I wonder if I can put the music on through the stereo without any help. Pray for me brb.
Daily Discussion Thread: 🐝 Thursday, September 26, 2024
Submitted 8 months ago by Seagoon_@aussie.zone to melbourne@aussie.zone
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CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 8 months ago
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 8 months ago
You got this!!
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 8 months ago
No I don’t think I have. The AV is registering my phone but no sound is coming out. I think I have to do something with the tv. Fuck I wish I had paid more attention.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 8 months ago
This is the third time in a row I have not had to pay for my coffee. Which means my husband has paid for 15 in a row and I’ve swooped in and collected the freebies.
Alamutjones@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Is that not what he’s for?
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 8 months ago
He has other uses. He’s very versatile.
Drusenija@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Are you secretly my wife? This post sounds a lot like her 😂
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 8 months ago
I hope she enjoyed her freebie. I know I did 😂
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 8 months ago
I’ve taken some days off around the long weekend. I’m going to try enjoy the time off and not focus too much on how much I actually get done vs how much I want to
TinyBreak@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Sitting here for the first half of the article going “Please not my council, please not us” It wasnt, thank god. But thats honestly a surprise that it wasnt.
Eagle@aussie.zone 8 months ago
I’m not surprised that it is mine 🫠
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 8 months ago
I thought we were past this as a country. 🫤 But there are always going to be extremist arseholes.
StudChud@aussie.zone 8 months ago
If you check any Australian reddit sub (cities, states, Australia or Australian, etc) you’ll find we are not past this at all. There are gross people all over, and they walk among us 😭
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Dream: I went to Saudi Arabia for a something. It was worse than I could possibly imagine. I met an Aussie. We both remarked at how bad it was.
TinyBreak@aussie.zone 8 months ago
fair to say you dont like sand?
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Despite having a genetic predisposition to it, I find it incredibly annoying.
Baku@aussie.zone 8 months ago
I had a dream a few nights ago about going to Cairns and it was pretty much the same story
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 8 months ago
I’ve been spending some time reading a right wing forum just to see what the deal is.
Man. Just wow.
StudChud@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Okay, I’ve rewritten this a few times now and idk what to focus on, so I’ll say that I have also looked at what they write in those places and it brings me such visceral fear and anger that I feel sick to my stomach.
Sure, some conservatives are reasonable normal humans, but that side of politics has been taken over by RW extremists, incels, and misogynists advocating for the legalisation of child marriage (let’s be honest, just little girls married to old men), the forced slavery of millions of women and AFABs, and the forced rape and impregnation of said women and AFABs. They believe they have the right to our bodies just because they are the “stronger sex”, whatever the fuck that means. They want to create Gilead in real life.
I’m tired of our stories being dismissed, I’m tired of the fight against sexism and misogyny that feels endless.
I don’t want kids and I won’t have them for many, many reasons, one of which is what kind of world is this for them? If I had a girl I’d be so utterly scared that I know I would end up like my mum was to me… And that’s no way to grow up, AND it didn’t protect me at all - just exacerbated my naivety. She may as well have put a neon yellow sign on my head that said VICTIM
Their utter disregard for the humanity of more than half the human race (women, bipocs, marginalised groups) scares me so much that I fear there is no hope for this world. It’s all crumbling apart, busting at its seams, that I feel so hopeless.
SituationCake@aussie.zone 8 months ago
I read Doppelgänger by Naomi Klein earlier this year. She proposes that conspiracy theorist right-wingers feelings that the system has failed them has some merit, but that they’ve completely misunderstood who that is. It’s not vaccine scientists or diverse communities. It’s social media magnates, exploitative capitalism and corrupt politics. I guess when you’re full of prejudice you have to do lots of mental gymnastics to make your world view fit your bigotry.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 8 months ago
I’ve been doing that too the past few months.
They sound ok at first, rational, then they get worse and worse as they reveal themselves and go down rabbit holes.
dumblederp@aussie.zone 8 months ago
I assume much of that stuff is angry AI from dodgy sources. Eg Russian troll farms.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 8 months ago
On The Chasers the contestants introduce themselves and add a little tidbit about themselves. Eg.
Hi I’m CEO and I learnt technology tonight. ☺
I want to hear your introductions.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Hi I’m Simon, I enjoy pooping normally
dumblederp@aussie.zone 8 months ago
A bit of left over therapy learnin, your large intestine, you can massage it externally to encourage digestive motility (moving it along) and aid peristalsis (intestinal poo wave). But the jist is that you rub your belly in a large circle following the large intestine while also doing little circles through that path to work it.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Oh dear Simon. Tell me more.
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Hi I’m Spin and I… am a bit of a nerd?
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 8 months ago
I dunno only you can answer that.
Catfish@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Hi I’m Catfish. I’m neither a cat nor a fish. Nor am I a Troll. Anymore. Most of the time.
StudChud@aussie.zone 8 months ago
I don’t know why, but your comment reminded me of the CatDog theme song
StudChud@aussie.zone 8 months ago
I’m Spud and I smell like goats.
Catfish@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Either we use the same moisturiser or I should ask you for cheese
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Yum.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Hi, I’m Lady Seagoon and I like to collect and listen to all kinds of really old music LPs.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 8 months ago
What’s your most favourite LP Lady Seagoon?
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 8 months ago
My stomach hates me. I just want to be friends again…
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Your stomach has been through trauma.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 8 months ago
I think it needs a treat. I rarely get uber eats these days but some cheesecake factory cheesecake could be good.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 8 months ago
shaping up to have some nice weather so will go out and do some errands 🌞
have been listening to these guys, I can’t believe this is the first time I;ve played them on my little stereo, they sound pretty good!
bjtm, i wanna hold your other hand www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7yqn7QDSfI
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Tonight I am listening to the original soundtrack album to The Glenn Miller Story with Jimmy Stewart, 1954. It sounds really good and I do remember the movie too. I Know Why. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e2LXzNjYkw
it’s a heavy old record,shellac?, looks cool on my antique style player
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Listening to one of my favourite Hancock radio shows. I can so relate to keeping bits of junk …lol www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaa4m6q56Fo
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 8 months ago
I rilly rilly want some dinosaur lollies, 😭, so hungry , ( will have peanut butter toast for lunch )
I must lose weight
Catfish@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Here you go. These ones have no calories.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Thank you. 🥹
My faves are the orange ones, then lemon, then blackcurrant
TinyBreak@aussie.zone 8 months ago
probably more a gardening question, but still gonna ask it. I got a wheelbarrow full of dead weeds and green waste. I’ve got a backyard of clay and rubble. its not draining well, as you might imagine.
Thinking about digging out a section of clay and dumping my greenwaste into the hole, top dressing it and seeing how it impacts my drainage. I’ve dug some random holes already and filled with some sticks and stuff to try help break up the clay, but its taking an eternity and I’d rather deploy a more dramatic test and make sure I’m not wasting my time. Any thoughts?
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 8 months ago
FIRST FIX YOUR DRAINAGE. This should be the 11th commandment of gardening. Aggie pipes, gravel drains, swales whatever.
Digging a hole will only drain a small part, any organics in the hole will just rot anaerobically (aka smelly). Top dressing will not change the presence or absence of oxygen. Holes gotta be connected to your drainage for this method to function. Clay is used to seal the base of dams etc for a reason - it’s waterproof.
That having been said, I’ve dealt with nasty clay in EBrunswick and turned it into a garden. First, the water’s gotta go somewhere, so decide on your drainage pattern. Remembering that water flows downhill, and that isn’t all going to be water. Draining/breaking up clay soil, there shalt be SILT. This is inescapable. So your drainage has to be capable of handling/filtering out silt. All the above cos clay IS silt that has settled in one spot due to being on a flood plain at one point or another in history.
Then using fork break up clay into largeish clumps that form rows pointing towards your drainage. I’m talking tennis to basketball sizes. You will be amazed at the amount of water released by this process. Sprinkle gypsum (clay breaker) thickly over the clumps. Leave for a couple of days. Then smash down the biggest clumps with a fork and sprinkle more gypsum. Level off the area a bit, without compacting it. Air & water gotta get in and out. Then cover with thick layer of mulch, autumn leaves, dead weeds, compost, straw, wood chips, worm castings, mushroom compost, sheep manure, reserved top soil - any organic matter you can get your hands on - even pine needles. This layer needs to be THICK. Leave for a few months. If your dogs like to dig, cover with chicken wire pegged down with tentpegs.
Turn over the area with fork after a few months to mix in the organics - the clay should have been reduced to quite small lumps by the above process, and there should be quite good vegetable matter incorporated. Water should either be being absorbed by the organics or running off into your drainage. Add more organics and mix in with fork. Ready to plant a couple of weeks after that.
Its a whole lotta work, but on the good side, once clay has been broken up, it’s incredibly fertile and you may not ever need to add fertilizer. Also retains water well so hose watering is reduced also.
TinyBreak@aussie.zone 8 months ago
yeah unfortunately the budget for a drain right now is nill, but its on the list! its not affecting the garden beds, just the grass in low lying areas so just gonna try and bodge it as best I can till I can afford a better solution.
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Could think about clay breaker.
TinyBreak@aussie.zone 8 months ago
had a crack at this. the clay laughed in my face.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 8 months ago
www.wikihow.com/Break-Down-Clay-Soil-Fast
first thing is using a fork to aerate
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Do you want to spread weeds? Because that’s how you spread weeds.
TinyBreak@aussie.zone 8 months ago
not in a kikuyu lawn. But weeds are the least of my problems, its all about breaking up the clay.
bacon@aussie.zone 8 months ago
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i gave the hay a panadol not sure if that’ll cure its fever
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Who’s your favourite X-Men character and why is it Storm?
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Brian Mannix because he had the coolest hair.
anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone 8 months ago
I also vote for Brian mannix
StudChud@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Storm because Halle Berry.
Rogue, because she just wanted to touch people without them dying and the other X-Men treated her like a traitor. Yeah she can bring dead things back to life, but never being able to be physical with your loved ones ever without killing them? Yeah I’d cure that shit too.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 8 months ago
This is a well reasoned argument.
I getcha.
Catfish@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Deadpool
Duenan@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Back when I was a kid I always wanted to be Cyclops because I thought he was cool.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Image Tada!
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 8 months ago
The man says Wolverine because he’s got attitude. I still say Brian because hair and all.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 8 months ago
The wolverine from the cartoons in the 90’s had the best one liners.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 8 months ago
The last xmen movie I saw was Logan , which I thought was really good, so I;m going to have to say Wolverine and Xavier.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 8 months ago
That movie was incredible. Was not what I was expecting and I’m glad.
dumblederp@aussie.zone 8 months ago
I like speedsters for super powers so whatever magneto’s kid is called. Marvel’s Flash.
TinyBreak@aussie.zone 8 months ago
From the films? Wolverine. Love the attitude. Or maybe the Cavillrine, simply cause of the shotgun arm reload for the claws.
T156@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Jean-Luc Picard.
Mostly because they somehow nailed Xavier as being similar to Picard, sometime before Stewart was cast as Xavier.