Discussion Thread: 🎃 Thursday 2 October 2025

RIP Jane Goodall 🐒🦍🦧

I received a Jane Goodall diorama as a Lego Gift-With-Purchase.
I recently donated it (including the Jane Goodall minifig) to a Primary School Science teacher for her classroom.
I hope none of the little perishers steal the minifig!
- it's gone
Will be much missed. One of the world's greatest people imo.
If you (or anyone else) haven’t read it, In the Shadow of Man is a fantastic book

Okkk scored a "wellbeing day" tomorrow (not sick or annual, six per year), so long weekend starts now. Extra bonus it's on my late shift week! Back to normal next week after a good rest. Now beer! 🍻🍻🍻

Excellent! Make sure you start off the cheers thread tomorrow. 🍻

Meetup last night was good, and so I will be going to another one. Most people I spoke to were really nice and welcoming! I don't think I'll make any friends out of it, but it was nice to play fun games with friendly people :)

Glad to hear it :)

Alrighty. 9am interview with a lady in the US then a 2nd one later in the afternoon.

Wrote my first new song tonight in about 6 months and practiced my new open mic songs as well.

Goodnight all ❤️

I might make a giant tray of scalloped potatoes today.

Its the weather for it.
- I wish this wind would fuck off now.
- It's the weather for polo shirts damnit
Ooh yum! Wonder if I’ve got the ingredients here for that..
- 🤞

Be honest, how many of your dinner foods are just an excuse for melted cheese?

I have to be honest here. None. Not really. I'd rather have cheese in it's unmelted state. And I go through phases where I can't stand any cheese, and other times I can't get enough of it. Phases can last from a few days to a few months. Currently going through an anti-cheese phase. This will change, I just don't know when. And then I'll consume cheese in any form that presents itself. But I prefer non-melted.
- I find cheese majestic just is or total goo. Nothing worse than a halfway sweaty mess.
My brecky egg n cheese sanga sure is. I put the cheese on the egg in the pan.
I definitely think what vegetables can I melt cheese on to get my fix so I'm gonna say atleast a 1/4. I'm more of a butter whore though.
If it were possible for me, it would be all of them. But instead of ‘excuse’ I would say ‘celebration’.
I would have an air fryer and a fondue pot
Tonight's meal calls for a generous helping of melted cheese, sometimes I construct what I eat around it including cheese.

Happy Spooktober

Got a recipe?
I've seen a few recipes where they use white chocolate with pink food dye. I hate white chocolate, and also pink is not entirely anatomically correct.
- I used a pink pre-dyed from Spotlight and added all the off chips from the Lego I did last week to blur but not swirl. So it's a dyed white base with dark added. Hope that make sense!
Walnuts?
- Chocolate brains 🧠

Called in sick. Eating peanut butter toast in bed before having a hot shower and rolling my back out with the foam roller

Ah back at FILs for the next couple of days, and then back to Melbourne Sunday night.

Niece was very unhappy we were leaving her place, but we'll see them again before we go home.

Looking forward to picking Mickey up on Monday morning. Then I have an interview at 10-10:30am, and then my job provider appointment at 11:30am. I'm going to be wrecked, but happy 💜

I love my wheatbag

Same.
- Rude thing to call Gibson 😾

Yarrabyte has abandoned us again. Thankyou to those that have been getting the thread started.

I’m going to venture in search of lunch. A little air, before I return to snuggling the wheatbag

The Kids' sickness has finally gotten to me. It wasn't fun having it finally hit at 4am but I've called in sick and i think I'll talk to a doctor to get tomorrow off too

Our dog is a bit fussy with food and toys. He will only play with some of his toys if a relative's dog is, where he tries to take them off her and run away.

We give our dog his worming tablets once a month. Last month, he ate the tablet without it being shrouded in another food. Today, he was more reluctant to do that, but was told, "Relative's dog name is coming to eat your treat," and he gobbled it up.

That phrase has been working for his dry food, and the treats to help his dental hygiene too :)

Night night

Anyone got advice for dealing with oxalis at the base of young lily pily hedge? People have suggested using a paint brush with poison to just contact the oxalis and other plants should be fine?

Bottom be summoned.
It involves aeroguard but don't quote me on that @Bottom_racer@aussie.zone
Where is bottom racer? They have been quite successful against oxalis lately from what I remember lol
- I think he used Aeroguard? Ammirite?

PSA. Aldi's Buffalo bites (found in the freezer next to the nuggets) are very tasty. Pair them with a G&T and you now have a gourmet meal. Get on it. 5/5 yum yums.

My arms are a bit sore today after all the lugging around of mulch I've been doing. I have managed to get all the tape off the rest of the cardboard boxes so I'm ready to put the next lot of mulch down as soon as I have aquired it. I've also put together the mini-greenhouse I'll be using to start some seedlings in. I put a heavy container of water on the bottom shelf and it hasn't blown away yet, so I think that's a good sign.

I got a small grocery order delivered this morning, I think there were more items substituted than not, but fortunately they are all good substitutions. Now that I have more eggs I'm going to do a batch of breakfast muffins - I even bought some egg rings so I can keep the eggs the right size/shape.

Commbank down while trying to pay for groceries. Yay.

My local banh mi place has Viet donuts and I've been buying them recently with my usual roll purchase to enjoy with an afternoon cuppa. Why is deep fried dough so tasty?

Google advanced life photography and read the reviews.

Photographer said to our child "Didn't your mum wash your face this morning?" Child responded with "My mum is dead"
Fark that turned dark.. jeezus
- I didn’t see that one. Poor kid.
  And that’s why you Google places before you interview.
That was a wild ride omg
Haha I love reading bad service business reviews, and wonder how people do not Google the business before using them.
Holy hell. How are they even operating?!
looking at that broken mug that was a mercy kill

Doing housework today. Turning the place from a seedy nightclub into a respectable home before the fuzz gets here. Google Home may have allegedly overhead some unsavoury content.