Another scorcher today Melburnios 🔥
Good luck tonight everyone. Especially to those of us who can’t open windows because their cat will destroy the flyscreen…
Ah, you’ve been here then
Don’t get me wrong, I love the little gremlin, but fuck me it’d be nice to get a breeze going in the house sometimes.
I did it once when she was at the vet and that was it pretty much.
Did you guys see about the scientists who had managed to actually weigh a rainbow? It was pretty light
This is excellent. I was just thinking the other day that I was sad because I hadn’t heard a good new joke in a long time but this has brightened my day, thank you
Yessss, thank you!! I just got my boss real good with this one!
About to get up a ladder and clean some gutters but…
Spoke to the old man last night and was reminding me about the ambulance vic subscription.
Then he decided to tell me about one of his buddies who recently had a fall off a ladder.
Apparently he fell backwards and his leg got caught between 2 steps quite high up, leg snapped in half and he was just dangling there until his wife found him an hour later.
Fucking nightmare fuel really bad timing.
Ouch. People do get very blase about ladders and disregard the risks involved. It’s also something that people insist on doing when they become too old to do so safely (like driving). Stubborn old men who insist on climbing on the roof are a fairly frequent category of rescue the Fire Brigade go to, when said stubborn old main realises they can’t get down again or have a medical episode from the exertion of climbing up.
yeah I wouldn’t get up there in this wind. Fuck that
Mega cudos to the roof plumber who [temp] fixed our shit in the big storm last Hols!
Apparently the stats for men over 50 falling off ladders are quite startling. If you are under 50, then maybe you’ll be OK …
At long last after weeks of procrastination I took my haul of manzano chillos from the fridge (and washed off some fuzzy growth…) and a head of good garlic and made this forbidden smoothie
Chucked it into an ice cube tray to make little cubes for wintertime pasta/stir fry.
Also took the uselessly spicy Thai chillis and blitzed it with ginga, garleck and little red shallots plus some lime joos, and dried shrimp, fried it all in oil. THIS thing is almost unusably spicy. I hope it mellows out over the next few weeks. attention @Bottom_racer
hawt hawt hawt
RIP my fingers though, I was doing well until I got some spicy oil on one hand.
Ooh that looks angry.
I know one of those blokes that has gone missing in Sydney… It is not looking good for them at all. :(
Oh jeez. 🫂
hope it turns out ok
Oh bad fire up around Beaufort :-(
EDIT: Western highway closed and VLine suspended both ways from Ballarat <-> Ararat. Vic emergency link if anyone needs it https://www.emergency.vic.gov.au/respond/
Yeah just saw this image from my relatives all the way in Delacombe. Looks worse than last week’s fire around Burrumbeet or wherever it was.
Really glad we’ve had no bushfire smoke in Melbourne so far, although my air purifier is sitting pretty
I’m convinced that all CEOs and those in equivalent leadership positions are psychopaths and it’s only a matter of degree as to how strongly they show those traits.
Yes
I think there’s a study that shows a greater concentration of sociopaths in executive level positions.
Welcome to the wonderful world of cutthroat corporate competition. Capitalism encourages this sort of thing.
Statistics would say you are almost correct, a pretty large number of CEOs exhibit psychopathic tendencies.
We’ve been invited to a wedding but the reception joint was set on fire last night. Interesting. More to come…
well this is a letter I have never read on Miss Manners
😂 I’m interested to see what happens next.
Dear Miss Manners, Our reception joint caught on fire. Is it alright to convene at the local pub?
I shoulda known better than to hire a place named “The Sopranos”.
Themed fancy dress in the car park? Play is that s as fireperson or a stripper?
I suppose it’d be too much to assume it was an act of god or a natural disaster?
I doubt it
Which God and was the disaster prevented?
The answer to both are Take your Pick.
I wonder what illegal shit they were selling. Or do you think it was a dissatisfied customer?
Well apparently both the Thomastown and Thornbury fires are linked and have something to do with a boxing match that was to be held.
Age article Hope this works - have had little luck posting links recently. Lemme know if it doesn’t work.
Yes it did work. Thank you very much.
I forgot to water the plants all of yesterday because I was in the shittest mood/energy so when I greeted them this morning I felt a wave of resentment radiating from their wilted leaves. I will promise to give them a supplemental water as needed today.
This motherfucker is just growing like there’s no tomorrow though, ever since I put it in a pot with a water reservoir. Time for a big chop tomorrow, freeze the leaves for use over winter, hopefully the new growth will stabilise over the next couple months.
healthy boi
ooh lush curry leaf
I really want some rain so I don’t have to water…. Tank is nearly empty too.
New computer parts arrive today and it’ll be too hot to do computer work.
I got this massive tempered glass computer case as a gift and let me tell you it isn’t worth it.
Tempered glass computer case?
That sounds really fragile?
I forgot to reply to this, but it’s a Lian Li O11 Dynamic XL case a friend gave me a few years ago. The front and side panels are glass, and it’s about twice the width of a regular case to fit the power supply and drive bays in their own special areas.
Are everyone’s pets basically puddles of fur from all this heat?
Nah because the air con is on but when it’s not, my dog will dramatically flop down on the carpet like those fainting goats. We call this “dead dog”.
I was sleeping ok until someone came into my room asking if they should stay home from school today. We need to have another talk about not disturbing mother unless there’s a fire. 😡
-starts fire-
mum can i stay home today
She doesn’t need permission to stay home. She gets the guilts for having a sickie.
We must find who gave her these guilts and sit on them
Don’t worry I’ve already had the talk with her about not being one of those people. She can wfh today, no big deal.
Godspeed to those of us with warmer than expected rooms
Ain’t no thang like a chicken wang!
Noice.
Next week I’ll get Tucker Time back up and running.
And that will have to be a no today
Yum!
Prime minister on the radio basically admitting he would never force Coles or Woolworths to divest, but said oh we’ve got an inquiry, oh we are looking at mandatory code of conduct with penalties.
Cut the shit that is fiddling around the edges. And breaking up large companies is not a Soviet policy. If anything it’s a pro capitalist policy by returning to a more balanced market with greater competition.
I don’t see what an inquiry is going to accomplish, just confirm what we all knew all along and make them do nothing to help?
It’s to make it look like they are doing something without doing anything.
Unlikely the inquiry will change much. Best thing to do is vote with your wallet if you can. (I know not everyone has access depending on where you live). Shop at Aldi, green grocer, butcher, markets, Costco.
That’s basically what I do. I have a Coles, aldi, a butcher and saccas in close proximity.
I wish I could. If physical inability to shop (and particular needs around kitty’s litter/wet food) weren’t a factor I’d possibly be happy buying exclusively at Aldi
I am so utterly disappointed with Anthony Albanese
