They do require a police check, but I’m hoping they won’t withdraw the offer when I tell them.
Daily Discussion Thread: ☃️ Wednesday, July 03, 2024
Submitted 10 months ago by Seagoon_@aussie.zone to melbourne@aussie.zone
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Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone 10 months ago
StudChud@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Fingers crossed for you that this one is all good! You deserve a break from being a job seeker! Sending good vibes your way 💜
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Thank you ❤️ I accept that it may disqualify me, but the legal machine is in progress to have it removed.
In the least, I know I can land roles.
oztrin@aussie.zone 10 months ago
🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻
anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone 10 months ago
🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 10 months ago
🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 10 months ago
All those cold swims paid off last night.
I’m in a house built in 1910 with no insulation, sisalation etc. Slept with the windows open and felt nothing.
Would’ve burned through a lot of previous midnight snacks it’s basically cheating.
So in this weather we switch from steamed dims sims to deep fried dim sims because it’d be a health hazard if the blood wasn’t loaded up with stuff to burn.
So the science is true: Get in cold water = can deep fry shit.
Taleya@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Was mentioning this is the first house i’ve lived in that hasn’t fucked me on a cold snap, and how when i woke up it was 20c and it stays 20c!!
Coworker overheard last part and tried to oppression olympics snipe me. Nosy bitch got a short, sharp lesson on exactly what growing up in a holmesglen concrete prefab special was like.
I ain’t wearing guilt, i’ve done my fucken time and then some.
Catfish@aussie.zone 10 months ago
She can fuck right off.so cal the bills needed to get this place out of single digits and me be able to tell what colour my skin is.
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone 10 months ago
My new rule is that when it gets below a degree in temperature, I huddle in bed with Gibson and listen to audiobooks.
Nothing of value can be done at this time lol
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Gratitude thread! What are you grateful for today? :)
I’m grateful for not cancelling my gym class booking today. Although I was tired and couldn’t give it my all, it was better than nothing. Also grateful for my mum being patient with me despite me being irritable.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 10 months ago
I am grateful for living in a nice apartment with nice little terraces I can garden on and I am grateful for living near beautiful parks.
And I am grateful to all the people who make beautiful movies and tv for us to watch. It truly is a gift.
dumblederp@aussie.zone 10 months ago
I’m grateful for all the birds I saw today while enjoying the sunshine.
I’m grateful for this warm bowl of porridge.
Catfish@aussie.zone 10 months ago
It’s my Friday! There are cats Boyo didn’t turn the freshly made bed into a burrito rolled dog nest in one day
underwatermagpies@aussie.zone 10 months ago
So glad there are cats.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 10 months ago
I am grateful to have insulation in my house. Seriously all those people who don’t, especially renters, my heart goes out to them.
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone 10 months ago
My rental would be amazing if it had insulation. Damn shame.
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Grateful for fluffy butt
For somewhere to live that’s all to myself
For the studio I can lose myself in when I need to
And for a plethora or media to watch when I want to rest my mind
underwatermagpies@aussie.zone 10 months ago
I am grateful for central heating. And to have a roof over my head in this cold weather.
I’m also grateful to the ABC for streaming ER on iview and keeping me entertained.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Just for a bit of fun, I decided to get on the little dog’s bed and mess up his blankets. Oh boy. He did not like it one little bit. He tried to nuzzle me off, snorting like a horse.
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone 10 months ago
My version of that is when I need to move the cat off of the bed and she will very gently start nibbling my arm.
Pilk@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Do you wear a wristwatch?
If so, is it because you use it, out of habit, as a fashion thing, something else, or a combination of the above?
Mine keeps breaking and I’m thinking of just replacing it with some jewellery (simple chain bracelet?) on that side to fill the void.
underwatermagpies@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Yep, I wear an analogue watch every time I leave the house, and use it to know the time quickly. It also looks pretty, because I like my functional things to be decorative if they can be, but it’s primarily functional.
tone212_@aussie.zone 10 months ago
imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone 10 months ago
I have a older style garmin (that’s small and has an actual working watch face so it doesn’t look like a fitness tracker). I mainly wear it for the tracking and stress/HRV tracking but the watch bit is handy when I’m in meetings or dealing with public transport or trying to put down the phone. I lived happily without a watch for many years but since I got it I’ve worn it all the time. If it broke I’d probably go without again until I found something I like that fits.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 10 months ago
When you say “breaking” what do you mean? Stop working? Crack the screen? The band falls off?
Yes, I wear a garmin. It counts my steps, tells the time, records shit. Before that I wore an analogue.
Pilk@aussie.zone 10 months ago
It’s got a separate second hand that keeps falling off with bumps, and the rogue hand gets caught in the hour and minute hands. Fixable but doesn’t seem to stick. And it makes me realise I barely ever look at it to tell the time, I just feel naked without it.
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 10 months ago
I do. I used to wear one all the time as a kid so it’s partially out of habit. I don’t like having to pull my whole phone out just to check the time when I can do it causally on my wrist, and I have a smartwatch but the screen never turns on when I want it to.
I bought an automatic Steeldive watch off Aliexpress that’s pretty good and one of the cheapest solar watches from Citizen I could find. Solar watches are great, they’re so light and require almost no maintenance.
I’m not into watches for the fashion so I find so many of them incredibly ugly for everyday wear
Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 10 months ago
No. Seems redundant when I’m carrying my phone everywhere; and idgaf about fashion
dumblederp@aussie.zone 10 months ago
I use a cheap digital watch mostly as a step counter.
StudChud@aussie.zone 10 months ago
I don’t wear a wristwatch at all, or bracelets. I hate the way they feel. Generally just check my phone for the time.
#justmillenialthings
T156@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yes, both for health tracking and because it’s handy for notifications and calendar alerts. It’s also a bit of a habit for time-keeping at this point.
Although I’ve found fancier, newer watches to be much worse for that. I replaced my old Garmin with a Samsung Smartwatch, since the corner broke off the Garmin, and the Samsung one had a metal frame that seemed more durable. However, the software is both worse and more fiddly than the garmin, which is itself worse than the software on the Pebble (RIP) I had a long time ago.
TinyBreak@aussie.zone 10 months ago
I know our cold tolerance is all different but maaaaan people watching is insane today. The battle between fashion and function. Cool guys who chucked on a vest and went “that’ll do” or insisted a cap is good enough over a beanie. The Middle aged professional looks great in her business gear, but I’m questioning pants that are basically 3 quarters in length cause she’s gotta be regretting the amount of skin exposed on her legs. Then sensible ones who layered up, people who tried to make the puffer jacket cool (largely successfully I must say) and then there is those of us who went “fuck it, warm is more important” and just threw something together. I don’t think my gloves are even the same colours, if anyone asks I’m just gonna say I can tell which is my left and which is my right.
melbourne_wanderer@aussie.zone 10 months ago
as a research academic (I.e. very few student facing days), my “middle aged professional” cold weather gear is a pair of blunnies (over thick socks), jeans, shirt and v-neck jumper under a long wool coat with a scarf/cowl.
basically, switch the blunnies for other shoes, drop the coat and scarf and it’s all remarkably similar to my all-weather, middle aged professional look.
more effort made on occasion when visiting 50 Lonsdale.
MeanElevator@aussie.zone 10 months ago
more effort made on occasion when visiting 50 Lonsdale.
Not too much effort I hope. Don’t be showing up us regulars there :)
TinyBreak@aussie.zone 10 months ago
I used to have the wool jacket, but these days its either a Northface or a Jack Wills puffer i got from the UK. I prefer the wool look, its much more classy, but I find the puffer much warmer.
MeanElevator@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Coming from a colder climate, it amazes me how much emphasis there is here for ‘looking the part’ instead of being comfortable.
TinyBreak@aussie.zone 10 months ago
I think the difference is death. Ok not really. But in anything colder than this you’ve simply gotta treat it more seriously.
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 10 months ago
I used to have a great cold weather look when I was working in the city (many years ago). Long black coat, suede gloves with fur trim, and a black fur scarf and hat. Now that I I only have a few minutes passing between car and buildings I am much more the random hodge-podge look.
TinyBreak@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Back in the day when I was a young fella I put in a lot more effort. Nice black business jacket, matching scarf and gloves. These days…. Haha less so. Works lucky I put on pants that arnt trackies.
bacon@aussie.zone 10 months ago
l am disappointed that there is no snow
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone 10 months ago
It’s - 0.7 here. Snow would make this more bearable.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 10 months ago
snow is so pretty
bacon@aussie.zone 10 months ago
which coffee is the most easy to get in winter?
answer
a cold brrrrrrrrew
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 10 months ago
😐
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Perfect emoji
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone 10 months ago
This is terrible and I love it
useless_modern_god@aussie.zone 10 months ago
just_kitten@aussie.zone 10 months ago
I approve of your chunky mortar and pestle
Baku@aussie.zone 10 months ago
I got some news about the other kid. Apparently they are actually fully decided on moving him elsewhere. Their original plan was to move him out tomorrow, and have me move back in later tomorrow, but that didn’t end up happening because their plans fell through. So instead I’m staying in another hotel until Tuesday morning, and he’ll be leaving on Monday night.
Also, kind of ironic, but the hotel I’m now staying at is the same one I lived in for a few months in 2018 after getting kicked out of another place in the country. Ironically in those days I was being moved close to every week and basically toured the entire west and south west of the state. Then I moved into this hotel and things started to settle down.
I’m in a different room on a different floor, but it’s really interesting seeing it from a different perspective. 6 years ago I was still me, but so different it doesn’t even feel like I was. I was never expecting to come back here. I’m also loving the irony that despite how many places I’ve been at, and how much has changed in the world, system, and me, I’m still moving around every week. That doesn’t really make me sad though, because at least this time it’s a mutual thing and I have some say in where I’m going and when. Last time I was here I was only here because somebody declared that I would be, and that was the end of the story. Also I could’ve chosen somewhere else, or another Airbnb.
Baku@aussie.zone 10 months ago
So I’m officially creeped out. Tonight’s my last night here and 10 mins or so ago I heard something. Chalked it up to old house + cold weather (and warm heater). But when I went for my final dunny run, I opened the bathroom and the manhole thingy is halfway down and it has a staircase built into it. The noise I heard definitely didn’t sound like a clunk, which is the noise I’d expect it to make
This is the sort of thing that’s too concerning for me to be able to just go to sleep and act like everything’s okay, but at the same time not enough to actually call the police (who are pretty much the only people I could call at this hour). It’s also a lot colder in here than it has been any other night, kind of like a door was open. All of my doors are locked and have been all night. I checked all the spare rooms, nobody’s here. But I can’t even close the damn thing because it’s too high to reach.
It looks like it has some sort of latching mechanism which should’ve prevented it from coming open by itself. And of course every little creak is freaking me out now
Alamutjones@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Cold. Shit
StudChud@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Rising up from within, the toll of evolution,
I am not without sin, but I’m not here for procreation.
These rolling waves of pain, the tides of boiling crimson,
Turn into red stains, fuck you menstruation.Seagoon_@aussie.zone 10 months ago
I woke up to two fluffy grey gargoyles staring at me right up close.
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone 10 months ago
-4.3!!! Fuuuuuuck
oztrin@aussie.zone 10 months ago
It seems Booktopia’s gone into administration.
I was just on the verge of putting in a order for my IRL cakeday, too. 😬Catfish@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Stew on. House smells much warmer. Now we wait.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Little dog’s been naughty today. In out in out. Told him he can stay out in the cold now. He hasn’t knock. I need him to knock so I can ignore him for ten minutes to teach him a lesson. I think he’s teaching me a lesson.
danwritesbooks@aussie.zone 10 months ago
I have COVID (I blame you Melbourne!) and while I am feeling better I am still a little foggy brained and I have to do a CASPER test tonight for my uni degree and I am stressing big time because I don’t do well with scenario based questions at the best of times and with my practise I’ve been doing my thoughts aren’t concise atm with covid brain.
And it’s also freezing cold so my fingers don’t work.
Breathe. Breathe. Breathe.
Taleya@aussie.zone 10 months ago
standing offer of heating, bean bags , cats, landlord sniping, yadda yadda. I’ll get the muffins on.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 10 months ago
It’s cold af. I thought it’d be fine with the electric blanket alone but I wasn’t in the bed, wasn’t dressed heavy enough and had opened the door to grab my plants. Was not prepared.
I put door snakes and a rolled up towel under the doors. The casing on the blanket ‘curtain’ I use to block off the other room was unraveling and the fan heater I had out broke… fortunately I had a spare one, and did a really quick rough sewing job.
Then I put trackies over my leggings, a second pair of socks and slippers. I would have been smart to layer up first but didn’t expect the snafus to take so long
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 10 months ago
The fuzzy little one is under the doona with the electric blanket on. Now to make a hottie and see if I can wiggle in
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 10 months ago
I was invited to a mutual friend’s birthday party and I’ve met her twice. Could be a good opportunity to socialise but a) there’s going to be a bit of drinking which isn’t my scene rn considering the eight week fitness challenge I’m doing and b) scary. Do I go or do I not go?
oztrin@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Waiting to pick up the papou, having a mental bet if his social club is off and they forgot to tell me.
Duenan@aussie.zone 10 months ago
I just put my oodie on I think I’m going to be in it all day except for meal time and cooking.
Argh just the thought of preparing food is making me cold.
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Got the lenses in my glasses replaced. They made really unpleasant dashes above and below strong light sources like headlights. It got to the point I almost didn’t want to wear them when driving at night.
Turns out the transition coating is quite heat sensitive. I did some driving back in November when it happened and it must have gotten really hot in the car when it was parked because it was alright when driving. Well, I’ll just keep these glasses on me when not in the car
calhoon2005@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Gotta say, we timed our Queensland getaway well this year. Definitely not summer temps up here, but it’s also not ridiculously cold like it seems to be down there…
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Ted the Fluffy Gargoyle is looking quite comfy
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T156@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m not sure which is fluffier. Him or the rug (?).