Daily Discussion Thread: ⬆️⬆️⬇️⬇️⬅️➡️⬅️➡️🅱️🅰️ Wednesday, June 19, 2024

ok all you mofos stuck in horrible cold shitty rentals come over here where there's whole house heating to 20c and there's cats and beanbags and I'm making muffins and we're on a hill so we can buy rifles and snipe your slumlord bastards.

I'm officially Simon. Yay? Lol

Had an interview this morning which went ok I think. Will find out if I go to the next stage tomorrow.

So apparently child protection have taken note of the troubles they caused and have decided I'll be spending the next week at a hotel. Odd decision, seems cheaper to just move the new one out and then everyone would be better off, but I'm not going to complain. It seems like a flashy one and has an indoor gym.

I get to escape the chaos of this place and the weird workers they've put here (that's a whole other rant, but some rando who refuses to talk to you sleeping on your couch is kind of uncomfortable). And if I put a water jug in my fridge, it won't go missing!

Loaf mode activated 🍞

Am sad. Work getting worse. Procrastination for job seeking continues.

The winter solstice is in 2 days. On one hand, sad, but on the other, things will only be on the up and up for the next 6 months

I reckon I'm gonna use the peace and quiet to have an early night. Tomorrow's DT is all yours goonsy 😉

(Or whoever else wants a chance in the spotlight)

I ran a short story competition at some schools for the kids to win copies of my books and I'm reading through the entries today and man, kids are morbid. It's kind of funny how wild their imaginations get.

And one of them had a genuinely sad and depressing ending. It was a story about a girl and her mum and it mentions she doesn't know where he dad is and how she wishes she had a sister and then bed creatures attack her and kill her mum and she runs away but theres more monsters and she runs back into the house and lays on her bed ending it with 'why should I save myself. I've lost everything I've loved.'

Happy Dance. Fairy Wrens have returned to my little terrace garden. 🥰

Just got rid of a whole lotta concrete at the tip. Nearly died when they were trying to charge $151. Got it for $31.50 instead.

But that was very satisfying throwing it on the pile, loud noises breaking shit. Threw one bit up the top of the pile and caused an impressive concrete avalanche.

But jeez the matress disposal area.. most of those were better than mine.

I'm going to bed tonight at 10:30 and I'm going to shut my eyes and not be tempted to use my phone.

I have a few words to say

That is all.

aargh, my local optician couldn't fix my glasses, after half an hour of mild cussing seems rayban uses unique screws for their frames and they don't stock rayban. Couldn't even wire the hinge as it's a concealed screw hole. These were fairly expensive.

from now on it's cheap ass glasses and lots of them

It's too much of a bleah day, and the second night in a row I can't use my shower because the landlord messed up their emails telling me it was gonna get re-caulked or something yesterday (and I just rolled over and said OK even though I had basically zero notice and can't use my shower for 36 hours). Too peopled out to ask a friend to use theirs. Just retreating to bed with a cuppa and a pitiful mood and gonna have a yarn to my auntie interstate to feel a bit more at ease

Today's society seems to consist of an awful lot of whinging over either current or historical matters.

At some point whinging needs to turn into action.

Gotta love it when your children start making dinner. Almost seems worth it. Almost.

Weather has cleared to a beautiful day but it's doing very little to dent my absolute disdain for humankind today. Greedy, shortsighted, self-absorbed, no thoughts for anything other than their own convenience and comfort. So many of our species don't deserve planet Earth. I truly wish I could send a good chunk of people off to another planet with no pesky insects, grass, trees, water courses, and other such outrageously offensive items, and they can live surrounded entirely in man made constructs and sheer rock.

(I took these photos on the 7th while I was away, intending to post with a joke but never did. So just pretend today is the 7th)

Even when I'm in literally the middle of nowhere...

I will never forget my Melbourne roots!

I dropped a 1kg tub of greek yoghurt onto the kitchen tiles. So much yoghurt. Should've stayed in bed.

So I'm watching YouTubers that are travelling in northern Australia. At one particular site (Tom Price Tourist Park) they paid 80 dollars at a campsite for the privilege of pitching a tent.

In many SE Asia countries you could get a very nice 4 star hotel room for that price, usually with a nice breakfast included.

And people wonder why folks don't do tourism in Australia.

I'm blaming the cold for why I went back to bed at 7:30. This non insulated house sucks ☹️

It's a shame your shit music isn't enough to pay for a taxi, Justin.

It's -1.9 here. Feels like -3.8. No thank you. The cat has jumped into bed with me and neither of us are moving any time soon.

When I'm alone upstairs at work and so can crunch on my food as loudly as I like without feeling guilty, yisssss. Eating pork crackle, so not hard to get a very loud crunch happening.

My brown fat is generating so much heat this morning but I'm still putting 2 sheets of toilet paper on the toilet seat before jumping on to ease the pain. I know it's wasteful but we must do what we can to survive this icy blast.

So so cold. So cold. I have to go outside todaaaay. Whyyyy

God dam there were a lot of sirens and ambulances on the morning dog walk. Like a dozen different background wails, I saw three ambulances with lights on down Police rd.

It's 0.4 degrees here, and the BOM app says it's feels like -3.2 ❄️

The cat makes a good case for going back to bed. Smart kitty.

🏔️🏔️

Melbourne, why so cold?!
Anything fun on in the city today? We have some time to explore on foot, assuming we don't freeze.

... I'll ruminate
On the state
Of my mind
And I find
That it's all in my head
So instead...

Am alive. Whatever that stomach thing was it can fuck right off. Apologies to those I grossed out on the tram the other day.

The cats are complaining it's cold outside like I can do something about it

Anyone else follow the Farside Lemmy? The cartoons by Gary Larson?

My dad has two of his books of comics and I used to read them all the time as a kid. The Lemmy for it is so damn nostalgic lol

Hmm… my health is deteriorating and it may now be time for invasive medical measures. That’s if I can pester hard enough for them or pay privately. Love that for me

Lemsip is not as bad as I thought it would be.

I hate that today was one of my 6:30am wakeup days, it was torture getting out of bed.

It can't be that cold, I'm only wearing two layers!*

* one is an 800-fill down jacket that is normally overkill for Melbourne

Too damn early crew checking in 👊🏻

What a weird system. Went to the post office to have my mail held. What an annoying little system the post office has. They need 3 full business days notice, so it wouldn't start until the day before I get back. Then he said he couldn't give me the concession rate because I need a concession card. I showed him my concession card and then he said his system doesn't allow concessions for people under 18...

Ended up not bothering with it. I'm just gonna hope my mail doesn't go missing

I honestly thought the mail would be held at the local post office, but apparently they hold it at the sorting facilities

i am medicated and in bed

whatever happens overnight is not my fault

Anyone else obsessed with Royal Autopsy? They make some leaps I think are a bit big, but the demo models are amazing. Best historical in ages.

TV review. Daybreak. Netflix. A bargain basement Ferris Bueller living in Los Angeles survives nuclear war . For a show like this to have any chance of working it has to be believable. Sorry but Glendale would be evaporated and those in the outmost suburbs of LA would sicken from radiation poisoning. If the premise is a weird guy in a normal world then the normal world has to be consistent and believable. Maybe if they lived in a teeny tiny town out in the desert they might have survived. Not even Matthew Broderick reprising Ben Stein's persona as a boring and slightly obsessive principal could save this show.

Compare to Fallout.

This show was so dismissive of the facts of nuclear war it upset me.

1 hobbit

Goosebumps movie. Gees I loved this. So inventive it's a delight.

4 hobbits.

It's so cold my finger is getting sore from typing on my phone screen

Okay, I signed up specifically to ask this question...

Does anyone have recommendations for a travel debit card please? Need mostly GBP & EUR for this trip, but there's a couple other European currencies too.

From what I've researched, the Wise & Up Bank cards are coming up a bit, and the Macquarie one is too. I have an account with Macquarie already, but anything else I'd have to open a new account, which I'm not against for the best option.

One good thing about these mid winter days is that the angle of the Sun is perfect for streaming into my kitchen windows. It warms it up plus is a mood lifter.

Ok, my morning duty outside today has left me frozen, my hands were actually hurting I was wearing gloves!

Hopefully we won't get too many of these days or I'm going to have to invest into something a little bit warmer for my hands.

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

question: Anyone know the sale name of those amber warning lights that go off when a truck is coming out and are there any specific laws against running one on your own driveway?

Got my compression gloves and hoodie on while working from home. It's surprisingly cozy.

Also, the code in the thread title is wrong. It's BA not AB.

Ugh when did truearth jack their goddamn laundry sheets so high. Fuck offfffff

https://www.development.vic.gov.au/news/plans-underway-to-repair-historical-gem-in-docklands

Does anybody care about a decommissioned control tower from 1966?? What a waste of money.