Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.
About to try a method of scrambling eggs in the shell before boiling them. Wish me luck!
what what what is there a recipe to follow? instructions? ma’am! pls. tell me your secret egg ways 🥺 🥚
I tried to follow a YouTube video but I did not spin it a dozen times. Haha. So no scrambled boiled eggs. I might try one more egg this afternoon. I used a stocking sock.
Lmao there’s two huge bugs ripping right through my section right now, people either have a cold or having it coming out both ends. Who’d have thunk bringing people in full time suddenly would create a cesspit of germs.
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Spent a while this morning learning how to send myself emails within the google ecosystem with hotel reservation details so it auto-adds into my calendar properly, for when hotels don’t send email confirmations with the correct markups or in my case, when I wasn’t the one who did the booking. Was a fair bit more involved than I initially thought but eventually nailed it. If anybody needs or wants to know how it’s done let me know and I’ll write it up. Can do it for a bunch of different booking types: flights, events, car hire, restaurants, etc.
It’s all hidden data that gmail can grab:
image is an example of a hotel booking
image of how it ends up in google calendar
That’s incredible, a lot different than the old "ring up a hotel, get a verbal confirmation, they send a paper booking in the mail, you put it in a deadtree diary/schedule. "
It must have been different again when there was only postal service. Before that messengers or just turn up at the inn!!
I still have not watched The Great Escape, The Castle, Casablanca, Love Actually, Reservoir Dogs, Wall-E, Schindler’s List, The Green Mile, etc etc
I still refuse to watch Titanic or read Dan Brown novels just because I believe that heterogeneity in human meme exposure might be important. This is easily the weirdest belief I maintain but I’m sticking to it. 😉
I haven’t watched Titanic either. All I have seen is a clip where she tries to whistle while in cold water. Saw it on a survivalist show.
Oooh you’d probably lose your mind if I told you everything I haven’t watched… (I don’t really like movies, generally, so most popular things everyone raves about I’ve never seen)
Casablanca is so good
Just out of interest, why? Just have no interest or haven’t got around to it etc…?
Haven’t got around to.
I get that. I didn’t watch Avatar until a few months back.
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I got a headache earlier and took me 15 minutes to realise why: I’d taken my damn glasses off and somehow not noticed. Totally agree on the laser, but your prescription needs to be stable for a couple of years before they’ll consider it apparently.
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Seagoon movies. Mortal Engines. I just could not get into this Steam Punk Vernian /Howl’s Moving Castle pastiche but if you love steam punk post apocalyptic stories you will love this a lot. It looks glorious , has an original idea and some good characters. Trailer; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRsFc2gguEg
And that’s it for daily movies , I’ve been watching so much telly and movies the past few years I am filled up. I also notice that for me it’s consumption of another person’s whole vision. There is no room for my own creative thought. To have a fresh mind I need my own real experience and if I can’t have that then books and music.
So movies and telly only on the weekends from now on. I still love movies so much 💗💗💗, just need to regulate my watching.
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Really? This makes me very happy. 😊🤗
Oh God that movie. I just couldn’t. No hobbitses. You have stamina
I give it 2.5 hobbits for it’s lush visuals and costuming and it really does embody the spirit of steam punk. An Orwellian future dystopia with 19th C antiques and a bit of grunge.
also, I can still talk movies all day, just keep the new stuff for weekends.
Another thing I noticed about watching so many movies is that I don’t have time to reflect on the art and meaning of what I see. Never went past short term memory. Movies are worthy of thought and should be watched in a good way.
Yeah true if you are being fair about it. I’m always suspicious after seeing the likes of Alita Battle Angel, Avatar, Speed Racer, Sucker Punch etc… all stunning, all garbage.
God I’m ranking season two of The Bear as the most entertaining and intense series of tv I’ve seen this year
It’s so good. So frantic but wow. I see awards in their future. The actors and writers nailed it.
Indonesia should have spam laws.
My Telkomsel SIM card gets multiple offers and promo messages daily from the carrier with a few different numbers. They’re all legitimate links but it’s getting really annoying lol.
Holy hell the current 14 day forecast for Las Vegas does not dip below 40, and I believe it has been going like this for a while before now too. Bunch of 44’s in there. Could you imagine the Melbourne power grid meltdown?
So hot overnight too. I guess it’s all a/c there, but jeez.
It’s going to be an interesting summer in NSW regardless, as they don’t have as much spare generation capacity when compared to other states.
Vales Point power station has just been given a few more years due to the power shortage there.
Ouch. Vietnam was in that range when I first went there, I was drinking a ton and still got deyhydrated because my body just couldn’t absorb the water fast enough. It’s also an extra shock when you travel from a Melbourne winter. I assume the Las Vegas dry heat would feel different than the humid heat, but it’s definitely way too hot for comfort.
Mmmm. That’s my kinda weather 😎
Came back to work hoping past me had left some kind of chocolate treat in my desk drawers, but no such luck. A good thing given the half tube of Pringles I ate last night. However, it still makes me sad.
I can so relate. Past-me is a bit of a prick!
“Dear Homer: I.O.U one emergency doughnut. Signed, Homer.” D’oh!
D’oh, didn’t mean to delete that. But yes, that’s exactly how it feels. I probably did have it stashed, but past me wanted it more. Surprisingly, I didn’t leave myself a note.
This pretty much sums up exactly how I feel today. I just hadn’t left myself the note, surprisingly.
I totally forgot that I had backed this solo play adventure story, not realising that it was out already. So that’s what I’ve been doing tonight is just playing it. It’s called Koriko: A Magical Year. It’s really cute so far, though you need 21 six-sided dice and sadly, I only have 17 sets of dice… I guess that means I need to buy more dice!
I play DND, that’s how I’ve acquired so many dice, I don’t just have a bunch of six-sided dice lying around for no purpose.
Edit: And I just realised that I got the physical copy of the book too… huh. Welp, that’ll be fun when it arrives.
You probably could use some of the d12 die and just divide the result by 2 (rounding up I suppose) to fill out the missing 4 die.
That’s a good idea actually!
Since I’m in a cleaning mood I thought I’d share some hints for you so let’s talk about drains. Now people will tell you just “pour some bi carb and vinegar down there and it’ll unblock it. It works for me” and I say no. There’s more to it.
Blocked drains: Step 1. Go outside and locate your overflow relief gully (org). It’s usually located outside the toilet. Make sure there’s nothing blocking it like leaves and shit.
Step 2: Buy a plunger and plunge the hell out of ALL your drains not just the one that’s blocked.
Step3: Now pour some bi-carb and vinegar down ALL your drains. You might as well do them all at once. But add a big squirt of dishwashing liquid down with the bi-carb and vinegar. Plug all your drains. Including your shower just put a scrunched up wet towel over the hole. Close lids on toilets. Step 4: Go and make a coffee. You’ve earned it.
Step 5: Go and fill up all the bathtubs, sinks, basins, troughs, etc with cold water.
Step 6: Release the biggest one (usually the bathtub) and all the other sinks and basins. Flush all the toilets. This causes pressure in all your pipes dislodging anything that might be blocking a pipe. I call this “El flusho” and it’s quite fun. Please note: Keep the shower hole blocked with a wet towel otherwise you might have raw sewerage coming into your shower which ain’t pretty.
Step 7: Do these steps on a regular basis (around every 6 months or so) to keep your pipes free. It’ll save you time and money when your midnight shit doesn’t go down and all of a sudden you’ve flooded the bathroom floor. Prevention is better than paying out $$$$$ for a plumber.Smelly drains: The most underrated chemical you can use for this is Cloudy Ammonia. Found on the bottom shelf in the cleaning aisle of the supermarket it’s cheap and pretty harmless. Pour a half a bottle down a stinky pipe hole and let it sit. Repeat if necessary. The most common reason for funky pipes is stagnant water. Cloudy Ammonia will help this.
You are welcome people. ☺
Would it be easier to just melt whatever is blocking your drain with lye?
That’s what I was thinking. Draino works a treat. If it’s tree roots though causing it you are fucked.
You could but I wouldn’t use caustic soda in my pipes. A bit of overkill and it may not work everytime.
NOTE: there are different types of plungers for sink drains, floor drains, and toilets. One size does not fit all.
That’s true. I have 3 of various sizes.
Ammonia warning about mixing it with bleach. It produces Phosgene gas aka Mustard Gas which will totally ruin your souffle.
Phosgene isn’t mustard gas. Phosgene is COCl2 – it works by disrupting the blood-air barrier, eventually causing pulmonary edema. You won’t produce that by mixing ammonia with chlorine bleach.
Mixing ammonia with chlorine bleach can potentially produce nitrogen mustards. These work by producing cyclic aminium ions, and are cytotoxic.
Note that it’s an incredibly bad idea to mix ammonia and chlorine bleach, but it’s still better to avoid misconceptions about chemistry.
Step 1. Go outside
Bull immediately plummets 11 storeys to his death
Well if Bull does, Bull needs help. Please proceed to step 2.
Poor Bull, cows can’t go down stairs, only up. Must have been stuck up there for a while.
Thanks for the tip, particularly re ammonia. Whenever the kitchen drain gets stinky I’ve been pulling the pipes underneath apart and cleaning them. I like your method much better
Don’t bother with the sort of plunger that Rayman fires at things. Go straight to the accordion type.
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I’m reading between the lines here a little bit… but did you just receive a phone call from a terrorist that if the bus you’re currently riding on drops below 50 miles per hour it will explode?
it has to speed around the city, keeping its speed over fifty, and if its speed drops, it will explode! I’m calling it The Bus That Couldn’t Slow Down
I can do the marketing! “Inspired by a true story that happened right here in Melbourne”.
Of course the “true story” turns out the be a bus that skipped all it’s stops causing great inconvenience to passengers because it wanted to keep to it’s timetable and avoid the bus company incurring penalty paments. But that’s close enough for marketing work.
Omg I think I might have been an unwitting extra in that movie. But it was 3 buses in a row so maybe it was the 3rd movie in the series. Maybe “3 Late 3 Stop”? 😊
The Bus That Couldn’t Slow Down
I’d watch that.
Ugh I just want to hibernate from everything right now until it becomes warmer. Have zero motivation for anything unless its over 21 degrees outside.
