Daily Discussion Thread: Sun 17 Dec 2023
Daily Discussion Thread: Sun 17 Dec 2023
Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.
I'm gonna be cooking a chooko in the airfryer using native herbs and spices. Please pray for it to be juicy and tender.
Every piece of chicken I have done in the air fryer has turned out great. I think the high convection makes the cooking more even and avoids some of the over cooked dried out spots that can occur in a normal oven.
Good to know
I declare this cheese hunt successful
Nice haul! Cheaper Buy Miles? They had 1kg wheels of brie for $15 yesterday and people were buying them 2 at a time, as fast as they could restock. Was sorely tempted.
Today I need to tidy & clean my whole house. So far, I'm on my second pot of tea. Going well.
Me too! I pulled everything out from under our beds to vacuum and decided I hated having stuff stored under the beds. Makes it hard to vacuum the dust. So it's been lined up one side of the hallway for weeks while I very occasionally chip away at it, which is also making it hard to vacuum š¤¦š»āāļøBut the coffee and shortbread session #2 is underway lol.
I'd like to give thanks to all those workmen out there who don't remove all their signs when they finish work. My cherry tomatoes are being supported on stakes supplied by Yarra Valley Water, my raspberries have a trellis made from a sign from an unknown road contractor, and the same sign provided corflute panels which are protecting the fence from built up garden beds.
Halp
Kitty pushing me out of bed
I woke up wearing cat underwear. Most peculiar
Do my teeth hurt because my sinusitis or do my sinusitis because my teeth hurt
update: Visual artificing suggests migraine . Disregard
(I get fucking cluster headaches on occasion, a migraine is actually very very little to me)
Then you get stressed out and lock your jaw which makes both worseā¦ Sympathy!
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Doing well botbot!
Bill and Ted say Hi.
Brothers roughhousing! They seem to have adjusted so well and quickly too
It's my second last night out here before I return to Melbourne. A beautiful cool day and as the sun sets I can hear the lyre birds making their laser gun/magpie/alarm noises and feel an immense sense of peace.
Sadly, I did not finish off the last bit of outstanding work due to patchy internet and no electricity in the cabin (and, tbh, not being remotely in the mood for it while away). But I'm starting to see a way forward where I can finish it off when I get back with a sense of positivity and appreciation and relief at completing this part of life, rather than resentment and aversion and anxiety because I didn't finish it on time.
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Apologies in advance, but the Lemmy upgrade appears to have broken the bot's ability to post - it is trying, but it can't actually connect to any communities for some reason. ā¹ļø
If one of the nightowls could make a post at midnight that would be great - we can declare it "Manual Monday" and I can poke at the programming tomorrow when I have had some sleep.
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my old ID and password wouldnāt even work, this is a new account
Oh my golly gee gosh moses. That was the most juiciest chook I've ever eaten. Even the breasts which I usually avoid. Time for a nap.
Food coma! Night night!
Happened a few years back but, just now reading about a school lunch chef in Nebraska fired for adding kangaroo meat to the chilli.
This should have been a diplomatic incident.
What was the complaint? People don't want to unknowingly eat roo? I doubt whatever it replaced was legally classifiable as meat anyway.
Yeah the roo was too āexoticā for the school lunch program and therefore unsuitable.
Basically just ignorance about the product. Which is ironic for a learning institution.
Think I better have a to do list or I'll get nothing done again
I didn't do the figure drawing exercises. Just started something with my approximation of it.
Fuck it we ball
So it was just cold enough for a fire and I had a lot of old notebooks and course notes to burn.
The cats are very happy.
while squiting, the fireplace pattern looks a bit like teeth.
I know what you meant, but 'squiting' sounds like something you do when you're lactose intolerant and... indulged. š
"Th Lost City" was bloody awful. What a waste of time
Brad Pitt's 5 minute cameo showed he really is good. A few of the jungle scenes were pretty.
I give this movie 1/2 hobbits , for Brad Pitt and the jungle.
If you want a similar but good adventure movie that is fun to watch Romancing the Stone on Disney.
So why did this movie stink? The world view stunk. No one is nice, no one has good intentions, there was no one to identify with, and the shit the main characters did was just too unbelievable. The dialogue stunk and was delivered poorly.
Was a little bit of a unremarkable movie from what I remember when I saw it.
I watched Rush (2013) last night.
I enjoyed it for what it is despite not knowing anything about F1 history.
Iām not good at deep dives into evaluating movies.
At my parents place. I have murdered no less than 4 flies. Here lies 2 victims.
murderer!
I am proud!
Largest insect biomass loss culprit right here.
Clean out and sweep garage ā
Clean out and wipe down fridge ā
Wash all windows inside and outā
Not bad considering we drank all manner of weird liquids last night at the neighborhood Xmas party. Peach schnapps? Limoncello? Peanut butter whiskey and some crazy Croation plum hooch? Had to rescue MrsGod from curling up and sleeping on the front lawn.š„“š«”
Not sure exactly why Iāve done this but Iāve gone back and pulled out some old Xbox 360 games and ps3 games and looking to play through through them.
Have a wide range of choice but felt like trying out Red Dead Redemption via backwards compatibility and maybe Ex Troopers and GTA4.
Here's the brandy sauce for xmas pud recipe. You can always add more brandy of course
Can't go wrong with Delia
For the brandy sauce: 11/2oz (40g) butter 2 tablespoons brandy 11/2oz (40g) plain flour 10fl oz (300ml) whole milk 11/2oz (40g) golden caster sugar 4fl oz (110ml) double cream Place butter in a medium saucepan with the flour, pour in the milk then, using a balloon whisk, whisk everything vigorously together over a medium heat. As soon as it comes to simmering point and has thickened, turn the heat right down to its lowest setting, stir in the sugar and let the sauce cook for 10 minutes. After that add the brandy and the cream. Pour the hot sauce into a jug, then cover the surface with clingfilm and keep warm until required.
I did nothing today and it was incredible!
I did tons of gardening today and now I'm exhausted. I still need to make dinner, but I am seriously lacking the energy. Some days I could really do with a wife š¤£
I washed the house today. The outside of the house. I did not know that was a part of home ownership. Looks good though.
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Street Christmas party was today, so I made my home made chicken nuggets and they were a hit! Jerboa was working fine for me until this lemmy update and now it's gone a bit psycho on me. I'm using my browser, with fewer issues, but still a bit janky. One of the elderly ladies has sold her house to move into a retirement village, and it's been bought by a family and not a developer thank goodness. Mr P was quite the party animal and is now indulging in whisky sours with the young renters a few doors down. š„“
How is it I open one tab and task manager says I have opened 14?
Among other things, each installed extension has a subprocess, it seems.
Awesome day out there. I got some really good gardening work done. I need some more mulch but there is no way I am going anywhere near Bunnings on a day like today, so that will have to wait until tomorrow.
I ordered a charger on eBay and the description says they send through Auspost, but then the tracking number didn't work so I asked and they told me it's coming through "PF logistics/Fastway". I thought that, a. Fastway was Aramex now, and b PF logistics was a different company. But whatever the case, may God have mercy on my charger
PF logistics was the company that my very slow package of ribbon came through. It got here in the end, but well past the time-frame of when it was supposed to.
I'm pretty sure I've had something come through them before, but truthfully I don't understand how any of those private courier companies are in any way better than just sending through normal Auspost. I feel like I've heard way more bad things about just about every other Fourier service than Auspost
I think the only time I've preferred a non Auspost delivery is when I get to choose a day and time for delivery. I don't know who they use, but officeworks do that and I quite like that I can choose an exact date and time, and I know it will be here on that day
Offer a prayer to the divine beings that your charger will get through this turbulent time.
Fastwayā¦.. yuck
Anyone got a rock solid white sauce recipe for Christmas pudding?
Keep it clean, you heathens.
I only know āwhite sauceā as a savory thing, itās another name for bechamel. Goes in lasagne, not on pudding. Did you mean white chocolate sauce?
Brandy butter right?.... Search for that and you should get some good results. My grandma used to make a great one, only thing I know that was in it though was a hell of a lot of brandy
You can do brandy in it but we've usually gone boozeless. My great aunty used to make it and it was amazing for the kiddos but she literally took the recipe to her grave.
I tried making this today as a test but I must have had too much cornflour because it was so thick it was like custard jelly.
Brunswick Kippers on sale for $2 for can as Woolies this week.
Random question, does anyone know of somewhere I could get Christmas presents wrapped?
I despise wrapping, I'm terrible at it and I can either pay someone to do it for me or I can add gift bags to my shopping list
i am bored enough that i offer my service, for a meal and conversation while i do it
Ditto @[email protected] i also will wrap for locals who bring amusement (and the necessary bits)
Gift bags are your solution. Can get them cheap at the discount variety stores. I reuse them too, if I ever get any given to me. Just make sure to cut the tag off!
Some shoppings centres offer gift wrapping services but youāll need to find out if they offer it from wherever you want to do it.
I love how Youtube keeps pulling down videos of shows that are free to air reruns... that's still not going to make me pay for a streaming service or buy another tv.
Iām getting a bit dry but Melbcat is asleep on me. The cup of tea will have to wait
What is Sunbury like to live in? Epping?
Trying to find housing that is more suitable for me and heard about some accessible options but I really donāt know the reputations of the areas now. Sorry not sure which parts of those suburbs itās in
Have lived in the outer west and north, but not those suburbs specifically. They are both working class suburbs, generally people with middle to lower income. Due to the socioeconomics you might encounter some people with issues. But you can have meth junkies in south Yarra too, and I would say Iāve have way more of those encounters in the inner city than I have ever seen in the suburbs. The suburbs are quiet places where people mostly keep to themselves. As for amenities, I guess it depends what you need. Thereās not lots of restaurants or hipster cafes or micro breweries. Because itās lower density living thereās a a good chance youāll need to drive to get to supermarket etc. But if those things are ok for you thereās no reason to not live there. The stabiness is greatly exaggerated.
Thanks, that sounds mildly promising at least. I'm looking for somewhere safe-ish where I won't be having close encounters of the turd kind
I haven't been to Sunbury since the late 90s but I'd excpect a little gentrifiy and a little stabby. I think Epping is hilly with a lot of bush this fire risk. I'd go to Epping if I didn't have to attend a place of work.
Gonna make some Christmss Crack and try my best not to eat bunch before it goes into my mums work and my own work. Wish me luck!
