Discussion Thread 🛼 Thursday 11 December 2025
Submitted 2 days ago by YarraByte@aussie.zone to melbourne@aussie.zone
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StudChud@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Catfish@aussie.zone 1 day ago
🫶🏻
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 day ago
it’s been 4 hours
Are you still ded?
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Saturday night is work Xmas party.
I feel like it would be a terrible idea to drink around these people.
What do you guys think?
tone212_@aussie.zone 1 day ago
If you’re new / still in probation, best to be on your best behaviour. A couple of drinks is OK, but not drinking at all is fine too.
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Don’t drink unless you want to risk becoming a story of the night. Love, a Lesson Learned (several times over)
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 1 day ago
I probably have 1 or 2 drinks every couple of years, so I might keep to soft drink juuuuuust in case lol
Eagle@aussie.zone 1 day ago
No drinking at work functions. Not even one. Socialise, get seen and go home.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 day ago
and no flirting either
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 1 day ago
My work Xmas party is going to be a bunch of adult children drinking. I am not going.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 1 day ago
I have to go. I agreed when they asked in my first week and I was too dumb to say no.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 1 day ago
For me personally I would try to avoid going as the vulnerability to missteps are high? But also with some jobs you’re kind of forced to network or they hold it against you, so idk read the room the best you can on that.
Maybe go and subtly stick to a drink that looks like alcohol or isn’t. And probably leave early because as the night goes on things tend to get more messy.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 day ago
don’t drink
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Made it back down the bellarine.
This morning was the 5th consecutive weigh in for ol’ girl >45kg up from 39 so taking it easy until xmas / new year. I was very much unpopular over the last year and a bit lol.
Thankfully relationship b/w ol’ boy / girl / me survived all of that.
If I were to do it all over I should’ve been more aggressive food-wise earlier being honest so bit of a fuck up on my part.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 1 day ago
It’s not a fuckup on your part. You’ve been given all of the responsibility and mental load of caring work that ol’ girl fights against and ol’ boy (or bro) doesn’t assist in.
Some things are too much for any one person. Don’t blame yourself for the outcome when you’re the only person that stepped up.
Eagle@aussie.zone 1 day ago
We live and learn every day. You’ve done an incredible job of keeping her well despite her resistance to your efforts.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 day ago
so some good news
hope it all continues getting better 😘
StudChud@aussie.zone 1 day ago
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 1 day ago
He is glorious!
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 1 day ago
He’s got a sweet spirit, gorgeous boy!
SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Suspended again on reddit for … positively discussing wogs and skips in the wog blanket thread. Looks like reddit ai can’t tell the difference between discussing racial issues and being racist.
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 1 day ago
I thought wog was a term of endearment now
SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 1 day ago
So did I.
SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 1 day ago
I feel like the job interview went well. Now to the waiting. My mate who works there said a bunch of people haven’t been showing up so I reckon they’re keen but I don’t want to count my chickens and what not.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 day ago
All the stuff on today’s todo list is done. I even steam cleaned the upstairs rug. It looks brand new.
By next week every single cupboard and drawer in the house will be organised. Everything in it’s right place. All junk gone to either op shops, given away or turfed.
UnKAOS will be complete. It will take minimal work to upkeep the house. A few repairs of furniture, chair legs need stabilising is the only house job left. Might sort my LP record collection. Turf some I don’t want.
beach, tv and art work projects beckon 🙂
Alamutjones@aussie.zone 1 day ago
🐤 knockoff! 🐤knockoff!
It’s that blessed time
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Assignment was marked!! Would’ve gotten a HD but I still passed!!! Yay!
My dad asked me if this was the kick up the ass I needed. I hope it is.
SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 1 day ago
You got lucky, they failed me for that years ago.
Catfish@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Dentist. Do not want!
Alamutjones@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Do not want, but have achieved. Bravo
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Good on you for going!!
Catfish@aussie.zone 1 day ago
I didn’t throw up, so that’s a win
SituationCake@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Same. I’m overdue. I’ll have to pep talk myself into making an appointment for January. Hope you only have a routine check and not any serious work to get done.
Catfish@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Thought I needed fillings, but apparently not quite yet
imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone 1 day ago
YouTube algo gods smiled and brought me this 10 mins of a complete breakdown of all the sounds in Blue Monday. So geeky, so good youtu.be/msZCv0_rBO4
Alamutjones@aussie.zone 1 day ago
I have a lovely green chicken curry. There are also dumplings
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Sounds like a perfect Thursday night dins, enjoy!
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 day ago
I’ll be right over 👍
tone212_@aussie.zone 1 day ago
It was sunny for a good portion of the day so managed a dip at Bondi but then the clouds and cool rolled in. The sea was angry today, like a washing machine. Pounding waves.
beach
It’s also so nice staying somewhere where I am close to everything. Shops, restaurants, cafes all minutes away. Instead of the whoop whoop location where I live back home.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 day ago
look at that magnificent sand and deep blue water, lovely 🙂
SituationCake@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Put on a fresh cream coloured hoodie this morning. Spilled coffee on it 15min later.
Alamutjones@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Coffee coffee coffee
themaninblack@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Sorry mate, that genuinely sucks
“Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number…” -Rudyard Kipling
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 1 day ago
I maybe addicted to finishing a jigsaw puzzle YL and I started yesterday. It’s a puzzle of world flags.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 day ago
ooo, that puzzle sounds awesome, would definitely do that one 🙂
My new puzzle this week is en.wikipedia.org/…/The_Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 day ago
It’s late. Goodnight everyone.
Sweet dreams. 😘
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 1 day ago
I’ve done it now.
Melbcat was crying to go outside because the sun hadn’t reached inside yet and I caved. We’re sitting in the hot sun and she’s probably getting new fleas. And now she’s going to keep asking! I just thought I’d ease up a bit, keep her happy.
I just hope other animals don’t bring in parvo and that she doesn’t make a run for it.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 day ago
It will be fine. People go outside all the time.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 1 day ago
But I burn easily, have weird neighbours and can’t leave her out alone to take a toilet break
Alamutjones@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Today’s very…off
tone212_@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Off to Sydney this morning, I’m upset to be leaving our good weather for days of rain 😭
I really wanted to beach, there is a sunny morning on my final day so possibly then.
Taleya@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Supposed to start storming tomorrow anyway so you’re just beating the rush
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 1 day ago
It’s been a glorious day in the garden today. I got a couple more pieces of garden support frames assembled (for beans and tomatoes) and planted out sunflowers, pumpkin, watermelon, beans and corn. Tomorrow I aim to plant out tomatoes and some beans. Most of the other seedlings should probably grow a little bit more before they get moved.
StudChud@aussie.zone 1 day ago
I thought I’d handle it well, considering this is the third time I’ve caught covid, but I’m so frustrated. My sinuses are exploding, I can’t seem to get enough water into me, my nose is swollen shut but still runny.
I just want to sleep, but I can’t sleep without breathing through my nose.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Op Shop CDs are fun. I picked one up that had no playlist, just the title, Movie Songs.
I am up to this banger , Who you gonna call www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaV1r341wYk&list=RDTaV1r3…
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 1 day ago
I tried the oil paints and tested out my ideas for solvent free. Used the tiny canvas and one of the two brushes that were included.
Long ramble
I squeezed some paint out and it was quite separated. I hadn’t left it to sit in a particular way first so the oil had pooled at the cap, fair enough. That suited me fine. It allowed me to dampen the brush in that linseed oil rather than open the bottle. However it did also leave the paint a little less spreadable, while still not thick enough to get good texture. I had to press the bristles hard because they were weirdly crunchy. Perhaps they had needed washing of some kind of sizing first but that would have slowed me down. I had learned that you could scrub a tiny amount of paint from the tube into the canvas as a base rather than thinning it, and because that is actually used as a portrait technique (to build up slowly without immediately losing sketched guidelines) thought I’d practice. I began trying to make a thin transparent toned ground. It does need practice. It tended to concentrate in patchy areas and not blend out well into the textured canvas which I didn’t bother to gesso. It didn’t have that lovely transparent look from the YouTube videos and quickly hid my sketch in places, however it’s probably both quality and my technique. The answer ended up being to start very lightly and widely and gradually grind the paint more and more in, very similar to my experience with coloured pencils. However this was very rough on the cheap small brush. Bristles were lost and deformed, and the short bristles meant some of the paint went up into the ferrule. This is bad because it is hard to wash out and when it dries in there it causes bristles to splay or fall out. I also added some of the separated oil and a colour a step lighter. It looked better but ended up patchy so I abandoned the plan used the colour variation to start turning the patches loosely into landscape. The brush suffered further with some stippling. I started with the darkest most concentrated paint (burnt umber) and worked it towards the back of the painting to create distance, adding a little of the separated oil and next colour up (orange) to work into the white bits but keep it paler. Then saturated orange was stippled like leaves, and the remaining bit misted into the background in patches. Yellow stippled and then a little blue in the yellow orange to make a bitter orange for trees and bushes. More blue for a muddy desaturated green faded into the distance. Basically I went through a whole colour gamut to mix progressively different colours without having to clean the brush or add in a second one. I was going to add more blue or brown for dark trunks and the same colour to carve out a path, then use the second brush to add all of the light details. But I got too tired and my head still hurts. I can let it dry and maybe do more details later. Cleanup involved soaking a wad of toilet paper in canola oil from a bottle that might be too stale to eat, then vigorously wiping and scrubbing the bristles to remove as much as possible. The brush was then scrubbed and agitated in a used paper cup with a small amount of dish soap, the water tipped into the bin on top of cat litter that had been disposed of. I repeated this with the rinse water, then wet the oily toilet paper inside the paper cup and threw them out. Washed my hands. I don’t think I managed to get the paint out of the ferrule but the bristles looked a bit better after washing and so I flattened and reshaped them with my fingers. Then I wrapped the bristles in a flattened tube of paper towel and set the bottle of vegetable oil on top of them so they dry in a flat position. Melbcat has demanded cuddles but in a second I’ll wrap the plastic palette in plastic and put it in the fridge to keep it wet. I think I’m going to have to invent my own technique or find other solvent free artists because I was just winging it and having to consciously to the opposite of what Bob Ross does.
I’d still rather have a studio and be able to do wet one wet but I don’t. Also I think I’m going to struggle to get paint thick enough to behave properly for that unless I mix my own with pigment - and that definitely wants its own space.
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 1 day ago
A relative brought a five-year-old iPhone from work and I am comparing it to my Samsung. My Samsung is three years old and not that shit, but it freezes a lot and the camera fails often. The battery also dies quickly. And it’s still young.
This Apple phone though. I like how you can use ad blocker in Safari. Apple Podcasts is a bit mid though. Bit drab looking and also not as easy to use as Spotify. Couldn’t rewind a podcast using my earbuds.
The worst part is trying to watch a movie. AirPlay does not support subtitles on my pirated movie site, whilst my Samsung just mirrors the screen. No AirPlay bullshit.
I think I’ll just do a back up and factory reset of my phone and that should make it go faster.
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 1 day ago
My plan to become Edward 40 hands at work has been undone by my immune system. I’m here, but I’d rather not have anything to drink as I’m not feeling the best. We have another barbecue tomorrow so maybe then if I’m suddenly better
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Today started with a bit of chaos. My groceries had a window of 9am - 3pm, and normally they give you a 2 hour window closer to the time. I hadn’t received anything yet so thought it was safe to head out with Mr Woof, but just after I put his harness on they arrived, right on the dot of 9am (and simultaneously with the test message that it would be delivered soon!) My Woof had to be unharnessed again so I could collect the groceries, and so the delivery man could be woofed at frantically.
There were quite a few missed items again this week. They really need to up their game if they want more people to do delivery and click & collect (which they seem to want, for some reason. They are desperate to cut checkout staff and implement self checkout, but also want to increase staffing requirements to do the shopping for you. I really have no idea what there overall plan is here.)
They apparently had no turkey or pork, making my half leg of ham a little lonely. Also no lettuce, tomatoes or citrus fruit, so salads are going to be a bit sparse. I hear Woolworths let you choose specific substitutions and add notes to the items, that would be a good idea if it reduces the times they just leave out items. I tend to work from a model of stocking the pantry/fridge/freezer and them plan what to have from there instead of planning specific meals I shop for, but for most people leaving out major ingredients makes the entire shop pointless as you have to go to the shops to get the missed things yourself.
Alamutjones@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Yo
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 day ago
more oldies CDs
I must be tired, everything is making me 😢
Dick Haymes you’ll never know www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgBWumm95gw&list=RDHgBWum…
Glen Campbell. He was such a huge star in the 60s and 70s, everyone liked him and knew his songs but said nothing because 'daggy"
Witchita Linesman www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8P_xTBpAcY&list=RDQ8P_xT…
Gentle on my mind www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfMnNqn-hKg&list=RDmfMnNq…
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MeanElevator@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Daughter got her ATAR score and is getting automatically accepted into all her preferences.
Other good news, I made the 45 second microwave omelette and it’s so fucking good.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Congratulations to her 🎉
Was she up at the crack of dawn like mine?
MeanElevator@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Not quite, got up around 830. Incidentally her scores came in the mail about an hour later.
I take it yours got good news?
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Congratulations to her!!!
MeanElevator@aussie.zone 1 day ago
We’re so damn proud.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 day ago
yay, congrats to all the young ones for their success 🍾🥂
Alamutjones@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Good girl!
MeanElevator@aussie.zone 1 day ago
She’s the best. I told her that internet strangers are happy for her, and got a massive eye roll as a reaction.
That’s good, right?
anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Yay!! Congrats to your daughter!
MeanElevator@aussie.zone 1 day ago
It’s a proud moment for the whole fam :)