Melbourne Chit-Chat Thread 🫨🫥😶🌫️ - Saturday, 7 December, 2024
Weather forecast today (Melbourne CBD, 3000): min - 18°C, max - 26°C. 25% chance of at least 4mm
(Daily thread title changed by order of CEOofmyhouse56 - alternate title suggestions warmly welcomed!)
Upon reflection, chit-chat is maybe not my preferred option. Especially when 'chat' is a euphemism for a flea. As in riding 'flat chat', which means galloping fast while holding your body so close to your horse's neck that the fleas get squashed between. And chat potatoes, which refers to spuds so small as to resemble fleas. Chit-chat means small talk. Very small talk. Not my preference. The DT does more than that.
Maybe 'Daily Ramblings'???
Or just leave it as Daily Discussion Thread - which is accurate and not demeaning. And we're all accustomed to it.
It's the Melbourne Ning Nang Nong thread
what what what what
That’s ringing some bells.
Possibly from my primary school headmaster who also sang Nicky Nacky Noo (before the Wiggles were formed)
Best name ever.
😂
I like the thread name. It can be personalised with emojis , which is exactly what me and baku have been doing
Important announcement: Brunswick Kippers and Sardines are HALF PRICE at Coles. Not a drill, not a joke. @Duenan @witchofthornbury @useless_modern_god
Thanking you.💋
Yippee! Time to stock up. Specially the kippers.
Can't believe I only bought 9 kippers tins. Shameful
I’ll keep an eye out when I can get near a Coles.
Thanks!
I regret to inform you that I died of hot while gardening today.
I am attempting a resurrection ritual involving cold grapes and air conditioning.
Edit: the grapes revived me enough to make pita bread pizza which completed the job. I believe I am now officially alive again.
Back when I was a wee adult (19-20yo) I worked at a pop-up stall at Knox City. It was a stall that sold glass Christmas baubles, and my job was to ring up customers, but also write their requested names on the baubles with glue and glitter.
The week before Xmas, I'd get to Knox City when it opened, and stay until just before they closed, I think it was like 14 hour days or something. There was always two of us, one ringing up and the other painting. I was always the painter lol
I barely slept, had approx 3x 500ml Vs and lunch was Hungry Jacks from the food court.
I never want to work retail xmas again and while it was over 10 years ago for me, I have always felt such empathy for retail workers since. It's fucking brutal and the general public are MEAN
Hmm. The sleeping pattern at the moment is ‘fucktangular’.
Was up very late/early this morn. About 5am a brand new white van screamed down the street, stopped in front of the neighbours place (they have 2 very nice cars), dude jumps out with a torch takes a quick squizz at their front gate / door, jumps back in van and hoons away.
Their place (or cars) is totally getting cased. Absolutely targeted.
That's why I'd never buy really expensive cars.
This is the neighbour who has buggered my shed wall and currently in dispute.
Should probably tell 'em they're potentially about to get done and do the neighbourly thing. Might make them reconsider their position on the wall heh. Thinking about it.
Hrmm..
Ded.
Also dreamt I had bilateral knee replacements.
That was bizarre.
I had a surgery dream. Was odd.
I had a dream where I was digging up trees last night.
Make sure you do your dream rehab exercises - very important for functional movement
Haha, in my dream I was back at work within a couple of weeks with my bandages still intact. 😂
Peaceful night at home tonight.
Had a really, really good music session last night I'm hoping to repeat. The type where you don't record anything because you're playing just for yourself.
Will practice a few of the new songs so I can play another show before Xmas.
Got a band audition tomorrow which is exciting. A friend from tassie is in town so we'll catch up tomorrow.
Social calendar is starting to get busy which is nice :)
Oh and I bought this because fuck it why not
I opened up a fixed term deposit account today. My options were fairly limited because of my age and the balance I had on hand, but I looked around, and am pretty sure I found the best interest rate I could, at least for now. At this scale, any extra interest I could get elsewhere if I were over 18 works out to be like 2 bucks anyways lol. Mostly in it for a safe place to keep my money away from my stupid reckless impulsivity anyways 😂
Look at the young gent, being all responsible!
This is so good!
The way I save is by having an auto deposit into a separate ‘high interest’ account every time I get paid, as modest amounts stack up and not seeing that money means it isn’t missed.
I have a bit of a cheeky saving strategy - I pay 25% into tax, but don't actually have enough money to need to pay tax. It's kinda like an interest free, automatic, recurring, term deposit
I was actually meant to open a fixed term at tax return time, but that's when all the bads were happening, so I was kinda stressed (and a bit depressed), and through a series of very poor financial decisions, wasted the majority of it. It's all worked out in the end, though. I timed it so the TD will end around tax return time, so I can lump that in with it and reinvest
Just home from shopping and I am always in amazement how people can wear all black and make it their own.
I wore faded black jeans and a black cheesecloth top
I saw black shorts and linen top
linen pants and singlet
cargo pants and big tshirt
pencil skirt and short top
goth pants and top
loose short dress
yoga pants and top
long frilly skirt and blouse
etc etc
I think my favourite thing about city life is the relative lack of flies. Everytime I go to the country, I am reminded how everywhere you go there's always like 10 thousand fucking flies everywhere and I'm like "how did I deal with that for a decade"
If anyone is looking for a decent train simulator, I highly recommend Derail Valley. IMO it's so much better than TSW/the rest of the Dovetail Games BS they put out. It's not based on or specifically modelling any particular route or even country. But it's by a small indie team in Serbia who've done a remarkable job, unlike DTG who are basically EA if EA only made train sims (buggy, poorly optimised garbage, with every single thing being locked behind expensive DLC, not even taking into account the games are like 80 bucks)
/rant
It's an amazing game though. Apparently it is loosely based on Yugoslavian/Balkan railways in the 80s/90s, but takes design elements from everywhere. It's also a lot more featured than TS/TSW. You can buy trinkets to modify your train (which requires you to drill/solder things), or you can take it stock. You also get to buy licenses for different types of cargo. And I've just discovered it has radios/boomboxes. You can buy cassettes from little shops around the map, or just listen to the radio (which i don't believe is themed, because it was playing me Avicii music. But also Tina Turner and Nelly Furtado)
Oh, also, you can blow things up
Realised I didn't post my own explosion:
The little train is kinda cute, and I'm sure my parents had that cassette player 😂
She's only a lil shunter! Just meant for moving stuff from one track to another
Managed to climb up a hill with like 8 fully loaded petrol tankers. She didn't do too well, couldn't get past 20km/h and started overeating. But we made it there in the end
After taking the 40k from the company whose tankers I dropped off, we rammed into them at 75km/h repeatedly until they blew up 😂
Change is scary, but so are ghosts.
Ghost are scary because they represent change 🤯🤯🤯
Good morning. Have a quiz
5/10 - appalling.
Could be worse… 3/10.
Same
Don't know how I managed 8/10 but I'll take it!
And the bed broke. This week can get in the bin.
Ok, apparently the flowers kind of have to be stimulated in ways that make them think bees are visiting to encourage pollen production. So from time to time I might gently tap the stems to shake them a little. You can also put a male flower in the fridge for a day or a few days to hold it until a female one opens.
I’m going to be trying to hit and run this bare patch of earth guerilla gardening style to avoid any hassles. (The dirt is mine to plant but people here are cray so I avoid being out there much.) But there’s another snag… there’s a seriously inappropriately placed invasive tree that releases irritants and the roots of that have grown through into my area.
So not only does it cause other issues it will obstruct and take all the water and nutrients from anything I plant on my own spot. (Arguably the spot where the tree is planted is mine too as it was offered to me - but I didn’t want to be out there in a certain vicinity.)
And as a bonus, existing flowering native plants were torn out to plant that and other bad crap.
Hence why I’m trying to plant pollinator crack now which still isn’t as good as what was ruined. One of the idiots here ripped out at least one full grown flowering grevillea.
Make sure you say "buzz buzz buzz" and do a little bee dance while you're pollinating, that should do it.
waggles butt to show bees the way
Headache, weekend, nooooo
💊
I’ll just add that to my collection
Cat is sitting and watching out of the back-door. House is hot and humid.
Do I close the back-door and turn on the air con, or keep it open and deal with the sweating?
Leave the door open and turn on the air con
Yes, cool things down outside
Been sleeping on and off all day and night. Warm weather, humid weather, I just want to sleep lol
But then I wake up at 4am sigh.
I've been successfully procrastinating by doing a further review of my income & life insurance. I think I've got a mix of three different policies that will cover my future needs pretty well. There is a bit of an overlap in the middle where I'm probably a touch over insured, so just putting it out there for the universe that if you plan to strike me down with a permanent work-ending disability at some point, four or five years from now would be the best time to schedule that.
Universe speaking here... ZAP! KAPOW! now where's my cut?
Hey, too soon! Please do not subject me to premature incapacitation 🤣
People who equate having money to the divine right of kings tend to forget about cromwell.
This has preeeeetty much been running in a loop in my head for the past three days.
great song 👍
I know these guys, they have that awesome lotr album.
They have many many great albums, and are raging nerds (Curse my name is actually about King Charles and Cromwell). My personal faves are their takes on Mordred and the battle of Camlann (gotta be live) and Homer's Illiad.
BTW, nightfall on middle earth is the silmarillion, not lotr :P
At least the heat insomnia led to an early dog walk because now its raining, so I've got that going for me.
I just took Mr Woof out for a walk in the rain. Now it's cleared away and the sun is out, my timing is definitely not good today.
Todays to do list:
I put some xmas lights up outside🙂 tomorrow I'll get the decorations out and make it nice for the Seagoons
The YouTube algorithm has started serving me really short clips of people farting at inappropriate moments, like in court, and 1) this is highly irrelevant to me personally and 2) this is definitely a fetish thing isn't it
Coffee too strong. Cannot sleep.
Travis head on 99!
Woohoo 🎉
Night everyone. I'm so glad I took the train to Ballarat and back, so much less stressful than driving... although it's a much later return. Still gotta do the airport run tomorrow but then I'm going to relax for a bit although I have to start cooking/meal prepping
Aw I'm late today. My post button decided to stop working and I had to back out of the post menu and re-do it all.
As per the post body, the title has been changed to "Chit-Chat Thread". If you have serious alternate suggestions, please leave them below :)
(And if you don't have any, remember to upvotes your favourite(s)!)
Chinwag?
(But I don't mind how it's titled, you could call it the "Melbourne Daily Murder Death Kill Thread 🔪" and it wouldn't make any difference to me)
I prefer Communal Vocalised Lice.
Phat Chats for Melbourne Brats
Today's random earworm: Everything is Good For You
Loved hearing the heavy downpour earlier. It's still warm and humid as fuck in my place though. I was gonna blame not just the poor cross-ventilation but also the houseplants.
In the city now and it's bringing back so many bodily memories of Brisbane. Or a cool day in Singapore. Ugh. Fuck humidity, even though my skin is glowing
Tropical meat thinks it’s actually quite cool whenever there’s cloud cover.
But then the sun pops out unexpectedly to sear you.
I been outside all day, it ain’t that bad.
My mulch is nearly here, so the universe decided it was a good idea to have a shower of rain followed by some nice sunshine to bring the humidity up as high as possible.
I booked a dental appointment… this tooth has been uncomfortable for a while since having a deep filling ages ago and now I’m wondering if I’ve loosened or cracked it biting down on a hard lolly. Pain in my jaw and some swollen glands too. Roll on Thursday.
Best of luck melbsy
Also ditto
Good night everyone, love you all, sweet dreams 😘😘😘
Night goonsy, and right back at you
So 300ml of negroni is just too much. Not that I get drunk, it just feels like a struggle to get through that last stretch
I like change
Change is what this thing is for 👛
Trying to decide whether to uber to a nursery for seedlings or order more seeds to mine and hopefully they get to me.
I’m not feeling great and Melbcat has been kind of off since her shot.
Edit: Yeah there is still no pollen being made. Maybe due to the hotter weather? If they want to be a total dick about it I could possibly use pumpkin flowers to get the job done.
Either my own if I ever get them off the ground.
Or there is a garden on my block that has squash and zucchini, and (from a garbled child-written note) seems to be selling the veg? Possibly on an honesty system? I can’t reach the zuke flowers easily and am a little worried about the risk of toxic bitterness in the fruit from hybridisation with the squash. And it feels a bit wrong. I can’t be 100% sure that the note is agreeing for people to take them.
But if I get really desperate I could possibly leave a $5 note to cover the lost vegetable and nab the closest male flower with minimal damage. Maybe.
Ps. A snail ate half the biggest female blossom. Rude. He was well fed for his trip over the fence
If it won't be too much of a money hit I would uber to a nursery. We are getting close to Christmas so shipping is a gamble and also a nice slow wander through plants always makes me feel better. And the seedlings can live in their seedling pots for a few days until you have the energy to pop them in a bigger pot.
sticky weather day hooray...
Hey, just a heads up that nobody saw your comment until now cause you're replying from Lemmy World. We're having ongoing troubles with your instance that haven't quite resolved yet
Basically, you and the others on your instance can see us and things that happen here near instantly, but things from your side don't federate over here for about 3 days at the moment. It's improving after some recently Lemmy updates, and is now down to 3 days when it used to be a full 6 or 7
Until it's fully resolved, you may want to interact from another instance (not necessarily ours, any instance besides the NSFW ones or LW is fine) :)
Early night. Stomach is sore.
Goodnight everyone
Humidity is just vile.
At least my
pantsplants are enjoying it. Stupid autocorrect.You can dance!
\ You can dance!
\ Everybody look at your pants!
We can dance if we want to!
I just walked out to the bin and almost died.
My mulch delivery is on it's way, just carting a few of those bales to the back yard it likely to kill me.
start hydrating now.
I can do 40+ degree heat without "breaking a sweat" so to speak, but this is fucking awful.
tee hee