Daily Discussion Thread: 🍔🌡🚙🤐 November 26, 2024

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• Baku@aussie.zone ⁨56⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Today was a pretty cruisy day. We had to go get new wheels, and then decided to head to the National Railway Museum in Port Adelaide. It was alright, but last year they stopped allowing people to enter the locomotives and carriages because apparently people were stealing shit and vandalizing everything. I get their decision, but that kind of took about 80% of the gun out. It was basically just walking alongside old locos with a bunch of barriers besides them with the occasional plaque about the history of it. Also wasn’t really national, state at best

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  They also had a little miniature railway. It was rideable, but a little freaky. It’s intended to young’n’s, and while age wise, I qualify as a I youn’n (or so I’m told), I absolutely do not have either the height nor stature of a young’n. Damn thing almost tipped over when I got in 😂

  Then we went to Okami for all you can eat Japanese food. I love Okami (hence why I’m probably capable of tipping miniature railways over), and came back for what was meant to be an early night but is rapidly becoming a late one (due for another 4am start tomorrow. Not sure why I do this to myself tbh)

  Also got some cute postcards I’m gonna write up and post out tomorrow

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  • chingatello@aussie.zone ⁨51⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Okami and Trains - now that is a good day.

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  • PeelerSheila@aussie.zone ⁨32⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Norrie!

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• SituationCake@aussie.zone ⁨28⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  First world problem #475358: seems not all microfibre cloths are created equal. I bought some new ones but they are hydrophobic and not very good at picking up dirt. Annoying. Lesson learnt, I’ll be having a feel of them in the shops before buying new ones to see if I can find ones with similar texture to my older set.

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• Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Well damn. Roofer is coming tomorrow but I can’t be home so have to let the LL in handle it.

  Burnt all my days that I can take off for the year and wasn’t prepared to take leave without pay.

  Less than ideal situation but got to do it.

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• tombruzzo@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I heard back today the university job I interviewed for want to move on to references. This is the interview where I had all the technical problems, and they still want to progress.

  The salary sacrificed ebike dream is becoming more of a reality

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• underwatermagpies@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I am not an ogre and so I would prefer not to live in a swamp please.

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  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨25⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    🤔 I’ve been looking at houses in Williamstown and swamp is exactly what came to mind

    there are huge flood plains around there

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• Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The nip strikes again

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  • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Space tile floor kitty we’ve all been there.

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    • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Not with my eyes wide open like that.

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    • anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Tiles are nice and cool

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• bacon@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  sky’s gonna be pretty

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• LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Friend (might I add, who was super late last time I saw her for no good reason) got her Jetstar flight delayed, and she’s only just arrived at the airport, where she’s meant to get her next flight with a different airline. She also hasn’t slept. Such a shitty situation to be in. Hopefully if she misses it, the airline will help her reschedule.

  I’m just sitting here waiting to hear if she got on that plane and the suspense is killing me.

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  • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Instant karma’s gonna get ya 🤭

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    • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      But also. That sucks

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• just_kitten@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Okay, okay, I must brave Ikea and Kmart today… I am gonna go, and not glue myself to this couch…

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  • SituationCake@aussie.zone ⁨26⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Maybe Bunnings?

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• tombruzzo@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I think Catch accidentally doubled up and gave me twice the amount of dishwashing tablets. I guess I don’t need to order anymore for like 2 years now

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  • dumblederp@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Check your bank statement to see if they double charged you.

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    • tombruzzo@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      No double charge. I put in two separate orders close together so maybe they accidentally fulfilled it twice

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• Pilk@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Can get such a good deal on two pairs of glasses at Specsavers right now, including a pair of polarised prescription sunglasses, but their range is either tack and el cheapo, or obscenely priced for what it is. I’m thinking my gorgeous features deserve better?

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ve found really good service at opsm , they even changed lenses on old glasses for me

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    • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I 2nd OPSM. Specsavers frames are crappy.

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• Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Positive team building post. 🙂

  So what is the first song you remember? Mine is The Beatles, Twist and Shout. I must have been about two and a half, maybe younger. I remember the joy of it.

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  • anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Something by Harry Belafonte or Nana Mouskouri. Now that I’ve googled Harry’s songs, I’m amazed how many I know, lol.

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    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨39⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      I used to watch the Nana Mouskouri show every week. She was such a huge tv star, had such a lovely voice and nice personality.

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  • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Mull of Kintyre - Paul McCartney

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  • underwatermagpies@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The Play School theme I reckon. I had a Play School record, the only record I ever owned.

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  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Can’t forget Puff The Magic Dragon by Peter Paul & Mary as a first sing along at primary school.

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    • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Oh that was close to being there first full song I could play on piano

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  • Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Regrettably un positive. Rolf Harris.

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    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨41⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Two little boys …

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  • just_kitten@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Für Elise or the Blue Danube I think, they were in a kid’s fairytale audiobook CD (not tape!) that got very heavy rotation. The Blue Danube used to come at the middle/intermission of a story that always gave me very ominous, anxious feelings and to this day I can’t think of it as a magnificent, stately song reminiscent of a big flowing river, just a sense that the baddies are around the corner. I think we had some tapes of The Carpenters (Top of the World was definitely pre-primary).

    I don’t remember anything earlier aside from your usual kids clapping songs etc.

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  • chingatello@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    For some reason they played time warp at my kindy before nap time. I used to dread the end of the song… everyone falls down and stops dead

    Now it’s one of my favorites, because I have the context of Rocky Horror and adulthood.

    I’m convinced that the kindy was run by people who wanted to torment small children.

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  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Summer Holiday by Cliff Richard

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    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      He was such a huge star in the 60s and 70s 🙂

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  • SpinMeAround@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    U2 - I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For

    One thing I’m very grateful for with my upbringing is that there was a lot of music - the Beatles, Beach Boys, U2, Meatloaf, The Seekers. We’d go on family drives (to other country towns for their pokie joints), but the drive was always great with the music playing.

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    • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Song not to play at a wedding.

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  • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Michael Jackson - Thriller

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  • dumblederp@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I feel like it was Michael Jackson Bad or maybe The Bangles. I feel like I didn’t hear lyrics in songs until almost my 30s. Probably part of why I liked psytrance.

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  • useless_modern_god@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Deodato’s jazz/funk rendition of “Also Sprach Zarathustra” from Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey

    It’s a nice groove from 1973. Not in the least bit part of any historical importance or music chart but, it’s the earliest I can remember.

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    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      omg, I remember this

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  • TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Can’t remember the very first - our house had a lot of music but most of it we made ourselves cos we all could play and us kids were all in the church choir. Maybe Cleo Laine in Porgy & Bess? Mum had the record and played it a lot. Didn’t discover ‘pop’ music until my early teens - The Beatles made a huge impression as did Herman’s Hermits.

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    • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Mrs Brown you’ve got a lovely daughter in that voice. Every single time

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  • Force_majeure123@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Hmmmm probably Surfing USA - the beach boys. Or The Ventures - Walk don’t run

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• Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Didn’t get the role I went for sadly.

  Am drowning with work atm. Asking manager for more money tomorrow.

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  • TinyBreak@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    dang, was this in the same company or a different location?

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    • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Different place

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  • Llabyrinthine@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Bummer. Did they give feedback?

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    • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Nah just the usual diatribe

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  • Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Oh bugger, I’m sorry to hear that :(

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    • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      All good mate. Just gonna keep applying!

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  • StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m sorry man. You got the skills to get another though, and I hope you get the raise you obviously deserve! :)

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    • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Thanks Spud ❤️

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• Llabyrinthine@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Damn, I am so gonna be a peas and mash adult.

  I was in a hurry the other week and stashed the tyre pump and battery separately. Found the pump yesterday and was like, yeah, I have a vague memory of that and thought hmm, maybe I took the battery (I have a few batteries so wouldn’t have noticed it was missing) back inside.

  Nope, just found the battery somewhere I wouldn’t had thought to look if it wasn’t for my putting something else away…

  I could just play hide and seek with myself. 😭🤣

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  • anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I do stuff like that more often than I’d care to admit. One spectacular example was stashing my new credit card so safely that I couldn’t find it, then had to cancel and order a new one. Then I found the original one, of course

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    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I have done this …lol

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• MeanElevator@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  In office today I’m sitting next to someone relatively new (different team).

  She had a fairly strong Russian accent and even a polite and innocent sentence sounds like a threat.

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  • Baku@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    My child protection case manager was replaced by a lady with a thick Russian accent, too, and I got the same vibe tbh

    Even putting that aside, she’s rather rude though, so perhaps that helps

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  • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’d sit away from the window if I you were you.

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• Bottom_racer@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I has a friend:

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  • bacon@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    hello fren

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• wscholermann@aussie.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I know this is not the right thing to do but sometimes hearing about someone elses drama reduces my own anxiety.

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• TinyBreak@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  these mangos are incredible!!! had 3 in the last couple of days and hasnt been a single bad one.

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• Thornburywitch@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Nice little funderstorm rapidly approaching from the north.

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• Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  So I opened up at work to some people how bad things have been with some higher ups, part of my stress is coming from work and how powerless I am to control a situation that was related to yesterday afternoon.

  There was agreement in place to mitigate and manage the situation but that didn’t work yesterday and I was subjected to a lot of stress even with the aid of someone with me.

  I had to make it clear that I need to be supported at work because inevitably the root cause of the problem is coming from work and they need to support me better because it’s coming from work, I don’t believe that I should be seeking external help when the problem is actually coming from work.

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• mysticgreg@aussie.zone ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I know this comment may make history as the most downvoted ever, not just in this thread but the whole of Lemmy, and could possibly result in my expulsion from this community and even the internet as a whole, but…

  I actually don’t mind this weather.

  There. I said it.

  Have at me, beaches.

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• RustyRaven@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Working in the garden in this humidity has turned me into a soggy mess. It’s not actually raining which is probably good - the weeding I did yesterday was in light rain, which was soggy but cooler. Hopefully I get the remaining plants in before any storms come over this afternoon - it is great for the plants to have lots of water after planting though, so the timing is great in that regard.

  I’m hoping I haven’t gotten any sunburn - I thought I replaced the sunscreen in my toiletry bag last year, but apparently not. I went to put some on, found it had completely separated, and when I checked the date it expired in 2016. Oops. At least I have my hat.

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• CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Question for you worldly people: Would it be culturally wrong to have mangoritas with tapas tonight (homemade)? I wanna try my new nutri bullet.

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• CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I watched a documentary on Netflix called That Sugar Film. Basically the creator ate “healthy” process foods for 60 days. He put on around 10kg. It was very interesting to watch.

  5/5 hobbits

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• Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  to do list is being listed

  first done is the dvd player has been fixed

  audio visual centre reorg has been completed

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• calhoon2005@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  Does anyone know if you can still get this type of heat pack anywhere. Made out of red corduroy. It’s my migraine safety blanket. The phone number is disconnected and I get no results searching for the company name…

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• Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  TIL a new word. Ductus.

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• Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  yay, my watercolour practice book is here. I don’t care if it’s harry potter, it has good instructions, good paper and it looks fun 🙂

  🎨🖼️🖌️

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• TinyBreak@aussie.zone ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  day… 6? still coughing shit up. Woke up feeling amazing but within 10 seconds of being in the shower it starts again. Hit me with your home remedies. i’ll even accept placebo ones at this point!

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