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  • Just did my first reverse into a car park at Southland in the new car.
    breathes into paper bag

    • Well, you can spend the time and attention on entering the parking space, or spend the time and attention on leaving it. My own decision tree includes whether or not I need to open the back hatch door to put stuff in. If yes, then forward park into the space - if no, then reverse in.

      • Your first sentence is basically my thought process too. If getting out is going to be more of a pain, because of traffic or a tight spot, I'll reverse. But if there's lots of cars waiting or I'm running late when parking I'll always go for a forward park if I can.

        I'm usually more tired and anxious at the end of a drive than the start so I prefer to make life easy for myself.

    • Well done. From now, only reverse park. Once you do it a few times it becomes second nature and you'll scoff at the forward parkers (as you well should) due to your immediate superiority.

      • While I too drive stick and laugh at Yanks who claim it’s too difficult, I’ll always take a pull through parking spot if available.

      • I don't really understand why people want to reverse park all the time. I usually want to put things in the back of my car, so it is much more convenient if that is pointing out.

      • It improves parallel parking skills as well.

  • I call this my Lonely People Email Filter and it is vital to my mental health

  • Back in the day people used to take whole watermelons injected with booze into the cricket. So what you do is bite a little hole in the top and suck the juice from it. Then you start chewing through it. By the end of the day you're wearing the rind as a helmet, giving a little wave 🤘 to the camera and off ya chops.

    There's a little culture for ya.

    • My sister did a version of this whilst camping in a caravan with friends at Wilson's Prom like 25 years ago. Multiple watermelons, bottles of vodka. She told me they woke up the next morning and the inside of the caravan was covered in watermelon.

    • And you wind up smelling like watermelon which is preferable to beer, sweat and sunscreen.

      • I've seen it done with a bag of oranges still in the netting. Take the stickers off, inject the oranges, put them back on the ones you've injected.

        This Terry's shot do you reckon it would work if I chocolated the rim of a shot glass then filled it with Cointreau?.

  • The truck missed picking up my bin today ☹️

    Normally it would not be an issue for me as I don't have much rubbish, but I've been doing a big cleanup and this week it is packed to the top and I have a pile of stuff already waiting for next week too. I've reported it to the Council so it should get emptied, but I presume now it won't be until Monday at the earliest.

  • How do I still have 3 and a half hours left my work day, this day is dragging like a limp dick

    -high pitched screaming-

    • 💦🌀🐌

    • Hey champ. How are you feeling now compared to when you were really bad the other day?

      Feeling much better since then?

      • Better definitely, I bought a mouth guard to help with the headaches from grinding my teeth, so I've been able to rest. I was oddly feverish today, but WFH so that's fine haha

        Thank you 🙏 you're lovely for asking ☺️

  • My daughter's doing chemistry this year and loving it so much she decided to tell me about her lesson today. There was talk of electrons and...that's as far as I remember because I tuned out but I nodded at the right times then I made an escape but not before I turned to the dog and said "I live in a house with nerds". He agreed.

    • get her one of stephen hawking’s books (i forgot which) for the quarks and strings too

      • Oh no no no dear bacon. One does not purchase books unless requested to. I will ask though. Thanks.

  • Had the sudden urge to strip my bed. It was a lot of effort for a Friday night. Worked up a sweat getting that doona in the cover perfectly. My technique for this is a workout, there’s probably an easier way. But it’s done and now I have fresh sheets sleep to look forward to.

    • It's crazy how tiring it can be to change bedlinen. I know this and still curse at having to do it every time. I splurge on nice sheets so the fresh sheet feeling is elevated even further. (and I change the doona cover less regularly).

      Sunday's going to be linen day for me. Brand new (but washed) sheets after 2 years.

    • My ex actually taught me the method I use for getting a doona in a cover. You start with the cover inside out.. reach inside it to the far corners and use the corners like mittens to grab the corners of the doona where they should go. Then you just kinda pull the doona through/inside out in one big flamboyant motion like a magicians trick. Then tuck the other 2 corners in but they'll be easy, the ones near the opening. It works really well.

      Before that I used to get inside the doona cover, briefly be a ghost and ghost tackle her, then awkwardly try to stuff the doona inside the cover and it'd be a whole thing.

  • Bill Cat 😂 So I fell asleep watching telly and Bill decided to tickle my toes to wake me up. I jumped about a mile, little brat. I'd yell at him but he's too cute.

  • Today has crawled by very slowly. Still over an hour to home time. ☹️

    I am looking forward to my weekend though - I have three days off and will be doing all the fun things. Hard rubbish. Assembling flat pack furniture. Maybe some mowing and weeding if I can fit it in. How did I get to have such an exciting life? 🤣

  • I think I ate too much chocolate crossiants things and strawberries at work today.

    Feeling tired all of a sudden, can't wait till I can get home from today and watch the ODI today.

    Also I made the decision last night to buy the ice cream and boy was it soooo good!

  • Aaaaahhh. I finally finished the entire application. My butt hurts from sitting too long and I haven't eaten since 11am and I still fluffed up a passage about time management, lol.

    Once upon a time I would've felt profoundly sick at having to talk myself up so much and "sell" myself to an employer. I guess now I'm just jaded enough to recognise it's a game I have to play to keep a roof over my head. Just gotta give it a go. I'm not super invested in this job anyway tbh but figure it's the best option going atm and worth a try.

    Still waiting for that 3-day a week/short term contract job that would work so much better for me.

    Anyway time to go shower and eat and unwind.

  • Called up Cennalink because the situation with the car and the payout is enough of a grey area that I need to talk to an actual person.
    45 minutes and counting. 😖

    • Go to the toilet with the speaker on. Guaranteed you'll get someone answer half way through a wee.

      • Close, I was scooping the cat's tray!
        Issue dealt with in less than 5 minutes, but the lady I spoke with was lovely, so that helped.

  • Go away helicopter, you are very loud. 🚁

    (Spent most of my time in Melbourne in areas that rarely get night copters, so now I know what people go on about... I'd close the window but it'll get stuffy. Wonder what/who they're looking for.)

  • Recent Wikipedia rabbit holes have taken me to some interesting places. Did you know you can cook watermelon rinds?!? Apparently it tastes like a cross between squash/zucchini, carrot and cucumber. I don't normally even buy watermelon but I have to try this out...

    • Melon & Lemon jam was a staple of my childhood. That is, jam made from melon rind cooked translucent with lemon juice for the pectin. Very beautiful on the plate or as a topping on pies - 1 cm cubed pale yellowgreen jewels in a sweet/tart matrix. Gorgeous on crumpets. Not made anymore as farmers aren't growing the right kind of melon for jam, which was too bitter and stringy to eat raw but the rind cooked up beautiful. Let us know if watermelon rind cooks up translucent - if so I want to try making jam with it.

      • I imagine the melons were more along the lines of the below. You don’t need to go full GMO salmon gene splicing to massively change a plant.

      • Part of my wiki travels suggest that the suspected ancestor of sweet watermelons was indeed bitter and stringy as well. A close relative continued to be grown for jams (due to its high pectin content) as citron melon. I imagine it's quite a niche product.

        This recipe for watermelon rind jam - no watermelon flesh - sounds very similar to what you were describing. Looks translucent!

        e: it appears there are in fact many receipes for watermelon rind preserves (cubed) - most stating they are old recipes, some from the Depression era, or traditional recipes hailing from Iran, Armenia, Greece... I reckon if you get a cheaper watermelon that's got more rind than usual it would be great for making these preserves.

    • I just eat them cut supper thin with x smidge of salt. Cucumber is a reasonable comparison.

      Also mad shout for watermelon, feta, mint As a summer salad.

    • No. Just no. Same as those who use banana peel in food. No.

      • Banana peels gross me out, the texture is yuck. But watermelon rinds sound intriguing - so much firm edible matter that gets wasted, it's clean and fresh and blemish free (it's generally recommended to peel the tough green skin off). I'd give it a go

  • I went and bought a new downlight globe to replace a dead one in my kitchen and it's flickering :( Urgh why couldn't it just work perfectly?

    • I think you might need this

      Or this

      Or an electrician. Two of those are cheap options.

    • You just introduced a new AI virus to the house. Pack as much water as you can and get out now.

  • DT brain trust, I'm wanting to replace the radio in my car and was wondering how anyone in here has gone about it? Usually I would do something like this myself, but new car has lots of scary buttons and I'm feeling lazy about it.

    Do I buy the parts and drop it at the mechanic, do I go to a special place, do I just say I want a new radio and they collect all the bits and do it?

    Edit - I'm in the outer west if anyone has any recommendations.

    • Done a few, realllllyyy depends on the car.

      If it's got a standard DIN/double-DIN head unit then it's usually fairly straightforward, but these are becoming more rare.

      If it's fully integrated with the car and not a 'standalone-style' unit stuck in there, then it gets more complex. There are sometimes third party units that get buried in the dash or replace part of the dash (I know this is an option for Falcon/Territory) that also take over the HVAC and other controls, but your mileage may vary and install can get pretty tricky.

      • Mines got an info system in the dash above the radio which is why I loathe to touch it. Such a pain cause as I said I'd just do it myself, but I'd rather not end up costing myself more money by accidentally crossing my wires.

    • Depends on the model, but you might be able to find a Joying (Android) unit that fits your car - Website. I replaced the stock radio on a 2010 Honda CRV with one. It came with the correct wiring harness, was shaped to fit in the same space etc. Installed myself following a YouTube tutorial, took about an hour or so. Hardest bit was finding and then not breaking the little clips on the dash as I took it off.

    • In your position (I was in similar with Felicia) I'd check with the mechanic first and they'll tell you whether to get the parts and bring it in or go to either a car place that sells radios or somewhere like JB HIFI and have them do it.
      I'm in the south east so can't help you with recs, alas.

      • I just saw the Autobahn near me does it, and they have some good reviews. Might give them a ring and see how that goes, fingers crossed, I'm very very over the radio.

  • This week has absolutely blazed by. I feel like I just got back from my border trip last weekend. Now I gotta think of what to do THIS weekend! I have absolutely no idea what I want to do but I won't sit in my apartment for it, that's for sure.

  • I haz had a rye cookie from Baker D’Chirico.

    Remind me of those Ovaltine lollies? That is all.

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