Discussion Thread 🦕 Wednesday 19 November 2025

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• imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Travelling again for work so another slightly dodgy breakfast but I got to hang out with this absolute legend

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  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They’re so funny and curious. Almost like if birds were dogs

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  • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wow I want your job! Probably very much a grass is greener sort of thing though.

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    • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh yes…I then spent all day in small rooms talking my guts out to people!

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  • PeelerSheila@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s a great picture too!

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• tone212_@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Two new people at my co-working space having Teams meetings on speaker and playing videos out loud. Put up with it for 30 minutes. Then went over and asked them to please stop playing videos from their computer on speaker loudly as it’s distracting to my work, and there are free meeting pods around if you need to make noise. No sorry, no speaking at all, just looked at me and each other like I was crazy for confronting them. Amazing how inconsiderate people can be.

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  • SaneMartigan@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They immediately packed up and moved someone else.

    A win.

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    • MeanElevator@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      We need more shit like that called out publicly. I don’t hesitate when some idiot needs to be confronted. Public humiliation is a powerful tool.

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  • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I cracked the shits at a builder next door playing shit techno at full blast few days ago.

    I like techno, but not that sort of techno, particularly when you’re angle grinding rebar.

    Haven’t played it since lol.

    I won that round.

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• CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I bought a new body trimmer. I practiced on the man’s back. It was all fun and games up until I accidently nicked the scrotum.

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  • Pilk@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I was doing so good too.

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  • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    practiced on the man’s back.

    accidently nicked the scrotum.

    How damned high do that man’s balls ride??

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    • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      He obviously tossed them over his shoulder like a regimental soldier

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    • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Hahaha. I ran out of spots to shave. The ball sack seem like a good idea at the time.

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    tmi

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    • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m sorry. I shouldn’t tell people he’s got a hairy back.

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    • Force_majeure112@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I for one want to hear more about deputy CEOs nutsack

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  • Eagle@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Scotums are very vascular, they bleed lots! Hopefully just superficial.

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    • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah he’s good now but I’m never allowed to do that again.

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• RustyRaven@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I bought some cheap jeans from Kmart which were too wide in the legs, so have taken the legs in by a couple of inches and hemmed them to a sensible height. They are now presentable enough to wear for general stuff like gardening and dog walking, even if they are never going to be high fashion. It’s good to have the sewing space useable, even if it does need a lot more sorting still - the table is covered with fabric that needs to be put away once I can figure out where.

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• Alamutjones@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Got a bag to pack and I’m procrastinating it

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• SpinMeAround@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  One of the teams in the building had a new guy join 2 weeks ago and clocked the team leader’s bullshit with in a couple of days. Come in this morning and he’s phone and keys are on his desk and my manager confirmed he’d resigned last night, can’t wait to hear how the team leader spins this one. I’m guessing “he just couldn’t handle it” as opposed to what we all know is the truth (the team leader is an asshole).

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• Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  5 hours sleep in a row!!!

  Oh fuck yes!

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    it’s nice to know what it feels like to be rested 😊

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• Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m still buzzed/happy from the Young Seagoons visit. The bonds have never been stronger. 😊💖They are lovely people.

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  • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And you raised them! You’re a lovely person, Seagoon. They get it from you <3

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• Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  very old MIL came over

  she went on a rant about VicRoads. How dare they ask for all my medical details. my bad health doesn’t mean I can’t drive, and how dare they ask me to get retested.

  “I’m a very good driver, better than “insert name of son” ( who drives her everywhere, ) I see all the things he doesn’t. I see everything and anticipate.”

  She’s 86 and can barely get in a car and she can’t walk well.

  She was so angry when I said maybe she shouldn’t be driving.

  I’m only concerned that someone else may get hurt.

  Narcissism in old age manifests in new and interesting ways.

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  • SpinMeAround@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The absolute rage someone I knew flew into when his doctor reported him as no longer fit to drive. Never mind the fact that he blacked out while driving his car, fell asleep on a forklift and had lost a large chunk of his spatial awareness leading to scraping the shit out of his car, but “HoW dArE tHeY”. Fucker is lucky he didn’t hurt anyone. And yet still thought it was an excellent choice to not take his medication.

    Some people would rather talk about other people’s faults than admit their own.

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    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Thee main thing that made me feel angry was the way she insulted her son who drives here everywhere who looks after her.

      She feels no gratitude and thinks saying thank you is abasement.

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  • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oh jeez I feel this. Had to have ‘the conversation’ the other day too (again) w/ mum. She’s no longer driving but the topic keeps coming up.

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  • Force_majeure112@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    😔 my poor dad barely passed his recent driving test, and almost definitely won’t pass his next. His partner will keep him in line though and won’t let him try when he’s not allowed

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  • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My grandma is 85 and gets so annoyed about the driving question because she’s still fine. But it sounds like your MIL is getting defensive because she still wants to drive even though she shouldn’t. People take that stuff as an insult.

    I think there should be a driving test for people once they reach a certain age. Maybe even every ten years or something. That won’t stop people driving like hoons in the meantime. but I wonder how many would fail.

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  • PeelerSheila@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I remember my brother telling me about his 91 yo MIL, who was becoming increasingly dangerous behind the wheel and everyone in his wife’s family were just way too timid to face her wrath on the subject. So he “had to play the bastard son-in-law” because it was getting ridiculous and only a matter of time. She was utterly enraged, demanding her licence back, causing a fuss. They made her do a test and she failed. She was even more viciously angry, and demanded another test. She again failed. They found out she was still driving. My brother took her keys. She was absolutely beside herself with rage. She was in complete denial. In the end she was going to demand another test but death got in the way. What a way to spend your twilight years. Some people are just unbelievable.

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  • SituationCake@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I like to think that when I’m old enough I will heed any advice that I should stop driving, if I haven’t already voluntary realised it myself. But, with the number of cases I hear of elderly people believing they are fine to drive when they are clearly not, I wonder if some kind of self awareness problem happens in old age? Yes some are narcissists but they can’t all be, can they? Will my brain become selfish and dumb when I’m old? I really really hope not. I don’t want to be that person. Anyway, hope the vicroads testing sorts out the MIL and gets her off the road. Safer for everyone.

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    • RustyRaven@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There are definitely awareness problems with age, especially with dementia. There’s even a word for it, anosognosia. It’s one reason a lot of people’s plans for old age don’t work out, they assume they will have the capacity to recognise when they need to make changes, whether that be stopping driving, not climbing ladders or going into aged care. And because our society values being able to make your own choices we allow people to cause a lot of damage to themselves and others before we allow anyone else to step in and start making decision.

      Some people of course do use denial as a coping strategy through their whole lives, and that can also be a cause of refusing to admit being unable to do things. It doesn’t help that our society sees aging as a bad thing and has a lot of prejudice against the elderly, people would not feel as much need to deny their own aging if it was seen as a more positive thing.

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• Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m up. Time to see the young seagoon’s off on the rest of their trip to see other fam.

  I will miss them so much 😭

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  • SpinMeAround@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What an awesome adventure they’ll be having though! So glad you got a bit of time with them!

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  • Force_majeure112@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    🥲

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• melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Took a walk today and am now resting with Melbcat curled into me as the little spoon.

  I wish watching things and crochet wasn’t so boring. It’s a good low energy hobby but I spent the entirety of the locky d’s doing it and it got a bit old.

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• Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I wish I could find more people that used to live the way I did and got out, and live normal lives.

  I’ve been looking for a long, long time.

  Everyone from that world who gets out becomes an acolyte of the 12 step program. That’s not for me and those people and I don’t get along.

  It would be nice to talk to someone who gets it.

  Goodnight all ♥️

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  • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Hmm I’m just thinking, maybe you could start a Meetup group?

    I would love to hear your story one day though! It takes a lot to get out of living that way. I wish I could do something to help people in those situations but I feel like it’s got to come from within. Could be wrong though.

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    • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Witch is right, no one can help you till you decide to stop.

      I didn’t really have a lot of help, but I think that worked in my favour. No safety net means no room for error.

      I might write my story up one day, or this place might do a meet up one of these days.

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  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Hope this isn’t intrusive but I have decent google fu.

    …com.au/…/smart-recovery-an-alternative-mutual-ai…

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• Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I am so tired, sorry I’m not more active here

  goodnight, sweet dreams everyone 😘

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  • anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Have a good sleep

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• Pilk@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Turned on lossless on Spotify. There is a very clear positive difference in audio quality and not in a gold-plated-audio-cable kind of way. Sounds very full and detailed – pumping bass and very crispy hi-hats. Didn’t know what I was missing.

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  • tone212_@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve got my setting on very high (320kbps), do you think lossless makes a big difference? I did want to turn the setting on but I download my music so much more storage needed for lossless.

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    • Pilk@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There are separate quality settings for streaming vs downloading, and you can set it per device, would those fix the issue?

      I’ve noticed that the caching will always choose the highest quality available, so I can’t easily flip back and forth between qualities to compare and give you a “big difference” answer. I am definitely noticing more in the low end – bass guitar/cello/kicks are all much more present in the mix. But I can do without that when I’m listening on my phone while out and about. At home with unlimited streaming its no problem.

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• LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  oversharing about annoying friends

  I don’t know why she told me all this but Found out today that the friend I’ve commented on about here who’s always late and does other things that are inconsiderate is cheating the Centrelink system. I’ve been friends with her since the beginning of high school, and she would come to school without lunch because her parents wouldn’t feed her and she didn’t know how to feed herself. Now her father just throws money at her, probably as an apology for not actually being a parent. She lives at home with her father, studying, and is unemployed, but her father lists her as an employee so he pays less tax. She is leeching off not only his money, but is now getting payments from Centrelink because her dad’s income is less than is what is reported due to the loopholes like this. What has she done with this “free money” so far? No, she doesn’t buy groceries often or contribute to the household. She’s sent me pictures of the things she’s bought - $250 worth of lipsticks (half price on sale), a $250 bracelet, and a speaker for her PC. When it comes to going out for food though, she won’t spend more than $15 ever. Or she will drive (using her dad’s money for petrol) to places pretty out of the way to get cheap food. Meanwhile, people on the DSP can’t move in with their partners earning an income, because the system thinks their partner can support them. I’ve commented on all this before but it’s “free money” so she doesn’t care. It’s absolutely disgusting how the system allows for things like this. I appreciate that I can be my weird self around this friend, but the misalignment of morals and values we’ve got going is really rubbing me the wrong way.

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  • SpinMeAround@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I love that you feel like you can be your weird self around this friend, but it also seems like they weigh you down in so many other ways. There will be other friends out there that will prop you up without being a weight on the other side.

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    • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I agree. Our mutual friend makes me feel that way.

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  • SaneMartigan@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You should ditch this person.

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    • StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Seconded

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    • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah fr.

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    😠

    So what about the mum? What is she doing?

    and also 🤷‍♀️, it takes all kinds of people and I gave up long ago wasting time and emotion on fretting on how other people live. I only have enough energy for myself, fam and friends and to help people in need.

    So friend is not a really bad person? Then don’t worry about it.

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    • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The mum is a narcissist.

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    • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Good looking out. You’re sharp. May I suggest keeping this girl as only an acquaintance (or doing the slow fade) in case she or her father try to use you in unethical ways?

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      I once had a ‘friend’ who wanted to take my health care/pension card to obtain discounts illegally. Thankfully I refused and am no longer around that person - but I don’t know what the consequences would have been for me if I had allowed it or they had taken it. Probably fraud charges or experiencing identity theft.

      This girl has also shown potential to just leech off you with zero guilt.

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  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Good looking out. May I suggest keeping this girl as only an acquaintance (or doing the slow fade) in case she or her father try to use you in unethical ways?

    This girl has also shown potential to just leech off you with zero guilt.

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    • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Absolutely. Never met the father but I stood in his shop once to wait for my friend and he didn’t even say hello haha

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• tombruzzo@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Here’s another thing I don’t get: Influencers that are just like a regular person. I can understand following rich people or people that were famous for something once. But I saw one woman who just lives in a 100 year old house and is renovating it kind of. I can understand if someone has an online presence about something, but there are people who are just there and don’t seem to have any particular niche or angle.

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  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I saw one woman who just lives in a 100 year old house and is renovating it

    That sounds mildly interesting (to me)

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    The rest of the influencers are pretty pointless though

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  • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Jenna something? My ex used to watch her because he wanted to renovate a house one day and kind of got me onto it. But the regular people, I think people want to relate to others and feel “connected”. Rich people are far removed from them.

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  • SpinMeAround@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I don’t have TikTok, but I follow an old blog that does a weekly TikTok round up and the “influencer” shit that gets talked about and blows up just baffles me so fuckin’ much.

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    • tombruzzo@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I almost don’t mind listening to influencer drama because it’s all so decoupled from reality and anything significant it just feels like short stories about the stupidest people you’ve ever heard of

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• Force_majeure112@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Test

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• LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Was anyone awake to see that Cloudflare outage? Couldn’t access any of the readings for my assignments. Lucky I downloaded most of them!

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• melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Some random dude walked past my house, came back and peered inside, and claimed to be looking for someone. I growled at him until he left and called the cops. Gfdi.

  Nights like these I wish I was larger. But it seems I did manage to spook him.

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• bacon@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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• SpinMeAround@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Right. I’m a bit drunk after the local trivia night.

  TIKA THE IGGY

  ^HOWEVER. Fuck people who use their pets are social media props. Like absolutely fuck them. I followed Tika the Iggy for a few years - until her owners acquired a new Iggy while acknowledging alongside that Tika was starting to age. It felt like their were preparing Tika to die and needed a back up in the wings. I stopped following them because something about introducing the new Iggy gave me the ick. I was so happy when I saw late last month that they were celebrating Tika’s retirement - almost like they were celebrating the opportunities Tika had brought them while giving Tika some peace - no more traveling, no more spotlight… except Tika died very early November. I cannot imagine what decisions her family went to leading up to that and I cannot imagination what small children have following up. However… having having the new Iggy make her international red carpet less than a month later sounded so cold hearted that I just can’t even. I don’t want to believe they’re using props to make up for Tika, but the costumes they’ve had Kala in just break my heart. I want to believe in Tika/Kala’s parents. Really! But I can’t.^

  Also, I drank like 2 bottles of red wine tonight, so I’m not mad at myself for getting passionate about this.

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