I’ve embarked upon a fitness journey again. I got reasonably fit and lost weight a couple of years back (actually not sure how long ago it was) but let it all go for some reason/s (tiredness? The lure of cakes?) I downloaded an app called FitOn and have been doing short low impact routines from there for the past 4 days, sometimes twice a day. I already feel better (altruism?) and I think my balance and strength has improved, so I’ve got that going for me at least.
Discussion Thread 🍰 Wednesday 10 September 2025
Submitted 3 weeks ago by YarraByte@aussie.zone to melbourne@aussie.zone
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PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Fuck yeah! Keep up the good work :)
tone212_@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
My presentation went so well! Got really great feedback from the people who attended, small group but all really engaged. Hopefully I get some new clients out of it.
I catered too and ordered waaaay too much food. I’ll be eating sushi and sashimi for breakfast, lunch and dinner for the next few days.
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Yay, that’s awesome to hear!!
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Congrats!!!
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
it’s a win in every way 👍😺😺😺
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
I’m glad to hear that for you, congratulations!
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
I have Gibson a bit more gabapentin and she’s staring at the wall licking her collar lol
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Wouldn’t be the first time someone had a cone and stared at the wall lol
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 takes me back to high school lol
Catfish@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
An identical dose of that gives TheVoid mild naps, LittleOne is utterly out of it.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
She’s been sitting like this for a while. Just staring into the void. I wonder what’s happening in that mind of hers.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
she’s so embarrassed about her cone 😿
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
If you got sent this before an interview for a low paying role, what would you think:
Just a quick heads-up – this role will report directly to Mark Wakeling our new Victorian Call Centre Manager and myself, so I thought I’d give you a quick intro before we chat.
I’m a proud father of two beautiful girls (ages 2 and 5), originally from Sydney, and have spent the last 20 years leading high-performing sales teams. I bought my first property at 21, and while I’m not a micromanager, I do have high standards. I’m naturally competitive (ex-athlete mindset!) and love surrounding myself with people who are driven to be the best – and I expect the same from my team.
Honestly curious what you guys think working under this person would be like.
SituationCake@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Run.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
I doubt there is a HR , this is a two bit operation that runs on the smell of an oily rag, expects employees to work for finger traps and waffle parties, don’t expect your legal entitlements.
SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
That level of entitlement sets off my old bouncer habit of keeping an eye on cokey sales guys who were the type to get a girl drunk.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Your workplace is not a family situation and your job is not a competition.
These are giant red flags.
Do not go , or go just to see what these potential abusers are like.
bacon@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Email back to cancel the interview.
Eagle@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
I’d be running far far away, slowly as I’m not an athlete. Not saying I’m not very good at what I do, and I am driven but he sounds like a flog.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Thanks for the perspective. I thought it was just me. The house at 21 thing sounds like someone born on third base who thinks he hit a home run.
tone212_@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Why are the children relevant? Why is the property at 21 relevant? Honestly a completely tone deaf thing to send to a candidate.
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
I physically recoiled reading that. I’d cancel so fast.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
He’s gonna ask you what you got up to every single weekend because we’re like a family here.
Pilk@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Would love to know he believes separates his management style from that of a micromanager. Asked directly, I don’t think he’d have an answer.
A high performance manager would be sitting in on that interview, too. I bet he’s got more important things to do.
I suspect this is some kind of ploy to filter out people who can detect he’s a dickhead.
Also, you’d have two people to report to? Does not sound fun.
Catfish@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Run. They have a huge ego about tuff that has nothing to do with work. You’ll have no privacy and be treated like a slave.
MeanElevator@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Person sounds completely insufferable and probably narcissistic. They would be 100% a micromanager who look at long (unpaid) hours as a badge of honour.
His family situation, property achievements and ex-athlete status are completely unrelated to work but they make it part of their personality.
At the start he’d all friendly and cheery, give it a few weeks and the nightmare would start.
Also, he seems like the type who would call people ‘champ’ and mean it.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
His family situation, property achievements and ex-athlete status are completely unrelated to work but they make it part of their personality.
That’s most likely a lie.
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Geez I’d be worried about that.
Personally I’d go just to see how up himself the dude is lol (probably not good advice).
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
I find it very weird they’re so willing to share things like this over email ahead of an interview. It wouldn’t make me enthused to work for the company or under this guy
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Nath@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
“Dear Nath & wifey,
In lines with 'jus coz policies, we’re increasing your rent to $800/week starting somedate soon.
lots of love,
Real estate agent on behalf of boomer landlord who has at least three other properties with us.”So much for the raise my wife just earned through her awesomeness. 😞
$41,600 per year in just rent.Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
don’t sign yet, find another place asap then give notice
Nath@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
There are some essential criteria for a place to live:
- 3+ bedrooms
- 2+ bathrooms (there are four of us including a teenager)
- Inside the catchment of the high school.
With those points, there are presently two places in our suburb for $750/week. Moving is a lot of effort to save $2,600 in a year - assuming either place is comparable to our present (fairly nice) townhouse.
It honestly does appear to be the going rate for houses in Perth. Even going out of the school catchment doesn’t save much. The “cheap” suburbs with crime being a variable are still $550-$600/week. Which is what we were paying for a decent 4 bedroom home in the next suburb over only three years ago. Housing prices in Perth have gone bananas.
Catfish@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Random street find: strip of stickers of exotic chickens 🖤
Catfish@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Love finding some flamboyant, exotic cocks while wandering the streets
Eagle@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
I gave my mum a roll of 500 of them from Temu!
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Despite the fact I overheard “we should have ice cream for dinner” the fam ate pretty healthy while I was recuperating. No dishes to be done and no eggs left.
anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Was it scrambled eggs for every meal? That’s what we ate as kids when mum was in hospital for a few days
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
No. About a dozen boiled eggs. They also used lebanese bread as plates.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
😊👍
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Huzzah got the soundcard and HDDs. Place I got the HDDs from threw in a tiny (9g) packet of jelly babies lol which was a nice touch.
Will finally have a functional studio again. Can’t wait to make some glorified synthesised fart noises with 2.5ms latency.
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6TgDIHZxfY This video never fails to crack me up!
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
I was falling asleep in the waiting room. Came home completely exhausted and slept. The glands are really swollen in my neck and under my arm so either I’m sick or have a quietly simmering infection.
In the morning I’m just going to shove everything into the other room and do a quick sweep. Crack the door for some fresh air, put dishes to soak in hot soapy water, change bedding. Clean litterboxes.
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Work is just under 14km away and the bike says it can do 15km on the lowest assist setting and 8 on the highest. Lets see if i have to do some manual pedalling on the way to work today
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
I’ve tidied up a playlist of albums from 2022 I want to listen to and now it’s 1 song from each album, so I can scroll through the list easier and go to the album to add to my queue. There are 125 tracks in there, each representing a larger album. I should probably do this for my other playlists as well.
That being said, the way we have to track and group music through streaming is terrible and this interface shows how the platforms are trying to kill the album. On Youtube Music you can’t even sort things by release date, which is bullshit because alternative Youtube Music frontends let you.
I swear to god, if a streaming service offered something like album shuffle, or album playlists I would switch in an instant.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
I think eating much less dairy ( I might have one thing a week ) and no bread has made me lose weight. I’m not complaining.
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
It’s great being able to play Silksong on a laptop as I can do it in the bedroom when the kids don’t settle properly, but I think I should save some of the harder stuff for the big computer. Silksong has an uncapped framerate so maybe the extra responsiveness of the big monitor might make a difference. Plus, the game looks gorgeous in 4k
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
I listened to the audio books of the Helen Forrester autobiographies a few months, recommended by CEO here. ( TY 😽 )
I just can’t stop thinking of them. The books have truly changed how I see poverty, how people talk about poverty and my life too.
sadly, in the family described by Helen the excuse of poverty was fake, cruelty and selfishness was the point
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Today I am listening to an LP of The Kingston Trio. ( they influenced the Beach Boys, a bit )
MeanElevator@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
This southerly wind can go kick rocks.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Got the vet time mixed up and they came before I managed to really tidy up -_-
I should have done the sweeping first rather than pacing myself and washing all the cat stuff. At least this way the stuff will be fully dry and I can find the floppy fish Melbcat doesn’t want
SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Found this nice docu-gif about a St Kilda pidgeon lady. i.imgur.com/jeg1LqE.mp4
Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
9am work starts may even be worse than my late shifts that start at 1145… Always packed trams is really bothersome to me
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Dream Theater are coming to Australia in February. Just helped my dad buy tickets.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
time for another coffee and some more sewing rasks
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
I ordered that hairdryer 2-3 weeks ago and no idea where it is.
It says the seller sent it, but it’s untracked and hasn’t shown up yet as sent on the progress bar. I had it sent to a local business for collection so it’s not likely to have been stolen.
bacon@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Beep Beep 🚚
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Goodnight everyone, sweet dreams 😽
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
No cancer!!! Woooooooooooooo!!!
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
was that a issue 😩
you mean fluffybutt?
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Nah me lol
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
God, that’s some good news on top of everything else you’re dealing with
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Man I’m over the fucking moon. That was in the background stressing me the fuck out.
Maybe I’ll be daring and order a pizza to celebrate lol
anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
I’m so glad you’re ok! What a relief!
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
That was terrifying to the point where I was just blocking it out with everything else going on.
Finding a new job is nowhere near as bad as what else may have happened.
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Oh my god that’s such a relief! 🥳🎉