Got a new floppy eared best mate on the weekend. Astro
Astro! Adorable.
I’m giving about 1/2 a week on those thongs, 1 week on the washing basket. 2 on the rug.
He does love the thongs already lmao. Diverting his attention to the 5000 fluffy toys my partner has purchased is the main goal at the moment
astro you little champ
Aww, look at those floppy ears!
Astro is adorable! What breed?
Kelpie x collie. He’s going to be a maniac
I hope you have somewhere between 500 and 1000 sheep in the yard…
Or anything else that can be rounded up. Children, chickens…
Socks, shoes, remote controls, various food items.
Small children will also do, in a pinch.
There’s a kind of toy called a “herding ball” that might be good for him.
It’s a weighted ball - you fill it with water or sand - that’s too big for him to get his mouth around it, so if he wants to take it anywhere he has to push it along and guide it so it comes with him. Basically he’d be proxy-herding it instead of you everywhere he goes. It might help give him an outlet and a job to do, so he’s productive instead of destructive.
Yeah nice I’ll give them a look, cheers
Maybe herding tennis balls will help. My old kelpie/heeler cross loved his bicycle tyre on a rope tied to a tree branch. Hours of chewable and swingable fun.
Yeah I had a kelpie a while ago, makes golf practice in the backyard easy. He would bring the ball back for hours at a time
Gorgeous! Astro looks like a handful but in the best kinds of way.
Hello babyyy!! What a sweetie!
G’day Astro
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Such a cute little black pupper 😍
Is it just me or does Astro look like he’s smoking a fag?
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So we’re all here because of a change in circumstances that none of us expected. I’m in my early 50s and a creature of habit, I don’t cope well with change. I used to enjoy Twitter, but it’s gone to shit, every third tweet is an irrelevant ad for something I’ve never expressed any interest in (crypto etc.). It’s pretty much unusable now. I used to subscribe to The Age, hard copy, home delivered. But then Nine took it over and it started to go down hill, to the point where it’s now the Herald Sun but for people who can read big words and long sentences. Pre-CoVid my favourite local bar was open five days a week, from at 5pm. I was usually the first in the door, and Fridays and Saturdays we’d be a big group handing a fair amount of money over the bar. Post-CoVid restrictions, the owners changed it to Fri/Sat only, late opening, and more of a club vibe to attract the younger crowd, so that killed it for me. I could go on, but this is turning into a bit of a rant, so I’ll just finish by saying that because of the way my brain is wired, I need routine and predictability, and I’m really over shit changing around me in every aspect of my life and having no say in it. How do you guys cope with change?
I don’t mind change. It helps me to learn things I wouldn’t normally seek. What I don’t like is that our community that I learnt so much from was basically deleted forcing people to splinter off. The more people, the wider range of topics, better the conversations. :(
I am grateful for this little corner :)
I’m grateful for this space too, really impressed how quickly we’ve adopted a new home.
I think I just want a stable and predictable (read: boring!) life these days, after decades of upheaval and forced changes that I wasn’t ready or prepared for.
There’s nothing wrong with that. Being comfortable is what makes us happy.
I’ll let others reply with more serious answers but your post just gave me a thought which you may or may not enjoy:
People usually say “change is as good as a holiday” but as someone who doesn’t like change, you could say “change is as good as a holiday to Adelaide”
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i’m a millennial used to social media platforms changing every few years. I guess I’ve just given up on the concept of anything online being permanent.
A lot of us are feeling this way with the loss of Reddit, I hadn’t realised that I used it daily for the last decade.
I think it isn’t as bad when you have something new and exciting to look forward to, like maybe you find another bar that ends up being better than the old one.
I was disappointed when Fairfax got bought and was hoping the newspapers wouldn’t be part of the deal.
I think humans naturally adapt - and that includes you. What did you do before Twitter, for example? And hell, you’re here, instead of the DT on Reddit. It’s similar, but there’s still change involved.
What I think is important is recognising that maybe the “change” takes a little longer to adopt, or adapt to when you’re older (and I say this as a late 30s individual who’s starting to notice things like this). But that’s okay, as long as we do evolve and change in some capacity. Otherwise we’d still be stuck in caves smashing rocks together to make fire.
Funnily enough 1 million years on from the first Homo erectus making fire… I can’t do shit without a lighter or matches.
I feel this. I’m starting to wonder if it’s the pace of change rather than change itself (if that makes sense).
I was hoping for a shittymorph-esq transition of this comment into Grandpa Simpson’s rant about wearing an onion on his belt.
Well someone changed the onion to an apple and I’m not happy about that either!
I’ve never actually had ‘regular’ habits so accepting change is kind of easy.
Always had different groups of friends and interests growing up.
Even with work, I tend to change jobs every 3-4 years.
The only constant in my life for the past 20 years has been my wife and, more recently,kids.
Swapping a platform to talk shit with people ain’t no thing 😁
I miss the Age in its heyday too. There was proper in depth journalism, especially liked the weekend editions. There’s nothing the same anymore. It’s all easily digestible snippets or click bait. But anyway, reddit DT is back now and I’ll be using it because I like the interface better. I find it clunky and a bit too start-up here.
Oh my gosh yay I found you all. I have been so sad without the DT I missed everyone :-( Where else to post my anecdotes such as the following:
Woolies massively messed up my order today. Received half of some other family’s order. I have all their dairy, including a bunch of kids stuff. They presumably are the ones with my week’s worth of dinner meats, among other things. I am now the owner of 6L of milk, 3 tubs of spreadable butter, a ton of kids yoghurt pouches, and much more. I am going to have to see if any of the mums at play group want any of it.
Woolies had been suspiciously good with my orders there for a while, absolutely zero issues the past several orders. I feel like I’m being punished for finally trusting them lol! Waiting to hear about a refund…
Welcome back to the party. There’s a list of who’se been reached out to. I think I saw it in yesterdays thread.
Egh… this is the one reason why I don’t do home delivery of stuff. I feel like the stuff I actually need will never arrive, and so I’ll just be stuck with chocolate (well now… I guess things can’t be all that bad).
Also, yay for finding us! It’s now quite the same and there’s still a handful of regulars still wandering out in the wilderness somewhere, but for what it is, it’s still a nice place to come and chill :)
Pretty much what it’s like! I’ve been relying on it since we had baby and only my partner can drive at the moment. But once I get my licence I am hopefully saying FU to the supermarkets altogether and shopping elsewhere as much as possible.
Great that you’ve found your way over here! I was so pleased that the dt had reassembled itself over here - was feeling quite bereft thinking I had lost everyone after the reddit closure thing
Yes I was honestly quite upset! Checking the DT is part of my lil neurodivergent routine so realising it didn’t come back after the few days freaked me out.
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fuck yeah get dat employment!
That’s great to hear StudChud
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well done!
I know we can’t give awards so I’m just going to announce my unrequited love and respect for bacon for giving me a heads up for melbourne coming back online. Now I can recover my journal into a document and i’ll just keep posting on this zone. Still, I like this DT now. So here I am, declaring my unrequited love and respect for my saviour, Bacon!!!
Now that we have direct and open competition we’ll see where the DT goes. I for one am not going back.
edit: awww you guys
Getting there slowly, but stronger and geez more femme every day. The boost to my oestrgen levels last week and quitting booze have had marked effects on my mood. I’m teary but it’s cos I feel so in love with life at the moment. I planned to arrive at this moment and did.
I have so much to look forward to today and I’m grateful for everyone here for being here and sharing mine and your thoughts. So many kind and funny people in one place, this is the Melbourne we all know and love. The bits where we are not being tailgated down punt road or made to feel like pawns in a property investment scheme. People wonder why we love this place so much, it’s because of the people not the cool shops and so called liveability.
Happy pride, both rainbow and city!!
That was a lovely read, glad to hear you are so in love with life, thats a pretty special feeling!!
I mean the cool shops are a bonus… haha. Happy pride!
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I love seeing your updates and I’m so glad you’re getting to the place you want to be :) Happy Pride!
Thanks so much. I might have lost my old melbourne comments but I’m thinking maybe it’s the writing of them that’s the good bit anyway.
<3 it’s definitely the writing of them! The old melbourne reddit is back up, maybe your comments will be visible now to save them!
they are and I am hahah, Its nice to have them back but it’s definitely the act of journaling which is the important part. it’sjust been quite a year
Yay :) Yeah it definitely is! I need to remind myself to keep journalling, even if it’s a small sentence for each day haha.
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Good girl. I’m thrilled for you
Thanks!
lordy what a piece of shit day out there. peace to all those in the struggle outdoors i’m not leaving this apartment
The drive in to work was pretty miserable, as was the walk to and from the car. I do believe that it is good to have a bit of unpleasantness to help us appreciate when we are warm and dry better. Or maybe that’s just my sour-grapes-style envy of people with garages connected to their houses.
I’m working from home as I picked up a cold late last week and don’t want to spread it throughout the office (like some people seem intent on doing). But I feel guilty being home in the comfort of my home when some of my coworkers would have had to trudge in through this weather.
Yeah I’m glad I can potter and answer some emails. Finally cable up my speakers and fx pedals and put away all my laundry.
I did make this tonight. I called it Peking duck conFusion. I used rice noodles instead of rice. Oh how the Asian chef angels wept.Yes that’s a shadow of my head.
My mums partner is addicted to his PlayStation. He doesn’t cook, clean, or help with anything when he’s not at work because he just spends all his time smoking, drinking, and playing PlayStation. Over the weekend, it shit itself. It doesn’t turn on. So he found an old Xbox 360 that my mum had in storage, and that worked for 24 hours before shitting itself too. Now he’s walking around the house, banging cupboards and being a cunt because he can’t play his videogames. Any minute now he’s gonna spin some story to blame me. Giant man baby
I was a longtime DT lurker and I’m stoked to have found this place. I’d barely been on reddit since the blackout began and just randomly checked it tonight to see if anythings going on, and saw the link to here on the reddit DT. I know it’s technically back or whatever but I’m pretty sure the app I use is shutting down at the end of the month anyway, and the official one is garbage so here I am. Maybe it’s meant to be. Unlikely to change lurker status beyond this though but we’ll see🫠
Just like that, week long tum tum woes went away.
Cannot begin to describe that fortunate timing.
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Well that was a miserably wet walk this morning. Mr Woof kept mostly dry with his raincoat on, but is still a bit wet around the ears so I’m getting the whole wet dog smell experience.
The good news is that Thursday is the turning point for the days gettting longer again (although I believe getting warmer lags behind that). I am looking forward to seeing a bit more sun. I know a lot of people have strong preferences for summer or winter, but I am definitely in camp autumn & spring, the extremes I could do without.
Same. There’s not much decent weather for those who hate cold and heat (can’t tolerate well)
I love the name of this monday thread btw, i loved garfield as a kid 🥰
