Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.
It’s dangerous to go alone, take these
Pocket size pals! Plus they’ll clean up any termites in your clothing.
I know what I want for Christmas now.
I’ll have two please. One for each shoulder.
Which one is evil?
Yes
neither, they are both angels 💗
What are these?
Numbat joeys
It’s my insane little idiot’s Gotcha Day., but he refuses to pose with new toy. So here’s an old one. First day as office cat.
That is a fine feline friend.
You inspired me to look up my own pets Gotcha Days. Mr Woof has his 10th Gotcha Day next year, meaning he will be about 12 years old - nearly a teenager! Miss Meow will have her 3rd in January, meaning she will be older than 3. The rescue I got her from told me was 6 months old, some of the paperwork had her as 4 years, and the vet that did her dental work thought she might be 2. And of course a lady will never divulge.
Dates mean what you wish them to. Many regards to Miss and her ambiguous teeth.
Catfish Cat has the most excellent pointy cat ears I have ever seen. 💗😸
Beautiful little gremlin. What a sharp look!
Boyo currently crying and hyperventilating after trying to burn out his not-Covid with Buldak noodles and a disgusting concoction called Fire Cider. I call dibs on first use of the bathroom tomorrow morning.
I’ve got actual Rona for the first time. The rat test was pretty definitive.
May it be mild and swift.
Tomorrow? Thats optimistic.
Can we talk about how bottled soda water is now $1.20 when it used to be 70c? Even at ALDI.
I didn’t realise carbon dioxide and water have become so expensive.
If you drink it often you may as well get a cheap soda stream maker at that price. Less plastic wastage too.
Seconded. I drink an obscene quantity of self bubbled water. They do do sneak things like change the bottle shape between charger types and formats to force new buys.
I’m not sure if soda stream is cheaper, the bottles and the gas cannisters are expensive but yes, it’s good that there is no plastic bottle waste.
I did the numbers and I think you break even after about 60L of soda water, if your machine costs $70. After that each L of soda water costs you about 33c. This all provided that the machine doesn’t break and you don’t buy additional soda bottles.
Does take up bench or cupboard space though.
It pays itself off eventually
last time I checked Aldi was 99c, has it gone up AGAIN?
Actually I’m now wondering if it’s partly the bottle collection cost??
Yes
Yeah. Soft drinks and the basic home brand stuff at both aldi and colesworth are now 1.10-1.20ish.
Used to be 69-79 cents. :(
Laughs in 20c. of mixed lollies
< giggles in Billy Bubbles >
Who doesn’t have a Sodastream these days? Pretty much everyone I know under 50 has one. I really cringe paying so much for carbonation, plus I like my nice glass limited edition Sodastream bottles so much more than plastic.
Yep, I think it’s 105 for mineral and 115 for soda now
Well the good news is I thought I was getting closer to 90% of my allocated hours for this project but I’m still at 78% and I smashed out one bit that I thought would take 2 days, in 3.5 hours. Thank fuck!
Not finishing everything before I go on Thursday, but I’ve decided I’ll take my work laptop after all and bash out the rest over the next week and then I have a completely clear mind for the rest of December :D and then maybe I can finally leave my job for real once I’m back…
🤞🏻
Würzburg Christmas market!(I can’t work out how to crop it, so sorry if it’s still sideways).
Upright and pretty!
I’m getting a Bug-A-Salt for Christmas. It’s getting picked up tonight. I’m very excited.
Not a good time to be a fly.
I just can’t. I’m all warred out. 😔😢
What’s wrong? You don’t like my choice of gift?
I’m tired of war and guns is all
Flies and I have been enemies for years.
How long before you start breaking out the weapons of mass fly destruction?
I’ve tested it but wouldn’t you know it, no flies are around right now but I’m waiting.
I didn’t know I needed one of these - but I do now.
Oh you need one.
I bought one for my dad back in January I think it was. Let me know how you go because I haven’t managed to murder any flies with it yet. Blew a nice hole through a tissue when doing a test though.
Will do. I’ll test it tonight. If I can’t find a fly I’m prepared to sacrifice a small dog for experimental purposes.
Ooh, I think I want one…
tee hee, this is the blouse imma gonna wear for xmas, it has angry skworls and I love it 🤭
spoiler
Skwrl
I stand corrected. 😊
Lamb has catastrophically dropped in price - $10-99 per kilo from the butcher for a whole 12 kg lamb. At this time of year, probably two-tooth or hogget rather than lamb lamb but whooeee! Time to stock the freezer. Six months ago lamb was more like $26-00 per kilo at Colesworth.
Pick up a bunch on the cheap the other day as well.
I think I read somewhere that farmers were culling in prep for the summer heat being insane this year, so the price is predicted to drop right down for a bit.
Looks like homemade lamb shawarma is on the menu for me!
Was at Bunnings and noticed they have expanded their cleaning products aisle. Way cheaper than supermarket, especially the dishwasher tablets. Purchased some basil seedlings. Haven’t had great success in the past, because they burn if too sunny, get leggy if too shady. I’ve selected a spot that gets morning sun and afternoon dappled shade, hopefully that will keep them happy.
The cleaning aisle is my favourite there.
Bunnings are discontinuing the Gearwrench brand of sockets, spanners, etc. They’re really good quality tools and about 30%-40% of the usual cost.
Australia is waking up to the news that we’ve LOCKED IN our participation in Eurovision 2024!
Oh heck yes! I got super into it this year, woulda been devo if I only got into it at the end.
I think I need to take a break from binge re-watching Buffy. It’s giving me stressful dreams. Not about monsters or demons but there’s always some crisis going on in that show and it’s contagious.
What season are you up to? The narrative and story line definitely gets deeper after S3 I reckon.
Last episode I watched was The Body so 3/4 through season 5. Yeah the gang grows up and the show matures with them.
The Body is always going to mess you up.
ugh yeah no one needs the slow grinding of s6 with everything going on in reality rn
We’ve just finished binging on all four seasons of Ugly Betty, watched the last ever episode last night. I’m a middle-aged man with no interest in fashion, but that show is great - brilliant acting and story arcs, and it matures the characters so well.
Reasons I hate PTV #6487:
Trains are down so I caught a tram. It has now been an hour, and I’m only about two-thirds home.
It would’ve literally been faster to walk.
Where the fuck is the oversight?
One of my fantasies while living in Melbourne (Through the worst of the Connex and the early Metro years) was to magically teleport Transperth trains and operations onto the Melbourne network for a month. The whole system. I know it can’t really be done.
But to somehow show Melbournians how a train network could run in this country would really drive home how bad the trains were in Melbourne.
In related news: The train network in Perth was never privatised.
At a set of traffic lights this morning, glanced in my rear view and noticed the lass driving the car behind me was curling her eyelashes. Didn’t think much of it, until we’re then doing 80km/hr and I checked my rear views and saw that she was doing her mascara. I’m down for a bit of multitasking, but that just seems dangerous.
Yep, quite a few people do their make up while driving to work.
I haven’t shot any flies yet even after I opened the garage door and waited.
At first the roomies laughed at me. Now who’s asking “can I’va go”?
