Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.
- so puffed, his tongue might fall outThat’s a handsome fellow. Looks quite content with life.
It’s all happening here this morning. We’ve survived an attempted invasion from Next Door’s Cat. She came into the backyard and Looked at us through the back door.
Luckily Tommy the brave resident GuardCat was on the job and dealt with the situation by crying loudly and pathetically.
I banged on the door, and went out and shooed her back over the fence. And then congratulated my brave hero on scaring away the intruder. He would definitely survive in the wild.
Image: a fluffy tabby cat all curled up and not looking at all savage
Beautiful burnt sienna boy! Look at that terracotta nose… Yes, hate those pesky wandering invader cats setting off homecat alarm bells 😔
The cat I’m looking after has a frenemy/outside invader who’s almost a doppelganger for her - just about 20% slimmer and with much more of an attitude. I nearly panicked yesterday when I came home and saw frenemy coolly hanging around the front door - thought the indoor cat had escaped and also miraculously lost a bit of chub in a couple of hours.
This cat simply is anxious most of the time, instead of even pathetically meowing. If I let her have supervised outdoor time she is almost scared of stepping on grass. 100% born to be wild.
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Assignment completed. About 3 hours to spare, plenty of time!
Meanwhile, I’ve only just sat down to begrudgingly start on the work that I have to get in before 9am Monday, which I’ve spent all of today doing procrastichores (in a house I have zero obligations to clean).
I suspect I’ll be up till 2-3am again but doing so means I can take Monday off, more or less.
I envy your ability to get things done ahead of time…!
I have over time lost all ability to stay up late. I usually go to bed around 8, I’m nearly dead staying up this late.
So am I tbh. I used to do all nighters all the time at uni. Tonight I know I will need two days to recover.
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Psychiatrist has all but diagnosed me with the latter. She finishes up tomorrow and will start me on meds. Idk if that’s the whole story but I’ve been like this my whole life so I guess I’ll try.
In the nick of time. Now what to do with those 3 hours?
Sleep. The plan is sleep.
Wooo we’ve paid off 100th of the house.
Still wanna know why the interest on our fixed rate increased tho.
I’ve decided to quit my job move to a small seaside town where I will befriend local characters, take on a strange job that pays pennies, and live in a quaint shack. I’ll also only wear light colours and linen clothes with white plimsolls, and maybe I’ll even let my Scottish curls grow.
See you suckers later, it’s me and my seaside dream from here on out.
If you leave me can I come too? We can always stay But if you leave me, can I come too? And if you go, can I come too?
But the important question is how will you decorate your fridge while you are there?
Obviously with seaside themed magnets!
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Hello me
Alberton is still relatively cheap and my old neighbours are selling an original fixer upper. Local characters live there and they’re all pretty wholesome.
Alberton has the best fishing tho and it’s so pretty.
Unfortunately I was thinking somewhere warm year round.
It is not that.
Made taiyaki for dessert. It was so enjoyable
Wehhhhhh I want
Omg that’s adorably cute food!
Fishies!!
What do they taste like? I never had one of those before.
Taiyaki are basically just pancake batter filled with whatever. Traditionally red bean paste. This time I did red bean paste, chestnut paste and Nutella. I also really like filling them them a crème patissiere or yuzu curd if I have enough time/foresight to make it ahead. Because you cook them in the special mold, they get a nice crispy outside. People tend to have a preference for eating the head or the tail first. I personally like to go tail-first 😈
I am a monster and like to eat it from the side
Hmm interesting.
I don’t know what red bean paste tastes like so it’s quite a bit of an unknown for me to imagine what it would be like.
I wouldn’t mind filling one up with apple and cinnamon though.
I would go tail first I think.
want
oh my god. oh my god.
I’m building a dedicated dl machine and deciding on the name. I like my machines to have in jokes in their names, so was pondering sea themes, Barnacle, which I liked but not liked liked…scallop? needed to be some sort of high seas sailing parasitic leech
Then it hit me. The mother fucking perfect name
Zoidberg
What’s your build? I’m gonna get a dell optiplex 7060 for my Plex machine cause my gaming rig is dying and plex is about it’s only purpose atm, but I’m debating a raspberry pi for a light weight DL machine.
Ah this is a literal dl machine, file server is a different machine entirely. Gonna be a vm on a proxmox with a 3tb landing pad and rdp access so the hubs stops harassing me. (PIA is currently on my w10 laptop and we’re both IT pros, so using someone elses machine is like wearing their underwear. And not in a fun way.)
Edit: if ya really wanna know… the hardware is a Dell PowerEdge R620. Lol.
Tonight is dumpling night! Found a stash in the freezer. No idea who made them, what’s in them or how old they are.
Good luck with that. 🤞
Tonight we are having warak enab which is the lebanese version of dolmades. The roomies had a cooking sesh with my MIL.
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Livin’ on the edge!
Hmm. Mystery dumplings. That is brave 💪
I’m waiting to get all my data from reddit and deleting my account. I’m super disillusioned with the melb subreddit in particular. Time to move on.
Sad really.
Are there even moderators there anymore?
They removed some fairly obvious race-bait the other day, but they don’t seem to be doing much for the most part.
it’s really fallen a long way. so much akshually and a current affair style content.
I haven’t been on Reddit at all since we moved here. Realised I was just going on for the DT but would get sucked into scrolling once in the app. Huge time waster.
- doggo is done… Me to buddy, me too.Important: I met a 13-week-old corgi puppy and got to pat and hold her. Fluffy and adorable.
Hope you’re all having a lovely Sunday.
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Sadly I didn’t get a picture. Billions of apologies.
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Just a chill Sunday
Image of a small dog relaxing
I had to tell our ginger gent that he gets until 11:30 max before i get up.
I still expect extreme displeasure
I’m cramped on the couch reading a book and everytime I turn a page he shoots laser beams into my soul.
Ayup, Punkin’s surgically attached to my arse today. Oh no. I shall do so very little today
Nice colour combination! Feels very pleasingly 70s
It’s my Iggle Piggle doona cover.
To clarify my earlier post:
I want money to buy booze, weed, and sex toys. All the naughty stuff 😅😉
Edit: I am NSFW presently, and I am happy with that 😘
When did sex toys become naughty stuff?
It’s the booze and weed that’s naughty
I miss being a student, that discount for Lovehoney was great.
I have bought some stuff there, heheh, I really like the full body fishnet things, with the crotch opening haha! Wearing it out to a party is super fun lol
when I lived in nyc I saw a guy wearing a lime fishnet suit with orange teeny tiny shorts, just walking around . It wasn’t even Fleet Week… 😂
I’ve worn something similar to Rainbow Serpent.
Really wish people would keep their dogs on leash in areas where it literally says to keep your dog on leash. Some dog runs right up to mine not even 50m away from said “dogs must be on leash” sign. I don’t wanna hear “ohhhh sorrrrrryyy about that”, I just don’t want your dog to run up to mine smh
I have a fear of strange dogs. the fucking cunts who get their noses out of joint when you tell to control their bity fucking animals where the sign says to are as bad as they come. I used to walk my housemates huge staffy ridgeback, on a lead. he was known to bite other dogs. trying to explain to these fucking hipsters in footscray having a picnic, this isn’t even my dog, so I can’t absolutely control him and here’s your bouncy labradoodle snapping at it cos you want it to be “free”. people have no common sense.
I’m hongohones, and this is today’s what really grinds my gears.
I hear ya. My dog was attacked as a puppy on two separate occassions from off lead dogs, and as a result he’s not great with dogs who run up to him suddenly while he’s on a leash (which he always is because I don’t trust other people or cars lmao). I also don’t walk him where I know there’s gonna be lots of dogs just in case, cause people suck - so that generally rules out all the nice dog-friendly places we could go. He hasn’t actually attacked another dog, but I don’t wanna take that risk because I’ve had friends whose dogs were perfectly trained with no prior negative experiences, and have still ended up going another dog in certain situations. I just want my bebi to be safe, especially since going for super long walks with him is one of my favourite things to do :(
Bring a walking stick. 😊
I noticed that yesterday’s Reddit daily thread closed with fewer than 100 comments for the first time
Haven’t looked at the DT there in a couple weeks. I feel sad for the lost souls who haven’t found their way here 💔
Yeah some are put off by the ui and the bugs. I think a bunch just lost interest in this format overall.
I can say for myself that I became an avid DTer during the lockdowns and continued to drift in and out afterwards, out of habit. The Reddit blackout was a little bit of a reset switch for that habit - no longer instinctively go to r/melbourne when I open up a browser.
Still love the vibes of a/the DT (which is why I’m here!) but it stopped being such an instant thing that I opened.
the downvoters are still working hard there
there is more than one or at least more than one user ID
Not sure how number of comments left over a 24 hour period has anything to do with “the downvoters” but OK.
My point is, it used to get 500+ comments daily. It’s been limping along since the blackout, but to see the day end with a double-digit number of comments is something unique up to this point. I wonder how long until that becomes more common…
How can you tell info about user id?
