Fucking had it with these gall wasps in the lemon tree. I let it go too far so have been taking the kukri to it (surprisingly very effective). I’d like to call it shaping the tree but in reality it’s wasp genocide.
Daily Discussion Thread: 🦖🍗🕊️🍗🦖 Friday, August 23, 2024
Submitted 1 year ago by Seagoon_@aussie.zone to melbourne@aussie.zone
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Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Spraying the holes and galls with WD40 works to kill the little bastards if you don’t want to chop off a particular branch/trunk.
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 1 year ago
ooh that is a trick I haven’t of. I will give that a go ty.
oztrin@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Oooh never heard of that one!
Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Dumpling review:
Good flavour - these were pork and ginger. Texture was lacking, but I blame my own cooking. I ended up kind of… Shallow boiling them, draining the water, then putting them pack on with a little butter (I don’t really use oil). Let the remaining moisture evaporate as best it could and stirred em around a bit. Finished with soy sauce and la gan mao chilli crisp. Also had broccolini. They came out quite soft and tacky? Still good though.CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 1 year ago
If you intend on feasting on more dumplings in the coming years get a couple of bamboo steamers like Catfish said.
bull@aussie.zone 1 year ago
This is the way. Also, to save the annoying ripping off of the right size of baking paper grab some liners
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 1 year ago
The pork & ginger ones I like to have in soup or on top of ramen. They are softer and tackier than other kinds. I have had trouble fry/steaming them. They do OK steamed only, but are really nice in soup.
underwatermagpies@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Sometimes I steam the Aldi gyoza in the microwave, which I’m sure isn’t ideal but hey it’s quick and easy. And they’re still good.
Duenan@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Are the Aldi gyoza any good?
My go to are the rebranded ones that used to be from KB.
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 1 year ago
I don’t really use oil
Oil is fren not foe with the dumplo.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Pakige…
Feeling really bad about buying from Amazon but it’s hard to find some things I need without it
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Don’t feel bad. I love Amazon. For so many decades it was so hard to buy specialist or unusual books in Australia. First we had to find out about a book then order at the local book shop, wait a month or so and then pay a ton on money.
Then came amazon and they had the most amazing catalogues and everything was available to Australia for the first time and it was cheap and fast.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Results not back yet. One vet was willing to give Melbcat the stronger pain meds but another has decided against it, so the compromise was giving an extra dose of her existing medication.
They’re saying it’ll probably be Tuesday so baby girl will be going the weekend without antibiotics and only pain relief. She’s got fussy and peed on stuff tonight so I gave her the last dose of the strong stuff.
She will no longer eat wet food if it has extra water so maybe I can try some tuna juice or weak allium free broth.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 year ago
So many hugs to you both
oztrin@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Crossing fingers for Melbcat.
just_kitten@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Ok, after an hour’s lie down I’ve recovered a bit and making myself go in to watch the film. I likely won’t have the opportunity to watch it anywhere else, and it’s good to expand one’s horizons and get out of one’s head. Especially prior to a holed-up weekend of reading and rewriting (as now my proposal is somewhat different)… Wearing a mask to at least slightly reduce the chance of getting some new shitty infection. Can’t afford that this weekend!
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 1 year ago
I don’t know what ratio? I should use to take a video and up load it. Anyway he’s rocking out with us.
dumblederp@aussie.zone 1 year ago
You can tickle it? www.youtube.com/watch?v=5376wzvxUpo
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Thanks for that!
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 year ago
they are so adorable
Taleya@aussie.zone 1 year ago
juuuuust ducked the rain to bunnings. I now have a post jack. No more will we fear the star pickets.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 1 year ago
I’m gonna share my Spotify playlist for tonight. Thanks for all those that involuntarily contributed. Hopefully I do this right.🤞
Eagle@aussie.zone 1 year ago
That is a smashing play list! ❤️ Sour Girl.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Thanks. It’s my teenage/young adult years relived.
Pilk@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Gonna fuck around and set up my gaming PC again to try Deadlock. Gave away my monitor, chair and desk, so gonna be an interesting setup for the time being.
Pilk@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Also, BBQ Samboy chips detected at Aldi in the CBD.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Aldi’s bags of popcorn are pretty good. I need to tell the world so they stay in circulation forever.
mysticgreg@aussie.zone 1 year ago
So sitting on the floor in front of the lounge room TV, just like we did in the 80s? :D
Pilk@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Well funny you say that, I don’t have a TV either. This laptop’s screen might do, though…
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 1 year ago
The kid came home yesterday from a function with a tray of food and the man said “I can take some for lunch tomorrow” and I said “No you can’t. That’s our dinner”. I feel really bad now for being a cunt.
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Sky pretty. Much pink.
Eagle@aussie.zone 1 year ago
It was like fairy floss
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 1 year ago
I survived the electricity. I woulld like to thank my rubber soled shoes. I’m not sure if that’s a myth but so far still kicking.
MeanElevator@aussie.zone 1 year ago
TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Thunderbolts and lightning, very very frightening.
MeanElevator@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Galileo
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 year ago
oooh, I heard some thunder
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Me too
tone212_@aussie.zone 1 year ago
My house just lit up like a Christmas tree and got a good rumble
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Movie Review. Kick-Ass.
Thoughts on an R rating for a movie about violence and force perpetrated and suffered by children.
In real life children can suffer all the same horrors as adults and too often do. I really do think we should put our effort in protecting children from real life violence rather than fictional violence.
And maybe fictional violence can help children understand the world around them better.
I don’t like violence, doesn’t mean it’s good to pretend it doesn’t exist.
MeanElevator@aussie.zone 1 year ago
I enjoy violent movies and video games as long as the context is there. Gore and senseless violence for the sake of it doesn’t work for me.
Kids know the difference thankfully and are cognisant of real vs fake
In real life, I can’t stand seeing people get hurt or hurting others.
oztrin@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Am at the vet with Sammi - poor love has been vomiting on and off since yesterday and hasn’t eaten more than a mouthful at a time.
Interestingly, she’s been a lot calmer coming up since it was just her so I had her beside me on the passenger seat instead of behind me in the back seat like I normally do when I take both of them.
She was calmly sitting in her carrier watching the passing traffic until the practice cat came and now she’s sitting up on alert. 😂bull@aussie.zone 1 year ago
I’m crashing after my morning caffeine hit! Argh!
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Belated Movie and TV Reviews.
**The Kingsman movies. **I like these homages to the Bond movies, the sound, the fast editing, the villains, the cold war, the cross the pond alliance, the costuming are all reminiscent of 60s Bond and the most recent Bond.
And like the Bond movies there is no blood and that bothers me. I know it’s for the M rating but it bugs me. That train scene in Argylle should have been a blood bath. Literally 2 cm of blood on the floor and everything else spattered with blood guts and bone.
Also has running gags and scenes across all the movies, which is cool.
3.5 hobbits . -.5 because no blood
**Rings of Power Review by Charlie Hopkinson. **YouTube. Reminded me how much I hated the fucking Hobbits in RoP, especially Lenny Henry. And what they did to the greatest elf warriors is embarrassing, made them look like accountants.
here’s Charlie www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj2bn1Rvac8
4 real Hobbits.
Taken. Yes, that movie again. Having seen it a few times it’s a really good exercise in seeing all the red flags/arsehole behaviour from lennie and her rich git husband that made the daughter disrespect her dad and make unwise choices.
The moral is be good parents, ay, teach respect or your kids will suffer for it.
3.5 hobbits
**The Union. **netflix. Mark Wahlberg and Halle Berry
Pretty standard spyfi movie , the latest story lines in spyfi seem to of an organisation within an organisation and the old race to find files of names before the bad guys get it.
But it’s really about people taking risks, pushing limits and achieving potential.
3 hobbits.
**Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. **
Loosely based on real events. Fast paced action , quite enjoyable. Nazis are bad guys.
3 hobbits
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 1 year ago
The first Kingsman movie is actually better than the comic it’s based on. There was this weird period where anything Mark Millar wrote just got adapted into a comic regardless of how good it was. It’s how we got Kick-ass and Wanted, remember that movie?
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 year ago
ooh, thanks for the recommendation. Imma watch that too. 🙂
I admit I really like Kingsman, always have, always will.
Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Heading to aldi, going to buy some of their dumplings for the first time, amongst other things. Anyone needs anything while I’m there?
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 1 year ago
That’s the way. Put a bit of oil in your frying pan, put the dumplings in, when they get a brown bottom put about 1/3 of a cup of water, turn the heat down to a simmer and put the lid on. When the water has evaporated they should be ready.
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Check out the chilled food section - Aldi sometimes has peking duck dumplings. They are yum but very rich.
Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 1 year ago
They had some Korean beef ones but I decided to skip em and try the OG frozen ones
Catfish@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Or… buy a steamer. The brown bottom method doesn’t work for all dumpling types.
Catfish@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Not chicken. Theirs has an odd plastic taste.
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 1 year ago
I lightly pan fry with oil (lid off), chuck some water in (lid on) give it a minute or two, lid off for a bit until evaporated and get them a bit crispy.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 year ago
omg, my allergies are driving me crazy, so itchy everywhere
StudChud@aussie.zone 1 year ago
My nose is swollen shut, and my eyes are weepy. Bloody pollen
MeanElevator@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Since seeing Deadpool wolverine recently, fam wanted to watch all the X-Men movies. We started two weeks ago and have made it to Logan.
Haven’t seen it since 2018 and remember crying at the end.
Looks like those feels are gonna come back tonight.
On the bright side we’ll be watching the first Deadpool flick tomorrow so that’ll alleviate the sads
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Logan was such an awesome movie and yes, 😭 at the ending.
MeanElevator@aussie.zone 1 year ago
I’ve cried watching something since but bawling my eyes out at a superhero movie was something I wasn’t going to predict
Catfish@aussie.zone 1 year ago
This turned up on a different feed. Somewhat @RustyRaven@aussie.zone topical. End of the arvo to ye 😝
StudChud@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Ugh pass on number 7 lol
just_kitten@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Actually raining out here where we normally don’t get as much. Been feeling really shit today. Have movie on at 9:30pm in city but seriously having second thoughts. I’m so fucking tired
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 1 year ago
It’s blast off Forco 🚀 Cheers Little Dumplings 🍺
useless_modern_god@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Cheers
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CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 1 year ago
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Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 1 year ago
🚋ALL ABOARD 🚋🍺🍺🍺
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Ding ding 🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺
Catfish@aussie.zone 1 year ago
🍻
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 1 year ago
🍺
imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone 1 year ago
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CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 1 year ago
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oztrin@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Off the booze until tomorrow due to antibiotics. Have one for me.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Would you be happy with more than one?