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 1 month ago by Seagoon_@aussie.zone to melbourne@aussie.zone
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CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 1 month ago
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 1 month ago
You got this!!
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
Is that not what he’s for?
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 1 month ago
He has other uses. He’s very versatile.
Drusenija@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Are you secretly my wife? This post sounds a lot like her 😂
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 1 month ago
I hope she enjoyed her freebie. I know I did 😂
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
I’m not surprised that it is mine 🫠
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 month ago
I thought we were past this as a country. 🫤 But there are always going to be extremist arseholes.
StudChud@aussie.zone 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
fair to say you dont like sand?
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Despite having a genetic predisposition to it, I find it incredibly annoying.
Baku@aussie.zone 1 month ago
I had a dream a few nights ago about going to Cairns and it was pretty much the same story
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
I assume much of that stuff is angry AI from dodgy sources. Eg Russian troll farms.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 1 month 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 1 month ago
Hi I’m Simon, I enjoy pooping normally
dumblederp@aussie.zone 1 month 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 1 month ago
Oh dear Simon. Tell me more.
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Hi I’m Spin and I… am a bit of a nerd?
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 1 month ago
I dunno only you can answer that.
Catfish@aussie.zone 1 month 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 1 month ago
I don’t know why, but your comment reminded me of the CatDog theme song
StudChud@aussie.zone 1 month ago
I’m Spud and I smell like goats.
Catfish@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Either we use the same moisturiser or I should ask you for cheese
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Yum.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Hi, I’m Lady Seagoon and I like to collect and listen to all kinds of really old music LPs.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 1 month ago
What’s your most favourite LP Lady Seagoon?
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 1 month ago
My stomach hates me. I just want to be friends again…
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Your stomach has been through trauma.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
I rilly rilly want some dinosaur lollies, 😭, so hungry , ( will have peanut butter toast for lunch )
I must lose weight
Catfish@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Here you go. These ones have no calories.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Thank you. 🥹
My faves are the orange ones, then lemon, then blackcurrant
TinyBreak@aussie.zone 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
Could think about clay breaker.
TinyBreak@aussie.zone 1 month ago
had a crack at this. the clay laughed in my face.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 month ago
www.wikihow.com/Break-Down-Clay-Soil-Fast
first thing is using a fork to aerate
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Do you want to spread weeds? Because that’s how you spread weeds.
TinyBreak@aussie.zone 1 month ago
not in a kikuyu lawn. But weeds are the least of my problems, its all about breaking up the clay.
bacon@aussie.zone 1 month ago
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i gave the hay a panadol not sure if that’ll cure its fever
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Who’s your favourite X-Men character and why is it Storm?
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Brian Mannix because he had the coolest hair.
anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone 1 month ago
I also vote for Brian mannix
StudChud@aussie.zone 1 month 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 1 month ago
This is a well reasoned argument.
I getcha.
Catfish@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Deadpool
Duenan@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Back when I was a kid I always wanted to be Cyclops because I thought he was cool.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Image Tada!
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 1 month ago
The man says Wolverine because he’s got attitude. I still say Brian because hair and all.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 1 month ago
The wolverine from the cartoons in the 90’s had the best one liners.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 month 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 1 month ago
That movie was incredible. Was not what I was expecting and I’m glad.
dumblederp@aussie.zone 1 month ago
I like speedsters for super powers so whatever magneto’s kid is called. Marvel’s Flash.
TinyBreak@aussie.zone 1 month 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 1 month ago
Jean-Luc Picard.
Mostly because they somehow nailed Xavier as being similar to Picard, sometime before Stewart was cast as Xavier.