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
Rookie numbers.
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Why isn’t it listed in descending order, or even alphabetically?
I think it’s ordered by lane they were in.
35/50 - quite proud of myself
30/50
15/50 🥰
25/50
Normally I’m hot garbage at these… But today I’m 7% up in average.
What sorcery is this? 😂
35/50 as well! That was a fucking hard one though, I should have given a crazier answer for Florida lol
Yes!!! I did it!!!
0/50!!!
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An abysmal 5/50.
The birds are singin’. 🕊️🐦🎼
True. I just wish they weren’t lorikeets.
we have thrushes here, they have lovely songs
Green with envy.
I have a local magpie that learner to sing last spring and now random sings at all hours of the night. It’s lovely
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.
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.
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
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???”
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.
Uh, no. It’s just black humour. "Hey dad - " dad: “he’s not here, he went mad and we shot him”
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.
Yes. My dad said it all the time.
Yep. Most frequently used when people are looking for the Team Leader at work.
Saw Deadpool. My review: Lots of sharp self aware humour, and perfectly ridiculous high energy action sequences. Silly plot but it that’s all it needed to be. Had a good laugh.
A laugh can be a very powerful thing.
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A big pile of waffles covered with cream and maple syrup please.
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🧇🥛🍯Perfection, thankyou! Well worth the wait.
Big stack of pancakes with maple syrup and bacon plz chef
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Soup sounds good. Potato & leek please. With bacon bits and cheesy croutons.
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Mmmmmmm toasty warm
Flat white with an extra shot, and a bacon, egg, avocado and cheese roll please
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Corn pone and bacon please chef, and coffee.
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I had a very vivid dream of a banquet with heaps of pastries and berries and stone fruit and rich, creamy sauces and pasta bakes and potato gratins…
… I’ll just have a soup and some toast please ;c
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Be chef
Ask hungry people for breakfast orders
Fall back asleepI think the food truck has moved on to another location.
I just hope it’s not a problem with permits, Councils can be quite a problem if they aren’t getting their cut.
The staff takes care of that.
They also get pretty annoyed at rubbish in the street. I’m sure our chef has the disposable container problem sorted, so probably not that.
I had a dream last night that the woman buying my sewing machine on Marketplace accidentally gave me way too much money (like a couple of thousand instead of a hundred). I knew the right thing to do was to let her know and give the extra cash back, but holding a big wad of money was way too tempting. I was still wrestling between my decision as to whether to do the right thing or keep the money when I woke up.
Keep the money and invest in avocados. She clearly doesn’t need it
Interesting…
Wrestling with any big decisions?
So, for the last week or two, my zygomatic bone (the corner of my eye socket furthest from my nose) has been hurting. When I blink or touch it, it hurts a lot. There’s no bruising though, or any real swelling. But it’s painful and sore.
I’m low key stressed it’s something serious, but it could also be a small fracture from when Mickey pounced on my head. Could be nothing. I should go to the doctor, will have to make an appointment this week.
Got a tuning fork? One lecturer told me an old timey approach to diagnose broken bones was to hold a tuning fork to it and see if the broken bits vibrate causing pain.
I do not! But I expect my GP to whip one out 😂
Politics/class
I feel like Australia is increasingly becoming stratified. There are people who are still a bit more protected but the people at the bottom are left fighting each other for scraps and dragging each other down like crabs in a bucket.
Occupy Melbourne was incoherent and quickly squashed but these are the living conditions that were predicted and protested
@melbaboutown @Seagoon_
Apparently the revolutionary French visited Australia and declared Australia practised “Socialism without doctrine”. That was long ago and trades hall today is a museum of collapsed trade unions. Both left and right totalitarian systems are currently regarded as frightfully modern era and intemperate. I can’t wait to see what comes after post-modernism.It has always been like this.
For a few decades the middle class forgot they were still part of the proletariat and weren’t really independent bourgeoisie.
Occupy was a Russian front, ignore it.
What the Marxists never say, or maybe they never figured it out, is that America and Australia only had good post war living standards for the working classes because they were the only western countries that hadn’t had their factories bombed to the shithouse. It meant we became primary and secondary industry powerhouses. But once industry had enough money again and factories could be built in places with cheaper labour we were doomed. That’s what capitalism is.
me and my husband had to get professional jobs overseas to escape the old boy network and that was 25 years ago
Just last week, John Quiggin released a book on pretty much this exact topic, called “After Neoliberalism”.
You can download the eBook for free, or order a printed copy here: https://press.anu.edu.au/publications/series/global-thinkers-series/after-neoliberalism
If you’re interested in an in-depth look at the economic and government policies that erosion of the middle class happened, it’s worth a read.
I’m not sure about downloading or ordering but I found this https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj4ha2QCX1w
Sadly it’d probably just confirm what I already have a sense of.
I know @johnquiggin@aus.social posts on the Fedi fairly regularly…
The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose from off the common
But leaves the greater villain loose
Who steals the common from off the goose.
The law demands that we atone
When we take things we do not own
But leaves the lords and ladies fine
Who take things that are yours and mine.
The poor and wretched don’t escape
If they conspire the law to break;
This must be so but they endure
Those who conspire to make the law.
The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose from off the common
And geese will still a common lack
Till they go and steal it back
~Late 1700s
It’s going to keep getting worse too. I give us about 4 years.
Straight into the mud… At least he’s now ok with getting in the shower.
Aaaaand…
He’s a goalie!
Gooooooaaaaaaaalll!
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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
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Anti-gratitude thread.
Got like five hours of sleep and woke up late for work. Was a minute late. Every Sunday it’s the same and I feel like I’m sacrificing my mental health for the sake of this three hour shift. But it’s the only consistent shift I get. Time to look for a new job I reckon. Once I finish uni, I shall exit retail.
no buses and trams in the city 😡
It’s a beautiful looking day outside and I am once again trapped inside at work.
I have some mince which I think is freezer burnt :(
Freezer burn is just a bit dehydrated, it should still be fine for most things. If it is very bad use it for something like bolognese sauce that gives it lots of moisture and time to rehydrate.
I have to do something today I really don’t want to, but I have no choice. Ah well, it won’t be long now.
Good luck 🫡
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…