I mentioned the other day that I knew one of the boys that was murdered in Sydney. It was Luke Davies.
I had only known him for a couple of years, since his cabin crew training here in Melbourne, so I am not close enough to his friends or family to really be connected to their community in mourning.
But in my own way I just want the universe to know that each and every word about how he was a beautiful soul are true.
This is a fate that I am still failing to comprehend. My heart aches for his family and close friends. I will dearly miss him.
Just one more big bear hug would have been nice, hey fella?
Condolences mate.
I'm so sorry. 😔
So I just bought a unit...
Congrats! 🏡🏡🏡🏡🏡🏡🏡🏡🏡🏡🏡🏡🏡
Yay! ✨
Whoa. Congratulations 🎉🥂🍾
Just the one?
😂
Congratulations 🍾
Ahhhhhhh yesssss!!!!! That's amazing!!!! Oooo I'm so happy for you!!
Yay! That’s great! Must be such a relief
Yep, third time lucky!
I have absolutely no idea what I’d like to do today
Library trip!!! Or take a leaf from @baku's book and go travelling to somewhere. St Kilda pier for cakes and coffee? Altona Beach? PT goes to a lot of places even if you limit yourself to trains/trams.
Ooh I think you're the first person to intentionally mention me. But it would seem boost doesn't notify for mentions, and now I'm wondering if anybody else has mentioned me and I've just never seen it
I hurt my hand with the vacuum so no more vacuuming. Cunt.
It's a sign, no chores today!
My little finger agrees.
stupid fucking vacuum cleaner attacking you on a stupid fucking manky day fuck the fucking thing.
offers gummy worms
I read this in a very northern Qld bogan accent and I could actually imagine overhearing that in a country pub somewhere
r u ok?
Yeah I'm ok thanks. I'll live.
Wow you sound like me, or maybe I sound like you. I shut a door on my fingers Thursday night and I am very happy it was just me home because I called the door some very... Interesting things
This weekend has made me moody and I don't want to socialise much. I hate to admit that I'm trying to make food stretch as long as I can so it'll be less of a burden to deal with food next fortnight, let's hope I don't get sick from doing it.
Waiting for my dad to come by who wants to store something, will I be at home today? Yes I will.
Thanks son, I'll come by and put it in your garage, oh by the way, I need your help carrying it into the garage.
Thanks dad, just make it all the more inconvenient and disturb me when I don't want to see anyone and have a headache.
sigh
Hugs dueny, did it go alright?
Yeah though I was left feeling annoyed.
Clearly I wasn’t feeling well and I said I wasn’t doing well but he didn’t ask about what was wrong, just interested in putting the glass table top in the garage to store for some god forsaken reason.
Pretty pissed with him that he didn’t a shit.
I hesitated to post Life Of Boris, because with the Ukraine situation it seems really touchy. But while his cousin is/was in the military Boris himself is a civilian using a fake accent and likely not even Russian. (People speculate that he's Estonian.)
So here's a playlist of extremely budget food ideas if you're really stuck. This dude's specialty is surviving the end of the month. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbS0HkS8Xsoq1j4kiZFLP9w1e3pQADR3g
Not too stuck on what to do. Just wish I had money to actually do things with.
I’m going to see if I can get some more cherry tomatoes from work, they add a nice sweet taste to my sandwiches at the moment.
My rock bottom is just 2 minute noodles and a bunch of frozen veggies.
I’ll have at it when I’m in a better mood. Videos don’t click with me when I’m not in the mood because I have to stop everything I’m doing to watch one.
Omg we have a VHS player! I actually have a bag of VHS tapes I got from an op shop last year. I've never played a VHS before and I'm kinda excited ngl
I don't even know what I bought honestly. There's a handwritten one about wildflowers, and some Disney movie, but I don't know about the rest. I just saw 10c each and was like "ooh! Old people media! I will buy!" Love ya, Vinnie's
Hey. Those "old people" tapes may contain some risque stuff. Be careful.
With the tracking transition 🤣
Ha, I've read enough horror stories on Reddit to know to watch out, or rather not watch out!
If they taped shows or movies off the telly there will be old ads
( first show I saw on tape was Blake 7 , I borrowed a player from the library at school, it was 1978. )
You might also need to use a tape head cleaner first .
Clean the heads, but please don’t use a head clean tape ( in the bizzare offchance you find one) those things were sandpaper, you want a light solvent.
I thought taping over movies was the sort of things parents yelled at you for
So far the most annoying thing people have done is not rewinding their tapes
I don't know what a tape head cleaner is, or for that matter what a tape head is, but I'm just going to put the tape in the box and hope for the best
Ha. I have a VCR. I don't think it has been plugged into power at any point in the kids' lives. It's just been there at the bottom of the entertainment cabinet, dark and mysterious and ignored.
The only tapes I still have are Star Wars remastered (Han still shoots first) and 1997 editions. Widescreen versions.
I should put them on one day. In this day and age of streaming and Bly Rays, VHS will be an experience.
Presenting the beginnings of the metric polypipe DOME OF DOOM for the chilli patch.
Garden ties and an old bike tube as lashing. I doubt it'll be sturdy enough but we'll see
Think I might wait and think about the netting for the next week and just see if the frame holds up.
This is giving off pyramid vibes. Maybe put razor blades under it to sharpen them up (and discourage the chilli thief).
full offense to A Certain Workplace but me kinda drunk operating with a hand full of fruit tingles is a better fucking laptop repairer than their entire dedicated staff.
(going over my loot so far not even a bung part. JFC. Corporations that do this need to be shot.)
I know. It's lucky I didn't reef it across the room.
I'll take a rain check on those gummy worms. I've been very good on the sugar lately.
Edit: whoops I replied to the wrong comment. I knew this would happen some day.
but you did reply to the right person, so still a win.
I wish a bug was as entertaining to me as it is to my cat.
That said, big day of interview preparation coming up. Got my friend to help me with some technical stuff this evening so that will help heaps.
Enjoy your day everyone ⭐
My cat finds onion skins to be very entertaining. Cats are very adept at finding joy in the simple things.
Ahhhhhh, it's VHS Cinderella!
All I need now is one of those boxy TVs with the bulgey front and a fireplace (and also to sit half a cm away from the screen) and I'll be a certified 90s kid!
Hahaha. Those boxy tvs are called CRT (cathode ray tubes) televisions.
Ah yep that's the term. I'm not quite young enough to not remember them at all, we didn't have enough money for a flat screen so I think we kept ours until 2014 or 15. Those guys were strong as, I knocked it off the stand once running inside and it still worked perfectly afterwards
The crazy yelling guy in my neighbourhood is getting quite deranged. He was sitting at a tram stop screaming incoherently at a bunch of people sitting outside at the pub for a good ten minutes or more, a cop car even drove past entirely unaware. He always sounds really hoarse and threatening, always loud, but I can barely make out what he's saying
I don't want to ask your catchment area, and these might just get you handballed around... but hopefully one of these services might prove useful or get you referred to one that is?
You could also call psych triage and see if there's anything they can advise
Edit: Sorry it's some random BPD resource but it's got all the CATT numbers for each area in one place https://www.bpdcommunity.com.au/hidden-content/is-this-a-crisis
he sounds like he's in terrible distress
not that he should be scaring people tho
fuck this meth epidemic
God I'm actually starting to wonder if you live near the same tram stop I was abused at last week. I saw that yelling dude from last week at the same tram stop today, which actually is fairly close to a pub. Although he seems to be fairly understandable, just not entirely sensical
Not enough brain for proper sewing so made twiddles. Very happy with colour match, but the advisability of usage near felines remains to be seen.
Why is it so hard to figure what to write about difficult family stuff in a kind considerate way when dickheads seem to have no trouble finding the words to be nasty .
Think I did at least one thing right in a former life…
Dinner has been made and devoured.
Took some slices of bread, did some Devon and Strasberg, onions, cherry tomato and a fried egg and some tomato sauce.
Wasn’t bad at all, hopefully it don’t feel hungry later but I might too if off with some ice cream depending on how I’m feeling.
I've made some chicken laksa, hope it lasts a few days
That sounds really yummy. I’d be tempted to eat it all in one go.
35/50 Best I've done yet Pre-coffee too.
40/50, but I had a couple of flukes
Only 5. Which is hilarious. I’m rather good at general trivia, just useless at the sport/celebrity crap that some pass off as it.
10/50 - now I'm questioning if I'm a true Aussie. I didn't know Pharlaps Skeleton and seriously thought his heart was at Science works hahahahahaha!
10/50.
I'm not proud.
20/50 and 7/10 (I played this yesterday as well and got 3, today only 7 after seeing the right answers yesterday 🫠)
Just drove back home to the city from Ballarat. The smoke is absolutely disgusting there. Got into my apartment and promptly spewed my guts out. Not sure if it's the smoke or something I had.
Melbourne has got a tinge of smoke too now.
I just cracked open a window in my CBD apartment. The smoke is here now too!
Yep i was driving with it as it slowly got clearer but still a haze through the city. Ballarat itself though suuuuuuuuuucks! It was enough to hurt your eyes.
Thankyou for warning. Cooking had covered it so far. Doors all taped up now!
Jesus it's still going? Those poor ballaratters just can't cop a break :/
I'm getting 2019/20 vibes from the shit air quality and all the red and orange on Vic emergency
Shoulder injury headache is kicking my ass. Bed for the rest of the day. It's been a long time since I've had one, I've forgotten how shitty they feel.
Imagining this is akin to bad neck headache. Eye wants to pop out? Sympathy!
Thank you ❤️ it's finally starting to fade.
Something ate a bunch of my chillies :(
Not all of them, only the ripe ones but i'm still upset.
I'll try and put a little cage over them and see if that helps.
Well at least you can rest easy knowing there's a little critter out there with a sore bum and regrets.
Good idea.
I had that a couple of years ago and it turned out to be a rat. Little bugger had grabbed them all and taken them back to its nest.
Oh man. I've been going between frantically doing the work that can't be easily done with the furbaby around, and completely resting.
She's coming home on Tuesday and hopefully full of cuddles. I hope I don't get the cold shoulder for putting her in the cattery.
She'll be happy to see you. Just give lots of cuddles. ( And she's lucky to have such a caring furmom/friend as you 🥰 )
I have been informed it a sign of love to share one’s peanut butter moustache
The mind boggles.
Yeah nah
It can be a natural, zesty enterprise..
FWIW I read in a thread that "zesty" is being used a a gay-male-slur in some youth circles, having come from ShitTok.
Questions for those who use water chestnuts. Is it ok to sample them from a can before they get to the wok? Basically will I die? I may have eaten 1/4 can.
All food in cans is cooked and sterilized so should be fine to eat straight from the can. There are few riskier foods in general than fish which we eat straight from the can all the time without a second thought, so water chestnuts should not worry you at all.
Not unless you’d die from the same can cooked.
Time will tell.
Try out water chestnut cakes if you haven't already. Tasty little things will scratch that itch
Interesting. Will do. Thanks.
I love water chestnuts. I can relate to this.
They make stir fry more interesting
I’ve spent a really lovely afternoon building my model
There is absolutely no wind out there and you can definitely feel the absence of it.
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I get people being pissed off at the profiteering of supermarkets. Hell I've often thought the same especially when I see a bottle of Dove body wash for 17 dollars.
But at the same time shouting into space is only going to get you so far. Colesworth is a publicly listed company doing what those kinds of companies do - try and increase their profits. So unless you make that illegal or perform some other drastic intervention they will keep doing it.
