Discussion Thread 🍗🐔🍆 Thursday 27 March 2025

Well guys, I finally did it. I went and bought nicotine patches.

Thank you for reading. ❤️

You can do this Ceo. Even if you don't get it right the first time just try again.
I have faith in you!
- Thanks mate ❤️
I’m gonna be such a cunt
All of us here will still love you :)
- 😭 ❤️
Right on. Sincerely hope you manage to quit, but keep in mind, those fuckers are real addictive and really hard to quit so don't beat yourself up too much of it doesn't go as straight forward as you hope. I smoked heavily for 14 years. Took me about 5 tries to be successful in quitting. 14 years ago in February just gone... Having said that, I hope your smash it. Look into Parkrun for jogging. It's the bomb.
- I've been smoking now for nearly 30 years apart from the one year I had my daughter, which was easy to give up, so I know it's gonna be the second most toughest thing I've had to do in my life.
  I'm a realist. I'm expecting failure at first but I've got tenacity on my side. 💪
I haven't smoked regularly for maybe 4 years now, I successfully quit using lozenges. Downside is, I'm now hopelessly addicted to the lozenges. Oh well, less weevils and all that
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Fuck yeah well done!!!
It takes a lot of courage to face it head on.
You can do it!!!
- YES I CAN!!! 💪
You absolutely GO GIRL, I love this for you!! Tis the season for change indeed. Cry and be a cunt all you need in here, you've got our full support in this endeavour! Love that you've got solid reasoning and goals behind you.
- Thanks ❤️
  Fucking onions.
You can do it! I believe in you!!!
What others have said about patches is good advice!
Also, find something to do with your hands! Lozenges should help with the 'mouth feel' but you may need to do something with your hands as well when you have an urge - it's a mental thing. You might get all fidgety, so maybe take up drawing/doodling or knitting, reading may help, or a free mobile game or something!
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- Since I've taken off my wedding ring I started fidgeting with a pen (click click click) but I should find the fidget cube that's somewhere in this house. It has all these different fidget fuckers on it. If I can't find it I'll buy another one because I'm a master fidgeter.
You can cut the strong patches up to make weaker ones, no need to pay the same price for a seven pack of half strength ones.
I've got a bit of hair pretty much everywhere, I'd put some sports tape over the patch to hold it on.
Sticking stuff to your body, tape or patches, after a while the sticking gum stuff will cause a bit of irritation. After removal, cleaning the site with alcohol swabs or an essential oil on a cotton bud will remove the leftover gum in a way that soap won't.
My mate got onto the official nic vapes via a prescription he got online.
Patches gave me weird sleep, I took them off in the evening.
- This is all very useful information. Thank you. Luckily I'm like a hairless cat thanks to genetics.
  I don't want to go down the vape route but if in the future I have to I will.
  I'm expecting failure but I know me well enough to know if I fall I will pick myself up and keep going and each time it will get easier and easier. I just have to start.
I found having an emergency spray thingie in my handbag was very helpful when I was starting on patches. Cos patches take time to work and the spray is immediate and tides you over until the patches kick in. I didn't like using the gum.
I also found that the patches sometimes left a sore red mark on my skin when removed. Usually when that bit of me got overheated or sweaty. Chemist also warned me NOT to put the patch anywhere near where I was going to spray perfume or deodorant - apparently these kick the patch glue into overdrive and can burn the skin chemically. I usually ended up putting the patch on my upper leg. Hope this helps a bit.
- I've tried the gum once before and didn't like it because I don't chew gum anyway. I've tried the spray and it wasn't bad but this time I've gone with the lozenges. I don't mind sucking on a lolly.
  I was thinking about sticking the patch on my leg so this does help. Thank you ❤️
You got this. I'm 12 years free next month. I used patches too, and the man followed me 6 months later but he too champix. Its tough, and I used the quit app at the time, it had games and info which helped. Treating each craving as it comes and then celebrating that success later worked for me. Because they're just cravings, and life has thrown worse shit that I've survived, you know?! Anyway, best wishes on your journey, and find something for your hands!
- Thank you ❤️
- Interesting. It's more the flight over I'm worried about. 😂
Good luck! I was a real see you next Tuesday and had to taper very slowly.
- You! No way!
  If I start calling youse bitches it's a term of endearment and nothing more.
Those are very valid reasons, benefiting others and most importantly your health. I’m lucky that I never took up smoking even though I was surrounded by friends / family who smoked. So I don’t have any advice to share except you got this!
- Thanks mate ❤️
You’re tough and determined. You will win! Congrats on the decision, we are here for any venting when the see you next tuesdays hit!
Good luck Chief. 🤞
- Thanks cobber
Tips:
Nicotinell over nicorette, fuckton cheaper.
If you can't control dreamstates then take off before sleeping.
Sour gummy worms
- Thank you. ❤️

The lovely roomies bought me flowers.

Those are so beautiful. 😊
- They are really pretty and they smell delightful.

Had to get a tooth removed. Really upset tbh. I've spent about $17k to get them somewhat fixed and I feel like I'm in a losing battle.

This time I pretty much can't eat properly or smile until I get my denture in 6 weeks.

This is the price of absolute stupidity.

So much work and effort to get where I am and I haven't been able to smile in almost a decade. It has absolutely wreaked havoc on my confidence.

Fucking hell.

You've come a long way, friend!
Sometimes the scars of our journey are invisible, and sometimes they're not, but it says a lot about you that you've overcome such hardship and are now in a position to look after your health!
We don't always come out the other side unscathed, but you are doing fantastic! I'm proud of you!
Besides, you have a great smile! 💜
It happens to the best of us. It could have just as easily happened anyway for purely genetic reasons or an accidental knock.
What matters is you’re taking care of yourself now
You care way more about this than anyone around you cares about this. Legit no ones looking at your teeth. If you wanna get it fixed for you then thats great, but dont let it harm your confidence.
Life happens. Lots of people have a missing tooth for various reasons, either from accidents, decay/weak teeth, lack of fluoride as kids etc. You wouldn’t know it though, because modern dentistry can make the replacement look so natural. I know someone with a false tooth due to lost it as a teen from a bad bike fall. Even if your reasons are different, it doesn’t matter. It’s natural to be upset, but also remember you’re doing so well now and looking after yourself! Hope you feel better soon!
❤️🫂
You're a lovely man even when you're not smiling, and you've come SO far since the "stupidity" you're now paying for.
Chin up, hey? You're going to outlast it

Rose bush not objecting to new location

ooh really, really, ridiculously good looking!
- "Red Intention" much pinker than the label suggests but ♥️
So pretty!! 😍

This has been a stressful week but I'm feeling grateful. Grateful for you lot, grateful for my work team who didn't blink when I had a minor panic attack today and thought nothing of my spending the meeting sitting on the floor cuddling the office dog so I could stay grounded and regulated and still participate. And having access to an office dog is 👌 There are still good peeps out there.

Office dog!!!
We are grateful for you :)
- Thanks Low 💚
- We are happy you are here. 🙂

It's amazing how quickly a place ceases to be a home, without all the furniture and belongings the old place just looks like empty rooms. Or maybe I just wasn't attached to it.

There's only been one place that I've cried rivers moving out of, the rest I've just been "thanks, byeee".
Is the new place feeling like home?
- it's feeling more like a home than the other place was
  and there has only been one place I've cried leaving
  cried all the way to the airport, cried all the way in the plane
  still crying

Oh no, not the chicken dick.

Cock for the cock god!
\ Thigh for the thigh throne!
- How did this even come about?

Today in the junior class I was observing, the teacher handed out connector pens. Some kids started using them as guns and point them at others. Wouldn't care but they were distracting each other. So I went around the room and collected the pens, and of course offender numero uno said,

"Whyyyyyyy?! That's so rude of you!"

These kids just sit there talking or fidgeting the entire time and then when it comes to doing work, they're clueless. The teacher didn't do an awful lot of behaviour management because she didn't want to take time out of the learning for the kids who actually wanted to be there. She also said having a seating plan makes them antagonise you more sometimes.

Ring leader of the disruptive kids was pulled out of class by the teacher. Turns out he forgot to take his ADHD meds today. This is the moment I realised why ADHD was most commonly looked at in boys. Girls tend to be less disruptive.

The company wishes to inform me I have survived rate review.

They've given me a box of treats

Jesus Christ the robot baby is crying.

Jesus Christ ain't here. Put a sticker over the speaker holes. It will dampen the noise.
pick it up
is there an off button
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Thank you Spud for posting today's thread. 🙂🥔

I'm officially taking the day off tomorrow!

I'll be doing the same in spirit!
- My body is still at work but my spirit has checked out.

Overseas visitors requested a place with Nice Coffee and Croissants... I didn't do too well on the coffee front BC too many options and just went for very average Seven Seeds. However, we did swing past Monforte in Carlton North and DAMN that was a really good discovery. Worth the $$$. I pretty much died after eating them and am typing this comment from heaven

You can sometimes hit up the VicEmergency app for a just of what's up.

Tea has been procured. Breakfast of champions

Pizza?

Fellow night wakers, I have a question. Sometimes if I wake up in the night and cant go straight back to sleep, I’ll grab my phone and do mindless things on it until I feel drowsy again. I’ve always thought this is a bad habit, but is it really? Distracts me and I go back to sleep eventually. I have it in dark mode so minimal bright light. So should I kick the habit? What would be an alternative?

I give it the old "it is what it is". If I wake around 4am, I'll likely stay awake then get up by 5:30 and take the dog for a walk. 2-3am I'll potter on my phone or ereader for an hour or so then get back to sleep until around 6am, for walkies. After back spasm last week, I've been hitting up the evening magnesium supplements which I reckon help me sleep better.
Same. I’m considering sorting out my library card so I can use a book
Edit: Otherwise you could put on an asmr or brown noise video to listen to lying down until you drop back off
Do what works for you. Some people can go to sleep with the tv on and some people can't. I listen to podcasts and audio books. It's like someone's reading me a bedtime story.
- Sameee. Sometimes it's too interesting or good though 🤣 love trashy dystopian horror and sci fi
I pop an audio book on low volume with a timer. Usually something I've read before. It's enough to distract my brain but not too stimulating and no light. I usually drop off fairly quickly.
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I forgot to post yesterday that while I was mowing the grass yesterday I had a flyover from a Chinook.

I love those things so much! I'm close enough to Essendon Fields that they fly over my house at certain times of the year doing their practice for the bushfire season. I always go out and have a look. Used to look at them on adsb exchange before it went shitty.

Hi there, it's James from IPA....fuck off! Daaaaaaaaaaaaaah

This crochet looks like a good net. When the zombie apocalypse happens we’re making fish traps

someone was talking about crappy nightmares recently. had one a few days ago thats still sticking with me. Someone died, i tried to save them but missed by mere millimeters. Last night i think i died, no where near as memorable but still unsettling.

My manager organised some TV commercials then buggered off overseas this week so myself and the other person in my team have to figure out how we want 3 ads to look with no background and no assets

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Chicken drumsticks please, hold the eggplant.
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Something to accompany peanut butter cheese dog biscuits please
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Spicy chicken giblets please
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Blurgh, another apartment had their washing machine going on spin cycle at 3:40am. Made our apartment hum and rattle. Then furball decided she wanted food at 6:40am.

This is my hesitation about ever living in an apartment. I’m a light sleeper and neighbours being noisy through paper thin walls would be a nightmare. I think there’s a desperate need for legislation to set minimum sound proofing standards for apartments. It would make them much more desirable.
- Damn straight.
  Apartments are really difficult to live in at times. Unless you're lucky enough to live in an older place that's well sound proofed.
- A couple of weeks ago I took the plasterboard off a party wall in one of our bedrooms, only to find no sound proofing material in the cavity at all.
  The wall was constructed as follows: One layer of 16mm plasterboard (my bedroom wall), then the cavity, then another layer of 16mm plasterboard (their kitchen wall).
  I put Earthwool soundshield batts in the cavity and sealed it all back up.
  I haven't heard anything from next door since.
  I'm going to glue a layer of 6mm cork over that.
  I guess I'm "lucky" that I'm an owner occupier and can do work like that.
  But I have no idea on how to deal with the washing machine, it's coming from somewhere else but I couldn't identify the apartment (could be from anywhere).
thats a punchable offense. Or at least a stern word the next morning. are your switchboards on the outside of your appartments?
- Haha, if I could work out the offending apartment I'd certainly be letting them know. Would pay someone to walk past at random hours and call their apartment.

Someone's waiting outside for their morning walkies. I've had a coffee and I need a poo-poo. This could end badly.

never leave the house with one in the chamber. Especially if it was put there by coffee.
- Nothing happened. Not even a fart. Why doesn't it work on me? I did stay close to home though.
  I think it was the popcorn I had last night making me sluggish.

Let my peaceful office day begin

I was almost going to have a peaceful day until an email at 8:30 last night :(

Why does the election have to be on my birthday? :(

Maybe I should throw a democracy sausage party.

There's an election?
- I had NO IDEA
I'll be at work, so it looks like I'll be postal again.
Early voting here I come.
- Yes, early is the way
I've been meaning to get my name updated on the role. I'll have to get on it now
- Do your civic duty!
  Would you like to know more?

Hello 2am, could we not? What's with the chicken dick, did I miss something?

- 😂😂😂
- Ah yes, the olde tale about bikies and gaff tape. How could I forget.

Excellent biryani for lunch

Just looking at some pics of Gwendoline Christie in both GoT and Severance and she.is.tall and beautiful and talented.

I would love to see her in many other shows.

She's in the newer star wars movies but you don't really 'see' her

I decided to do a bit of tidying up of my computer files in preparation for moving off OneDrive onto Proton cloud storage. Somehow the entire day has disappeared.

it's amazing how much of a mess my photos are - automatic backups and synchronisation across multiple apps and devices has led to a mess of duplicated files and albums. I'm going to leave all the automatic backups off and focus on organising the photos better as I go along.

My files are in a bit of a mess too. I'm intending to use the change to set up the file system from scratch in a more organised way instead of just copying the lot over. When the OneDrive plan runs out I can still access everything on there so there's no rush to deal with all that.

Melbcat’s meds schedule has temporarily changed to 3 times a day 😪 Edit: Wait, if I want to keep her blood pressure meds at the normal time (which I should) it might be 4 times.

Unrelated I conked out waiting for the kettle to boil… woke up really dehydrated with my last brick of soy milk sitting lukewarm on the bench. D’oh.

I also missed the fortnightly recycling collection. Fell out of the groove where the bin being full lined up with the day. Still a week to go… eh… it’s fine. To make some room I’ll pull the larger bottles out to wash and cut down into extra pots.

Size 13 official crocs fit way better than the bigW ones.

Well, durr.
my issue with the bigw one is my big toes keep getting caught on the over tow covering. Even with trimmed nails. is that solved on the official ones?
- I tried the bigW ones on and they were a shit fit so I never walked around in them. The official ones do seem to have a better design overall, which you'd hope for $80 (delivered from Wild Earth).
  My toes haven't been catching in the toe-shield area at all on the official ones.

Checked the leaves I cleaned and the aphids are right back.

Damn, to get the ladybird eggs plus shipping is $55 ;-;

If my pollinator flowers hadn’t been killed they would have attracted them naturally. I think there’s a few stumpy nasturtiums left that might not have the energy to bloom but wherever else I planted just seems to be weeds.

Aphids are shocking ATM. Anything at all that aphids like is smothered in them. There's a giant hibiscus near work and it's covered too.

One small thing that makes Libre Calc so much more pleasant than excel is you can highlight a bunch of cells by scrolling. No more dragging the mouse to the bottom of the screen and hoping for the best

I don't find using the shift key to highlight multiples to be a big issue.
- Also applies to when you click and drag the little square to fill the below cells with the same value. I had a good thousand cells that needed a 0 in them
I don't know what's more niche - you writing that at 10pm or me seeing it and nodding in agreement at 4am. Open source spreadsheets FTW
- When the boys go to sleep it's time to work on the online store where I'm free of the tyranny of big software

Good night everyone. Sweet dreams. 😘

Ohohoooo my precious pretty new keyboard came and lo, it is as precious and pretty as advertised

Been seeing less moths around, gonna do another vacc this weekend and get some more traps to send even more to sweet moth-abyss.

One just flew up, lightly bopped my arm and flew away. I feel like a Titan from Attack on Titan; a moth is gonna bite itself and I'm gonna have to do battle with Mothra.

The crossover we didn't know we wanted lol