Daily discussion thread: 🌓 Monday, May 6, 2024

Relationship officially over.

He didn't even want to talk it out. Just said we are done over text and blocked me everywhere.

This is going to be a time of growth for me. Only up from here!

Skimming through your comment history.....and yikes.
You'll be better off in the long run.
Ooh rough.
Over text is a bit fucked tbh you might have dodged a bullet there
You deserve wayyyyyy better than that guy was giving you!
this was from the dude with the disgusting valentines card yeah? First up, I'm sorry. Second of all, and again sorry if this sounds rough, but I am CERTAIN you're gonna look back on this relationship and be glad its over. Probably not today or tomorrow, but that day is coming. Take a deep breath in and out, cause you're free of that asshole.
I'm also sorry to hear but probably for the better that you're not with him.
You deserve someone way better than that.
I'm sorry for the pain he has caused you, but the trash took itself out. Block them back, just in case they get drunk and weird, and leave them in the past.
You got this!
I'm so sorry.
lots of hugs
Ah man. I remember how giddy and excited you were when first meeting the guy. But it sounds like it's all for the best now (what a dropkick breaking up with you via text). And you're very much ready to move on yourself.
You're better off without the guy, and I think this experience will be a great one to take note of what worked + what didn't. Pay attention to what you felt you needed from him (that kept you in the relationship) and try to find other sources for that, or interrogate the quality of what you were getting, so as to avoid going back to him in a moment of loneliness and/or inebriation ;)
You got this!!! 💪
@LowExperience2368 @Seagoon Lots of hugs.
I've been there before.
Breakups are the worst — even if he's a complete and utter jerk (and from the sounds of it, he definitely is).
Know that it's natural to cry, it's natural to mourn.
And if you have a sleepless night, no-one will begrudge you if you take a day off work or cancel your plans for tomorrow.
There's no rush. Give yourself time to grieve.
It might take time, but know things will get better.
I'm sorry. That sounds devastating.
He was no prize though. He was noncommittal, self centred, low effort, and consistently treated you like an option. I agree with the advice to block him everywhere in case he comes back sniffing around again. It will also stop you lurking his page and picking at wounds.
I hope these offer some comfort
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2-IQpyqEQM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qanl1s7K2Kc

I'm sick to death of being treated like a potential thief at self service.

I hate pulling the race card, but it's noticeable how different I'm treated. And it's gotten much worse since the cost of living issues.

They will come and literally stand behind me watching me scan everything. Im not dressed in rags or anything. Even when I'm on business work clothes.

Some of those checkout people seem to have gone crazy with the modicum of perceived power they have over people.

/Rant

I live near an Aldi, but its soo fucking good having a self serve that doesn't accuse you of theft.
The staff are also rostered on at the same times, so you also get to know the stores staff.
- Your aldi has self serve? I've never seen that before
If we add up how much we spend at our usual shops, many thousands a year, it's shameful how we are treated, absolutely shameful.
And the reason they do it is so that we forget the customer shop relationship, that we have a valid expectation to be treated with respect and politeness and that we have rights.
Maybe we should start shoppers associations. The problem is in a duopoly what kind of power can we exercise?
And the racism? I suggest take videos and post about the racism.
- nah, just steal shit to even it up. Silent protest.
I'm personally really looking forward to them installing those self closing gates at my local coles. If it closes on me I'm gunna wear a face mask and shout "Cant hold someone captive you profiting fucks" as I kick it down. I obviously wont be acting like that if there is young kids around.
- I really love nice thick boots for kicking in stuff.
Some great leftist thinker must have a chapter in a book about how the corporations are thrusting more of the responsibility onto us whilst also treating us as a criminal for doing so
Ditto having blue hair

After months of snap send solve for a mattress dumped in the park, someone spray painted "Handjob Club. Thursdays 9pm. Kids Welcome." on it and stood it up next to the scout hall entrance. Mattress gone the next day.

Very few photos are more humbling then the passport photo as someone who doesn't ware makeup. Being forced to remove your glasses when they're something I use to detract from the ugly also doesn't help🫠

Even makeup goes wrong, too. Mine looks like a complete mug shot. Seriously. Everytime I look at it I immediately can see it being splashed across some US channel. LOL.
I won't even look at mine :shudder:

So you guys remember that FOI request to AmbVic I was considering last month? Well I decided to go ahead and make it. They seemed a little, um, unsure about what I was asking for. They misspelt my name, deemed my request invalid because they thought I was requesting information about an ambulance attendance so they wanted ID, a phone number, and more information. Then 12 minutes later they sent me another email stating they realised I was not requesting that information (but nothing else) then an hour later sent a third email apologising stating they realised I was not requesting information about an ambulance attendance, I didn't need to provide ID, and I did not need to provide a phone number.

Well, they finally processed it and provided a list of all the branch locations and their addresses today. But they sent it as an encrypted excel workbook thing that they didn't provide me permission to open...

Also, I don't want to rag on them too much, but their emails have had so many typos and grammatical errors I found it kind of concerning.

@Baku @Seagoon
First up, congratulations ☺️
A lot of FoI requests come from the media (Josh Taylor from The Guardian is notorious for them), or from industry groups, businesses, and parliamentary staff.
They're probably not used to media requests that have come through from the customer service team, rather than their media relations team.
Typos in internal emails are not that surprising.
Did you end up cracking the spreadsheet? Did you find out anything interesting from the documents you got?

I don’t understand why people still approach you when wearing headphones…

Why?

To warn you you are about to walk in the path of a tram. ( I have even had to grab people )
- I get that, but mine is never drastic.
  Is always to ask me a question. All these people around without headphones… and I still get asked!

Well bugger. I think I’ve eaten some mouldy food today.

Two mini cupcakes in the morning and just now a bunch of stale biscuits that I didn’t look too hard at.

Pray for me.

You might be surprised by what you can tolerate. Fingers crossed you don't suffer too long!
- I’m still alive!
  Tummy was a bit funny before but I wonder if that was anxiety causing it.
  Just ate some other stuff and I’m feeling ok now.
The stale biscuits won't hurt you but the mouldy cupcakes might. I'll pray for you anyway 🙏
- Biscuits could have been mouldy too.
  I had them stored in the same container :(
You'll probably be fine
I'm not sure but I think we are the only ape that doesn't eat mould or mouldy food . It's why we don't have a blue food group. The only reason is that we are so good at finding food we don't need to eat mouldy stuff. We can digest it, we just don't have any appetite for it.
Off foods, such as dairy or meats are different and you shouldn't eat those.
- Does cheese count as mouldy food?

Ted has been attacking Bill so I held Ted for 20 seconds just to show him he's not so tough. He did not like it.

Love/Hate when you gotta remind the bully they are NOT the top of the food chain.

Got home late today and just cannot be buggered moving all my plants around in the cold and dark. I know my landlord lives ages away so I'll just do it tomorrow. I'll definitely be leaving work at 4pm tomoz. Gotta head in early, so I'm leaving on time...

This week's off to a much better start, less overwhelming, more under control. Much more even-keeled having regular hot non caffienated drinks through the day. Meantime I'm so immensely grateful I made all that food last week. Ripper lunch today and tomorrow, and more goodness for dinner. Gonna do a bittergourd and tvp stir fry tomorrow night I reckon.

Think I'll have a go at trying to sleep without the phone tonight. I have a library book on ADHD I've been wanting to go through...

So I was at supermarket the other day, low key jamming out to Coles Radio as you do in your 30s apparently. Then they play a new taylor swift song. And something inside me just... snaps. Previously I was like "Ok, talented artist but getting a bit over the hype". Now I think i actually hate her. Like I cant even do some shopping without having to hear her shit? The song sucked. It was all mopey and shit and felt like 0 effort, but its somehow still getting air time? I hate even posting this cause I feel like its just giving more air time, but I need to vent my frustrations. cant we all (myself included) just move on!?

I shop at Leo’s occasionally. They have the best 80s mix tape every time. A real bop. Bowie, Tears for Fears, New Order etc..
We should rank supermarket mix tapes haha.>
- Just wait until xmas. At the kew store mariah and bublay coming atchya..
- Aldi would win because they don't play anything. It's probably a cost saving measure on their end but I'd rather listed to nothing than supermarket music and it's probably better for people on the spectrum as well
Have felt like that about Kylie Minogue for over 30 years now. And high rotation is a major reason why I will NEVER buy a particular artist.
- interesting! I suppose it really applies to whatever generations "It" girl is hey?
I have zero interest in taylor swift, it's music for young teen girls or angry older teen girls . I find it boring but then I'm not the target market
- TIL I'm an angry/young teen girl
I barely register what's on the radio. I'm in and out in less than 15 minutes, concentrating on not forgetting anything I may need because I don't want to come back for awhile.

Temperamental car is in for a service (a waaaay overdue service, so I don’t really blame her for being temperamental!) and I’m at my desk just wishing I could have worked from home today. Was awake at stupid hours having imaginary arguments with work people.

Issa gorgeous morning though!

Temperamental car is in for a service (a waaaay overdue service, so I don’t really blame her for being temperamental!) and I’m at my desk just wishing I could have worked from home today. Was awake at stupid hours having imaginary arguments with work people.
Oh man, you've unlocked a memory of sitting at a mechanic as a twenty something waiting for the report to come in as to whats gone wrong with my piece of shit this time! I do NOT miss those days.
- I have a terrible feeling I know what’s wrong with her and if so, it’s time for her to go. I might just be preparing myself for the worst, IDK. An excellently fun car, but just… too much.

And I have destroyed my body clock, again. Ackcheew!

same, I've had two nights past 2 am this week
I'm off to bed now.
Good night 😘
- Wtaf has happened to the world. Normally I'm the one with the screwed up sleep schedule
  You good?

The Booktopia website is an absolute nightmare to use when you run a couple of privacy extensions. I am trying to browse the website to give you my money

Arise, arise, riders of Rohan!
\ Fell deeds awake, fire and slaughter!
\ Spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered!
\ A sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises!
\ Ride now, ride now, ride to Gondor!

RIP Bernard Hill, Théoden King

All hail King Theoden.
May he rest in peace.
He was so good. 😢

Countdown to the next public holiday…. And to winter solstice.

Off the top of my head I think it might be the 10th of June for the next public holiday.

I think the purpose is to make you sign a declaration that you aren't a crim or a terrorist or have been deported etc etc That way if you do some dodgy shit or have done some dodgy shit they can get you for that

@Seagoon I've got a flight coming up soon.

It's not this week, it's not next week, but it is the week after.

Too early to start packing?

I might buy a few things likes gifts for people early but packing, normally 30 minutes before the taxi arrives. 🤭
- @Seagoon I'm very much a pack early/leave early person. My partner tends to leave everything to the last minute (although she's slowly learning about leaving early).
  I'm the kind of person whose suitcase is fully packed a week ahead of time. She's the kind of person whose suitcase is fully packed the night before — because I've packed it.

Beautiful Melbourne day out there. 🙂

Kiddo had a great weekend. We caught up with the folks from Mrs's mums group and it was great to see all his little mates. They are all within similar age as each other, but they were all so different. A few were walking, a few had a couple more words, a few were a lot bigger. Tinyest has probably 50% of his teeth and a full head of hair so he probably looked the most "non baby" of the bunch. He's currently trying to say "Dog" but has only gotten as far as "Duh" which is so damn cute.

I see that with my twins. It's almost more comforting having two kids because you can see how differently two kids in the exact same environment develop.

Just gave myself a nasty cut on my thumb opening a can... How do you know if you need stitches 🤔 quite a lot of blood

put a bandaid on 15 min pressure and elevation if it is still bleeding get a professional for amputation
Rule of uh, thumb: if you ain't sure, get a professional opinion
Still oozing a bit but doesn't seem too deep. Think I'll just see how it goes ::: spoiler spoiler
:::
- looks like the cut took a chunk of meat out too
- Fucking hell boost still doesn't support spoilers and I was not prepared for this
  Is it still going? If it is, I'd call the nurse on call. They'll ask some questions and advise if you should go in to hospital. Imo (not a doctor), that doesn't really look stitchable, your primary concern is probably infection, so antiseptic and gauze is probably what you need
  Edit: I read 42 as 12. If it's still going now after over an hour, you should definitely call NoC
I don’t think they like stitching finger print parts. Get some of those butterfly clip bandaids?? Also, fucking ouch!

Day 15 chilli ferment pH test

Thing is not going to kill me this is a good colour. Using a soil pH test kit (of all things) immediately headed towards acidic. That was a good ferment.

Going to blend it up tm with some vinegar to punch it down a bit more

That is so clever!! That way you know it's safe and actually fermenting properly.
Fermenting, like, turning into alcohol? I don't know how I feel about that, but chilli alcohol sounds kinda vile. Then again, I watched a series where a dude turned mountain dew into wine, and another where he turned peeper marshmallows into a mead and it looked kind of interesting.
- Sauerkraut is fermentation. Cheese is fermentation. Pickles are fermentation. Sourdough is fermentation. Not all fermentation is alcohol.
- more like sauerkraut or kim chi.

the moon is so beautiful this morning 🌙

It is at this time, that I wish I could rip my nose off and burn it. So swollen is the tissue up there, not snot, just enflamed. Sat within my hoodie with a bowl of hot water to decongest or whatever, which provided temporary relief.

I can't breathe through it, but I am loathe to breathe through my mouth as it gets so dry. Everything fucking hurts.

Le Whinge

doesn't sudafed reduce the swelling?
hugs and a hot honey lemon drink 🍯🍋🍵

Can say this round of COVID is not as bad as the first. Popped some codral, waiting for it to take effect. 😱💀

RIP anyone with a Thuraya Satellite phone. Their satellite targeting Australia failed, and now all their phones are paperweights.

Their satellite targeting Australia failed
Thats what they WANT you to think. Bloody Jewish space laser took it out! /s

I think I might go and impulse buy one of these and step up my blended drinks game. I have a blender but I only ever use it when I'm making frozen margs and it's heavy and annoying to clean.

I always look at these portable gadgets that have a very specific use and always think "This is so cool"
Eventually I realise it's just clutter that won't ever be as good a proper blender, and will end up the 'all sorts' kitchen cupboard.

Wilhelm scream

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Coffee please, and some hot chips with mayo.
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Lord God, Heavenly Father, bless us and these Thy gifts which we receive from Thy bountiful goodness, through BaconMashBrownSugar, our Chef. Amen."
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Um I don’t know. What’s the proper care & feeding of snot goblins?
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Trying to decide if I'm having a sickie today. Please provide me a meal that will assist in this decision
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