April Fool’s Day
I’ll be 41 years old this month.
I’d like to say I’ve lived a bit of a life. I’ve had and lost friends. I’ve found and lost love. I was even married for a little while. I was directionless career-wise coming out of high school but now I’m quite successful and am paid well for it. I’m moderately well-travelled. I’ve been to and seen a lot of places both domestic and abroad and not all of them were so nice… some were even outright sketchy.
But today, on April 1st 2024 - I saw my very first bona fide, honest-to-god, ready for use, manky Glory Hole. A clearly frequented hole in the side of a toilet stall complete with some eager gent waiting on the other side.
From now on my life has been split in two; before I saw a Glory Hole and after. I was so young in the before-times. So naive. So full of hope.
you wrote ready for use
the mental image you evoked was that it was in use by one member of the public already
just waiting on another member
😐
So… Did you use it or nah?
Seemed rude not to.
spoiler
Seriously though I actually did a big Nope-180 out of the stall and found another at the other end.
Please clarify ‘the other end’…
Other end of the row of stalls
Oh thank goodness. I was slightly concerned for your… ahem… other end.
Oh no. I need to know if it’s local to me.
Nah but I’m pretty sure Hannah Watts Park would have one if you’re hunting one down.
This was at Yarraville Shopping Centre.
Yeah. The cars parked there at night ain’t playing on the swings.
Well that was a twist!
Men really are dogs.
Ted Cat just ran up to me and bit me. Not hard but still. 😡He’s angry at me for not giving him unlimited food like my husband did when I was sick with sciatica.
Does Ted look like a bear?
Yes. He is a fluffy heckin chonker
Mmm. Tastes like chicken. 🙀
Cat’s can’t pinch and punch so he’s just working with what he has.
he definitely won that one, since no one had said it at home yet
Angry cats are so adorable. Not that that helps. What a naughty boy!
Hiss eyes were as big as saucers
Kitty bloodlust.
all of a sudden… bam… we’re no longer the apex predator.
Bad cat! Water pistol time
He would not care at all.
One time he attacked Bill and then ate Bill’s food. I smacked Ted, just a soft smack, but he did not stop eating. I had to drag him away while he was hissing at me and then feed Bill in another room.
Woo hoo. The kid’s gone for a few days. Time to partay with a latte. 🎉
Pinch and a punch for the first of the month. No returns.
The body of Jesus has been found. He remains dead. Easter is cancelled. Today is no longer a public holiday. Off to work and school.
Too bad because I ate the eggs already.
One of those eggs would have hatched to become Jesus 2.0. You’ve doomed us all.
At my age? That would be a miracle.
So was Mary’s sister when she got pregnant with John
Hmm… looking at the date today I’d say you’re facon
i am tofu
No you’re natto
Incredible effort by bacon to go as far as renaming themselves!
And here I am going ‘who is Tofu?’ My brain is fried.
You wake up expecting bacon but you end up with tofu 👎
What a let down!
If there was anybody still trying to be optimistic and hold out hope that any of this paper crap that [major] companies do “for a sustainable future” is anything but a marketing ploy, on the page for the paper food wrapping stuff, you have to enter your age, and if you’re under a certain age, you’re literally refused access to the website.
Why? Because the entire thing is just a marketing stunt, and there’s rules about marketing things to young children.
As much as they make it sound like it’s their decision and their marketing code, it is genuinely a thing
Man, even the BOM getting in on April Fools with the storm forecast. Barely anything >:(
Edit: I retract this comment and politely request my lights stop flickering
That was the prelude. Worst is later this evening
@Mittens_meow @Aradina correct, current radar shows more incoming shortly
Well that got a bit intense. The rain got so heavy traffic slowed down to about walking speed and multiple people decided to just pull over and wait instead. I got totally drenched running the 5m from my car to my front door. I’ve changed into dry clothes and Miss Meow is now ensconsed on my lap purring. Mr Woof has forgiven me for the lack of a walk and is also on the couch for moral support.
The rain intensified while we were already enroute thankfully. Wife was enjoying her time listening to the rain and cheering on the cars ahead of us as we all queued up to drive through a puddle at 25kmh lol.
I’m keeping my fingers crossed that the heaviest rain will have mostly cleared by 7am, when I need to walk to the carshare and then drive to work…
Listening to music and slowly putting away the craft stuff into bags. I figure I’m still pretty burned out on it and I can’t wash balls of wool or half made things - so getting them off the floor, out of the way, and sealing them up so any fleas die.
Just do what you can mate. We’re all cheering for ya. ♥
🦥
I’m so understimulated but too exhausted to actually do anything… and my focus is shot
APRIL FOOLS
This reminds me of a work colleague, who had his passport issued on 1st April some years ago. Every single time he had to use it, it was questioned … He ended up obtaining a letter from Immigration confirming that the passport was the real deal. You’d think someone would have anticipated this and held up the application for one day, but nooooo.
I don’t really understand why. April 1st is a date just like all the others, and if your passport was fake, you would probably not be putting April fools day on it. I’d only be suspicious of the date if it was a public holiday
So in general I don’t find studying plagues to be too depressing but today I am writing a thesis chapter that deals with some really heavy stuff that’s getting to me and I’m finding it hard to write. So if anyone knows any silly jokes please nows the time to post them!
What’s it called when two strains of a disease are identical?
Plague-arism
Sorry
That is gold!
Why couldn’t alchemists make gold?
They should’ve done it in AUstralia.
What’s invisible and smells like carrots?
Rabbit farts.
Q: What do you call a guy with a shovel in his head?
A: Doug.
Q: What do you call a guy without a shovel in his head?
A: Douglas.
Q: What do call a guy with a seagull on his head?
A: Cliff.
Q: What do you call a guy floating off the end of a pier?
A: Bob.
Q: What do you call a guy tied up in a bag of leaves?
A: Russell.
Q: What do you call a guy with a picture frame around his neck?
A: Arty.
Q: What do you call a guy with scoliosis?
A: Archie.
Q: What do you call a guy with 50 rabbits up his bum?
A: Warren.
Hahaha, I love these, although for us Russell was a guy in the bushes. 😂
What’s another name for a snail?
Answer
A booger with a crash helmet.
(12yo me thought that was the funniest fking shit lol)
I have no idea what it is but I can hear a constant low rumbling coming from somewhere. It’s weirdly comforting because I used to live somewhere that had a similar sound and it reminds me of that.
Also I’m not looking forward to the internet being very annoying for a day. Grumble grumble
Make it 2 days. You’ll get pranked by us normal people, and then the yanks and assorted people on the other side of the date line will get in on it tomorrow
recaptcha freaks me out with all the people riding motorcycles wearing light sandals and shorts, no gloves
I really wanted sushi earlier, even though they do a 20% holiday surcharge. Whatever, I wanted sushi, I just sucked it up and paid for it. But then when I got home I saw they actually charged me 6 cents more than what they said my total was, and what the receipt says my total was (after surcharge). On the one hand, it’s only 6 cents, hardly worth fighting for, but on the other they essentially stole it from me. If you tell me one price, and your screen says that same price, and the receipt says the same price, I’m pretty sure that’s illegal
I actually do normally fight these sorts of things, as pathetic as it sounds, on the principal alone. But it takes a lot more motivation to when it involves physically going down there and complaining. A lot easier to do when I can write half an angrily worded email and get ChatGPT to do the rest. I also went to one of those franchise places, and I never have a very high success rate with those. And the ACCCs about as useless as tits on a bull
Sometimes I really just wanna flee to one of those fancy countries where they do weird foreign things like caring about their citizens and not letting shady businesses do dodgy things. The only problem is they are always really really cold
