Got an 8am shift tomorrow morning, so today is relax and play games, and some study.
Tuesday and Wednesday will be my big study days, got a project to make for my prac which will be interesting bringing in on the bus lol.
Watched Fried Green Tomatoes. What a sweet and very 90s movie. I felt all the warm and tinglies. Jessica Tandy was very lovely but her accent was all over the place which was distracting…
Late night Movie Review. The Gold of Rome. Italy.1960. Re-enactment of German occupation of Rome in wwii and the extortion of the Italian Jewish population.
3 hobbits.
The Abandoned. 1955. Italy. wwii Italy, a young aristo is challenged to become involved and join the cause against Germany when refugees from the bombing of Milan are assigned to his villa.
3 hobbits
Both these B&W movies are beautifully shot and acted and they add to understanding modern history of Italy.
I love your rating scale.
Thank you. 🧙♂️
A major difference between my wife and I:
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I spent 10 minutes banging a wooden spoon on a standard kitchen knife trying to open a coconut. I give up after the wooden spoon disintegrates, the coconut still closed.
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My wife comes into the kitchen and swings the same knife at the coconut a few times. Less than a 30 seconds later, we have access to coconut water.
You obviously loosened it for her
😅
I’ll see how long it takes her to open one from the mostly-original state next time we’re in the kitchen.
Use a drill.
Oooh bringing a drill to a coconut fight.
I grew up watching my mum crack open coconuts all the time though I’ve only done it myself a couple of times. I think you have to do it perpendicular to the seam. Whereabouts are you getting fresh coconuts? Are they any good? I’ve wanted to have a go at getting some but for grating the flesh, not for water.
We’ve gotten it from a few vendors over the months, like from Queen Vic market, Footscray, and most recently yesterday in Springvale Central.
My wife otherwise thinks they’re all not fresh - it lacks the taste of when the young coconut is opened freshly chopped down from the tree. I thought it’s so sweet it’s almost artificial.
In my wife’s home town home we have a rather large heavy knife. A few well placed hits is all it takes to get the water.
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It’s been a tough day in the office for Mr Snowy, who’s now falling asleep at the desk.
Mr Snowy is a very handsome boy
35/50 - quite proud of myself
An abysmal 5/50.
30/50
Yes!!! I did it!!!
0/50!!!
🎊
🌳🥄
25/50
Normally I’m hot garbage at these… But today I’m 7% up in average.
What sorcery is this? 😂
15/50 🥰
35/50 as well! That was a fucking hard one though, I should have given a crazier answer for Florida lol
Just two more points and the Hawks would have knocked off GWS.
So disappointing 😞
Yeah. It was so close. I tipped the hawks to win that one as well :(
Sanity check: I’ve got a little bit of chicken alfredo pasta left over. Not enough for a serve by itself, but I was thinking maybe chucking it in the jaffle maker for lunch tomorrow? Mrs says that sounds horrible, but she also says a bakedbean jaffle is gross and hates a hot chip sandwich so I’m not sure I can trust her judgement.
Disregard MrsBreak, I say give it a go
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You’d be surprised how robust jaffles are.
Pasta in a jaffle? Go for it!
My late bloke used to shudder when I put leftover curry in jaffles, but he and the boys still ate them. I recently sprung my older boy doing curry jaffles to impress his girlfriend.Oh my god yes that sounds amazing! What kind of curry?
Whatever - curried butter beans are far and away the best imo, but any curry is pretty damn good. Just don’t include much loose sauce/gravy in the jaffle. Perfect for using up leftovers. If all you have is sauce, then soak a piece of bread in it and chop it up and include that in the jaffle. One of my boys really likes leftover fried rice with a dribble of soy in a jaffle.
I think you should do it. Would I do it? No.
It will be delicious but the carbs will wreak Vengance.
Signed: a lover of alfredo sammiches
My first headache in years. Ouch. I think it’s dust from the new old cupboard and spring glare
Hope it goes quickly! 🖤
Thanks, I had some aspirin and rested , it seems to be better now
Random question: have you heard the phrase “(he / she /it) went mad and we shot them” in response to a query, or even just answering the phone? It’s something quite commonly used in my family, but when i answered a work call with it “not here, she went mad so we shot her” the zoomer on the other end lost their shit.
Edit: might be worth dating yourself, genX here
I have never heard of it.
Yes. My dad said it all the time.
Yes I’ve heard it many times, but now that I think of it, not recently. Did zoomer loose their shit because they thought it funny, or thought it offensive?
Just couldn’t handle it. They weren’t offended per se, but there was a lot of “oh my god what???”
Yep. Most frequently used when people are looking for the Team Leader at work.
Yeah it was a common one growing up.
Along with ‘you might be a pain/pane but we can’t see through ya’ and ‘I’ll give you something to cry about’.
That last one needs to die.
Thebother two may be black humour, but something to cry about is flat out abuse
I’ve heard it, but not recently, and certainly not at work! It’s a pick your audience carefully sort of dark humour. Xer
Second nsfw comment. Not sure if me being terribly ASD or working in cinema too long.
I’ve never heard it, but it’s the sort of thing I could imagine an old person saying/having been popular many decades ago. Probably not suitable in a work enrolment, but I see the humour in it either way
(I wrote this before your edit, forgot to hit post. Pretty firmly gen z here)
Spot on. Would def be a survival from days when nearly everyone had a rural background or on a farm. Probably originally referred to dogs … even though rabies has been eradicated from Australia for a very long time.
I don’t think we’ve ever had rabies, have we? There’s only ever been 2 deaths as far as I can tell, one in '87 and the other in 1990, and both were contacted overseas. We do have the Australian bat lysavirus which is similar to rabies, but there’s only been 3 deaths from that, with the earliest being in 1996. Also, I think that’s only been found in 2 horses, and nothing else
Interesting point. Rabies is a virus, and needs a living host. Given the long incubation period I would be very surprised if the virus had not come into Aus with the early european settlers, but died out when not transmitted. The early settlers mostly came from environments where rabies was present and much feared. So much so that even a suspicion of infection was sufficient for an animal to be shot - as per comments above. You might like to read up on the history of Louis Pasteur, yes the pasteurisation bloke. He invented the first rabies vaccine for humans and this is what he was known for at the time. Its quite a story.
Lyssavirus has an endemic host species here - bats - so there’s an ongoing source of infection present even though the transmission route is complex. Basically, the bat has to piss on grass, then a horse has to eat that grass to catch the virus. Then horse dies and so does any human that’s been in contact with the horse. Vic Rail was the guy who died first from lyssavirus - he was a racehorse trainer and one of the better ones. I knew him way back when, and he is still sorely missed. No vaccine for lyssavirus available or likely as it’s easier and cheaper to just euthanase any affected horses before any people die.
Uh, no. It’s just black humour. "Hey dad - " dad: “he’s not here, he went mad and we shot him”
I want cooookiiieess to go with my evening cuppa… but I’m too lazy to wear real clothes to go to the shops… I’ll save myself some calories tonight then 😮💨
Rookie numbers.
!Why isn’t it listed in descending order, or even alphabetically?
I think it’s ordered by lane they were in.
🎶WHEN I WAS
A YOUNG BOY
MY FATHER
TOOK ME INTO THE CITY
TO SEE A MARCHING BAND
HE SAID SON WHEN YOU GROW UP
🎶it’s a DAAAAMN COLLLLD niggght🎵
I’m waiting for the nights to get warmer so I can finish some painting outside
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🎵Won’t you Take me by the hand Take me somewhere new I don’t know who you are But I… I’m with you 🎵
This morning was rough. I had a sleep in, and it was still like 5 degrees when I woke up. 12.5 in my room, but I slept with the electric blanket on low last night, so my fingers and toes were really chilly.
First thing I did was get up, turn the electric blanket onto high to defrost, then hit the heater and go back to bed for an hour until it warmed up
I’ve been sleeping with mine on 1 or 2 overnight for like a month now.
I really wished I had a hot water bottle for my feet last night. Gonna make one up tonight. I hate how my feet turn into iceblocks
I had to remove the electric blanket yesterday to clean a spill and let the sponged spots dry. Suffering. I make two hot water bottles now
Gratitude thread!
The sun :) and only a few weeks (??) left hopefully of super coldness. Every year, I forget when it starts to warm up.
I have both bocconcini and bolognese sauce to use for dinner tonight.
Sun sun sun sun sun 🌞
Super grateful that my diarrhoea episode ended very quickly and my guts don’t seem to be too damaged.
Grateful for dishwashing machines taking off a lot of the daily load 🙏
And so grateful for a flexible workplace so I don’t need to feel doom about starting tomorrow at a set time for set hours
