Daily discussion thread: 👾 Tuesday, May 14, 2024

5am.

The art:

The artist:

Destruction by Gibson
- It's the look of "what's your problem buddy?" That gets me.
@Gibsonisafluffybutt @Seagoon Lovely post-modern art piece by Gibson 😸

Nothing like some midnight floor mopping because you put it off all day and have an apartment inspection tomorrow while you'll be in the office and you hate having people in your apartment while you're not there but you have to go to work because you have to present a demonstration to the executive leadership team.

Meeeeeanwhile, I'm seriously considering moving out and just going to stay with my folks for a while. It's not about money (although it would be nice to save a bunch of money quickly) it's more about how unhealthy it is for me to sit alone in this shoebox. Plus I'll have to house/dog sit for them for their upcoming US trip this year anyway.

Then once I've saved a bigger chunk of dough I'll finally bite the bullet and buy something. Likely right before the housing bubble finally bursts after 30 years of people saying it's going to but never does.

Good night and good luck for tomorrow.
Dude, I had to do it, I quit work and went to uni as a mature age student - I lasted a couple of months with the parent, before renting again, but this was because covid etc. If you get along with your parents, they have a big enough house etc. and you're single, do it. The money you'll save is yuge. I know you love your road trips etc. But the freedom when you finally buy is life changing.

"Thank you everyone for all the kind words 😽

"Mum is still giving me eyedrops today, and it's really uncomfortable 😿

"But my eye feels a lot better today 😸

"Now excuse me, I have some chicken to eat for dinner. It's my favourite! Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom"

— Miss Mimi

I looooove tuxedo cats. That photo perfectly encapsulates how cute yet elegant they are. Please give Miss Mimi a little bop on her precious little head from me.
Ah sweet Mimi!!! ☺️💜💜

In exciting news: 2 hours after arriving at work I'm done with my presentation and I'm on a tram home. I might even make it before my apartment inspection AND the presentation I was going in for tomorrow fell through so I don't have to go back in.

On to lunch then?
- yep lunch hour now.. grabbed a gozleme on my way in and just enjoyed it with some youtubes

Mickey has discovered the benefits of being inside my hoodie with me in it too.

@StudChud @Seagoon Nawww
Sweet little Mickey is soooo cute 😻
aw, such a cat move 😻🔥

I have an interview for another volunteer position this Friday. I can't believe I'm finally leaving call centres behind, and I'm actually on the path to something I want to do. For so long I've been forcing myself into jobs that ruin me, and then I wonder why I fail.

I won't fail at this.

Yaasss! You got this!
@StudChud @Seagoon Congratulations! 😊
Many years ago I worked in a call centre and it was utterly soul destroying.
You'll feel so much better once you're out of that toxic environment.
- I've worked in call centres for 10-12 years, electricity, tax collection, salary packaging/sacrifice, and a small business that did home services. All sucked in their own unique ways. The only way to move "up" is to be toxic as fuck and throw your coworkers under the bus, which I couldn't do. The abuse from management, the abuse from callers, caused me to abuse myself.
  So done, 0/10, do not reccomend. Taking calls all day is a form of torture.
  Gonna be doing animal care instead, cert III, and then I'll move up to the cert IV in veterinary nursing. It'll be hard, but I won't be on the phones; I'll be doing something that has been my dream.
That's great news. I hope it works out for you
- Thank you! I hope so too :D

I have not cooked a roast anything in many, many years. But tonight WE ROAST!

Chicken is the beast of choice! With roast veg, cauliflower & cheese and peas.

I'm a boring, basic cook at best so this could go either way..

It's very hard to stuff up a roast, you'll do fine. If not, there's always gravy to cover up the bad bits.
- Have managed to do so in the past. Then I discovered oven bags. Seriously, I've found roasts take longer than the book says. particularly if adding in veg in the same tray. But that might just be my oven at the time which was on its last legs so to speak.

That feeling when you go through your 30+ year collection of buttons and find a replica of the one you need to replace. Better than ice cream.

How satisfying!
- Ya gotta take the small wins.
I wonder what happened to mum's collection. She had a massive collection of buttons going back to the 50's. Dad probably threw them all out. 🤷‍♂️

Cat update: He is fine. Bloods came back great. He hasnt pooped out any worms or anything, but he also hasnt vomited so... dunno.

Glad kitty is okay. Ours had a bit of vomiting episode Saturday..came home to a bit of a mess. I'm assuming she chewed on her blanket and couldn't digest it.

Fucking neighbour is doing my head in. This is the guy that cuts his lawn with hand shears and also known to sweep leaves around the block 300+m away.

This morning got yelled at for not cleaning up leaves on my side of the boundary. It's fukin autumn find a new less stressful hobby.

Then he apologises later saying I caught him at a bad time.

Dude seriously has his moments and I respect that but not leaves.. in.. autumn.

People like that should just move into an apartment. I don’t understand why people buy a house, then hate the trees, put concrete and paving from edge to edge of the block or put artificial grass. If you don’t want a garden there’s better housing options where you don’t have to get furious if a neighbours leaf blows into your yard.

Ok I think I’m tired.

I nearly fell into a toilet.

It’s a sign.

Massive day today. Worked non stop from 7:40 to 3:40 including a whole lot of new shit and new requirements to my job that, while making a lot of sense and genuinely good for service delivery, involve a level of mental load/energy that's... not exactly what I signed up for. I need more training and preparation. It kind of happened so suddenly that I didn't have time to formulate a response, and ask for reasonable accommodation/support. I'm definitely willing to give it a go and see if it improves things, but I just really didn't need that extra burden this week 😣

Anyway... I then had to go help a friend out with some things and ended up having a long chat in the car, really was good to unload but I ended up really exhausted and emotional. Despite my pledge to cook more at home and save money I gave in and ordered the two-large-pizza-plus-garlic-bread special at my local for 37.50. I'm reminding myself that it'll be enough for dinner tonight, brekkie tomorrow, dinner tomorrow and maybe even lunch the day after. Thankfully lunch is catered tomorrow at some training thing I gotta do. I'd really rather catch up with work but it's mandatory training so oh well...

I'm thinking after I come back from my break I'm gonna have to ration out my energy a bit better at work in terms of in person interactions. Might need to start requesting one day from home even though I genuinely want to work away from home for the work/life separation - I'm just gonna be really exhausted with all the masking and social interaction.

From today's wikipedia - I have to salute whoever wrote the article. Superb use of understatement.

Mad honey is also thought to help with erectile dysfunction[4] and increase sexual performance.[5] Most cases of mad honey poisoning are experienced by middle-aged men.[24]

After a couple of years of self-imposed junk food ban I decided to stop for KFC on the way home. The electronic order board thingy had to be poked a few times before it deigned to take my order but otherwise worked well. But I noticed no one else that came in after me used them and just ordered at the counter. Was I doing the weird thing, or were they?

The wrap seemed smaller than I remember and much more cabbagey. The chips were undersalted and lacking even a hint of crunch. A bit underwhelming and I'll be happy to abstain from fast food for another few years I think.

I'm always so utterly disappointed when I "treat myself" to some fast food. Never tasted as good as I hoped.
There was something in ozbargain today about a large snack pack and I gotta be honest I’ve never been more sold on anything in my life for under 10 bucks!
I only get wicked wings from there now. They heat up so well in the airfryer.
- I did not know wings (wicked or not) were a thing at KFC. I am afraid my menu knowledge is limited and I just looked for a picture of something that looked vaguely familiar🤣
I’ll pick at Boyo’s chips but otherwise don’t touch the stuff. The abomination they call gravy is so salty you might as well suck stock cubes.
- Ditto. So damned salty you can't actually taste the ingredients. This may be a good thing ...
Haven’t had KFC in many years. I remember it being rubbish and don’t imagine it’s improved. Local chicken shops are so much better, and many of them do wraps and burgers as well as the standard rotisserie chicken. And chips are always fresh cooked. They can take my money instead.
I forgot - hot and spicy KFC isn't an everyday thing in Melbourne. Only available occasionally and as wings/burgers.
I almost never have KFC myself, but when I do, it's usually hot and spicy. It's just part of the regular menu in WA.
This is also the first time I've heard of any fast food chips described as "undersalted".

@Seagoon Overheard in the office...

Colleague one: "As you are aware, we've decided to postpone event until August or September. Can you change the dates on the website please?"

Colleague two: "No, I was not aware, thanks for letting me know. When was the decision made? I'll update the website."

Colleague one: "I am very sorry, I thought you were aware."

The "Manager" strikes again.

I can hear someone singing and playing a harmonica, while a car alarm goes off.

Love Brunswick.

Ergh. Good morning.

No work for me today. I’m a wheezing snotty mess

Stay warm!! It took me a good two weeks but I got over it.
Morning or afternoon now.
I'm wheezing and rattling but stuck at work :/

IT guys are very busy. They should give me access to the website to update this form myself so I can just get it out of the way. I know what I'm doing, I've managed Wordpress websites before

They should give me access .... so I can just get it out of the way. I know what I’m doing
With the utmost respect, the amount of times i've heard this over the last 15 years followed a couple of months later by "Heyyyyyy so I kind of stuffed up, can you please spend the next 2 days unfucking whatever I stuffed up" is the problem.
Not saying your not an expert. I'm saying the people who CLAIMED to be an expert but were in fact not ruined it for the people who actually are experts.
- Have seen this plenty of times too. Sure there’s lots of untapped skills and knowledge in organisations where people genuinely could step up, but there’s even more people who severely overestimate their abilities and their bravado can leave a ginormous mess which now someone else has to clean up. IT has no way of knowing which one you are based on ‘I say so’
IT guys love bribes...
- Is it possible to attach a carton of cigarettes to a Jira ticket?
Unless you are in a very small business, it isn't the IT guys making this call. Present your case to your manager, explain your experience and how it helps the business for you to have the access. Let your manager take it from there. You never know, you might get access.
- Unless you are in a very small business, it isn’t the IT guys making this call.
  God I'm just imagining my security managers face when I tell him "But X staff member says they've managed Y before so I'm sure its fine lets give full admin access!"

My god this isn't snot it's cottage cheese

🤢
- You're grossed out? You're grossed out? My dear boy you don't have to try and expel it. I HAD A LITERAL NOSTRIL OVERFLOW
No it's not. No it's not. No it's not. I eat cottage cheese so it can't be.
- No, it's snot
Have you been vaccinated against whooping cough? Because whooping cough is a total snot machine. The first week is the most snot you have ever seen in your life, then after that it's coughing.
- Yup i have. Is all juuust snot. I got hit with a rhinovirus shortly after / during a huge cleaning spree that set off a dust allergy

How do you abbreviate 'breakfast'? I've seen cafes offer a 'big breaky' which I read as break-y. Others do 'Brekkie' which I seem fine with. And one place I saw does 'Breakki' which annoys me to no end for some reason.

Brekkie. Using a y instead of ie just rubs wrong (like ozzy instead of aussie)
- And NEVER Breakki. That's just wrong.
- Yes.
I use breaky 🤷‍♂️
- As in Achy Breaky Heart? If so, then thou shalt be cast into the outer darkness and forced to listen to crap 80s and 90s pop sleaze until you reform your way of life, and (possibly) accept Jesus into your heart. I'm not fussed about the last bit. If it happens, it happens.
- Wrong.

Mrs is channel surfing and skipped past “farmer wants a wife”, when a strange thought popped into my head: good on 7 for getting some farmers laid. Working a farm is tough as shit, it’s not like you can go to the pub every other night. Country towns are often small, people couple up quick outta school. So ignoring the reality tv show aspect I suppose it’s really a net positive hey.

I worked on a farm when I was 19 for about 2 years. No job has ever been as hard as that was. Not even house demolitions and that is brutal.
- So what I'm hearing is not only do farmers deserve some love, but it'd be pretty... intense.

said it before and I'll say it again: Spotify users have better taste than apple music users (even though I AM an apple music fan). Nemo - Broke the Code, Joost - Europapa and Baby Lasagna - Rim Tim Tagi Dim have all moved into the global daily top 50. Wonder how far apple will be behind.

Nemo - Broke the Code, Joost - Europapa and Baby Lasagna - Rim Tim Tagi Dim have all moved into the global daily top 50.
Those are definitely words
- If you have no idea what I'm talking about, Baby Lasagna is worth a listen from a pop culture perspective.
- Bit mean spirited isn't it? They're obviously talking about artists and songs
Crazy how a certain middle eastern country's song isn't up there despite receiving the second highest public vote. Most suspicious televote I have EVER seen.
- Sorry what was that? I couldn’t hear you over the booing from the crowd.
  Yeah sus as fuck we have ‘em like 12 points. Politics aside, it was a terrible song.

I don’t mind a light jog on the treadmill if I can watch something on the iPad.
Helps me mentally more than physically. Sort of like a really exhausting mindfulness session.

I get to choose the emoji . 😃
- Good bot
I haven't kept up, why is there an issue with bot doing it?

@Seagoon ICYMI, the 7:30 Report had a story about why Melbourne's Star Observation Wheel failed.

I mean, aside from the breathtaking views of Coode Island and the Docklands car parks, the fact it was barely ever working probably didn't help...

https://youtu.be/Sc14bgfp9o?si=-vxV7Llu6b4MKI4O

I worked right near it. I probably would have had a go, but it was stupidly expensive - something like $50 a ride. Maybe it wasn't that much ($50 might have been for two). But whatever it cost, it was far more than I was willing to pay.
I didn't watch the video, but I think your comments meant to say the views of the asshole of Melbourne?

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

Coconut cream pie and a large martini please. There should be a law against mornings.
- 🥥🥛🥧
  🍸
Medicine
- 🧪
Something to help with a cold.
- You’ve got it too?
  🫖 🍋 🍯 🥃
  I’ve been operating on a steady diet of these. At this point it is more whisky than tea.
- ☄️
A kebab and some idiot repellant please
- 🍢🪨
Hmmmmm
- ⚡️

In office day. Yuck, people!

geebus it feels cold

I’m hugging a hot water bottle right now.

So tech question Tuesday.... You know this 3g turn off thing? My MIL has a Moto G8 plus (which the specs say supports LTE), but Optus keep sending her emails through her account saying that it will not be supported going forward ... They list her phone specifically as one that will not be supported...so VoLTE is a different spec than LTE?

@calhoon2005 @Seagoon Sort of.
Basically, when the first 4G and 4G LTE networks were first being rolled out, the technology to make voice calls over 4G networks wasn't quite ready yet. So the earliest 4G phones dropped back to 3G for calls, but used faster 4G networks for internet and data.
Eventually, the telcos rolled out a technology upgrade that allowed calls to be made on 4G LTE mobile networks, called VoLTE (voice over LTE).
But it only worked on newer 4G/4G LTE phones that supported VoLTE for calls. Older models still dropped back to 3G for voice calls
Sounds to me like your MIL has an older 4G LTE phone that still falls back to 3G for calls, instead of making them over the 4G LTE network.
If that's the case, she'll no longer be able to make calls with that phone once Optus 3G shuts down.
Time for an upgrade.
- That is very clear. Thanks
- Ah fuck. TIL. I figured "my phone does LTE! It'll be fine" but now I'm worried. Ffs, I just want to get the most out of my phone I paid good coin for 7 years ago, I even went to the extent of lineage onto it to extend its life - hate this constant need to upgrade
@calhoon2005@aussie.zone Did you try the ##4636## menu and verify VoLTE can't be enabled? Is it the international version?
- @calhoon2005@aussie.zone Seems even the G7 got VoLTE via LineageOS. So maybe that's an option, too?
  https://www.reddit.com/r/LineageOS/comments/klrqzh/volteworksonmotog7plusafterupdatingto/
  Of course, there are loads of reasonably priced VoLTE-capable phones put there these days....
- I haven't had a chance, but the MIL is coming to visit soon so I'll give it a try. Can't remember if I bought her the international version or not...
I reckon they're just saying to buy a new phone. VoLTE is Voice over LTE. You can get a phone from the supermarket for under $100 so I'd just see what happens and let her know she might need to upgrade.
You might find what you need here
https://www.9news.com.au/technology/3g-network-shutdown-australia-when-does-it-happen-who-does-it-affect-telstra-optus-vodafone-explained/499635b2-f49d-4ba5-8aa8-15adfb224754
Depends. I brought an old Lumia 650 last week (trying to detox the smart phone thing a bit) and despite supporting 4g it falls back to 3g for calls. Supposedly it CAN support VoLTE, but the profiles are tricky and its a largely abandoned OS. Wouldnt expect that from Android, if she makes a call what do the icons say on the phone?
I'd be more concerned on a near 5 year old device about security updates if shes doing any sort of social media or internet banking on it.

Tried to make an appointment with my GP. On their website, they had a notice that they were moving to private billing only. And trying to pick a date- next appointment available is 27th May.

Things are very broken (apart from me)

Give them a ring, there are very often sooner appointments available, just not shown on the booking software.
Can you move to another provider? I've had to do that a few times and while I still pay a gap, at least they refund on the spot.

On a side note/create my own discussion. Realised I never finished watching The Sopranos So currently binging the rest of season 6. I realise how similar Ray Donovan is now.