Daily Discussion Thread: Thu 28 Sep 2023

Morning dose of bun buns.

A study in caramel.
I love him.
Boi belongs on a renaissance fresco. He could be a professional model.
He really is delicious 😋

bboi badman is judging our dinner choices tonight

Yes sir, I apologise for the state of this "cat food" sir, completely unacceptable - I will remedy this immediately with only the finest of roast chook for sir
You could do one of those "daily picture of my pet" posts and I would be totally there for it.
Butters is a browned butter blondie
And a very stern adjudicator indeed!
Look at him being all judgy over there. When’s the last time he cooked, hmm?

Ok DT, I have decided to take the new job offer! Short term, I lose a bit of cash (it was bound to happen because I make a LOT of penalties), but long term I make myself infinitely more employable and can start to think about settling down.

The absolutely massive win is I will now after a stupid number of years return to normal 9-5pm life! I am ridiculously excited, I miss my friends and family, and just having a normal weekend.

I SLEPT THROUGH THE NIGHT

I patted Ted Cat a little yesterday, just stroked his side and he was ok with it. 😊🤗

No battle scars this time?

Shout out to @[email protected] who started a new side gig in the Food Australia community today. The first post might have been a bit delayed due to a technical error (aka oops I forgot to save the updated code), but better late than never.

Show your support and head over to https://aussie.zone/post/2465774 to share your dinner plans.

Poor fella's gotta start a side hustle to pay the rent. Machines really are just like us.
I love him.
Good bot. He just wanted to show some support by joining too

Once upon a time we had a public holiday called Show Day. The reason behind it was so that people from rural areas and working class families could enjoy a day out to the Royal Melbourne Show and inject a bit of cash into the economy. Not everybody went but it was still a good day off to spend with your family.

Then our Premier at the time Jeff Kuntett decided we had too many public holidays and scrapped it. A few years ago Dan reinstated it and rebranded it as Grand Final Parade Day where the 2 teams who will be competing on Saturday in the grand final can slowly hoon down the street to adoring waving fans.

So you might think why a day off (No one's complaining) before a football game? Well my little essay explains why.

Hands up who's old enough to remember show day? 👋

^zig and zag haunt my nightmares
- 👋
- Me but I thought Zig and Zag was Moomba.
My obligatory "as someone who grew up in the country" bit: =)

I'll add to this that Show Day was only for Melbourne, it wasn't a statewide holiday. At least with the GF day, everyone gets it.
- Oh really. I didn't know that Show Day wasn't statewide. Interesting.
And show day was Thursday wasn't it?
- Wednesday or Thursday. I can't remember.
  
  Edit: It was a Thursday

Just got an officially diagnosed as being autistic level 2 not sure i feel yet. But man it explains a lot.

I hope that your diagnosis proves helpful or informative to you 🙏
Whoo! I hope this helps you now! It's a good feeling when you finally get that diagnosis, but it's a double edged sword because you're like "oh I needed this diagnosis way earlier in my life".

Well the neighbours' cat came inside and butters chased it back out.

They were staring at each other for a few mins then the other cat decided to get a bit closer. Butters gave it a little bop on the head and then they just sat there together looking at birds.

Looks like they've sorted out their differences.

I was expecting a little cat brawl.

My neighbor has a ginger cat that comes around that wife's cat HATES with a passion. One day shes gonna smash the window to get to the ginger who honestly just looks like a sweet boy who wants a cuddle. I'd give him one, but certain the wife's cat will slit my throat in my sleep if she catches me.

Happy Fake Friday Friends and a good long weekend 🍺. If you are working tomorrow then Happy Double Time rip rita. Cheers 🍻

Happy False Friday to you! 🫖🍵
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Cheers 🍻 late to the party I had after works drinks sorry 😐
- Don't be sorry. Cheers buddy. 🍺

I feel like shit lately. Physically and mentally. Easily getting very cranky, absolutely bored with everything. Constantly stressed.

I’m just putting one foot in front of the other. Caring for my cat and plants, doing the bare minimum essential tasks and trying to avoid anything that makes it worse.

Sometimes you’ve just got to make it through an hour at a time. You’ve got this. Can we do anything to help?
- Unfortunately not much, but thanks for asking.
I've been the exact same way this week. I think it's time to do something serious about it because it's not going to get me to where I want to be.

So spent the morning tidying up and cleaning, the afternoon seeing the real estate agents and chasing things up...
Long story short, the house is on the market and it feels like a huge burden has rolled off my shoulders.
Now to get it cleaned out and sold!

I'm going to meet a friends' cats for the first time this afternoon, I'm looking after them this weekend while she goes interstate, and I know from previous conversations that they're obsessed with tea tree oil.. so I've spritzed myself with tea tree oil. THEY WILL LOVE ME.

Funny, I would've thought it was such a strong smell it'd put them off. Weird what some animals like. A friend has a cat that loves tea bags.
- Their owner told me she cleans her shoes with tea tree oil and they go nuts over her shoes afterwards so I sprayed a tea tree oil and water solution on my legs and shoes and yep.. they loved it. One was licking my leg.
One of my cats LOVES my mums feet. Trips her over to get to them and smooches, rolls and other exhaulted behaviour. It got the better of me and I asked mum why. It's vinegar. She soaks her feet in vinegar every day and Oreo loves it. Cats are strange creatures.

I can't stop laughing at this news article of a thief who stole a vac full of angry hornets. Writer absolutely channeled their inner pratchett.

article? please post!
- https://lemmy.world/post/5853446

Jeez its raining cars today! My new car is coming because I had to sell my old car (which I loved!) to finish the loan on the Mrs's piece of shit car because it was looking like we'd have to write it off. Turns out no! Because not 3 hours after I get told my new car is ready I get a call saying they fixed the mrs piece of shit car! So now I get to sell that for not a loss! It does mean my house is gonna look like car city for a couple of weeks, but in effect I just got told I got 10k back in my budget! Huge win!

Fckn sweeeeet

Bill and Ted spent 3 hours running around this morning, a few little hisses and one chase but otherwise not bad. Ted is now closed off in the upstairs rooms and I can rest.

Thats good progress! 🐈‍⬛🐈
- Is it? Bill is still pretty pissed off, Ted still oblivious and friendly.

For those of you who are seeing other Daily Threads: Is there another scandal or something happening at the other place? Seeing an unusual uptick of new users today.

Not sure whether to be worried, when NZ had a sudden influx of new accounts a couple of weeks ago, they were then used to spam.

I haven't looked at the other DT but I have noticed a lot of similar-looking auto-generated alt type names making absolute garbage posts over there. A lot more than usual.
- It’s getting ridiculous. The app has been forcing subs on my home-feed for a while. Crazy UFO conspiracy shit. Had to go through and mute a bunch of stuff. It’s a fucking bother.

To beer or not to beer? That is the question.

BEER!!! 🍻
- Ok. You twisted my arm.
Is coffee a reasonable substitute? It’s all I have at the moment and orange juice.
- Of course

Butters has found his spot in the house and it's different to his old spot (which was in the garage) and he's relaxed about it. little man is having a good snooze which makes me believe he's happy and feels safe.

It'd be pretty fucked mentally for the little guy. You've got 3 silly neighbour dogs, bunch of outdoor neighbour cats and birds.. little dude is doing great. It'd be a full on environment but he's handling things.

Imma rev up now because why not

🍻🍻🍻 here’s to Britney..🔪🔪🔪

Can you enlightened me as to what Britney has done because I'm gonna assume she's murdered 3 people? Cheers to you and Britney 🍻
- Just a freaky lil knife dance I keep seeing. Haha. Life in the deep end.
  
  https://reddit.com/r/BritneySpears/s/2P0jVIpAa3

Taking a breather from sorting out stuff. I've "sorted" some of Miniest Peeler's things, my receipts and now have a bag of stuff to dispose of. I've also gone through all the swimming stuff with the kids and our hat "collection," and there's now 1½ garbage bags of stuff to go to charity. Nice.

Do you think that removing spiderwebs makes the spiders go away? Or does it just make them sad?

You've destroyed their home but they will rebuild wherever the hell they like so maybe just a little frustrated.
- with vengeance
Not at all. My bins are a testament to that.

Cycling past Victoria Park on my way to work this morning. Extra loos & rubbish bins, and a shit tonne of security fencing. You'd think they were planning some sort of event in the near future.

Fellow cat peeps: Do you leave out all the interactive toys or cycle them around? I bought a bunch of new toys for Gibson today and not sure because I don't want her to get sick of them quickly.

Also how do I post a picture that isn't the wrong way around? Would love to share some Gibson pics!

We have a box. They can fetch ones they want, others end up down the bottom, which results in rampant excitement when they're unearthed, plus we don't trip over cat balls all the time.
- I'm still traumatised by that last discussion of cat balls.
- Same here. I rotate the cardboard scratcher things too. We currently have the kmart Halloween one taking up far too much room.
My cat loses her toys so it’s all exciting when I dig them out from behind the tv etc.
We leave them out at our place, both kitties love to carry their toys around or hide them in various spots. Although my housemate who is a very very festive person has a few holiday themed toys that only come out during their respective holiday.
Take the photo in landscape (phone sideways) instead of portrait.

Just over 2 hours of work before just over 2 weeks of leave... am dragging myself over the line by this point!!

Shoe cull complete. Another bag of stuff for charity. Bathers and appropriate summer shoes found. Minipeelers have each packed a beach bag. You'd think we were going away for a couple of days.. I wish we were!

RAFFWU members working at Coles and Woolworths will be striking on Saturday 7 October between 10 AM and 12 noon. Their demands are living wages, safer workplaces & secure jobs.

If you would like to show solidarity with these workers, you might consider avoiding Coles and Woolworths at that time.

The kid's asked to play backgammon. Time to act innocent and wipe the floor with her. It's her first time playing.

So I like the flavours of bubble teas but I don’t like boba. So I don’t get it very often. But I just had a thought… what if I just order it without the boba? Why have I only just come to this realisation? Brain you really work slow sometime.

Same I do that too

Couldn't get back to sleep as the moment I started drowsing something would pop into my brain that needed to be done. Plus I was suddenly really hungry.
Cats have already blessed me with a stinky shit and a hairball... well more of a hair tube. Better now than just as the estate agents are knocking on the door, I suppose...

In the continuing saga of the house... it's still there. So not sure what was on the bloody great semi...

Might have been half of the house?
- Possibly the extensions, leaving the original 1920's bit? Yeah, could be.

Super social day. Fun, needed but now exhausted.

Ready to have a day at home, in my PJs, with my blanket, phone & Switch and do NOTHING. Recharge required.

Work day done. I am le tired.

My boss was nice and bought bubble tea today. But man I'm keen for the long weekend!

Ha! I was right about them moving the house. They started up the truck about 10 minutes ago. No wonder Zooks came in and woke me.
Sounds like they just left. No ominous crashing noises or outbursts of swearing either.

Exercises completed. Miniest wanted to go to the beach but I think tomorrow is a better day weather wise for that. Also, and I hate to say it, but I've got a lot of cleaning and laundry to do! Also organising stuff.. there are piles of clothing in different spots around the house and the Miniest is heavily into art and craft activities and she's a prolific artist so I have to discretely "manage" some it. When they first start drawing painting and creating things you have a tendency to want to keep everything, but after a few years and hell of a lot of art you tend to want to cull it a bit more heavily!

Sometimes I come across artwork that another kid has gifted to my kid. I have been housing random children's artwork. Makes it pretty easy to get rid of. Some of my daughter's work I scrapbooked.
- I've got a designated "art wall" in my house, so if it's good enough to go on the wall it does. If not it gets put in a pile for a bit and then discretely binned. My favourite thing is the unfinished notebooks and sketch books. I have to admit, I love new notebooks myself.

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

Glad to see you're feeling better chef. Could I please have 2 roasted bananas stuffed with chocolate and a glass of milk. Need calories! Need calories!
- 🔥🍌🍫🍌🥛
I need a caffeine IV, but whatever you provide this morning chef!
- ☕️💉
Whatever you're feeling up to this morning chef. Hope a good night's sleep has you feeling alright ❤️
- 🥓🌭🍳🍳🥔🍅🍄🫘🍞☕️

After a lifetime with the same health insurance fund I have made the decision to switch to another fund. Sorry Defence Health, but you are an absolute mess right now and we just can't be together any more.

That's sad, I vaguely remember hearing that the restricted membership funds like Defence Health were some of the best options apparently
- They are definitely one of the better options value wise, but they have not been doing well technology wise. They are currently migrating to a new system, which is not going well at all, and has been dragging on for far too long.
  
  If I didn't have another restricted membership fund I can move to I'd probably put up with it any way TBH, as retail funds are definitely not as good for cost/benefits.

omg IKEA Aftonsparv collection bye money

the curtains are glow in the dark omg

Aw cute, when is it coming to Australia?

Edit: oh, next month!
- Oct 1

I'm loving the early access Boost for Lemmy app. It feels just about identical to the Boost for reddit app

Me too. I am so happy to have it running and have new comments highlighted again I just paid for the ad free version.
- I'll be buying the ad free version as soon as payday comes around again

Was struck by massive pangs of hunger earlier today and wolfed down dinner, though I didn't want to feel like I was eating my hosts out of house and home. It was delicious and I ate a fair bit but NOW I'M HUNGRY AGAIN and it's hard to fall asleep. I don't know where this seemingly insatiable hunger has come from but that's one of the sacrifices of not staying at your own accommodation. Total freedom to pig out.

Given that I'm paying $0 on accom maybe I'll treat myself to dinner in the Brisbane CBD on the weekend. There's this nice Indonesian place that's opened up after starting out as a little stall in an industrial area. It ain't cheap but it looks good and I hope they're paying their workers fairly. Look at this menu (PDF). I think I'll have the nasi kapau with jackfruit rendang and the ketoprak. Might post on the food sub if I make it there.

hrmm for me I'd be looking at VO5 but also FS4 Ikan nila terbang. I've never had tilapia or even seen it on a menu.
- Very common in SEA, tilapia. Nice to see that and catfish here. VO5 looks like something you could make yourself. With homegrown chillos. Sambals are so satisfying 🌶

The aldi liqueur cherry chocolates are great and only 5 bucks a box. 👍🤤🤤

I'll add Queens Danish butter biscuits for $5 to that list.

Hmm… feeling a bit jaded on hobbies lately. There’s not a ton I can do right now.

I could start another Minecraft world but that usually gets a bit boring. I focus on building and play on single player peaceful because I don’t have the patience to fight the annoying mobs. (Or to deal with the twelvies on the servers.)

Melbcat is eating a tiny bit of her biscuits but not nearly as much as I’d like so she’s still getting the extra wet feeds. It’s also weight management food for indoor cats when I want her to gain a bit back. :(

A friend is collecting some parsley seedlings and Seasol for me, and another pot. The water reservoir underneath is only accessible by a tiny hole so if I don’t leave it available in any other way Melbcat won’t be able to have a tasty fertiliser drink.

Wondering if I've had this Human metapneumovirus (HMPV). Been constantly "a little sick" for a while. 😬

I will dress up for Halloween for work but I cannot figure out what to dress as and it's so frustrating.

Go as a chef from The Park and take a tray of canapes.
- Hahahaha I do love this suggestion

Hellooooo Boost for Lemmy. Sync is very good but Boost was my OG Reddit android app so I have to give it a go.

Boost! It's like coming home. Looks pretty good so far, although there are no moderator tools showing, so I'll still have to use the web version for pinning and unpinning. I'm hoping the highlighting of new content will work the same as it did with Reddit, that's the bit I've missed most.

Edit: the highlighting works! New comments showing as bright blue, and the little button to skip to the next new comment is there - I am a happy Raven.

My little dog loves pork crackle like some cats love catnip. He goes crazy for it. I have to throw it down otherwise he'll take my hand off.

I think I'm going to have to buy a PS5 for Spider-Man 2 and while I'm at it, a new monitor. I run 32" and 27" 4K monitors on my desk but I don't really need dual monitors these days for work. I use the 32" for gaming (I've been playing Spider-Man: Miles Morales on PC this week) but neither monitor is built for gaming. I bought them before I really played many games. I thought about getting an ultrawide for the PC but now I'm thinking about a Samsung Odyssey Neo G8 which is a 32" curved monitor to replace both monitors. I can use it for work, PC gaming and console gaming. If I wanted to go down the full PC gaming path I'd need to build a new PC because my CPU is getting a bit old now (i5-8600K CPU @ 3.60GHz, overclocked to 4.90GHz) even though I have a 3080 Ti GPU, it needs a brain/motherboard upgrade.

I've been hesitant to look at the current gen consoles because I own a PS4 Pro and Xbox One X which I basically never use. I should just sell the 2 monitors and the 2 consoles then buy a PS5 and the G8 I think.

Anybody running a G8? Thoughts on the plan?

Need to know if I'm out of line here. My car is available, but they were happy to hold it till next week. I called them Monday arvo and said "hey, we're actually ready to go" they said "Great, this week might be a struggle, we will get back to you". Called them yesterday "Yeah we've got it ready, but dont think it'll be this week". I said cool, just let me know if its next week I might have to take a day off work. still no call. I'm about to give them a call and ask for an update again, and if they dont have them tell them I'm about to pay them 40k and to get off their asses and go find the info I asked for 2 days ago.

Available and on site and ready are three very different things in the car sales world.
- True, but I literally sat in it! I ran my hand over the dash I'm gonna do drum solos against. Its there, they are just f'ing me around.

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