Discussion Thread: Friday, 7 March 2025

over at Aunt's. Hambam remembers.

About to get out of here and head up to Beechworth to camp with some animals. I think the boys will love it and it will feed their dinosaur phase

Unreasonably annoyed at an old boss who went out of her way to criticise me for ordering Who Gives A Crap toilet paper for the office because I "didn't understand how women's bodies work" and that "women need soft TP". Mind you this was when WGAC was brand new and before the order had even arrived, and we were a fellow Melbourne startup so I thought pretty good karma at least to support their brand.

Caught her several years later on social media saying how she has always loved WGAC. No babes. You have not.

Anyway, I think of this anecdote whenever I refill my toilet roll. Haha.

It's true women do love a soft tp but anything is better than nothing so fuck her.
- First to admit that labia-friendliness was not one of my considerations. I certainly received an education.
  Slightly unrelated but what also prompted my post was stumbling upon this thread about/with deadmau5. People will remember how you made them feel and all that.
stir the pot. Call her out! "Oh really? Guess you dont remember the time you went off on my cause you claimed it wasnt soft?"
- Haha, I think it was the catalyst to simply unfriend her. But I'm certainly not above being that messy.

Confirmed I have to hand over to feckless coworker.

She rang me almost in tears freaking out about it. I feel bad for her, but she has had to do very little as previous manager protected her.

Edit: She just rang me so I could dictate an email to her. Jesus christ.

not your circus, not your problem
- You're absolutely right.
She just rang me so I could dictate an email to her. Jesus christ.
You didnt help, did you?
- I said I was busy.
  I sent her a link to my Asana board with everything neatly set up and she goes "I don't get it, I'm confused".
  Looks like favouritism bites them in the ass. She can't even compose an email hahaha

tinyest now knows "Mine". You'd be surprised by the amount of things that are now suddenly his.

Is he a cat?
- 😂
He'll kick you out of bed and claim the whole thing (plus Mum, any animals etc) as his. This is known
- Oh hes already claimed her. I'm the third wheel in this relationship.

Drama at the gym! Two guys yelling at each other, thought it was going to turn into a punch on. Others broke it up. That’s the first time I’ve ever seen anything like that in a gym, it’s usually a happy place.

The testosterone flooowwwwws
"Bro!!! I fucking told you! Your arms look better than mine"
"fuck you!!! Yours are waaaay better!"
- The “bro”’s were definitely flying around in their argument haha

The kid had a sample of what gastro is like last night. Yep both ends, simultaneously. Gave her a little shock it did.

Bucket by the toilet when gastro comes knocking. Better to be safe than sorry. And I'd rather clean vomit out of a bucket than the other stuff outta pants or off the floor.
- Apparently what happened was she lent over to turn the taps on the bath and up it rose and out so she squatted down and it came out the other end.
  I heard a weak "mummy". I go in, see what's happening, hold her hair back. She says "do you think it was the pasta I had at school? And I've shat on your mat". I reply "yes and dear god".
  The child then had a shower with undies on and one soiled bath mat.
  I explained what to do next time. Run to the toilet with the bucket.
She'll learn to love hydralyte over the next few days. All the best to her. It's not fun.
- She's a little weak but otherwise ok.

Adorable lol

This was 4 years ago! So 4 days after she came to live with me.

I love that we get Gibson’s baby pictures
- I was shown Melbcat’s kitten pics but didn’t remember to ask for copies. I should have asked for them before her old owner passed
So smol! So precious! 😍😍😍
- She used to fit in my hand lol
I feel like she was already plotting to take over with her toilet paper based world domination
So tiny. And she already trusts you

Packing continues. Even tho I culled large amounts of belongings over the past 8 months I still have a lot to pack.

I am still very excited to move.

It's a quiet area and I will have so much more privacy too. I hope to get so much work done, art projects and life skills projects, and recuperate from living in this stressful place.

Love it when I have the enthusiasm (and money) to make exactly what I want. I do think the booze this evening helped 🤪

Yummo
That looks amaaaazing 😍
Looks like it comes from a fancy restaurant, except I can tell your rice is better. Immaculate grain seperation
- Heheh thanks I am quite particular about my rice. Rice cooker every time. It is basmati and not jasmine rice though.
Prawns…. drool
That looks delicious. I am on diet, that's die with a t. 😭I would have a tiny bit of each component of the dinner.

knock off in 3 and a half hours with 1 hour lunch break inbetween.

Can't wait to get out of here today. Avoiding everyone and hiding.

I do admit I've been playing on my phone more than I should but I don't really care today. I'll do some work but I'm not going to fully commit because I'm pissy today.

I bought some knitting pattern books for baby clothes. Sent them to a local pharmacy for pickup to prevent thieving, I hope l can collect with no dramas. I’m not a kid person but I figure it would be easier to finish small fast projects. Places like St Kilda mums would always take them. ~~Melbcat may even finally run out of luck and wear them~~

Crocheting something to donate and thinking of Lemon.

I probably made the right choice migrating given Spez’s stance on emulating the Muskrat and the developments there but I kind of thought I’d split my time equally between sites… until a rivalry emerged and the old place changed.

I miss Lemon. Stompsie. Epicpillowcase. Smeg. I really like this sane low drama corner of the internet but there are so many people I wish had come with us.

I'm only a few days off it for lentish. Haven't seen Stompsie about for a while. Epic still has a loser anti fan club of down voters. Lemon is moving house again but has quietened down quite a bit, I hope that's a sign she's recovering from the burnout.
My gripe is that they started playing with posts, like if I sorted by new it wasn't actually in order of newest post. Or sometimes it would appear that popular posts would be completely hidden from me for the first 24 hours. I'd check in the morning and see a day old post with a few hundred comments that just wasn't there when I went to bed.
I reckon with the IPO, a bunch of bad actors bought in and have been subtly playing at manipulating the feeds. Given what happened to digg, I reckon they're trying minor tweaks here and there, but it leaves the user base as the proverbial frog in the boiling pot scenario. Part advertising, part billionaire mindthink.
- Epic still has a loser anti fan club of down voters
  What happened there?
I miss continental-drift , Lemon, Jaybb3rw0cky and omgaporksword.

Decent day of field work owning some data, didn't get too caught up in disgusting traffic on the way back managed to get to the Todd Rd exit and take some back streets through Port Melbourne. Back at it tomoz to finish up unassessed areas and then (ugh) redo some areas with dodgy existing data ... May need an extra day to get through it all.

Then I'll need to hurry up and prepare the data for an entire other area up north and start attacking that asap. Goal is to finish it all by the end of the month. I might just squeeze it in bearing in mind I have a friend visiting from overseas for a week as well...

But for tonight, after having had a couple of drinks with colleagues I am gonna give in to my seafood craving and make a nice Thai seafood curry. I'd normally get takeaway but I think I prefer to spend my money on getting heaps of prawns to make it myself at home. And then I get to really enjoy this week's tv 😎

E: also the stripe on my finger is not cancer, whoopee

Did you notice any... scary data in the sets? Did you clean it?
- I'm going to find out when I actually sit down and analyse the data (still collecting it in the field). P sure there will be some dread and woe buried in there and much refining will be needed. I may need a music dance experience to motivate myself
Don’t forget Severance tonight.
- First on the list once I've made dinner and had a shower! Kind of feel like maybe I should've got takeaway as it's gonna be well past 8 by the time I finish - just walking back home with the goodies - but I'm going to believe that I've saved enough money to be worth it...

Confessional Friday:

Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. It has been many years since my last confession.

I almost always answer the phone on the toilet.

As in if it rings while you are on the toilet you will answer, or when it rings you usually head to the toilet to answer it there?
- Well I mean it's right there so you may as well answer it if it rings. ::: spoiler convenient
  :::
- Haha nice.😂
hope you know if I sit down in a stall next to you I'm not putting down the firemans blanket and doing my absolute best to make sure your conversation partner hears the "kasploosh" sound.
- I was unaware of the fireman blanket technique.
- FIREMANS BLANKET
  😂😂😂😂😂
- "Who does number two work for!"
Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. I have never ever in my life stepped foot in a church, let alone confess.
I confess that I make fun of my cat for having an empty nut sack.
- I shall say a prayer for you and your feline. Seriously though, some churches are absolutely gorgeous inside. Check it out sometime.
- If you want to really understand the insides of christian churches, check out Margaret Visser's incredible book The Geometry of Love.
  She looks in depth at an 'ordinary' suburban church in Rome, and dissects out the meaning of practically every inch of it. One of the most stunning books I've ever read I think - a sort of natural history of churches. I like her other books too.
I will never even take my phone in there unless it's in my handbag and I have to use a public loo, which is very rarely
- Same.
- What do you do when you're poopin then? Are you just alone with your thoughts and poop?
Bless me father for I have sinned. I used to call my dog over for pats and rubs, so I could wipe my hands on him. Towels were too far away.
RIP little guy
Bless me father for I have sinned. I once put a used toilet seat in the recycle bin because it had a little triangle on it. My efforts were poo-pooed by the recycling truck driver.
Most of my calls come through the PC with Nvidia broadcast mic filtering.
You’ll never be able to say enough Hail Marys to fix that one
- If they say the Hail Marys while sitting on the toilet would that make it better or worse?

I'm pissed and grumpy now, they used the space and didn't clean anything up so I've just spent the last 10-15 mins resetting the space.

I really should have bought a bottle of wine yesterday while I was at Aldi, could have used it to unwind tonight.

Well at least I have snakes and chippies.

Rawr!!

Pour the snakes into the chips and enjoy a nice bag of chakes.
Don't do this with real snakes of course. Unless you're into that kind of thing I guess.
- Interesting combination. I'll look into it but no promises.

This cyclone is a nice break from Trump

Putting cute stickers in my work diary because I can't be bothered actually working.

what stickers have you got?
I did matching dino stickers on my shake glasses and lids and so I know which lid goes with which
- I've got Mofusand, cats x2, dogs, glittery stars x 2, hedgehogs, little arrows, Eevee and starter Pokemon ones!
  I like your matching stickers idea, that's a cute idea! I'm putting stickers on random dates in my diary so when I find them it'll be like a nice little surprise for myself.

First world problems here.

It's my homeless week at work. Someone's using my workspace today so I can't settle down there early and I've had to move rooms twice already just to have my "breakfast".

Also missed out on car parking today so I've had to park down the street, really sucks having to haul my stuff because I don't have anywhere secure to keep this stuff week to week.

Anyway tired and grumpy so far.

I can somewhat understand employers wanting employees to work together in the office, but I can't understand how they don't realise that means they need to provide usable office space for everyone.
- Poor planning or not enough forethought, anyway space is being used at the moment so I have some extra downtime for an extra 15 mins.
Sharing desks isn't fun, Hot-desking is even worse. How these morons can be all OH&S workstation assessments to the eleventy and simultaneously zip tie all the mice to the right is beyond me.
- It's sucky, I do have a space but it's been used and taken over since 7:50am so I can't even set up my stuff. I'm in another room now just playing on my phone, I don't want to unload work and stuff only to pack it all up again and move and unpack.
  Bad enough I have to carry all my stationary with me.
  I'm milking this!

Foomptball

Finally! My tip goes to the swannies tonight and the pies tomorrow.

I've made a few new friends this week, and reconnected with a few old ones too.

I'm really happy about it. Things weren't great since lock down and it's nice to have a few different groups to hang out with.

I'm a bit of a social butterfly, but lock down really fucked me up.

It's just nice to talk to more than 2 people all the time. I've just always felt like I'm an acquaintance to them whereas to me they were pretty much my only friends.

Neither of them messaged me to say congrats on my 10 years sobriety even though they knew about it, and I posted it on Facebook where they would have seen.

It's a relief.

Based on the enthusiastic response to my coffee grinder listing on marketplace I think I can safely say I underpriced it. I had about 25 replies within a couple of hours last night and woke up to another 20, most of which are wanting to come and collect ASAP.

Edit: FFS. I've taken the listing down and one of them messaged me on the listing for one of my other items to try and get a reply. He's now blocked.

My camping fridges appear to be pure asshole magnets.

My upholstery supplies are out for delivery already. I certainly can't complain about their efficiency.

University of Tasmania library has also been extremely efficient (as usual) and I have a book waiting for me at my door. Mr Woof would have been furious about the incursion.

Kicking off Friday Quiz

7/10

3/10
I have brought dishonour to my bloodline.
my best yet, 2/10
5/10. Is that technically a pass mark?
2/10, a dismal result even for me.
I think I'm going to ignore this and celebrate my 93% final grade on my last subject instead.
9/10. I don't know who Jeremy Strong is 🤷‍♀️
- Good actor. One of the main characters in Succession and plays a decent villain in The Gentlemen
- I stuffed that one up as well.
8/10 today.
Might be my best ever.
8/10 not great not terrible haha
4/10 :-(
5/10. This is the quiz I don't care about - pop culture. Sundays quiz is where it's at

Traffic was crap.

Guess people might be trying to get away early for the long weekend.

Cheers everyone 🍺 Have a great night and an even greater long weekend.

*This post was proudly brought to you by The 2 Saturdays

arghh, just argh

godamm i don't want to use vpns unless i have to , godamm shadow bans can't even fucking log in

I went through five accounts getting shadow bans over there. It's probably all automated but given 70% of my comments were helpful answers, shadowbanning my accounts is mostly hurting the backlog of useful info I'd left on reddit. Shooting themselves in the foot so to speak.
- I just found out I am more than shadowbanned, I am blocked
looks like it's mastadon and lemmy from now on

I'm getting my arse kicked in cards. Yikes.

Losing your touch tonight.
- Yeah.

Severance spoilers:

it's just getting interesting

The map on the abc website of the power outages from Cyclone Alfred is impressive gold coast to byron bay

My first thought before watching the latest Severance episode: why is it so short?

I think of each episode like chapters in a book, they have distinct and separate story lines. Some chapters are longer than others.

Went to BigW for socks and crocks. Came back with pedals and scales. I needed pedals and scales. They were sold out of large wool socks. The fake crocks were a terrible fit.

I'm a little weirded out that 1) Eddie McGuire's son looks so much like him and 2) he's old enough to have a proper tv journo job.

My thoughts said it looked like Eddie but not quite in the wrong sort of way.
It’s good to have footy again!
- Like a younger off-brand Eddie.
  So good to have footy back.

Eating chicken and eggs together weirds me out. Can’t do it. (Except maybe rice dishes in which it’s all chopped)

Is it because you can't work out which one to eat first?
- You are on fire today haha !
Same. Somehow it's weird.
- I can't think of any traditional everyday recipes for eggs and chicken.
add rice and it becomes oyakodon, parent child rice
- I mean, who doesn’t love a big bowl of poetic reflection?
I don't think it's a coincidence that there aren't many dishes with that specific combo.

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argh , just argh

I got a shellacking. Sitting outside now. It's nice.

Experiment time. I have no aeroguard on but let's see.

What’s your experiment?
- If these coils work.