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  • Happy American Thanksgiving Day everyone. That special day where we all give thanks that, as Australians, we do not have two major celebrations in close proximity to each other, in the middle of winter, in a country with minimal annual leave provisions. As someone who works with the Fire Brigade I also like to give special thanks that we do not have any traditions that involve deep frying a whole turkey over an open flame.

    • I love thanks givin'. The littl'uns all running around the big ol' pot cookin' Mama's secret recipe turkey shootin' their bb guns and eatin pumpkin pie. Can't get no better than that y'all. Yee haw.

    • I have deep fried turkey a few times. The difference is remarkable. Just ensure you have a fire plan lol.

      • Fried foods are always tasty, but, given how many people manage to set fire to a standard bbq, adding turkey fryers to the mix seems a recipe for disaster. It does make for some great videos if you like a good fireball though.

      • Deep fried turkey is delicious , can recommend and it's really worth the effort

    • Still, without Turkey Day, there would be no Black Friday sales. That has to be factored into the equation. Also, if you include Halloween, that's 3 celebrations in close proximity. Nearly as much fun as the Easter/Anzac/Labour Day constellation of holidays right here in Oz.

      • That right - three celebrations. No wonder they call it the festive season!

        Once upon a time the best sales were stocktake sales, and there were smaller mid-year sales as well. Stocktake as a close-the-store and physically count every thing system has been replaced by ongoing inventory management, but the sales remain. I'm not sure when we stopped calling them stocktake sales though. The importation of Black Friday sales is quite recent, and with no stocktake involved the sales have really just spread out and become almost business as usual.

    • fully defrost the turkey and turn the flame off when adding/removing the turkey seem to be the basic OHnS of frying a turkey.

      • Making sure you don't overfill the pot so there is enough room for the turkey is also aparently an overlooked part of the process, as is making sure that flammable objects are kept a safe distance away.

  • That moment when a seagull randomly realises you're eating fajitas on the beach:

    And they say it's hard to make friends in your 30's.

    Come summer it'll be packed but for now it's bliss.

  • Ha last client refused service due to a mix-up so I get paid for 2½ hours of doing bugger all. I'm staying in my work pants until 3 just in case but I don't think they'll send me on another job if they didn't call me within the first half hour.
    In other news the first week has gone well and the people at the fill in job I had yesterday have specifically requested me as a regular. primp primp

  • Today was my first full work day since shingles and holy hell is the fatigue real. I was warned about it, but boy howdy if I wasn't about to knock off I'd be cosying up for under the desk nap.

  • Ah, that nice feeling of hitting 10pm and actually being well watered, well fed, happy with the day's work, done the day's chores and all ready for a JAM PACKED DAY TOMORROW that is hectic by any measure but more so when you've been a quasi NEET/hermit for a while:

  • So much drama in the office today. It was extremely amusing and bemusing watching a new staff member lose her shit at the Call Centre Consultant (I'm just gonna call him Milhouse) my work hired; she almost quit if it weren't for our direct manager talking her down and accepting her declining the new title they gave her.

    Now it is my title lol. No payrise, but you best be sure I'm bringing it up in another month (will be my third month there) and at my 6 month review. Milhouse doesn't realise I have worked under people like him before, and I know what I'm doing when it comes to this title they've passed onto me lol. I held the position of Operations Consultant for a long time, and while this isn't the same as what I'm doing now, it's damn close.

    I'm going to shine, hope they have their sunnies lol

  • Sitting at breakfast overlooking the golf course just enjoying watching the old blokes walking around and their golf buggies following them by themselves like golf themed droids from Star Wars. The future is hilarious.

  • Slow day at work, doing a little bit of work but reading about stuff online quietly while looking like I'm doing something important.

    I think I'm running out of things I want to read.

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  • Wtf is going on here?

    • Everybody can see the mod logs.

      • How odd. First it’s turned up for me. An on/off to avoid clutter would be nice

    • Surely I shouldn’t be able to see this?

      • I've been able see it ever since coming to lemmy

      • Mod actions are (mostly) transparent.

        Weirdly, my user bans don't show up in the modlog. I ban about two spammers and their post history per day, and that never shows up. It seems if I purge a comment that it's gone from everywhere - including modlog. No admin would ever abuse this loophole, right?

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