Daily Discussion Thread: Wed 20 Sep 2023
Daily Discussion Thread: Wed 20 Sep 2023
Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.
snug on the couch with some of my babies
They’re gorgeous! And no couch for you
thanks! L shape couch, big puppy's head was on my leg.
oh wow, what a lovely family 💗🤗
thanks!
The doggo in the middle looks so comfy and safe
that's carl. he has a brother named mongo and a sister named donut. they all love cuddling the puppers.
looks like Ted Cat has settled in 🤗 no teasing, he had to have a shave because he was knotty 🥺
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I want to honk his wonderful tail poof
😍 I'm glad he has a nice home now
Welcome Ted Cat! Feliway friends made new introductions much smoother in my home.
Ted cat!!! I hope he and Bill will (eventually) be excellent to each other. I did not think there were that many cats like them available for adoption.
Feline undercut. Very spiffy.
Oh precious!
I want to use his tail as a powder puff (without powder). But that would be cruel.Awww congratulations on bringing home Ted cat!
Hi Ted!
I think he looks sweet all shaved. 🐈⬛
Just been dropped that I'm doing the flowers for my bros wedding this Sunday.
I'm seriously not impressed.
If anyone here has ever been to a wedding in Indo (their first wedding) and what her side of the family would (I'm guessing) expect... let's just say from what I saw they expect a lot of flowers.
Fuck me
That’d be a “no” from me
Small posies for the bridal party, buttonholes for the groom party and single orchid flowers at tables. Posies for the mothers of the wedding couple
Plenty on the cum trees
Or, just one single flower.
Honestly tempting.
Send them an invoice - at wedding planner prices. Include an item for designing the wedding dress and making the wedding cake. Also an item for the days off work you've will have to take to get everything done. Sounds like they expect you to do everything but say the vows. This is beginning to look like fraternal abuse. Certainly it's thoughtless and not nearly enough time to organise everything.
Heh I'm trying to avoid all of that. But yeah it is sort of looking not great.
Yeah, no. What the hell? How disorganised do you get especially for an international wedding?
Cum flowers for them all.
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In addition to the invoice suggested by Thornburywitch:
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add a priority service fee equal to 150% of your daily pay, or $500 before tax (whichever is larger), for each day off you need to take.
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add a priority delivery fee of $1.80 for each km you need to travel, including the flights. If no flights required, then charge $3.00 per km.
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add a 20% (of item cost) item provisioning fee for each item you need to procure.
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add a stress compensation fee of 50% on top of all that, including Thornburywitch's line items.
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finally, put another 45% on top to give directly to the ATO.
As for the wedding itself, they probably also need to provision a few cows, pigs, and chickens to the parents, and some other gifts dedicated for the bride.
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Annnnddddd, it’s happened again.
Why have people decided to sit right next to me in a near empty waiting room? And the chairs right next to me? Leave a space damnit!
I do not understand. If this is my superpower, please take it away. 😭🤣
Learn to pass gas at will
People will possibly then learn to distance and mask
Start muttering to yourself I am the angel of mercy, the time of cleansing is coming
They'll move, trust me
Unless they decide to join in with:
Redemption is at hand!
I once took the night ferry to Tassie. Booked the basic low cost seat section. The ENTIRE section was empty except for one other person. and guess where they decided to sit? Unreal.
I actually called him out on it.
Start scratching your head. Vigorously.
Start looking at pictures of rashes on your phone?
Time to get very sick very loudly all of a sudden.
I don't have that issue, I'm fat and people tend to not want to sit next to fat people... I wonder why? /S
(No but seriously it is both freeing and also upsetting. Like yes no one wants to sit next to me, but then also "Jesus Christ no one wants to sit next to me!" Especially during bus replacements.
Aww, you guys! ☺️
Hahaha, I needed that!
Ted Cat is very very hungry . Every single rescue long haired cat I've had had been neglected and half starved. 😢
Hopefully that will settle. It's always a heartbreak realising that they've been without.
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Always hungry innit?
Needs food to grow all the hair back.
Imagine if he and Bill Cat decided to join forces and trick you into feeding them third breakfasts every day...
Ted is getting seconds for the next months or so.
Poor little man. Did he come from a bad situation?
I'm off today. Work I've had a lot of conflict and ended the day early to go for a walk, but also there's a few things I just need to rant about sorry...! Also have a picture of my cat showing how I feel today!
gorgeous
I am instantly in love with your cat both for that gorgeous, GORGEOUS fur and that perfect pose!
Hahaha thanks. She's a gorgeous Maine Coon. Vocal as hell as well which can be... frustrating. :)
While I was having a nice relaxing bath the kids decided to join me in the bathroom. The oldest one decorated the littlest one to make him look "pretty" with butterfly clips.
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That's a VERY tolerant pupper!
He was too busy trying to lick the mat to notice.
He does look pretty 😍
So since moving to Tassie I haven't made any real friends, but in a really weird coincidence someone who I knew because she dated a friend I played footy and cricket with (20 years ago) happened to move in to the same area as I did in Tassie not long before I moved here (5 years ago). We spoke off and on but after she found out about the break up, she invited me out to trivia night with some of her work friends. I am really really terrible socially, was super nervous, and almost bailed. But I sucked it up and went last night and actually had a really good time. I was actually social and talked to people instead of feeling like I didn't belong.
And we came third so even better.
Go you! Sometimes you've gotta push yourself a little (I know the feeling!).
That's fantastic!! This is so good! It gets easier with time, but you slayed it! Very cool! 💜
Ted Cat has never seen anyone have a cup of coffee, he thinks everything is a cat food bowl!! And if he doesn't get his way he is cranky. I don't think he's ever lived with humans or been taught how to behave. 😨 He reminds me of a zoo animal.
I also think he was only neutered very recently 😬
Welp, Jimmy and Marceline are checked into the cattery. Sadness.
Pissing off to Hobart tomoz. Keen to try the fooodz.
Tassie’s beautiful. Are you going to Mona - it’s worth a look
of course ! Mona is imperative.!
Started work pretty normally.. about an hour in, realised my throat was really dry and felt strange even though I'd been drinking water. Then I got really really tired. Told work I'm unavailable and slept from 10am until 5pm. I had to force myself to get out of bed so I wouldn't keep sleeping. I'm going to order something in I think because I should eat but don't have the energy to bother myself.
This being the day after I went back into the office for the first time since before my leave. Yikes.
Up since 5am and I am le tired
potatowinner!
Bringing those hot potatoes home 🥔👌
So any emotional extremes today. Tonight is comfort food, blanket, couch and either Netflix or gaming. Tomorrow will be better.
And so another data breach has happened. This time with Pizza Hut.
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this is why I use hardly any internet services it's not that companies are bad, it's that they can't be trusted to not be idiots
Plus 13 11 66 is so much more catchier.
Hackers went after the Hut? Is nothing sacred anymore!!!
Better get a bloody free pizza out of this!
Pizzapocalypse
Huh, good for me that I'm not involved. Otherwise I'd have 4 nickels. I'm still on 3 baby!
What do people even eat for lunch if they don't have cheese?
I've gone with instant ramen with two eggs cracked in. It's okay I guess. Could use some cheese
Surely you have some spooky seafood on standby.
Coles pre-made salad (the little square ones) heated up in the microwave - the packet of dressing really makes it yummy. And it knocks over 4 serves of veggies out of 5 for the day. Then one can have POTATOES as the 5th vegetable for dinner!
peanut butter toast of course
Soup
Fish sandwich?
Rice n Dahl n veggies.
Omelette w/out cheese - currently tofu and capsicum.
Leb bread sardine/salad wrap.
Frowns.A battered sav and a potato cake.
fried egg on rice with soy sauce
Had an m&v stir fry, no cheese.
Am planning on a sorta risotto tonight, might stir in a little at the end.
Edit: who the fuck downvoted that?!?
Fuckery has increased. increased muttering to self
Rollercoaster day. Got an email this morning asking that I attend the office later this week to meet with the directors. No details provided on what the meeting is going to be about. An ex-colleague of mine recieved a similar meeting invitation earlier in the year where they got made redundant. So naturally I began to freak out, thinking I'm about to lose my job. I asked if I needed to prepare anything for the meeting and the response makes me think I'm not about to lose my job, but they're going to be raising something performance related. I'm pretty nervous because I have no idea what I'm going to be walking into. The response could just be throwing me off the scent. I feel sick.
I already want to leave, but better hurry up with finding that new job. Tonight I'm going to apply for a few roles and clear my work PC in case the worst happens.
I've joined the air fryer club. Yay!!!
Congratulations 🎉 You might want to visit r/airfryer for all your airfryer needs.
Welcome. So easy to do pork belly crackling in them.
I've just spend two hours on phone setup stuff. So many apps, so many accounts to sign in. I haven't even spent any time actually organising anything, just downloading and logging in.
Also, it is now the time for Halloween and Christmas items to be out simultaneously.
I don’t even know what to celebrate when anymore. 😂
Easter
If you had the choice, what would you go for:
- Increase of pay to relieve cost of living pressure
- Decrease in work hours (but not pay) to increase your work/life balance
I know for me it's the latter but that comes from a position where cost of living, while putting a bit of pressure on me financially, isn't my biggest concern. I've lived frugally before and can do that but seeing my hours slip away while companies make big profits off of my work isn't fun.
On average, I'd guess it'd be 2 for most people who already got into the property market and are comfortable with what they have. 1 for people who are starting out/trying to buy things.
I'd rather the prices of things stopped getting insane so we didn't have to try to keep up with huge pay rises though, in general. I don't know how the world can turn this around and things can get better. All of the systems around the world are effectively just 'made up' so I feel like the world as a single unit could just decide to make it a better place for most at the expense of annoying those profiting most from the current system, but that's some John Lennon Imagine style daydreaming and I think the days of things being good for the masses is over and just going to get worse.
Yay now I'm sad.
I would love for the highest paid in a company to have their wage proportional to the lowest wage (ie. 30x), enshrined in law, so there is still motive for increasing profit but it benefits everyone.
its all a balancing act I guess. I'd absolutely take 2, but not if its going to increase financial stress.
At the moment I'd go with increased pay. Not so much for cost of living pressures, but to put towards retirement which will give me a really good work/life balance by cutting out the work aspect entirely.
I’d take the increase pay first if I had a choice then move to better work life balance once things were better.
I think being away from work more could increase expenses whether that be by utilities or going out.
My work/life balance is pretty good at the moment, so I'll take the extra $$$ all day.
Same here although I’d love it if the profits made by the company were evenly distributed downwards to all of us, especially us at the bottom of the ladder.
Probably 2. I had a pay rise not long ago but family circumstances mean I think I'm going to need more time for life admin.
(I know this is from yesterday but thought I would reply anyway - sorry for the lateness)
That whole life admin piece is the real kicker, huh? Especially when family is to be considered - whether it's older or younger family members, those that need that little bit of extra time (as in, anyone that isn't fully independent) really does end up chewing into the other time you would use to do things like, you know, live life. That's what I don't understand about a lot of the debates going on around the world where the birthrate is dropping - people don't feel they have the adequate time to raise a family. Couple it with the other side of the sandwich where you also have to help out older family members who aren't nearly as independent as they were when we were younger, and suddenly you're caught in the middle.
At this point I'm going with 2 because of burnout and I've long since given up on the idea of buying property - my time and sanity is more important atm. As long as I can cover my basic expenses I'm fine. For me, part of cost of living pressures come from discretionary expenses borne out of the stress of FT work; in some way I can save money doing PT hours by accessing cheaper and more sustainable improvements in well being.
It's a fine balance though. Depends a lot on the actual $ offered and the nature of the job
Increase in pay. I mean I'd love to be able to work 4 days a week, but I think money is my main issue. The only thing work/life balance would achieve is I'm not spending an extra $20 to go to and from work.
THE UNIVERSE IS FUCKING WITH ME AND I REFUSE TO ENGAGE
I just wanna work out if the aircon should be ducted ceiling or through existing floor.
Ceiling. Better for dispersal across the area.
No I won't show my work. I've lived in houses with both setups and ceiling AC felt better
still have the issue of the old vents, and also heating. The house is actually an older build (60's) and amazingly done to accommodate the environs. Not only proper insulation, but oriented correctly for the sun, window placement also factors in summer baking + blast shield shutters for radiant heat, so I think we might be ok.
We had a splitty in the old place, and ran it at a minimum of ~24c during summer anyway so we're not looking for arctic conditions. Guess it's gonna come down to quote prices - if too outrageous we might put a split in the bedroom and then kick the can down the road a bit.
EDIT: should add, rooms already have reversible fans for pushing air about
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Said it before but I’ll say it again, if you like Aussie comedy get on Thank God You’re Here. Ok yes we had a South African and a kiwi tonight, but it’s still better than American comedy.
Urzila kicked arse tonight.
She's amazing, but she always is.
...Have any of you gotten an employment lawyer to run through a contract before signing? I've finally got my short term one for this project I'm meant to do, but it's both incredibly vague about my responsibilities as well as incredibly broad about IP created in my own time (anything that "relates" to the business?? what does that mean exactly?)
I'm wondering whether it's worth it since they are a small business that probably won't have the resources to really lawyer up and fight (and would ruin their reputation in the process if they really did). But they have been really hard to trust lately. It just doesn't sit right with me.
IP created in my own time
We are a company that sells pet food. Any and all animal or food art you have ever created and will create belong to us.
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Fully agree.
Trust your gut feel. This doesn't sound right at all. For a short term contract, you need to know that they have thought out exactly what they expect from you in the time available. And it doesn't seem that this has happened.
I'm especially sus about how they might define whether what I create during the period of employment, in my own personal time, on my own hardware/software, is relevant to the business operations and therefore they can lay claim on it. When my tasks are so vague.
I get that IP clauses are not uncommon (although not present in my previous contracts!) - but the way they've worded this really grinds my gears because (a) they rely extensively on open source software and have never spent a red cent contributing to it, and (b) a good part of the solutions I've come up with for the business have been based off publicly available code and answers on stackexchange, github and the like - from people helping each other out on their own time (Much of that extra research being shit I've learned on my own time as well)
Now they want to turn around and potentially stop me from giving back to those same communities? Grrr.
I think the question is more of it's worth the money for a lawyer. You'll probably pay $400 at least. If this contract ain't worth the expense of the review it might be worth proposing an alteration yourself.
I might just start with suggesting alterations but I suspect I might not get a straight answer out of our hideously incompetent business mgr (this contract was sent through as late as possible!) I feel like I'd benefit from professional opinion just do a once over and say 'eh this is OK with a few tweaks' vs 'this needs major changes', to back up my position (or help me decide to just bail).
$400 is definitely going to sting, but I don't want this to impact what I want to do after I leave... Maybe I should just look for another job.
Exercises completed after spending time today setting up a new non Gmail account and securing my financials, changing my contact details here and there. I've probably overreacted but I'd rather err on that side than not doing enough, and it's my first time with a breach or hack of any kind. It was eye-opening for me how many businesses and organisations I'm involved with. One email breach shakes head and no, it's not the pizza hut one! Also talked to the Minipeelers about it, what happened and what I had to do about it. Now I've got to think about dinner but I don't feel like cooking 😔
Botbot and @RustyRaven any chance of pinning today's DT? It's flapping around in the wind and I'm afraid it might tumble down the wrong way with a particularly strong gust.
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Oh dear, I thought I had done that already. I must have been distracted somewhere after unpinning yesterday's. Can I blame it on the cat?
You can always blame it on the cat... unless you want to blame it on the boogie 🕺
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cough COUGH cough cough
Another day or so of bromhexine and I should be able to let Pei Pa Koa take over.2 more days for new phone! Woop
My phone's estimated delivery timeframe: over 2 weeks. My phone's actual arrival time: 2 days.
It looks pretty good, just going through setup now. Once upon a time mobile phones were giant bricks and we would marvel when each successively smaller model came out. Then we started adding in lots of new functions and they are getting bigger and bigger again.
They got bigger when men realised they could watch 🌽 on them!
I thought it was the dumb memes and kitten pictures. Watching 🌽 seems like something that would be better on a device that is not hand held 🤣
I never understood phone corn till recently. Got a mate who does iPad corn. That i cant comprehend at all!
What did you order?
Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra. Reconditioned, but looks perfect and is working fine (for a lot less). It was the cheapest one I could get which included the S pen which I've found from the tablet is really useful for some of the things I do.
Holy shit, old mate next door is making more noise than the tradies the other side demolishing the house (though they seem to have knocked off once it clouded over).
Fortunately it started after I got all the leaf and blossom debris in the green bin.The carrots got a bit dry on the warm windy day yesterday so I’ve watered them again and pulled them inside overnight to avoid snails/slugs.
Melbcat is very happy to have her favourite bed back. She got it back same wash day and has been glued to it since
I'm doing the grub/seedling dance. Lost a few already but 95% going well.
I have a bit of a dilemma. So my gym is like 42 a week because it's "premium", but because I've been sick and had a mental breakdown over the past few weeks, I haven't been for a while.
I'm really conflicted about whether or not to try somewhere else. It's the whole starting at a new, busier gym that's intimidating. So it's either a) I step it up and actually use my membership or b) suspend my membership at current gym to try out some other gyms and see which I like better.
Anyone had experience switching gyms?
Can they pause the membership due to medical reasons?
Get it in writing, gyms are notorious for dodgy contracting.
I'd go to my local gym if there was a per visit fee but there's some whacky contracting and many complaints on google reviews (Crunch gym).
See what the council gym option are. My local council one is amazing, about $24 a week with access to classes, 24hr gym, indoor and outdoor pool, spa and sauna.
So my gym is like 42 a week
That's exxy. What sort of gym is this? What's premium about it?
You could ask your gym to pause your membership for a while (I think most gyms allow you to freeze your membership) and you could get a supporting note from your GP if possible too?
I think it's just the amenities and the location tbh. Plus they don't let a whole heap of people join so it's not super busy.
I think I will freeze it and find somewhere else. There's another gym nearby that has a membership for the same price except it includes reformer pilates. Except the gym kind of has bad reviews.
Just found out my email address has been stolen in a data breach from Freecycle 🤦🏼♀️😳😳😳
Free email addresses. Fits.
My email address is well and truly out there already, and as it's not tied to any other data I'm not really concerned about it.
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I think something festive to make me feel like I'm not actually at work this morning. Chef's choice for the main, and a cocktail with lots of fruit and a little umbrella please. I'll follow up with a rediculously tall sundae covered with fruit and cream with a cherry on top.
Steak and eggs, a party hat, an espresso martini - and keep the witch's glass topped up - on me
You devil, you. I like it!
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TIL that cats do have their own language.
When our fluffy vocal one is being chatty, yells at the door begging to go outside, or is being excited to see me come home, the others sometimes come around to investigate then carry on sleeping
If he's the first one that sees vegetables or raw meat in my hands, he would beg for it, this time the other two would drop what they're doing and join him begging, even if I immediately hide said food before the other two could see it.
Ooof, Bethesda/Xbox leaks. Juicy.
The Oblivion remake is what annoys the hell out of me... been wanting that for ages and they finally do it only to cut Sony out. How Microsoft were able to get away with that acquisition is beyond me.
I dont think they've said its NOT coming to PS5, right? The only exclusive so far was Starfield, but that was only after Sony tried to get it as an exclusive themselves, so I dont feel sorry for them. 95% of folks are gonna play on PC anyway to mod the shit out of, right?
I also think the intention was to have the cloud stuff working a lot better so that you didnt HAVE to have an xbox, just games pass and a HDMI dongle thing, but clearly that never happened.
The balls to even think about buying out Nintendo.
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