Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.
Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.
So like one in five desks at work have some sort of issue. Screens/docks not working. Chairs are missing or broken. Meeting rooms can't connect to the network. Absolutely amazing.
Whoever is sabotaging this, I applaud you, you mad mad bastard.
I'm also being super vocal about stuff not working correctly, making sure the managers who really push for office days hear me.
We had a monitor nicked the other week. Local IT put on the trenchcoat and went investigating. Found it attached to a gaming rig 3 levels down. We're not 100% sure what this person needs with a gaming rig, but apparently they have approval for it. Local IT called it an emotional support RTX 3080ti.
That is beyond amazing. Look, I'm guilty of grabbing the comfiest chair available when I get into the office. But i'd never consider appropriating IT hardware. That's some balls
Do you work in my workplace, I'm having similar issues and am on a similar war path about it all.
Oh, I mean I used to work there, but my department may or may not have recently vacated.
I like this one, the petals when open are very white and white all the way to the centre. White flowers are really quite rare, most have a pink or green tinge.
Indeed. I don't think I've seen an orchid that didn't have at least a bit of pink or green. Cherish this beauty.
My short holiday is over. Waiting to board the plane to come back to melb. Really don’t wanna go back to work tomorrow 😭
I found that before posting, make an edit to a photo. Doesn’t even matter how minuscule the edit is. It always orients correctly when posting.
I'm naive AF and I probably treat people with too much trust but I've recently seen some pretty ugly stuff at work. People who are nice to your face but will throw you under the bus as soon as you turn your back because you mean nothing to them. It's disgusting and I'm losing faith in humanity.
One of life's most important skills is learning to tell good people from cunts and then stay away from cunts.
So my faith is pretty intact, I just hate cunts. Problem is the stupids, too many stupids who follow cunts.
I had exactly the same experience. Gave so much of my time to my own detriment to help others feel safe and offer solidarity but was completely taken advantage of left to fend for myself once I needed some help and safety in return. My lesson learned, keep giving. Keep helping. Just be very selective of where and with whom. People I actually truly cared for were bitching about me and suggesting because I was trans I was having a hard time. Fuck that, it's because they were a bunch of ungraetful bitches. They're all on my resentment list. I'm getting over it but fuck it's still annoying.
I helped a work colleague get their license by letting them drive my car a couple of time this week as practise and wondered if I was getting myself into a similar situation, but they are giving me some money for petrol, are very humbly thankful and it's been incredibly well recieved by my superiors. The difference this time is sobriety. People say a lot of shit they think they mean when they're drunk. I still have faith in humanity, but I have much stronger boundaries now of who I let in. First red flag and all bets are off.
It's sad and disappointing when you think you could be nice and they'd reciprocate but really they can't give a shit about you and maybe laugh at you behind your back for being naive. It's also sad that these bad experiences leave you wondering if others are going to be the same and you just end up being less trusting.
Most people are selfish and enititled. They'll say whatever bullshit they think will make them seem reasonable in order to gain some small pathetic, little, imagined benefit.
::: spoiler My family's favourite meal ::: Image of boring spaghetti bolognese or as I like to call it spag 'n' ease.
For a very basic one. Fry up a diced onion. Add garlic. Add mince. Add tomato paste. Add a can of diced tomatoes. Add a can full of water and a beef stock cube. Add dried herbs. Add chilli flakes. Bring it to the boil then simmer for atleast 20 minutes.
Nice. That's pretty much what I'd do I think. People out there bitching and moaning about wine and celery and carrot but come on. I think you nailed it!
If I want to get rid of some veg it goes in. Fennel seeds are a nice addition. Sometimes bacon, sometimes mushrooms, sometimes paprika.
So yesterday I bought 5 new calligraphy brushes, cost $70. I bring them home and start to prepare them for use, this means soaking in water to remove the starch from the bristles. I did this and 2 of the brush handles soaked up water and exploded. I looked at them carefully. They were made of particle wood, ie sawdust mixed with glue and moulded. ffs, I would prefer a cheap brush to a fake brush.
And this is why I usually buy plastic or bamboo brushes
ohhh that is so shit. The other day you were contemplating doing stuff around the house (?) versus going to buy brushes and I thought go buy the brushessss. How disappointing for you!
Sooooo…
I was thinking of you yesterday when I saw you mention your brushes. You know I know nothing of brushes, but, what type of brushes do you get?
Anyone remember reading Cloudstreet in school? My friend and their family are trying to move, and I'm gearing up to do the same soon, so I joked that with this economy we should start our own Cloudstreet. They missed the reference though, and now I'm asking others and they're also not getting the reference.
Me neither. What is an 'own Cloudstreet'? I'm actually serious here - I've never read the book as it postdates my own schooling and I have limited tolerance for Tim Winton's prose.
I was underwhelmed by his prose, and seriously turned off by all the adulation and hagiography. I put him in the same basket as Patrick White, another author I can only tolerate in very small doses.
Cloudstreet is a book based on two very different families who decide to move from the country to the city, where they end up cohabitating in a big house called "Cloudstreet". It follows the two families' trials and tribulations over the next 20 years as they all live in Cloudstreet.
I seem to remember catching bits of it, but like most Australian telly once it's aired it disappears into the ether forever gone.
It's a very different story as a 40 something year old than when I was a teenager. But u still enjoy it.
I remember! It was a bit of a slog at the time but I reread it and loved it. I love some other of Tim Winton's too ☺️
Haven't read it, but I remember reading a book about two immigrant pearl divers based in WA, one of them was called Jesus (pronounced Hey-zeus) and somehow involved a movie theatre - i think it was set in the 1930s? Or 20s? I've been trying to remember the name of it for years but it eludes me.
It was not The Pearl Divers Daughter or whatever - forget the author too lol
Edit: after an hour and a half of googling, I have found it!!
Nights in the Sun by Colin Bowles!! Holy fucking shit lol
I sent a resume in to a pearl dive company once(Paspaley). They never responded. Probably for the best, though because even though it’s a “tick the box” type experience, I have a feeling it’s nowhere near as glamorous as it sounds. Probably work you like a dog too..
Well, that was wild start to finish! I'm glad you found your book though, absolutely hate forgetting a title.
Pretty sure Cloudstreet was practically mandatory reading in all Perth schools when I was growing up!
Posting this reply from Sync for Lemmy. Very nice.
Edit: We need this as the desktop experience too.
Ooof. This 'holiday' is brutal. I need a holiday from it
(Family funeral abruptly happened on Tuesday, extended family are down from every where including a lot of people i deliberately do not associate with )
The people running the competition I commented on earlier got back to me. Apparently the five $2000 gift cards they are giving away are all being given to one person, they are not separate prizes. So you could probably feed a family for a year on that after all.
Looks like today is going to be a weird one. Boyo just rolled over, bit me, and declared “I am a barramundi”
I used to love rescuing plants. There was a sad dusty indoor cactus left behind by a previous tenant so I adopted it, took it with me when I moved and just left it outside in sun and rain. It’s still alive after more than 10 years. Started flowering and fruiting which means they’re happy.
Lucky cactus. The supermarkets used to sell plants, and of course they didn't care for them a all so they would get marked down to almost nothing once they started to die. I got a lot of cheap miniature roses that way.
I don’t buy basil anymore (supermarket rescue) because it died of some fungal wilt and I don’t want it spreading to the next. (Apparently the disease can hang around in the environment.)
No idea why it got sick, perhaps the exposure was before I bought it or maybe there were spores already in my back yard
I have trouble with both in the garden. I've never managed corriander outside, basil I've had ok but not great results. These are just the pots you get at the supermarket veg section. I just leave them in a container with a bit of water at the bottom, and add a bit of seasol occassionally and they regrow really well, as long as it gets enough light.
These plants are under lights, they are not in a spot getting any natural light at the moment. They will be getting lots of company soon as I'll be raising summer seedlings for planting outdoors.
Yes, under lights. I used to have some on the kitchen windowsill, but it got a bit crowded there.
Day 8 mate! A rest day for me so I just did my tummy exercises. Weighed myself this morning and I've lost 4.6 kg, and I can definitely feel it! Woo! I'm still overweight but I can at least hide it a bit better with my choice of clothing, whereas before there was no hiding my gut. It's really whittled down, and my bras fit better too.
My bus smells like Strasbourg but it's a beautiful day out there. I'll get to see some of it because I'm making lasagna sheets today. Hope you all have a great day!
I was quietly panicking, trying to find my webcam. I had moved it when I was cleaning my desk, but I just could not remember where it was. Partner gets up, hobbles to the study (which I had been in 3 times already), and "Spud! It was just on the floor next to the desk."
Like, just there, out in the open. 🤦♀️🤦♀️
Got it now, so alles gut! 😅
hehe sometimes just needs another person to see what we couldn't originally.
Glad you've got it back now.
Now enjoy the sunshine for today!
One of those nights where it felt like I was both asleep and awake, so now I'm super tired and it's going to be a very very long day.