Today’s weather forecast (Melbourne CBD, 3000): min - 17°C, max - 25°C. 25% chance of at least 1mm
It’s been a hell of a year! I want to take a moment to say thank you to everyone here for all the support.
This was a difficult year, and quite honestly, I don’t think I would have made it without you all ❤️❤️❤️
Happy new year!!!
Happy new year!
I also want to say everyone here is great and has been a huge support network. :)
It’s a special place for sure. Like the old internet.
Oh Habib forever in our hearts. Wishing all the best for your future. Inshallah
Thank you ❤️ let’s see what the new year has in store for us all!
Happy new year to you too!
Nearly didn’t make it myself because of the shot time I had at work in the last couple of months.
Here’s to a new year and new beginning.
Happy New Year to the Fluffybutt fam. luv you all 😘
yeah , bad year too, spent far too many months in bed with sciatica
but I did do all that sewing and reupholstering
read a few books
and continued learning and growing
I don’t think I could have made it without mr seagoon 😭
So glad I never married my ex. They proposed just after HS, and I purchased the ring they picked out. $35 bucks.
I burned it along with the lovebomb letters and keepsakes they’d given me, and threw it all in the trash, after we broke up.
Now I live in an apartment, with my partner and cat. We drink and go out, we stay in and chill together. He hasn’t forced me into a shape to fit him. It’s liberating to find a person who gives you permission to be yourself, unapologetically. I don’t need a partner, but I found who I am because they encouraged me to do so.
Just a little appreciation of the way my life changed.
Now to pawn off the el cheapo gold and diamond necklace my ex gave me lol
I’m glad you someone who uplifts you like this, enriches your life, and you don’t have to be a shell of yourself. I hope to find the same!
A partner, I’ve learned, is someone who helps you be more “you”. I hope you find that someone too, we all deserve to have someone love us for being unapologetically us
You’re a team and that’s how it should be. 💕
Never quite got what that phrase meant until this relationship haha now it all makes sense!
That’s excellent to hear :)
Spud has really sprouted. She’s been studying and been acing it. So happy for her. 🙂
Aw lol! Thank you haha! 💜💜💜💜
Such a cute and sweet comment. You’re awesome Seagoon 🤗
Thank you :3
That’s so beautiful 🥹🥹
How did you meet your partner?
I was an operations/billing consultant, 6 years in at an old job, and he was a temp in the call centre (where I had initially started). The works Xmas party was coming up, and because we (call centre, credit/payment plans, and billing/backend) were a small team, we didn’t feel it was fair to exclude the temps from the Xmas party. So we successfully lobbied to have them invited too, it was some ritzy expensive place near docklands. Anyway, my partner (obvs not at the time) and I hit it off that night and I spent the night at his place 👀😅
Had to go home the next day to a very angry ex, as she was still living with me while her parents set up their bungalow for her 😂😂😂😂 once she moved out in the new year (2019), that temp needed a pkace to stay as his share house fell through. He never left. He was meant to go back to Perth and then onto Canada for a job there. But yeah, what was a temporary stay with a FWB has turned into a 5 year relationship hahahaha now we have a cat so I guess we’re serious LOL
sorry for the long story haha! I just think it’s a funny story heh
🥹🥹🥹🥹
so many hugs, so happy you found the right guy 💖
one thing I don’t understand, it just doesn’t make sense, these people choose us for all our traits and personality and what we do, yet they try to crush that and stop us from doing those things
Ikr. In the case of my ex, I think they were always MTF trans, and before they realised, they took me and tried to force me into what they wanted to be themselves. Besides the actual sexual crimes they commited against me, I think that was theit reason for trying to make me more “feminine”. Their reason was they were helping me find my “girlhood” after my mum forced me to dress like a boy when I was a teen so men didn’t stare at me lol.
One extreme to another gosh. Childhood trauma can really set up some nasty adult relationships. I’ve found a happy medium now dw my wardrobe has lovely sundresses, skirts, pants, and shirts haha
Have a great NYE everyone. Thanks for the fun times on this site, and putting up with my bullshit.
And if anyone is wondering, my neighbour is watering the lawn FOR THE SECOND FUCKING TIME TODAY!!!
Bless you all and hail Satan :)
I hope you have a FANTASTIC NEW YEARS!
Hail! Edit: Hail Lilith! Where I am not today but am sometimes 😈
bro sent an email to ol’ boy/girl last night. Basically a rant… i’ll write a list:
- Unfair that they can’t force room changes.
- SIL is pregnant so they want an extra room for them when they visit (which is for a day or two a year).
- It’s my fault they don’t visit because I told them to fuck off when they tried to change sleeping arrangements last xmas.
- Family doesn’t respect the fact SIL is pregnant (ol’ boy who is in a related field hooked them with IVF and paid for it).
- Family doesn’t respect their marriage (ol’ boy paid for their wedding)
- That it ‘hurts’ they aren’t getting their way (guilt trip about how bro would like to see them more but won’t because they aren’t bending to them).
- Because I’m not married they get to choose shit.
I predicted that they’d try and guilt the p’s into changing shit just for them and blame me. Don’t really know why I’m caught up in this.
Highly manipulative shit.
But why he sent that to the ol’ girl is fucked. In early Jan she’s about to find out if she’s going to be totally blind. We’re all stressing about that and there’s bro pulling shit like this. She’s stressed enough.
I swear SIL is pulling the strings.
I will not make them feel welcome next time I see them.
Thank you for listening :)
This mega pisses me off. In the vast majority of cases being knocked up isn’t a great drama. Much sympathy.
Some people…
Man, I wanna smack your bro and Sil lol. What narcissistic assholes 🤦🏼♀️
narcissistic
I think that’s exactly what it is unfortunately.
omg, that’s so shameful
and so many hugs and best wishes for your mum , that’s just so sad
best wishes for your mum
Thank you it means a lot. It’s been so rough on her last thing she needs is this crap.
This is my take on this: Bro and wife have had heated words. She’s thrown out a “your family treats us like shit and you don’t stick up for me. Blah blah blah”. He’s left the room to write an angry email.
Ignore it. You’ve got more important things to deal with.
I’m going to agree with this. I’ve been pressured into something along these lines with friends, but then I dumped her.
John and Yoko situation going on.
I think you’re right. Either that or she’s "I’m going to get my way and you’re not making it happen be a MAN’. Actually tempted to ask her point blank what role she’s played in writing those emails. Bro was sending similar entitled shit when they were getting married lol.
I don’t get why having or not having children is such a clout thing. And being empreggened means they get to be in charge or they have a tantrum? Sounds really entitled.
Is there a word like bridezilla but for this situation and both of them?
get to be in charge or they have a tantrum?
I think it’s that but it was happening before expecting. Now it’s next level entitled heh.
Mom/Dadzilla can be used after hatching. Breeder applies before and aft to a certain type of person who doesn’t bother to Parent and just spawns.
It’s so weird how they think it makes them more important or higher in the pecking order.
I’d argue Bottom_racer contributes more to the family with the caregiving and should be more accommodated
As for them being ‘why they don’t visit’ that sounds blatantly manipulative
WTF: 4. AND 5.
I just have too many bad words… In more than one language, LOL.
Methinks it’s a shame there wasn’t several different instances of 3.
HNY! 🎉 To less FWs in 2025.
I feel some point in February I blinked and when I opened my eyes it was New Year’s Eve. Where did the year go, I swear it’s faster every year. There’s been some ups and downs, and lots of things same as ever that wish I had managed to change, but it was not to be, such is life. Anyway, cheers DT. Hope you are enjoying the night whether it’s staying in or going out, whether you are partying hard or in quiet contemplation. May 2025 be a year of good things ahead.
Wishing you all a Happy New Year! Have fun and stay safe :-)
CEO HAS SAVED MY PINA COLADA GOON EXPERIENCE!
PRAISE THE QUEEN OF GOON
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Shucks. A lot of useful information up here. A lot of useless too. A bit for everyone.
All praise the almighty Ceo!
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Cheers!
Cheers 🍺
Hey! Why’d you post this picture of me bruh
Cheers! 🍺 🍷
Cheers 🍺
Cheers
Cheers 🍺
Cheers 🍺
Cheeeeeers 🪅🎊🎉
Cheers 🍺
Cheers m8 🍻🍻🍺🍔
Cheers 🍺 🥔
Cheers from the biz class fizzy wine upgrade from all my work points (even better because i booked this fliht so long ago I forgot about the upgrade. Thanks past me!!)
Cheers to smart past you 🍺
MY PINA COLADA GOON BAG IS STILL FROZEN! THIS IS A TRAGEDY! A TRAVESTY! A WAR CRIME!
Just casually browsing here from the Northern hemisphere, I’ve never been to Australia. Enjoy the warm summer weather, I just had to deal with frozen car windows.
To the point: What the hell is a goon bag and where do I get one? A pina colada goon bag sounds absolutely delicious.
Goon bag = box wine. An inflatable foil sack that makes a handy pillow if you drink the whole thing and retain enough dexterity to blow it up. 😺
Oh I’ll have to try that 😂😂
Defo a troll, if you rotate the “b” and “h” in their username it looks like “goonget”. So my detective skills tell me that they’re actually a local but a couple of boxes in to their party 😁
Detective Indisin is on the case!
A goon bag is box wine, generally speaking, very cheap and easy. So you get a box of wine, and in the box is a bag of the wine itself. A goon bag is that bag of wine. A pina colada goon bag, is the same but instead of wine, it’s a premixed pina colada 😂 I buy it from Aldi when they have them, they also have a Mojito one I want to try.
During house parties, the goon bag gets pegged to the washing line (usually a hills hoist), and everyone can get some from there 😂 it’s very Aussie to have a goon bag pegged to the hills hoist for house parties, or at least it was when I was a teen in the 2000s.
Damn, you guys have invented a whole new way of drinking out there with the washing line and pegs lol
I haven’t noticed boxed premix cocktails here, just wine mostly, would love to start my own business making them, buuuuuuuut I imagine there’s a whole crapload of legislation around producing and selling alcoholic drinks that would make this prohibitively expensive to get started.
Not every place has them here, so I get them from Aldi when they have them, because Aldi is awesome for getting munted on a budget lol. Cheap wine, cheap German beer, cheap goon. Bless Aldi.
If you could get around the legislation, I reckon you’d be in for real nice profits!
I know there’s a bar near me that has espresso martinis on tap, which is mint af
I suspect munted of being a local word, but context ought supply
“Munted on a budget” has such a nice ring to it, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity lol
It does. One of the reasons I like the C word. Plosives are satisfying to pronounce.
It is very much a local word I hadn’t heard of before, but context was most certainly enough. My own native language does not have such nice words for getting shitfaced/munted/pissed/wasted/etc, our euphemisms roughly just come down to drinking yourself into a casket (it’s said “into a box”, but everyone understands it’s supposed to mean casket) or just getting blackout drunk so you don’t remember shit. Our language has some 14 noun cases, so it just instead of the cumbersome “into a/an/the X” of English, we’d say X-i or X-sse. So if “box” is “kast”, we say “kasti” and if a slang term for a memory blackout is “mällar” or “mälus” (literally: in memory), we say “mällarisse” or “mällu” (literally: “into memory”)
Your use of x makes me think you are talking about a language that uses clicks?! I have a favourite book with a character with an !X name
It’s funny, Aldi is from the same continent as me, but you guys get to have it in Australia, whereas I have to cross two borders to get to a country that does. To be fair, that drive is about the same as Sydney to Melbourne, we have fairly small countries here in the Baltics.
I know there’s a bar near me that has espresso martinis on tap, which is mint af
I have more questions now. What even goes in an Espresso Martini? Is it a cocktail or a coffee drink? Where the hell do I get one?
Expansion. A variety of unlabled goon bags pegged on the clothes hoist. By whatever means of choice it is spun and you drink from what stops in front of you. “Wheel of Goon”
I have never seen this in reality.
One house party I went to as a teen did that. We were farked up from here to Sunday good lord
I have partaken.
Regretfully I must admit that so have I. Many many years ago. The empty goon bag can be re-inflated and used for drunken games of cricket with brooms/mops for a bat. If the goonbag hits the hot bbq/campfire and melts, that’s an automatic six & out. So then you have to empty the next bag to continue the game …
Aldi mojito goon is pretty great, they had it just recently. I haven’t tried their pina colada but I would be keen, I’ll keep an eye out for it!
As someone who grew up in the northern hemisphere, it’s weird it being so hot this time of year even after a decade of living here I can’t get used to it. So enjoy your frozen windows!
Sit on it. Hottest cooch… I’ll stop now
my hot goon coochie brings all the boys to my yard 😉
Two trailer park girls go round the outside, round the outside 😅
goon
Goon Crimes!
See above?
Put it in the sink full of water with the nozzle facing down. Once the water gets freezing re do it. Repeat if necessary.
This woman goons
Hahaha. Maybe once or twice. It’s also how you defrost seafood safely.
Ooooooooo! Thank you! I transferred it from the freezer to the fridge an hour ago but it’s not fast enough; this sounds like a much faster method! 💜🍻
Yeah if you put it in the fridge you’ll be waiting 3 days. Try to defrost the nozzle first. That’s the important part.
Make a punch bowl. Use goon bag to cool punch bowl until it is drunken and goon is thawed. Pour goon out into bowl and drink some more
Woo Hoo, I am finally splinter free!
I think once the anasthetic wears off it is going to really hurt - the splinter turned out to be over 1cm long and as thick as a matchstick. No wonder it would not come out! I’ve got another box of antibiotics and an extra dressing, hopefully that will be the last of it.
Really needed that tetanus shot!
It’s a bit sobering to think that before tetanus shots and antibiotics a wound like that could easily have been fatal, or led to having the hand amputated (which also could have been fatal). Mind you, I would have already been crippled by the broken arm when I was 12
that’s why gardeners wear gloves
That’s why gardeners should wear gloves. I have certainly learned by lesson.
owww
Any lurkers out there come join us. We don’t bite. Promise.
I bite on request only. Please keep it above the equator.
Holy shit 😂
Speak for yourself!
We’re friendly! Kinda!
We really are.
Not me I’m sarcastic and mean
What animal best describes you? I’ll try and find a pic.
Leopard that drinks a lot.
Water. Water!!!
Hello brethren
Witchy I just sent you a DM
I play wild animal chasey at home, sometimes I’m a T-Rex, the other times I’m a Frankenstein monster … rawr … lol
You are the big bad Godzilla that’s starves those poor hungry deprived cats. Lol
it’s true. Bill and Ted are dying, dying because they get two packs of fussy cat dinner for dinner and they only eat the jelly and then they meow because they are starving
I feel your pain.
Nail polish drying = T Rex arms & noises
Armadillo that drinks a lot
I did not consent to you taking pics from my Facebook bro
Well, Happy NYE, have a palliative care admission. I don’t need pats, it’s been coming for ages, but sheesh.
Feels. Sending you some strength and patience vibes over the aether.
I’m really sorry
( but it’s nice to have pats )
so you are unwell?
lots of hugs and kisses
Father, but thanks
oh, lots of best wishes to you both
Really sorry to hear.
Wishing you a Happy new year.
I’m so sorry, that’s really hard
Thanks. I’m hoping for the Days rather than the Weeks part, vile as that may sound to some
Having been through it with both my parents, I agree with you
Thanks, I may be a bit in advance of Spud on the goon right now. SplatFish pending
Rough. Sorry to hear that.
Wishing comfort for you and yours ❤️
Right back atcha 🖤
Can I go to bed yet?
Kiddie fireworks just going off. Panicked cat count legging it over my back fence for the evening so far - 1.
Lol! I was like is that thunder?? And then I saw the time and realised the kiddie fireworks were going 😂
Sitting out front of my doctors surgery because if I don’t see her tonight, I can’t see her till 2nd week of new year.
And I need to catch up with her before then. I got here early on purpose because there’s going to be a mad rush of people.
Can’t say it’s exactly exciting or how I wanted to spend my evening:(
