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Discussion Thread 🖖🏻 Thursday 15 May 2025

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨YarraByte@aussie.zone⁩ to ⁨melbourne@aussie.zone⁩

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  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    My baby girl turned 18 today and she is going for her drivers licence. Please cross your fingers and toes for a good outcome. I’ll let youse know in the afternoon. TIA. 🤞

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    • TinyBreak@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Heaps of folks fail their first time on bullshit technicalities. I did, and even my driving instructor said the testers reason was complete bullshit and did my next test for free with me. Have a block of chocolate ready and some kind words just in case.

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    • useless_modern_god@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Where’s the test?

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      • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Kyneton

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    • SpinMeAround@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Wishing her clear roads and a smooth drive. You got this, YoungerCEO!

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    • underwatermagpies@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      🤞🤞🤞

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    • just_kitten@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Good luck, CEO Employee #1!

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    • Eagle@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞

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    • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      All appendages are crossed!

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    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      🍀🍀🍀

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    • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Good luck little CEO!

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    • tone212_@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      🤞 no better feeling than turning 18 and the freedom being able to drive brings.

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      • TinyBreak@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        BS. your first solo maccas run is the best feeling!

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    • SituationCake@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Wishing her good luck!

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  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Update: She just missed out. She’s in a good mood though and she’ll give it another go in a couple of weeks. Thanks for the well wishes ❤️

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    • SpinMeAround@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Glad she hasn’t let it bring her day down and now she’s familiar with the test! Hooray for her giving it ago!!

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    • MeanElevator@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Drats. She’ll get it 2nd time around.

      Learnable moment :)

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    • useless_modern_god@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Oh no! Wha happened?

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      • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Hit the kerb, failed to indicate and failed to head check. Just little things.

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    • Force_majeure123@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I failed my first three 🤣

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    • Eagle@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      She’s among excellent company, I failed my first test too. The nerves are much less second time around.

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    • dumblederp@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I failed my first test but had spent the test sweet talking the instructor about my medical volunteer work in Bihar, where the tester was originally from, so she passed me. My only failure was a stop sign but I was pulling into peak hour traffic jam so it’s not like I blew through it, just pulled out and waited for traffic to let me in. Traffic was great around Carlton, everyone gave me heaps of room.

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    • just_kitten@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Some of the best drivers I know passed only after multiple rounds, and meanwhile I was a very anxious driver that took a whole year to start driving solo even after getting my Ls, but managed to barely pass the first time around. I really do think they took pity on me for my age though

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    • Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Bummer CEO, I failed my first test as well, I didn’t even make it out onto the main road before I failed but I retook it and passed a few weeks later.

      She’ll get it next time!

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  • underwatermagpies@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I made biscuits. They’re not particularly pretty but they’re highly delicious.

    Butterscotch biscuits

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    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      with real butterscotch 🤤

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  • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Another piccy from Nepal taken from slides that no one asked for:

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    I’m pretty sure that’s namche baazar or maybe tengboche and everest top left.

    First time seeing snow. Also remember buying a mars bar in namche for $5USD which hurt. Beers at the tea houses were like $0.50c at 4000m elevation lol. As a 13yr old it was great. I was blamed by the teachers on the trip for spearheading trips to tea houses. I was just following everyone else but they didn’t believe me.

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    • SpinMeAround@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I’m asking for alllll of the photos, these are glorious!! Please keep sharing and the stories! Sounds like such a cool experience.

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    • dumblederp@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I was in Nepal in yr8. Bought some hash for mum. Can’t remember the price.

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      • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        lol. From memory the ganja was growing literally everywhere on that trek.

        We were told if we picked any / bought any we’d be sent home :(

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  • Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I can has new cat channel screen

    fancy screen door

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    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      looks like the Bat-Channel

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      • Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        We do get those, and the ruddy hungry possums

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  • Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Going to treat myself to more frozen chips to air fry and some eggs.

    Been a really shitty couple of days dealing with stuff, the least I can do is buy food for myself.

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    • dumblederp@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I love chip n egg.

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      • Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Now I have 18 eggs due to the egg shortage :/

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    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      you seem like you could do with some hugs 😘😘

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      • Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Oh I could have really used some, I almost asked for one today at work.

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    • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Take care Duenan :)

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      • Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Thanks!

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  • TinyBreak@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    service desk teasing security for getting locked out of their account will never not be funny to me.

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  • SpinMeAround@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Anyone remember that guy from The Other Place who was pretty hard done by and had a bunch of kids and he and his wife found out another was on the way with, like, basically moments to go? I wonder how he’s doing.

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    • dumblederp@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I wound up hiding that account. A bunch of people chipped in to help him with something specific and he spent the money on something else, then lined up to have another kid. Fuck’s sake mate, wrap it up. Just felt they were always in a ditch and posting about all the digging they were doing to keep themselves there.

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      • TinyBreak@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        yeah i mean accidents happen but its not hard to NOT have a kid. I wouldnt thought if your backs were to the wall the last thing youd be doing is

        NSWF

        blowing in the mrs raw.

        But thats just like my opinion I guess when I had spend 30k to have a kid.

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      • Pilk@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        TBF the vasectomy thing seems to have been a joke and the GFM does not mention a specific use of the funds (though it was reactivated for a second round of donations and not sure if the listing was edited). I’m not fully across the lore, I mostly skipped over it too.

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    • Pilk@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Yes, his username contained “g” or “gee” right and the letter 2?

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      • SpinMeAround@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        That’s the one, thank you!

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      • Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I remember that, G 7 or something? Or was that the nickname for the child?

        Spent quite a bit of time in hospital if I remember.

        Sad to hear that the funds weren’t used for the purpose people thought it was originally.

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    • Alamutjones@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I speak to him occasionally. He seems well enough

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      • SpinMeAround@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        That’s good to hear!

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      • Thornburywitch@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Good to hear. Was thinking about him and the kids the other day.

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    • TinyBreak@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      vaguely. I was a bit sus on a few details of that story, but I wasnt around all the time so totally possible I missed some details.

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      • Pilk@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I was sus too but I’m ultra cynical at the best of times and have learnt to reserve my opinion, haha.

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    • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Speaking of people from the other place, there was someone who had just gotten an ADHD diagnosis, was on here for a bit in the beginning?

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  • tombruzzo@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    One way I can tell I’m enjoying, or at least tolerating, this new job is I’ve been here since January and I haven’t felt the need to jump on Seek and just see what’s around. That’s impressive considering this is a mostly in office job, but it’s close to home, the people there are chill, and I’ve been getting some actual results in the work I’m doing.

    I was always passively looking at my old job at the more ‘interesting’ workplace, and same with the work form home job that sounded great on paper. I used Marketing Cloud in both of those roles and I feel like that was a big reason for me not liking both jobs.

    They say people don’t leave organisations, they leave managers. Maybe we should add shitty tools to the list of things people leave too.

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  • just_kitten@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Got 3.5 hours of sleep in the end. Got that weird dry-eye dry-throat feeling from not having slept enough… Note to self no motivation brew today after 12 noon.

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  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The man power walking through the house when he hears the garbos this morning. Priceless. The wife smugly says “I’ve already put it out”. Priceless.

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  • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    More Nepal:

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    One of my faves, in this village one kid got so wasted he fell into the latrine on the way back from a tea house but it was so cold it was frozen solid. We were all wasted so pulling him out was an effort. His lucky day.

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    This was in Kathmandu and probably the most confronting thing we saw. Funeral pyre.

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  • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Fuck NAB. Time for a new bank.

    Constant outages.

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  • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Finished early because fuck it why not.

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  • Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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    Yay!

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  • just_kitten@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    ARGH. I give up, 3 hours of sleep really isn’t enough to be able to force my brain to understand log transformations and regression curves all over again. I’ve taken hours to make some key amendments to other parts and make some notes… but once it hits 4pm I’m outta here. Try again tomorrow.

    Probably also gotta accept the hit of $10 and toss out that juicy salmon fillet I bought on Saturday evening and didn’t get around to making for some stupid reason (too busy making prawn curry on Sunday… too busy being a trash goblin on Monday and Tuesday). Boo. Whatever. Zzzz.

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  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I heard a bad song in a meme and now wish to unlearn who Sabrina Carpenter is

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    beach walk 🙂

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  • StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Easiest call to Centrelink ever. I messed up the date of my partner’s pay, so I had to call them to update it for my report.

    Super simple stuff.

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  • Alamutjones@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    So it’s not covid, I’m just lurgied. Okay

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  • MeanElevator@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I’m trying to pace out the last few eps of Andor over 3 nights.

    It’s so hard not to binge it all at once.

    1st world problems right there

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  • anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Stupid insomnia. Boo 😒

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  • Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Need to summon the will to cook food. Argh

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  • TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    How many fish fingers are too many? My personal limit is 8 to 10, but I am open to suggestions from the assembled audience. 8-10 provides plenty to be enjoyed with a variety of sauces, but doesn’t weigh heavily on the stomach.

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  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Man I wish I had the energy and space to build stuff suited for Melbcat. It’s sad that I haven’t been able to catify the crap out of this place for enjoyment in her golden years

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  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I had a bit of a brainwave. The pet ramps and steps from Kmart aren’t great and the op shop didn’t have much destroyable that suited…

    But Big W has a $180-ish recliner. It will be low quality and small and will get scratched up from brand new, but the leg support part could be walked up like a ramp. It’s something the old baby could easily get up into without jumping and hurting herself. I would pay that much for a cat tree if she could comfortably use it.

    We’ll see. I’ll decide if there’s room and maybe sell the unwanted dishwasher and tv. Maybe I could put something on the sides to absorb the claws wrath.

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  • TinyBreak@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I enjoyed thunderbolts. Sets things up nicely for the future as well. not sure about Iron Heart. Wakanda Forever left a pretty bad taste in my mouth in that respect.

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    headache

    what is it? allergy, CO, bad posture when asleep ?

    ears blocked

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  • StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Good fucking loooord

    TW Diddy trial

    I’ve caught up a bit on the Diddy trial. What the actual fuck. Cassie was a damn sex slave. Her bravery on the stand is awe inspiring. I think we need to write off Diddy entirely and send the cunt into the sun.

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  • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Trying for 11 hours sleep. Will no doubt be back at 2am posting about how much insomnia sucks.

    Night all ❤️

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