Daily Discussion Thread: 🎂🌞 Sunday, August 18, 2024

ted is enormously fluffy

do you all remember this? little lion 😹
That ruff!
I want to bury my face in his glorious mane but I'm sure I'll mostly get scratches on my face
You are so cute Teddles ♥
I love him.
Lion man
Excellent!
Oh my goodness what a fluff ball!

Got home not long ago from my weekend adventure. I’m tired. Here’s a photo from Woolshed Falls from this morning for your viewing pleasure.

I frigging love Woolshed Falls. Beechworth and surrounds is really lovely. I definitely want to go back again.
Beautiful. 'Twas a glorious day for driving and snuffling round the bush

Wasted $36 on an ink cartridge that was the wrong one and I had already opened it when I realised. Really kicking myself. That would've been a week of coffees or a nice dinner or several days food. Grrrr. Between this and the $200 fine and uni fees due tomorrow I'm glad I have a pay rise coming up. Sigh. I've been in muuuch worse financial situations so I just gotta forget these things and move on.

That sucks. Ink is a rip off. Is there any possibility you could sell it on eBay for a slightly reduced price to recoup some of that?
Though the postage and hassle might not be worth it
- Literally giving it away online for free (because I hate wasting things), but nobody's gonna want an opened one I suspect. There's no way of telling that all the ink is actually in there...
  Honestly would've been cheaper to just go and print all my stuff at officeworks or uni with how much I've now spent. But I will suck it up because it's one less barrier to my INCREDIBLE inertia at efficiently getting uni stuff done. I can print out stuff any time I want now, no excuses about libraries not open or not wanting the hassle of loading stuff on an usb to print.

Needs a frame, but I'm very happy with this

I love this!!!!

Think I slept for nearly 12 hours there. zzzz... Today and tomorrow are my last chances to get my uni stuff done and not sink into old patterns of guilt and shame. I'm going to make it work. Getting out of bed now so that I don't loll around for hours...

I saw on Twitter someone mentioned there are browser addons for Chrome/Edge that put historical prices on Coles and Woolworths websites, and I know it's not super groundbreaking to highlight how specials aren't really "special", but it does make for some interesting insights. e.g.

This pasta has been "on special" for 53 days. Isn't that just the normal price, at this point?

And we've all noticed the products that go on special every other week, but seeing it in graph form really makes you wonder what the true price of your laundry detergent is:

They extensions arw called "Coles Trend" and "Woolworths Trend". I'm not sure how long they will work though before they get blocked/banned/disabled somehow. (Would personally love a version of this for the likes of Chemist Warehouse, it's always so tricky to figure out whether their discounts/catalogues are real or not.)

I'd been buying a slab of My Dog at Coles for $27 for awhile (full price). I go in there, see a "Special" ticket for $27, have a look underneath and it says $28. You sneaky cunts.
- I’ve seen it the other way around at woolworths.
  It’ll have a ticket that says “everyday low prices.”
  The ticket under it will actually be cheaper by 20-30%.
  Those fuckers!
Colesworth are dodgy as hell and the inquiry into them didn’t go far enough
This came up in the 4 corners episode on supermarket price gouging. There's no way laundry detergent is worth $20 so half price is just a brief stint at how much it should cost
I've thought in the past that they seem to alternate "special" weeks, and also that Woolies and Coles take turns having a thing "on special," but seeing this in graph form is certainly enlightening.

I made banana choc chip muffins and they're yum 😋

Went to the farmers market this morning and stocked up on mostly unnecessary but very tasty items. It was lovely to wander about in the sun, and there are always plenty of dogs to admire.

Then, when I came home I bit the bullet and cleaned out my plastics cupboard. Got rid of all the superfluous and unmatched things and have a more usable cupboard as a result.

I'm 100% for gun control but if you drive a hemi full fart past residential housing at 5am on a sunday people should be allowed to shoot at you.

May i suggest a ballista. Quieter, still much death & mayhem.
- Ballista's are no good. The recoil means they're never in the same place twice which makes precise aiming difficult
Guns are wrong. Crossbows however are pretty fucking cool. Plus there's a moving target.
- Not once i finish these caltrops there won't be

Trying to get some work done to lessen the load for tomorrow but I’m procrastinating. Especially with the sun being out and all.

I am similarly struggling with uni... Contemplating printing out some papers to read and amnotate, without the distraction of screens
- Sounds like a good idea.
  Are you able to concentrate while having music or something on or is it too distracting?
  Maybe a nice cuppa of something on the side as well to make it relaxing.
The sun today is glorious. 🌞
- I was really expecting this weekend to be raining and grey and dark.
  It’s shown me otherwise!

I aspire to one day be so rich I don't have to comparison shop before buying dishwasher tablets.

The Aldi ones are about $7, and I don't see any difference in performance from the million dollar brand name ones.
- I still hold a grudge against Aldi because of a rude checkout person there when they first opened. They are with OPSM on my "refuse to deal with" list 🤣
it would be the kitchen staff's job , even so, no need to throw money away
If you use the finish ones, Bunnings or Reject shop are the cheapest.
- I got them slightly cheaper from Catch.com. You have to buy a few packs at a time with them to get the best price though - which at least means I don't have to shop for them again for another 6 months or so!
Get the gel stuff instead, cheap as hell, lasts much longer

Good night everyone. Sweet dreams. 😘

Night Goonsy

I took a nap at about 6 and woke up again around 8, that was a bad nap. I felt (and still feel) worse and more tired after waking up than before. I got the lovely trifecta with extra tiredness, a bad headache, and feeling really really really thirsty after waking up

Apparently the bank processed my dispute and sided with me though, so that's nice. And as with pretty much every step of the process, they told me it will be returned to my account within 3 days, unless it isn't, in which case it will be returned in a period of time which is not 3 days

so many hugs, hope you feel better in the morning
- Thanks seagoon 🫂

Brew not glooping yet. But there is some back pressure. Give me my happy gloops!

Sky black, magpie song pretty

Echo, echo….
Sky black, magpie song pretty
If you don't put the seat down, mum will get shitty
- Sky black, magpie song pretty
  \ If you don't put the seat down, mum will get shitty
  \ Poetry can rhyme and is often witty
  \ Hear mum scream because the toilet seat is pissy
- Fits nicely to Paradise City

Spotted at the shops. Is this a prank from friends or legit. Either way, must be fun getting double bullied on the roads

Maybe a clap back at tailgaters?! 😬

Surprise Sunday Pakige!

Everything good this time, no returns required.

Why does the epsom salt packet say wash hands after use when you're taking a bath in the stuff.

I reckon so you don't accidentally get it in your eye
- ooh that's probably true didn't think of that. But it's still heavily diluted.
Especially when it's 53% water by weight!

Ugh. I went back to sleep without having my drink. Why is it so hard to be alive

It's the hardest thing we'll ever do. I've wasted drinks similarly, and it stings all the same
- It’s more that it allowed me to become quite dehydrated, miss a dose, and ruined the better sleep schedule I had fallen into
  I also gave Melbcat her meds in food because I didn’t have the energy to wrestle her, and (despite beginning to eat it that way again) she refused it today

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Could I please have a Himalayan chilli chicken curry and a goat momo (15pcs).
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- Goat is so good!
A platter of mixed dumplings please.
- 🥟^🥟🥟_🥟^🥟🥟
I have no idea what I want! A pinch of everything please chef.
- All in one pot 🥘
Same as Bottom Racer please
- Chicken 65 with some mint and coriander chutney.
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Toot Toot, Chugga Chugga, Big Red Car
\ We'll travel near and we'll travel far
\ Toot Toot, Chugga Chugga, Big Red Car
\ We're gonna ride the whole day long!
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I’m craving happy gloops for some reason
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- https://www.wormhole.com.au/assets/images/product/007486.jpg
Big seafood platter please! With lots and lots of chippies. And a large cup of coffee.
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Ooohh let’s do a mushroom and onion meat pie today with a side of French fries and tomato sauce.
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Watching a documentary on Pompei. Would love to visit one day, it’s fascinating. Putting it on the bucket list.

This is very much worth watching too.
Definitely a place that would be awesome to visit. 🙂

I'm thinking I put an old laptop to use as a media player before forking out for an old PC to be dedicated to the job. I want to use it as is initially, but Windows is really making me want to just wipe the whole thing and just put Debian on it for this project.

This laptop was my daily driver for a couple of years so I kind of want to keep it as is for a little while if possible, but I could just scrape everything off it and format it if that's what things come to

I bought an nvidia shield 4k a while ago and it beats my old laptop hands down.
Android box, runs plex and kodi and connects to smb shares.
Decodes 4k mk4 perfectly with Dolby digital.
Well worth the price.
- I have a shield as well and I guess I haven't been completely happy with it. You're limited to what's in the app store, it's hard to download things because it doesn't have a browser, and I mapped it to my computer as a network drive but it keeps disconnecting
My old shitty Asus laptop used to be dual partitioned with Ubuntu + windows, because it was my only computer with a webcam, but now that I've upgraded, I'm considering wiping it and running some lightweight Linux distribution, and using it just for TubeArchivist and a couple of other docker images.
The old MacBook runs fairly sluggishly these days, but it's still good for basic schoolwork and I primarily use it for running UNIX based scripts and such, since I still don't know how to use WSL. Ansible and WM-SPN nainly
- I was going to do this with the kids' laptop until the internet connection became too unstable.
  I'd like to learn Docker and even Kubernetes on top of that. Having a computer I'm using for something specific will help with that a lot.
  And fuck Microsoft for only allowing remote desktop on enterprise versions of windows. I want to set up a remote connection so I can leave this laptop behind the TV and not need to touch it unless absolutely necessary. Any version of linux would let me do so

Sky black, magpie song pretty

Sky double black and magpie song double pretty?
- https://youtu.be/pp01djoiTkc?si=r_HjwnU99fRM46Gg

Quiz

30/50 Missed a couple of easies cos dumb. Then got a couple of lucky guesses.

40/50 which must be a new high score for me lol a lot were guesses 👀
20/50 today.
20/50
- Same
40/50 with some flukey answers
15/30 😳
- Wow, that's an unusually bad showing from you, Goonsy! Did you skip the morning cuppa?
25/50!

Roast chicken with rice, gravy and vegies has been eaten. 😋

I don't want to alarm anyone but where has our little tram icon thingy gone?

I haven't seen it.
It's on none of the DT posts now.
When I post the thread I just do the title and the community selection.
So it's not on the community title anymore
- It should come up automatically when you make a post. It's got nothing to do with what you've done.
- We've been robbed!
Shows up fine for me
- See here

I thought I had a shift tomorrow, but it's actually Tuesday.

Eyo coffee time 🙌☕

Really shit sleep again and had an early start at work. Hoping for better sleep tonight. Surely if I wake up before 7am everyday, I'll be fine?

I fortunately don't have work today, but I did wake up at 4am and couldn't get back to sleep. It's all hit me now and I'm dying 😱💀

Sam Pang's In Memoriam at the Logies will be talked about tomorrow because it was very funny.

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