Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.
should i take a nap, yes or yes?
Yes.
triskaidekaphobia :
noun
Extreme superstition regarding the number thirteen.🔪🩸
Huh. Shame if you’ve got Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia!
I can’t 😭😭
Ted Cat chirped again. He will be ok 😸😭
( I also opened Ted’s door, Bill ran in to steal his food. 🤬
That’s one way to get Bill to eat fish … Has Ted asked for snuggles/pats yet?
Ted kinda asks for pats sometimes.
I feel like this yo-yo weather is making all my houseplants sad. Don’t worry guys, I feel just as wilty and confused as you do right now! On the plus side I think the humidity is helping some of them…
I’m so tired I almost want to cry
lets cry together
I am tired too and I’m blaming ze weather.
Hugs
In a meeting with some directors (online thankfully) and tempers are flying.
I’m sitting back and enjoying a BEvERage in a mug trying to hold back a smile.
Bloody legend!
Some popcorn would have been handy I reckon.
Hello, I am alive. Still. Heheheh
I am still trying to log in on my phone (jerboa app and chrome mobile browser), but I am not getting a reset password link. I also cannot reset my password on PC (where I am typing this from) without remembering my old password… which wouldn’t be necessary if I could remember my old password haha. I will keep trying, but if I am unable to reset my password so I can log in on my phone, I may set up a new, even more starchy, account.
Anyway, I am currently working from home, smashed out a busy day today, never once looked at my phone until after work, when I saw I was summoned by my good friend PeelerSheila :D <3
I will be available tonight on my PC :) I may need to work tomorrow, to help a colleague so I won’t be able to reply tomorrow (I need my monitors for work lol), but I am here now my fellow DTers, my favourite people. I truly love you all
Edit: sorry if my tone is off, im kinda still in work mode bleeeeheheeheheheheehe lol
This is awesome! I was busy making chicken nuggets from scratch and didn’t see this msg, great to have you back mate! Sounds like the job’s going well.
I too have returned to our people. Regular Breakfast will resume tomorrow morning.
Hope that redacted went well :-)
thanks! it went so well! :D
Anyone else here given blood and not been able to fill the bag? I gave blood and followed the normal procedures (like drinking all of the water, having snacks beforehand etc.,) and yet I couldn’t completely fill the bag. It got close but the flow pretty much dwindled down to drops. Normally my body freely gives blood but this time around it was like “nah bruv, that’s as much as I’m willing to part with”.
Maybe your body just needs its blood atm?
I keep meaning to go & give blood, but I’m a bit phobic about needles, so it can be hard for them to get blood out (stress seems to equal reduced flow)
Maybe. I think from memory they’ve used the same vein for the last few appointments and I’m wondering whether that’s part of it too. But I have also been pretty stressed/burnt out so that could be it as well.
My wife is the same about being phobic towards needles. She’d love to give blood but needles are just something she can’t handle. Sounds like though you’ve been able to at least get to a point where you’ve donated before, albeit with a bit of trouble?
I did try once, but got faint and they had to stop. I really should have another go. Nurses have commented about the stress/flow thing during blood tests before, and it does make sense - your body would be preserving its resources.
If the needle stick pain bothers your wife, I’ve found Emla cream handy to numb the spot. Having one less thing to stress over makes it a little easier for me, at least.
Being the stats nut, I try to beat my “personal best” time on filling the bag. Just like my runs though, present-day me can’t compete with 30-years-ago me. In my prime, I could fill that bag in just over 4 minutes. These days, I’m happy if its under 5 minutes.
I didnt know it was a good thing for blood to leave your body quickly?
🔗 NSW police considering ‘extraordinary’ powers to search pro-Palestine protesters
The fact this is being contemplated is an absolute disgrace.
The cops seem to regularly declare areas of potential trouble around Melbourne a stop-n-search area, eg, Moomba was one. How would this be different? What makes it a disgrace?
The right to protest should be protected. No matter what. The police want to call this particular protest “illegal”, and enacting these powers to search will have a chilling effect. The Human Rights Law Centre has condemned the NSW police minister and police for this.
The protest organisers are seeking to work with police on their concerns. Nobody should be subject to arbitrary search and compulsory identification simply for exercising their right to freely assemble.
“Designated areas” in Victoria should also be criticised, but teenagers don’t have a human right to carry a flick knife.
Also don’t understand why it’s a disgrace. Seems like a reasonable (potential) harm-reduction measure to me
Compulsory identification and warrantless search on all protestors is reasonable?
Why don’t we give that power to police 24/7?
Cheers on yet another miserable fucking day 🍺
Oh wow it’s that time already
🍻cheers !
Cheers 🍺
Come on knackers, it’s not that bad.
I like a little bit of sun. Even if I have to look at it through the window I just like a little bit.
When I bought my phone with a stylus it was mostly because I thought it would help with my gardening record keeping, and I’m pretty happy with how it’s working out so far. In the past I’ve kept switching between computerised databases and handwriting, and nothing really worked out, but this allows me to do a combination of both. I’ve got a database for the plant varieties & a diary of what I’m doing, and I can use the phone to take photos, write notes directly on them, and then send them to the app as a new diary note I can add details to later.
Aaaaand the dreaded merge feature on iOS Safari has disappeared my 300 odd tabs. Coincidentally, yesterday I was chatting about how when past you does something that future you pats yourself on the back for. Well, I found that I had somehow bookmarked a lot of the same tabs almost 12 months ago.
Go past me! The other tabs… Oh well. I’m awful at having too many open and it’s bit me the arse more than once.
Aim for today is to leave the dwelling and venture out into this uninviting weather.
Q: What dishwashing liquid does everyone use? I’m pretty sure I’ve been a Morning Fresh faithful forever, but lately I’ve just found that no matter how soapy, I’m still find grease on some cookware.
Edit: Oops I just checked. Looks like Palmolive. Maybe I do have to return to MF.
Morning fresh. And I buy the different smells, because variety and dishwashing is drudgery. The different morning fresh varieties all seem to work the same. I tried Palmolive once and thought it was rubbish. Also didn’t like the smell.
The Aldi stuff (Tandil I think) does a good job.
To really get rid of grease, I usually wipe cookware down with paper towels before popping into the sink. Rarely have issues.
Usually do wipe the grease, but these are just stray drops… It’s just odd knowing how particular I am with washing dishes.
All hail Tandil! Big bottle and decent price and actually works well.
I use Morning Fresh Ultimate but I think I like Fairy better after switching recently.
The tall bottle of lemon scented Earths Choice because it’s cheap
we get the giant dawn thingies from USA foods ('cos we also use it in homemade cleaning supplies) and use a scrub daddy dispenser 'cos His Lordship has portion issues. Lasts us forever
Morning fresh.
For a sink or for a dishwasher?
I use Morning Fresh for my sink washed dishes.
Sink. I just checked and it’s Palmolive. I think that I have to go back to Morning Fresh.
You can almost always get it on sale. If it’s not currently it’ll be soon enough. I thought I was being smart and buying a big jug of it for refills. The big jug was more expensive than the regular sale prices.
Organic choice. Various flavours. Use that laundry liquid too. Earthchoice is good for floors etc, but their dish liquid is terrible for some reason.
Anyone starting to get ‘ad blockers are not allowed on YouTube’ popups on the site on desktop? It went away when I pressed the X to close the popup but I foresee more shittiness (and a cat and mouse game with ad blocker devs).
I use brave browser which comes with a youtube ad blocker built in
Yes in Chrome, No in Firefox - so far… (both running uBlock Origin).
Hm, maybe this’ll finally get me to go back to Firefox. I also run uBlock Origin.
FF FTW :D
People left Firefox? I think I came to Firefox from netscape.
That’s me too: Lynx -> Mosaic -> Netscape -> Firefox.
Damn I’m old.
No, but I pay the $10/month to not have to worry about all that.
Got ublock origin? Go to the dashboard (click the shield, then the cogs) and under MY FILTERS enter the following:
youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.openPopupConfig.supportedPopups.adBlockMessageViewModel, false)
youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.adBlocksFound, 0)
youtube.com##+js(set, ytplayer.config.args.raw_player_response.adPlacements, [])
youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.hasAllowedInstreamAd, true)
I am a dumdum… ages ago I got Firefox on my phone and tried to sort this out but adblockers don’t seem to work or be allowed on iPhone. I know that there are extensions for Safari but would those be detected and get my access blocked?
I’ve been trying to remember to use Brave for YouTube but I am definitely getting targeted ads from general browsing
DO NOT USE BRAVE I’m not even kidding that thing is absolute bad news. Like win11 levels of fuckery and tracking
Fucking marketing.
:( Thankfully I mostly forget to. Someone on the other place said that it doesn’t work anymore anyway. Not sure if that’s with adblockers or if the inbuilt stuff is getting detected.
There are Safari extensions but those would probably get detected.
I hate this. I’d accept a reasonable amount of ads but they’ve been dialed up for pester power, ads enlarged for misclicks, and when that hasn’t been lucrative enough it’s now strongarm tactics.
The internet is going to shit and avoiding/mitigating that is increasingly requiring tech skills I struggle to keep up with
Oh I almost forgot… I had a pork & wild emu sausage roll for lunch at the pub. It was ok but nowhere near as good as the one from the bakery the other week. I can say I’ve eaten the coat of arms now though.
Gotta hit up the Gin Gin Bakery in QLD for a croc pie! Smash one everytime I tumble through on my way up to FNQ.
That’d be interesting. I had croc spring rolls up at Hartley’s Crocodile Adventures near Cairns and they were great!
Does it really taste different for having emu in it?
It did taste different than other sausage rolls yeah. I don’t think I can really explain how though but it was different.
Sometimes that’s good enough! As long as it doesn’t taste like your average run-of-the-mill sausage roll… I imagine I’d feel a bit ripped off if it did.
Guys!! My other half won Powerball! He split the winnings with me and now I’m $10 richer. Drinks are on me!
I remember when I was about 10 years old, my mum gave me one of her scratchies and I won $20 bucks! I felt like a millionaire. I remember spending my winnings on a Monsters in my Pocket collectors set which had all the monsters in it. One of the best days of my life.
How cool is that?! $20 is a lot when you’re 10.
Wooo! 🥂
Thanks 🍺
🧃Thank you!
