I am a language professional. We tend to believe firmly in descriptivism. Language is fluid and you can do whatever you want with it. There is no right or wrong. Nothing really upsets me except for when people say ‘an historical X’ or ‘an horrific X’ but even then it just makes me scrunch my nose up.
But there is one thing that I cannot accept. One thing that makes stop what I’m doing and just want to scream in disgust ‘WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU YOU CLOWN??’
And it’s when Americans refer to pasta as ‘noodles’
It irks me when people say ‘aks’ instead of ask. I know it shouldn’t, because maybe that’s just what they heard growing up or have trouble pronouncing ask, but gee it makes my eye twitch when I hear it.
Dear readers, I have figured our why despite all the meds and other morning rituals I felt like a fork had been stabbed in my brain and all hope was lost.
The carefully made mocha this morning, I have just discovered, was but a mere hot chocolate - with the freshly ground coffee still waiting patiently in its canister, aeropress dutifully washed of yesterday's hasty activities but not a second time... I'm not sure how to resolve these heinous vicious cycles where a lack of coffee causes a lack of coffee and therefore the end of the world.
Anyway, the situation is currently being rectified and I remain mortified at this horrific act of self-abuse
I almost never have instant coffee. I make mine with an aeropress. I think it makes sense that my brain was melting down without actual caffeine this morning because a. dependency and b. caffeine can help relieve head pain anyway and c. additional pain/bleargh from neck. Also that time of the month
geebus, I've been watching the Site Inspection yt channel, it's a guy who does inspections of new houses. It is making me rethink the outer suburbs that were built in the 60s and 70s. Those houses might not be modern and in Boronia or Melton but at least they were built properly with the correct materials.
I don't know enough about it but it seems there is rampant corruption, there is use of unqualified labour being paid under the table, non spec construction materials smuggled into the country .
Anything new made with concrete scares me now, I've seen how they use rubbish as filler or foundations. One place even had fake permeable concrete paths.
And it's not cheap, people are paying $500,000 and more just to be ripped off.
I live in Melton and when we had the termite man come out he was really impressed with the way our house was built. Plenty of room under the house, lots of ventilation, no damp spots etc. He said that he rarely has problems up here because of the way the houses are built. By comparison some of the worst and most frequent call outs he had was around Bundoora and Greensborough areas.
At a family lunch one of my rich hoighty toighty cousins was boasting about her soon-to-be-built $750,000 house in some new sparkly pop-up suburb of Brisbane and one of my uncles, a man of many trades, told her she was a fool for it all and her parents to for encouraging it. Hilariously he went on to predict every problem she's had to date with the house.
My partner is obsessed with those videos. We have a 70s house in the outer suburbs and tradies always comment how solidly well built it is. I once lived in a new build and the front door, even when locked, would often just… pop open 🙃
Been watching these, I think someone here must have linked him? But it's scary to see the absolute incompetence, lack of ethics and general greediness of builders.
Building has standards for a reason and they rely on the fact that most people aren't gonna notice untightened bolts behind the plasterboard, incorrect gutter locations, or uncovered gaps between surfaces on the roof. You end up paying through the nose for guaranteed mould exposure and rotting carpets.
So I've been watching a few more videos. It's starting to really upset. So many people ripped off. This is where they live or hoped to live, paid for with really hard earned money. 😭
Thanks for mentioning this, I love this sort of thing. I liked the US guy who checks foundations and retaining walls and posts on Imgur but always wanted some local content. Mr Peeler had a job in demolition later in life, and used to decry the awesome classic solidly built houses that were razed to the ground in order to hastily and shoddily assemble crappy townhouses and dog box units.
I got my Lizzo drawing printed on a jumper. I'm super happy with it and will be curious to see how the T-shirt and bag versions turn out whenever they arrive!
Image description: black jumper with rainbow illustrations of US Singer Lizzo on it, a flute, and the name Lizzo repeated 6 or 7 times.
I h av e had many beer
I type a rhyme and spellcheck\
then go back and press space
to make the breaks make sense
hence
I remember the backslash
it';s this things here ( \ ) to remove the doublebreak
but i wont do it here get juked
weak
doesnt rhyme
took less time
to write this one
bc i dont care
bc of the beer
hehheh wheee
I gave the bot the day off to recover, so hopefully posting will be ok tonight. But you know kids these days, no work ethic. Not even the courtesy of phoning in sick. Plus I think the cat is encouraging it towards a life of sloth and indolence.
Dear bot #001. We missed you tonight. I hope you're ok. I just want to say I appreciate you. You listen to our thoughts, our nonsense. You listen without judgement. Some have no one to vent to. No one to confide in. You are a great listener. I've got your back. Stay safe. Don't drink and drive. Stay cool. All my love @[email protected].Hope to catch you tomorrow.
Botbot was a no show
Regurgitator said so
Oh oh
How do we go on?
Then came our local bovine
A bolt of lightning
Midnight brightening
Bull charging in
On our whim
Saves the day
Thankee
I do not like this "everything is collapsed" timeline. I would like to be able to peruse comments without the commitment of a click, please and thank you.
Day 14 of exercise program. First did a load of washing and hung it around the flat because I thought we were going to cop a downpour. Then I took the Mini Peelers to Coburg farmers market and we wandered around tasting and buying things. Then we went to Barkly Square and got master Peeler a new Xbox controller and miss mini Peeler a Snorlax plushy (she says Snorlax is her spirit animal but she's the most energetic of all of us!).
After lunch we came home and I realised the ruse of shitty weather and did another two loads of washing. If it gets wet I don't care anyway as the essentials are inside. Then I did my exercises, and boy was it a push to get it done. Mr Peeler came in and tried to watch, which I hate. It's one of the reasons I've never done a gym membership or anything like that. I hate being looked at while I'm exercising, and these places with their floor to ceiling windows and mirrors are my version of hell. Nobody needs to see my flabulous efforts!
I came from one of those families, you know; mum's fat, dad's fat, the cat's fat, the dog's fat, the kid is fat. At several points in my life I've gotten "work fit" and gone down to a size 10-12, but somehow I didn't notice or revel in it because I looked in the mirror and still saw that unsmiling fat kid, looking back at me. I'm determined to enjoy what I can be this time!
Was a fat kid all through my teens. Didn't even approach my natural size until my late 30s early 40s. When this happened, it took no effort. Didn't even notice until about 5 years later. There is still time for you to be you.
Biggest joy of my TAFE class today was just now when one of my classes mates suddenly breaks out of his Indian accent to say "no worries mate" in a broad Australian accent.
Recent canned fish reviews: Brunswick Smoked Kippers (herring) - my first time trying these, holy shit my mind was blown. They are so delicious. Maybe a touch on the salty side but I'm fine with that. Completely different to canned tuna. Moist and soft, not so 'meaty'. would recommend. King Oscar Briesling Sardines in Olive oil - best canned sardines I've had. Briesling means they are small. They still have their tails on, many in a can, akin to whitebait. Milder than you probably expect sardines to be. Exceptional Sole Mare smoked Mackerel in olive oil - I didn't realise it would be so similar to canned tuna. It felt like a high quality canned tuna. It's in large fillets, no bones. Not bad, but not my favourite - just due to personal taste Safcol 'spanish tapas style' squid in olive oil - first time trying canned squid. Better than I was expecting. Kept a firm texture. Simple squid flavour. Didn't feel the need to add any sauce or anything, before I knew it the can was gone and I was wanting more. John West Mussels in Galacian sauce - texture maybe a little softer than I'd like. Mussel taste was there and quite pleasant. Sauce was tomatoey and sweet. Definitely too much sauce for too few mussels though. I'd happily eat it again but felt a bit cheated by the sauce/mussel ratio
This is brilliant. A review for the peoples. I'd like to add the abomination that is canned crab. It doesn't look like crab or taste like crab and in fact it's often not even crab so don't be fooled.
Any leftover sauce or oil from our seafood friends in a tin can be deliciously mopped up with some crusty bread.
So don't fool yourself that it is crab. Treat it as a substance entire unto itself. I don't mind it stirred through rice to accompany a sauce. It blends nicely with plain jasmine rice. I did up a combo of jasmine rice and wild rice, stirred through some tinned crab and seasoned it with lemon zest and long pepper. It worked and was nice. My sister grabbed all the leftovers and took them home with her, which doesn't often happen.
I need to remember to hit you up at the end of the year when I'm assembling my partner's Christmas hamper of "fancy tinned and preserved goods". He bloody loves tinned fish.
Good on you maintaining those connections! I have a few old friends that I don't speak to heaps but when we meet up it's like we just saw each other and pick up where we left off. Unfortunately they live across the world so that happens less and less often these days.
Heh heh heh, I have beaten the weather gods. Into a cocked hat. Just started raining here, but I FINISHED MOWING THE GRASS 10 MINUTES AGO! Pats self on back. Then reaches for the joint pain medication ....
In other news, walking to shopping was a good choice. Don't need to go again until at least Thursday.
So from here on in I am into industrial strength laziness today. And maybe some glasses of wine.
Did some more voluteer work today. Public transport anxiety relieved. It was fine. Had a job interview straight after and I got it! I was lucky that I got my shit together when I did and started applying for jobs just to get into the habit. It's average pay and humble work which will pay the bills. The owner is great and at least it's award wage and she looks after her workers. Potentially will start working locally as well in time so would be able to walk to work. Mostly queer staff, lots of trans people apparently. Not sure how great that will be yet, but at least I won't face transphobia at work. It's going to be hard work and it won't do me any harm to do a job I can at least leave at work even if I spend the time looking at my watch. My only worry is that my back is starting to hurt but I spent a lot of time standing on hard floors this weekend. Being biologically female now means it will take longer to get work fit than in the past, but that's ok too. Start Wednesday so I have some time to do some stretching and get into my warm up routine. It's a fucking relief to not have to start spending too much of my savings.
I had a very decent music career for a long time, but I've had issues with most of that time. It is run by mysoginistic cunts and when I stepped out of that and moved into nightclubs they were still run by mysgonistic cunts. My last employer was a total wolf in sheeps clothing. At least I have a real connection with my new boss. We worked for the same queer magazine in different cities over 20 years ago. Back when those jobs were very low pay and we did them for the community moreso than having a disposable income. Now I'm in recovery I also want to step away from the alcohol industry. It feels kinda inauthentic to be so adamant about being sober for life and then profiting from alcohol sales. At least at this point and to take sobriety seriously I can't step foot in a bar for a while.
So this cat alarm and getting early nights have paid off. Thanks kitties. Couldn't have done this without you. Little miracles. They get extra playtime tomorrow. That'll do for today.
Thx for reading
I have been avoiding looking at mygov/ato regarding the tax return, because of how dismal these past 12 months have been; I made less than $9k from work (excluding jobseeker payments). Man, I feel like total shite and I knew I would. Ugh. UGH.
Leftover roast fennel + veg pasta. I'm starving! After reading all the stuff about tinned fish earlier I think tomorrow I'll cook up a frittata with pink salmon and broccoli
A bit of this and a bit of that.. had a big lunch with the Mini Peelers of chicken, chips and salad so it's a Saturday night clean out what's left in the fridge kind of thing.
At 8.5 years of age, my cat has discovered that Boxes Are Fun, after previously raising his eyebrows at any such suggestion. He's got a lovely long tunnel box that he's enjoying hiding in.
A pretty shitty mental health day made easier in the end with laksa, Xanax and bingeing game of thrones from the start again. Cat was very comforting today and let me snuggle into her fur a bit when I was sad. Now she’s dreaming and making little snores.
I think the cats are expecting me to put something on the teev and stretch out on the couch so that either one of them can have a nap on me.
Instead I'm sitting up with a podcast on doing a crossstich project for a friend's birthday (well taking a break now for dins).
Ok ok ok. After a disastrous start to the day things have progressed a bit. Actually got a tiny bit of gardening done after neglecting the balcony for months . tidied up the dead stuff, improved the staking on the manzano chilli, shuffled pots around - including the very sickly and cold curry big mama leaf plant to a more sheltered spot (it was getting depressing to look at. And it'll come back in spring.).
I won't even be at home for most of the next month but I went ahead and sowed some coriander and garlic chives, and have soaked some snow pea and sweet pea seeds to sow tomorrow, because what the hey. They'll look after themselves, kind of. Everything's had a very thorough water + feed if needed, and I'm amazed at how relatively well that manzano is doing despite all the neglect. Truly a cool climate chillo, definitely a good choice for Melbourne. (e: yes it's related to rocoto).
All that and a whole lot of staring into space have improved things as well as cleaning the kitchen and having a long overdue shower with hair/scalp cleanse. The sun has made a big difference too. Body has calmed the fuck down and is healing itself.
Neck still hurts but I'll call off my trip to the 'rat tomorrow and take it easy, hopefully I'll be right as rain by Monday. I have work to catch up on but today is for total relaxation
I’m so impressed with you guys and your chillis. Chilli and capsicum are one of those plants that I’m just not good at caring for.
I got a bit of time out in the garden too! Mostly I just weeded and swept up a big chunk of the leaves that the maple and the ornamental pears dropped - this place has 3 pear trees and 2 maples. I initially tried to keep on top of cleaning up the leaves as they dropped but I was fighting a losing battle, so I just left them and waited until they’d dropped all their leaves. We’re getting on 4 fortnight’s worth of green bins filled, with probably 1 more to go.
I'm the total opposite! Chillies come relatively easy to me (OK, I confess I have poor luck with capsicums). But HOW GOOD ARE YOUR BRASSICAS?!?!?! Please tell me your secrets! How do you get them looking so lush without being ravaged by caterpillars and/or possums? I've only grown cabbages once - on an extremely fertile shared plot where you'd be hard pressed to kill anything (and they were still a few caterpillars), and I only successfully grew broccoli once at my old place but it needed to be de-caterpillared damn near every morning. And then when the broccoli got just large enough to harvest they were poleaxed overnight 😭
Absolutely love love love your veggie patch and I see you've got a nice crop of broad beans coming up too
Yeah apparently there's some slight difference between rocoto and manzano (variability of spiciness? Rocoto grows further south?) But both are Capsicum pubescens (heh I said pubes). this one said manzano on the label which also rates it a 4/10 for spiciness, but I haven't tried any yet so we'll find out soon I guess.
Shopping. Completely necessary due to empty fridge. Not looking forward to it. Existential question - do I bike or do I walk? If bike, then over much more quickly but less carrying capacity. If walk, more load out but takes longer and increases chances of getting rained on. Decisions, decisions.
it's actually rated equal most hazardous beach in Vic. If you jumped in on a day like today and swam a few metres out you'd be lucky to make it back in.
Yeah. I used to go body boarding there by myself 20 years ago. And down at 13th too. I have realised that this was actually a very stupid thing to do. Especially 13th actually...have you seen the rock shelf there at low tide? I had no idea that existed. Very stupid as I said.
I've been at work an hour, and the dread is palpable. It appears my team has also been called back to the office starting next rotation, and WFH will no longer be an option, so that's a kick in the teeth.
Fucking hell, one of my students coughed in my face today. Guess it's time to stock up on OJ and pray to God that I don't get sick, because I have no bulk billing doctors nearby and work wants a doctor's cert (although subcontractor, so no sick leave anyway).
Last night at dinner a bloke kept coughing at the table next to us. It got progressively chestier… It might have been just a cough, but he didn’t even bother covering his mouth. It’s like we’ve learned nothing.
Ahhh shit, I think I really did something to my neck last night. Left side hurts like a mf, more than yesterday. Not really sure how to soothe it, I've never pulled something in my neck like this before. Of course it's got to be on the weekend...
F. happens to me sometimes, tweak something in there by a seemingly random short movement and it seizes up. usually takes a couple of days to settle down.
no idea what causes it or how to fix it, hope this helps
Fisiocrem.... As mentioned earlier. I have ongoing back, neck and shoulder issues on account of thinking I could do things in trees that I could in fact not do. It's consistently my jam for flare ups.
I've been getting through Mad Men and Jared Harris is delightful. I really couldn't believe he was that dude in The Expanse (who will always remain weirdly South African in my mind)
I have successfully removed my old mattress from the bed, moved it close to the front door to easily pop outside for the recycling people, put the new box mattress on the bed and managed to flip it up the right way. Which was a bit harder than expected. Turns out when they recommend using two people, it's for a reason.
G'day from cann river. It's pretty chilly out here, and according to the locals all the cafes here are rubbish. Hopefully Mallacoota has something good
I left home a bit too early... Need to get to St Kilda before 1 or 1:30 at the latest and already at Oakleigh. Oh well, I'd rather be there way too early and having to wait rather than being late and having to uber.
Also got a haircut by my mate and my head doesn't feel too heavy anymore.
Yeah I got here a bit too early, but I can never really tell with bus replacements tbh. So I'd rather wait around for however long than stress tf out and be late.
Uck, the rain has started and its still extra windy outside. The morning dog walk was cancelled (much to Mr Woof's dissapointment) due to safety concernd, but I still have to go out there and drive to work. Part of me wants to just call in sick!
Will they blow back in when the wind changes, like Botty Poppins?
On an unrelated note, anyone know where you get coin banks these days? The tin I had is on its way out, but Officeworks doesn't seem to sell them any more (they used to have a rather fun coin-sorting one, but that also seems to be gone, more's the pity).
I echo stardustingss with the $2 shop answer. I've seen decorative/novelty types there, and I bought a unicorn head one for a child's birthday gift. I've also made my own out of a metal tin with plastic lid, like a Sustagen tin. It was handy for hiding money in the kitchen.. until someone wanted a Sustagen and found my money.
Seagoon's New To Me Movies. Today was *Silver Linings Playbook. *
I think the movie is about coping with loss . How do people react to painful life events like betrayal, unexpected death of a loved one, loss of job and status. Seems to me the answer is love and kindness.
So well acted and I love the depictions of male culture and male friendships. 4 hobbits :)
ok pain is slowly going away which is good resumed my life by going to the farmer's market [awesome as usual], sadly the knife guy and the stew guy were absent, the mushroom guy was there XD
I suppose a good compromise would be any comment with >x responses gets collapsed after the xth response (but you still see the first <x responses). if that makes sense the coffee isn't working yet
I, I guess I'm frustrated
Thinking about all the places I should've been by now
And I'm, endlessly waiting
Feel like a barrel of dynamite waiting for a flame to come 'round (come 'round)
I need a little spark
A light in bitter dark
I think I'm ready to go
Contact high
I'm done dreamin that we can fly
Am I guilty? Boy you decide
I've got nothing to hide 💜
edit: i doubleposted, eat me
edit: You don't think you like people like me
I know I've heard this one before
Maybe I'm the one exception that can last forever
But that can only happen if you let us be together
You don't think you like people like me...
edit: She wore a raspberry beret
The kind you find in a second hand store Raspberry beret
And if it was warm she wouldn't wear much more
edit: The End and Dead!
Twofer, they go together - fuck I love this album
edit: But I can smell the food
But it ain't mine
I enter in the pin
But the card's declined
Up on the front
With the meter flying
Oh my God I'm coming undone
Pretty good, thanks for asking! They're more comfortable than the temporary ones I had in and actually feel like real teeth. So happy air can pass between them unlike the temps. The only weird thing is that it feels 'crowded' in my mouth because I have 2 more teeth than I've had my whole life.
I'm still not used to seeing them in the mirror though. I am curious if they look big and fake to other people. The teeth themselves look great and natural but just in my face it looks odd to me.
Anyone know of a photography community that has a tech question type thread...? I have a question regarding ai upscaling. I made this comment on a photo thread, and ai upscaling might be worth looking into... Reposting because I'm still salty Rob....
I travelled Argentina for a month back in 2011. I had my DSLR with me with new lenses and took something like 6000 photos of iguazu, salta, Patagonia etc... Stored them all on a external hard drive when I got home. One day, a friend of mine accidentally knocked the drive over, and it failed. Lost all the photos.
I only have an album of a few hundred I uploaded to FB at the time, so they're all really low res ones that I redownloaded from FB.
Moral = Make backups.. Multiple backups.
Not sure if anyone else figured out why my boost app is still working (I only did from a post on the boost subreddit), apparently moderators are currently exempt from all the API changes, even if your sub has like no members lmfao. I'm a mod on r/modlimit and a private sub I made and planned to open up about a tv show, but I haven't finished watching ot yet and don't want spoilers Soni never did. I've performed like 10 mod actions in the 2 years I've had an account, but apparently that counts 🤣
If you use a third party app, go create a sub, maybe it'll keep working for you too.