern_god@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Damn. That looks amazing. Is there anything you can’t do?
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Many things. Drawing. Sports. Remember people’s names…
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 8 months ago
That is very uncanny.
Today I was going to buy a bag that is very similar, same shape and size, heavy tapestry in the same colour palette. I just wanted it for the fabric, to repurpose as chair upholstery, so declined at the price .
seriously uncanny
Baku@aussie.zone 8 months ago
I don’t think I like Adelaide. Why is their metro card system so rude?
When I visited I was 15, so I wasn’t eligible for a child ticket (once you’re 15 or older there you need a South Australian student ID). Today I found my metro card so was going to register it, but you can’t register your card if you’re under 18
Then in their terms and conditions they seem to be very set on a “NO REFUNDS” policy. Okay, I lied, you can actually get yourself a refund for whatever money you load onto it, but their policy is you have to die first. If you die, your “authorised representative” can go to them with a copy of your death certificate and a letter of administration. Are they really that desperate to hold onto the few measly dollars tourists put on their cards and don’t use?
And their main train station makes me feel uncomfortable. I can’t really describe why, it just makes me feel unwelcome and sketched out:
Other things I found weird, rude, or foreign about Adelaide:
- you swipe your card on the train, rather than at the train station
- they still take paper tickets on the trains, but you have to validate it by putting it into the metro card reader thing
- they do take bank cards but only on trams, but then I think the trams are free so you don’t need to anyway?
- only some readers take certain types of tickets - on trams the front reader takes paper tickets and metro cards, but not bank cards. Then the middle reader takes bank cards and metro cards, but not google/apple pay. Then the back reader only takes metro cards
- you have to buy a ticket for your bike
- the penalty for fare evasion there is almost 5 times what it is here ($1,250 vs $280 here). And I think you get fined the same amount of you don’t buy your bike a ticket
- they don’t call fines “fines”, they call them an expiration ticket or something?
- they put birds and shit on all their signs reminding you you’re in South Australia, which ends up feeling like you’re in papers please or another Soviet game based in the 70s/80s
- also I think if you get an expiration notice they put in on your police record and then you forever have a criminal record and a $1.2k fine because your bike doesn’t have a ticket
- they put angry warning signs on literally everything. I don’t understand how their signs feel like they’re yelling at you but ours don’t, but it seems to be the way it is
- their bus stops have terms and conditions
StudChud@aussie.zone 8 months ago
I love this, Adelaide is the worst lol. I went in 2011 or 12 and it sucked then. Not surprised it still sucks.
Nath@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Readers on the train sounds good to me. It works on trams just fine.
It sounds like you really want a smart ticket. I went to Radelaide for a long weekend a few years back, I suppose I just used paper tickets on the train. I don’t remember. I don’t remember hating the train system, either though.
I love your rant, and how much you care about stuff. But yeah, I go about the world utterly oblivious to that sort of thing. I wouldn’t notice terms and conditions on a bus stop, for example.Baku@aussie.zone 8 months ago
It actually wasn’t meant to be a full blown rant, I was actually just going to complain about how you have to die before you get a refund from them, but then I started remembering all the other odd things they do.
Readers on the trains can work at first, but they’re a dumb idea in the long run. It was probably deemed the cheapest option when they were rolling it out, but eventually they’re going to need new trains. And every train has anywhere between 2-6 readers per carriage X 3 carriages (with the possibility of doubling to 6 cars in the future), so it would end up being cheaper to just put your 4 readers at each station. Also they have full blown top up machines on the carriages, which is nice, but takes away seats and standing room
Wow even this became a rant :/
DolphinLundgrin@aussie.zone 8 months ago
How can you hate Adelaide when The Fringe is on!? I just got back. Go see Colin Ebsworth’s show Me, My Cult & I, and then Reuben Kaye’s show Apocalipstik. Both were excellllllent.
Baku@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Who’s the fridge
Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 8 months ago
I live for this cool breeze ony face, through my hair, as I’m on way home home from work in a tram that seems to be going just a bit too fast
just_kitten@aussie.zone 8 months ago
ａｅｓｔｈｅｔｉｃ
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Just saw your comment otherwise you could have listened to this on your headphones www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZaZYwaJeCk
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Alrighty. Final reference has been submitted. Ball is in their court.
My referee showed me what he wrote, and it’s a fucking great reference. Really made me look good 🙂
StudChud@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Fuck yeah! I’m so excited for you!! This is great news and you deserve it! Treat yourself!
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 8 months ago
cool
🤞
Catfish@aussie.zone 8 months ago
I have gravely disappointed the Void. Usually the washing machine beeping signals an Outside Adventure with Bugs! And Grass!
I set up the airer inside. Shame on me.
bacon@aussie.zone 8 months ago
how dare you not stop the rain
underwatermagpies@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Big scary meeting this arvo. Please send good vibes.
just_kitten@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Hope the good vibes are working and the meeting was/is okay :)
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 8 months ago
You’ve got this!!
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 8 months ago
You’ll be great. 🤞
StudChud@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Sending all my good vibes to you! It’s going to be okay! 💜
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 8 months ago
You got this babes!
StudChud@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Next month I turn 32.
One year closer to returning to pure star-stuff.
useless_modern_god@aussie.zone 8 months ago
✨Star stuff gang✨🙌
bacon@aussie.zone 8 months ago
✨fwoooosh ✨
dumblederp@aussie.zone 8 months ago
You are already pure star stuff.
StudChud@aussie.zone 8 months ago
⭐🤩⭐
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone 8 months ago
I got sober when I was 33. I wonder if that had anything to do with it
calhoon2005@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Operation Increase Kiddos Chilli Tolerance Without Them Knowing continues to be a success, with tonight’s meatball mix having a good swig of yucateco.
Catfish@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Good! I’m so sick of hearing about this nuggets only bullshit. Unless the kid has ARFID or something, feed them food not pap.
SituationCake@aussie.zone 8 months ago
I can see it now. In 20 years time, Melbourne’s thriving food scene will be all fancy nugget restaurants with a side menu of pouched yoghurt drinks.
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Bravo! Chilli is a vegetable, and we all know kids react to those …
Alamutjones@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Bowls still stuck together. I give up
StudChud@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Bowl-eo and Bowl-iet by Bowl-iam Bowl-spear
Seriously though, wow. The vacuum between the bowls must be strong, or the friction.
I’m sure you have already, but maybe rubber gloves might help? Like to pull them apart? I don’t know sorry, that sucks!
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Put them on the bench with a towel underneath and put a bag of frozen peas (still in the bag) in the top bowl, wait until the top bowl is cold on the outside, then turn them on the side and give them a firm but gentle tap on top of the towel.
Catfish@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Submerge the lot totally and hope a tiny air bubble will rise and break the seal from the inside.
Alamutjones@aussie.zone 8 months ago
This was the trick. Total immersion in hot as hell water and a knife inserted into the crack/gently levered to break the vacuum seal
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Can you twist them apart?
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 8 months ago
This is called kafta bil khebez (meat in bread). It’s basically kebab meat inbetween lebanese bread.
Now why I was laughing was instead of waiting for the meat to reach room temperature so it’s easier to spread my man was standing at the table giving CPR compressions to the meat with both hands.
StudChud@aussie.zone 8 months ago
I like right-clicking an icon on my desktop and selecting “Run as administrator”; I understand what it does/what it’s for, but honestly Im addicted to the pretend power-trip it gives me haha
Alamutjones@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Heat has not worked. WD40 has not worked.
I’m genuinely about to sit the conglomeration in the dishwasher and run it through a cycle just to see
Alamutjones@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Oh for fuck’s sake.
I stacked one bowl on top of another and now they’re stuck together. I’ve wedged them somehow.
How do I disengage them without breaking either of them?
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Sometimes I feel like I’m a teenager again, staying up late to read and make music.
Ah well. Joy where you can find it.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 8 months ago
I was at Coles and there’s a little boy about 3 years old complaining that it’s cold to his mother. In all fairness she was dilly-dallying in the cheese aisle. She replied with “I asked you if you wanted your jumper and you said no”. Rookie mistake mum. You don’t ask the child. You pop it in your bag anyway and produce it on the inevitable request.
Anyway my tip is to make them work while in there “Grab that 2 litre milk there and put in your basket please” then they don’t have time to whinge. Win win.
Ntcc661@aussie.zone 8 months ago
It’s nice to be social but I’ve had my fill for this week. Need a lot of solo time to recharge.
Today is all about finding a farm stay for a mum-&-son weekend away in a couple of months, making tteokbokki for the first time and doing the ironing.
Loving this weather. Love this type of easy, light rain.
But first: coffee!
useless_modern_god@aussie.zone 8 months ago
🤜⏰🤛 ker POW!
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Kmart pakige arrived.
The magnetic laundry shelves stick well but they’re teeny tiny. They won’t hold a few of the items I wanted to put there. Still it’s better than the suction cup hook I had holding the hand towel. The art supplies look good.
Aradina@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
It’s such a lovely, cool, rainy morning.
My bins are full so I have to hide some recycling before the inspection.
bacon@aussie.zone 8 months ago
why is Seek telling me to become a tram driver
just_kitten@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Yay, managed to get one overdue garden produce/kitchen task done - basil pesto (the damn things were flowering desperately and might not have lasted another week without harvesting. I had to chuck out about 20g of spotty/yellowed leaves…).
I have no parmesan or nutritional yeast, so I peeled extra garlic and quickly shallow fried the cloves in oil, added that with toasted sunflower seeds and a bit of extra salt - verdict: it’s delicious! I don’t miss the cheese at all. Cheap and easy. Just put most of it in an ice cube tray for future re-use. Somehow it’s ended up a lot darker green this time, but I don’t mind!
The other overdue job I really need to do tomorrow, before it warms up again, is give the curry leaf plants a big haircut (timing is really pushing it). Gonna make a big batch of curry leaf sambol with coconut and fresh green chillies also from the balcony, then freeze most of it. Might hunt down some frozen coconut since I think my dessicated stuff is getting kind of old, and I want this to be a smashing sambol
prime_factor@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Armaguard has asked for a bailout. Why not take the money that falls into the back of their truck instead.
prime_factor@aussie.zone 8 months ago
It’s going to be interesting to see how the City of Yarra will charge yank tanks extra.
You can’t charge extra for taking up multiple car spaces, and charging different vehicles different rates (so that it causes changes in market demands) is a tax. Taxes cannot be passed by local governments.
Catfish@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Oooh Admin powers. Be afraid, be very afraid.
bacon@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Onto Harry Potter 2. This one has Kenneth Branagh. Nice. 😊
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Dinner is being made for me tonight and I wasn’t gonna look but I did and now I had to move to another room because I couldn’t stop laughing.
bull@aussie.zone 8 months ago
I decided last night to finally get serious about getting my dashcam installed in my car. I found a well-reviewed service online and put an inquiry in using their online form.
How much money do you think someone would charge to run a couple of cables through a car and connect them up to 2 cameras and the battery? The cables, cameras and everything required already provided by me, the customer. If you guessed FOUR HUNDRED DOLLARS then you might be interested in hiring this company. THE FUCKING DASHCAM (2 FRONT AND REAR) WAS $435 AND IT’S ONE OF THE BEST ONES YOU CAN BUY!
It’s a job I’d honestly almost try myself. A job which should likely take a professional maybe 45 minutes and I’m padding that.
Anyways I wrote back to their email telling them their quote was insane and about $150 more than I’d expect. Called AutoBarn out in Melton and they’ll do it for $270 no problem. I can swallow $270 knowing they’ll it well and do it right.
Alamutjones@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Ladies and gentlemen…
I did it. My bowls are free. And neither of them was sacrificed to the Great Smash
Jesus fucking Christ. It only took trying every-fucking-thing, on and off throughout an entire fucking day
Pilk@aussie.zone 8 months ago
#BowlGate
StudChud@aussie.zone 8 months ago
You are a god and I bow to you
SituationCake@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Woohoo! What was the winning technique?!
bacon@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Tell the bowls they were being very naughty.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Hallelujah sister. 🎉
Now for fucksake put a piece of paper towel inbetween each one.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 8 months ago
What finally worked?
Alamutjones@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Complete submersion in almost scalding water, and (as soon as it cooled enough to get my hands in the sink) a knife gently levered between the two bowls to break the seal all the way around.
It must have been very nearly airtight!
imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Yes. This is the stuff.