Daily Discussion Thread: Monday, April 8, 2024. 🌞👦🏼🧊 What happened to sunnyboys?

Why is it always fucking gastro? Who sends their kid to daycare with Gastro?!

This is the 3rd time in 8 months.

parents who are scared of losing their precarious jobs
if workers had more rights they could make better decisions
I know that doesn't help you today, so hugs
- Don’t hug too tightly, you might regret the outcome.

Back to work today. Poop. Guess the Void feels the same way.

A work of art
my boys are angry they are on a diet, they decided to trash the bathroom where their trays are 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛😡

This is my favourite place on the internet ❤️

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Nighttime Musings - Mickey McPußson

Mra-eow?
Yow-eeeooowww!
Brrrrii?

How does one say ß?
- It's just pronounced like "ss' double S sound.
  Eg. Groß - pronounced "grohss" - meaning: large/big
  Or Fußball - "fooss-ball"
- It’s called an Eszett if you want to look it up. Also of possible interest: Eth, Aesc, Wynn, and Thorn. Oh, and long S.

This is perfect cat cuddle weather.

Now, to get the cat to participate is another story.

I really want a kitty :/
- Best decision I ever made honestly. I don't know how I lived before having Gibson.
  I live alone and have spent long stretches not dating so having a little semi feral companion makes life a lot more fun.

Awake at 5am. I hate non daylight savings.

Also it’s autism acceptance month. Seeing lots of promotion of it at work but no actual discussion of how they actually do anything positive to help people with ASD. Nor the fact that many employees hide it because they don’t want to become a target / be put in the spotlight. It’s also ironic that return to office is pushing ahead, when people with ASD often find corporate offices a sensory hell. (Apart from other issues like dealing with commutes etc)

Oh god I hope nobody tells all the big companies about this. It'll become pride month V2

Twice in 5 minutes my dog's arsehole got too close to my property. First, he sat on my pen. Second, he back his arse onto my drink bottle lid. 😡

this is why I have very fluffy cats
no arsehole drama
- So many buttholes presented to the face though. Even if they are fluffy buttholes
- You're lucky your belongings don't get violated like mine.

If anyone was wanting to try period undies but cost was a concern, a particular print of a particular cut is currently $7 at Kmart.

The sizes are a little limited and I can't say I'm a fan of flowers. But that's very close to half price compared to the next option up.

Heh. Clueless me read "period undies" as in "period bonnet" or general "period clothes". I wasn't aware of period undies. Are they a new thing?
- I had to check, apparently they came about in 2013?
  Yikes, apparently the Thinx brand had/have 'forever chemicals'. That's not very eco friendly of them...

If they knew how to read I'm sure they'd be very offended!
- They are reading this now.
Witnessed a massive emotional support ute nearly rear end a tiny af Kia, in heavy rain tonight. The type of heavy rain where nobody who is sensible would dare to do more than 25 in a 60 zone.

Watching SiteInspections YT again.

I can't help wondering how many dangerous buildings are out there without the owners knowing

The thing I have learned from that channel is that very few builders know how to do a box gutter.
- And rain heads.
  Wtf are building inspectors even doing though? The number of approved busted or wrong spec houses is scary.
  Do your best and silicon the rest….
Who
- Master builder who does private building inspections, he has a YT channel.
  It's really put me off buying anything newer than 20 years old.
  And has made me look at the housing built in the 60s with new admiration, might be fuckin' Melton but those houses are made well. Made with real bricks and roofs that don't leak!!

I am in the middle of screening papers for a systematic review. 1762 down, 1438 to go🙃

Hope you’ve got good eye drops. ✨
Absolutely not jealous

This 6pm sunset thing is no bueno. The extra hour of sleep was nice, but in a couple of months we'll be at a 5:30 sunset :/

I just want to say the doritos chaos cajun chicken 'street art' chips aren't chaotic, cajun or chicken and it's not a street it's a bag of chips.

they're making things up

Hahaha. This reminds me of my man when I buy him "chilli" snacks. The disappointment is real.
- Very real. Unless said snack is from Korea I tend to disbelieve anything that claims to be hot.
I just tried cucumber flavour chips. They were odd. Not bad, just very not typical.

You guys only do 1 emoji, but I did a whopping THREE cuz I'm just cool like that 😎😎😎

Show off 😝
- 😜
You'll use up all the yellow
- This that means tomorrow's thread will just be magenta

Looks like I will get even more opportunity to play Jr Network engineer next month. I'm going to run ethernet into my rooms. I'm not at all a professional and don't want to deal with cable terminating or actually wiring things, so the current plan is to take a cable out the back of the router in the lounge room and feed it through a passthrough style wall plate, take it into an AP in room 2, then feed into a switch, then finally take another cable out of that through another passthrough wall plate and into a final wall plate in room 1. Not ideal, and I'm a bit worried about introducing latency, but I'm pretty sure that's the best option I've got for my skill level and what I'm allowed to do to the house. I sprung for gigabit cabling and equipment though, even though it's overkill. Partly in the hopes that it might alleviate some of the latency, but also partly because everything's going to stay here after I move, and it'll probably be a whole century before anybody touches the cabling again lmao

Latency wont be noticable. I havent checked recently, but running ethernet cables behind walls requires an electrician. Thats obviously stupid though, so go for it. Just run the ethernet as far away from electric cables as possible.
Terminating cables isnt that hard, and the end result will be a bit nicer to look at.
When you say passthrough wall plate, are you talking about: https://www.cablechick.com.au/cables/cat6-rj45-keystone-coupler-female-to-female.html If you dont want to terminate, but still want a nice look those are very easy to use.
- Oh that's a relief. Yeah, it is still illegal to run any sort of wiring yourself, but it seems to be pretty unknown. We're actually going for an even easier option than running it through walls, and running it under the house instead.
  Yeah that's pretty much exactly what I'm talking about. They seem like the easiest and neatest option

I just got a credit for an NBN outage....I would never have expected that.

From your ISP or the NBN themselves? I always thought the NBN took the we don't owe you fucking shit now fuck off and go enjoy your shit internet, peasant. approach to customer service
- Yeah, ISP. But this is the first credit they've given me, and I've been with them for about 15 years I'd say.

I still haven't gone back looking for the ginger ninja again, and may not have the energy to. I'm in a lot of pain, fighting to manage Melbcat's fiddly health, and facing fresh stressors with the cooked arseholes of my neighbourhood.

Edit: Guilt got to me. I went to check while Moobeans was sleeping, minding the crazies, and actually saw him. Unfortunately he was hanging out firmly on private property. I circled the block but those orange buns were planted in place and I refuse to get done for trespassing. So... Can't take him to the vet for the messed up eyes if he won't come out :/

I got home and Melbcat was awake, crying because I'd left. We're back on the bed now.

Hugs for being such a kind loving person to cats. Is orange cat someone's pet?
- I just hate seeing animals be neglected or suffer. I'm really not sure if he's someone's pet or a stray, didn't want to get closer or risk touching him to see if there was a collar and also didn't have time to stop that one day.
  The only times I've ever seen him were around a very specific spot on a particular street or very rarely walking past my unit in the past. So if he's a pet he's allowed to wander.
Are there any local rescuers that could help out?
- That would require using Facebook/interacting with random strangers and it's unfortunately something I'm hesitant to do. I'll just have to do the occasional swing by when and if I'm able

Hey @Baku@aussie.zone assuming you are talking about the uninspiring frozen cordial that some Australians fantasise about and not the band I'll tell you what happened to them. Probably discontinued due to lack of sales. Unless you had a pair of sharp titanium steel scissors or prepared to gnaw through the packaging like a rat for half a day, they just weren't worth the work. If you were able to penetrate that possible carcinogenic packaging you then had to suck it like a mother's tit which would leave you with a giant ice block. Anyway I look forward to your next question.

*sorry if I crushed someone's nostalgia dream.

One of those childhood memories that, when revisited, turns out to be not as good as you thought it was.
I’m looking at you, burger rings.
- No idea how I ever ate bubble gum icecream, that stuff is vile.
- Exactly. They were never "burger" flavour but they atleast had flavour. Not any more.
The work required to have a frozen cordial made it sweeter and on a very hot day the cold cordial and holding the ice block was cooling.
it was hot out there at lunchtime, the water from the taps was warm , there was little shade
- I think when people worked out you could freeze Primas, were cheaper and had more flavours was probably the beginning of the end.
I liked them :(
- I forgive you. ♥

Went to the ebike expo yesterday and the biggest selling point for getting one was hitting every red light on Plenty Road on the way there

damn, didn't know it was on and have been looking for one. learn anything interesting?
- I went specifically to look at cargo bikes as a step up from my trailer pram. Whilst the front loading box cargo bikes (like the Urban Arrow) look fun, I think they're better suited to moving things than people. The rear loading cargo bikes (like Tern) are better for moving people, but you need different configurations to move stuff.
  I've been looking at ebikes for a while, done a bunch of research, and been to a few events like this one. I think it's best to think of an ebike like a second car and budget accordingly. A lot of people who get an ebike end up using it like a second car anyway, so it's worth getting a good one up front.
  Things to look at when considering an ebike are: -Good brakes. An ebike is heavier than a normal bike and you'll be going faster -Big tyres. To also deal with the added weight and speed -Strong drivetrain. The chains and gears on cheap ebikes can wear out faster because they use regular bike components instead of ebike specific components -Good electronic components. Most good ebikes use a Bosch mid-drive motor and you can get displays for them that have GPS and other features. Bosch have a service centre here in Melbourne and generally good support for their products after release. There are other good motor brands but you'll have to do your research on anything not Bosch.
  Most ebikes are used for commuting, so there are things to consider there that are consistent for any bike: -Comfortable riding position. You don't need a sporty ebike unless you want one. You can get away with a more upright seating position and swept back handlebars on an ebike because it does most of the work for you -The right sized frame for you. Unless a bike is super adjustable you'll need to get measured somewhat and make sure the frame fits you -Mudguards. This is one of the most important things for commuting bikes overall. Get a bike with mudguards if you can, otherwise make sure you can put them on whatever bike you get.
  You can generally trust an ebike from any established normal bike brand. There are a few smaller brands that either only do ebikes or are known for them that are also good. Most of the brands at the expo are good as well, and I'd trust a bike from them. Here's a link to the page about the expo to give you a place to start:
  https://bicyclenetwork.com.au/rides-and-events/e-bike-expo/
- I also got to ride this goofy thing. A few people would love it but I can't see it fitting most people's needs https://www.99bikes.com.au/cube24-trike-hybrid-family-750-sm

Stumbled onto something on insta that has become my comfort watching. Opening sports card packs from the early 90s (north american leagues). I used to collect cards around that time, and the nostalgia hits hard, but in a good way.

I’m going to the library. BRB

Bring me back a comic!

Today's Health Report on Abc RN had a segment on painkillers and how they work. In hijjus detail. Worth catching it at 3 pm today or on the abc app. Veerrry interesting - particularly how the different ones work and interact. Recommended.

Ooh. Does it deal with ‘red heads’ at all?
- Presumably you aren't talking about safety matches ... what is a 'red head' in this context????

Just had decaf coffee. Did I commit a crime?

Nah. It's good to try new things.
- I have too much coffee and am trying to cut down. I then realized I drink coffee because I like the taste and not the caffeine. So why not try out decaf?
If it was instant, yes.
Nope. You're ensuring you don't have caffeine too late in the day, or too much of it. If it was made at home (especially if instant) you're also saving a lot of money.
Nope. I have decaf tea.

Thinking about that quiet holiday suggestion from yesterday. I reckon it would take two weeks minimum for my brain to switch off.

or half an hour

I can highly recommend Elysia retreat in the Hunter Valley. I will definitely be making a return trip.
https://www.elysiaretreat.com.au/

I feel like the news gets even worse every time I watch it. Tonight's lead story: some lady spent 10 million bucks on a horse then cried and started talking about how the horse is AUSTRALIAN and will always be Australian

How is that news? What does that do other than piss off aussie battlers?
- How is that news?
  Hey... That's my line!
  I really don't know what the logic is either though. I guess we're just haters, because that is quite obviously national news!
Wtf? Must be racing right?

The moon is getting shady.

Remember that simpsons episode where Lisa gets everyone to eat healthy and they get sick?

That's me today. Urgh.

I'm watching Alone.

what the fuck, I hate them all and hope they die 🤣🤣🤣

I don't know who that is but I'm watching highway patrol and I hope they all go into some sort of Aussie hall of fame. What happens when a cop with an attitude who very clearly became a cop just to be on tv meets a bloke who s never been told 'no' before? Hilarity, that's what
- I'm watching it too. I love how the guilty argue with cops like it's gonna solve their problems.
- I watched a few episodes of Dark Winds this morning. Such a beautiful show. No cringe, no anger, doesn't make me feel dumber.
  The best aussie show I've seen lately was mr inbetween, and bluey of course

I have reed avocado and I am impatiently waiting for it to ripen. This thing is as big as 2 hass combined. Have never tried one hope the flavour is good.

Headed out last minute to catch a comedy show as a friend had spare tix. Was alright getting there, but leaving... Ahhh that biting winter wind of Melbourne. Without a puffer or any thermals. 🥶

Renewed appreciation for my warm and comfy bed just hearing the rain fall after a very exciting and hectic afternoon.

Would you believe I had yet another offer come through... at my current workplace?! Temp extra days for several months. On the one hand I could build some good cred/exp. It would probably round me out better.

OTOH, I honestly don't think I'd like most of role I'd be filling in, and the commute... I'm weak. If I didn't have this other option just nearby I'd have gone for it. But I just ain't doing 6:30 wake ups every weekday and dealing with disgruntled members of the public to boot 😬

Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋

Please insert breakfast item in mouth.
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Bunnings style banger with onion & mustard on brown bread please. With coffee.
- 🍯
  🧅
  🌭
  🍞
  ☕️
Chicken and cheese toasted sammich
- Oooh, actually, that gives me an idea for breakfast
- 🍗🧀🥪
Turkey again. Salad and mustard this time.
- 🦃🥗🍯

Hello mudda, hello fadda…

so yeah i washed my car today

Thankyou for the rain. Garden is happy.

Instead of cuddling, I get the sneak attack:

sunnyboys :) they have an easybeats type sound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV5QdEt-deA

So if you're pretty certain you have rats under your house, and you have a dog so poison is out of the question...what do you do? Baited traps in dog safe areas?

Snap traps under milk crates or under furniture they can't reach, ie my buffet is on little legs.
use the dog to catch the rats
- Get a cat.
  no guarantee there though.
- He does try.
Some people recommend instant mash potato. No idea how effective it is in reality. Whatever you do make sure the rodents can get out before you kill them. The stench is unbelievable if they die under the house!!!!
The battery powered traps? There are supposed to be pet safe baits now
Do you know anyone with a cat you can borrow?

Sydney airport be sooooo humid.

Gross. 😑

Feeling like I've got jetlag from a 1 hour time change. Just did a pre-lunch walk in the sun which has made me feel better. Timed well as ominous clouds approach.

Who wants tomozzas thread - Tuesday, April 9?

I'll try for it.
tho watching Alone is sapping my will to live
- Sweet
  Stop watching things alone, go get your fluffy cats

The band or the ice treat?

The Icey pole

Crikey. Have some bloody rain 🤣