Finally dragged myself to the closest op shop to get some clothes… I spent more than planned and am second guessing almost everything I got, but had to sort something out.
Other than a few basics I haven’t really bought clothes for years and both my size and needs have changed.
do jeans and tops ever go out of style?
I didn’t get any jeans. I wanted to but lightweight shirts and cardigans were the priority for warmer weather. (Cover from the sun and pervy stares.)
I also got a lighter coloured hoodie that would show less cat hair and a pair of activewear leggings but am really not sure about the leggings.
There had been casual pants and a cardigan I wanted at Big W and Kmart but both were out of stock 🙄
I’ve got a new cat cardigan you can have, brand new never worn, the store sent me a medium when I wanted a large. https://www.wheninmanila.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cat-cardigan.png
Oh I tend not to meet people or give out any info but thanks anyway!
Good basics are so hard to come by these days. Most op shop stuff is just kmart stuff at near kmart prices. Or H&M gear with 1 or 2 washes left in it. Trying to find a decent quality t without breaking the bank is insanely tough. Had a pair of new Levi jeans develop a hole within 2 wears the other week!
They are. It was never easy but I’m genuinely having a harder time than usual.
You know in 10-20 years time we’re gonna regret not asking Martin Sheen to take a crack at being the president IRL. Its worked out ok for Ukraine so far…
He was asked and declined :)
Personally I’d prefer someone who didn’t start out as a celebrity in the first place.
Oh man really?! Missed opportunity :-D
I read that as Martin Short, and thought, yeah if I was American, I’d vote for Martin Short. Steve Martin as his VP.
Martin Sheen is a close second choice 😂
Fried my brain last night by staying up like a teenage gamer but binge watching after I couldn’t assignment any more.
Slept like the dead, though.
Out for feed to face, but not enjoying this wimdy.
I watch Premodernist. Today it’s 115 minutes of vexillology. 😀
Bit of a red flag that.
I literally stayed up until 4am, watching a YT video on a wild af Doom Map (MyHouse.wad - Inside Dooms Most Terrifying Mod) essentially someone took House of Leaves and made a Doom Map inspired by it. Complete with a google drive of journal entries lol.
I just woke up and hour ago.
Haha, YT is the devil. The devil that I love. Just. so. much. random. content.
Also, that is freakin’ cool.
Here’s the link to the video -https://youtu.be/5wAo54DHDY0?si=2dEnW3vjbL1wnQF0
He explains why the mod is just weird AF, in all the good ways. And how it is a feat of technical prowess to make such a thing on the Doom engine.
My favourite yt content is a tie between 1-7 hour long video essays on a niche interest or an investigation, and videos on the degenerates that plague social media (personalities that air all their drama and addictions and nastiness on their platforms, and then bitch and complain about trolls 😂).
I watched about 30 minutes of that doom video. Strangely compelling.
I wish I could say what my favourite content is, but I just can’t. I’ll watch almost everything and off the top of my head: lawn mowing, rebuilding watches, building/architecture, vehicles (building/driving/riding), mystery docos/random internet mysteries, serial murder content, court verdicts, pranks/scares, oh lawd pimple popper, surgeries, reviews, lifestyle/fashion/travel, other documentaries, how things work, end of life vlogging etc.
I think armchair people watching… Pretty much voyerusm, haha.
LOL, welcome to a day in my brain. How have I survived this long?
That map looks fucking awesome lol
Etymology Time:
Fajita, Fa**ot, and Fascism/Fascist - all come from Latin fasces, just meaning bundle or group
I edited the bundle of sticks word because it is a slur these days :(
I recently learned about fasces too! Its a bundle of sticks and the iconography goes back centuries (to the Roman Empire at least). And some allegedly non fascist countries continue to use the fasces in official iconography - the wiki article has heaps of examples from the US.
I went down this rabbit hole after watching some videos on the silly antics in the UK parliament including someone trying to walk off with the mace and learning the mace evolved from the fasces and why it’s a symbol of power.
Unrelated but did you know until 1998 if you wanted to make a point of order in the House of Commons, you had to wear a top hat? (this was so you could be easily distinguished by the Speaker amongst any chaos. In fact, just before that clip the Speaker actually said “get the hat, I’ll hear him. Otherwise I can’t”, in an already thoroughly farcical debate on banning the use of French in Parliament as a response to the French trying to ban the use of English derived words in their Parliament… how did I get there, I think it was about learning that vestiges of Norman French still remain in the formal parliamentary process. From the 1400s!!! Okay, I’ve digressed significantly…)
Omg wow!! I had no idea about the top hat or any of those shenanigans! Holy shit! I have another rabbit hole!
Also the benches in the House of Commons are required to be the length of two swords held extended at minimum apart - to stop the Honourable Members stabbing each other in the heat of debate.
Well, no one makes laws/rules about flying to the moon with brown paper bags for wings, so there must have been at least one incident where keeping the Honourable Members apart was important.There is some real fascinating shit buried under layers of creaky old historic bureaucracy. I totally dig it.
The top hat survives in Australia as a piece of paper over one’s head in Parliament… though I’m not sure if anyone still does it. :D
Not to mention the Yorkshire dish of f*ggots in gravy. Not what you think it is.
Names such because it’s a bundle! Bundle food and call it fa**ot!
Not quite. It’s the Yorkshire term for meatballs. Not bundled at all but each individually wrapped in caul fat.
Beep Beep 🚚
🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋I’ll have a fancy fruit juice concoction with a twirly straw please.
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Can I have one of those, two of those, one of those and 5 cents worth of aniseed balls. (The local milkbar proprietor hated all kids under 10 with a passion that can only be generated by a mixed lolly bar).
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Oh man, those were the days!!!
They had the pre-made 20c bags but nope, we always had to stand there at the counter peering and pointing through the glass and choosing our lollies.
To their credit, not once were the older couple that ran the milk bar ever short or grumpy with the kids in our neighbourhood, I think they secretly loved it =)
Buying lollies that way would also have been great for developing kid’s basic math skills.
A big pie of relief please
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Steamed veggies with soy and garlic please.
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Thank you Chef!
Faggots & mash please
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Got anything on board that can help one recover from a food coma?
MAY have already eaten way too much… :|
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OK I’m awake now! :D
In yet another sign of the apocalypse, there is an Australian version of The Office releasing soon on Amazon Prime.
The trailer is…well…the trailer.
I’m sad that I watched the trailer. The US version is one of my favourite shows… why are they just rehashing the same main character traits? The boss is trying to be like Michael, there’s a Dwight character in there, what the hell.
A colleague was telling me about an Arabic version that’s pretty good. Can’t personally confirm.
truly the darkest timeline hey. Edit: OH man, I only got through like 30 seconds of the trailer. What in the absolute hell is this shit?!
Whoever is in charge of development for Prime Australia needs to be shot into the sun.
10 years too late and absolute shite. Like it misses the charm of The Office and charm of being Australian.
I’ll admit, I was never a fan of the original. Just a touch too awkward for me. But isn’t it just condescending AF to be like “heres a tv show as if you dont speak the same language of the previous 2 iterations of the same damn show”?
I wasn’t the fan of the UK one, even though I love everything Gervais has done since. The US version grew on me and did enjoy it. This one though…no thanks.
Oh that wasn’t a joke? 😭
Unfortunately no. It’s legit and it’s happening.
I almost took the lazy route and skipped the free food market this morning, but it turned out to be a good day and I got lots of good vegies. I also got some camembert and cherry dip I’m not sure what to do with. I’m thinking either using as a filling in some pastry, or muffins. I’m leaning towards muffins as pastry is more hassle.
On crackers with wine? I can’t tell if it would be sweet or savoury
I think it is savoury with a touch of sweetness. Crackers and wine would work, but is probably not the best option to scoff the lot like that myself…
It’s the sweet bit that limits what it goes with. If it was onion or something instead of cherry it could be used for things like a baked potato, with eggs or a much wider range of sandwich fillings. Plus the use by date is today, so I can’t really spread out using it up much.
The union rally is absolutely massive. I think they are heading to Flagstaff Gardens along La Trobe.
Heading down the bellarine today. Left the chillo seedlings on the heat mat outside since Sat. but I’m expecting some loss after that coldish snap :( With any luck a few made it.
so beautiful and sunny out there. Fuck it, I;m going out for a walk.
Goodnight everyone. 😘
I wish we had a competent party that would keep labor on their toes.
But no, we have a dipshit that looks like a fucking potato.
I truly hate the politics here.
From my observations it’s the same or worse everywhere else. At least we can vote people out without violent riots.
I am listening to an old LP of Til Death Do Us Part. 1966
ohmygaawwd .
What really sticks out to me is that the characters talk over each other , just like in real life. It’s that 1960s kitchen sink drama stuff.
it’s a load of cobblers, innit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8qSRu6b4Go&list=PLgeGcX2U-sIGC-OhLbHpppoDrkUy3a1Ir
Whew… Finished up at 7pm, well past when I’d hoped to finish at 5pm, and there’s a couple of small outstanding but non urgent items. But I got through the worst of it - all the yucky stuff that made me renew my deep dislike for humanity and was very much due. Dobby is free!!!
…From one job, at least - next two days are gonna be real candle burners as well with the huge backlog from work trip last week and my not being available the next two weeks. I love that place though, so I’m kind of looking forward to getting stuck into it to help the team out.
48 hours to go before I’m on the way to the airport, yippee. For now, is dumplings time (swapped from lunch), and this week’s episodes of OMITB and Slow Horses :)
Dinner has been eaten. Just some left over pasta amongst an entire day of eating cakes and cupcakes.
Time to relax for the night and out my feet up.
Weather was also delightful for most of the day as well I might add.
