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Interview went well!!!
Invited to meet the ceo in person next week :)
If i get this, I’m done climbing the ladder. This is the role that will keep me with a safety net.
Something else happened this week which was cool. I reconnected with one of my best friends that I lost when I went off the rails. I found him on Facebook and apologised for my behaviour and he actually messaged me back saying “… I know that wasn’t the real you”.
It’s been 12 years since we spoke. Tomorrow he’s going to call me so we can catch up.
I’ve been struggling with feeling isolated the last few months. Wondering if it’s going to be like this for the rest of my life.
I’m so fucking glad he responded. We were inseperable. He taught me to play drums and I taught him guitar.
Thats all awesome! Congrats!
If you been feelin a bit alone you shoulda said. We could grab a drink and bitch about work or games or whatever.
I appreciate it man. I’ll drop my number and psn tag in a private message.
Same for you if you’d like to link up and talk.
Easy done man. Will send you my number in private chat.
Inshallah Habib
Ps. This will make you laugh. We made Amr Diab rich. Nour El Ain was our #1 Spotify song.
I saw that yesterday 🤣 Well done!
The man loves it. Puts it on every week. Laughs. Now we are looking for a new Arab focus.
yay, this is awesome, so happy for you 🙂
Thanks ❤️ It’s nice when things go your way for a bit.
Congratulations man, and it’s so nice to get “your people” back 🙂
Fucking aye!!!
Met him the first day when I moved to Adelaide and was there for almost 7 years.
It’s hard to forget someone you’ve known that long and saw pretty much every single day ❤️
Congrats!
Always a nice feeling reconnecting :)
Cheers man. It blew me away tbh. Wasn’t expecting a response.
That is such a lovely story.
Was about to head back to melbs… look down next to my foot and there’s a funny looking big XLR cable. Audio studio cables everywhere. Fuckn cable moved. Was a brown snake about 50cm long. Managed to get it outside thankfully it wasn’t aggressive. I’m not very upset by snakes except the eastern brown snake. Those mfers will ruin your day. Sheesh.
Spicy TRS
I thought I’d share this story. I don’t know why.
spoiler
My husband drank a lot of coca cola over the years. He loved the sound of a new bottle opening and would slug it down. He was also slightly overweight and had high blood pressure which he was taking medication for. No doubt he was heading for diabetes.
An off hand comment by me “you’d lose weight if you stopped drinking coke and curb the consumption of 2 icecreams a night” made him think.
He gave up the coke. He ate less icecream and as a result he lost 20kg in a matter of months. He did nothing else differently. It was so dramatic that people were asking him if he was ok. His medication was reduced, he gained abs and he could see his balls for the first time in a long time. His watch told him he has the fitness of a 20 year old. He’s 50 next year. He feels great.
The thing is he replaced the coke addiction with a diet cordial addiction. No sugar he declares. I happen to read the back of the bottle and there’s nothing in the nutritional panel but the ingredients were things I’ve never even heard of. I point this out to him. He says he has 5 bottles to get rid of. I told him he doesn’t have to get rid of them straight away. Have it when you feel like it.
He is now looking at everything. “Why does my chips have sugar in them? Im not get these again”.
The point is, its ok to have these things occasionally but if you wanna look and feel better have a look at things you mindlessly eat.
I’ve had the same problem so to speak.
I switched up my diet inadvertently and also cut out a lot of sugary drinks and stuff and I’ve accidently lost weight because of that.
What’s not so nice is that people think I’ve lost weight and there’s a problem because of it.
I had to talk to someone the other day and explain that I am actually eating well and stuff and because of inflation and a few choices to not buy certain things any more it’s led to my accidental weight loss.
I don’t like having to discuss my weight at all and I also don’t really pay attention to it but it bothers me and I made it known.
No one likes to talk face to face about their weight but dramatic weightloss makes people concerned that maybe cancer is involved.
It is good that you made it known that you are ok and don’t want to discuss it any further.
I only told one person but there was quite a bit of a long explanation which I don’t really care to go over too many times. Just that they keep bugging me about my stress levels and linked my supposed weight loss with it.
i bet you are in great health regarding your weight
people can fuck off
To be honest I could use my exercise.
If you’re looking for a bit more movement stroll down to your local cricket game on the weekend and watch a bit. You don’t have to stand near the crowd.
ugh, on a related note I’m dreading some weight comments at the work christmas part (slapped on a few)
I’ve decided to eat commenters. It’s fucking unwarranted commentary, and anyway, menopause is absolutely descending on me like the wrath of god so fuckem. 'tis the season of jolly fat people, not miserable skinny cunts
Good on him. I cut the soft drinks many years ago when I started looking after my health, they’re full of sugar and empty calories. I never crave soft drink anymore. Turned to diet drinks initially when making the switch, and then eventually you can cut those as well. The awful artificial chemical taste of most of them gets old quick. These days I go for ice tea if I want a sweet drink, but water does me fine.
Wow that’s great. Good onya.
Have you found that it’s made a difference by cutting the drinks out?
Soda water here. I get the pleasure of the fizzy drink, but it is actually good for me. Occasionally I’ll put a little lemon juice in it for flavour.
soda stream knock off was a HUGE game changer for me. Bit of lime juice and in the early days a touch of sugar was just as nice.
That’s a good idea.
Aye now I treat soft drinks like alcohol and if I need a sugar boost. For fun and for social situations when I want something to sip. Small change, huge difference.
That’s the way to do it. If I’m out socialising and I’m not drinking, I’ll have a soft drink.
spoiler
I watched the Sugar Film with my husband. He knows I am using meal replacement and should have lactose free food
for the first two days he was all about looking at labels
then he bought more sweetened flavoured fruit yoghurt, lactose free this time
and he won’t give up his sugary muesli and other snacks
I can understand it’s hard to give up food yourself
but to buy lactose free fruit yoghurt when every other time he buys yoghurt just for himself ( because I won’t buy it ) is just too much 🤨 I haven’t touched it
So he’s buying lactose free yogurt so you can eat it too even though you don’t eat yogurt? Is that correct?
and the worst kind of yoghurt that was talked about in the movie
I do eat some yoghurt, I eat jalna unsweetened plain , no extra cream added
That’s the one I eat. Not a fan of today’s fruit yogurt. Aldi have a Greek yogurt for $6 a big tub and it’s made by Jalna because it’s in the same tub as theirs.
check out vital zing, great for kicking the sugar addiction
I’ll have a look at that thanks
Oh wow, good on him
I never really got into sugary soft/energy drinks. I am quite fond of sugar free study drinks though. I can’t stand coke zero, too chemical-y. But I enjoy a can of Pepsi max with my dinner most nights
See it becomes a habit. It’s ok when you’re young but when you get older you realise your body can’t cope with it anymore.
Probably. That’s my vice though
Oh shit yeah. Everyone’s got one or three.
Or twelve 😂
Correct
Good on him!!! That’s a hell of an achievement!
Yeah. He’s pretty proud.
Let me introduce one of the strays I’ve been feeding near my place. I’m really excited because one of them is starting to trust me. I’ve found them waiting around 8-9pm which is kind of cool.
Edit:
exciting! what’s the plan, TNR? or bring indoors?
Tnr i reckon. I’m not at the point of my life where I’m ready for three cats lol
Edit: I’ve purposely not named them because if I do, they’re going to eventually live at my place.
yeah look 4 pets was… not a GREAT choice in retrospect.
Three cats is… alot.
So kind of you, that cat wants that food so bad. For some reason I get the feeling Gibson might prefer to have you all to herself lol!
Gibson, i believe, can only exist in a 1 cat household. She barely tolerates my existence lol
Healthcare CEO shot and killed I for one am STOKED to watch the US finally kick off the “eat the rich” portion of late stage capitalism.
The last few words of that article
“touched so many lives”.
He certainly did. Was reading that UHC had the highest claim denial rate in the US, something like 33%.
Oh I stopped reading the second it started to make me feel sympathy for this monster. he put profits before people. That was his job, but we should really live in a world where CEOs get paid so high because screwing over sick people is a dangerous job.
The F is the point in everyone being armed in America if they DONT pull shit like this.
I refuse to read it
There’s literally nothing they can say about him, his family, or his life that will make me feel bad about his death
Ha ha, I’ve heard the killer be referred to as Healthcare Batman
touched in a bad way
He looks like he sells dodgy used cars. Like Matilda’s father.
The planet has tolerated these intolerant financial vampires for too long.
Motorhead - Eat The Rich - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh3t49NsWBA
With banks here trying to make people pay to access their own money and supermarket fulfilment centres with terrible working conditions, it just might give people here ideas
The speculation and response to this murder has been intriguing. I saw a comment online speculating that if rich people instead of kids start being targets of shootings, perhaps there will finally be movement on the question of gun control.
Ooooof solid call. no freakin doubt! Or is this the rise of the private military protecting folks and the start of the “protected” citizen?
the idiots thought voting for trump was about eating the rich
the idiots thought the elite/rich were the educated classes
No but you see they are gonna shut down the deep state! And everyone is evil but the ancient incontinent incompetent neppo baby isnt for some reason? /s
I’m not sure maga actually care about that one. That deep state shit is just trump giving excuses for corruption.
With the insane rates of denial I can’t feel too sympathetic.
“But he had children” Big deal, the monster got laid a couple of times. Doesnt make him a saint.
No one physically hurt his children.
He denied actual life saving treatment to children. He’s a monster.
I’m sure some of the people that died after being denied medical care had children
I’m sure some of the people that died after being denied medical care were children
😂
Made it back to Melbs.
Caught the 109 home from southern x. 109 is usually a c class. 2 middle floor bits swivel as it turns corners. Anyway my backpack clip got caught in the gap as it turned and I couldn’t get it out. Clip was just swallowed by the floor disc of despair. So there I am every corner the tram turned trying to get the fuckin thing out.
We got there though! Otherwise would’ve had to have waited until box hill and get the driver to help lol.
The daily Discussion Thread sounds shit. I dare whoever to make it The Melbourne chitchat thread. Creativity people. Let’s be different.
I kinda like the consonance between DT (daily thread) and the dts (delirium tremens). Failing that … Gossip Central is descriptive. Gossip in its nicest sense of course.
We could go minimalist and leave out the description entirely. The Melbourne Daily.
🚲🗞️
Yes
Splitters!
Did you try this before?
Yes. Let’s branch out. We are not sheep people. We are better.
We are not sheep people. We are better.
We ARE better! We are people sheep dammit!
We are not sheep. We are leaders.
Maybe we are cows…
Cows with guns?
He spoke about justice, but nobody stirred He felt like an outcast, alone in the herd Cow doldrums
🎼Cows with guns
Cows with guns
Easy does it, easy does it, they’ve got something to say “moo” toThe Melbourrne cud chewers.
No guns. No baa.
Daglegur dómsþráður
😂
Suggestion?
If you stay up to midnight Baku then it’s whatever the hell you want to call it ❤️
The Baku Daily!
or the daily of whomever that made the thread
I like this. Baku is a very exotic place and much more interesting than boring old melbs
♥️ thanks
I’ll indeed be up tonight, so just seeking some suggestions for a rename. I’m fond of keeping a standard, but I’ll go with chit chat and put it to a proper vote tomorrow
The Melbourne Diaily Dialogue. No Baa.
Chitchat thread.
The daily shitshow!
Tomato tomato 🥱
Revolution baby!
It’s The Daily Discussion Thread
we rally around the banner of DT and carry it across ANY and ALL digital platforms. It’s our Sigil and Shield.
Here is the flag:
That’s actually not a bad flag at all. Simple concept and obeys heraldic colour rules. Slightly painful to sew.
It’s not really an interview but I am meeting a principal at a (Catholic) school about my placement on Monday. Chinos and a button shirt should be ok?
Shoes are gonna be a problem now that I think about it.
yeah I’d say thats fine. You’re a writer, they should be thankful you dont show up with a tweed jacket, pipe and foot long beard.
Well now I want too…
My good deed for the day is done: I picked the rest of the cherries from the tree & took them up to the food cupboard with a couple of kilo of parsnips. Walking up to the cupboard with Mr Woof seemed like a great idea, but carrying about 8kg whilst managing a dog leash is not the easiest of tasks.
Edit: Actually who cares
Edit 2: Oh sorry for sending the wrong vibe, I wasn’t venting, I just posted some dumb uninteresting banter.
We do. This is the place for brain dumps
I do mate
♥️
Vent away, any time you need :)
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Hi, Indonesian here. Just wanna ask, is it true that Bahasa Indonesia are taught in schools in Australia? I talked to an Australian recently and surprised that they can speak a bit of Indonesian
Sure is! My primary school in the 90s taught us in my language class :D
Selamat datang! I learnt Bahasa Indonesia in primary school in the nineties. I’ve forgotten most of it but some key words and phrases have stuck. All schools teach at least one language other than English, but which language it is varies by school.
Selamat datang!
At my school it was taught from yr 9-12. It was either Indonesian, German or Chinese. German and Indonesian were compulsory in yr 9.
Yes at my daughter’s primary school from prep to grade 2.
yes I did it in grade 456.
Hi there! Yes, some schools teach it, mostly private schools. That is, not the state run schools but the ones run by the churches (various) or by private organisations. The school I went to back in the 70s required study of at least one language, and Bahasa Indonesia was one of the choices available. The others were French German Latin & Spanish at that time - nowadays there’s more focus on Chinese and Japanese. There’s also been a lot of tourism from Australia to Indonesia for quite some time now - at least since the 70s and probably before. Some fairly strong trade links - one category of cattle for sale in northern Australia are officially classified as ‘Light Indonesian Steers’ and the price is reported on state media once a week.
That is a lot of language options. I was offered German or German. All I have retained is the ability to say “my name is RustyRaven and I am thirteen”, which is not particularly useful.
That is more German than I have ever learned. Green with envy.
Das ist sehr gut! Wunderbar!
Ah very cool! Interestingly, my primary school must have been one of the public ones teaching Indonesian lol
Also public Indonesian here (WA though)
Represent! 💪🏼💪🏼
I learned Indonesian in primary school and it was on offer in high school. Selamat Pagi!
I learned a bit in grade 3 (which I have forgotten except counting to ten) and it was available as an option in high school
My third grade teacher would spend the school holidays over there teaching and could speak it very well
Ah, g’day!
I’ve never heard of Indonesian being taught at schools here, however some schools offer additional language classes (usually French or Italian for some reason, in my experience), so in a particularly Indonesian suburb, it wouldn’t surprise me if there was a school offering Bahasa Indonesian classes
Plenty of schools in Vic taught this :D
Not any of mine D:
I thought you didnt go to school much lol
Either way, I think it just depends on the school - some do, some don’t 🤷🏼♀️
I went enough to know what classes were part of the curriculum at each of them lol
At my school we only had the choice of Chinese (Mandarin), French and Latin.
Hoping this Woolies strike continues into Christmas tbh. Make then feel it
Agreed
I went in yesterday and was kinda surprised by how much stuff was still on the shelves at my local store. I do wish there was some way we could redirect the Karen’s away from yelling at the poor people working the store, and instead getting them to have a cheeky punch on with the CEO lady. I’d paid to see that
Karens vs CEO, you know what, it couldn’t be any worse than the Jake Paul v Tyson fight.
I keep hearing about the Woolies strike, but I honestly haven’t noticed a difference in store so far. Maybe I will with tomorrow’s shop? Or maybe WA is immune to it.
It’s a Victorian distribution centre where the strikes are happening, I suspect WA would have their own separate centres given the distance from coast to coast, so unless their workers join the blockade there probably won’t be much interruption there.
Bought some cheese today
We need a review
I don’t have a cheese ranking but this one would be top 5. It’s a real soft buttery flavour combined with small chunks of jalapeño to keep it interesting.
It’s not too spicy at all so can be enjoyed by most people. You can eat this with anything so it’s a good workhorse cheese with a little bit of flair.
5/5 Hairy-footed halflings
I love this cheese with extra chopped jalapeno and melted on plain corn chips. Maybe add a dab of guac and sour cream.
Cheese toasties would be awesome too
Yep 👍
Yummy.
yummm
Ooh, that’s yummo cheese!
Police are outside. One of our neighbours had they car broken into.
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