Mickey says “zzzzz”
Daily Discussion Thread: 👽 Sunday, June 23, 2024
Submitted 10 months ago by Seagoon_@aussie.zone to melbourne@aussie.zone
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StudChud@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Despite everything that’s happened, I miss my friend.
We’ve known each other about 5 years, and been through thick and thin. We referred to each other as family. I was there for him, and he was there for me.
It all turned to shit pretty quickly once he got together with a new partner. We went from chatting a couple of times a week on the phone, to radio silence.
And then all the, almost spiteful stuff that came afterwards. ie: telling me to give up trying to get an IT gig, withdrawijg his reference (knowing full well at the time that I’d be fucked without it).
I’m hurt. Deeply. And I know his new partner has something to do with it. But at the end of the day, they are his choices.
There’s no coming back from what’s happened. The door is shut from my end.
And so life goes on.
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Yikes. I’m sorry you had to go through that.
StudChud@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Some people just aren’t who we think they are, or they change. And it sucks when they’re dickheads, it hurts.
Having said that, and experienced it, I think most people are good and kind hearted. But when we ourselves have traumatic pasts, we attract those who seek to harm us.
Drop the turd and thrive, king 💜
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 10 months ago
So many hugs.
It’s him, really, None of what he did and said was anything like what a friend does. Not even a good ex friend would ever want you to fail.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 10 months ago
And about still missing him.
that’s because you remember the good times you had together.
so don’t feel guilty , hugs
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 10 months ago
So I went to see friends last night, I always look forward to seeing the wife of the couple, she’s becoming a good friend and I hope I am a friend to her. The guy is a childhood friend of my husband.
And the guys grew up being the smartest person at school and they are both pretty successful in their sci or math respective fields.
here’s the thing, they both treat me like an idiot, or should I say, they both expend quite a bit of energy to keep me in my place
and I really don’t give a shit,
but I noticed the guy treats his wife just as poorly as he treats me, worse since it’s all the time. At first I thought it was just explaining a difficult scientific subject but it’s everything she does.
She’s a highly educated and experienced lawyer who is fluent in 3 languages. She’s no idiot. And even if she was you don’t talk to people like that.
It just saddens me.
and doesn’t surprise me, rude men tend to hang with other rude men
all I can do is continue be a friend with her
Duenan@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Those guys sound very unpleasant to hang around with.
I hate people who look down on others and do that, it’s yucky and demeaning.
They probably bask in their own superiority and have known nothing else through their life and thus treat everyone else like that.
Not much you can do about it since one of them are married to your friend but it’s yucky.
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Insecurity can be repugnant.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 10 months ago
I agree and insecurity is crazy. This guy has a phd in sciences. What would it take to make him feel secure.
I suppose I can answer that. Controlling and keeping intelligent women in their place.
So why doesn’t he marry uneducated women? I suppose because it makes him feel smart to control a smart woman.
Always, always there’s an undercurrent of physical intimidation in these cases.
Baku@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Wow. I decided I wanted to go to the shops and grab some choccy and it turned into a rollercoaster. Only 2 minutes longer to walk than catch PT so I decided may as well get the exercise in (one bad thing + 1 good thing cancel each other out, right? About 5 minutes in I realise that was a bad decision when I walk past a dude tagging up a wall, and the section with streetlights finished and I’m walking through dingey industrial alleyways while it’s pitch black (even if it was only 6:30). Get to the shops at 6:48 and the doors I tried to go in were locked “oh sorry, you’ll have to go to the other doors”. Ugh. Any guesses how long of a walk that is? 1.2km… 1.2km to get to the doors on the other side, rather than walking 200 metres inside…
Anyways I finally got there and one of the doors was locked, which I actually thought meant those doors were closed too, which made my heart sink. But nah, they just locked one of them. Get to Kmart and hear beeping and thudding, like the noise their roller doors might make (got there at 7:05 and they close at 8). But no, maintenance people were just doing work on scissor lifts out the front.
Coming home I decided I’d take the tram back, just because I didn’t want to walk back that dinky little dodgy arse alley way that 100% looks like it belongs in Chicago. So I walked about 5 minutes (out of 10) down this other dimly lit side street (but with houses rather than warehouses), and realised I’m going to miss my tram (tram was 6 minutes away, I was 5) so I picked up the pace and then google maps stopped showing me where the tram was, and I thought I’d missed it. But then a minute later I saw the tram lights and assumed it was my tram. But then when the tram was slowing down I realised I didn’t actually know whether I was on the right side or not, and if this was my tram (I’d checked tram tracker after my tram vanished and both sides had trams due at the same time)
I decided to just get on and figure it out later, worst case I’ll go the wrong way but probably end up somewhere that feels safer. It was my tram though, and now I’m back with chocolate! I got some of those freckle things and a cherry ripe, so it’s not all bad!
TL:DR the shops suck, google maps sucks, I suck, and the area my hotel is in sucks
Catfish@aussie.zone 10 months ago
You know the house is too cold when a shower makes your fingers & toes feel like they caught fire. Surprised the bathmat hasn’t grown moss. Must finish this mortgage paperwork and escape!
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 10 months ago
cold. Bill Cat crawled in the big humans bed
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone 10 months ago
My brain is mush. Reading in bed and early night I think.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 10 months ago
I wish, I have so much to do. Gotta finish cleaning up the cat bathroom , got a few loads of washing to fold and put away, pies to make for dinners and lunches and I want to start on my sewing.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 10 months ago
1 doz pies made. That’s good for a few days and then I can freeze some too
Grackle@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Went to Missy Higgins at the Palais last night, probably one of the best gigs I’ve been to in the last 10 years. 13 year old me and 33 year old me were stoked.
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Fried up some chicken, mixed it with the leftover savoury rice mix and made parcels out of it, some with flatbread and some with leftover pizza dough. Did more laundry, very nearly finished it too lol. Watched some wrestling with Elder minipeeler. He said he wants to be a pro wrestler when he grows up. I think he’s partly been inspired by how accessible, friendly and cool the guys at Lucha Fantastica are. I could picture him as a luchador in a travelling show, and I don’t know exactly how I feel about that. Not that it makes any difference, it’s his dream not mine. Miniest wants to be 10 different things and doesn’t know which thing to pick. I said why pick one? You can be an artist and a vet and a cake decorator and run an animal refuge and design gardens etc. Look at Leonardo da Vinci, he was lots of things.
Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 10 months ago
You’re the best Mum 😘
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Aim high, kids ♥
dumblederp@aussie.zone 10 months ago
I used to work with guys who did pro-wrestling, there was a scene for it in Melbourne. If they won’t take kids, else see if you can get him to try some gymnastics to build a useful foundation.
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Sound advice, thanks for that!
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 10 months ago
I love this advice. So much of what we here at schools and in the workplace and society in general is that people can be only one thing. To be many things , but mainly being your own true self following all your dreams and talents , is a really good thing. 🥰
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Oh man, I’m going through it.
Melbcat is having a rough go of it, the cold has flared her arthritis but the nausea from antibiotics means she won’t eat her meals with her regular pain meds in.
She’s been having shots of pain and anti nausea medication at the vet to break the cycle and I’m giving those orally every 12 hours at home. She’s now eaten a little bit twice and takes treats but is still refusing almost every wet meal.
Me, I’ve got serious health stuff going on and am absolutely pissed about it
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Still punching out chillies late june!
had to clear a metric fucktonne of oxalis (again) to find them heh.
I guess the great thing about these things being near the coast is there’s little frost.
Catfish@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Envy!
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 10 months ago
That is a lot of chilies 🔥
just_kitten@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Woah, nice haul. Sauce or powder?
My scotch bonnet looks like it might be permanently done after gifting me a bounty in April (it did survive falling down and having half of it torn off), might be the last year for the insanely hot Thai chilli too. But I have a tomato plant that refuses to die and still is attempting to put out flowers like what the hell bro. You can rest now
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Sauce or powder
Ooh was thinking powder maybe. Would love to do something like hot honey or chilli jam though.
My rando tomato plant is also doing the same thing as yours! heh. So late to the party. I don’t have the heart to pull it out.
bacon@aussie.zone 10 months ago
i want to stay in bed but i need to pee what do
Catfish@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Teleport your bladder to an alternate dimension
bacon@aussie.zone 10 months ago
instructions unclear, urine in abdomen, sepsis commences
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 10 months ago
This is the answer.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 10 months ago
If you get up and go potty mummy will give you a reward.
bacon@aussie.zone 10 months ago
mother i have urinated into the toilet bowl and only the toilet bowl, please present commendation
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 10 months ago
hey all 😀
I saw a friend’s possum that she feeds , it was so cuuute
Baku@aussie.zone 10 months ago
The ringies live in a tree next to my house and when I’m feeling down I like to sit outside and watch them scurry around. Sometimes they jump onto the roof and patter about right above me
I’ve never fed them, but I do occasionally feed the maggies that also live in that tree, so I think the possums heard I’m a friendly
Duenan@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Bleh. After yesterday’s nap I somehow managed to strain or pull something and some area of my neck or back shoulder is sore which unfortunately is leading to pain when I move my head.
Taken some Panadol and nurofen but I hope it’s only an minor strain and not anything serious.
It’s a day of keeping warm and resting today.
Baku@aussie.zone 10 months ago
I was gonna go places and do things today, but then I realised bed is warm and decided “nah”
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 10 months ago
I actually feel alive today. It’s a Christmas miracle. Might even give the floors a lick later for something exciting to do.
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 10 months ago
The sore throat I was developing seems to be nearly gone already, without having developed into anything too severe. The cold also progressed to my nose, where it has managed nothing more dramatic than making one nostril slightly runny. I feared much worse.
Cendana@aussie.zone 10 months ago
You got the flu vaccine recently?
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Not recently. A month or two ago.
There has been a cold type thingy going around at work, I assume it is that.
Aradina@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
The aliens are in control of the daily thread! Well, they probably know what they’re doing.
In other news the cat is cuddly. What a baby
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone 10 months ago
I see now why people avoid going into programming 😔
Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Is it the programming aspect?
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Absolutely lol. Or more so the amount of knowledge you need to memorize.
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Moon pretty. And very bright. And shining through my window onto my face.
Baku@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Today is United Nations Public Service Day, and International Widows Day
bull@aussie.zone 10 months ago
It was my niece’s dance thingo today. Her first time on stage. Her and 3 other pre-school aged kids and it was just as you’d imagine it to be.
When they were led out onto the stage by their teacher at the start of the song, one of the little girls immediately jumped off the stage, ran to her grandma in the front row and opted out. This was after she’d been having a great time rolling around on the stage before the event started. There was a little boy who just stood on the stage and stared at his family looking mildly upset. Another little girl at least had a go but wasn’t paying much attention to the teacher who was leading them and then finally my niece was actually trying her hardest to follow the teacher’s moves. She was the best!
We stayed for about half a dozen or so more music students’ performances who were older and did things like play guitar, play drums along to Metallica/ACDC/RHCP songs, sing and play piano. A little boy played the first 3rd of Bohemian Rhapsody on the grand piano almost flawlessly. Kid would have been like 8 tops I think, but I’m not great with guessing ages. Super impressive. The whole thing was to get the kids performing in front of people so they all messed up at various points, which is fine. They pushed through and got to the end of their performances.
Then my niece decided that she wanted to leave so we ducked out of there before she could really passionately start stating her intentions for the exit.
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Remind my of my first theatrical performance, in a school nativity play. I had the role of a wise man’s camel. I got distracted by everything happening and missed my cue, so instead of my wise man “riding” a camel he got to walk in whilst his camel belatedly scurried behind.🤣
Baku@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Apparently Spotify has launched a new cheaper tier. It’s billed annually and not monthly. Works out to be the same price as it was before they upped the price again last month. $155 a year ($12.99 a month). The only difference besides the annual billing is that it doesn’t include audiobooks
I don’t care for the audiobook thing, especially considering the audiobooks aren’t unlimited. So if I can scrounge up the annual fee, I might switch
Baku@aussie.zone 10 months ago
neurospice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
All’s well that ends well
just_kitten@aussie.zone 10 months ago
I’m going to watch Inside Out 2 tomorrow, I’ve decided. To prepare I just rewatched Inside Out at home and honestly every time I fall in love with it all over again. It’s one of the best ever films I’ve watched, period.
This is no mere kid’s film, it’s a goddamn psychology class and therapy rolled into one. It brings me to tears, every time (and this must be the fifth time at least). And every time i notice new details, and events of the film have new meaning…
::: spoilers rambling because seriously guys i love this film
This is the first time I’ve watched it post lockdown and I was honestly ugly crying at the point when Joy realises Sadness needed to take over. I mean i cry at that point every time anyway (also when Sadness sits next to Bing Bong and just listens). But this time it hit so much harder after the huge events of past years: the loss of friends, the irreversible life changes, isolation, the realisation that some joyful parts of the past are truly over and can’t drive us any more, and have to be let go to move on to new joy, the sadness taking over happy memories, the rebuilding of new networks by letting emotions blend, and of course one of the big morals of the story - don’t keep trying to push through and be happy all the time, embrace the difficult feelings or everything starts breaking down. Deny sadness and you get locked out of your brain with depression.
This film has meant so much to me over the years because I’ve always been Sadness - Negative Nelly, Debbie Downer, the character in the film to a tee - and both hated and defended that fact fiercely growing up. This was honestly the first film that gave me the permission to embrace it and be proud of it - especially the mum having Sadness running the show with empathy, it was the first time I truly understood who I could become rather than forcing myself to be someone else.
I can’t get over how the creators weaved these personal experiences we’ve all had and actual psychological concepts into such vivid, coherent, playful imagery that doesn’t just track as a very entertaining kid’s adventure film but also as an incredibly creative and powerful metaphoric film for all ages. I could watch it every year til I die, honestly. :::
Of course I don’t have such high hopes for the sequel. But I can’t not watch it when the original means so much to me. ❤️🩹
Baku@aussie.zone 10 months ago
I really feel you on this so, so much. I loved the first movie too, which I watched when it came out. I want to watch the 2nd one, but I just know that I won’t be able to cope if I watch it with where I’m at at the moment
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 10 months ago
so many hugs
It’s on my watchlist 💗
calhoon2005@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Randomly watching Lethal Weapon. Very very 80s. Especially the mood seeing sax…
calhoon2005@aussie.zone 10 months ago
The interplay between Gibson and Glover is pure 80s.
calhoon2005@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Edit… Danny Glover was ripped ae
just_kitten@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Caught Perfect Days with a friend, I went in wanting to diss it tbh but came out generally enjoying it, it didn’t romanticise menial worker life in Japan as much as I expected it to and I enjoy that it didn’t infantilise the viewers. Good one to watch on the big screen and soak up the Vibes.
Procrastinating big time on some study items that I have to put my big girl pants on and do because nobody else will and it’s self structured so up to me to figure out… So of course I end up mopping the floors which I’ve been putting off for months. It’s good though, because the house has now got a real clean energy.
Dinner, and then I’m going to just sit in front of my laptop and force myself to read some journal articles to get the ball rolling at least.
bacon@aussie.zone 10 months ago
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Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Coconut & pretzel curry please, and an extra couple of hours of sleep. And tea please Bacon.
SituationCake@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Went to Fairfield boathouse this weekend. Haven’t been before. Very Old Timey style. Had decent scones and a some very nice walking tracks next to the Yarra. Would be amazing if they gave it a renno like Studley park. I think the location is actually nicer than Studley park, due to the walks and views. Would go again.
wscholermann@aussie.zone 10 months ago
It’s cool outside but it’s sunny so this is manageable for me.
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Really nice swim tonight. Didn’t hit too hard.
Also first open fire of the year:
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Been waiting for this.
bliss.
just_kitten@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Ugh. Want. Miss open fires a lot. Therapeutic, mesmerising, beats being on a screen for sure.
bull@aussie.zone 10 months ago
I should really set more things on fire. It’s so lovely.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 10 months ago
that looks lovely 🔥🥰