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Daily Discussion Thread: Wednesday 19th February 2025
Submitted 4 months ago by PeelerSheila@aussie.zone to melbourne@aussie.zone
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indisin@aussie.zone 4 months ago
[deleted]Seagoon_@aussie.zone 4 months ago
oh no, you take care and get better soon
Eagle@aussie.zone 4 months ago
So we’re back to thinking ‘is this worth getting covid for?’ before we do anything again… yay.
Llabyrinthine@aussie.zone 4 months ago
Oh, that totally sucks!
bacon@aussie.zone 4 months ago
🦪
Eagle@aussie.zone 4 months ago
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 4 months ago
What a stunner!!
just_kitten@aussie.zone 4 months ago
Like a cross between a mouse and a cat 🥹
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 4 months ago
So cute!
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 4 months ago
I love him.
Duenan@aussie.zone 4 months ago
Alamutjones@aussie.zone 4 months ago
Chicky baby!
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 4 months ago
Class chickens???
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 4 months ago
Are you getting chickens? 😍
Duenan@aussie.zone 4 months ago
Haha no. Just my workplace and only temporary for a few weeks.
StudChud@aussie.zone 4 months ago
OMG OMG OMG
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 4 months ago
awww
Alamutjones@aussie.zone 4 months ago
Dentist complete. Have retained all teeth
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 4 months ago
Did you take any freebie toothpaste?
SituationCake@aussie.zone 4 months ago
What?! I’ve never been offered a toothpaste, what else has my dentist been hiding from me.
Alamutjones@aussie.zone 4 months ago
Nerp, they were running short of it.
just_kitten@aussie.zone 4 months ago
I’m all about the free mini floss packs. Got me onto my favourite brand (Gorilla), that shit works way better than everything else I’ve tried
MeanElevator@aussie.zone 4 months ago
Reference and police checks are underway for the new role. All goes well should have an offer shortly.
Excited, cause it’s something new. Nervous cause it’s something new. Anxious, cause I really don’t want to meet new people.
TinyBreak@aussie.zone 4 months ago
Anxious, cause I really don’t want to meet new people.
I feel that. Deep in my soul.
MeanElevator@aussie.zone 4 months ago
I’ll have a few months to suss things out and hopefully fall into a nice groove.
The new dept seems to be on the younger side, which is fine. I can deal with younger than older, enteenched
Llabyrinthine@aussie.zone 4 months ago
+1.
Makes me wonder if that somehow becomes stronger with time…
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 4 months ago
Lucky Gibson has a vet appointment tomorrow. She’s feeling a bit lousy poor Fluffball.
Took the day off work because fuck it why not.
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 4 months ago
Alfie has let me know that he plans on releasing books about the Grave Injustices That Cats Face, his first will be highlighting a particularly grievous instance that affects cats worldwide:
Mum Had Ham and She Didn’t Give Me Any! (Okay, She Gave Me a Bit, But I Want MORE).
He feels it will be a Sunday Times Best-seller.
Eagle@aussie.zone 4 months ago
My cats will write the foreword, and give it a five star review!
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 4 months ago
Ya gotta pay the tax everytime you open the fridge these days.
mysticgreg@aussie.zone 4 months ago
I have Seether by Veruca Salt stuck in my head this morning. No idea why.
Not complaining, takes me back to my uni days, maybe my brain is feeling nostalgic.
useless_modern_god@aussie.zone 4 months ago
A good companion song is
mysticgreg@aussie.zone 4 months ago
Oh wow I’d forgotten all about that one!
Llabyrinthine@aussie.zone 4 months ago
I tend to feel they go hand-in-hand. Pretty sure I have a J recording somewhere of them being played close together.
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 4 months ago
Thankyou for replacing my earworm, which was not as musically worthy!
mysticgreg@aussie.zone 4 months ago
My work here is done.
Llabyrinthine@aussie.zone 4 months ago
Yasss!
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 4 months ago
What aggregates me is that if you agree to do something, actually fucking follow through.
If you don’t want to, then just say so, instead of fucking me around for days.
Fucks sake.
SituationCake@aussie.zone 4 months ago
Well that’s enough news for today. Clive Palmer has a new political party, called Trumpets of Patriots. No this is not a Beetota advocate headline.
just_kitten@aussie.zone 4 months ago
I needed to have got off this ride years ago 🤡
Duenan@aussie.zone 4 months ago
I really hope he fails in spectacular fashion, there’s no place in Australia for a trump like party to exist.
Also I’m sick of his ads on tv.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 4 months ago
ffs, that’s like saying Hitler for Patriots in the 1930s
these cunts can just fuck off
anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone 4 months ago
Sounds like a bunch of ‘patriots’ farting in synch
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 4 months ago
Catfish@aussie.zone 4 months ago
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 4 months ago
“Trumpets” lol where’s my mute? I’m tempted by a violin case for these idiots…
StudChud@aussie.zone 4 months ago
[deleted]Seagoon_@aussie.zone 4 months ago
I always used to book my appointments on days when I had nothing happening , it was just too hard
Alamutjones@aussie.zone 4 months ago
Night night
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 4 months ago
good people, normal people, usually self question and self blame and start to think that maybe they are the one who is narcissistic
sure, people who are victimised by narcissists might end up with psychological injuries but that’s not the same as being narcissistic
here is a video by a therapist, that I watch regularly, to help us affirm that we are ok www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5X2Q2dunHU
you’re ok 😘😘😘 love you all
StudChud@aussie.zone 4 months ago
[deleted]Nath@aussie.zone 4 months ago
I’ve never worried whether I’m a narcissist. Does that mean I’m a narcissist?
Oh wait, now I’m worrying whether I’m a narcissist! But does that mean I am or not?
imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone 4 months ago
Love you too Seagoon
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 4 months ago
hugs to you too
SituationCake@aussie.zone 4 months ago
I think I need to go shopping for a humorous coffee mug. The DT has inspired me.
Taleya@aussie.zone 4 months ago
dear lord the internet is full of americans discovering “great new ways of growing food” that are just standard good practises.
Alamutjones@aussie.zone 4 months ago
I’m off to the dentist. Back shortly
Duenan@aussie.zone 4 months ago
A lot of people in at work early, someone’s playing music from their room and the sound is travelling to me. Usually not so noisy so early I don’t know what’s up today.
To counter it I’m playing Dua Lipa’s Houdini before I go outside.
Catfish@aussie.zone 4 months ago
Wish I could print out my brain. Dreamt a manuscript/fresco I’d like to attempt painting, but seriously do not have time right now! Scribbled notes and crossed fingers for future memory it is.
just_kitten@aussie.zone 4 months ago
Much less stress in the kitchen. Made a kickass mushroom and pea curry with cashew cream, and finally cooked up the cabbage (with possibly too much of ajwain seeds). Everything is clean and tidy and I don’t feel so overwhelmed. Success!
I’m going to have another crack at Juice… 25% of the way through and not that impressed, seems like a lot of heavy handed exposition atm. But I’ll keep going
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 4 months ago
So I won’t be so easy with the treats anymore. It makes fluffy tums sore.
tone212_@aussie.zone 4 months ago
Person walking around my co-working space with no shoes on. I’ve got no issue if you take your shoes off under your desk, but then walking around the place with no shoes, nope.
Llabyrinthine@aussie.zone 4 months ago
Ugh… Reality is creeping in. I was somewhat positive for T1 this year in my attempts to turn it all around and make up for my garbage performance since day one (years ago) of this hell I signed up for…
Nope. Gave myself massive overwhelm yesterday which I always find weirdly fascinating. I mean I’ve been all manners of stressed yayaya (for periods of time) over this years over different things that I associated with just being me. That constant hyper alertness which I always just put down to the good old highly strung, (yep, RIP amygdala), you know SOP (which becomes one of those horrible self-perpetuating things). Sorry, brain dump, back to the overwhelm… which doesn’t usually get to that point or happen very often.
I just wonder about it though… I used to think it was mainly contained in the echo in my skull, but these days flight just feels so visceral. A real, strong physical gut feeling, I don’t want to do that. They say you can’t always believe the story your mind tells you, and I tend to think (like my great procrastination skills) I make a mountain out of mole hill, start doing it, and yeah, it’s never that bad or I should have started/done this earlier.
Looks like I might be back to cold water/partial icing the way I’m going.
Okay, partial meltdown and being overly dramatic in progress. Moving along. Nothing else to see here…
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 4 months ago
Today I’ll be cleaning the top shelf of my pantry. I wonder what forgotten treasures I’ll find.
Pilk@aussie.zone 4 months ago
On the subject of things that should really be taught in school, one of my top requests would Identification and Management of Narcissists.
I’ve recently had someone go into defend me against a narcissist abuser in my life, and all the defender has managed to do is become a target himself and escalate the narcissist’s rage towards me.
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 4 months ago
I am overwhelmed
So I have to decide between uni A and uni B. I am currently enrolled in uni B. Uni A is 20 minutes closer than uni B. Uni A also will give me a scholarship which would be about half a year of pay at my casual retail job. They also offer paid employment a few days a week next year whilst doing a project that’s part of the coursework. This is seemingly a no-brainer, but part of me just wants to stay at uni B? Uni B has a few perks in terms of subject selection which could help with employment, but uni A is pretty much guaranteed experience and employment. Uni A will only let me teach two learning areas, where one I wouldn’t feel comfortable teaching unless I absolutely had to, but that learning area is more employable. The Uni A option will allow me to support myself better financially, but I don’t think I’m ready to be thrown into a classroom so soon without any supervision. I also have to remember that I’m not stuck into any of these, but I have to make a decision on which uni for this year by the end of this week. This overwhelming paragraph represents the state of my mind right now. Then I have to pick between piano and guitar lessons because I can’t keep doing both. I think keeping piano is something I want to do because it is relaxing and I wanna learn jazz piano. I can figure out piano more on my own, although having lessons will mean more accountability. But I feel like I shouldn’t give up guitar because it hasn’t been that long and I haven’t given it my best shot? My pinky finger refuses to cooperate, and I don’t know if it ever will.
Alamutjones@aussie.zone 4 months ago
It is time to gyme
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 4 months ago
Not been feeling too well lately, resting and watching old stuff.
Shows like Extreme Cheapskates are just fake rage bait. Yeah, a woman with a full face of makeup, false lashes and an entire set of false nails is so frugal she uses dryer lint for makeup removal. She drives an SUV to the supermarket to beg for meat scraps. Pull the other one!
I hope that episode of Adults Adopting Adults was faker than it looked though. I’m aware that these shows are very scripted and heavily edited but Danny was seriously concerning. I actually feel like that situation was one of the rare ones the camera didn’t overplay.
Pilk@aussie.zone 4 months ago
For the fungus gnat fighters, I got these sticky sheets in the post today and cut them up into traps approximately the same dimension as these Bunnings ones.
Works out to like 8¢/trap (or less) instead of $1.29/trap. Being able to make dozens means you can get way more coverage. Also customised the size to be wider for my larger plants, and want to experiment with different shapes just for fun.
They seem to be working, too, in just a few hours many have already caught gnats.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 4 months ago
Melbcat still takes her breaks in the other room and cuddles a lot but she seems to have perked up a bit. She’s finessing me for treats and I think she can see them - I shook out a few crumbs which she ignored but when I placed a full treat in front of her she went for it instantly.
She also jumped over a small box to go look out the screen door.
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 4 months ago
Looks like I’ve just made my first post ever! 😅🪭 Good morning and goodnight lovely people of the daily thread 🧵🪡
Llabyrinthine@aussie.zone 4 months ago
Good Morning! Thank you for posting! ✨
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 4 months ago
No problem! I was strangely nervous for some reason 🤷🏼♀️