sitting and thinking on the train about who I am, who I wanna be and where Iâm (metaphorically) headed. Anyone else feel like there is all these versions of you crowding around almost like ghosts all trying to fit into the one vessel?
Daily discussion thread: đŽ Wednesday, May 1, 2024
Submitted â¨â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago⊠by â¨Seagoon_@aussie.zone⊠to â¨melbourne@aussie.zoneâŠ
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TinyBreak@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
Yep, all the time. Lifelong condition. I blame being a Gemini. I forget which philosopher said âDo I contradict myself? I contain multitudesâ but it is so bloody true.
StudChud@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
âI may contradict myself, but at least I donât contradict myself.â
Another favourite, though unrelated:
âWhat does a snake do, when it feels like having a lie down?â
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
So I donât qualify for the Sydney role because they require someone in office once a week.
Got some really useful feedback and info from the recruiter though, so thatâs something.
Another interview tomorrow at 2pm. Not super excited about this one, but if it comes through so be it.
RustyRaven@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
Tragedy has struck the Raven household. My faithful beaters will beat no more. Over 20 years of faithful service, rest well my friends you will be missed.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
All licked out. RIP.
StudChud@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
no longer beats
all licked out
đ
Baku@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
RIP Beats By Raven. You will be missed.
We had a set of Kmart ones last 3 years, then the replacements lasted 9 months
Nath@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
Ours died last year. I wouldnât have it. I took them apart, cracked out the soldering iron and repaired them. I broke the slow/fast switch and the blitz button in the process, but the work again.
Food thing, as they have mixing bowl attachment and itâd be so wasteful to throw the whole thing away over an internal switch wearing out.
RustyRaven@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
I think mine might have a broken/worn gear. The motor still works and they sort of still turn but slowly and with little power.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
Hot take Wednesday. When a recipe says to scoop out the seeds for tomatoes or cucumbers for a salad or whatever. No. I paid for those seeds. They are going in. I donât care if it makes it soggy.
underwatermagpies@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
Save more time and just throw out the whole cucumber. Genuinely the worst vegetable ever.
Catfish@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
I believe that dishonour belongs to the chokoe
Taleya@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
Tzaziki. Pickles. You shut your whore mouth.
just_kitten@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
Cucumbers are just expensive crunchy water, does absolutely nothing for me. Delete this vegetable
Baku@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
:(
Cucumbers, capsicums, carrots, and lettuce are the only vegetables I actually like
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
No way. Cucumber soup on a hot day is the best. Cucumber, yogurt, mint, bit of water and salt & pepper. For those days when itâs too hot to chew.
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
Correction: celery is the worst vegetable ever. I will die on this hill.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
itâs good food , plus itâs nice on a hot day
Baku@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
You havenât lived until the smoke alarms go off when youâre in the dunny đ
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
Caramelised, the term is caramelised âŚ
Catfish@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
Which is what you should do to parsnips
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
Lightly charred.
Catfish@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
I suspect weâre about 3 weeks off the house smoke alarms going off at 3am all the time because of internal humidity. Bye bye batteries
Baku@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
Oh yikes, weâve never had that happen. The closest thing Iâve seen is at my last place, apparently a spider built a home inside the vent of one of the smoke alarms, so everytime there was some wind, the cobweb was pushed into the sensor and alarms would go off.
We canât just unplug the batteries though, all of our alarms are hardwired and wired together, so if one goes off, the entire house starts beeping. We do have a control panel where we can pause an alarm for 10 minutes, but they arenât very fond of us doing that since if there was an actual fire, weâd be clueless
Seagoon_@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
Cats are still on a diet. The fighting between them gets more intense as they stake out the limited food resources.
Bill is looking good , just a little bit chomnk. Ted is on the light side of hefty chonk whereas he used to be on the heavy side, Ted waddles đ.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
Your cat finds itself most happy with a portion of the food given
I donât know any cat that thinks âIâm full now. Please donât give me anymoreâ.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
All my previous cats had an unlimited crunchy bowl, unlimited food. None over ate and got fat. Ted, Ted will eat until he canât move.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
Poor kitties. Can you stir some cooked pumpkin in to fill them up a bit more, and/or feed them separately?
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
Poor kitty in the photo.
Kitty has seen some things.
Nath@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
I happened to be in the kitchen washing my dishes at 5 pm just now. The cleaner came in and emptied the organic waste bin into the general waste bin.
Iâm scandalised. If the organic waste bin werenât there, I wouldnât think much of it. But to have it be there and be a total lie isnât cool. đ¤Ź
Seagoon_@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
recycling is a scam
I do agree with recycling in principle and I do my bit regarding aluminium, glass and cardboard but everything else is just not recycled by industry or gov.
my bit for the environment is to consume less, a lot lot less,
Iâm also trying to make choices that result in less waste, eg, a cardboard is better than a plastic bottle
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
my bit for the environment is to consume less, a lot lot less,
This is the most important bit of anything for the environment. Weâre so primed by our society to consume, to want more. Itâs almost rebellious to go against it and deliberately consume less.
Catfish@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
Yup. The recycling bins at work are a lie. The cleaners dump them in together. Even the pure paper ones meant for the animal house. đž
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
Why do ducks have tail feathers? To cover their butt quacks.
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
Hereâs your genuwine Dad Joke medal! đĽ
Baku@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
:(
RustyRaven@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
I have successfully aquired new bulbs for my headlights, after realising one of them was out last night. If I can now motivate myself to actually install them this may be my carâs shortest cyclops period yet. Usually I am terrible at getting myself organsed to actually buy the bulbs.
As a bonus Supercheap Auto is next to NQR, so I have also replenished my supplies of cheese, butter and fish. Also a couple of bonus meat pies.
underwatermagpies@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
A gold star to you for first class adulting! â¨ď¸
RustyRaven@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
Many thanks. I have actually installed the bulbs as well now, I am very proud of myself.
Baku@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
Sunbury? I love that NQR
RustyRaven@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
No, Ringwood. A smaller store, but convenient location.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
sky blue, balloons pretty
StudChud@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
Sky blue, pretty balloons,
Eyes blue, pretty soon
Sunrise, sun rays
Cool air, warm days.Baku@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
Who told you thereâs warm days? They lied to you
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
Hands down hoisin duck spring rolls are amazing.
There is no turning back now.
I refuse to go back.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
that looks delicious
Seagoon_@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
Feels freezing here, oodie has been deployed.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
Coconut curry and roti has been eaten.
Duenan@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
It was nice this morning with there sun out so I decided to fix up and take out everything for hard rubbish.
Had people going through my pile of stuff as I was taking it out and things have been moved already when I made a nice neat pile for pickup.
Bleh.
Sorted out some admin stuff and left my union.
Now to make a coffee and relax with the radio and some gaming.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
Do I go out and buy some sour cream for my enchiladas or could I do without? That is the biggest dilemma I face today.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
sour cream on enchiladas, on any Mexican food, takes it to the next level of deliciousness
and there is lactose free sour sour cream too
I have so many of those tasty chillies I should be making lots of Mexican recipes
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
I went and got it and I got corn chips too to go with the salsa so it all worked out in the end.
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
You definitely need the sour cream. Absolutely. For sure. Itâll be a worthy mission!
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
Fuck
TinyBreak@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
I dont have sour cream with mine for what its worth.
oztrin@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
In the continuing saga of trying to get the business verifed on google, we finally got the video call working, but the banner signage I had was deemed inadequate and âyou need a permanent signâ.
I explained we never had one for privacy reasons (it was Mumâs house after all) and Iâd be moving mid this month anyway.
So more or less back to square one. At least I got some clearing and sorting done.Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
Guess Iâm the night owl tonight.
Iâm almost at the end of reading the entire SCP catalogue. Itâs taken about 3 years and honestly, it was worth it.
StudChud@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
Literally one of my fav sites. I was reading it back when they just started the competition for the 1000 series. And to see it grow the way it has is just incredible. There are so many amazing entries, tales, GoIs.
DjKaktus remains my favourite writer, especially their newest set of SCPs tying that flesh cult in with demons and folklore.
The Stairs (in the 000s iirc) was one of the first I read and it creeped me the fuck out. The Old Man as well. And anything that involves SCPs and archeology, hell yeah dig up that creepy-ass temple in Egypt/Persia/Mesopotamia and then make up a bunch of rituals from all the Abrahamic faiths to keep the âscary unknownâ contained. Right up my alley.
Sorry for gushing! I just get too excited about that site đŹđ What are your favourite ones???
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
I remember when 179 came out and I followed it on and off for years then lost track. Came back and was blown away by how far the whole thing has come! Series 1 was sooooo good, but the intense and really long Kaktus ones blew me away as well.
DJKaktus and Harry Blank are probs my favorites currently. Harry Blank has a cannon for site 54 which is really, really good. Just finished it the other night and it was basically a novel.
My personal favorite has to be the one where itâs a Sopranos DVD, and you can keep going into TV screens in the show. So they zoom into a TV in the Sopranos house, then zoom into another TV in the show thatâs on and so on and so forth. Itâs really, really good. SCP 2614.
Oh and the basketball game, SCP 1733. Read it tonight if you get a chance. Actually scared me.
My other favorite is probably the whole thing about the fairy queen that gave her heart to the SCP1000 children of the night. Itâs a Kaktus one thatâs really epic.
The canon ones can be really good too, but problem is a lot of them are unfinished, so you get really into it, then it ends on a cliff hanger.
useless_modern_god@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
It was just afternoon and nearly home from the shops. A ten minute drive. I was thinking about nothing in particular when suddenly flames erupted from the engine bay. The smoke was whispering out of the air con vents as I was maintaining a reasonable speed. Should I ditch it or press on?
The car was still operational but the smoke was getting thick inside the cabin. I didnât want to lose her and only the fire brigade could help me now.
I pressed on. Faster now. Flame wasnât visible past the smoke. I needed a phone urgently, to call the fire brigade . I felt like a WW2 fighter pilot limping back to base after being shot to shit.
I had to ditch.
Brigade arrived but it was just too late. Write off and move on.
Baku@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
Fridge has been cleaned, freezer has been organised.
I should mop the bathroom and do some washing while I still have motivation
Alamutjones@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
Hola
Baku@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
I went to sleep at 7ish and just woke up. Itâs a bit early, but I got enough sleep and woke up late enough that I can probably push through until a normal time tonight
just_kitten@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
Iâm so wired and tired from events of the last three days. So many thoughts going round my head and big feelings. At least itâs not the debilitating kind of tiredness, I still had enough go in me to whip up upma, dal tadka, and a guar bean + carrot sabji. And clean up all the myriad dishes and the kitchen!
Tomorrow will be a long day too, as I have a big dinner right after work with lots to talk about. Need to start early so I can take the car and leave work early + directly⌠Sigh
StudChud@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
That hypothesised, but very likely exists, Planet 9 (sorry Pluto). The one with the massive elliptical orbit of Sol the approx size of Neptune, is such a cool theory. Evidenced by other Kuiper Belt objects behaving in a way that would make sense if there was a huge planet we havenât found that pulls on them.
My partner and I were thinking of names it could be called, in the recurring theme of Roman gods. I think Terminus is a great name for it, the god of boundary stones.
Thatâs my entry for naming it. Terminus. Besides, itâs a cool af name imo
melbaboutown@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
I feel like arse. Headaches and making dumb mistakes. With money of all things!
melbaboutown@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
Cat rambles
Did a lot of the odd cat jobs last night. Melbcatâs ears were so grubby⌠I had to do a wash, wipe them out, and then more dirt came out with a second wash. Thereâs still crevices I couldnât quite clean out. Not sure if itâs just because Iâd been slacking or if thereâs still an issue with her ears. Iâll get them checked when she goes for her next Solensia which is soon. Today I also need to clean her eyes and give her the flea drops.
Not sure why itâs so hard to do art when I want to. Itâs hard to be alive and do anything really. I have to fight against so much physical and mental stuff to even have a hobby. Iâm even taking high dose vitamin D supplements.
Baku@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
Fridge cleaning day today. Luckily I clean my fridge often enough that nothing really goes bad, or gets pushed to the back and forgotten about, but I do have some veggies that I probably shouldâve composted a week ago to deal with
And thereâs also a mystery liquid on one of my shelves. Itâs sticky, and I donât know where TF it came from
Seagoon_@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
itâs a nice day, think Iâll go to the park and the shops
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
fullkitwanker@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
Itâs not hot take Tuesday but hereâs my hot take anyway: eggplant is terrible. How do people like it?!? Itâs so soggy and bland no matter how you cook it đ¤˘
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
I like eggplant. Moussaka. Babaganoush. In curries. Yum.
Llabyrinthine@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
+1
Duenan@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
I canât eat them, they make me want to throw up :/
MeanElevator@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
Just like many other foodsâŚitâs dependent on how you prep it, cook it and serve it.
Seasonings are your friends.
useless_modern_god@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
Dad used to slice it, bread it and shallow fry it. I remember enjoying it, but, then again most anything is good when fried innit.
Llabyrinthine@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
Brinjals? YuuuuummmmâŚ
dumblederp@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
Baba Ganoush.
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
Best reframe the discussion to âcreamy and deliciousâ. Does absorb other flavours well. I quite like eggplant cut in 12 or so lengthwise wedges, then the cut surfaces dipped in lemon juice and dusted with seasoned flour, then sprayed with a bit of oil and then put under the grill cut sides up. Leaving the skin on keeps each wedge together, so you get the creamy inside and the crunchy coating. A hawt dipping sauce goes well with this. Sort of eggplant chips.
Catfish@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
Another vote for eggplant being vile
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone â¨5⊠â¨months⊠ago
Gets the go ahead in a fresh thai curry but the next day it is mush.