Ladies and gentlemen…
I did it. My bowls are free. And neither of them was sacrificed to the Great Smash
Jesus fucking Christ. It only took trying every-fucking-thing, on and off throughout an entire fucking day
#BowlGate
You are a god and I bow to you
Woohoo! What was the winning technique?!
Tell the bowls they were being very naughty.
Hallelujah sister. 🎉
Now for fucksake put a piece of paper towel inbetween each one.
Yes. This is the stuff.
I went on Bumble BFF to make some friends and I suspiciously have 40 matches in one day.
I have a sneaking suspicion that it's not just friends people are looking for...
They deffo are sorry to report.
Bugger...
ranting about Adelaide
I don't think I like Adelaide. Why is their metro card system so rude?
When I visited I was 15, so I wasn't eligible for a child ticket (once you're 15 or older there you need a South Australian student ID). Today I found my metro card so was going to register it, but you can't register your card if you're under 18
Then in their terms and conditions they seem to be very set on a "NO REFUNDS" policy. Okay, I lied, you can actually get yourself a refund for whatever money you load onto it, but their policy is you have to die first. If you die, your "authorised representative" can go to them with a copy of your death certificate and a letter of administration. Are they really that desperate to hold onto the few measly dollars tourists put on their cards and don't use?
And their main train station makes me feel uncomfortable. I can't really describe why, it just makes me feel unwelcome and sketched out:
Other things I found weird, rude, or foreign about Adelaide:
- you swipe your card on the train, rather than at the train station
- they still take paper tickets on the trains, but you have to validate it by putting it into the metro card reader thing
- they do take bank cards but only on trams, but then I think the trams are free so you don't need to anyway?
- only some readers take certain types of tickets - on trams the front reader takes paper tickets and metro cards, but not bank cards. Then the middle reader takes bank cards and metro cards, but not google/apple pay. Then the back reader only takes metro cards
- you have to buy a ticket for your bike
- the penalty for fare evasion there is almost 5 times what it is here ($1,250 vs $280 here). And I think you get fined the same amount of you don't buy your bike a ticket
- they don't call fines "fines", they call them an expiration ticket or something?
- they put birds and shit on all their signs reminding you you're in South Australia, which ends up feeling like you're in papers please or another Soviet game based in the 70s/80s
- also I think if you get an expiration notice they put in on your police record and then you forever have a criminal record and a $1.2k fine because your bike doesn't have a ticket
- they put angry warning signs on literally everything. I don't understand how their signs feel like they're yelling at you but ours don't, but it seems to be the way it is
- their bus stops have terms and conditions
I love this, Adelaide is the worst lol. I went in 2011 or 12 and it sucked then. Not surprised it still sucks.
Readers on the train sounds good to me. It works on trams just fine.
It sounds like you really want a smart ticket. I went to Radelaide for a long weekend a few years back, I suppose I just used paper tickets on the train. I don't remember. I don't remember hating the train system, either though.
I love your rant, and how much you care about stuff. But yeah, I go about the world utterly oblivious to that sort of thing. I wouldn't notice terms and conditions on a bus stop, for example.It actually wasn't meant to be a full blown rant, I was actually just going to complain about how you have to die before you get a refund from them, but then I started remembering all the other odd things they do.
Readers on the trains can work at first, but they're a dumb idea in the long run. It was probably deemed the cheapest option when they were rolling it out, but eventually they're going to need new trains. And every train has anywhere between 2-6 readers per carriage X 3 carriages (with the possibility of doubling to 6 cars in the future), so it would end up being cheaper to just put your 4 readers at each station. Also they have full blown top up machines on the carriages, which is nice, but takes away seats and standing room
Wow even this became a rant :/
How can you hate Adelaide when The Fringe is on!? I just got back. Go see Colin Ebsworth's show Me, My Cult & I, and then Reuben Kaye's show Apocalipstik. Both were excellllllent.
Who's the fridge
Had to purchase a new phone unexpectedly today. Booooooo!!
Had an interview and was asked for references straight away.
Made really good falafel and dips for dinner.
Got a free coffee from local coffee stand cause they made an extra one and they know me.
Good day, no?
What happened to the phone and what did you replace it with?
Screen stopped responding to touch. Did all the troubleshooting and nothing.
Got a Pixel 7a and happy with it.
I read this and thought "winning" - as in you're winning! Incidentally reminded me of this stupid song
Slay, King 👑
Today's project completed: one large tote bag to carry my meals to work. The fabric is designed for outdoor furniture, with a lining of the type of fabric used for packs and sportsbags. This should mean it will last well - the old bag got quite manky because of the condensation formed by ice bricks. It did make it hard to sew though, both because of how thick it is and because the lining fabric was slippery. Miss Meow did her best to assist. Spoiler: it didn't help.
That is very uncanny.
Today I was going to buy a bag that is very similar, same shape and size, heavy tapestry in the same colour palette. I just wanted it for the fabric, to repurpose as chair upholstery, so declined at the price .
seriously uncanny
Next month I turn 32.
One year closer to returning to pure star-stuff.
✨Star stuff gang✨🙌
✨fwoooosh ✨
You are already pure star stuff.
⭐🤩⭐
I got sober when I was 33. I wonder if that had anything to do with it
I live for this cool breeze ony face, through my hair, as I'm on way home home from work in a tram that seems to be going just a bit too fast
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Just saw your comment otherwise you could have listened to this on your headphones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZaZYwaJeCk
I have gravely disappointed the Void. Usually the washing machine beeping signals an Outside Adventure with Bugs! And Grass!
I set up the airer inside. Shame on me.
how dare you not stop the rain
Alrighty. Final reference has been submitted. Ball is in their court.
My referee showed me what he wrote, and it's a fucking great reference. Really made me look good 🙂
Fuck yeah! I'm so excited for you!! This is great news and you deserve it! Treat yourself!
cool
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Heat has not worked. WD40 has not worked.
I’m genuinely about to sit the conglomeration in the dishwasher and run it through a cycle just to see
I'm invested in this now
just use some different bowls.
in a few days the stuck ones will come apart for unknown reasons
I only have four non-cereal bowls, and two of them are now stuck together
Forgot to ask - are bowls ceramic or glass? Or melamine/plastic?
Sturdy white porcelain bowls, quite deep
Oil around the join. Give it 10 minutes and try to pull them apart by gently twisting.
Ok now, if there is a gap between the bowls big enough to get water in the bottom bowl, fill it and freeze it. Maybe the expansion of the ice will be enough to dislodge.
Have you tried tapping the bowls on the side with a solid stick like object.
When ground glass joints in by soldering equipment get stuck, I just tap the side of the joint until it separates.
Brutal, trying to rip apart two bowls who obviously love each other very much!
/s
I like right-clicking an icon on my desktop and selecting "Run as administrator"; I understand what it does/what it's for, but honestly Im addicted to the pretend power-trip it gives me haha
"You will open and do the needful, and you will do it now!"
Bowls still stuck together. I give up
Bowl-eo and Bowl-iet by Bowl-iam Bowl-spear
Seriously though, wow. The vacuum between the bowls must be strong, or the friction.
I'm sure you have already, but maybe rubber gloves might help? Like to pull them apart? I don't know sorry, that sucks!
Can you twist them apart?
You may have to sacrifice one to save the other. Put a groove in the bottom edge of the lower one with a nail file, then tap FIRMLY on the bench to shatter it. If you are holding the top one, it should be unharmed. A teatowel on the bench may help corral the shards for disposal. Rubber gloves as per StudSpud's comment are a very good idea.
Put them on the bench with a towel underneath and put a bag of frozen peas (still in the bag) in the top bowl, wait until the top bowl is cold on the outside, then turn them on the side and give them a firm but gentle tap on top of the towel.
Add water and microwave for a minute
I salute your perseverance!
Squirt an air compressor in the gap? Got a mechanic nearby?
Glue a piece of wood to each bowl, let it set, pull them apart.
Make a loop of string and try and feed / saw it into the gap,
Sacrifice one bowl.
Fill your sink with hot water, put the bowls in, put ice cubes in the top bowl.
Put a little fuel in there and light it on fire somewhere safe.
Personal massage device to vibrate them apart.
Good luck.
Staff at personal devices shop: Welcome! How can I help you?
AJ: I'd like a massage device that vibrates.
Staff: Any preference for size and shape?
AJ: Something gentle. It's for my bowls who love each other too much.
Lots of toothpicks and a little tiny hammer?
I don't know why, but I vibe with this solution
Twist, don’t pull. Like opening a jar.
Edit: just saw Seagoon already mentioned this. Oh well, guess you now own a double walled bowl, or two less bowls, depending on what you decide to do. Welcome to a fork in the road of your life.
Oh for fuck’s sake.
I stacked one bowl on top of another and now they’re stuck together. I’ve wedged them somehow.
How do I disengage them without breaking either of them?
I'm invested in this.
Did they disengage?
We need an update!! :D
Fill your sink with hot water. Place the bowls in and put cold water or ice in the top one.
Fill the top one with ice water
I know that you can separate two buckets using an air compressor to blow air down the side of the bottom one because I randomly saw it on YouTube and now it loves rent free in my head despite my lack of an air compressor and lack of buckets.
I don't believe this is helpful but it's the best I got
Smear joint with WD40 or olive oil, then pry apart. Wash both thoroughly.
This is called kafta bil khebez (meat in bread). It's basically kebab meat inbetween lebanese bread.
Now why I was laughing was instead of waiting for the meat to reach room temperature so it's easier to spread my man was standing at the table giving CPR compressions to the meat with both hands.
Big scary meeting this arvo. Please send good vibes.
You'll be great. 🤞
You've got this!!
Hope the good vibes are working and the meeting was/is okay :)
You got this babes!
Sending all my good vibes to you! It's going to be okay! 💜
Sometimes I feel like I'm a teenager again, staying up late to read and make music.
Ah well. Joy where you can find it.
Operation Increase Kiddos Chilli Tolerance Without Them Knowing continues to be a success, with tonight's meatball mix having a good swig of yucateco.
Good! I’m so sick of hearing about this nuggets only bullshit. Unless the kid has ARFID or something, feed them food not pap.
I can see it now. In 20 years time, Melbourne’s thriving food scene will be all fancy nugget restaurants with a side menu of pouched yoghurt drinks.
Bravo! Chilli is a vegetable, and we all know kids react to those ...
🤜⏰🤛 ker POW!
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It's nice to be social but I've had my fill for this week. Need a lot of solo time to recharge.
Today is all about finding a farm stay for a mum-&-son weekend away in a couple of months, making tteokbokki for the first time and doing the ironing.
Loving this weather. Love this type of easy, light rain.
But first: coffee!
why is Seek telling me to become a tram driver
What does it pay? I reckon I could drive trams if it paid well enough.
Can't seem to find it again. Now I see this: https://www.seek.com.au/job/74217803
"Once training has been completed the rate of pay progresses to $57.1306 per hour"
Oh here it is! 80-100k
Kmart pakige arrived.
The magnetic laundry shelves stick well but the baskets are teeny tiny. They won't hold a few of the items I wanted to put in there. Photo mildly misleading. Still it's better than the suction cup hook I had holding the hand towel. The art supplies look good.
Edit: Oh and the resin platter I bought for wildlife water is nice and heavy but also teeny tiny. I need to actually check the measurements on these things. The amount of water in that would be drunk or evaporate fast.
Can you use a heavier bowl for the water? I have an old shallow ceramic serving bowl which has been given a new life as the garden birdbath. Maybe you have something lurking in the back of a cupboard you don’t use anymore?
I would have had something like that but did a big downsize a few years ago. :(
Guess this little one could be filled with marbles as a bee drinking station but they're going to hibernate
It's such a lovely, cool, rainy morning.
My bins are full so I have to hide some recycling before the inspection.
It is lovely. I have to pop down to Coles so not to be picky or anything if it could stop for a bit when I'm ready to go would be great because I don't like getting rained on while opening my gates to drive out.
I was at Coles and there's a little boy about 3 years old complaining that it's cold to his mother. In all fairness she was dilly-dallying in the cheese aisle. She replied with "I asked you if you wanted your jumper and you said no". Rookie mistake mum. You don't ask the child. You pop it in your bag anyway and produce it on the inevitable request.
Anyway my tip is to make them work while in there "Grab that 2 litre milk there and put in your basket please" then they don't have time to whinge. Win win.
Armaguard has asked for a bailout.
Must not be any money in there. Maybe the bailout funds could come off the back of a truck.
I like watching them from my car with my sunnies on, slunk down it my seat with a newspaper and two holes cut out.
I once saw a guy on a motorbike ride up to the Mint take a bunch of photos without removing his helmet and then bugger off. Probably ought have reported that somewhere or other.
I am not surprised. The banks screw everyone, customers and suppliers. This is what happens when all our big companies are cunts and there are no restraints on their actions.
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A coffee for you ☕ 💜
thank youuu
Battenberg thanks
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Fried chicken with rice and an orange juice please
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Yay, managed to get one overdue garden produce/kitchen task done - basil pesto (the damn things were flowering desperately and might not have lasted another week without harvesting. I had to chuck out about 20g of spotty/yellowed leaves...).
I have no parmesan or nutritional yeast, so I peeled extra garlic and quickly shallow fried the cloves in oil, added that with toasted sunflower seeds and a bit of extra salt - verdict: it's delicious! I don't miss the cheese at all. Cheap and easy. Just put most of it in an ice cube tray for future re-use. Somehow it's ended up a lot darker green this time, but I don't mind!
The other overdue job I really need to do tomorrow, before it warms up again, is give the curry leaf plants a big haircut (timing is really pushing it). Gonna make a big batch of South Indian-style curry leaf sambol/chutney with coconut and fresh green chillies also from the balcony, then freeze most of it. Might hunt down some frozen coconut since I think my dessicated stuff is getting kind of old, and I want this to be a smashing sambol
It's going to be interesting to see how the City of Yarra will charge yank tanks extra.
You can take up multiple bays if your vehicle doesn't fit in one. So anyone getting a fine for not fitting in the space will just go to court and get it dismissed.
Charging different rates for different vehicles could also get parking classified as a tax, thanks to the EV case. Which local governments cannot do.
Should be charged a higher rego too. They're friggin stupid. no one NEEDS one. A Triton or Landcruiser can do almost everything a yank tank can do, and you dont look like a member of a small penis support group whilst they do it.
Dinner is being made for me tonight and I wasn't gonna look but I did and now I had to move to another room because I couldn't stop laughing.
Please elaborate.
It's hard to explain so I'll show you pics later when it's made. 👍
Onto Harry Potter 2. This one has Kenneth Branagh. Nice. 😊
Over the first six movies, it's pretty-much a who's who of British actors. It's fun to spot them all. I don't recall any new members added to the ensemble for the final two films.
Bowls still stuck together.
Cold did not work. I’m trying heat
Jeez Melbourne central station is still warm!
I decided last night to finally get serious about getting my dashcam installed in my car. I found a well-reviewed service online and put an inquiry in using their online form.
How much money do you think someone would charge to run a couple of cables through a car and connect them up to 2 cameras and the battery? The cables, cameras and everything required already provided by me, the customer. If you guessed FOUR HUNDRED DOLLARS then you might be interested in hiring this company. THE FUCKING DASHCAM (2 FRONT AND REAR) WAS $435 AND IT'S ONE OF THE BEST ONES YOU CAN BUY!
It's a job I'd honestly almost try myself. A job which should likely take a professional maybe 45 minutes and I'm padding that.
Anyways I wrote back to their email telling them their quote was insane and about $150 more than I'd expect. Called AutoBarn out in Melton and they'll do it for $270 no problem. I can swallow $270 knowing they'll it well and do it right.
I've wired in a few now (in fact I just replaced my trusty old BlackVue a few weeks back when it finally met its maker), and to be honest it really is something you can do yourself if you're so inclined.
Half the challenge is finding good sources of accessory-switched and permanent 12v power, preferably around the fuse box (please make sure everything is fused!). A plastic trim removal kit is handy but probably not essential depending on the car.
Just be sure to run any rear camera cabling through the car at floor level under the scuff plates/trim and not up high to avoid interfering with any curtain airbags that may be lurking.
The first one I ever did took a couple of hours. Latest replacement I did was about 30 minutes, but I was able to re-use the rear camera cable run because I stuck with the same brand and style of camera.
No cicadas this year. It just doesn't feel hot unless I hear cicadas sing.
One Christmas, a few years ago now, when my family and I were camping at Seymour*, all the grubs decided the time was right to emerge as cicadas.
They covered the trees and everything. It was hot, but they would pee on us. It felt like rain, and while ick, wasn't entirely unwelcome. It was basically just water lol.
TL;DR: cicadas golden showered my family for Santa.
*Edit: I wrote Seymour, but it may have actually been Heathcote now that I think about it...
Seem to be a few here inner east.
I remember as a kiddo early 90's I used to find heaps of their shed skin things on trees all the time but I haven't seen one in ages.
They were everywhere down on the Bellarine. Kept finding them in the house after dark too.
Zzzzzzz
Ohh the joys of waiting for real estate to come for the inspection. Never a fun feeling.
Switched to Vodafone for a moment cause Optus still arnt pricing themselves like they torched their brand, and boost actively incentivise you to port out then port back in. It’s not horrific, but man I’m outta the house 50 minutes and notching the network gaps pretty bad!
What do you mean with that Boost comment? Been contemplating moving there from Amaysim
Boost almost ALWAYS have a good deal going. Extra data for 3 months, or cashback on a prepaid sim. But for an existing customer? you get none of that. So you're better off porting in and porting out every time the deal ends. A bit like changing your NBN provider every 6 months.
Yay, my Markeplace buyer showed up! After a couple of no show/ghosts on the one item I was starting to lose hope. But I have now gotten rid of the last of my unwanted items that is too big and difficult to get rid of any other way. Everything else should be either donateable to the op shop or suitable for hard rubbish (some with an attempt to sell first, but not really an issue if no one wants them).
I have been surprised by the complete lack of interest in my cheesemaking supplies, they are a good deal. But if no interest in the next week or so I willl op shop them instead. Then it will mostly be a bunch of old tools and camping equipment. The tools should be a good deal for someone who wants to sort out and resell, I have no interest in doing that much work so will put them up as a lot. No idea if there will be much interest in the tent, its a heavyweight canvas one not the funky dome style, but hopefully it will find a new home, it would be a shame to toss it.
Try adding the tag SCA to the cheese stuff and the tent
Harry Potter 3. Robert Hardy will always be Siegfried to me.
Three is probably the best of the films. At least in the sense of a self-contained, coherent story that doesn't rely on you knowing anything about the books.
Sadly, we lost Richard Harris.
Told the wife to play the “blue eyes white dragon” in her game of queens blood in ff7. Anyone else draw intense joy from annoying their spouse with dumb jokes? I LIVE for the disappointed grunt noise I got.
Do you have a twinkle in your eye while joking?
Ask if she has found the master ball yet, so she can 100% catch the legendary Pokemon near the end of the game?
Ughh. Had a long hot shower to try and manage pain. It's a huge waste of water and the least environmentally friendly habit I have but unfortunately it's not going anywhere.
This is self-care, nothing to be judgy on yourself about 💜
I hope there is some respite for you, and relief. 💜
Thanks
Not a waste, needed for your wellbeing. Besides, Melbourne water storage is at 92% and Summer’s over, rainy autum and winter ahead. There’s no need to ration water right now. Any excess just gets released out of the dams.
That's good to know.
I envy people with those outdoor bathtubs they build a fire under
It's not a waste, it's treatment, it's quality of life care.
hugs
Yeah, it's unfortunately one of few tools I have
