Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.

  • danwritesbooks
    21·
    2 years ago

    I got the house! Party time! Unfortunately 90 day settlement maximum but gives me time to save for the new kitchen and flooring. W00t!

  • just_kitten
    14·
    2 years ago

    Just been almost non stop AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA from 7am to 4:30pm working with different groups of people on full-attention topics when I normally hardly talk to anyone, AAAAAAing in the rain back home, brief 15 minute interlude to cuddle sox and shove things around, then another AAAAAAA trying to get the suddenly bewildered and upset sox into her carrier (Praise be to Churu), now to AAAAAA in the rain 40 minutes away to do a rundown of cat and house things at the next place before they go away, dinner with them, drive back (hopefully more of an aaaaaaa), then start packing shit like mad because I thought I had all of tomorrow to move over but actually I don’t

    • landsharkkiddEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      Gosh I feel you. I’m used to talking a little bit with my boss for the occasional question or to ask the freelancers to do things, but I’ve been training someone who is my underling (Iunno what to call her tbh, underling sounds fun) and it takes up so much of my day. She’s on holidays but she comes back tomorrow so I imagine I’ll have to do that again. And then having an Uber driver talk to you, like please don’t, I just want to get home. Today’s driver wasn’t so bad, yesterday’s was non-stop.

      • just_kitten
        2·
        2 years ago

        I enjoy training people in terms of the engagement and reward of seeing people learn something new, but I am absolutely WRECKED by the end of even 2 hours unless I am extremely well prepped. Accomplished but wrecked.

        I have been around people so much today - and have another few hours of actively engaging with people tomorrow - that I’ll need to isolate all of Thursday and Friday lol. Seriously considering an out of office message

    • Mittens_meow
      4·
      2 years ago

      Desperately need a week off work to do this …. But saving annual leave up, due to having survived 2 rounds of layoffs this year and the forecast isn’t looking any better now.

  • whatisthislifeilead
    12·
    2 years ago

    You know you’ve really hit adulthood when you get a new vacuum cleaner and immediately start vacuuming with excitement to see how much dust it can take (answer - a lot!)

  • BakuEnglish
    11·
    3 months ago

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  • bull⚡English
    11·
    2 years ago

    Casual Bison out for a stroll down the road this morning 🦬

    • danwritesbooks
      8·
      2 years ago

      What did the Buffalo say when he dropped his kid off at school?

      Bison.

      • bull⚡English
        7·
        2 years ago

        I hit my dad with this classic and he didn’t even see it coming:

        Me: “Big flock of Bison back there”

        Him: “Herd of Bison”

        Me: “Of course I’ve heard of Bison, there’s a big flock of them back there!”

        I am the master now… although he has never really been one for jokes so I always was the master.

    • BakuEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

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  • LowExperience2368
    10·
    2 years ago

    Me to bar guy: it literally takes 30 seconds to send a text message to ask someone how they are and show you care.

    Him: you’re underestimating the amount of time it takes for me to text

    🤦‍♂️

  • CEOofmyhouse56
    10·
    2 years ago

    Last night my kid yells from the kitchen “I really don’t like opening containers in the fridge”. Me " Why not?" Her “because I don’t know what horrors you have stored in them”. I guess she came across my congealed lamb stock with the fat still on the top. Luckily she didn’t get to see the pumpkin I “rejuvenated” ready for tomorrow’s soup.

  • bananafungus
    10·
    2 years ago

    The most unrealistic thing for me in time travel shows and movies isn’t the time travel itself, but the fact that a lot of the time the characters seem chill wearing the period appropriate clothing. Send me back and I’d be spending a hell of a lot of time thinking how utterly stupid I look, I mean it’d be fun, but I wouldn’t be like ok guess this it for me now as put on a pair of 70s platform shoes or some 18th century breeches and stockings.

    • ThornburywitchEnglish
      7·
      2 years ago

      I think you’d find that you’d adapt very quickly. If everyone else is wearing the sameish clothes you’d get used to it very quickly. The clothes wouldn’t be a fancy costume, or stupid, they’d be normal fashion. Speaking from doing amateur theatre a bit in the past - clothes I wouldn’t be caught dead in out in the street feel quite OK if everyone else is wearing similar. And I survived the 70s platform shoes back when they were normal fashion. Don’t miss them - horrible to walk in but you had to wear them or be square.

    • RosaliePreistley
      11·
      2 years ago

      I still enjoy 70s clothes. I wouldn’t want to time travel back there though.

  • MeanElevatorEnglish
    9·
    2 years ago

    Too early for lunch, but I’m hungry and can’t focus.

    Stupid empty stomach

  • Electronic_Owl
    9·
    2 years ago

    I know tradies can have a bad rep sometimes, but huge credit to the guy who’s been here for the last two days installing our new fence. He’s done a great job, even in today’s rain. And he was in his teeny-tiny shorts and t-shirt the whole time!

  • Llabyrinthine
    9·
    2 years ago

    And I’m now a dreaded member of the burst hot water bottle gang…

    • Eagle
      2·
      2 years ago

      Oh no! Please tell me no burns. I’ve nursed too many people with burns from them.

      • Llabyrinthine
        1·
        2 years ago

        Was pretty lucky, just a light scalding. Cold water and burn aid to the rescue.

    • Duenan
      2·
      2 years ago

      Damn. Are you ok? Didn’t burn yourself did you?

      How did it happen?

      • Llabyrinthine
        2·
        2 years ago

        I’m okay. Was handed to me and neither of us saw that it was dripping from the bottom corner. Just a little, but I’ll take it compared to what could have happened!

        • Duenan
          1·
          2 years ago

          Oohh lucky even if you got a little burnt. It could have been much much worse.

  • Dalek Thal
    9·
    2 years ago

    Was threatened by a methhead on Separation Street out Northcote way this morning. I’ve reported it to the cops (who actually took me seriously, I’m kinda shocked), but is there anything else I should be doing? On my way to work right now but feeling super unsafe.

    • melbaboutown
      7·
      2 years ago

      I’m sorry. I’ve been seeing a few people post about this. Unfortunately the housing crisis, decades of mental health cuts, increased costs of living and lack of supports over covid seem to have worsened it

      • Dalek Thal
        2·
        2 years ago

        Indeed. This country (and tbh, the west) is fucked, and this is but a symptom of it. I’m just gonna focus on not letting it get to me for now.

    • SituationCake
      5·
      2 years ago

      Sounds awful, hope you’re ok. I don’t think there’s much else you can do. If confronted again best thing is to avoid engaging and if possible move to somewhere where there are other people around. They will hopefully loose interest and go elsewhere. When they’re in a rage there’s nothing you could say/do. Just avoid. I saw one in a shopping centre car park at the weekend yelling ‘what the fuck you’re looking at cunts’ and marching aggressively down the lanes. Took the long way back to may car to avoid crossing paths. I wish meth didn’t exist.

      • Dalek Thal
        1·
        2 years ago

        Thanks mate. I fully agree; both the users and the general public are endangered by it. Ultimately though we need to better police sales and importation; by the time it’s in people’s hands, it’s too late.