Bin fuckery with neighbour was avoided.
The cheeky fucker swapped his green for recycling last night (saw it when I got home late).
He brought it in right after pick up this morning too (at like 7 am).
I’ll still claim the moral victory.
Daily Discussion Thread: 🌞 Wed 10 Jan 2024
Submitted 1 year ago by Seagoon_@aussie.zone to melbourne@aussie.zone
Comments
MeanElevator@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Taleya@aussie.zone 1 year ago
JFC every goddamn bricks and mortar retailer has been so desperate to start becoming a “marketplace” they’ve made themselves and their websites utterly fucking useless
I just wanted to see if woolies had brulee torches in stock for me to walk down and pick up. Instead I get wall to wall listings for their “market partners” and if you’re gonna pull that bullshit then what the absolute fuck are you for.
Mittens_meow@aussie.zone 1 year ago
So much this. I try to filter out marketplace shit where possible. It’s usually the same junk sold at kogan, catch, mydeal etc.
Taleya@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Trying to find anything before htting up a Bunnings is a complete shitshow now
bull@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Aaand home. Banger of a day outside but for now I think I’ll just lay down for a bit.
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Yay, home!!! Hope the drive was nice and easy!
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 1 year ago
I have a long, slow cooking day planned today in preparation for a Mexican dinner tomorrow night. I am making carnitas, which is basically pork slow cooked in fat. It will be served in soft tacos, so I will be making an oven-roasted salsa today, then making tortillas and some other accompaniments tomorrow. I am also going to make desserts today - caramel flan, which is similar to a creme caramel, but made with condensed and evaporated milks. I’m taking it all to my sister’s house, so it should work well to be able to heat and serve with minimal fuss and mess there while still being a bit fancy.
Baku@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Sounds delish! I’ve never tried a caramel flan or Carnitas before
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 1 year ago
I’ve never tried them before either, this seemed like a good occassion to try something new.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 year ago
oh god, mexican caramel flan is divine. If it’s on the menu always get it. Tres leches cake is also nice. Carnitas are also good. ( mexican food is soooo good )
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 year ago
yum
StudChud@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Work has been a bit wild, the two new people at work (who joined a month after me) are thinking of leaving.
It’s insane, the phones have been going nuts, they want us to priotise the new inquires while also staying on top of all the emails to complete. But the phones have been going nuts so we’re behind. Shit flows downhill so upper is shitting on middle, shitting on us. They’ve introduced KPIs but averaged it over 8 hours instead of 7 (2x 15 min breaks, 1x 30min lunch) so they don’t make sense.
On breaks, we’re always behind. We have to take them in order, so as the late shift I don’t have lunch until 3pm.
The office is an echo chamber, so quite loud, but they want us in office full-time. Not feasible when clients can hear the other operators so clearly they think the lines have crossed.
I could go on. I think if the other two and I left, it’d leave the business in complete shit. I’m smashing their stupid KPIs, but I want to cry everyday from the utter mismanagement of the call centre. It’s bush week every day and I’m tired
/endrant
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Ten minutes without worrying that Ted Cat is going to bite my bum. Is that too much to ask?
( he’s on the balcony meowing like a sad waif )
Taleya@aussie.zone 1 year ago
make a noise he really really hates every time he bites you. ATM you’ve made it a game for mister bum bitey killypants. Alter the parameters.
anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone 1 year ago
A spray bottle might work, too
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Yes, he’s very playful.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 1 year ago
You know when you can’t be bothered cooking but you end up doing it anyway and it turns out really good. Yeah.
TinyBreak@aussie.zone 1 year ago
caught my reflection in a mirror. My god I look like a mess! Not physically (I’ve kind of got that whole exhausted but a little bit sexy thing going on) but the eyes… they look so run down, and the smile just looks off. 3 rough nights sleep plus 2 early morning starts appear to be taking their toll, even if my mood is still ok.
just_kitten@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Whoops, managed to sleep for 10 hours straight and got up half an hour ago. Haven’t slept this long in forever even when I’ve been exhausted. Absolutely starving, need to get around to making a proper lunch today instead of potato gems and frozen fish fillets…
Baku@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Nath@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Meanwhile, I’m using the same Transperth SmartRider that I was issued when I was a beta tester of the program in 2003.
Baku@aussie.zone 1 year ago
(just an FYI, this is the expiration date of the Myki pass loaded on to it, not the card itself. I do get what you’re saying though)
calhoon2005@aussie.zone 1 year ago
just_kitten@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Finished book 2 in the Silo trilogy, and tbh… This was definitely not as great a read as the first book - actually quite hated it by the end, felt rushed and disjointed in the third part and I didn’t care about most of the characters; worst of all the writing felt so lazy when it came to the technology and certain key developments. So much hand-waving and incredibly plot-convenient tech… anyway, I’m committed now and I’d just like to see where this all goes, so onto the final book.
Mittens_meow@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Grocery shopping - everything $1 - $2 more expensive. Bring on the review of price gouging.
Over the last year, golden circle cordial has gone from $3.20 to $5. I’d switched from cottees at $5.90 a bottle, and here we are now…
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Sure the prices have increased 25% -35% but we must not forgot averages wages are 1/3 of what they were in the 1970s.
Bastards in Australia have a way of distracting us from the hard issues and the real culprits.
Employers/news media encourages talk about rent and prices because it means we aren’t talking about wages.
Farmers like talk of global warming because it means we don’t talk about the 100 years of damage farming and farming pollution has done to the environment.
Industry likes it when we talk of household water restrictions so we don’t look at the subsidies and water waste of farming and mining
It would not surprise me if we pushed hard on the issues activists would be bumped off just like are in other countries.
Nath@aussie.zone 1 year ago
It isn’t only about the wages (a lot of it is wages), another huge factor is productivity. With technology and automation, the same number of people can do so much more than they could in the 70’s. Employers are getting far more output from the same number of staff than they ever used to.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Protests about ten years ago predicting these very issues did get the bum’s rush
TinyBreak@aussie.zone 1 year ago
7 bucks for 4 oat bars this morning. taking the ABSOLUTE piss.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 1 year ago
I agree and I can’t wait for this.
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Bring it on. Minipeelers favourite cheese used to cost $6 per block (that was the reason I first tried it, it wasn’t too costly). It is now $10.90. We used to enjoy the odd treat of icecream or some sweet biscuits. They’ve gone up so much in price I can’t justify it. Anything that’s not strictly necessary is out.
briongloid@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Anyone else use a linux distro as main computer?
Baku@aussie.zone 1 year ago
I tried to a few years ago with Ubuntu but it was missing a lot of apps and games I liked or needed to use for various reasons. These days I unfortunately still use windows as a main, but I have Ubuntu in a dual partition with windows on my laptop
TinyBreak@aussie.zone 1 year ago
tried years ago with Ubuntu. There was a lot to like, but ultimately gaming just wasnt a thing.
indisin@aussie.zone 1 year ago
[deleted]dumblederp@aussie.zone 1 year ago
The Steam Deck really moved *nix gaming along.
Nath@aussie.zone 1 year ago
There are two laptops on my desk at home. One dual boots between MacOS and Windows (90% Windows) and the other is running Fedora 39. If I had to point at one of them as my “main” computer, it’d be the dual-booting one. I use both fairly heavily, though.
dumblederp@aussie.zone 1 year ago
I have Mint on dual boot and a VM image, but mostly Win10.
imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Yep! Current daily driver is Ubuntu but I have tinkered with fedora in the past. I am not a gamer but am a programmer and find I have everything I need for work/life easily available. I am comfortable on the command line which helps but if it’s set up then anyone can use it I reckon. All my coding stack is open source. And libre Office is a pretty good replacement for MS office (without the shitful 365 cloud garbage)
I have also used Mac regularly and I can’t think of much I can do on one and not the other.
Happy to answer any more specific question - feel free to PM me. Not that I know how that works on lemmy.
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 1 year ago
My sunset piccy.
Good swim, no doggo pats although I almost ran over a pug at low speed because it’s the same colour as the path so that’s something.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 year ago
That’s so lovely. The world is a beautiful place. 😊
wscholermann@aussie.zone 1 year ago
I’m sure supermarkets are laughing at the Prime Minister tut tutting them about price increases.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Why do the politicians even bother.
wscholermann@aussie.zone 1 year ago
To make it look like they are doing something while in reality they are doing nothing.
SituationCake@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Did a big clean out of my personal email. Mass delete of promotional junk mail that seems to turn up regardless of ticking ‘do not send emails’ when making online purchases. Unsubscribed from most. Got a few ‘need 3 days to process your unsubscribe’ or ‘error, unable to unsubscribe at this time’ and other thoroughly bullshit excuses.
Nath@aussie.zone 1 year ago
If any of them are Australian, that’s illegal here. If an Australian company sends you more junk after you have told them to stop, you can report them to ACMA. The fines they get are not insignificant.
SituationCake@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Good to know. I’ll keep an eye on it. If no one reports them they’ll just keep on doing it!
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Mixing red and white wine never ends well.
This one hurts today.
MeanElevator@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Oof…thots and pears your way
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 1 year ago
I just mixed up all the My Dog tins so little dog gets a different one every day. He does not give a shit what flavour it is nor if it’s the same flavour every day for two weeks but I care and that’s what matters.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 year ago
I’m reading a discussion about reading
and to me the saddest thing about having ptsd was for many years I was too ill and mentally tired to read books. ( other than a few specialist psychiatry books ) So lacking in mental stamina I couldn’t even watch movies
so now when I watch movies I really appreciate it. I still don’t read as much as I used too. This is something that still gives me real grief 😔
abuse takes so much away from a person
danwritesbooks@aussie.zone 1 year ago
These are the small steps to recovery and good on you. You may not read as much as you used too, but you’re also probably living a completely different life that you may not have the time to read as much.
But you read or listen to audiobooks and watch movies and that’s just as good.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 year ago
time, I have nothing but time 😔
to me reading and watching is also learning , I think about what I have “consumed”
writers and artists put so much effort in the work, they want to entertain or educate ,
first read and watch is for entertainment, the second and further I think a bit more
Cendana@aussie.zone 1 year ago
-big hugs-
imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Hugs. It can come back eventually. Now I am at the point where when I start to lose interest in music or I can’t concentrate to read that it’s a signal and I know I am gonna need to do something to stop the slide back.
Its an amazing feeling as those things start to come back. I am glad you have movies back.
bananafungus@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Mother has advise she will be stopping by to drop off some things and to make sure I am still alive. Not going to lie even if I can only stare at her from a distance I think it will be nice for my brain.
Also on a high note, I opened my curtains a little bit today for the first time Sunday and have cracked the window for a little fresh air. Still feel disgusting, and it appears my immune system is non-existent as I break out in all sorts of things, but at least I have some freshness coming at me.
Electronic_Owl@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Take care mate. I’ve never knowingly had it, but your posts got me thinking about the last booster I had. I could have sworn it was last year, but according to MyGov/Medicare the last was actually June 2022. I’ll be hitting up the local Amcal later for some sweet Bivalent action.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 year ago
so many gentle hugs, take care, rest and drink lots of water
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 year ago
o/
Mittens_meow@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Trying to watch a specific movie. Checked Netflix, Foxtel, and amazon prime. Movie not there. But then we find it on Amazon but it’s asking for more money to watch it. Is Amazon movies some extra money grabbing thing ??? It should not be this hard.
SituationCake@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Amazon has 2 parts to it. Prime is the streaming service, like Netflix. Some movies are included. In addition to this, they also have a buy/rent business for other movies, same as Google store or Apple iTunes.
bull@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Anybody want to guess how much I spent on booze on the cruise?
Keep in mind that in order to make the booze drinks package worth it, I would have had to have spent $75 every day on alcohol (which is how much more on top of the non-booze package I got it would have cost).
So as long as my total is below $750 I made the right choice.
Closest guess wins umm… a prize of some kind… I’ll figure it out. Guesses open until 9pm.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 1 year ago
$0. I don’t think you had any cos you got the covid.
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Chilli patch is still kicking. Giving them good doses of GoGo juice (which I think is basically seasol but better… maybe) and tomato food and haven’t killed them so that’s good to see. Might be time to introduce the Potassium. Whether to go liquid or potash pellets I’m not sure yet.
big thai one on the left is having a great time and turning into quite the dense shrubbery.
But the one I’m reallly looking forward to are the little piri piri ones (bottom right). Just hope they weren’t the cultivar that, thanks to a sneaky wayward bee, x bred with cayennes last year because they tasted like shit.
spoiler
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Which also brings us toooo…
today’s rave choon!
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Tonight’s dinner is sorted.
Truffle fettuccini with chicken and field mushrooms in a creamy parmesan garlic sauce
TinyBreak@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Early estimates project hundreds of millions of dollars improvement to the city of Shepperton once floodwaters rise, properly prices alone set to skyrocket when instead of living in a shithole town you get to live next to a nice new lake instead.
danwritesbooks@aussie.zone 1 year ago
What do you get if you cross a cow and a rooster?
Roost beef.
wscholermann@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Folks walking around in hoodies and tracksuits. WTF is wrong with you? You must have medical conditions because it’s certainly not cold.
bull@aussie.zone 1 year ago
The winner with the $50 guess is PeelerSheila! I spent $126.50 over 2 days then didn’t drink booze for the rest of the trip.
Enjoy your celebratory Numbat!
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CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Well done @PeelerSheila@aussie.zone!
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Omg thankyou! I love it!
Nath@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Is that some AIs idea of a Numbat? Because that’s not a Numbat.