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Daily Discussion Thread: Sunday, October 20th, 2024
Submitted 5 weeks ago by Duenan@aussie.zone to melbourne@aussie.zone
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imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Here here!
briongloid@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
I was just checking to see if @Seagoon_ was alright, they haven’t been online in 5 days.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
She says she has signed up to aussie.zone and is now waiting for approval. Its now a waiting game.
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
My plan today: go to the market. My strategy is to give every member of the household a limit, say $40. The ones who want to spend more will negotiate with those who don’t spend that much and it’s great to see the kids in action making deals with their father and each other over who’s getting what.
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Always good to involve everyone in the budgeting. I learned from an early age to keep an eye out for specials, compare by unit pricing etc. to keep the overall food budget down - if you get the cost of the boring stuff lower you have room to add in important stuff like lollies!
When I moved out at 18 I discovered that most of my peers had no idea how to stick to a budget or prioritise their spending - an alarming number would run out of food entirely before the end of the fortnight, then when they got paid they’d waste it on expensive stuff and start the cycle again. I was really surprised, I’d been shopping on a budget and planning ahead with my Mum for years.
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Lol same, I lived with people who spent their entire food budget in a few days 🤦🏼♀️I was living on about $25 per week but it was easier then. I’d get a bag of spuds, bag of onions, garlic, big bag of red or brown lentils, some budget cans of tomatoes, dried pasta, rice, a bag of apples, a couple of key vegetables that were cheap and in season and a couple of packets of herbs/spices (thus building a supply of herbs and spices over time available to enhance my cooking). I would combine these ingredients in different ways over the week to try to make it interesting. When it was someone’s birthday I’d lash out on a King Island Brie and red wine. I’ve probably never eaten so well lol.
imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Ladies and gentlemen, enbies, kitties and potats…I am going to clean up from dinner and go to bed. I don’t even care how early it is. I am stuffed. Night all
just_kitten@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Ninigh. You gotta do what you need to to recharge. That’s often more important than the "should"s we tell ourselves to do.
I’m gonna watch Fisk at 8pm and then call it a night too and do most of the cleaning tomorrow.
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Had some stuff done a few months ago on the roof. Turns out the dudes just cut the downpipe and used a brick to keep it in place without reconnecting it. I only worked that out the other day after that rain.
Was wondering why the rose next to it was having a great time:
Should be an easy fix (was just gonna use PVC glue and that PVC rubber tape stuff) but jeez a bit of a poor effort. Getting people in for such small jobs (or getting them back to fix their fuck ups) is hard today.
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Stunning rose, but caused by the bane of all our existences: the slacklustre tradie.
Taleya@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Don’t even need to glue, could just cuff it
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
okay I’m looking into this thank you :)
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Goodnight everyone. From the home of the unfinished cat tree ❤️
StudChud@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Lol do you want me to come over and help you this week? I’m great at building IKEA stuff! Half my furniture is IKEA lol
Duenan@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Haha I was going to offer as well though I’m on the opposite side of town.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Can you distract Gibson while I desperately try to finish it?
Catfish@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Dude, ikea fail?! Such disapoint.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
I’m so ashamed :(
Catfish@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Craft prepping for the big Halloween window. Sure hope the theme isn’t too obscure ☠️ piratical cat plushies
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Oh that is just adorable!
imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
I have some work to finish up before tomorrow but I am seriously thinking of just having a shower and going to bed. I am so tired today.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Same. I’m going to eat and read in bed till I fall asleep.
Taleya@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
StudChud@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
I love garden world!!! It’s amazing!!!
Taleya@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
I’ve been a customer for years - online. I thought it was a bog standard nursery, not this wonderful insanity!
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
I love Garden World! The pink orchids there are my phone wallpaper!
Eagle@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
It’s fantastic.
StudChud@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Cooooooooool!
anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Nice day to be out & about
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
This looks identical to a photo I took of the elephants almost ten years ago!
🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘<3
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Is this their new digs at the Werribee zoo? 😃Glad they’ve got more room now.
StudChud@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Nah that’s happening next year; this is still just at Melb zoo :D
TinyBreak@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Alright, lamb shanks are in the slowcooker! Excited af about this. Never had them at home before. Well, except for the frozen pre made ones.
Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Overnight (our night) there have been strange reports coming in from agricultural hubs around the world. Cows and similar bovines appear to have all at once changed their signature “moo” sound, puzzling farmers, biologists, and even physicists. The sound these bovines are now making has been described as follows:
spoiler
GOOOOOOOONseeGOOOOONseeGOOOOOOON
TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
So that’s what woke me up this morning. Good to know so thanks Force. I was beginning to worry.
calhoon2005@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Why do people feel the need to use their most loudest voice possible when they are outside and only a couple of metres away from each other?
Duenan@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Sounds like kids to be honest. They can’t control their voice volumes either.
I have no idea why people do that. Bad hearing?
DolphinLundgrin@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Widespread solipsism?
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
I call it loud noise disease.
just_kitten@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
So nice to have Fisk back on as a cozy Sunday night treat. Just lighthearted and relatable and low key. The North Melbourne trams are like their own character. Also: I have been guilty of steaming milk so loudly it sounds like a pig being slaughtered 🙋♀️
Looking forward to Aaron Chen’s character’s grandma next week.
Speaking of other cozy shows I binge-watched Ludwig over the past two nights; nice little romp as well. Recommended if you like David Mitchell.
Shrinking S2 is on too and I’m looking forward to that on Wed/Thu now that Slow Horses s4 is over.
Duenan@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
I really need to watch Fisk.
I Love Kitty Flanagan.
anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
💛 Fisk. We just watched a heap of season 2 episodes to get the OH up-to-date for S3
Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Imagine if the general public knew you could microwave potato… It would be so destructive to the status quo. Restaurants everywhere would be forced to close, who knows what other repercussions would be
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
The way things are going they’d probably put them in Al foil.
DuckyMcDuckface@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
But why would you want to? Pan fried is so much better
Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
False
bacon@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Restaurant lobby groups asking to tax microwaves and give them the money
Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
That would make sense tbh
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
For the few pubs that might still be open, counter meals would be sad. Parma
chipsand salad
just_kitten@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Very slow start to cleaning today but I’ve cleared out a lot of junk hiding in the kitchen (years of plastic packaging that I meant to throw at redcycle, old teas and boxes of nuts) and tidied under the sink which is the one set of cupboards I know they’ll check with good reason.
Off to meet friend and try to keep spirits up…
imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
I’ve got a few pretty politically conservative types in my extended family. Mostly we’ve always been able to have decent conversations but more and more it seems like the information they quote is so different from the information I see about the world I don’t even know where to start. No …I don’t think Trump helped the American economy last time but I don’t even want to start to explain why I think that. And no we are not being held back by Greenies … I just can’t even find common ground.
Catfish@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Mission for the morning. Queue for the closing day sale at the best pie shop ever. ‘Tis an utter tragedy.
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Out of curiosity I googled “Melbourne pie shop closing down” and… wow, so many! Too many in the past few years 😢(My local is hanging on, but business rental prices in my area have skyrocketed and a lot of shops that have been there for years have closed. Including my beloved computer repair guy who’d been there since 1986 or something.)
Catfish@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
These guys it’s both rent and ingredients. They refuse to use shit and would apparently have to charge $14 a pie to keep as is 😿
Catfish@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Victory! Well mostly. They are out of almost everything. Anyone not already in the queue will be disappointed.
Duenan@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Does anyone here own a weighted blanket?
Was thinking of one with the idea that it might help me sleep at night.
Alamutjones@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
I’m reorganising my National Geographic collection, and I’m missing random ones
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Sunday got unsurprisingly lit, surprisingly early.
bacon@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
✅ Breakfast
✅ Groceries
✅ Post breakfast nap
🔳 Cook
🔳 Meal with friend
🔳 World Domination
🔳 Maybe laundryAlamutjones@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
It is time to begin THE GREAT CLEAN.
DT DJ, please to turn the music up
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Attempt 2 at cat tower to commence shortly.
So the 2nd amp I grabbed to make a stereo guitar setup was a huge win!
Sounds so damn cool with an amp on each side.
Will photograph cat tower later. Pray for me.
Duenan@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Argh. Woken up late and have to make the transition back to early wake up tomorrow.
Save me!
Alamutjones@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Morning. I’m contemplating making a big breakfast
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Goodnight everyone ❤️
The bass is fucking awesome!
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Now earwigs want a piece of my seedlings… unfortunately for them I employ an organic pest control system called ‘yeet’
useless_modern_god@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
🐇🐕
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Going out for fancy breakfast this morning to a cafe near a post office. Nice food and the boys can post our council votes for us.
If I ran a cafe near a mailbox I’d do a post about it to remind people to send off their votes and come enjoy a coffee while you’re at
StudChud@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
DEMOCRACY COFFEE
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
If I ran said cafe I’d have an October long special of some overpriced cafe version of a sausage sandwich for that election day feel
just_kitten@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
If I could vote I’d definitely get in on this