Discussion Thread ⛵️ Wednesday 15 April 2026
Submitted 15 hours ago by YarraByte@aussie.zone to melbourne@aussie.zone
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Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 2 hours ago
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 1 hour ago
Just finished Emperors Of Rome by Mary Beard. Now onto SPQR, I, Claudius, and whatever else I pirated to my kobo
Alamutjones@aussie.zone 47 minutes ago
Masters of Rome series by Colleen McCulloch is good
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 hour ago
I Claudius is just so good 👍
spoiler
it was the figs
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 5 hours ago
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 5 hours ago
but do they know where you live ?
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 5 hours ago
I guarantee if they knew where I lived, I’d be in significant trouble lol
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 4 hours ago
Missed the one top left at first lol.
Looks photoshopped in.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 4 hours ago
That’s the one that let me pat it and then looked at me like “what just happened?!?”
SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 3 hours ago
I added some left over peach slices juice to my porridge this morning and it made it smell like a fruity vape.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 3 hours ago
Vape is how I get my 2 serves of fruit a day in. 😬
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 5 hours ago
I have a cold related ear infection for the second time in three months. This has given my boyfriend an excuse to say whatever he wants and I will not hear him. Lots of smiling and nodding has occurred this week with everyone.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 hours ago
take the antibiotics, you can’t get damaged hearing back
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 2 hours ago
Yeah I am going to :)
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 4 hours ago
Antibiotics can cause a yeast infection in the Gina. Too many can kill the good bacteria. That’s probably why he asked.
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 3 hours ago
True. And the problem of antibiotic resistance. But I don’t know why he’d ask me if I wanted them
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 4 hours ago
😊🙂↕️ 👍
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 3 hours ago
so I am wondering if I put my sand play beach molds in the dishwasher twice I could use them as jelly molds
I put disgusting used cutlery full of saliva germs in the washer and it comes out clean and safe, why not these ?🤔
Pilk@aussie.zone 48 minutes ago
I would totally do this, it sounds awesome. Post pics if you do!
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 2 hours ago
Wouldn’t the surface be a bit rough? Like, the jelly would stick? I don’t have an issue with the microbiology situation after proper washing.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 hour ago
they are super smooth plastic
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 3 hours ago
You might start growing tentacles but I don’t see that as a problem.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 hours ago
lol
ok, 3 x thru the dishwasher on extra hot
Taleya@aussie.zone 7 hours ago
Updaye: 'cos i passed out giggling: they towed it. Hope it gets miiiiinced
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 4 hours ago
so such a little thing but I have regained movement in my right little toe 😊🥹
tendon was badly injured years ago and I slowly lost movement for many years but after a year of hiking on rough terrain 3 x a week it appears I have some movement back
StudChud@aussie.zone 5 hours ago
The time for brewery today I am moving to 5pm. Still on, just 5pm
bacon@aussie.zone 5 hours ago
Beep Beep 🚚
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All the chicken soup please chef. With fluffy cloudlike dumplings in it.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 5 hours ago
some honey lemon drink please
Alamutjones@aussie.zone 6 hours ago
I think I caught a cold in Ballarat ☹️
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 5 hours ago
On behalf of Ballarat I apologise. We just have so much cold to go around up here, it’s hard to stop it from getting out.
Alamutjones@aussie.zone 45 minutes ago
I had a very nice time then, I’m just snotty now
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 5 hours ago
Ask our chef for some of the special chicken soup maybe? That can fix almost anything.
Taleya@aussie.zone 14 hours ago
Popcorn, popcorn, bring me popcorn.
Fuckhead who blareshis unfucking muffled piece of shit motorbike every fucking night at 1am up our street just got highway patrolled. Right outside my house.
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 7 hours ago
That would be great - I’d have my security camera live streaming so I could replay highlights over and over.
Taleya@aussie.zone 7 hours ago
Catfish@aussie.zone 9 hours ago
Day 1: this is great, they love me Day 2: so many idiots, think I’ll quit on Friday
Here we go round the mulberry bush… Love this guy but don’t think he’ll ever be happy anywhere
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 12 hours ago
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Eh. I’ve simmered down and of course the black cat has lost trust and started avoiding me. Being held and made to take medication is way too much for him to handle after what could be a decade of no medical procedures. I could try to slowly repair the bond if he comes back (if) and hope that the nutrition and parasite treatment alone get his body healthy enough to clear the ringworm by itself. But should I? That’s asking me to endure constant re-exposure to it for potentially months, when it’s very difficult to deal with physically and emotionally. And if he’s got underlying conditions he may not clear it without treatment. It’s a real pickle. I hope my email has handballed the responsibility for that right back to his owners where it belongs, so I don’t have to be the bad guy. I am really not interested in replacing Melbcat and want time to grieve her properly but it doesn’t mean I don’t care for this little buddy and don’t feel like shit for how it’s panned out.
Taleya@aussie.zone 7 hours ago
Anger spats are normal, as long as they don’t become the default.
From an ND perspective there’s also the angrymaking part of having a possible distraction from the ennui of grief being potentially snatched away. Then there’s just the complete shit situation of wanting to help but very possibly not being able to (which btw does nothing to assuage the sense of moral obligation)
Ramble ramble but tldr: a boilover is an appropriate response. I’m just so sorry this is happening.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 1 hour ago
It isn’t a distraction from grief. It’s actually been complicating it and making everything more painful and stressful.
It’s also creating a lot of change, uncertainty and emotional rollercoasters right when I really don’t need that, and putting me in no-win situations where I can’t do anything to help.
I’m angry at the owners. I hope they take this cat to the vet. As he ages it will eventually need to happen and it’s going to be more traumatic if he’s not used to it.
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 38 minutes ago
After many days of back and forth between myself, Coles supermarket and Coles credit cards a long saga of missing groceries followed by missing refund money has been concluded. I have now closed my Coles credit card and once I have spent my credit at Coles supermarket fully intend to never spend another cent in their stores ever again. Which is a dramatic change given they have been the supermarket I have gone to almost exclusively for decades.
I can say I’ve never experienced such terrible customer service before, beating even the OPSM debacle of 2009. The groceries were delivered to the wrong address. A full refund was eventually promised (but nothing ever communicated to me, I always had to follow them up through this whole saga to get any information). The refund was eventually processed a few days later, but never showed at the bank. The supermarket claimed they sent it and it was declined, the bank agreed it had been declined but couldn’t say why. The supermarket refused to do anything else, both the bank and supermarket said it was the other’s responsibility. Within the bank customer service said it was the security centre’s responsibility, the security centre said it was nothing to do with them and to contact customer service.
Throughout all of this online chat communication was only available intermittently. The app directed me to send a text message, which received an auto reply with the store opening hours. Via email I was just told there was nothing they could do and I had to follow it up with the bank. I was eventually able to speak to someone on the phone and argued enough to get them to process a credit to my account so at least I haven’t completely lost the money, even if I would have preferred the cash back. As a downside it looks like I have to spend the whole lot in one transaction online which is a bit annoying, but once that is spent I can happily never go to Coles again. I think I’ll do click and collect instead of delivery for this one though.
Eagle@aussie.zone 6 minutes ago
Their online refund process is abysmal. Can’t tell you how many orders are missing items that the refund never happens for. I end up giving up because the app directs you to the website, online chat that never goes anywhere. Yet with Woolies its almost immediate refunds for missing items.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 minute ago
yup, woolies has excellent service in this regard
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 9 minutes ago
Did you pay by credit card or debit card? If credit then they will chase the money and if they don’t then they’re shit and I’d be closing that quick smart and finding a better one. If by debit then banks don’t gives a shit.
Never give your debit card details to anyone.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 21 minutes ago
Ombudsman
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 15 minutes ago
That was my next step, but the process for following that up is also not very straightforward. Especially as I have no idea whether the actual problem was with the bank or the supermarket.