• imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    Email subject line: “Order Your Custom Branded Diaries for 2025 Now!”

    OH HELLS NO. I’ve barely entered 2024. Geeezzzus

  • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    Declining a work social event is a great way to get a secret afternoon off if everyone else is going

  • Nath@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    There’s a new Mercedes parked in the 5-minute zone outside one of Perth’s city stations. It’s been there a couple of days. On the first day, I thought it was a case of rich jerk parks wherever they want to and just pay the fine.

    Now there are several presumably expensive tickets on the windscreen and a notice it’ll be towed soon.

    I wonder what the story is? Presumably if it had been stolen, police would have notified the owner by now. So has it just been abandoned? If so, why there? It’s very mysterious.

  • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
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    2 months ago

    dammit I have rosacea again, looks like I have red eyes, will be scaring people over zoom and such.

    ( just shows how tired out i’ve been from sciatica )

  • bacon@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋

  • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    Has anyone watched Dark Matter yet? I think this is the first time a book has been turned into a movie or show and i’ve actually read the book first. And I gotta be honest, I kind of hated the book so I’m curious to hear what people think of the show.

    • Force_majeure123@aussie.zone
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      2 months ago

      I’ve seen the ads for it and I am not enticed to start an account on whatever streaming service it’s on, I forget which. There’s a quote on the ad that makes me cringe super hard: “what if the person who trapped me here… is me?!”

      • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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        2 months ago

        Apple I think. And yeah I think that makes sense in the context of the book, but they sort of ruined half the plot in the trailer which is dumb AF.

  • Mittens_meow@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    Trying to find some small comfy masks to wear at work all day. Was surprised how little there is available at chemist warehouse and Priceline.

  • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
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    2 months ago

    I tried to post on a tolkien site, it was like trying to post on a fundamentalist site where all answers have to be from tolkien scripture 😵

    • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      2 months ago

      You must read all of his letters, or else you’re not a true Tolkien fan /s

      Also, i know his name is pronounced “tok-keen” but I always say “tol-key-en” 😭

      • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
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        2 months ago

        because he never wrote the same thing twice there are different versions of middle earth history and facts

        so it really is like scripture with people quoting different facts at each other or quoting from gospels, ie accepted writings about tolkien

        i was foolish and wrote something from real life and in my own words😹

        • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Gosh, ever read The Silmarillion, that’s scripture at the start. And then you get into his letters and it’s retcons for daaaayyyys. And the insane fans will just rip you to shreds if you haven’t read the letters.

          I’ve read The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, and The Lord of The Rings; I’m not gonna read his freaking letters too, or his son’s.

          If you’re able to, get a copy of The Soddit and/or The Sellamillion by Adam Roberts. They’re hilarious parodies that I love too, I still quote The Soddit. Don’t mind the insane fans, they’re ridiculous people lol

          • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
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            2 months ago

            I admit reading books about tolkien’s world as well but not the letters, that’s just crazy

  • Duenan@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    I can feel the rain coming, this does not bode well.

    In other news it’s nearly clock off time!

  • bull⚡@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Wrestling with the idea of heading off for a weekend adventure. Staring at the map but can’t think of where to go.

    I feel like something in the mountains would be nice but only if I can find a good book to start on because I’m currently between books. I’m not sure if I loved the first Discworld book I read.

    • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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      2 months ago

      assume you’ve read the expanse? I LOVED those books. the martian is also a great (if obvious) suggestion.

    • Thornburywitch@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      2 months ago

      If it wasn’t likely to be so wet, I’d recommend Lake Tarli Kaarng. Have to hike in and out though. Better keep that one in mind for summer methinks.

  • PeelerSheila @aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    Here’s to the end of a pretty ordinary week. Mr P had to give bone marrow sample and has had appointment at Peter Mac. We’re waiting to find out if he has blood cancer, leukaemia or whatever they call it now. Elder minipeeler is still having major issues with anxiety and school refusal. My MIL offered to pay for him to go to a private school she thinks would be better for him… would’ve been nice to offer that last year, when I was having to enrol him in the only (really big) public school in our catchment and I was saying that I didn’t have a good feeling about it, that I felt that there’d be problems for him given the issues he’d had in the past, but had no choice financially. I was equally anxious and bummed out about it and she knew that back then. Now she wants to sweep in with her money and save the day, by uprooting him and plonking him into a new school‽ I feel bad for being ungrateful. Miniest is going through a very testing rebellious and wilful stage. I’m trying to give her as much of myself as I can and my patience, as she is jealous of Elder and her dad being home all the time, which is perfectly understandable. She is academically gifted but puts in a bare minimum of effort and is wasting her awesome potential and it’s hugely frustrating, but she doesn’t give a shit. I am feeling older and more tired in my body and it’s depressing. I’ve been bingeing dystopian shows on Netflix and find them comfortingly awful. I gave up on the “comedy” category… maybe Americans just laugh at different stuff, but I found little humour there. Thankyou for reading my grumbles.

    • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
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      2 months ago

      I’m so sorry to hear it. Please, if you can handle doing it get in touch with carers supports right now. If someone could help you with it that would be great.

    • SituationCake@aussie.zone
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      2 months ago

      Sounds like it’s gonna be rough for a while. You can vent here anytime. We gotcha. I very much hope the tests all come back negative. But shit happens. And if it does, there are very good treatments these days and Peter Mac is world class, no better place to be. You’re doing brilliant with the minipeelers. Other people will always have opinions, but you know their needs best. And if you decide the offer of money is helpful, take it without hesitation, do whatever you think is best for the minis. The politics can be worried about later. As for Netflix, I can recommend 3 Body Problem for the dystopian genre. For comedy there’s heaps of older movies on there sometimes old school comedy is a good remedy to modern American humour. Although The Good Place is an exception, thats one of my favourite shows of recent years.

    • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Girl, you have so much on your plate. Like, you’re the only one holding it all together. Your strength is admirable. I’m sorry you’re going through all of this, it’s hard! If you ever want to, or able to, catch up for a coffee and a debrief, I’m available. It sounds like you need some serious “me time”. Sending you all my love and postive energy 💜

    • Eagle@aussie.zone
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      2 months ago

      It sounds like you’ve got an awful lot on your plate. Just keep swimming mama, your strength is a beacon for your family.

    • AJ Sadauskas @lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 months ago

      That is a nightmare week 😔

      Wishing Mr P all the best for the test results, I can’t imagine how stressful that would be 💜

      You’re totally justified in being frustrated at MIL’s belated benevolence. It’s nice she’s offering to help, but not helpful when she’s offering!

      I went through a phase like Miniest and grew out of it — mostly anyway.

      Before you know it, she’ll be 40, and you’ll laugh as you recount a story about a crazy thing she did when she was a teenager.

      Take care 💜

      • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
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        2 months ago

        It depends - if I give up use of my left arm entirely to provide an appropriately supportive pillow they are tucked away. If I claim the use of my arm she needs to use one leg as a support brace and things get very pointy when that happens.

  • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I seem to have flipped my sleeping around to the other extreme. Now rather than sleeping at 6am, I’m sleeping at 6pm. God at this point I feel like the only time I’m happy sleeping is if I’m bucking social norms and sleeping like a madman. Besides it being an odd time to go to sleep, it hasn’t been working too badly for me, especially since it’s dark by those times these days. Unfortunately I forgot to tell Alexa that I took the bins out so she started making noise at 8:30 yelling at me to take the bins out (bin day was yesterday, but the reminder goes off every 24hrs til I mark it complete)

    Can’t get back to sleep, but I’m too tired to get up and try again in a couple of hours

    • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Regarding bins: I miss having a garbage chute, or wheelie bins to take to the curb. My apartment building has a dumpster room downstairs but I have to lug my bags of trash and kitty litter down too it. I have no idea when “bin day” is anymore, and taking recycling down is a pain.

      Try to rest if you can, and keep a good sleep schedule. It’s too easy to slip into bad sleeping habits.