Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.
Ok so to cheer the place up a bit I thought I'd share my Halloween story. This was about 30 years ago it's still clear as day in my head. My brother bought this hideous mask thing, it kinda looked like a deranged werewolf, a whole rubber mask over the head deal with God ugly wild hair. I had not seen it.
Walking down the darkened hallway at home heading for my bedroom, he waited in a doorway half way down and when I got close he said "boo". Not loud. Just boo. Well I fucking shit and let out some very explicit language. He just walks off. I was test subject number 1.
Come Halloween night (it was still daylight) he's watching out the window waiting for some teenagers. Finally 3 poor unsuspecting children rock up and just before they ring the bell he flings open the door and in the most horrible Freddy Kruger type voice screams "Ya wants some candy?" They absolutely shat, screamed and tried to run then they laughed. He then has a chat to them to make sure that they're OK. Finished up with "be sure to tell you friends".
He comes in satisfied that it worked. Asks "should I hold a kitchen knife next time?" "No". "It's not real". "No".
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Dad kind of casually dropped during the week that I should go up to Moama this weekend for the day to take my new car out and that he'll come, but it sounded like he was half kidding and I said nah because I'm over the pokies (Moama = pokies trip at the Moama Bowls Club). I realised last night that he has been home alone for a month and a half and doing daily trips to Williamstown hospital to see Mum and he probably actually needs a day out.. especially before Mum gets out of the hospital and they'll still be stuck at home for a while. Just called him and said let's go tomorrow, I'll come over later today so we can watch the Australia NZ game tonight and I'll stay over then we can head off in the morning. He sounds very happy.
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We actually had some on Thursday! When I picked up my car I drove straight out to see him and we had those awesome sausage rolls for lunch.
i'm also scared.
I'm not asking questions but do you know a good travel doctor are we talking rabies something zoonotic or what.
I'm honestly thinking the light soy rice wine vingar and bit of chillo bit of spring onion... it's not bad as a dipping sauce. You could put some garlic or ginger in there i think that'll be the next step.
Very pretty sky above Thornbury. Mare's tails, mackerel clouds and curtains of ice crystals with blue between, all swirling about. If this was dawn, it would be incredibly spectacular. Wind is pretty strong though.
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I offered to take over organising my family secret santa this year because my brother in law who usually does it almost had a breakdown last year trying to wrangle the old people who completely forgot who they were buying for.
If you're organising one; this is an excellent site to do it: Secret Santa Bash
You can select whether direct loops are possible (two people buying for each other) and also add custom rules like X must/can't buy for Y. It's free and easy. You can monitor who has viewed the party and if they haven't after a few days give them a call and get them to check their spam folder. My gmail address didn't filter it out but my microsoft one put it in the junk folder.
Oh and there is wish list function so you can give your secret santa a hint on what to get you!
After owning my headphones for a few years I have just discovered that there is a compartment in the case with a usb and audio cord inside it. I had no idea.
Kinda? Not so much secret, but the aesthetic they use makes components and compartments look like standard dead area moulding in the case.
Whippers be snipped, concrete and bricks be stacked in stooks (or possibly stooked in stacks), and both green bin and overflow green bin be stuffed to the gills.
thumps table MORE TEA
It’s rather hard to photo through the shite glass at this place. Grump.Introducing last nights' STASH™
got everything used up no waste even with an elevated BAC. I do need to clean the kitchen now :(
The current dipping sauce on offer is (and I've been spending way too much thought on it).. equal parts light soy and rice wine vinegar, little sesame oil, some finely sliced spring onion and chilli flakes (or even just fresh chilli).
the nukes have gone off
the internet will soon cease
the millennial plays neopets into the final second of humanity
completing 5 neopets daily tasks earns you 20000NP. The individual tasks come with NP and items too. My neopet is currently bloated so I need to wait for him to not feel sick before I can feed him and complete the tasks. The day resets at 6pm.
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Fun fact RE: The Internet: It was literally designed to survive a nuclear holocaust.
Networks at the time all had a central node, and any such node would obviously be a target for a nuke. So, the Internet was designed so that you could blow 90% of it up, and the remaining 10% would keep working.
Unfortunately, I live in a city with both an air force and naval base. I'm less than 10km in a direct line to the centre of the city. Unless I get a fair bit of warning, our family is toast.
I'm a little further from the CBD but once they blow up the data centers and the lines internet is gone. I'll have to wait a little longer for radiation to get to me.
Every time I think I’ve gotten a bit more used to riding in the windy, the wind is like, 😈😈😈, nope, FU!
I swear, 90mins and it’s like none of my limbs are functioning now. Eating is an effort!
Somehow the winds in moorabbin conspire against me, i get a fuggen headwind to my location, then a headwind heading back home, in different compass directions. How. Howwww.
4 hours of eternity to go and I'll be done with work. Shame I got my period today and feel like shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit
Ok plan for today - finish this coffee. Make egg and salami bagel sandwich. Eat bagel. Hang out washing. Vacuum house. Take some stuff to op shop. Maybe have quick rummage around op shop. Buy wine. Come home and finish job stuff. Order Ubereats for dinner. Eat and drink wine while watching Drag Race UK. End.
::: spoiler Gaza
There's a complete internet and cellular blackout in Gaza as Israeli airstrikes are intensifying. Palestinians are being wiped out.
I didn't go looking for this information
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I think what's wild to me is how divided this conflict is making people.
There's just a shitload of anger on both sides. It feels impossible to have a nuanced view on the whole thing.
Yep. Most people want to be either 'pro Israel' or 'pro Palestine' which in their simplistic view means anti-the-other-side at all costs. I think Israel deciding enough is enough and ending Hamas is fair. I also think loss of innocent Palestinian lives is unfair, which makes things very complicated.
I think there is a big difference between 'Hamas' and 'Palestine', and if you're referring to the attack on the music festival and nearby villages, and hostage taking, then no I don't think that's fair.
I think you're picking on my use of the word 'fair', which is probably fair enough (heh). The situation is too complicated and obviously atrocities have been committed by both sides, and many attacks have already happened from both sides. You need to first ask whether Israel should even exist as it is now, which I honestly don't think I know enough about to have a strong opinion. I used to think that it was an abomination to be honest. I think ive changed my thoughts to more like "well, it's there now, let's make it work?". It's from that perspective that I made my opinion in the previous comment. All that said i'm no geopolitics expert, just a curious observer airing my thoughts 🤷♂️
If the internet is blocked how do you know Palestinians are being wiped out?
Also, wouldn't it take many many months of target carpet bombing, just like what has been happening in Ukraine?
Gaza Strip is 365km2 compared to Ukraine’s 603,550km2.
Gaza city being 45km2 compared to 839km2 for Kiev.
Per Wikipedia.
It’s densely populated. Imagine carpet bombing Melbourne Central all the way down to Flinders Street on a Saturday afternoon.
Good critical thinking, but push further. A complete blackout is almost impossible in this age - especially in an area that's a global focus. There's too many points of access across too many differing technologies. On a broader note, carpet bombing isn't subtle and even if the area was a complete blackout, you can see that shit from surrounding countries.
Area wise, it's a small space. Different terrain. Ukraine is a sprawling country, Gaza is a narrow, dense strip. It's the difference between bombing victoria and bombing flinders street
You do know there are journalists in the region who would have internet access right? Palestine also barely had any infrastructure to begin with. It's carpet bombing doesn't take long when your bombing a city that has been carpet bombed about fifty times already and has been unable to rebuild. What an ignorant take on the situation.
Aiii, what's the point of the ignorant comment. Seagoon isn't a random bad faith troll, they're a reg. Don't be punitive. Help them understand or skate on by.
I'm living through other people's lives right now so thank you for the inspiring content.
I'm not going out tonight
No cocktail concoctions for me
I have my trackies, a mobile game
And in my hand a hot coffee
Chilling out with the cat
With my lover nearby
My mind is stress-free
So I'm gonna get real high 🤘
Lushed out with a fried slice to go with my egg and bacon, tummy is crying like a baby now.
I haven’t felt this bad in ages. Feels like a really bad cold with a mix of other symptoms involved.
What I would give for some fuzzy drinks right now.
It's a bit rough isn't it? I just made gyozas because they were going viral today and I think they were pork. I even drank the soy sauce. I've still got a bit of taste left. Anyway it does get better and I hope you start to feel better soon too.
I still retain my sense of smell of taste thankfully but Jesus does my body ache and I’ve got the chills as well. Tummy not feeling too great at times so I’m not even sure if I have much of an appetite.
I tried to clean up a little bit I felt off and a little dizzy after a bit.
Hardest I’ve been hit by an illness in the last 4 or 5 years.
Gyozas sounds delicious, I made roasted chicken wings.
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It sucks, no denying it. I had four days of hell, myself. Do not recommend.
You'll get through it. But yeah, you're in the bad patch. Sorry about that.
At least I get a decent length off from work. 15 years of sick leave almost untouched.
I just want to eat lollies and drink sweet drinks right now