Daily random thread: Gotta get down on Friday edition (June 16, 2023)

It kinda feels like the old DT of reddit sans reddit. Kinda feels like home away from home and it’s you guys who are helping. I’m glad I decided to join this place after all. Feeling happy and slightly teary? You all are good eggs in my book

The firing of the employee went down earlier today.

They decided to turn it into a resignation to save face.

Had to step in to prevent it turning into an argument with their manager, but handled it well.

The employee thanked me for my professionalism when I walked them to their car, and they hugged me goodbye.

So glad I held a debriefing with their team afterward. It honestly helps me as much as it helps them.

Still feeling a bit from it. So my self care starts now with a curried cauliflower pie from Country Cob

Good work! Sounds like all handled it as best they could.
- All things considered for sure. Would have preferred a million other different ways to wrap up the week, but ending a tough situation with a hug ain't too bad
Kind of miffed that you didn't incorporate a song into it, but you got it done.
- Is Another One Bites the dust too cold or on point?
Speaking of Country Cob, their vanilla slices are amazing! I've tried a few of their pies and wasn't very impressed though, especially for the price.
- Can't speak for their meat ones, but the vegetarian ones are great.
  
  I think it's more that it's a treat to have a place offer more than a bland token vegetable pastie

Theverge.com has some updates on the reddit saga. Basically, reddit says get stuffed. So if the r/Melbourne mods are gonna stick to their guns get comfortable gang. We ain’t going anywhere any time soon.

I've crept back to Reddit a couple of times over the last few days but honestly... there's some weird communities that people are clinging on to that are now appearing on r/all that I'm just like "if this is what Reddit is to become, maybe it's a good thing that I just walk away."

I'm happy enough in here, provided we retain a good percentage of the old DT gang. We might need to recruit or hope that we gain enough traction to increase our numbers of great people eventually, but for now, this will have to do :)
- Sadly, the r/NRL meatheads aren't interested and don't care if reddit fucks over their users so they aren't interested in any further action or moving platforms. That's probably my most frequented sub so I'm somewhat tied to it if I want to talk NRL in a non-discord setting.
- Really? I popped back there this morning and I don’t think that, besides Melbourne, any one of the subreddits that I frequent have gone permanently dark.
  
  I was only ever active in the Melbourne subreddit but frequently lurked in many others, and it’s business as usual in all of them. I never went on r/all though so maybe that’s why I never noticed a dofference
- r/cricket and r/afl are open, if melbourne opens back up then I'm all set.
Anyone can also check r/ModCoord for updates on the great schism. The moderators will eventually be replaced if they don’t capitulate.

I haven’t read the verge article but one would assume getting advertisers to start pulling their money out of Reddit would be the only play.

being poor poem

Rent has been paid, and now it's quite tight
I'll spoil the puss because he's my light.
Not enough for my meds so it'll be hard tonight,
Too many night-terrors, but I should be alright!
Things will get better, this is just a tough spot,
I will get better, I will improve my lot.

So has there been any updates on the Reddit saga? I’m low key loving that I get to live through a part of internet history for once. I hardly used Twitter. I wasn’t on iPhone for the privacy breaches. I think this is the first big scandal I get to witness first hand. Well, except maybe the blaster worm back in ‘03.

I have been struggling to keep up with discussion about it, I just check reddark daily, 5,000/8,000 subs are still dark.
- So their big plan to make more money was devised by elon musk?

Ok I’m just gonna say it. Ok I’ll just whisper… I miss reddit, this doesn’t feel the same. Strangely, I also feel ghosted? Melbourne reddit gone without a trace. The other city subs are back, but Melbourne still in lockdown (and there wasn’t even a press conference.) It is a good space here, but I don’t know I am nostalgic I guess.

What a beautiful day today ❤ also i ordered 4 spatulas and they gave me 6 yay 😄

Always good to have spares of stuff but you also got bonuses woot woot!
- Exactly 😁
Can't help but wonder why one would need 4 spatulas? 🤔
- They were diff types of kitchen utensils but idk what else to call them

Looks like there’s 341 subscribers in this group! Heck yeah!

.. still feel like there are missing peeps though

In a story that’s 100% my own fault for not learning, I’m battling Amazon. So that vacuum I complained about the other week? The one I brought for 495ish then dropped to 400ish 2 days later? Amazon wouldn’t price match. They said to just return the order and reorder it again. I didn’t. I brought from JB for 400 and sent the more expensive one back to Amazon who proceeded to charge me a “change of mind return fee” of 7 bucks after previously claiming I wouldn’t be charged. Now it’s just 7 bucks, I’ve wasted far more on things before, but because of how shit they’ve been I decided to fight it.

They are claiming they can’t offer me the 7 dollar refund as anything other than credit, but I keep telling them that I’m not gonna buy anything from them anyway so refund me the money as I’m legally I’m entitled too and for them to either get their shit sorted or I’m gonna charge back the full amount on the credit card.

Far out people don’t buy from Amazon cause if someone goes wrong it’s a fucking nightmare!

Geez. That sounds like an ordeal and a half. I know all too well about fighting over something that might seem trivial, but it comes down to the principal of the matter.

Here's hoping on the other side Amazon just refund you the money sooner rather than later. Surely there's someone there that looks at how much time is going into the admin of trying to resolve the complaint and just go "fuck it, it's $7". Then again, their Overlord and all round Evil Doer of a boss would be stingy enough that $7 would be something he'd fight tooth and nail over.
- Deffo. They keep saying their system doesn’t support refunds this way. I say I don’t think under Australian consumer law they have a choice. Guess we will see what the ACCC say.
They ripped me out of a $20 gift card last year. I got gifted one and I ordered a few bits and bobs, even though it was all covered by the gift card, they still demanded I add a bank card. So I did. 100% of it came out of the gift card funds, and 0% out of my card. Then 5 minutes after they accused me of providing a stolen bank card and demanded I verify my card by sending in a statement + proof of balance. So I did. I tried 4 times, and then they removed my button to be able to upload documents. Couldn't even call a real human, because guess what, when your Amazon account is on hold YOU CANT EVEN ACCESS THE SUPPORT PAGE. It was only 20 bucks, but it just showed me that they are willing to fuck me over at the drop of a hat. At that point I decided that I will not shop there again, at all.

The irony is that that $20 they screwed me out of is nothing compared to the couple of hundred I since would've spent there
- Exactly! That’s basically what I said to them, if you’re gonna screw me on 100 bucks you’re gonna lose the sale entirely. They did, so… suck eggs basically.
Within the 30 days you can do the return yourself without talking to a person, I change the reasoning if the return fee appears. The returns system can be automated for the first month.

Last year I had to respond to an email about why I had returned so many items, I just explained that I wouldn't have bought them in the first place if Amazon hadn't provided a peace of mind.

Mr. Omoikiri’s turn to pick the movie tonight. We’re watching 13 Lives, the movie about the rescue of the Thai boys in the cave.

Honestly the most fucked up thing. It’s such a feat of humanity and whatever other higher power there is that they all made it out alive and there was only one casualty in the whole operation.

Also no mention of Musk’s submarine, which is a plus. 👍

I had a handsome doordasher bring me my Friday consolation maccas. Dayummm

Got homemade burger night down to a tee... The key you see, it's lots of pickles, mayonnaise, bbq sauce and chilli sauce.

Cheers 🍻 happy Friday everyone

Dinner was pita bread spread with cream cheese, smoked salmon and pickles, rolled and sliced into pinwheels. With a glass (or three) of vino. Dessert was peppermint aero. Will do nutrition tomorrow, I promise.

Ya Llab here, rolled out of bed with enthusiasm to find we have no water… 🤬 Got notice for when they were supposed to fix whatever it is the other day then they didn’t bother to inform everyone they couldn’t fix it.

I have officially sponged in a bottle of soda water. 😂

Also I have the grumps because it’s completely thrown out my day…

Ah well, might just have to go for a ride. 😈

Lord give me the STRENGTH to get through my work today.

I need to get an entire draft of my thesis to my supervisors by the end of the day and I gotta pull a couple of thousand words outta my arse to meet my target. It’s not gonna be a fun one.

I was told the sun would be shining brightly today. I need a refund.

amazing down st kilda way
Plenty of sun out in my hood. I'll send some your way.
- thank you just got it
it's lovely here 🌞
- it has finally arrived here
I made the announcement when I made todays thread (after midnight) there will be some Sun. Enjoy it and get yourself some Vitamin D. Have an awesome day Bacon!
- Thank you Goddess. The sun is here now. I am going to take a walk in shorts.
Sorry fresh out of refunds

Errands completed. Now time to find food. I hungy. Haven’t eaten since late breakfast and hopefully 10 mins walk then home before it’s gets cold

🍝🧃
- 💛

Man it looks amazing out there today. Pity I have 30 emails to answer this morning. Volunteering has its ups and downs but I got such amazing feedback yesterday from my manager and then still couldn't work cos my brain was too foggy. So I'll try and pull a big effort today and get as much done as I can so it's not all up to someone who really doesn't have the time.

Anyone else done AA? I've found a zoom group which is always online and at the very least just listening is helping, and I get a sense of calm when for the last three months I've been a complete anxious mess most days. I was worried they'd try and talk about de-transition but they've actually been super trans-positive and sensitive. I need sensitivity in my life as I've upped my oestrogen intake by 50% this week and it's feeling pretty amazing but yeah, deeper. Only a few more days alcohol withdrawl to go and I'll be steady enough to get back on my skateboard, though I'm going to try again today anyway.

My brain won't brain right now, which is not ideal because I'm supposed to be writing a very intense work email. Please send brain cells!!

What a clusterfuck of a week. Desperate times call for desperate measures so I'm finishing off this already-opened bottle of wine that's been sitting in my kitchen since last weekend. In the words of Bernard Black - "the older the wine is...the gooder it is..."

I had such a nice evening until my cat rolled off my lap by mistake and tried to save himself with his claws 😿

I try my best to be "fuck Nestlé" but they've brought out an orange Aero and it's pretty good 😭

Well, I have just confirmed the circle with a cross through it under comments blocks the user and does not, as I hoped, hide the comment. Pressing it again does not reverse the first one, it just doubles down and blocks them twice.

After a bit of searching I found the list to unblock is on the settings page, on a second tab.

I would like to just say that I was just talking about microwaved potatoes and everyone got all weird and sexual. It had nothing to do with me. Microwaved potatoes just do that to people sometimes

On my way home from work today I stocked up on potato, sweet potato, baked beans and hot-sauce. Weekend: sorted, Microwave: purring in anticipation 😎

I went into an Asian store in Airport West yesterday and spent way too much money on shit I can't even read. I have come to the conclusion I think I really like Fanta, I think? I got like 5 Fanta products I've never seen before

Also, this green Thai "mixed fruit" Fanta actually tastes pretty decent. Pic for the curious:

Was this at Premium Asian Pantry?
- I think so, I honestly wasn't paying much attention, just thought the shop looked cool, so went in and had a look. It appeared on my statement as "Oceania Premium Retail" so possibly. It was near the food court
Huh, I didn't realize there were Asian Fantas.

Resubmission of my last TAFE assignment is complete. Nothing major, but it involves about 14 billion different files to submit the assignment, so it is quite possible I missed something about which ones I needed to redo.

Okay ill do my first Aussie Zone whats on for the weekend?
Tonight im going to chat to the owner of Valhalla Axe Throwing and have a beer or two. Tomorrow is yoga and meditation at the buddhist centre (balance ;) ) and we are seeing a caberet type show tomorrow night. Sunday is mead maintenance, moving latest brew to secondary storage, i will have two 5L batches from this, the base is strawberry and rasberry. One 5L batch will be getting more strawberry juice in secondary and some wine tannins and the other will be getting 0.5kg of dried sour cherries in there for a bit :)

Going to meet my friend’s new baby on Saturday and hot pot dinner with my office mates on Sunday.

And a whole lotta translation crammed in between that.

I really wanna read all weekend though and finish off some of my books
- This weather is perfect for hot pot, eh! We've been having one every week. The miso one that we get in particular is goddamn delectable and tastes so close to Kamakura Soup with Noodles that I could cry.
  
  (Also, love the avatar you've chosen for in here! So good).
- I joined a readathon of queer books for pride month. And I haven't read anything since like the start of the month, :c. Especially since I've gotten back into reading I miss it.
- Sounds lovely :) I am missing my Icelandic learning but ive just been so busy
Seeing the Australian Ballet tonight with a friend, then State Library volunteer shift tomorrow, then brunch with friends on Sun. Should be a fun one!
- That sounds a good weekend. What does being a library volunteer involve? and can you advise if the new digital tour is any good?
Dad asked if I wanted to go to a plus size market (It's like this huge market in Coburg where people sell second-hand clothes for plus size folks, sometimes there's people who make clothes, or accessories). So having a lil hang before my birthday because I haven't seen him in a while.
- where in Coburg is that then..?
BJJ tonight, shoulder finally recovered and I've been doing some light sessions. I think I'm ready for a full 90 min class. Hopefully my conditioning hasn't taken too much of a beating.

Tomorrow morning I'm day drinking with some friends from back home (online). Bunch of friends from HS have decided to do a catch up (some in person some online) and I've been invited. An afternoon/evening hangover will be interesting.

Sunday - will totally depend on how Saturday pans out.
- That pesky conditioning, so long to build up, so quick to run away :P
I'm planning a mix of household chores and starting on plans to create my new bot army. Which could end up being very time consuming, and it's looking like I will need to learn at least some basic JavaScript. I have access to LinkedIn Learning which has some good training material, so I'm starting off with some of that for now.
- Woooo bot army!!!
Lecture at the immigration museum, babysitting overnight and the Reclink Community Cup
- Community cup is always fun!

Mr Smeg thinks we should have a bite to eat before grocery shopping at Knox.

Can't decide on Studfield Dumplings or something at Ozone.

A new retail section opened at Knox last weekend so will be good to have a proper squiz at the new JB and Rebel.

I know he's on his way and I should get dressed, but sitting in my Oodie listening to PBS is my happy place

Apropos of nothing, I really miss old-school Barbosh at Knox. That place was great.
- Don't know if I ever are at it. Might have had a drink there at a Christmas party
What's the new Knox like?
- It's looking pretty schnazzy. Still a bit to go, but phase 1 and 2 look really good

I have procured coffee

Thank you all for the brain cells, the email is in its final draft! Tomorrow night me can have another once over before I hit send.

I tried to yoink my avatar off reddit, but it didn't really work...

It looks like someone bonked me on the head then took a knife to half my antenna thing :(

I have found that setting my default sorting to Subscribed and NewComments has resulted in a better default feed. You do need to have enough community subscriptions for this to be beneficial.

The default sorting works for both the Jerboa app and the desktop website. We should have a post thread suggesting active fediverse communities for people to subscribe to, as they aren't that easy to find yet.

Good morning kids. If boss puts me back on cleanup duty today I will scream

Oooft paid $6 for fresh strawberries and they were half rotten. Other half was still delicious tho 🍓

The good thing about strawberries at that stage is they are generally properly ripe, and the edible bits are usually very tasty. Not good to have paid full price for it though, and disapointing that you have less strawberries than you wanted.
😱 eww that’s utter nonsense. Should’ve complained! Especially at 6 bucks a pop

Thinking I'll take off tomorrow for another one of my overnight weekend roadtrip adventures to get out of my apartment. I quite enjoyed driving along listening to my audiobook on my last one to Swan Hill rather than my usual Spotify playlists.

Not sure where to head this time though.. time to consult Ye Olde Google Maps.

In my dream I had finally gotten the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade game to work at the pub. It was all new and shiny and awesome. It allowed branching paths for a more narrative-rich story. Was just hitting up the first lot of footclan soldiers when the alarm went off.

I could have fucking cried.

Happy Friday y’all!

Damn, I feel your pain of interrupted unfinished dreams.

I have donuts! Happy Friday.

What kind? Where from? Why do I not have donuts? Give me the donuts.

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

Can I have one of those, two of those, and one of those but in another flavor and a large coffee please.
- 🍊🍳🍳🍨
  
  ☕️
I am impressed by the size of Thornburywitch's coffee there. Remarkable honestly. Do they come any bigger than that? -- I'll also get fried chicken and waffles please!
- that's the biggest
  
  ☕️
  
  🍗🧇
Putting in an order for a large coffee and chef's choice for the foodz please
- ☕️
  
  🥓🍳🥪
Hmm, I need some brain food today. A fruit salad, as slice of pavlova, 5 cups of strong coffee and a block of chocolate please.
- 🍉🧁☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️🍫
One of those large coffees and some sort of cake, please
- ☕️🍰
Meatball sandwich please. Would you get me two?
- 🍞☄️🍞
  
  🍞☄️🍞
I'm not a breakfast food kind of person. Interested to see what you can throw together for me.
- 🍔🍟🥤

DAILY DECENTRALISED THREAD: Day Shift

Bazango!🥊⏰

Industrial Grade Reddit Removal Edition

Day 3/4 of this tummy bug. Last night was pretty brutal. Flying out to Indo next week so tum tum better behave by then or everyone on the plane isn't going to be pleased.

Pls pray to the gods of immodium, brawndo and codeine for me.

Had the most productive day in over two weeks today and feel tons better about myself. Boring friday night talking to other alcoholics about our struggles at finding our higher powers and how powerless we are to control our substance use. A lot cheaper than going out and better company than the miserable mostly jerks I was wasting my life with on party chat rooms.

Pretty disappointed the two queer AA groups I reached out to haven't responded. I'm about done with the "queer" scene honestly. Was great to go and protest the cookers yesterday and I won't stop fighting for my own community but it feels like the greater queer community shut me out all the time and always have. Someone reckoned st kilda wasn't queer enough. Fucks sake, just let people live. Who cares? Why live in a bubble and ghetto anyway? As always you must be the first two letters of the rainbow or people are just dismissive. We'll always be there with you, thanks, yeah you asked my pronouns. That'll help next time I'm in an ambulance and get misgendered and given the wrong amount of drugs. end rant

You are one of the strongest persons I know, you can do this. 🤗 ( have you thought of a medical info bracelet? )

If you’re out and about and you notice someone with earphones in their ears, singing, is Asian and short. Good chance it’s likely me. Fiddy fiddy chance you can say Hi and freak out a stranger or freak me out because of my anxiety. The choice is yours! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

The man's car is fixed so that means I get my car back. He refered to it as the "family car". I correct him with "eeeerttt no". I had to go through the rules with him. Wash your hands before getting in my car. Fill it up. Strictly no eating in my car. If you must have a coffee DO NOT SPILL ANY because it will cost you your life. No hooning and the most important, if you bend it, you mend it. Apart from that I am pretty easy going.

Sooo much coffee spillage over the years
- The smell of spilt milk in any form in a car makes my guts turn.
Apart from that? My cars been promoted to the family car since the Mrs’s piece of shit is dead again. So much stuff has happened in that car. Straight stuff, not straight stuff, friends, you name it it’s been done in my car. And now it’s got a baby seat in it. I did get it professionally cleaned before hand though.
- Somehow I always have dog hair in my boot yet I've never put him in there.

JB Hifi just casually sent my mum some other persons Xbox along with her laptop. It's got his name and address inside the box but my mums on the box, we've contacted them and sent photos etc but haven't heard back.

quiz?

2/10 …..one was a guess and the other I knew from an earlier DT comment. I stopped checking the news during lockdowns & never really started again. Whoops.
I got three mum! Are you proud of me?
- Very, sweetheart
6/10 not too shabby
4/10

I feel so out of the loop with everything lately.
3/10, that Bluey one saved me.
Seven! Best I've done for a while.
9 hours?!
Ahaha, four.

Another day of work where I walk in the door and hang my brain up on the coat rack so I forget all the shit said and done. Blehhhh.

Miss Meow just bullied me into feeding her and Mr Woof early. I am too soft.

He called my car ca-ca so I said "Get fucked cunt" and then I remembered the kid was in the back seat so I fixed it by saying "Mummy did not swear at Daddy. You heard wrong".

Anyway cheers happy campers. 🍺

that's petrol lighting

Had the craziest time just now trying to buy a pair of uggs (or indeed anything close).
First outlet had the delivery driver doing wild things with the truck so you couldn't get near the place.
Second outlet's prices were eyewatering.
Decided to give Rivers a go and roadworks around the area had blocked off the entrance.
DFO was my last shot and I got a nice pair for about the price I was wanting, as well as a non-black top at the Big Girls' Blouse outlet.
Did a quick top up shop on the way home and am now flooped on the couch.

Rivers make terrible shoes in my experience.
- Yeah, they were going to be a cheapie stopgap.

Thanks goddess!

You’re welcome !
- Brace for your inbox to be flooded 😂

Ok where’s jezb87 is he here? Did anyone let him know we’ve moved on. Is he under another name? I don’t recognise people when they change their name’s here compared to the name they on reddit DT (so far as I know it’s just one person)

Feels a lot like we are the survivors of the titanic
- I liken it to a camping trip. It's all your own stuff just a different scenery.
- It does doesn’t it?
- Fortunately I don’t think any of our lot shot themselves in the run to the boats
Not sure. Just DM-ed.
- Yeah I just did the same and sent a msg to nufan as well. Hopefully fingers crossed they will tap on reddit and see pm’s

It's all fun and excitement at my place this afternoon. I have totalled up all my bank interest in preparation for my tax return (thanks high interest rates, I guess). My budget for the next year has been finalised and the form to change the amount of super salary sacrifice has been completed. Next up is changing the cat's litter & poop scooping the backyard. How's everyone else's Friday going?

Shit. I’m over work. My boss is a dick and I’m stressed to the max. But tinyest is happy, and we got some mates coming around for dinner so that’s exciting.
i obtained natural vitamin D from the gods
- Mr Woof and I went out for some of that earlier, it was lovely.
- I had a workmate earlier in the year introduce me to the concept of sunning ones perineum for an intense dose of vitamin D.
Day 2: still have not looked at work emails. Still feeling pretty great about it😎

My big sister (who lives in Cairns) just sent me this with a ‘wish you were here’ message

It is taking every ounce of my willpower to not jump on a plane. If I leave now, I can still make it in time for schnapps.

That looks SO FUN!
Do it. Enjoy your time up there and leave Sunday night
- Alas, grown up ✨responsibilities✨ have kept me grounded.
the Seagoons would so be there if it was local, tho I would want at least a week to make costumes

( I can't sing but both Mr Seagoon and Miss Seagoon are experienced stage musical singer/actors, they would be awesome 🤗😺)
- My friend used to have a shirt that said ‘My other clothes are made from curtains’ and she wore that to a SOM singalong screening.
- Would the costumes be made of the old curtains though 🤔
  
  Who would dress up as? I’d love to be the Baroness von Schrader because she’s so glamorous but realistically I’d probably go as Uncle Max or the woman that comes third place in the contest and keeps bowing because I love attention.

Ordered a little portable handheld massage gun thing to take with me to axe throwing tournaments to stop muscles getting so stiff by the end of the day. Arrived within a day haha and it feels super solid and well made, pretty happy for the price :)

I'm trying to say to myself you're overthinking it, it's not corporate bs, politics gone mad, and incompetent leadership. But everytime a frowny little wise girl show up in my head and go 'you know it is'

You’re likely right, it is all 3 points. Trust your gut

Wordscapes being a bit rude tonight. Not as funny as the time it spelt buttsex. But close. Makes me think of this funny scene in the Polymorph episode of Red Dwarf https://youtu.be/Y3z2EFt2Ljs

Sky hues pretty 😍 (purple/pinkish/yellow/orangey

Shamelessly stolen and created for a broader audience over in /c/Australia :)

:D

:D :D IT’S FRIDAY
- I’m gonna do it and likely hate myself but this one time…
  
  It’s Friyay! YAY!
- :)

You guys, the Australian Ballet performance tonight was amazing. So good. They brought back a bunch of retired dancers and featured them in the second half, and seeing some of my favourite dancers back again was just magic.

And… apparently water will be back in soon after I suffered all that. Current plans… Coffee and pancakes.

Edit: I must be nuts this morning. Went to the wrong cafe. Got a nice oat latte out of sheer embarrassment. Got to the right cafe. Forgot I wanted something else rather than the pancakes. Saw it wasn’t on the menu, so ordered a mushroom toastie.

Am sadly disappoint. Had better. Rawr.

Hopefully lunch/dinner turns out better! And may the rest of the day turn out in your favor :)
- Aww, thanks. First world and all that.
  
  How are you? Are you having a good day?

Oooh, pretty sky

The volcano purple is still with us, I'm not sure what planet that is but it's very bright 😊

As far as I can tell there are no android browsers that will block animated pictures from playing. Why do they do this to me? There are a few extensions for desktop so I might be able to block them there, but as I spend more time on mobile that is very dissapointing.

I’ve somehow aggravated my ankle (between the ankle bone & Achilles’ tendon). Google says rest, but that doesn’t really work for dog who loves walks or my step count.

Are you the imposter or the legit? I can’t tell any more.
- That was misssDarylC formally known as missDarylC who had the imposter.

Someone on my train into the city has a lovely juicy cough 😷

It's NATIONAL VEGEMITE DAY

I love, I love my Vegemite

It's strong as hell and black as night

I keep my love all screwed up tight

And spread it thick whenever I like, I like!
what happens if i eat marmite on this day
- That would be so un-Australian of you. (I don't mind Marmite but Promite is fucking disgusting)
kidcalhoon1 smears the absolute smallest amount you can imagine onto her toast - it's like she's coluring in her toast ever so slightly with a light tan colour or something. I'm the opposite, big unsmeared bits nestled up against hunks of salted butter....i like all the salt see
- My husband's like you. 3 tablespoons on a piece of toast then he shows me and says "You call yourself an aussie. That's how you do Vegemite".
I might finish my last ever jar then. There's a lot left. I need to cut down on salt intake and I'll eat 10 rice cakes w / vegemite in a go then just eat marg and vegemite off the butter knife.
- Marg! Marg! - that's barbaric! Butter only please.
Promite is better
- I don't have anything polite to say about that.
- 100% it is!
I use miso.

We've left the 50s and popped into the 60s now. 🎵

it is such a pita to go to a local restaurant, order hundreds of $ of food and wait an hour ( it would be longer for delivery) it would be easier to cook at home for guests, so I will

and the winner of coolest profile picture goes to…
- @bottomracer for the pic of butters.

Of course the stuff to fix my computer chair is arriving today when no one's home... At least I can sit in a comfy chair this weekend instead of the dining chair.

I assembled a new office chair for Mrs_Owl yesterday. Hope this one works out as others haven't and she's spent the best part of three years WFH sitting on a dining chair.
- I've had my chair for 2 years, it's fantastic. Big #gamer chair, but I love it. Luckily I got free chair parts because the company doesn't sell chair parts in Australia. And it got sent out like Monday or Tuesday, so very happy with the company.

Happy to say that I slept better last night so I'm on the mend. I'm still stuffy and hear myself in my head but fingers crossed tomorrow gets better again. Got lots planned for the weekend.

Let the cricket begin

Starting to feel an itch in my throat and feeling colder than usual this morning, I hope it's not the start to a full blown cold 🤒

I hate to tell ya buuuuuut it might be

There's a narsty bug floating around. Hope you don't fall victim for it.
- Yep you bet, already bracing for it in this case
Similar to me. I could not get warm yesterday until late in the afternoon and I developed a pain in my throat when swallowing which is still there today. Came with a headache and fatigue/brain fog but not much in the way of sniffles.
- Best to take the weekend off for yourself if that's the case, I may do just that myself
I've had a throat itch for a few weeks. I reckon it's mild hayfever from a warm winter. I eat plenty of fruit and veggies which is what usually helps me get over a cold.
- Always a good choice to get that vit c/zinc levels up in winter! 🍊
- yup, hayfever and dry weather/dry indoors

Knock off o’clock. Das ist gut

Watching the new Deadloch ep while I eat breakfast, and I have to say this ep is definitely slower than the rest. It's definitely a dotting the I's and crossing the T's episode in preparation for the final few eps. Sadly this ep is also poking holes in my outlandish theory as to who the killer is.

Final note, Kate Box is fkn killing it as the lead, while Madeliene Sami seriously wobbles on the line between funny and ok this is old now, Kate Box is absolutely solid from start to end. Would enjoy seeing some awards thrown at her when the time comes.

lead actor is fantastic, even when kinda buttoned down the whole time. watching her cut a bit loose doing an impression of the partner was fun. overall as with most aus products i'm proud and impressed but also like 'this could have been world class with another few rounds of quality control'
- I love the show but agree, I few more rounds of quality control and it could have truly stuck the landing.
Yeah the Eddie character is a bit cringe, hard to say whether that's due to the script, or whether it's bad over-acting by Madeline. I think we're 3 or 4 episodes in so we'll probably stick with it.
- I think maybe it's a mixture. This may just be me but when you throw Dulcie, Abbey, Sven, and Eddie into a scene together you start to wonder why the writers decided to bring in a foil for Dulcie at all when Abbey and Sven are doing a much better job of it and in much more audience appealing way.
I can't stand that show. The unrealistic incompetence is too cringe for me.
I was excited for it, but had gotten around to looking at reviews today and I think I'll wait for the season to complete and watch in one go.

Kids are in bed, finally. Red wine has been had.. I believe I shall watch Dune until I am too tired to stay up...

There's more info about the Moon Dog permit rejection, and it sounds like it was a Vicroads Objection, due to narrow footpaths and a truck route on Hopkins st.

Goddamn it newbies, stop doing stupid shit

Who's doing whatnow?
- We have new people assisting us at work. They’ve been trained…but you would never know it, because they’re making silly and completely avoidable mistakes.
  
  It is my job to clean that mess up. This can be frustrating

Howzat.

Are there any car wreckers in Melbourne where they allow people to walk through and grab and pay for what they need?

Jolly's in Ringwood and Pick a Part
- Pick a part, Pick a Part, Pick a Part!
- Awesome thanks!

God my cat would not stop meowing and waking me up throughout the night. Had to throw him out of my room at 5am because it was so frustrating.

RavenCat wouldn't stop bugging me at around 11pm (constant paw touches to the face!), then went off in a snit when I got up to go to the toilet and did not come back until I got up this morning.
- Yeah my cat (Bob) was just meowing and lovey dovey. And I'm like "I am waiting for you to bite me...". He's cute, but man.

Lol, you can hear the cricketers singing along with the anthem.

They’re not very good 😂

Hah - Daily thread over at C/Australia

edit ...didn't see the other post - on account of THESE CRAZY NON STICKING SETTINGS!!!

I now have in hand, Annas original ginger thins.

It’s “Sweden’s most loved Pepparkaka” 👈

Congratulations we have slowly made it past half way through June yay. Inching closer and closer to the end of the month

In a meeting about the main technology from my portfolio which I'm responsible for and I just.. can't. I think I need a nice long holiday. I've wanted to do a driving tour of some of the US national parks and maybe pop up into Canada for a while, maybe I should start planning.

And back to square one with my chair. The piston where the chair legs sit looks bloated, so it's really difficult to lift the chair legs, and I can't even get the old piston off of the old seat carriage holder thing... ugh. I just want to play video games in comfort. And the uber delivery driver is late with my order, at least it's the end of the day I suppose.

Does anyone else intend to stay up for the Test match? I need Night Friends

Good onya Gary

We’re about 11 mins away. Who’s starting the Saturday thread?

I'm just gonna fling out songs that we're playing tonight.

We've started with Papa Was a Rollin' Stone by The Temptations.

Whoo! First week over! One of the bonuses to my job is I can at least listen to my own stuff, so since I wasn't doing a lot of writing today I got through a huge chunk of podcasts that are in my queue. Now it's time for the weekend.

Hah. Ain't it weird you can sort the posts/threads from new to old by default but not the comments within threads...

Remember Stevie Nicks - Rooms on fire. Great song.

so i can sort by new now...did i miss that, or is it new?

I've always been been able to in the browser, just can't set it as the default option

sighs another weekend passes still no new car yet. waiting for the PPSR on the old car to clear.

It's been a couple of days of nice weather, lately.

It can't possibly last much longer!

Yeah I had a look at Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday top of 12 🥶

I need to get back on the sparkling water. Dropped off at new role as they didn’t have a filter with it buut they do have a soda stream so I’m bringin my own flavour!

How the fuck did Erasmus miss that?!

Another one for the Aussies.

Friday night football anyone?

About time. Good one Garyyyy.

Another one. Bye bye stokesy.

Daily random thread: Gotta get down on Friday edition (June 16, 2023)

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