Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.
Adulting is buying your favourite items in bulk when they are on special.
Or even just regular stuff. I bought a couple extra blocks of cheese when I managed to get it at $10/kg.
Non-perishable/long life essentials in bulk is where it's at. Toothpaste, deodorant, toilet paper, paper towels, etc. If you have the storage space.
Today I'm gonna cook pork ribs in the airfryer. I'll let youse know how it turns out. 👍
Ooooh please! I'll be trying crispy chicken wings and some more sweet potato.
Fully agree. They came out delicious. Didn't need the fancy shmancy sauce I had concocted. Just plain Mitani's and a bit of Nostimini as a sprinkle.
No one tells you that as you get older wearing shoes with proper support will become a priority.
I've always been at the comfy undies stage, my mother growing up was very serious about undies.
Haha. I was the same but I've dabbled else where. My only requirements now is clean and comfortable.
True! But unfortunately manufacturers believe if you go for comfort then you've given up on life and don't deserve colour :(
Believe it! I once put on two slightly different black flats in the dark and the tiny mismatch threw my back out for the week.
Putting out your back for weird reasons = sign of getting old
Me at hospital. Doctor asks how my latest sciatica started. Me, I rolled over in bed.
I regularly hurt my back sneezing as a wake up because I haven't warmed up my muscles for the day yet.
*catching it again. I had it as a child. It fortunately stunted my growth.
I recently bought a bunch of stick on gel arch supports and they are fan-bloody-tastic.
Fuck man it’s like, you hit 30 and goodbye anything but runners or well made skate shoes! I thought hush puppies were good but the support seems to die fast.
This is me, I'm a hop from 30 and things are starting to hurt in ways I didn't think they could.
I have a funeral to go to tomorrow and I'm dressing for warmth.
Finally got out of that fucking tutoring role! Finally no more being absolutely fleeced by a boss who pulls in 200K a year but absolutely can't give a raise in line with inflation because they don't take inflation into account.
Today is a good day, goddamn
My wife was also ripped off big-time tutoring undergrads a few years back. The class pay was good. The marking pay was abysmal. She had something like 20 minutes to mark each paper. Some of them were that quick, but some of them took twice as long. If it took longer, she was basically unpaid.
Today I learned that my mother always thought "patio" rhymes with "ratio"... The effect of living in a country where most people live in apartments and you grow up learning a lot of words from books but not speech
I'm going to say Pay-shio from now on. It sounds better anyway.
At my niece's 4th birthday lunch. Thought you'd appreciate a photo of an Australian classic.
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I rocked up at an adult party when I was 30+ with a plate of fairy bread as my contribution. It was a huge hit. 😃
Does anyone else feel like supermarket employees are on a bit of a power trip?
The patrolling of the self serve thing really gives me metro ticket inspector vibes. I'm constantly having them look over my shoulder as though I'm going to steal.
Admittedly I live in a shitty area and am a minority so maybe I get singled out but it really gets on my nerves.
I make enough that I don't need to steal food. Fuck right off.
Sorry it's been bugging me for a while now.
/Rant
Tangential, but our local bunnings has gone...weird.
On the way out they check you have everything on your receipt, not that you have your receipt to prove you bought shit. Like, i literally just take my bike in with massive pannis and a basket full of crap and they go through the receipt and ask me to show each item on it to confirm i have it but don't check to see if there's anything i have that's NOT on the receipt. Wat.
I'd call it a newbie training but multiple staff have been doing it for three weeks....
Not where I live. They're super nice and stand around because they're constantly needed to fix up code things or help with double scans, pick up hand baskets, things like that.
Must be my area. I'm tempted to go to another suburb and do my shopping from now on.
Probably instructions from management, maybe certain stores have higher losses? They ones at my locals mostly just stand to the side unless they are fixing the endless self scan problems.
My local woolies is like that, and it’s really annoying. I have to remind myself that they’re just doing their job so I shouldn’t get pissed off
I used to shop at Coles and there was this lady who was definitely on one. Very demeaning as well.
The scale sensors were always finicky and she would blame me whenever the scales weren’t picking up items or bags properly.
And the one time I picked a different fruit by accident she had the audacity to tell me how to spell orange.
I feel like the new cameras are bad enough. I was putting something down and it slipped right off onto the floor I picked it up and put it back on and I had to get the attendant. It replayed the footage from an overhead view. It was so creepy and made me feel like a criminal.
I work in retail and it's because shoplifting is increasing massively with cost of living crisis. At work we've been told to be more vigilant.
I have noticed once I've scanned my fruit and vegetables and not scanned them as carrots they tend to leave me alone but they could be just anticipating something going wrong with the scanner itself.
Dumb question, but does anyone else remember the 90s being a time of feeling like there was so much potential and new shit on the horizon? Or was that just cause I was young?
I can remember the anticipation of the year 2000 and the buzz about if the computers will stop working. Everything was new then it went back to normal.
I think social media and the 24 hrs news cycle creates an air of constant doom that we just weren't exposed to.
I think probably because you were young. I felt the same back in the 70s. Then life happened.
Yes, it was the collapse of Communism and we were so hopeful there would be a new positive world that was freer. But then there was Rwanda and after that Yugoslavia. 😔
One cat being super helpful trying to eat videogame monsters
https://imgur.com/a/jWU64ap
The other cat doesn’t seem to see the tv at all, but this one is a menace 😺
Lmao just gave the cat a tin of his new food which has veggies in, dude actually sniffed it, gagged, and the cried for different food.
He really loved the fish based one yesterday, so I don't think it's a brand issue, dudes just not keen on pumpkin and peas.
Israel
Israel is apparently using white phosphorus. Absolutely vicious weapon. They were previously denying bombing hospitals. The things they’re doing have to be war crimes.
I can’t do anything to stop it but I can be disgusted.
It's repugnant and so are their supporters in the shelling of civilians.
It’s so fucked.
Civilians are being punished for the acts of Hamas, and that group radicalised and got violent after 75 years of violent occupation and peaceful protestors being shot.
Nobody is perfectly pure in war - that’s what war is - but in spite of the media spin the more I read about this complex conflict the more one sided it looks to me. It looks like genocide.
The Geneva Convention is supposed to protect civilians and children and Israel is ignoring that as they don’t consider the territory occupied. Israel/Zion has stopped journalists from reporting by shooting them, and is blocking aid and water.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/19/israels-war-against-gazas-children-explained#:~:text=At%20least%2014%20children%20were,those%20killed%20in%20that%20attack.
NB. This isn’t condoning terrorist cells or condemning Jewish people. This is not supporting antisemitism. There are actually Jewish people protesting Zion. The evil here is violent occupation, war crimes and colonialism.
Ahhhhhh I need to be up in 6 hours and I can't sleep
I started trying to sleep almost 2 hours ago and it's just not working 😭 I give up until the tiredness happens
I guess tomorrow's going to be a nap in the car kind of day
I checked on the cat and she was sound asleep. Guess not all animals can sense them.
Why does it seem like these have been happening a lot lately?
Is it possible the water reservoirs are or are getting full? Apparently that can trigger activity
The actual answer:
On a human timescale these feel like a concerning uptick in frequency. On a geological timescale, these are all happening in the blink of an eye and are almost definitely related to the 2021 Mansfield quake.
Didn't feel anything :(
Apparently it was a 4.8 near apollo bay
edit ooh 5.1
