Discussion Thread: Sunday, 9 March 2025

Comments

• Grubbi@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Hello I am new to lemmy!

  source

  • kudra@aus.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    @Grubbi @briongloid welcome! I am reading you from Mastodon, but I also have a Lemmy account, I just like to say hi from Mastodon occasionally to remind people it's possible 😁

    source
  • dumblederp@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    G’day mate, welcome to the idle chatter corner. Share your wins, losses, thoughts and whatever.

    source
  • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hello :)

    source
  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Welcome!

    source
  • Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Welcome!

    source
  • useless_modern_god@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    and a good day to you.

    source
  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Howdy and welcome

    source
  • PeelerSheila@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hi there! 👋🏼

    source
  • underwatermagpies@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hey there 👋

    source
  • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Welcome!

    source
  • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Welcome!

    source
  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Welcome to our little corner of Lemmy. 🥰

    source
• Bottom_racer@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Hambam has had enough.

  Image

  Took him to the dog park at 9am so not hot it’s now 3pm and he’s been in this state since we got back trying to find new patches of cold floor. Threw 3 balls chased them well enough, then he wandered off chasing another dog so had to go get him, twice (he doesn’t care if you call him back, just in his own world). All up about a 3km walk. Intensity of the walk out of 10 would be a 1.

  I love him.

  He’s hopeless.

  He gets a lot of compliments.

  But he’s hopeless.

  Heart of gold so he deserves a good life.

  source

  • melbourne_wanderer@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I got a new dog recently (not a puppy). He is even more stupid than my previous dog, and that says a lot. I didnt know it was possible for a dog to be entirely uncoordinated. Hopeless doesnt begin to describe him.

    He is the very best boy.

    source

    • underwatermagpies@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We might need photographic evidence of this Very Good Boy…

      source

      • -> View More Comments
• melbourne_wanderer@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  hey, fellow kids. Been a while. How are we all? I see we are all making serious food decisions…

  source
• StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m stuffed being out late arvo/evening, saw a movie with some of my favourite people! I have much to ponder, the movie was extremely awesome and thought-provoking!

  I have a big day with the fam tomorrow in the SE. Gonna give dad those photos for him to scan with his scanner. He was stoked! He just forgot to reply and I so overreacted 😅 so it will be good to try and date the photos with him, based on my age, and location!

  source
• MeanElevator@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Realised that not only I didn’t leave the house today…I barely left the couch.

  In other news Yakuza pirates of Hawaii is fun as heck

  source

  • SpinMeAround@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Have you done the Kaho side quest?!

    source

    • MeanElevator@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not yet. Don’t spoil it please.

      source
  • Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m only up to Kiwami 1 though I have finished 3 when it originally came out on the ps3

    I have a long way to go!

    source

    • MeanElevator@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      First one I played was like a dragon. Did 0 decently, finished Kiwami and infinite wealth (so good)

      Not sure if I can manage all the old ones.

      My son played them all and digs them.

      I’m a huge fan of the main characters.

      Got a soft spot for Ichiban

      source
• Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Finally found a gap in the packing/unpacking/cleaning schedule to redye my hair. Feel a zillion times better for not being a faded out drab! The grey eyebrow bits still have much to answer for.

  source

  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    that one time i decided to dye my eyebrows at the same time, just a gentle smear of dye , right?

    half an hour later I looked like groucho marx

    after I finished my hair I got to work on forehead and eyebrows, I got it all off but it was so red from all the rubbing ( stop laughing ), was so embarrassed to go out

    i just pencil them in now

    source

    • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If you ever do decide to tint them again, the 1000 hour one has work well imo. I’ve used other dyes and they all turn out way too bold.

      source

      • -> View More Comments
• RustyRaven@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m making a cherry tart to take to my sister’s place for dinner tonight. It uses 1kg of cherries, but I still have tons left in the freezer. How one little tree so badly attacked by cherry slugs that every year I expect it to die can produce such abundance I do not know.

  source
• Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Got the storage wall of the garage twintrack up yesterday, today was moving the bench we salvaged from the laundry, putting the doors back on and stocking tools.

  Was. I very rapidly realised i was hot, pissed off and very very overloaded. So i went full ASD and grabbed my giant crate of screw packets and tubs and sorted sorted sorted while blasting DS9 in the lounge. Did i wash my hands way more than i “should”? Yes, but fuck should, today was about pandering to me.

  source
• just_kitten@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I keep refreshing the BOM app thinking 29.3C at 11pm must be an error :| fuck me. So grateful for air-conditioning.

  Really glad I took a break from fieldwork today, just chilling at home all day - although I’ll have to go out during midday again tomorrow - and then a full day of work fieldwork on Tues and Wed 🥵

  source

  • Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Still 26 :(

    source
• Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m so, so fucking glad I have air con tonight.

  source
• melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Depressed/struggling

  I am really struggling. I have a sink full of half washed dishes and am unable to complete (or really start) anything of any kind of hobby. The idiots online are outweighing the couple of chill friends I have and one of them has actually got fed up and dipped, deleting their posts. IRL I’m surrounded by unstable dipshits. I no longer have the energy to draw. Medication doesn’t help me (resistant) so all I can really do is keep pointlessly slogging on.

  source

  • MeanElevator@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Do the dishes tomorrow. They can wait.

    Log off and ignore the stupids. It’s hard but worth it.

    Give melbcat a hug.

    Give yourself a hug.

    Find something comforting to watch or listen to and just sail of mentally.

    You got this.

    source

    • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thanks. I’m just plowing through them quickly so I have clean dishes (cutlery went in the machine because no way) and will be buying more disposables.

      The problem is logging off from the stupids leaves me with emptiness and the stupids here.

      I’m feeding and medicating Melbcat and will probably have to just Restavit the crap out of myself tonight to get some sleep.

      source

      • -> View More Comments
  • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Getting back to yourself after depression or being knocked for a loop takes time. Remember: you can just stop anything you start, whenever and pick up whenever. Yes, even halfway through.

    source

    • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t think there will be a ‘back’. I’ve tried everything for decades and nothing has worked. Just some days I can white knuckle it more convincingly than others. That’s all.

      source
• LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Anyone seen the Me We campaign going around? I’m very glad to see campaigns like this, and the consent one going around. Yeah we can’t control other people’s behaviour, but if some of society get exposed to campaigns like this, hopefully one day it will diffuse to people who are harder to reach.

  I think there should be a more aggressive campaign to do with sun safety. Plenty of people around me are still glamorising tanning, and I still have gotten a couple of sunburns from being outside and forgetting to apply sunscreen.

  source
• RustyRaven@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My cherry tart is complete, now I just have to work out how to get it safely to my sister’s place. I’m also not sure if it is going to be safe to take it out of the tin - the filling rose a bit high and has stuck to the sides a bit, trying to remove it could lead to a total collapse. At least the jar of vanilla custard should be stress free.

  source

  • TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Leave in tin for transport - then get someone else to remove it from the tin so it’s their fault if it collapses.

    source
  • Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Cut in half, put half in a container and the other half in your belly.

    Problem solved….

    source

    • RustyRaven@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Or I could just make another one tomorrow for my belly - I have plenty of cherries!

      source
  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Leave it in the tin during transport. Put on plate when ready to serve.

    source

    • RustyRaven@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think this will be the safest method.

      source
• Alamutjones@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I have Done Moomba.

  A couple of rides, watched the Birdman Rally, watched some wakeboarding, ate some ice cream…I’ve had a lovely time, but am ready to not move for the rest of the day

  source

  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What about the most important part? The Labour Day march by our unions with their historic banners?

    This is the true meaning of Moomba. A distraction from Labour Day and union ideals and participation . Moomba was set up by Melbourne business associations

    source

    • Alamutjones@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I caught a union march a few days ago. I have covered all bases

      source

      • -> View More Comments
• Bottom_racer@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  About to have some vegemite toast and now I’m trying to count how many decisions I’m about to make.

  source

  • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    300 decisions about food a day is wild

    source
  • Pilk@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You decided to post about it which counts I’m pretty sure

    source
• Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Today I am aiming at packing ten boxes.

  source
• TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  At last! A diet/nutrition article that talks about the ‘burden of decision making’ in the context of diet. One of my pet peeves is that this aspect isn’t given enough weight.

  worth a read whatever diet you’re on or not on

  source

  • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    "On any given day, humans make an estimated 300 decisions about food’.

    hrmm that seems like a lot…

    Good article though.

    source

    • dumblederp@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s one of the things I like about meal prep. If I make a dozen chicken curries, a dozen chilli and a doz apricot chicken, that’s a months worth of meals if I eat at least one every day. Pita salad protein wrap for another meal. Suddenly my food decisions are way down. Fruit and nuts for clean nibbles. Ice creams on a stick, two biscuits or PBnJ for dirty nibbles. Water or protein shake for drinks. That’s most of the thinking taken out of it. Every few weeks I crave something I haven’t made myself which is usually banh mi, hsp or pizza as that’s what’s good around here.

      source

      • -> View More Comments
    • Force_majeure123@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Seems about right for me:
      Go buy tim tams; NO Go buy tim tams; NO Go buy tim tams; NO

      source

      • -> View More Comments
  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I know diets are really hard. I know will power is a big issue and that I’m not weak, I’m normal. If dieting was easy there wouldn’t be an obesity epidemic.

    This is why I love the shake meal replacement. I have no prohibitions to make opportunities for failure and to feel bad. All I have to do is eat way less of what I normally do and have a meal shake instead. I am doing something instead of not doing something.

    And it is really easy. I don’t have to cook anything special, just the same , just much less. ( and I cook pretty healthy anyway, I have always added 3 x the amount of vegies to a recipe and don’t often use premade dishes)

    source

    • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m finding giving up bread really hard. I have reduced my intake but fresh Vienna from the bakery is holding me back. I will not lose sleep about it, instead allow my self to enjoy the occasional slice or two.

      source

      • -> View More Comments
    • Pilk@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Which meal shake brand(s) are you liking?

      source

      • -> View More Comments
• CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Happy 2nd Saturday guys.

  source
• Bottom_racer@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Last bougie breakfast for the hams today. Kibble w/ egg and basil topped with some parmesan lol. Actually ate the basil.

  Probably the most polite dog I’ve met with food. Set it down in front of him and he just stands there for a minute looking at you wondering what the catch is.

  Here he is wondering if there are seconds (hopefully vid works this time):

  Image

  source

  • useless_modern_god@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I have never seen a video work here.

    source

    • PeelerSheila@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Same, always have to open in browser.

      source

      • -> View More Comments
  • SpinMeAround@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ahh he’s so damn glorious!!

    source
  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    aw, and he is so loved, so many dog toys , looked how beautifully he’s looked after 🥰🐶

    source
• Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Thank you Brion

  Good Night everyone. Sweet dreams. 😘

  source

  • dumblederp@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I dreamt that I crashed at an old friend’s place and woke up to her cooking breakfast listening to Bauhaus while dressed all the way goth’d up. I was thinking in the dream if I should mention how good her breasts looked with the corset, bolero and little mesh covered cleavage window they created. The girl and I were friends 15 years ago but drifted, we had an honest friendship where such things weren’t inappropriate, she was doing a science PhD.

    Then I changed dream channels and went back to school as mature age, and an uppity Indian mean girl gave me shit for my daggy backpack but it turned out that she was my Indian friend from high school’s kid so I snitched to him about his kid being a brat. I’d also bought new boots and class was being held on tablets with rainbow lead pencils for notes.

    Dreams hey.

    source
• Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  More weekend tomorrow!!

  source
• Force_majeure123@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s past my bedtime and I’m only just heading home 🥱🥱🥱 it’s so busy in the city. Don’t these people like their homes and their beds?

  source
• imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wow. Passed out so well on that nap I legit thought I had slept through till morning. Super strange dreams. Trying the get harrison ford to his plane but he was having a heart attack and simultaneously missing my own plane and being yelled at and also trying to figure out work stuff. Ugh. I am glad my brain got whatever that was out of its system but I am not a fan of being kidnapped into a 3 hour sleep while it worked.

  source
• tone212_@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Had a beach day yesterday after barely going all summer. Sand, sun and ocean waves fix all problems. Also perfect temp yesterday and barely any breeze. And caught this amazing sunset. Followed by best sleep I’ve had in weeks.

  I want to go again today. Wish ocean was closer.

  source
• RustyRaven@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The stupidly heavy antique drill press has been sold and is on it’s way to a new home. 😁

  Decluttering is getting more and more complete every day - the prospect of moving house definitly help, it’s amazing how many “maybe” items turn into a hard no when faced with the prospect of packing and moving them.

  source
• Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The gym is kicking my ass big time.

  Just had another 12 hour sleep. It’s great in a way because I know it’s working.

  It’s just a bit intense.

  source
• TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Just had a look at windy.com - there’s a nice little batch of rain headed our way. Which the garden sorely needs.

  source
• bacon@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  mickey 17 is a lot of fun

  source
• CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Cheers Cobbers 🍺

  source
• LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fucked up last night and got boba with a friend. My body must be extremely sensitive to caffeine, or I just drank it too late because I couldn’t sleep until 3am last night despite waking up at 7am yesterday. Was supposed to do some uni work and go down to the beach with the fam, but my head is pounding. Going to take it kind of easy and hopefully get my work done. Not going to let this ruin my day.

  source