Daily Discussion Thread 🦦🦦🦦 Saturday, August 3, 2024

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• Alamutjones@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This weekend is going to be so chill, it’s great

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• CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Good morning everybody. Did we all have fun last night?

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  • Alamutjones@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I did. I finished work then immediately hit the pub (Drunken Poet is love, Drunken Poet is life) and had some tonkotsu ramen. A pleasant start to the weekend

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I did. 😊

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  • Baku@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Meh. I went to sleep late, but I don’t even remember why. I think I was just laying in bed watching YouTube.

    Also, I dared to try and sleep with the washing machine on while still half traumatised from recent events, so I woke up a dozen times at every little noise thinking somebody was breaking into the house, until eventually I was so tired at about 4 that I just passed out (I first started trying to sleep at 2:30)

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  • Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I did. Watched a very good game of footy last night.

    Eagles Vs Suns

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• ajsadauskas@aus.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  @Seagoon_ Let's get the ball rolling...

  Much on over the weekend for everyone?

  At my end, some of it will be spent planning last minute anniversary surprises for wifey. It's on the 12th of August, so I've really left it to the last minute 😔

  Suggestions welcome...

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  • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m sick, so video games and making music.

    And a long session of playing “fetch” with the cat lol

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• Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Holy crap.

  My 🐱 giving me anxiety with such a close win tonight.

  Wish they’d stop doing that to me!

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• melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The cost of basic fabrics is pretty extravagant, even when you shop around. Sewing your own stuff isn’t thrifty anymore. It’s even probably a luxury hobby by now.

  *I’ve checked clearance and discount fabric sites and wouldn’t want the stuff that’s affordable. The selection is not good

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  • Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yup! And finding non poly stuff is getting harder and harder. Where you really blow money though is on the bits people don’t always think of. Zippers, facing fabric, the amount buttons go for is obscene!

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    • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m not even after quality! Just looking for cheap as chips trackie pants fabric in a generic colour

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  • TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I agree with Seagoon - 2nd hand is the way to go. Op shops have sheets and often leftover fabric that’s been donated. Sacred Heart has a better selection than Vinnies. A single bed sheet is ample for a lot of projects. If you need a zip, rather than paying $12.50 in Lincraft, look for a garment with the right colour and length zip for $2. The crappiest garments often have good buttons or zips.

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    • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Absolutely. I used to haunt the local op shops. Unfortunately I’m not getting many opportunities these days. Pretty grumpy about it

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    • Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I have no idea what the actual cost of my sofa Reno is. Some of the fabric has been in stash for 20 years. Buying it all at once right now would likely cause an embolism…

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I buy second hand items to use the fabric. Just have to look very carefully.

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    if what you want is fabric for warm comfortable trackie pants try looking at some new fleece blankets

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    • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Way ahead of you. They looked like they’d be recognisable as blankets though (at least the lighter colours that would show less white cat fur)

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  • underwatermagpies@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ditto with yarn. It’ll cost you a fortune to knit or crochet yourself a jumper, like a couple of hundred dollars.

    Op shops sometimes have fabric, but you have to be lucky, and have the time/energy/transport to travel around.

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    • RustyRaven@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      My best op shop find ever was lots of yarn. I got there just as they were putting out what must have been a knitter’s whole stash, and included real wool yarn, in large quantities of matched lots. I bought enough to make four or five jumpers, at something like $1 a ball.

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    • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yep. Energy and transportation are what’s missing

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• Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  everything I put out for people to take for free has gone, all the dvds, the knickknacks and the jigsaw puzzles

  I also took two big bags of miss seagoon’s clothes and some blankets to the opshop

  tomorrow I put more stuff out

  I came home with some LPs and a small 1960s maple glass cabinet to put my shell collection in. I’m trying to get things kind of tidy.

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  • PeelerSheila@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You didn’t happen to put out a wall clock and some kitchen stuff and over the door storage hangers? Because Mr P has come home with a car load of stuff from someone’s nature strip!

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    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No. 😹

      But I do love the community recycling here. It’s neighbourly.

      I have a garden table I’m putting out next week and more books.

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• Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  😹 I sorted my dvds and put out a dozen for people to take for free. A neighbour beat me to it and had a pile out there already. I brought two in but I’ve still got ten less than I had. 😹😹

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  • Baku@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oooh I need to come to your area

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• bacon@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  i

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  • Pilk@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    =√-1

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  • useless_modern_god@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    love

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    • bacon@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      y

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  • RustyRaven@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    👁

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    • bacon@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      📱

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    🫡🫡 sir

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• oztrin@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Doctor ordered the routine blood tests and the closest place was still the Highett place, so drove up and am sitting in a cafe in Cheltenham waiting on my breakfast. Charman Rd carpark is already filling. (Locals will understand.)

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• AJSadauskas@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Restaurant reservation made for next Sunday, flowers sorted.

  I mentioned to wifey not to make plans for next Sunday.

  “What’s happening next Sunday?” she asked, then looked it up.

  I think she’d forgotten, and took it as a less at hand subtle hint 😂

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• Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  @CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone

  💙🤍 💙🤍

  Good one!

  Time for my game next.

  Go 🐱!

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  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    WE WON?

    Shit

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    • Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yup! Thought you would have been watching it!

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• Baku@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I had a couple of replacements arrive this week, but I haven’t had much of a chance to play around with them. One of them was an old Oppo AX7 that I had laying around. It was actually just about completely dead. I got it in 2019, and it was the first sort of decent phone I had. It was 300 bucks, and I paid for half of it, with the last place I was at paying for the other half. I used it for a couple of years, before eventually dropping it so many times that the LCD broke and a black blotch started spreading along my screen. Still worked. Until in the middle of the night it stopped working. I purchased a new screen for it in 2023 planning to fix it up and use it as a wardriving device, but I couldn’t get the fucking screws out. I tried everything, and even asked 4 different people to give it a crack. Damn Oppo really don’t want you fixing their phones. I did some googling, and found that someone suggested using a tiny bit of super glue to bind it to a screwdriver and get it out. That didn’t work. I gave up with half (4) of the screws left. Gave it to one of the techy workers, and he managed to get 3 out using a bit of solder, but that one was forever stuck. That’s actually why I bought the S8. Had it and the screen replacement in a little bag I was planning on taking to ewaste, but then old mate snapped it in half. So I got a working phone out of a broken one lmao

  The other notable thing was the MacBook that was stolen. I got it back in 2018 and was the first laptop I had. In 2020 my charger broke, and I asked my last place to get me a new one. That got me some dodgy knockoff from eBay, and after a few weeks, it sparked when I plugged it into the port and charred one of the ports, burning out one of the pins on the charger. I cleaned it up a bit and borrowed a genuine one from my school which charred and burnt out too (no sparking though). I deemed it mostly a write off and put it in its box and kept it in some drawers, intending to replace the I/O board when I had $150 to spare. When I moved in here, I decided to order the cheapest eBay charger I could find, just to see if it would happen again and determine if it was worth replacing the I/O board. It worked, and never had another issue. Funnily enough though, in 2018 a kid at a previous placement got shitty with me and scratched the back up quite a bit, so I also basically got an upgrade out of this one too.

  Although oddly, both of these arrived completely filthy. The phone was bought from CeX and the MacBook from some refurbishment shop. I can understand why the person Hocking them wouldn’t clean them, but why wouldn’t the shop? I’m not a huge fan of fingerprints all of my screens. Takes 2 seconds, and a 3 cent alcohol wipe (or free with a zinger meal) to take the condition up a few notches

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• LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Anti-gratitude thread.

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  • Pilk@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What I just paid out of pocket for a Saturday GP appointment. 💀💀💀 All because I missed their call on Monday, and they hadn’t been able to get back to me since.

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    • just_kitten@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I feel this pain in my bones.

      It almost feels like a fine…

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  • Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I woke up after midday today which was unintended.

    I’m also running out of peanut butter :(

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  • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Still sick 😢

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  • RustyRaven@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I still have half my work day to go.

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• LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Gratitude thread :)

  Grateful for my dog.

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  • Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The weekend is here!

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  • underwatermagpies@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Grateful for book club. And my local fancy yarn shop with super lovely and helpful staff.

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  • RustyRaven@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I am grateful my work day is half over.

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• Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  vocal fry www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDfJn1kcQuU

  fuck i hate it

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• Baku@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My Lemmy crashed when I was halfway through writing a long comment :( and I can’t be bothered retyping everything

  Spotify crashed too, which was odd

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• Baku@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Apparently Officeworks will sell you a pack of iced vovos for $3.54 at any time. Coles or woolies are $4. You can get them on special for 2 bucks every couple of months, but if anyone wants them noooow, Officeworks have your back

  love ya, offeys. Plus, free delivery if you have onepass 🤷‍♂️

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  • Alamutjones@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They’re selling all SORTS of weird shit. Among their best sellers are imported aspirin, fancy toothpaste and a “posture corrector”. The iced vovos are only the start

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    • dumblederp@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Many companies have started an oinline “marketplace” for other traders to use their brand page as a sales space. Eg Bunnings Marketplace.

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  • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They used to sell 5kg boxes of fizzy lifesavers, but sadly stopped. you can still get like 300 teabags and 4kg of biscuits for reasonable prices

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• RustyRaven@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I just had the fun of watching lot of cars figure out what to do with a Fire Truck behind them. Lots of attempting to move out of the way by changing lanes at the lights, which all turned out to be not helpful at all because it went around the corner.

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