Daily Discussion Thread: 🧦🐈‍⬛🧦🐈‍⬛ Friday, October 4 , 2024

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• Aradina@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I love my cat so much. I wish he could understand me just enough to hear me say it.

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  • bacon@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    he absolutely does

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  • StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Cats can understand human speech, similarly to dogs. They know 💜

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My boyz wiggle their tails when I say their respective names. They know. 😺😺

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  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I say I love you to Melbcat or kiss her little head and she purrs, so they know. Also the cuddling lets them know.

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• oztrin@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Just back from dinner with the guy who organises the local Meetup dining group.
  I’d dropped into the conversation when he invited me to a cafe that I wasn’t looking for a relationship right now, just to lay it on the table, then after some messaging that was pushing the boundaries and some blatantly flirtatious behaviour in front of others I had to have a stern talk of the You’re Making Me Uncomfortable Back Off variety.
  So he walked me home, came in briefly to meet the cats and then I drove him home making it plain that I was just going to drop him home and run.
  So what does he do? Ask me to stay the night!
  Firstly NO, secondly I’ve never left the cats alone overnight and I’m not going to start now, thirdly I Told You I’m Not Interested Several Times Jesus Christ.

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  • StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    He understands, he just doesn’t want to accept it. It’s not about swaying you it’s about making you so uncomfortable that you’ll say yes just to get it “over with”.

    He doesn’t care about your feelings or consent. And do not let him into your house again.

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    • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This.

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  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hun. Not after a relationship. Just a root. Urrrt no. Kick.

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  • tone212_@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No means yes or possibly yes to some people, no matter how clear you are. Glad you got out of that situation.

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    • StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No is yes because some men get off on non-consent as well. Ugh UGH

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  • just_kitten@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What is up with men who can’t take a hint? Unfortunately not uncommon with some meetup groups :(

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  • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    He thought you’d be swayed by his confidence.

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Maybe next time don’t ask boundary challenged guys in to meet the cats

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    • StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ugh I have no idea why you are downvoted - I agree wholeheartedly with this.

      Do not allow men into your home who have already ignored your consent. Not victim blaming, but people perceived as women must be careful in today’s world what with the utter disrespect and violence towards AFABs/women/femmes.

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  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Exactly why I stopped going to meetup groups. A lot of people go there explicitly to use it as a dating pool and it gets uncomfortable.

    Not judging or anything but next time I wouldn’t let someone drop you home or come in. Because

    1. Some people are serious boundary pushers and

    2. you don’t know what they’re capable of if they manage to find out where you live or enter your home.

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• CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  What’s for dinner, mum?

  Poor man’s ceviche

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    aww, they are adorbs

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    • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They are!

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• just_kitten@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Long day… cranky… not a drop of moisture all day, but I just managed to miss the rain and got to come home to silky kitty and a bit of silliness (=much-needed energy expenditure) with the feather toy. Thank god I have food in the fridge… rest my tired soul with the sound of rain and a nourishing meal. I’m spent.

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• Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Tonight it’s singing practice. I cancelled my plans so I could have the evening to myself to get my voice back to a usable state.

  I miss performing so much. I just love the vulnerability that you feel when you’re giving a part of yourself to strangers for a short while. Putting yourself out there.

  Music had been such an important part of my life. Every step of the way music has kept me going when I felt I didn’t want to. I could always rely on making music for catharsis.

  And I think that’s what makes it such an important part of my life. I feel like everything is bottled up unless I’m playing regularly.

  /end over sharing rant

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    😭 we love you fluffybutt

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  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Can I ask what your favourite song is to sing?

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    • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This one. I fucked up in the middle but it has the most meaning to me. on.soundcloud.com/hY4gZ

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• Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Just had a company meeting about raises. I don’t quality because I just started, but they gave everyone:

  2%. You should have seen everyone’s face. The mood in the meeting plummeted instantly.

  I’m expecting some resignations in the next few weeks.

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  • Pilk@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We love an effective pay cut

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    • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Exactly. I’m staying for 12 months and grabbing the certs I need then I’m out.

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  • Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The beatings will continue until … every employee is 18 and doesn’t know any better

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  • tombruzzo@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s barely covers inflation these days. It just make sure you’re taking home the same realised income as the year before

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    • just_kitten@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The only way to get a pay rise these days is jump ship, it seems. Unfortunately

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    • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m here for 12 months to up skill. If I get a real promotion and it’s equivalent pay rise, cool. If not, other plans will come into play.

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  • tone212_@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Wow! And I used to get upset about my 5% yearly raise at my last job.

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• melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fed the kitty this morning and we went back to bed, cuddling sweetly… she stretched her arm, dropped it and punctured a single secretly sharp claw into my eyelid like a fishhook.

  After some delay of refusing to get up it’s been washed with antibacterial hand soap and dabbed with Betadine so fingers crossed. I have a spare box of antibiotics ready to go.

  But yeah, that was literally half a centimetre from my actual eye.

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  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Reaching out
    Touching me, clawing you

    Sweeeeet Mother of Jesus
    Fuck fuck fuck 🎶

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    • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      🎶 Bedtimes never felt so sharp

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  • Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My WhiteBoy used to wake us up by delicately inserting a single claw into a nostril

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    • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You can pick your nose but you can’t pick your alarm clock

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    • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      My dog was having cuddlyboos on my chest and he reached out and touched my bottom teeth with his nails. 🤮

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  • useless_modern_god@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That makes me feel sick because I can’t have anything go near my eye ( like I can’t wear contacts because I freak out about it )

    My painful cat encounter story is, I was trying to save someone’s cat in a tree so I climbed way up and grabbed it.

    It got scared and wriggled and thrashed around so much that it fell…almost. It managed to hook a single claw into my forearm and was just hanging there…stretching my skin.

    I could only freak out and scream and shake it off. Of course it landed on its feet and just sauntered away.

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    • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s ok, it was just the top eyelid near my eyelashes. Nothing actually went in my eye.

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  • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yup, they’ll do that. Cerys sliced my left nipple in half once.

    Keep an eye on that shit. Uh. Pun unintended

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    • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I do clip her nails but she always secretly sharpens just a single one so I don’t notice. It’s her stiletto.

      Wondering about those colourful nail caps but they seem like they’d cause distress

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• CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Congratulations Mumma and Pappa Peregrine Falcon on the safe arrival of chicky no.3 only minutes ago. Cheers 🍺

  However some of youse here have disappointed me greatly today. Lucky I don’t hold a grudge. Cheers 🍺

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What have I done now 🥺

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    • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Nothing. You’re lovely the way you are. ♥

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    • Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      youtu.be/UKwrgWkur00?si=P2oxgOAXUjXD8Qgf

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  • Eagle@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And the chick’s are a lovely fluffy grey. Much like the white tshirts of most of the dt.

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    • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oh bang! Spot on sista!

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  • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Haha I came here to make sure you knew! So cute

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    • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah I watched it being hatched on the big screen. A bit of pre game entertainment.

      Dad just came back with a food hamper.

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• RustyRaven@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  winds howling

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  • Force_majeure123@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Blowing pollens directly up my nostrils

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    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      having trouble breathing here

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  • just_kitten@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Had to pick up a few bins that had ended up on the road. They were all terribly drunk.

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  • Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Laundry rescued from several non ideal locations

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  • oztrin@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Gentle rain here

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  • bacon@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Looks like rained

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• bacon@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s ~mandatory~ Fun 👏🏻 Family 💕Friday 🎊!!! Team Group Hug!

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  • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    HR policy expressly forbids any shows of affection in any form. Now please, go back to your desks and continue to sob quietly.

    Remember, there’s no I in team!

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• Bottom_racer@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I was flash flooded down here on the bellarine. Holy fuck I’ve never seen rain like that. Every gutter was overflowing. Here was the start:

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  Been spending the last 2 hrs having an intimate conversation with a bucket. I have not seen this level of water down here before.

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• Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Today is reports day. Excel and PowerBI can fuck right off lol

  1 down, 4 to go!

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• Bottom_racer@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well that’s a first. Found a stick insect on my subwoofer. I don’t think I’ve actually seen one before in the wild:

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  It has been put back outside on a tree. But glad to see there’s another real junglist saying wicked.

  This most definitely calls for a rave choon:

  Considering it was on the subby… Suicide bassline!

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• MeanElevator@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Clothes are drying in record time!!!

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• TinyBreak@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Speaking to my therapist last night. We were talking about my anxious mind craving distractions and the amount of screen time I’m racking up on my phone. He was talking about just sitting, no noise or anything and just taking in whats going on around us. I’ve never been so proud of myself cause I stopped short of shouting “RAWDOGING! Gen Z call it rawdogging when you just sit on a flight and do nothing!”

  Fuck i’m weird ey.

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• Bottom_racer@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  One good thing about being flooded is a double rainbow:

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• Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My feet are fucked and i am mad about it

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• just_kitten@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Whoop de doo… I knew I had it going well for a while, but just as I’m looking at having to drop my overall hours because I am simply not coping with doing it all and trying to finish degree, I get an email from the landlord about upping the rent to 550/week (15% increase).

  Pour one out for me, this has just ruined my weekend. Landlords do be collecting more and more for adding zero value…

  She’s said she’s open to negotiation but I really suck at working out a middle ground. Too many emotions. I’ll have to sleep on it. Why did she have to send this on a Friday night.

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• Alamutjones@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  G’day

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• CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m not impressed with your heavy breathing, mother nature.

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• Mittens_meow@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Was running a bit late this morning. Missed the train by 45 seconds. And had to wait 25 min for the next one. wtf. It’s not the weekend

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• CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sometimes when I hoover a pill down my throat I wonder if I accidentally swallowed a bit of foil with it.

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• melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I feel like people’s behaviour has got a lot more out of line since the lockdowns. Just me?

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• Alamutjones@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I have absolutely no idea what I want for dinner

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• SpinMeAround@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s a good look radar blob happening down near the heads, wowee!

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• Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  my jeans have some white spots now. mm, looks like the acid got to it, the spots will be holes after the wash . oh well, that’s what denim is for , better the jeans than my skin. ( I had thick gloves that went up to my elbows and wore my glasses )

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• TinyBreak@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  suns out quick do the stuff that requires power!

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• melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah I’ll order the light and see what I can do. Then if that doesn’t work things are about to get stinky.

  Ultimately though I’d love to move somewhere less eventful and have a proper little garden. Maybe if I win the lottery

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• CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Some nights are in perfect sync. Beer, soju, slash, smoko. On the hour. Then the rest of the hour singing.

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• CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Who wants rain 🎤?

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