Existential crisis 💫
Daily Discussion Thread: 🦑😋 Saturday, July 06, 2024
Submitted 5 months ago by Seagoon_@aussie.zone to melbourne@aussie.zone
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Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Memories of being a kitten in a paper nest with her mum?
StudChud@aussie.zone 5 months ago
The things we do for our cats 😂 she looks so happy!
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Paper is warm and dry like dry leaves in nature
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Sent off an email to the general manager to have a meeting face to face next week about the police check.
I expect to lose the contract, but I still have a little hope that I won’t.
Also I have a migraine😔
Goodnight everyone ❤️
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 5 months ago
gentle hugs and a cup of tea
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Gratitude thread!
My sister bought a little studio apartment, after a couple of weeks ago she was dejected missing out at an auction. I’m happy for her :)
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 5 months ago
I am grateful for washing machines. Without them our lives would be so such harder.
just_kitten@aussie.zone 5 months ago
I can live without a dishwasher, oven, microwave, still don’t have a dryer, but the last thing I’d ever let go of is a washing machine. It’s a non-negotiable. life would be horrible without one
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 5 months ago
I’m grateful for the roof over my family’s heads and for kids that enjoy spending time together. I’m actually rather grateful we’re not doing much this weekend as I need the rest. I’ll be watching the wrestling tomorrow with the kids and that’s about it. Physically I’m knackered, it’s been a tough week.
Baku@aussie.zone 5 months ago
I’m grateful I found the motivation to go to the shops and grab a few things I’ve been needing for like 2 weeks. Even if that motivation was mostly because ice cream
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 5 months ago
I just had half a donut which was very yummy.
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Ooh what kind of donut was it?
just_kitten@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Grateful for my oodie and my warm merino socks, and for this absolutely rich and delightful chocolate cake left over from morning tea at work. A lovely pick me up while painstakingly working through all my deductions…
wscholermann@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Already only 6.4 degrees. Would not be surprised if it gets to 0 tonight.
imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone 5 months ago
After jumping into the puffer jacket thread yesterday with a bold claim you need neither a big jacket nor a puffer…I succumbed today and am now one of the great Melbourne puffy community.
My fav little local store was having a sale so I got a proper down one for half price so just a bit over a hundred. I have to admit I am very toasty warm
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Heading to a dnb/jungle/dubstep gig tonight. Gonna see how many lemons I can give away.
Just some rando handing out lemons to randos.
Used to do it in the before times and they all went so keen to see if that still holds.
just_kitten@aussie.zone 5 months ago
In this cost of living crisis, they would have to have clinical brain damage not to take free lemons.
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 5 months ago
It’s a dnb/jungle/dubstep gig - clinical brain damage not ruled out.
bull@aussie.zone 5 months ago
I think I’ll head to the border for the night so I can smash out another 6-8 hours of my audiobook (Pet Sematary read by Dexter’s Michael C. Hall). I’ve been meaning to check out Yackandandah for a while so I can go by there as a detour on my way home tomorrow.
Plans: sorted. Well… nearly. I need to see if I can find a room up there.
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone 5 months ago
He’s got such a great voice! Enjoy the drive 🙂
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Lol. The Beard is gone now. All of it.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 5 months ago
and cold
Eagle@aussie.zone 5 months ago
You can feel like you’re having an affair for the next week!
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone 5 months ago
He’s lost a couple of Arab points now lol
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Hahaha. He looks 10 years younger and no longer a sheikh.
Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Going to throw something controversial out there. It bothers me that virtually all advertisments feature a mixed races couple. It bothers me how virtually all media nowadays is so ultra sensitive to be politically correct that any white person plus white person combo is ‘blacklisted’ (lol).
I have no issue with mixed race relationships at all. But I do have an issue that all media seems to have started to portray the ‘typical’ relationship as a mixed race one.
StudChud@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Lol, why does it matter? I mean, it’s all capitalism anyway; media/ads are just doing it to grab a wider audience and make more money. People are more likely to buy from places that they feel represent them, and the companies profit.
Everything is shades of grey, friend.
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Bingo.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 5 months ago
I get it. It’s the same with tradie ads featuring women. Good, but not the norm. Woolies ads have the men cooking the family dinner. Good, but not the norm.
The thing is no longer will we see stereotypes because the marketing team will cast that net wider than previous attempts. It’s a good thing.
Catfish@aussie.zone 5 months ago
I feel the same about work training material. So much attention to including one of everybody that it may not represent reality. One group I work with the diversity is naturally true. The other very on paper.
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Advertising has always been ‘aspirational’. Back in the 70s and 80s, the Womens Weekly was notorious for advertisements where the goods being advertised were clearly aimed at the newly prosperous new home owners and newly arrived people. The people demonstrating the goods were all white, anglo and upperclass or a good imitation thereof. The goods were such that white anglo upperclass people would not have dreamed of having in their houses - even in their worst nightmares, as too too bogan.
Also, look at homewares ads on tv & youtube right now - the houses, even those with small kids and pets, are INCREDIBLY neat and clean and all the surfaces are blindingly white or pale grey and everyone is neatly and cleanly dressed. This is not a realistic scenario for a busy household. Aspirational.
stepchook@mastodon.au 5 months ago
@Force_majeure123 @Seagoon_ representative media would include couples who are three percent Aboriginal, six percent chinese, half a percent italian, ten percent queer, sixty six percent working class etc. That would be representative. Pretty difficult to cast.
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone 5 months ago
I’m generally in mixed race relationships. I hate pandering. That’s pretty much it.
At the same time, worrying about what colour the people are in ads is pretty low on my list of concerns.
useless_modern_god@aussie.zone 5 months ago
How many drinks have you had my friend?
Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 5 months ago
How about you respond to the posited scenario rather than attack to positor
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Mixed race is how you can tell it’s undercover myki
because reality is that mixed race couples are still an exception
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 5 months ago
I told the man if he insists on keeping The Beard then atleast trim it away from the top lip because sitting here whilst enjoying my dinner, I have seen some disturbing things.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 5 months ago
do not make leek soup
😐
T156@lemmy.world 5 months ago
If it keeps up, he might be able to use it like whales use their baleen.
StudChud@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Cheers! 🥒🍸
anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Chin chin! 🍹
just_kitten@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Tax return lodged!! Of course my old employer’s income statement isn’t tax ready, they have ALWAYS been so slow at paying super, lodging tax details, etc. Meanwhile my current employers are on the ball - one is a huge org, the other a tiny firm, and they managed to get shit sorted. I didn’t bother waiting for the old guys, the sums correlate to my bank deposits. Hopefully it’s all in order, anticipating a decent chunk that I can put towards getting my car’s head unit replaced with one that does android auto.
There’s also small silver lining to my reduced employment over the last FY, should be getting $511 back as a tax offset. Overall, a huge relief vs my shockingly low tax refund last year of $250 or so
Duenan@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Happy to hear you managed to lodge yours in sooner rather than later.
Last year my employer forgot to push the income statements through and I had to call the finance department and ask what was going on and they forgot to action it and push it through to the ATO. 🤦♂️
They got it in on time this year so I just lodged mine in the other day. I’m glad that I’ll be getting back more than what I got last year by quite a bit but I think a lot of it came at the expense of travelling offsite and back constantly so I was able to claim back on that.
Now for the wait of it being assessed which hopefully won’t take too long and then win!
just_kitten@aussie.zone 5 months ago
That’s really poor of your employer, surely one of the finance/payroll department’s biggest tasks is to ensure staff get their tax-related statements on time. I would’ve been so mad - thankfully it came through on time this year. I hear what you mean about the travel, I was looking through my past tax lodgments and one year I racked up thousands in claiming vehicle use for work travel, dunno whether it really worked out in the end with all the costs of maintenance and some expensive service items.
I’m keen to get something back before the end of this month if possible. It’s time for me to restore my savings balance to where it was near the end of last year before I quit my job. I’ll be due for a chat about my pay at my second job and going to negotiate as best I can…
Llabyrinthine@aussie.zone 5 months ago
It’s been several years since my best Winter sleep period ever. Trying it again (sleeping with the window cracked). Think it went well last night.
This weird little weirdo is actually excited about it.
Baku@aussie.zone 5 months ago
I slept with the balcony door open on my first night on the train to Mildura. It was nice, but that was in Creswick and it was a few c colder there than in Melbs. Woke up with freezing feet, even with socks and the blanket. The rest of me was happy though
wscholermann@aussie.zone 5 months ago
I really do wish framing pictures wasn’t so expensive. And Australia being Australia means that when you shop around prices seem to roughly the same everywhere.
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Years ago I did a framing course at a shop - you learn how to do it yourself, then you can go in and use the equipment there and just pay for your materials. More recently I’ve just bought some cheap pictures/frames at the op shop and used those.
wscholermann@aussie.zone 5 months ago
If I was going to be framing pictures on a frequent basis I’d consider it but that’s not where I’m at now.
Baku@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Would you mind sharing? This sounds interesting
bull@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Catfish@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Help me hivemind: where have I hidden the double sided tape? It is not in the tape drawer (yes I have one of those)
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Interrogate the cats. They know something.
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 5 months ago
I too have a tape / sticky thingos draw. I thought I was alone.
dumblederp@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Also in the tape drawer club. It’s between the screw and nail draws.
Alamutjones@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Done my shopping for the week. Now to clean the bird cage
just_kitten@aussie.zone 5 months ago
For some reason I have Handel’s The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba in my head this morning and I just imagine… cats. Specifically, a glossy-maned cat of regal bearing sauntering into a room on an overhead ledge and looking down on us unworthy humans. I am a bit cat-starved. I have much more freedom to adopt a cat compared to past years, but wondering if it’s a good time when I might need to cut back on work for a year to finish my studies…
bacon@aussie.zone 5 months ago
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Taleya@aussie.zone 5 months ago
throws chicken tenders in airfryer then slaps in a sammich slathered with cheese and kewpie mayo i did not spend 6 hours removing render by hand to cook my own dinner, absolute bullshit this is!
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 5 months ago
sewing is done, now to tidy up and to press the panels
tomorrow I will cover the chairs 👍🏻
Duenan@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 5 months ago
minestrone for lunch … brr it’s cold inside
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 5 months ago
The meat is finally in…
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 5 months ago
so tired, could barely sleep and strange dreams
Taleya@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Hampton red rooster is an absolute fucking shitshow. I ordered three items and they couldn’t get a single one right. Satisfryer was missing chicken, pineapple and drink (and chips were wrong size), popcorn chicken entirely absent (about which my cats are pissed ) and flayva was a bbq. Which i did not order.
Straight to chargeback ya cunts.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 5 months ago
The sewing of the patchwork continues
Baku@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Someone smashed the glass to the advertising billboard thingy at the shops. Kind of surprised the rest of the glass isn’t smashed, they just went for the bit they kept the ads in. Surprisingly they didn’t even steal the ad (just a poster Blu tacked to the inside by the looks of it), just smashed the glass. Missed opportunity imo
Also, this is the same stop I got abused at a few months ago, and one of like 3 places I’ve ever been truly scared for my safety while I’ve been out. Nice to see it hasn’t changed one bit (I try to avoid it now)
Pilk@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Bed linen change day: boo
Swapping in the thicc doona: yay
Nath@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Image
We’ll start with January’s numbat photo.
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 5 months ago
I reckon the Creator had some help from a graphic designer when he/she/it designed these. Same with loons.
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