Today’s weather forecast (Melbourne CBD, 3000): min - 14°C, max - 21°C. 95% chance of no rain
I’m sad about Jocelyn Wilderstein. I really like her. Rest in peace.
Daily discussion thread: 🤕💊⚖️ Thursday, 2 January, 2025
Submitted 1 week ago by Baku@aussie.zone to melbourne@aussie.zone
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StudChud@aussie.zone 1 week ago
imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Woke up with a terrible coughing fit middle of the night. Now back from doing some shopping and definitely going downhill. Cough, achy, shivers. Tested negative but I think something is going on…
Send hope it’s just post travel detox.
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 1 week ago
🙏🏼
Baku@aussie.zone 1 week ago
I just got an email from the fair work ombudsman about new employment laws
From 1 January 2025, intentional underpayment of wages or entitlements can be a criminal offence.
Was that seriously not already?
TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone 1 week ago
I suspect the ‘Ooops, sorry! Dint mean to!’ defence was heavily lobbied for. By practically every single employer. Particularly by ‘small business’.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 1 week ago
No one rorts employees more than “small business”. Especially hospitality.
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Jeez bit of an ominous start to 2025. EU, US… lotta death and it’s only day 2.
Baku@aussie.zone 1 week ago
What happened in the EU?
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Mass shooting apparently 10 dead.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 week ago
woke up overly warm , then Ted says it’s breakfast time
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Booked a 1am flight of here, not thinking about the fact that it’s 4am at home. Haven’t adapted that quickly!
underwatermagpies@aussie.zone 1 week ago
A news article said that some kids born today will see the 22nd century, which is logical I guess but also it’s broken my brain.
SituationCake@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Huh. this just broke my brain too. Have never had the thought that I would see 2100, because I won’t. But I guess with average lifespan being in the mid 80s there’s plenty of people alive today who will. Well, that’s made me feel irrelevant.
TinyBreak@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Mrs forgot my dinner so I’m eating now whilst she is trying to do the bedtime routine. Toddler just tore ass down the hallway with the Mrs exhaustedly chasing him. Don’t think she appreciated my comment of “he’s too higher level. You need more gym badges!”
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 1 week ago
🤣🤣🤣 I doubt lol
Catfish@aussie.zone 1 week ago
This time we have tarp & tape windows and a contact covered bathroom unit. Habitation Certs, what are they?
bacon@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Beep Beep 🚚
🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Seafood feast with champagne please. Because it’s Thursday.
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 1 week ago
A fortune cookie assortment please.
bacon@aussie.zone 1 week ago
~🥠~🥠^🥠^
Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Mine n veggies sauteed with a bit of cheese on top and some spices n stuff please
bacon@aussie.zone 1 week ago
🧀
💣🥦🥒🥔🥕🌽🥬🌶️
Baku@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Managed to sleep. I had to take a melatonin, and I didn’t get to sleep until 3, but it worked in the end. I woke up a few times because I bumped my burn I got yesterday from those damn cupcakes. I tried to put some non adhesive dressing I had on it yesterday, but I couldn’t find my first aid tape, so I had to try and use sticky tape. But it ended up just really hurting everywhere else on my wrist so I took it off
With all these public holidays, I keep thinking today is Monday. Nothing to do today, so I’m going to catch up on the dishes I abandoned last night
imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone 1 week ago
DAMMIT. I have been using solid soaps, shampoo and conditioner and body moisturiser from ethique for years now but they have stopped selling here. They are solid bars and a bit more $$ then bog standard but really nice and last for MONTHS.
Anyone got good tips on solid bar toiletries and cosmetics?
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Freshwater Farm and Anihana have shampoo bars but I haven’t tried them. First is sold at CW and pretty sure I’ve seen the second at Woolies.
Be careful they’re not soap based though. I tried the FF body and hair bar and it was literally soap
SituationCake@aussie.zone 1 week ago
This year*Last year I started to need reading glasses for the first time. Was noticing tiny print was hard to read. Screens and books were still ok. But has been progressing and now I find myself holding books too far away, and I need brighter light to read, ugh guess I need to actually wear the glasses. Might be time to recheck the prescription too. Sigh. Aging is rubbish. I would like my 21 year old body back please, but keep my current brain.
*2025 still not seeped into brain yet.SituationCake@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Went for a walk and it feels cool outside. Good, because means house will take longer to heat up tomorrow.
melbourne_wanderer@aussie.zone 1 week ago
A question for the hive mind: does anyone know what metro stores (e.g. a servo chain, supermarket etc) reliably sell bags of ice blocks? as in, one big block, not ice cubes?
underwatermagpies@aussie.zone 1 week ago
You can get blocks directly from Bells in Tullamarine, they might deliver too. Or if you call them they might have a stockist somewhere closer. But most places have the Bells cubes.
melbourne_wanderer@aussie.zone 1 week ago
good intel, cheers!
underwatermagpies@aussie.zone 1 week ago
I’m sure there are lots of things you can do with blocks of ice but what I mostly do is ice blocking.
Take your ice block to the top of a hill, pop a bit of hessian on top for grip, sit on it, and slide to the bottom of the hill.
Take some kids to make it less weird, you can even give them a go if you’re feeling generous. Super fun on a warm day.
If you can find someone with a chest freezer then ice is easy peasy.
TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Maybe check out ice-cream cake suppliers I reckon. Don’t know for certain but I can’t think of anyone else who would use a single large block of ice. Maybe the seafood trade? Cubes appear to be the retail go to.
melbourne_wanderer@aussie.zone 1 week ago
yeah, everyone has cubes, which is weird, because a block lasts so much longer. How is one supposed to keep a bathtub full of ice for guests’ drinks over two consecutive scorchers with jist cubes?
(NB: that’s not really what I’m doing, but I do need something that will last longer than cubes!)
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Not sure about metro but ice sculptors would.
TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Don’t they make their own??? Like, to make absolutely sure there are no bubbles etc.
calhoon2005@aussie.zone 1 week ago
You mean like in that Mosquito Coast movie?
Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 1 week ago
You could get some 1.25L/2L plastic bottles and freeze them in advance
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 1 week ago
[deleted]Duenan@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Sometimes you have to say something about it if it really bothers you or bothering will change, your friendship with her will either be ok or it’ll break, whether you say something or not with the way things are going.
On the subject of mortgage, not really appropriate and you have to make that clear.
I was having a conversation with a lifelong friend I’ve had since I was in primary school and we were talking about financial things and I overshared stuff about myself and my friend’s just come out and said not to talk to anyone else about those certain things.
I didn’t realise at the time when I said it but he was correct but luckily I trust him a lot as well.
Back on track you know what’s going to happen to your detriment and you’re not happy about it so you need out your foot down and tell her no, no pizza tomorrow.
dumblederp@aussie.zone 1 week ago
I don’t have much time for people who are always late, its rude.
Sounds like you guys should hang out, out of your house, where they can’t make a mess of your space.
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Absolutely
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 week ago
being late is such a big no no
but I do believe the annoyance of the tardiness made you a little less tolerant than you would normally be
paper towels, not a problem, they are meant to be used, just grab more, if you didn’t have enough then next time buy more
move the stuff on the table aside or put on bench
late in the evening, then say something
tomorrow’s pizza, just say no, if she says her own place is messy then tell her to clean it up
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Yeah, I reckon. I put my foot down and told her she had to clean up.
Baku@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Ugh. Headache. I’ve had it since last night, but it hasn’t gone away with a sleep. I thought it was a lack of water or something, but I drink a fair bit last night, and a sufficient amount since I woke up today
At least TheStench™️ is fading