Daily Discussion Thread: Thursday, September 5, 2024

New car day, yay!

Aww yiss! What is this new car?
- Scored an i30n, very fun zoomy car!

Thunderbolts & lightning, very very frightening.

The cat is hiding, the clouds are out, my plan to go get brekkie supplies is cancelled
I've just got distant ominous rumbling here, it looks on the radar like the storm is passing to the south of me.
I had been hoping to attack the laundry backlog.

Nellie quarterly update just landed 😺 She likes custard.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5n5KSJrU0SQ&mc_cid=354bafff42&mc_eid=c13fdc5f58

Ahhhh so cute! I have to remember to go visit the next time I'm in Perth!
Termite Custard is such a great enrichment idea!!!

I wonder if constant strange weather is going to effect each of our psyche's and well as national mood.

it's known hot weather and windy weather effects us, what if strange weather was a constant

I think it definitely will. If nothing else, wetter, windier days (and longer periods of them) lead to more accidents, disasters, and general chaos. And hotter and hotter days lead to a bigger strain on the power grid, and tougher conditions for the vulnerable and people who can't afford to run air conditioning. Although, at least recently, that seems like it's been happening more in the northern hemisphere and we've been mostly copping the colder and wilder weather
With the weather getting crazier, I wonder if the gen alphas might find it easier to adapt to, having been born into a pandemic and worsening climate change. I wonder if everyone else, millennials and prior especially, will find it trickier to adapt to, having grown up in more consistent weather.
All in all though, I think the cost of living crisis and the lack of housing affordability is going to be the biggest and most immediate burden on everyone's mental health and wellbeing in the future, rather than crazy weather and climate change

I’m really sorry if my mood lately is affecting anyone else. I used to tough things out, macgyver my way around problems or distract myself with projects but life has been really difficult for a long time now and I am struggling severely.

If I seem really fractious, getting upset at what seems like small things, or oddly rough/blunt in my manner it is not at you.

-big hugs-
It's okay Melba, I havent noticed you being blunt or anything :) besides, being fractious is understandable with having to deal with your health and melbcat's, and the stress of it all.
We love you, I don't think you could do anything to turn us against you :D
- ^^ this. I have never thought you were whiny or otherwise antisocial. Please vent away. You are going through shit and we are here for you. I like to hear your updates, and I feel good when you have little wins.
Melba, please stop it. You've got so many horrible things happening at the moment, and as you said yourself the other day, can't seem to catch a break. Nobody expects you to be all happy and upbeat
And I haven't noticed you being short, rude, or disrespectful to myself or anyone else. So keep venting as you need, and when things improve, you can shout us brekky at Bacon's food truck :)

Going to try to get part of Big Assignment done today!! Shall report back.

Can't wait until this is all over and I can finally study my education course (that has no lectures yay)!

YOU CAN DO IT!!! YOU ARE H O T T O G O!
I BELIEVE IN YOUUUUUU 💜💜💜
- No you!! <3

I want whatever drugs the BoM is on. Supposed to be 20C tonight? Going up to 23? In what universe...

Dear The BoM,
I hope this message finds you well, although I’m beginning to wonder if perhaps you’ve recently indulged in some rather… creative forecasting methods, shall we say? Crack cocaine, maybe? No judgement, but your prediction that it will be 23°C overnight has left me scratching my head. It’s currently 17.5°C, raining, and we have winds fast enough to launch my rubbish bins into another suburb. A balmy 23°C just seems, well, ambitious.
Speaking of ambition, you promised us a delightful 27°C tomorrow, which I was frankly looking forward to. But now, out of nowhere, 23°C is all we get? What happened to our summer dreams? Was the 27°C forecast just a fleeting fantasy?
I trust you'll look into this sudden shift, and kindly consider laying off whatever inspired such optimistic figures. I’ll be sure to hold on tight to my umbrella and hopes in the meantime.
Sincerely,
Baku
- Currently 14 here. With a forecast overnight low of 17 and back up to 23 at midnight. Something's not adding up.
- I got a good laugh out of this. I too am sad for the revision down from 27.
Ohh that only means one thing in early spring ; WIND. GIANT HAYFEVER NORTH WIND
- Do NOT want
- GIANT HAYFEVER NORTH WIND
  Already there bby with a blocked nose and watery eyes 👌
Jane said it will be 26c tomorrow.
- And I'll also win tattslotto. Good news all around!
Wow. Thats stuffed up and do weird. I really hope it doesn’t up like it says!
When I went to bed it was 14 degrees, now 22.6
I think you owe the BoM an apology...

Is the average teenage population really have a lack of respect?

Appointment booked for 7.30pm last night. Quick c++ basics lesson and homework help as a favour for my wife's classmate's kid. I never used c++ by trade so I spent some time getting familiar with it, and how to play Farkle.

7.30pm comes and the 17yo just bails and says they're having dinner, no apology. Wife and I were like, fuck it, dumped the appointment and went to sleep at 8pm.

Sent another message this morning reminding them to be there or cancel 4hr before, some notes and a reminder that they don't have enough time now, and don't chicken out. Straight up says they promise, no greetings.

Sent another message this morning reminding them to be there or cancel 4hr before, some notes and a reminder that they don’t have enough time now, and don’t chicken out. Straight up says they promise, no greetings.
Nope. Message 'em back and say "Sorry no longer able to assist you". If they ask why just be blunt "Mate, you were disrespectful as heck, I was helping you as a favor, if your gonna be rude then I dont have to do shit"
- This is the way.
- Yep, if they fail to show up for the 7.30pm tonight (which was agreed upon on Monday) then that would be the message.
  I am contemplating just telling them at the beginning of the meeting, prior to commencing the lesson.
You won't have manners if they are not taught to you.
- I was traumatised to the point of enforcing them lol.
Lack of consequences is also part of it.
If they got charged for not cancelling in time they'll learn real fast.
- Can confirm. I don't miss or cancel GP or psych appointments since I started being responsible for paying the late cancellation fees. Not too bad with the GP because they're just 4 hours notice, the psych may be a problem though since they're 48 hours. I'm hoping by the time I'm next super sick, I'll have gone enough they might consider waving it
They did go through a few years of covid that probably fucked them up in ways like this. You could let them know their tone seem unappreciative of being given a tutoring favour. Mind you, I'd've thought there was enough online about learning C++ in a self directed manner so maybe the kid just isn't interested. Don't measure all 17yo's by Baku's level of maturity.
- I didn't directly use Baku as a reference.
  But I did have Overwatch friend, so mature I thought they were 25, until they mentioned they suddenly mentioned that they were 15 at the time. So that was the baseline I had since then.
- How do we even know Baku is actually 17 🤔 lol but yeah some teens are just... Something else. I think most teens are like normal and respectful, they just test boundaries, it's what growing up is about lol

Hobart is 4 degrees warmer than we are. hrmm.

That should be a federal crime

I'm doing an open day trial at a co-working space today as I seriously need to get out of the house at least one day during the week, full time WFH gets super monotonous and negatively affects my mood. As sad as this sounds, I was excited today to get dressed up and leave my house on a work day. The office I'm at is new and super nice, if a bit loud. It's nice to be around people during work time but nobody doing the trial (I think we're all sitting in the same area) is talking to one another? I'm not sure it's worth paying to use a co-working space where I just keep to myself, I can do that at home for free. I need to suss whether the place organises networking opportunities for members to mix, to make a membership worth it.

I totally get it. I come in to the office every day to help my mental health
- But how do you have your daily afternoon siesta?
I also get this, I know most commentators online would rather WFH all the time and don't get me wrong, I do love 1-2 days WFH in the week - but every single day would drive me to depression (and has done so). Not necessarily because I have no friends/life outside of work but because I like my work to feel like I'm not operating like a slave in solitary confinement all the time (worse yet having that dungeon of confinement be a permanent fixture of my home). I'm really glad I have at least 2-3 work days involving positive colleague interactions that take me out of my headspace
I like working at home, but only the boringest bits of my job can be done there. Te good stuff requires being on site. Unfortunately I lost my ‘office’ to Covid rules and now have to be around other people while there. This sucks rancid donkey gnads

The Void has discovered that he is actually athletic enough to get to the top of the fridge. The house parkour range has been noisily expanded.

Come over for a parkour play date.
- Oh Lordy!!
- I really want to do one of those whole room cat runs at picture rail level, with the steps and stuff.

Why do universities insist on group assignments?

Because employment is one big group assignment.
- There it is.
To break you, keep you sleep deprived and lower your scores in other subjects.
- It's absurd that you can work your ass off and have your mark lowered because of someone else.
Sadism
I got out of mine by being unwell last week, so I did it by myself today 😅

just heard a long time raver friend passed away.

Her family went over to hers' on father's day to see why she wasn't picking up. She had a fall in the bathroom and hit her head. Apparently she'd been there for 2 days. She was only in her 30's. I really cannot imagine what that'd be like finding your daughter and sister that way.

I'm at a loss for words. edit and by that I mean shocked

That's awful. I'm so sorry.

Off for a drive in the country today. Fingers crossed I can still get petrol at under 190c this afternoon when I need to fill up. I do have a lock on 180c at 7/11, so if it has a massive jump I can at least get the 25c discount. These 40c+ jumps suck.

I’ve seen under 170c per litre around lately, I’d be re-locking. Just used my app, found 164.9/l. When I was in NZ petrol was almost $3/l! We have it good.
Use petrolspy!
- Got it for $1.59 last Friday in Truganina. Well, not me, but a support worker I was with. She had a 4 cents off at Ampol so decided to go to that one which was at $1.59, rather than the one down the road at $1.58, since the discount thingy should bring it down to $1.55. But then they told her they didn't accept them at this store! Ridiculous
  /Rant

Vaccinations aren't on the PBS, getting hep a/b; and whooping cough+tetanus . $110ish.

EDIT: Are you male under 26 who plans to eat a few vaginas in your life? Consider getting the HPV-vax while you're eligible: +1 Vs. some oral cancers.

Sounds like a good investment. Would cost you more to treat either them.
Get the cough one! I didn’t know the one you get as a kid wears off. Very unpleasant lesson.
- Same. Misery for months. Not sure if throwing up buckets of frothy sputum for a week or 2 months of cough tickle was worse.
- You should get it every 10 years, for both it and the tetanus it is paired with. I've been sent for additional boosters after injuries with tetanus risk, so apparently the more the merrier.
very worthwhile to get these

Woke up in sweat from a bad dream. Now the wind is keeping awake. I think the bad dream is a manifestation of some catastrophising I’ve been been doing lately over an issue.

Same. I wonder if the wind itself is adding stress.
My dreams and sleep have been bad lately too.
I woke up crying.
- Aww man 🫂
I used to have lots of bad dreams which were realistic and traumatic. I'm the sort of person that regularly uses reverse psychology on myself, or turns things on their head. So one day I thought, "you know what these are Sheila? FREE MOVIES!" and decided I was going to enjoy the free entertainment provided by my apparently fertile imagination. Promptly stopped having dreams.
Hugs and, uhh, chamomile tea
I had a bad nightmare that ended up like that yesterday. Didn't need to be up until 9-10ish, and ended up sleeping at 1:30-2, but woke up at 7. I tried to get back to sleep and ended up with a pretty disturbing nightmare, and more sweat then I thought I could produce

15L of ginger brew. Hesitant to call it beer because the readings make no sense. Fucked up the temperature both directions. Meh if nothing else it will be tasty water to base punch on for party in a few weeks.

My only attempt was super volatile. No airlock? Do you burp it?
- Airlock is primary. This is theoretically secondary. But I’m pretty sure it’s dead.

BOOM

If the kids go down well enough tonight I think I'll go watch British Lion.

You have to respect Steve Harris' organisational skills to bring his side project along with his main band and play the Croxton one night, then Rod Laver the next. He's been playing stadiums for decades now, so there must be something humbling about playing such a comparatively smaller venue like the Croxton before the big show.

The carpet cleaner has been cleaned, suppose I better clean the carpet eh, but just in the bad spots.

there is NO innuendo intended ...lol

Note to self: Never drive from the Ring Rd to the Eastern Fwy via Bulleen Rd. Ever.

That was not a fun route, in the dark and riddled with roadworks. Plus my GPS seemed to think I was a truck over 10m long as it tried to send me on a very inappropriate detour.

Bulleen Rd has been fucked beyond recognition atm with all the NEL work. Kind of better to just go via Manningham Rd sometimes
If it's any consolation, I'm appreciative that you went that way instead of rat running down my street like many people trying to avoid the works do. They are what I call class A cunts. You are awesome.
Hello, welcome to my world.

The shower stool was a good idea in theory but is actually more of a space hog and a trip hazard.
put the stool in the bath and have one of those small shower heads on a hose , it's what I used to do when my leg was plastered up
and hugs for you and Melbcat, hope she gets better real soon
- I don’t actually have a bath. I did try using it but feel safer/more stable on the shower floor and find the stool a bit of an obstacle.
  I hope so too. She’s getting heaps of cuddles and the vet has sent her info over to the specialists for if she needs more help

Arborist consult done and trees severely haircut. Now for the slab repair dude.

on a related note, if anyone wants pear wood or apple wood for smoking, HMU. You will need to dry it yourself.

apple and pear make beautiful inlay for marquetry and turning and is quite rare
so maybe put it on FB for woodworkers 👍
Also carving spoons. What general area would we need to collect from?
- Moorabbin area
Hmmmm, I don't have a smoker but my uncle does....

Up northside for my haircut after ages and ICE CREAM SOCIAL IS PERMANENTLY CLOSED??!?!?!!!!!!! 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭💔💔💔💔💔💔 I see from insta it's for serious health reasons, totally understandable but... I miss being able to treat myself to a drop dead delicious slice of pie when I'm in this side of town. Their baked goods were truly sublime

This is a good opportunity for a rave choon.. such a Tragedy
If you're ever on Sydney Rd, Fluffy Tornado has opened and their range of gourmet ice creams they make onsite is superb. They have a vegan menu and a usual one, but they're all weird interesting flavours (not so weird, but I go a lemon tart pastry ice cream and it has actual bits of lemon tart in it).
- Fluffy Tornado
  Just confirming... it's Fluffy Torpedo right? (Google autocorrection)
- Tbh I only ever went to Ice Cream Social for the pies and cakes not the ice creams hahaha

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

I think I need a drink to make me forget about everything today.
- 🥛
Whiskey in a jar-o with a side of Musha-ring dumma-do-damma-da followed by a Whack for the daddy-o
- 🥃🍯🍄🥁🏒👨🏻
Ice-cream Friday please chef.
- 🍦⏰
Could I pls have a Fire-engine (raspberry spider) and maybe 3/4 of whatever is on the kids menu.
- 🚒🕷️
  🐜🐜🐜
Same as UMG please
- 🥃🍯🍄🥁🏒👨🏻
I would like meat on sticks please
- Ooh, sticky meat for me too please!
- 🍢

I've been reading a book on Hoarding and watching some hoarding clean up videos and it's seriously making me think about my own tendencies to buy things and keep things.

I do ask myself now before buying if I actually need something , if what already have at home suffices and where would I keep it.

I also take into account if an item makes work. For example, husband wanted a coffee maker, I thought ok, a simple one that's easy to use and to clean and look after since I'm the one who does that. Not one that would take 20 minutes a day to upkeep. Nope,, he wanted one with all bells and whistles . I thought a simple drip coffee maker would suffice but husband wanted the "best". To me best includes how I am going to use it and how it fits into my life as a whole. I bought a press coffee maker which is a little fussy but not too bad.

I'm good at chucking stuff out or giving it away and have given up keeping stuff that needs repairs but takes too much effort. Overall I see it as I have had use out of an item and that is good, now I have no more use. I got my value from it. :)

I'm good with cleaning tho.

I have a rather big collection of collectibles (mostly Uncharted and Goosebumps stuff and Lego, but also some jurassic park things and Indiana Jones) and since the break up and moving into a smaller house I've come to think 'what am I doing with this stuff?' Yeah some is nice to look at, but it's just clutter and start thinking will I have this stuff when I'm 70? What am I going to do with it. So I've been thinking about downsizing and selling a lot of it.
But I ask myself now 'do I need it', 'will it work, etc.
- You can have stuff you like too, just have it in display cases so it doesn't get dusty. 🙂

Fell back asleep after waking up early for the first time in a long time. Thankfully I'll only be like five or ten minutes late to work, coulda been a disaster

Exactly why I have 3 alarms set on two phones each, all of them snooze enabled and spread out across a 40 minute period prior to the final deadline for waking up.

September is the month to try wake up early and enjoy brighter mornings before daylight saving in October takes them away again

Daylight savings is a lie! Why do you lie? It makes the cows confused!!! - a random complainer to CSIROs customer service (source: my dad works for them 😂)
- I worked for the CSIRO for about a year as well and I can confirm it's a lie
- It also confuses the chooks and fades the curtains!!

Blergh. Damn wind.

Tasks on my list of fixing up stuff continue to be ticked off. :)

Good night everyone.

Night mega goon

We are Geelong!

Yippie!!

dogs NOT happy with weather. Kelpie has engaged shadow mode.

Oh my word.. so I have all of the flavours of shakes from https://healthyweightforlife.com.au/ and this morning I'm having "tropical banana" except I have been a little cheeky this morning and made it with milk instead of water, but still blended in some ice too.

It is legitimately a good shake. Not even 'good for a meal replacement shake' it's actually good. It tastes like a Barney Banana.

It tastes like a Barney Banana.
Well I'm sold.
next time I am bedridden with sciatica I am def doing this

Watching the cross examination of Pamela Smart on YT (channel name is dreading), and I am losing my miiiiind, she is so stupid. Like, maybe, actually stupid. I cannot stop laughing 😂💀

God, I cannot believe people as stupid as her can take someone else's life. Least she'll never be released.

She might have believed her name made her smart.
sadly this psychopath convinced teens to help her commit murder
Aaaand, if you haven't watched it there's a movie, To Die For, with Nicole Kidman of a similar murder case. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snYvuUvm1Ec
- Yep, she is a predator who is still victimising her victim. And people ask why she's got life, but the killers are out... BECAUSE THEY WERE MINORS AT THE TIME holy God. She was an adult who abused children to kill her husband, of course she got life and the kids got paroled. Ugh.
  I have heard of that movie, but only just learnt about the case since dreading covered it; hadn't realised it was based of a real thing.
  And her recent apology video, is not even an apology - so so stereotypical of narcissists and sociopaths to show such empty remorse

Funny video time: The first person to make a podcast

And associated rant:

I fucking despise podcast bros. Every random person does not need their own podcast! They almost all seem to go something like this:

P1: "So, get this right, I was at the shops the other day..."
P2: "yeah?"
P1: "and this weird girl at the counter with purple hair did the dumbest thing"
P2: "Damn bro, what did she do"
P1: "Yeah so I go up to her yeah"
P2: "for real?"
P1: "and get this right, so I say to her 'I want a pack of whatever smokes are popular at the moment love'"
P2: "damn what did she say"
P1: "she said 'oh well I'll just need to see some ID first'
P2: "DAYUUUUUM"
P1: "And I'm like 'are you stupid? I'm clearly over 16', yeah?"
P2: "Damn exactly"
P1: "And the stupid cow had the audacity to say back 'Uhhh you have to be over 18 to buy smokes here dude'"
P2: "DAYUUUUUM THATS CRAZY BRO"
P1: "anyway it just got me thinking y'know, this is why women shouldn't be allowed to vote or leave the house... All they ever do is make bad assumptions and correct me about things she knows nothing about"
P2: "Yeah bro for real"

It's become a pathetic game to see who can say the most out of pocket stuff the fastest. And if that's not what they're doing, they just start commenting on things that they actually don't understand. It's ridiculous. I don't really watch YouTube shorts anymore, but on the odd occasion I do, they're everywhere. I hit the dislike button and scroll as fast as I possibly can. I don't stop to argue with them, or watch it on a loop trying to pick my jaw up off the floor, I try and move on as fast as humanly possible, but they always fucking come back

🎼When I say "I"
\ you say "was supposed"
\ I was supposed to be
\ When I say "I"
\ you say "was supposed"
\ I was supposed to be

A golden successful individual
\ and not some weirdo in a studio apartment
\ a drunk loner of a building society
\ but a golden successful individual

https://lyricstranslate.com/en/menestynyt-yksilo-successful-individual.html

I'm onto the second dreading true crime video of dumb pam smart.

nothing is easy for a psycho, they always give long complicated reasons

the incredible thing about her testimony is that all the other members of the conspiracy independently confessed and it is so obvious she is just making shit up