Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.

  • underwatermagpies@aussie.zone
    10·
    1 year ago

    I know perfectly well that I shouldn’t eat all the cherries on the first day of cherry season (well, the first day I have cherries, same thing). They’re soooo good. But my gut might not thank me later.

  • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone
    8·
    1 year ago

    Back in Melbs from the Bellarine.

    Already miss the ocean :( There’s something calm but also panic inducing about being alone, 50m out, getting dark… the mystery of what’s below. Could be a giant squid, a horny dolphin… If something went wrong no one would know. But that has nothing on the shitshow that is southern x station just after 5pm.

  • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
    7·
    1 year ago
    Much sauce has been created. #singlepeoplecooking

    A few taste adjustments to go, dividing up into individual jars and and a stint in the pressure canner to go.

  • Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone
    7·
    1 year ago

    I didn’t get to buy myself a present for my birthday this year, but now I have this new role, I’m dreamily browsing for a new piece of music equipment lol and fancy cat trees of course.

  • Taleya@aussie.zone
    7·
    1 year ago

    me: yoo I need a teamviewer access for about 5 mins to update your firmware. Normally I could do it without you even noticing, but this one actually disables our tunnel software as part of the process, so I need a fallback. Won’t take long, very quick.

    chain A: Bah too much hassle, send me entirely new units for these sites

    chain B: Why? This is metro. Send a tech out

    ASK ME AGAIN WHY TECH STAFF HATE PEOPLE.

      • Taleya@aussie.zone
        3·
        1 year ago

        Someone who thought they wouldn’t have to pay it. The 8k price tag per unit magically made a zoho login appear

  • fullkitwanker@aussie.zone
    5·
    1 year ago

    Nursing my jammed finger. That means no tennis for a bit 😩. But I guess that’s also good because it gives my other injuries time to catch up because I play way too much anyway.

  • just_kitten@aussie.zone
    5·
    1 year ago

    It’s fancy schmancy instant noodles with curry sauce again except this time I added some frozen vegan chicken in and added a bit of garnish.

    appetising

    I’m amazed that I focused on work quite serenely for 8 solid hours today and remembered to take the necessary breaks, etc. Need to see how much time allowance I’ve used up for this project though. Taken way too long on one section so gotta cut back on some others.

  • Nath@aussie.zone
    5·
    1 year ago

    So our super food spread yesterday definitely broke the diet. I normally only weigh myself on Sunday, but I had to know: I’m 2.3 kg heavier this morning than I was 24 hours ago. 🙄

    Here’s hoping it mostly comes off again. I swam 1.5km and ran 9km afterwards, so I hope it mostly gets burned and not stored.

    Still, special occasion was special. No real regrets.

  • Bacon@aussie.zone
    5·
    1 year ago

    i would like to thank hans zimmer for writing music that gets me to CONCENTRATE when i want/need to

  • bananafungus@aussie.zone
    5·
    1 year ago

    Reading His Dark Materials after watching the series and can’t stop thinking about the sort of daemons* Australian’s would have. Like how many people are wondering around with huge arse kangaroos and koalas or the random arsehole with a full-blown cassowary. Also some poor fucker ending up with a witchetty grub, or some other weird insect.

    *Daemons are a physical manifestation of the human soul in animal form, they are not pets/animals and can speak and have their own thoughts and feelings, though you feel everything they do and vice versa (to an extent).

    • T156@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Also some poor fucker ending up with a witchetty grub, or some other weird insect.

      On the other hand, they can shapeshift, and their chosen form is usually one that fits you personally, so I doubt that someone who ends up with a weird bug would mind too much. At least until someone tries to relocate the weird bug outside, or accidentally treads on it.

      It’s the clumsier people accidentally slamming their daemons in doors that might have a worse time. Getting your finger or hand caught is bad enough, injuring a physical manifestation of your soul probably hurts a lot more.

    • Thornburywitch@aussie.zoneEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Very similar to indigenous ‘totems’. Which can be almost anything. Interesting programme on the abc a couple three years back, I think off the top of my head it was Conversations with Richard Fidler. A woman with fertility issues went to stay in NT due to husband’s job. She was bored and started talking to the local people. They took her swimming at a secret women’s business waterhole, and she felt something wriggle inside. Shortly after she discovered she was pregnant, considerably against the odds. The local women assured her that her proto-baby had a totem - which was a striped leech and that the waterhole had given it to her. Never heard about any followup, but I think maybe this sort of thing might resonate with your comment. I have no information about how true this story was, but the abc are usually pretty good at fact checking. So probably not a wish fulfilment thing.

  • MisssDarylC@aussie.zone
    4·
    1 year ago

    Does anyone have any proven methods for stopping mosquito bites from itching? A few of them are now massive and I scratched two of them so hard that I bruised the skin beside them.

    All this because I put insect repellent on my arms and neck for my zoo based Christmas party but didn’t think about the exposed skin from my ripped jeans and they had a FEAST.

  • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
    4·
    1 year ago

    I think today is perfect weather to cook the big pot of bolognese sauce I have been planning on. Unfortunately this means I will need to physically go to the shops myself to acquire onions. I guess if I have to go I might get some cheese as well. You can never have too much cheese.