I’ve been calling him 'old man’s because it makes me laugh. He is displeased and reminded me he is only 3, going on 4.
He’s still my grumbly, chatty old man though.
Daily discussion thread: 🐀 Thursday, June 6, 2024
Submitted 6 months ago by Seagoon_@aussie.zone to melbourne@aussie.zone
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StudChud@aussie.zone 6 months ago
underwatermagpies@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Pretty sure he can be a handsome old man and a little baby kitten at the very same time.
Eagle@aussie.zone 6 months ago
He does have an old man face, in a respectful way!
Aradina@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
I’d take advice from this wise old man
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 6 months ago
He looks wise
Nath@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Catfish@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Hooray! I did not throw up.
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Feel for you. Dentists are not fun. Not even close to fun. I have an appointment at the dentist on my birthday next week. The only day available. Poo.
Catfish@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Birthday dentist is mega poo! I’m not scared of them as such, but have a seriously messed up gag reflex which makes it very un fun indeed.
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Catfish@aussie.zone 6 months ago
There is no dog in this picture
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Eagle@aussie.zone 6 months ago
I see a poo in your slipper in your future.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 6 months ago
🤮
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Shame on you!
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 6 months ago
You monster. 🤭
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Pure evil.
The guilt will never escape you.
Duenan@aussie.zone 6 months ago
For anyone needing petrol, this is the time to fill up, a good number of petrol stations have jacked up their price for the long weekend already.
anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Oh damn, I forgot to do that today, and I forgot there was a long weekend
Duenan@aussie.zone 6 months ago
I just used 7-11’s fuel lock and I’ll take my time doing it next week instead.
Baku@aussie.zone 6 months ago
$1.70/L for diesel in Dandenong. $1.79 in Creswick. Probably $2 on Saturday
dumblederp@aussie.zone 6 months ago
God dammit, best I saw on petrol spy was 1.86 for diesel in Keysborough, which I bought 50 litres of.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 6 months ago
I’ve been walking past the dog’s bed all morning giving him a little pat and talking to him (he likes to bury himself under his doona). I thought “oh you haven’t popped your head up for awhile” so I have a proper look and he’s not even in there. He’s in the kid’s room because they have a time share thing going on.
Baku@aussie.zone 6 months ago
mysticgreg@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Love me a good N-class. Used to take these a lot between Gippsland and Melbourne growing up. Shame they’re all V’Locity’s now :(
Baku@aussie.zone 6 months ago
They are good trains. I also saw one that had been debadged and was hauling a freighter, which looks… Interesting.
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Jelly. I like that trip on a train - did it a few times years ago.
Baku@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Really? They were saying it’s the first time a passenger train has run to Mildura since it was axed in '93.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 6 months ago
more pain meds have been taken, then a little more sleep and then I’ll be up
Baku@aussie.zone 6 months ago
There’s a bunch of jumpy Bois in front of my hotel!
They look kinda like rocks or something, but nah, they’re all jumpies!
The train trip included a fancy dinner and drinks with the train crew. Obviously I can’t drink [:(], so I just had a bottle of Pepsi Max to look the part. I also had to learn how to do fancy eating. Dinner and meal manners aren’t something I’ve ever had to use before, so I never learnt them. But I feel under qualified to eat dinner now to be honest. I’ve never put a napkin thing in my lap, or wiped my face with a black cloth, or had 3 different knives + 3 different forks + 2 spoons + 3 glasses before. I was also the only person at my table under 50 (seriously, that’s not a hyperbole), so that makes it harder to know how to act and what to do.
I mean it was a good experience, and I’m happy that I did it, but there’s so many generational differences that it gets really hard to know what to do or say and how to act. 1 lady was super nice, but the dude next to me shouted at me to not play with my food (there was a flower on my dessert and I was trying to figure out if it was edible or not). It was that sort of formal.
imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone 6 months ago
That dude was a dick.
I am very middle aged and I still remember my first “fancy” dinner… I kept.forgetting how to hold my knife and fork and my mate’s mum leant over and helped. I still feel a bit out of place at fancy dinners. It’s fun to play and try new things though.
Baku@aussie.zone 6 months ago
I was at a foster care house for a while and the foster carer and her son both got really, really, really angry at me for not holding a knife and fork right (I held a knife in my left hand and more like a broomstick despite being right handed), but neither of them wanted to teach me or explain what the go was. I only learnt how to properly hold cutlery and knives when I was 14/15. My previous fanciest dinner would probably have been an RSL, but since those tables aren’t really shared, nobody gives much of a shot how you eat things as long as you’re not obnoxious about it and meet their dress code thing.
I’ve actually picked up a lot of my manners and social norms from old Australian soap operas (namely prisoner) + stories from my mum. Just generally speaking, I don’t think much beyond basic manners is really a thing in my generation. Even an expensive sit down restaurant doesn’t necessarily mean it’s fancy or will even have a dress code, let alone any concern about manners or over a dozen types of silverware
wscholermann@aussie.zone 6 months ago
If some random punk on a train who I didn’t know yelled at me not to play with my food I would give them a death stare and a few choice words they would never forget
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Baku, I would’ve played with the flower too 🤷♀️
Baku@aussie.zone 6 months ago
After he yelled at me I decided to just eat it. I think it was intended mostly as decoration, but it didn’t taste like anything so I assume it was intended to be safely edible. I was the only person that are it at my table though
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Ignore the guy, he had very bad manners. The best good manners are a smile, please and thank you and a kind heart like greeeg’s friend’s mum.
And that train trip looks really awesome, so jelly. 🥰🚂🦘
Baku@aussie.zone 6 months ago
That was something that stuck out to me. Nobody was even really acknowledging the waiters at all, and I was the only person saying thank you to them each time they brought food and took plates and drinks and stuff. The only time I could justify not thanking them is if I was in a conversation, but even then I’d at least acknowledge them with a head nod, or duck to the side to make it easier for them to get the plates
Catfish@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Nellie’s update has landed.
This time we get an encyclopaedic life cycle description. …wa.gov.au/a-year-in-the-life-of-the-numbat?
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 6 months ago
… and females receive an augmented termite diet for optimal breeding conditions.
I wanna augmented termite diet!
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Is there anything we can do to support Nellie?
Catfish@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Other than give the zoo money? Not that I am aware of. Are you artistic? You could do a Thing for $ with a donation pledge ?
tone212_@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Sometimes I read back on a professional email I’ve sent and think - wow I actually sound like I know what I’m talking about. Get me on the phone though and I become a mumbling mess sometimes.
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone 6 months ago
I love the phone. I have a “professional” voice I put on. It’s fun lol
Baku@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Fixable finished off the coaching and most of the packing. Usually I wake up 4 hours before I’m due to leave and then pack from then, but I have to leave by 5:45 so that ain’t happening. I’ve tidied up the house and cleaned out the new kids half of the fridge and freezer. Also packed so my clothes and most of my backpack, but I’ll have to pack a few odd ends when I wake up. I’ll also have to wake up around 4:45 or I won’t get be able to get up until 5:30.
Although it’s kind of a heritage train, the heritage is more about where we’re going than what we’re going in (which is the opposite of regular heritage specials). These carriages are the same ones that were on the Albury line before standard gauge vlocity trains like elsewhere displaced them. So I guess they’re technically heritage now. But it feels weird calling something I rode in regular service like 3 years ago heritage, even if the stock is old. If anybody wants to keep up with what’s happening, I’ll post wrap of photos of the day in c/MelbourneTrains when I get a chance, and share whatever funny/weird/annoying experiences stand out to me here
Baku@aussie.zone 6 months ago
God I was tired when I typed this lol
“Fixable finished off the coaching” was meant to be “finally finished off the cleaning”
Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 6 months ago
My workplace has recently banned access to the Seek website. There have been quite a lot of departures recently lol. They also banned the website of a competitors company when said competitor took off with a few of our staff, and we were too stingy to match their pay offer
Nath@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Yep. That’ll totally stop 'em leaving.
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone 6 months ago
I used to browse seek on my phone in the toilet years ago lol
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 6 months ago
bull@aussie.zone 6 months ago
@CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone please provide recap and review of your dinner/margarita last night. Also did you accept, wear and bring home a sombrero?
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Well, first I didn’t get the sombrero. I did see the fish bowl though, that was fucking huge. I got 2 margaritas, one strawberry, one mango. The strawberry was ok. The mango did not taste like mango. Did not expect them to come from a slushie machine.
The food was good. Prawns were great
Stuffed jalepeno were really good
And Chile fries were really good
I would definitely get these again but take away so I can make proper margaritas at home. The fajita was ok not great because the meat wasn’t tender. Good experience 3.5/5
calhoon2005@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Gaaaah! Why can no one at my workplace understand how to use SharePoint for document sharing/editing/commenting…!?.. See attached for my edits on filename_edits(3)…
SituationCake@aussie.zone 6 months ago
I know the pain. To be fair, it can get confusing because it’s a bit different to how users would use the regular windows file saving they are used to. Can the company do some info sessions on SharePoint basics? A bit of training can go a long way.
calhoon2005@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Oh there’s been training… Also, I sent the document out sharing it via SharePoint. So multiple people have downloaded a copy, added edits offline, then emailed it back to the group…I mean, all you have to do is click the bloody link in the email and it opens right up… daaaaaaaaaah
TinyBreak@aussie.zone 6 months ago
I think I like metal now… I mean, soft metal… but I keep listening to all these Electric Callboy songs. I prefer the non-screaming bits, but appreciate value the screaming gives to the overall experience.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Have you considered offshoots like viking metal or folk metal? Metal before it became a lot harder or aggressive? Or those bands that used to be black metal but turned fully into ambient or folk?
You might like Amon Amarth, Bathory, Myrkur/Amalie Braun or Venom. [[[[[ Ps. You might want to check out ‘Is It Sketch’ and stay the hell away from white supremacist bands. />>';/[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone 6 months ago
You’ve got great taste in music!
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 6 months ago
I am ashamed to admit I haven’t listened to much new music the past ten years
had a lot of metal albums when i was a teen, deep purple, led zeppelin, black sabbath, that kind of thing
not that i don’t like new music, just that apps have make it harder to find new stuff, youtube and last.fm algorithms give you more of the same now, not much new at all
DolphinLundgrin@aussie.zone 6 months ago
I live to give music recommendations. 😁 What vibes you after?
Baku@aussie.zone 6 months ago
I try to listen to the hottest 100 each year to keep up with the times, but I must admit I seem to like less and less new music each year. Last year I really added lots of music to my library was 2019
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 6 months ago
You’ll find yourself going deeper into the rabbithole looking for harder stuff. I like technical and progressive metal, it’s amazing what some of those bands can do
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone 6 months ago
What are the staple foods in your pantry? I’ve never bothered filling one before, but I need a source of cheap meals if required.
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Would anyone here that works in IT please be able to offer a reference? My so called friend just dropped me completely
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Here’s my TV review
Korean Fried Chicken Rhapsody on Netflix
Holy moly. If you love chicken, you will love this. It’s chicken porn. Sexy Hot chicken porn every which way in oil. It’ll leave you hungry. 5/5 yum yums.
Ntcc661@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Police helicopter circling near my kid’s school. Distracting…
In unrelated news: I have never clipped a cat’s claw before. When we adopted our void cat in February she desperately needed her claws clipped as they had curled under, almost pushing into her paw. We had them clipped at the vet and since then she has been great at using the many scratching posts we have. But I knew that if I could clip her claws it would be an added bonus.
Today, with the assistance of a treat, I did 3 claws! Just small clips and I stopped as it felt like an excellent start. No scratching or biting. One hiss but a bit of the treat helped her. Made sure not to go too low.
bull@aussie.zone 6 months ago
I’ll tell you a couple of things this medicinal indica flower does: it makes my bed way more comfy and it makes rewatching Psych even better.
Duenan@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Small victory. I tipped the Tigers tonight in an upset and got it!
wscholermann@aussie.zone 6 months ago
I really don’t know why parliamentarians are bickering about Israel/Palestine. Spending hours on the parliament floor fighting about it does nothing for Australia, you know, the country and the people you were elected to represent.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 6 months ago
The probiotic/uti preventative supplement for Melbcat arrived… Cystopro. Cripes it’s expensive for a small bottle of 30. For best results I might save it til she’s finished her antibiotics. Hoping the artificial chicken flavour isn’t an issue with her poultry allergy and that she’ll eat it sprinkled in her food
Pilk@aussie.zone 6 months ago
The discourse has been saying Apple Music is better than Spotify in every way, especiallu now it’s also cheaper.
Does this only apply to Apple Music on Apple devices? The app is laggy and slow on my Pixel 8 Pro and I don’t really notice a sound quality difference.
I assume, though, that playlists and Radio would get more personalised over time? Any knowers?
bacon@aussie.zone 6 months ago
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Seagoon_@aussie.zone 6 months ago
I bought googly eye nail art stickers 😀 might be a bit too freaky 😹
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 6 months ago
My daughter made a new friend today
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Eagle@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Ain’t no love like a ginger’s love.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 6 months ago
She said it tried to leap into her arms ♥
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Muuuuuuum he followed me home - can I keep him?