I’m gonna go on a little rant about Halloween. Kids, pets and even adults dressing up, meeting your neighbours having a bit fun. I’m all for that. Decorate your house inside and out. Great.
Now here’s the thing. People take this shit way to far. Instead of just walking a few streets with your kids, meeting new people, it’s now “let’s go and collect as much shit as possible from strangers before others get there”.
How do we do that? We will drive around in our people mover looking for houses because Facebook mums have posted where the best streets are for little Johnny to collect his treats and he’s only 3 and the size of a small hippo and he can’t walk far.
It’s now a car door slamming competition with a stampede. Aussies are great innovators. We take shit from around the world and we adapt them to suit us. Halloween is not one of them we do well.
I loved it back in Canada, cause it was the norm. Streets were full of kids and adults. 90% of houses were decorated and people got into the spirit of it.
Here it seems to forced and unnatural. Which is why we hand out caramel covered onions to all the trick or treaters.
Let’s not forget the whole “I’ll post my address online so I can lure your children in for the promise of a candy bar”. Yikes.
My go to is little packets of wasabi peas. Perfectly wholesome - even healthy. Don’t often see the same faces twice though. Heh heh.
Love your work
This is the best most multi-faceted accurate hot take of the day.
Fuck little johnny and the bite sized snickers he rode in on.
I’ve got no problem with the little Johnnys of this country. It’s the parents who are pimping their kids out so they can gorge on the fruits for ron.
These people sound greedy as hell, and in being this competitive are kind of missing the point of the exercise.
I love Halloween in theory but I deliberately play possum to avoid being approached by strangers’ children… or really anybody.
I have high fences all around. No one can get in here.
Same . At the same time there are few young families around here.
I find it an interesting opportunity to observe the different facets of human nature. I live in an area with lots of young families and I like seeing the hand crafted decorations that the family have made as a craft exercise. Who are the people who make their own, and who obviously spends way too much money on that stuff? Which children take only a small portion of treats, making sure there’s plenty left for other children, and who grabs repeated handfuls of treats or even pours the entire treat bowl into their goody bag! Which parents dress up and get out there mingling with others in the pleasant early evening, laughing and handing out treats? Which parents put a bowl out and play possum? Which parents deliberately ignore the blatant greed of their children and fiddle with their phone, or actively encourage their children to take all the treats! It is endlessly fascinating for me to observe and I am totally there for it.
Ted Cat’s stroller has been attained, put together and tested with Ted sitting in it outside. He likes it. 😊 Tomorrow morning I will take him for a walk in the park. There will be pictures. 🐈⬛🛞📦🛞
The adventures of the bum biter.
Bum Biter goes Beyond
Mad Bumbiter.
Be careful on rough ground - go slow. Cats can get motion sickness, ask misha how i know.
I did not get the nice place I applied for on Monday despite offering 15/week more. At least they told me quick smart.
I may have good news with the other place though, pending clarification of some weird half baked email I got that was missing attachments. It’s painful how much I’ll be paying relative to the size, and lack of greenery, and noise, but I’m reframing it as like a temporary apartment stay to finish my studies. Because I only need to commit till about mid next year. And that means FREEDOM.
I will have to cull a lot, but at it’ll feel like I’m really committing to closing this chapter of my life. No more coasting along.
Cross all your digits for me DT! The sooner I’m done with this the better 🤞
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🤞 and all the luck in the world for you!
Crossing everything for you 🤞
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Fingers and toes are crossed for you <3
Digits crossed as requested. Also elbows and knees. Keep searching and applying though.
This year’s Jack O Lantern
mine came with warts 😳
Ooh scary, you found a good one
Was the last one in the shop
The warts are fantastic!
everyone’s got the goddamn end of year crazies and it ain’t even november yet
I’d ask for this year to end but they don’t seem to be improving do they
A colleague and I were just talking about this. Everyone’s burnt out way earlier than usual
Seem to have started early this year. Did some grocery shopping earlier and there’s so much pointless aggression.
I think the cost of living shit starting to seep through to even the landlord class is having an impact (though in their case I want to emphasise that taxes on investments isn’t a cost of living issue).
People are feeling under the pump. I’ve got half a mind to disappear to a monastery over the end of the year
Day was better. Went fairly quick.
Taking the Monday off for the long weekend. Some people are taking Friday as well… If I didn’t have a project kicking off that day I’d do the same.
Kicking off a project on a Friday is a bad idea unless they’re expecting everyone to think about it all weekend and not be in wind down mode that day, it’s even worse to do it this specific weekend with a significant number of people having a 4-5 day weekend. The stakeholders are going to need a refresh on Wednesday, so might as well kick it off Wednesday.
Client insists. They’ve threatened to find another supplier if we don’t do it.
I know it’s going to fail miserably. I’m looking forward to the shit fest.
A little humility would do this client some good.
I just ate 5 crunchy hash browns.
I’m happy now.
nom nom 😊
been having five guys for lunch the past three work days
is this addiction?
Sounds exhausting
too expensive for me to have that frequently.
addictions are costly
I’m pretty sure the city of Melbourne frowns upon cannibalism
yeah should’ve skipped the bacon
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I wonder if I can get it delivered out here in the sticks…
What is your preferred arrangement of guys?
little bacon cheese lettuce tomato grilled onion grilled mushroom ketchup bbqsauce
Ooh grilled mushrooms on offer. You don’t see that often. (I’ve never been to 5Guy)
Was any particular one more satisfying?
they are all of them equally satisfying
Did you go all the way?
No I haven’t. Maybe I should.
Goodnight from human and loooong cat ❤️Long Girl loves you! Look at her belly!!
I went to get a drink of water. The treats are on the next shelf up lol
What a mischievous kitty!
The treats
arewere on the next shelf up
Is it really a computer game anymore when you have a notebook that looks like this?(ignore the maths, it’s just scribble to prompt me at stages of the build)
I physically mapped a MUD in the 90s.
Considering taping my fingers together so I don’t flip the bird at WAY too many people here at work this morning, and it’s not even 8:30 yet… :|
I support this decision
The way it’s going, I don’t think the tape will hold…
I suggest mittens. That way it looks your waving to them.
“daddy, why is that man aggressively waving at us?”
Genius! Plus provides some padding for when the inevitable happens 🥊
Beautiful afternoon. But what baffles me is how many people are in shorts or dresses. When my day started it was a chilly 12c so jeans it was. Do people just freeze for half the day for the 1 hour of nice weather, or do they carry around a change of clothes for when the sun comes out. I’ve lived in Melbourne all my life and still can’t figure it out.
If I know it’s gonna be like 18+ later on, I’m wearing shorts in anticipation. I assume it would be same for dresses and such.
In any case, I bring a jumper. As long as my torso is warm I’m fine. My legs don’t really get cold.
Am jealous. I run on the cool side, my feeling of warm starts at 23+ and hot at 30+. One day I’ll move to a warmer climate. Maybe for retirement.
My idea of pleasant starts at 18, warm at 23, hot at 26 and OMG I’m going to die of heat exhaustion starts at about 28.
That’s really interesting, I’d say pleasant/lovely is -2 to 7, I hate 8 to 18 as it’s like a tease and I despise it, 19 to 22 is kinda alright, 23 to 30 is lovely, 31 to 35 is hot, and 36 to 40+ is brutal.
I can’t really help as I’m menopausal: hot when it’s cold and cold when it’s hot. Also spending most of my working life in kitchens has messed up my body thermostat. I find I wear things like long shorts over leggings and short sleeved t-shirts over long sleeved ones and with my trusty light-but-just-warm-enough crappy hoodie, I’m ready for anything! 🫡👩🏻🍳🥔
growing up is was dress for the warm day and it didn’t matter if we were cold in the morning
it might actually be a good thing to experience all the different temps ( within reason ) rather than live in permanent and unnatural 22°
I have a feeling that as a kid spring /summer/autumn had more warm days in the past, but I guess is am imagining it because climate records say otherwise. Maybe I’ve pushed the cooler days out of my mind because they weren’t as fun. I don’t think it’s unnatural to be permanently in a warmer climate, that’s where we evolved. We overcame it by inventing clothes.
I remember walking on spring frosts and frozen puddles and ponds on the way to school
I’m constantly warm lol
Jesus that lineup for When We Were Young 2025 should come with a NSFW warning, sporting a semi in the office. Ok, thats a lie. But I did gasp and moan slightly.
That line up is… I mean… F me dead thats must of punk rock royalty right there. That is gonna go OFF! I hate festivals, but if that weren’t in the states I’d be considering it.
Damn, that’s a lineup and a half. I feel old as shit.
Ok, so I’m old. I only know the first five acts on this list. And Blink 182 is probably the only act I’d pay to go see.
But… Offspring! Weezer!
I’d bet that if you know the first 5 then you know >50% of the others but have forgotten about them and their tracks <3
I’LL BE JUST FINE
Panic! with the whole band, not just Brendon and his solo act?!!
I know 8, the others are utter mystery. 2 I’d pay for if they were convenient.
Simple plan and yellowcard are old as. Avril Lavigne as well.
what an awesome lineup
Holy shit, now how do I convince my partner to fly to the states with me for this?
Edit1: working on convincing my partner and friends, money is no object for that line up. Don’t wanna go on my own though.
Edit2:
oh nice! I brought the tour hoodie but only when inside saw they had a couple of lyrics hoodies that were WAY cooler.
Yeah those lyric ones were awesome, but my partner played the voice of reason with: “indisin, are you ever going to wear those? indisin how’re you going to carry all of this? indisin, please pick just one. indisin, you don’t need the bages. Yes indisin, we can play on the arcades and look at the instruments if you pick just one”.
Still working on getting her to go to the US for the festival… and my friends… and my ickle sis and BIL in the UK. No joy so far but early days, so might end up being one of you lot with a free ticket.
Hope you enjoyed the blink gig btw! Weirdly I actually preferred seeing Ash at the Croxton and I wasn’t an Ash fan but that gig just had a vibe and I say that as someone who thought the blink gig was epic.
yeah I had a blast. Never thought I was gonna see the 3 of them together, so grateful I got to. Saw Mark and Tom back in 2013 I think it was and it was good… but music bowl is a shit venue IMO.
Yeah the music bowl is a shite venue but then year Falls was hosted there was actually super fun. We saw them at Rod Laver most recently but you’ll be super jelly of this, as I’m originally from the UK I’ve seen them loads of times, and also with Skiba filling in. No matter what they always put on an amazing show, I’ve seen Travis play the drums upside down whilst fire is going off.
We’ve also now got tickets to see them in Vegas :D
Dude you weren’t kidding lol
Grew up on early offspring. Would love to see them play some of the early stuff.
I saw them at soundwave back in… '13 I think? Lead singer was drunk as fuck and sounded like he’d been gargling gravel sadly.
Damn :(
Haha! Just discovered what this mysterious un used piece in my recent Lego sets is for. I am an idiot!
It’s to grab the flat pieces!!
I used to have this with my Lego bucket and always turned it into a slide for the houses I’d build lol
I got it in my rose bunch and thought it was some sort of stand piece. Ought use image search more!
That would have been useful when me and Miss Seagoon used to do big lego sets together when she was still a tiny seagoon😒
Dear Head Office,
STOP THE CHRISTMAS MUSIC IMMEDIATELY!!!
Sincerely, Me (and Everyone Else I Hope).
I can hear Mariah Carey thawing out now -shudder-
