Daily Discussion Thread: 😺 Mon 15 Jan 2024

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• briongloid@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ll be offline this week, on a cruise to Tasmania.

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  • Thornburywitch@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Have a great trip!

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    • indisin@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And try and avoid covid…

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  • Marsupial@quokk.au ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s like a 9 hour boat trip, how lost are you planning on getting to stretch it out to a week?

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  • RustyRaven@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Have a good trip. If the Tasmanian Fudge Company is still running bring me back some fudge. 🙂

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• fullkitwanker@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  Sky pretty

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  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Top night for it! Enjoy your tennis 🎾

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    • PeelerSheila@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Nice pic!

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• Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not my f’ing day.

  Just spilt my entire dinner on the god damn carpet and had to do a massive cleanup and remaking dinner again as all of it had to be tossed out.

  It’s the last thing I need right now!

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  • PeelerSheila@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Poor bugger, I feel for you, that really sucks. At least you made another… I’ve been known to crack the shits and go without in a huff like an idiot

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    • Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Trust me I cracked the shits.

      It was souped based as well which made it so much worse to clean up.

      Almost thought about going without as well.

      Anyway time to take a deep breath.

      Still annoyed at myself.

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    gees

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• tone212_@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Stand-up meetings, where everyone is in fact sitting down and they go for almost an hour, a very crappy way to start the week.

  Also this annoying person at my work took it upon themselves to run the meeting and they called me out on screen and asked me how my weekend was. I said it was fine and asked how theirs was, their response to my lack of information was “wow it’s like talking to a teenager”. Fuck off. If I don’t want to regail all of the staff about what I did on the weekend like you do, then that’s my decision to make.

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  • TinyBreak@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “wow it’s like talking to a teenager” completely unacceptable. Go to HR and your manager on it. Claim to be offended (Because they wont give a shit otherwise). You’re owed an apology and they need to learn they cant do it any more.

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  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh I hate this cunt for you.

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  • wscholermann@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I would have responded with " hmm that comment resembles something a teenager might say".

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  • Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Wow. Just wow.

    I answer much like you to questions about how I am and stuff like that at work and I do get ribbed a bit that I’m never anything but fine but it’s all lighthearted and that they’d love to hear that I’m feeling wonderful one day but seriously that response is so unnecessary and ugly.

    Me thinks you need to raise this with someone perhaps.

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  • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    passive agressive denigrating remarks in the workplace? mmm well that’s not conductive for a good working environment, I’d suggest having a chat with HR.

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  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I hate this person for you. It’s none of their business and it’s actually a good idea not to discuss your personal life at work

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• wscholermann@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The press fawning over “our” Queen Mary is really cringe and gross. She got married so what. She didn’t invent the cure for cancer. Australia isn’t special, deal with it.

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  • the_procrastinata@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There are worse things in the world we can be angry about.

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    • wscholermann@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I wouldn’t say I was angry, more repulsed.

      That aside what’s your point? That I shouldn’t have posted the comment? Hmm no I don’t think so I’m entitled to critique the medias silly fawning.

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  • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s a little fairy tale not as bad as the humidity.

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    • wscholermann@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      All that glitters ain’t gold.

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  • Mittens_meow@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    She bailed on Australia to go live in another country. That’s how much she loves Australia

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I hope the press doesn’t harass her to death. The Ghouls.

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  • PeelerSheila@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The “our Mary” thing is pretty cringey but women my MILs age are pretty into it

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• melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Bummer

  I’ve been struggling for hours to get my abdominal pain down to manageable levels and am currently back on a liquid diet. The severe pain is happening so frequently now and all the specialists so far have just shrugged or been jerks. Trying to get in with a pain management clinic via a private route now because this is debilitating.

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  • the_procrastinata@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m sorry, there are still areas where modern medicine just goes 🤷‍♀️

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    • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yup. ‘Guess it’s all in your head, GL.’

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  • PeelerSheila@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m so sorry you’re going through this. I hope they can help.

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    • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thanks. Fingers crossed there’s something

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• bananafungus@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I am eating chicken nuggets!!! I can not taste them and they are probably a terrible choice for my first solid food, but chicken nuggets!!!

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• StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s been a long-ass day, so many calls,
  So many people staring at their walls,
  Calling us to do some dirty, hard work.

  I’m trying so hard to talk to them all,
  Tell them we’ll pick them up when they fall,
  I start at 10am, it’s the only real perk.

  I tell myself I’m not burning out,
  It’s just a busy period,
  It’s what this job is all about,
  I tell myself I’m not burning out,
  It’s just a busy period,
  I’m just a bit worn out.

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    so many hugs

    and have a beer or two on us 🍺🍺🍻🍻

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• CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve made a new post named Tucker Time on !foodaustralia@aussie.zone replacing What’s for dinner? That way you can post about your breakfast, lunch, dinner etc.

  It would be great if you could contribute unless of course if you live on air. Thank you.

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• RustyRaven@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I made a post on Facebook mentioning I had some time off and now Facebook is suggesting I start a chat group to plan a meetup. All of these “smart” AI/algorithms are really starting to be annoying - it’s like having an idiot friend around who constantly misses the point of things. Instead of adding value like it’s supposed to, most of the time it just takes up time and distracts you pointlessly.

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  • TinyBreak@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nothing worse than when technology tries to be “Helpful”

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    • RustyRaven@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If the technology was smart enough to understand context it might actually manage to be helpful. But when your post is actually about looking forward to spending time at home and not going out, plus it is in a group with 82K members from all over the world and not a great venue to plan an impromptu meetup, then that sort of suggeston coming up is just an annoyance.

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    • fullkitwanker@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What? Who isn’t interested in making a chat group for a Meetup to best use their break?!

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  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I keep get recommended sci-fi stuff on streaming services. Um you don’t know me at all algorithm.

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    • RustyRaven@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It would not be so annoying if they didn’t go so overboard on everything. But it’s never just one or two ads, it takes over so that’s pretty much all you see.

      If reminds my of a situation my mother had with someone she worked with once. Mum said once that she liked the ginger biscuits they had for morning tea, and this person focused on that to the point of obsession - she would buy and present ginger biscuits regularly, christmas presents would be chocolate coated ginger etc. All presented with the best of intentions because “I know how you like ginger”. Which might have been great if Mum did actually love ginger, but it was a faulty extrapolation from a single passing statement, and instead it was extremely annoying (to the extent she would regularly come home and vent about it, which is why I know about it!).

      The way they are using their algorithms now is like that, going way overboard from snippets of information and most of the time being annoying rather than helpful.

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• TinyBreak@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  PSA: I’ve lost some photos. Partly my fault, partly computers dying. Anyway right now I had 3 or 4 repositories or backups, most duplicated, but I only discovered recently that at some point something corrupted and I lost some priceless photos. Spent 3 weeks digging through old storage to find a backup and luckily, I found a VERY old SD card that contains them. Its a miracle that it survived this long. I nearly cried tears of joy. Anyway, if you don’t have a good backup solution? Go make one. Right bloody now!

  I’m also open to suggestions for management/organization of photos. Right now im across iCloud for recent stuff, Dropbox for last gen stuff, and then google drive for older than that stuff. And its just chaos!

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Print them out and put them in an album. Use the best paper, ink, glue and album you can find. The pictures should last quite a few decades, if not more.

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    • mysticgreg@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This is a great idea.

      Every year my wife and I pick out our fave photos of the year across both of our phones (because that’s where they all get taken these days!), and when Snapfish do their big yearly sale at the start of Jan we get a hardcover photo book made up.

      It helps to have a folder that we just dump photos we particularly like into as the year goes on, makes things quick come book compiling time.

      Just this weekend gone our niece was staying with us, and she loved going through our little collection of photo books on the shelf, and I admit I enjoyed it too! I love the experience of browsing a book or album of printed photos.

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    • TinyBreak@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We’ve just done that in the form of a calendar for the grandparents, but we’re talking a need for more long term cold storage.

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• Bottom_racer@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There’s a whole lot of earth moving going on out the back of mine and the reverse noise on one of the bits of equipment sounds like a huge wattle bird and the resident magpies are freaking the fuck out. Just standing there on the lawn staring at this excavator probably regretting the little feud they have going on (with the real wattle birds).

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  • SituationCake@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I hate the new style reverse noise. Apparently it’s now the thing to use because it is more noticeable and annoying than the beeps.

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  • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    this is making me laugh way harder than anything has the right to. Maybe they should try praying to the Magpie God.

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• Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So sore and tired , no cooking, I’m having gyoza for dinner 🥟🥟🥟🥟🥟🥟🥟🥟🌶️

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  • Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yum yum!

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• RustyRaven@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  i got stuck into some sorting and decluttering today, and decided to pull out a bunch of stuff for hard rubbish. I went to book it in and apparently the collection people are taking a Christmas break and there are no collections until February. Oops.

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• melbourne_wanderer@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  it’s a toss-up in my household as to who sucks more: Colesworth or Australia Post.

  At least colesworth delicer, I guess…

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  • MeanElevator@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Colesworth for me

    Never had major issues with Aus Post. Hate the duopoly bastardry.

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  • PeelerSheila@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s a tough one. Aus post I haven’t have any issues but my local post office sucks. On the other hand Coles worth suck but the staff of my local stupor markets are lovely.

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• fullkitwanker@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My friend and I were chatting outside a cafe when a Bogan looking human riding on a scooter passed us saying “🙄fucking Asians”. 😂

  I don’t think I belong in that category but I’ll take it. She was def looking for a reaction and I gave her none and she just left. This was my first openly racist comment in 4 years, not bad!

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The worst abuse I used to hear in Detroit was abuse from passers by who thought I was a race traitor. So maybe that’s why you copped some nasty words. Not Asian but hanging with Asians in an Asian place.

    It’s unacceptable and distressing. hugs

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  • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    just remember, said bogan has to exist as themselves. Helluva punishment.

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• eatham@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I found a really good minimalist keyboard https://github.com/dkter/aaaaa

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  • Nath@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How on earth did that get approved for the App Store?

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    • eatham@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Anything can really as long as it’s not a virus.

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• Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Work goes so much faster when you have something genuinely interesting to investigate. Accidentally stayed late, I never do that!

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• oztrin@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Rental car (from my insurance) sorted.
  I asked for a small car and got a Mitsubishi SUV (not sure what model, no badges on the outside).
  Annoyingly, I can’t get it to sync with my phone via bluetooth so I’ll have to use Android Auto and plug it in via USB, which means no Deezer. Sigh.
  Driving it has been… a learning curve, especially when I hit three red lights in two minutes. Ah well.

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• CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Someone on reddit Melbourne dt can’t log in to aussie.zone using Firefox. I don’t know what this means. Maybe someone here can help.

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• Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Cats are weird and full of surprises. I got a pot plant off the footpath, a bromeliad in flower, it has nice pink and purple spikes. Ted Cat loves it!! He’s playing with leaves, hiding under and behind it, sniffing it all over. He’s very cute. 😺 He is now half asleep on the sofa pooped out.

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• MeanElevator@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Been applying for a few jobs recently and actually getting calls (interviews lined up for next week). One in particular is fairly senior and not related to what I’ve done (can argue that my experience is transferable) and the manager I spoke to is very keen to interview me.

  Might have to do some sleuthing to find out more about the team and culture in the place.

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• Llabyrinthine@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I have encountered the most saddest Apple strudel.

  The pastry was so thick and claggy… I could only eat the filling.

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• CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I bought a watering can from coles. I don’t have anything to water but when I do I will be prepared.

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• MeanElevator@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Just watched my elderly neighbour reverse into his mailbox. Barely any damage, but I just know he’ll spend the next 3 days ‘fixing’ it loudly with every power tool he owns.

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• bananafungus@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I am caretaker free today, so I am donning a mask and gloves and taking care of myself. I am very curious to see how I go considering I’m going to attempt quite a few chores today.

  My mouth and throat feel good today so I might have a go at some scrambled egg or something as well, exciting times!

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• Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Since we have a large basement area i am going to be printing out a fritzl mugshot and hiding it in a dark corner. I am aware that I am a bad person and don’t care

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• TheFailedNinja@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why can’t I login to this using Firefox anymore? very annoying

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• RustyRaven@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I just put my shower curtain liner in the washing machine, and it made me wonder how many people actually have shower curtains and not glass panels these days. I suspect it is an ever-dwindling number.

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• wscholermann@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Nick Whites medical receptionist impersonation is spot on and a little too close to reality.

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