Daily Discussion Thread: Tue 26 Sep 2023

The master of timing has done it again - stepping down while most of the cookers are playing referendum politics. I am in awe. I wonder who the cookers will protest about from now on. Not that reality features in their rhetoric.

They'll protest the Yes campaign.
Then if the No vote wins, they'll be celebrating white pride.
- the yes isnt gonna win. It should. But I'd bet a significant sum of money it wont. The federal governments entirely failed to rise to the challenge and let potato head kill the thing before it was born. I'd say Albo should resign, but the alternative is the aforementioned potato head.
  EDIT: The yes vote I mean. No is clearly gonna win.

Andrews resigning?

Dayyyyyumn

He really should have announced it in his North Face jacket and starting with "at 11.59 pm today..." just for old times sake
- Everyone right to go?
I leave the state for FIVE MINUTES and this happens
- See what you did!!!
- I am now rueing the fact that I'll be interstate for the next week and missing out on all the excitement myself.
How many cookers are jizzing their pants right now?
- All of them?
Jesus. I went out for one day being nowhere near media and this happens!
haaa I was in a meeting with a bunch of people at 50 Lonsdale when news trickled in. That was fun! Meeting effectively abandoned, watched the announcement instead.
- Wait, you work in my office building now?
My mum's gonna be gutted.
Whaaat? Holy crap.
lolwhat?! your kidding?
- Live announcement right now.

Food Australia has been there a little more than 1 day and already 35 subscribers. I'm pretty chuffed. Thinking about expanding now. Drink Australia. BBQ Australia..... Anyway I must keep spruiking so if you haven't visited !foodaustralia@aussie.zone or !frugal@aussie.zone please do.

A big thanks to everybody who already have.

Ok I'm ready for daylight savings already. I keep waking up at 5:30. Bring on Sunday.

Totally forgot about this. Looking forward to warmer, sunnier after-work beer garden drinks
Miss Meow is fully ready too, she keeps meowing for an early dinner.
4:30 for me, either with the cats' help or automatically. >.<

Okay, I am doing well at work. People are impressed I've jumped on inbound and doing outbounds within the first week and a bit. I'm good at it, and have much more to learn.

I'm very tired, but a weekly paycycle is such a blessing; as opposed to the curse of a monthly paycycle lol

Meanwhile I'm over here grumbling with my monthly pay cycle...
So glad to hear work is working out! And my god a monthly pay cycle is a drain. I don't mind fortnightly but gee, a weekly one's even better
You sound like you're killin' it, you legend you!
So happy that things are working out with you. You really deserve a break in life for once.
So happy for you. 🤗🤗🤗

Alright gang, North Faces out for the big fella!

The milk study I am on ends tomorrow, which means I am now going to have to start paying for my own milk again. Back to the cheapest long life milk available again.

I love this comment.

I've got a crook shoulder today but at least ive been entertained with the Dan news and more than I need to know about cat balls. Lol.

we live to entertain!
- I did enjoy your use of anal glands.

And just like that literally overnight a Watsonia appeared.

That is a few weeks early.

It waited until after the wedding, so it wouldn't get picked and used in the floral arrangements ...
- taps temple It may be late but it isn’t slow
- heh I was just thinking oh jeez they would've been nice.
  Sneaky watsonia.

So I've set up an appointment with the real estate agent to look at selling the house.
breathes into paper bag

I am putting stuff in a baguette for dins and it will have cheeeese.

VICTORY, MY FRIENDS!!! I have painstakingly upgraded this old phone to stock OS Android 10 (having to manually incrementally update from certain versions to another), upgraded everything and FLASHED A NEW ROM! Lineage 20 running Android 13! And bonus, thanks to the angels at XDA I have got root back on AND can still use my bank app and Google Wallet and have system wide ad blocking.

I will have to spend a decent amount of time later this week configuring the launcher and display etc. My only one stupid mistake was forgetting to use whatsapp's own service to backup messages to the cloud before doing all this; it apparently didn't detect wifi and hasn't done an automatic backup since the 22nd - and ye olde titanium backup can't restore data given that the app was running off such an ancient OS.

It all sounds silly but it really is a point of extreme and irrational inertia/avoidance updating things that substantially change the UI/UX of my phone (worse still changing the phone itself). This REALLY feels like dusting out the cobwebs and making a fresh start! :)

If I can get my banking and national login apps from my home country onto this phone off my iPhone (because that's the only thing it worked on), I'll be singing. e: banking might be a go, although again I stupidly should've disabled the digital token before all this, I'll have to sort it out in person in a few weeks. but national login is absolutely airtight, I might need to use a burner phone for the rare time I need that login thing. think mygov but on 30593095039403493094 steroids - I hate it, tbh, way too much info in one place.

This sounds like an excellent Tuesday :)
- Ran into a major snag though I forgot to disable 2FA on my uber account and I've booked an uber carshare thingo for my trip next week. Authenticator app hasn't saved all the thingos. Can't for the life of me remember what my "backup codes" were. Hopefully they'll respond to my request for help

Got to learn who had the most based and cooked political views in the work chat today.

The most based person tuned into 3AW, just to listen to the Boomer Outrage.

I catch myself wishing I was rich… and then realise what I hope to gain from that is so basic

I just want freedom. I'd love to see the world before I die. Never got to the chance to travel when I was younger.
But gotta climb the corporate ladder and buy a house. Fucking sucks.
"Can't buy me love..."
but it can definitely mean freedom from worries about bills
can't help in a hurricane or earthquake or bushfire but maybe the house is built a little better and thus a bit safer

Resignations aplenty… Meanwhile I am still eating Doritos like they’re going out of fashion. sigh I’d like a rewind of this month, but c’est la vie. At least we have sunshine, so that’s something.

Having to feed a hungry girl extra in the night. Come on bickies.

The black cat was outside this morning and has taken to mournfully meowing at me. I need to stop talking back to him or he might try to invite himself in. And he and Melbcat really don’t get along.

The spinach is barely starting to grow the buds of second leaves and all the carrot tops are coming up

Edit: Oops. Intruder spotted. Big hisses

careful, that's how my friend ended up with **two **cats. Lucipurr still holds utter disdain for Courtney, even though the ballectomy means he no longer serenades her from the screen door.
- Ahh, unfortunately I don’t think it’s on the cards. The thought crossed my mind but Melbcat is insistent on being an only cat, she pees blood when stressed, and the two were openly hostile on sight.
  Despite no collar the cat also looks healthy and may belong to a neighbour who lets their cats roam.

Dear new premier, legal weed please. The fact it's illegal is basically a formality at this point. Give the cops something else to spend their $4.13 billion funding on.

So my ex-stepdad when I knew him was a DJ, and he now apparently streams his DJ stuff on Twitch. Anyways, so person A I've been looking after asked a question about this DJ we need to email and he said the same name as my ex-stepdad and I had a bit of an anxiety attack at work (but was secret about it).

God I hate PTSD.

Realised I don’t really struggle with writing or art. I struggle with perfectionism, lack of energy, and attention.

Also the idea of sharing it (which is what initially made me want to create?) is really causing me to lock up.

Maybe I’ll just stop trying to create for others, retreat back to doing random landscapes and pictures of my cat.

I would love to see them. I'm not an artist but I love crafts. I can appreciate how much effort people put in even if it's not perfect.
- sweats, tries to draw something that isn’t doxable and doesn’t suck
When I started making music just for me to listen to, the pressure dropped immensely.
As a side effect, when I've show people they've been amazed at how good it is.

Good morning to everyone except those who sit on the aisle seats in a packed tram. Also no good morning to door huggers

So many empty seats, so many haemorrhoids ... I got yelled at on my bike by a millennial (or younger) for not going fast enough to suit them. I prefer not to be t-boned by a forklift when passing a building site, so was going 25km (+/- 1 kph) which is as fast as my electric bike will do (legally).

We took the boys to the Barbie movie today. It was hilarious! You probably need to have grown up with Barbie in your house to get some of the references. Our kids have not, I'm sad to say - so they missed a lot. All the Patriarchy stuff would have gone right over their heads, also. Hopefully, that word is now in their lexicons though.

They claim it was a good movie, so it obviously still worked at their level. My wife and I had a blast laughing at it though. Great family fun.

I loved it too, lots of references for a wide range of age groups (although I'd like to think Millenials get it the most!) - it was great fun, though quite emotional for me near the end with Barbie and Ruth.
cool 😊

Have a meeting today about possibly taking another position in my workplace, but I think it may come with a pay cut... As much as I want out of what I'm doing now, I really can't afford it, might have to put my big boy pants on and try and negotiate.

I am starting to suspect that Ted Cat has not been separated from his balls. He is stinky ( male cat type stinky ) and his little scrotum hasn't shrunk like I thought it would. Thankfully he is not spraying. I checked his papers again and it says desexed but that might be a lie. I will give it another week and then it's off to Lort Smith to get tranks so I can handle and transport him and see what is going on.

I know several toms that have definitely been deballed, but their sacs still look present. Seems to be a variant cat thing. The stank needs a look at though.
- normal for nebes to be a bit a stinky
  Miss Seagoon sent me this video about smelly nebes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIPSwnHMmNE
ear tattoo? Do they do that for cats?
- ayup, all three of ours have them. (also a mate who got a vasectomy, the absolute legend)
- Yeah Melbcat has an ear tattoo
- They do, Kit kat had one and Sammi has one, not sure if Topes ever did and I'd have to check Zooks.
- I'll try and look .
Neutered fellas can still spray and get stinky, it might be the new environment upsetting him, so he's letting everyone know who's boss. As for the ball's situation, my dudes are still very visible because of his colouring/markings.
I assume Ted Cat is no kitten, cos if he was then his balls may not have descended far enough when the neutering was done. He may have had a cryptorchid too. It does sound like whoever neutered him did a very poor job of it. Maybe hurried, or maybe the paperwork was done but not the neutering. He's purebred, isn't he, even though he's a rescue? Is that on his papers?
- yes, he's a purebred catzilla, aka nebelung. The paperwork says neutered.

I am going to bite my tongue today.

We are all going to have an excellent Tuesday.

Have some pretty big adult financial/work decisions to make, and I absolutely don't want to.

Outsource it!
- Have already put it out for professional and personal opinions, so that should give me a jumping point.

come here OTC broncodilator please let me sleep through the night

There are no voting places within the Melbourne CBD for the upcoming referendum.

This is major weird. Normally they have Jeff's shed and the Exhibition buildings at the very least. Others as well. I wonder if all their usual venues are already booked?
That seems unhelpful and shortsighted.

Coughed from 2am to 5am last night. Gonna get the only prescription-free bronchodilator I can use from the chemist and before resorting to the GP, who will probably be more sympathetic than the respiratory clinic guy.

🫂
- thank god

Ooh, I can hand write on the phone with the stylus and it converts it into text. Not sure at this point if it is any quicker than the on screen keyboard, but it does a pretty decent job of handwriting recognition.

Phone progress going well, got a response from uber hopefully I can get this resolved. Found a rad browser (iceraven - tempted to use this on desktop too), a great tasks app, painter thankfully brings back amoled black theming and not this rubbish Material You grey whatever the fuck, got the rest of my apps working smoothly...

Need to find some solutions for customising notification bar (Tasker apparently does this - I want the date and my battery bar back up the top rather than squinting at a tiny battery icon)

But first I need to massively drag myself away from all this and get packing for my flight tomorrow 😅

e: whoa, surprised that they actually responded to me within 5 minutes of my reply, it's all fixed now! Hurrah!!

eh??

Never! Dark mode for everyone!
- Dark mode is something you have to EARN! It is not for everybody. Respect their choices!

The case for the new phone arrived today, so I have transferred the sim over and it has been given Primary Phone status. My preferred alarm app is installed and alarms set, hopefully it wakes me up at the right time for work tomorrow.

I don't know why, but I'm always a bit reluctant to use new things for a while - some sort of combination of wanting the familiarity of what I am used to and being scared I will wear out the new thing and it won't be special any more.

I don’t know why, but I’m always a bit reluctant to use new things for a while
I can relate to this so much! Feels a bit too precious.. Too suspicious as well... must observe it and occasionally bat it around like a nervous cat first.

Looking at the BoM forecast that hawt.

I will be competing with a few of you for dripper hose at bunnos soon methinks.

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Caramelised onion grilled cheese sandwich and lotssss of coffee. I woke up at 1130 and didn't get back to sleep until like 3.30 😭
- That really sucks. Hope you have a better day.
- 🧅🧀🥪🥪🥪🥪🥪
All the hay fever meds and a warm croissant please
- 💊💊💊💊💊💊💊💊🥐
Bacon & cheese souffle with some fruit salad and a nice cup of tea please.
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Two more SERIOUS PANIC!!! situations arose today with the phone just in the last hour - but within half an hour they were both resolved, and I can only think that maybe someone has been sending me blessings and putting in a good word for me with the universe.

Chilling out with some Good Omens s2 with piles of dinner before I have a good shower and finish packing. I am really enjoying this season even more than the first, not just because of all that Jon Hamm...

Would loooove to take undeserved credit for this, but can't. I am technologically maladapted to the modern computerised lifestyle and cannot offer assistance in such matters. As befits my boomer status. But I am delighted that it all worked out in the end.
- Ooh, I had to put this in a separate comment because it was so perfectly serendipitous there HAS to be something else going on.
- I'm going to believe that you smiled at a spring flower in just the right way to get the stars aligned. It really could've gone tits up but it all turned out okay.
  Now I'm not going to update my phone for another 7 years...

Wouldnt wanna be the dumbass whos gonna cop the fine for cutting the fibre that knocked out half the south east's NBN

Starfield needed an update, okay sure. Only issue was it was hanging around 2.7mb of like a 11mb download. But still having a lot of issues and such, trying to get it to install. Cancel the update, etc. And then xbox decides to just... uninstall it. So now I have to install a 117GB file.

Fuck me.

it is SO bad on xbox its not even funny. Cant believe Microsoft let it be a flagship title when its STILL got all these stupid Bethesda Engine bugs.
- I haven't had game breaking bugs, or glitches. There have been issues but I'm that part of the crowd where it's kind of endearing. But I also understand a lot of the issues others have. But it's just super weird that it's like "oh you're trying to stop this update? Well, let me just uninstall myself to save you the trouble". THAT'S NOT WHAT I WANTED!

I just need to say, the latest episode of Lower Decks was just brilliant. I think it could be one of my favorite shows at this point.

ohoioo 405's dropped? fires up VPN
- 404 I think? The wedding one.

I think I ate too much pizza for dinner and am now in food coma/so tired 🤤🥴😴

I just went to a North Indian food van - Mitroo in Clayton - even before I ordered I knew it was good. It was in a taxi company parking lot and I was the only white guy.

I went there a couple of times when I lived in Clayton! Was good. What did ya get?
- I was just after some decent samosas. They were great.

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Scheduled rest day from exercises today. Pizza day was pretty hectic and I'm super tired. I've had to buy a new phone, which I didn't want to do at the moment but my current phone won't even hold a charge for the whole day anymore. I just got a cheap phone from bigw, I have to go pick it up tomorrow and I'll take the Minipeelers for a little adventure.

Mr Peeler withdrew cash from an ATM at a servo and reckons it didn't give him all of the money, so that's something he has to sort out. Money's tight as it is; it's a favourite topic of discussion at work because all of us mums have had to take some days off with the kids being on school holidays. I'm trying not to feel worried or negative about the rest of the year.. I've got my 50th birthday coming up (I'm not doing anything because it'll cost too much), Mr Ps birthday, Christmas, the Christmas holidays (where I don't get work or wages for a couple of weeks) and the Elder about to start high school (new uniforms to buy and fees to pay). I'll work it out but it'll be a stretch financially and I guess I'm just feeling the pressure of being the only worker in the house with the family relying on me.

You could try a battery pack/power bank for the phone. Very cheap and no where near as expensive as a phone!
- Good idea, I didn't think of that. I used to have a couple of power banks but they "disappeared." Oh well, at least the phone I bought is very cheap on special. I'll check out another power bank tomorrow, they do seem pretty cheap.

Pool noodle collar didnt stop long dog from reaching stitches. Poor bugger has the cone on still…. The vet did say it probably won’t work for him. Gonna be a tough few days .

Try a baby onesie
- Second this suggestion, can cut off the arms and legs to the right size.