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Daily Discussion Thread: Sun 22 Oct 2023

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I remembered my password lol I'm back properly.

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.
  
  Crispy chicken wings are freaking awesome in the airfryer.

I have a funeral to go to tomorrow and I'm dressing for warmth.
- I'm so sorry, hugs.
  
  Thanks.
- 😔 hugs
  
  Thanks

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.

No one tells you that as you get older wearing shoes with proper support will become a priority.
- It all starts with comfortable underwear.
  
  Which does not have to mean beige. Grump!!
  
  I've always been at the comfy undies stage, my mother growing up was very serious about undies.
- 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 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.
- There is a reason New Balance are popular for guys 40+

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.
  
  Idk, your ratty-os might be off

One cat being super helpful trying to eat videogame monsters
https://imgur.com/a/jWU64ap
- Champion. 💗😸
  
  The other cat doesn’t seem to see the tv at all, but this one is a menace 😺

At my niece's 4th birthday lunch. Thought you'd appreciate a photo of an Australian classic.
- 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. 😃
- perfection.

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.
- 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. 😔
- I think probably because you were young. I felt the same back in the 70s. Then life happened.
- No, but life happened big time that decade. :(

Earthquake! I think. The house shook anyway.
- Indeed it was. Now I have the heebies.
  
  I checked on the cat and she was sound asleep. Guess not all animals can sense them.
- Maturity optional:
  
  Brown Town 😂
- Didn't feel anything :(
  Apparently it was a 4.8 near apollo bay
  edit ooh 5.1
- Slept right through it in Northcote.
- I slept right through it.

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

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....
  
  New stock level system maybe? All staff getting trained.
- 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 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 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.
- Ya they hover over me and kinda stare.
- 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.
- I avoid the supermarket as much as possible.

Hard rubbish all out. That's twice now a passing stranger has helped me lift the second couch back up.
Here's hoping the fossickers don't just dump it again...

- 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.

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.
- Poor little guy!
  My cat loves vegies and will eat them alone. :/

Am trying this recipe: https://www.recipetineats.com/baked-balsamic-chicken/.
Wish me luck!
- Nagi always delivers
  
  The only problem I've come across is with her gravy. Way too much flour and she doesn't brown it before adding liquid.
- I’ve rarely gone wrong with a Nagi recipe. I’m sure it will be delicious!

Day 8/70: First day of week 2 weigh-in.
Down 1.8kg. I know the first couple of kilos are the easiest, but still I didn't think I'd drop that fast. I actually don't want to lose 18kg (10 weeks x 1.8kg). I'd be too skinny.
- Congratulations on the weight loss! I found weight loss is an inconsistent thing. When you start, sometimes you lose a fair bit initially and then it kind of plateaus just when you want to knock off those last few superfluous kilos. To give an example I've decided to share my progress chart with you:
  
  For others, nothing much happens in the beginning. Every body is different but it's rarely an evenly sloping gradient.

I'm going to Sydney tomorrow and I'm not sure whether I'm excited or nervous but whatever I am I can't sleep :/
- What would you be nervous about?
  
  I don't know if Lemmy comments have a character limit, but if there is, I could make a list long enough to find out what it is
- I was there recently and had lots of fun. Saw some touristy things, got about on the plentiful PT, and the weather was lovely. What are you going to be doing?
  
  I'm mainly heading up there to explore their public transport system

I have inadvertently started collecting chickwn salts. I should start a database with notes. Best on popcorn: hoyts chicken sprinkle. Chippies: less salty than mitani, can be more liberally used. Aftertaste akin to a smiths roast chicken chippie.
- I want in on this
  
  The reviews or the chips? I suppose one leads to the other regardless.
- Nice n tasty is the one you want.
  
  I shall add it to the list for review

I didn't grind enough coffee and I mustn't have tampered it hard enough because it barely made it into the espresso extraction range and now my coffee is a bit weak. Weak coffee isn't a good start to the day BUT I did sleep well enough to sleep through the earthquake so it's not all bad news.
- There was an earthquake?
  
  I’m not sure, I didn’t see any of the 300 posts about it on Reddit.
- Have another coffee, quick it's still early.

I've IRL socialed enough for today. I feel like a bit of a naparoony.

Ah Woolworths self check out.
I scanned a single carrot as carrots. No bag, just a single naked carrot on the scale.
It called the attendant over, the image on screen is very obviously a carrot but it still thinks it's not a carrot.

TF with this weather. 😑 I am cold.
On a side note, the Joseph Brown Collection is worth a visit at the NGV (Fed Square). NGV (water window) looks like it’s gearing up for the Triennial.
Also had the pleasure of failing at pottery at 2 Mayfield in Abbotsford. Was fun and you can BYO.
Current Mood: Vibing for Imbibing.
- I love this weather coz I get to cuddle up in bed with the cat and a book and feel all warm and cosy.
  
  I wholehearted agree, especially when I’m in the mood, but it’s such a mad jump from Friday.
  (Am a Melbournite, will whinge about the weather. Hehe.)

reply 1 to send me to the gym, 2 if no
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  It's hard to get going, but you'll be ok once you start. Also, you'll regret it later if you fail.
  
  Thank you Nath. Surprisingly I'm not actually struggling with motivation in general. Its just that I have been playing a lot of tennis and I also want to complement that with some gym sessions. Problem is, I do too much and my body doesn't seem to like it. I'm doing tennis like 5-6 days a week and adding gym to that might get a bit much so I need to cut down my tennis time a little bit. Anyway, today's upper body day so it hopefully won't be too bad!
  Might even do some footwork plyometric workout actually.
- 1.5
  
  I'm actually a 1.5, brain says rest up but heart says go to the gym you lazy potato

Saw Moulin Rouge. The stage setting is spectacular. Music has been changed from the movie, it’s done in a mash up style, all the songs are well known pop songs. Great energy show, enjoyed it lots.

Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋
- Grilled bananas with maple syrup and cream on waffles please. A cup of coffee would be lovely too. Hope you have a lovely day.
  
  🔥🍌🍯🥛
  🧇🧇☕️
- Where’s the tip jar? 🍤🐟🍗🥩
  
  😸
- Excuse me I need to speak to the manager
  
  🐈

Giant pot of pumpkin soup is on the stove, nice for these upcoming cold days.

Sit. rep. on the recipe - didn't quite work out but I think it was because cranky old oven is cranky, plus the baking tray was probably too large. But it was delicious - definitely trying it again!

Happy Wombat Day. 😊

Late lunch / early dinner
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On a lighter note… :( To get my head off the subject.
I just saw *a new Nat’s What I Reckon cookbook coming out at Big W. (I fell off watching for a while and was unaware that he actually now has a bunch of books.) In case anyone is stuck on finding a Christmas present for someone. It’s currently only on preorder though, so no idea if it would be ready by December.
I’m going to stick my head back in my drawing app for a while and spoon Melbcat.
She’s so funny, a cat with the chill personality of a dog. She’ll climb in the bed with you and plop her head down on your shoulder, or make biscuits and do little T rex arms while getting a belly rub.

I've been thinking about saying the special three word sentence to my boyfriend, but some things are making me apprehensive. We haven't been dating for that long (only three months) and I don't say those words to just anyone. I might feel love towards him, but to me, love is also a commitment that you make with the other person. Seeing as it's still very early days, our future together just seems not too certain (but people can change at any point).
I have decided that one of the presents I'll give him for his upcoming birthday is a list of things I like about him and I might slip it in there :)
- I'm the same.

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