I made a turtle coaster. I think he needs eyes.
make it biblically accurate
How?
Needs the world on its back. I quote John 13:6 - “it’s turtles all the way down”.
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Eyes as far as the eyes can see?
Product review: Lime Mojito in a cask, from Aldi.
I got carded buying this for the first time in many years. This is classy stuff. Not sure I’ve ever actually purchased a cask before?
First sip: is this just lime cordial?
Several gulps later: oh there’s the kick, this is really quite strong isn’t it.
Verdict: goes ok. Pretty tasty. Would be better in a fancy glass with some mint and fruit and shit but I couldn’t be bothered. 3.5/5 🍸🍸🍸, a solid almost-holiday in a cask.
Does it say what alcohol they use? I don’t like Aldi-Baileys because its based offa white goon.
It’s vodka and white rum. Tastes reasonably legit.
Can we go back to the golden age of appliances where they sung a song when finished and then shut up pretty please
We have a washing machine from 2009 and it’s very nice and respectful. It does its job, then it sings a lovely little song and then you won’t hear from it again until you start pushing buttons. The dryer is much newer because the last one conked out. This one will make a long beeeeep that ascends in tone 3 times every 5 second until you go and open the door AND turn it off (just doing one of those isn’t enough)
The air fryer makes an annoying sound, but isn’t obnoxious about it like the dryer
My microwave beeps at me every minute when it’s finished to let me know to open it and yell “Are you happy now?”.
How else do you know to rescue the potato inside?
The potato can wait. I’m busy.
I actually unplug the microwave if I don’t stop it before it beeps. Every beep feels like an audible knife penetrating my brain. And for the dryer I just firmly tell it like an annoyed parent to stop being disrespectful and to show some respect to its elders. If I’m feeling particularly annoyed, I’ll give it a lecture about how dryers should be seen and not heard
Those beeps are useful for things that you’re supposed to microwave and then ‘rest’ for x minutes
If I want it to time my resting period I just set the timer to run after the main cooking time.
True but if you’re only cooking peas then it’s a bloody nuisance when you’re trying to organise the other parts of the meal.
Agreed. How dare a machine beep at me. Impatience is not a good look on a machine.
My washing machine makes 3 too many beeps for my liking.
Everything should have a “mute” and “lights on/off” button.
Wild dreams leaving me with a raging sense of guilt i should not have. Wtf brain. Stop it
Hate that. And waking up cross at somebody about something they didn’t do!
Mine had my company director set me up for epic failure and my manager just laugh. While I could see the director doing that, I firmly know that my manager has my back, so that’s good.
mine was having a boss of a workplace accuse me of something that I not only hadn’t done, it was literally impossible for me to do, and maneuvering to fire me from a workplace I haven’t worked at since 2019.
So where the fuck is the sense of guilt coming from
Could this be related to cat?
Sending virtual hugs.No.
How is it fair that I eat healthy for a week and feel like utter shit? Tempted to buy a cheesy crust pepperoni pizza from dominos…
Also another 35 applications done today.
Just reminded me, many years ago (around 2010 maybe), I ordered a pizza from dominos. It was awful, tasted weird and tangy.
A few years afterwards, I swear I saw a TV ad for dominos saying “now with real cheese”. Turns out they were using cream cheese or something beforehand. Never ordered from them again lol.
Not saying they’re bad now ofc lol
I bought one last week as a sort of “last hurrah”. Not gonna lie, I inhaled it in one go lol.
I read something that said the longer you e been eating like crap, the longer it takes to start feeling better.
I haven’t been eating well since lockdown…
my good diet motivation kinda got crushed when miss seagoon said I wasn’t eating well
i was doing calorie reduction, she’s more into “health food”
I should get back into it, set up my food cupboard with good food, get out of the habit of snacking
I do the whole gaining and cutting thing during the year. Hardest part for me was making meals that I would eat even when I wasn’t trying to eat healthy.
It’s such a change.
it’s the snacks
my meals are very good, always fresh vegetables, I eat fresh fruit everyday, lean meat, not much cheese at all
( tho I’ve been having frozen meals when my back is very bad )
it’s candy and cookies that get me
processed cheese product, it’s a common thing in the US. Aged “real” cheese is very expensive there.
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It’s good healthy cheap food that has good shelf and fridge stability. It’s an excellent choice for people with not much money to spend. It’s also very high in protein. iow, it’s good food.
I used to buy processed pepper jack cheese to make nachos, it was so yummy and melted very well. I grew up on kraft too. Walnut cheese from Germany is also processed.
I can’t agree. The brief period I was in the US was food hell and their weird orange plastic ‘cheese’ was part of that.
The US has wonderful food, you just have to know where to shop for it. :)
Being 15 at the time I didn’t get much choice in the matter
Oh no, hopefully that’s not discouraging. Maybe there’s an adjustment period? Sugar withdrawal? (is that a thing?). I know that guts can go through some adjustment if diet changes to include more veg and fibre, but it will settle down fairly quickly. It’s just a bit of a shock to the microbiome.
Definitely going to stick to it. The positive mental health impacts have been unbelievable. Once the physical subsides, all will be well hopefully
People keep expecting good behavior from AFL players. Why? Young men that have been put up on a pedestal for probably most of their lives, then given a lot of money, plus the celebrity status they now have.
Money and power doesn’t usually equate to good behavior and yet people are shocked when they don’t play nice. What do you honestly expect? They are just football players and perhaps if folks stop giving the game more importance than it warrants them maybe you won’t create such big egos.
Cause for some stupid reason, we put them on a pedestal. Society glorifies sporting success rather than academic achievement or anything actually beneficial to society. Just cause kids look up to them doesn’t make them role models. They are barely more than teenagers who are either thinking about their next root or their next bag. And you know what? Thats perfectly fine so long as no ones getting hurt.
100% correct.
Unfortunately it’s how things are. Kids idolise their heroes but as young adults barely of legal age they are sometimes very uneducated and I’ll prepared for it all.
I love my afl and love my team and whole recent saga with drug testing wasn’t something that I thought about but I was equally surprised because my mind never went there.
Very true. These 18 year olds aren’t selected because they are into politics, social issues, emotional intelligence. They are good at kicking balls and that’s great, let’s cheer them for their athleticism. But nah, I wouldn’t be looking to them for any kind of advanced social awareness. And they are at an age where they want to be doing all the stuff regular young adults do. Bit unrealistic to think they won’t.
You nailed it.
It’s also not newsworthy. Sports isn’t that important that I need to hear about some football guy every hour (radio on for the dog)
Really don’t feel like gym tonight but it’s my second last training session before I’m on holidays for a couple of weeks so I’m telling myself to STFU and stop complaining.
Oof. Walking to find the ginger ninja cut into my physical energy so badly I crashed and woke up at 11pm, extremely dehydrated and very late with Melbcat’s supper and meds.
It might be that I can’t afford the energy, just don’t have the capacity to keep pursuing a cat I might not be able to catch. And I don’t have the comfort level to engage with rescue groups. (This would involve using Facebook, speaking to strangers, doxing my location, and perhaps being asked to meet or cooperate with them.) Currently it’s really difficult to even care for my own pet and myself.
There’s also online friend group drama which I didn’t cause and was not involved in… but am still stressed out by, and if I’m not careful I could be pulled into. I’m in an awkward position. (I absolutely have a side and am quietly distancing myself from someone due to their behaviour, but don’t want to feed into any escalation). I really hope I’m making the right moves to classily bow out.
Sounds like lots of signs to pull back and take care of yourself and melbcat. Rebuild yourself and let the universe find another way to care for orange cat and the conflict take care of itself. Hope you can get some good rest and cat cuddles
Thanks, the signs have been there for a while (and there’s bigger shit I don’t post) but like a numbskull I keep pushing.
I’m hoping orange cat gets picked up by someone else or recovers. I’d help if I was able but those orange buns are elusive.
Definitely time to reinstall the electric blanket…
Watching the cat snoozing under the heater while I force myself to go outside for an hour of lunch break exercise in the cold.
I wonder if I should buy one of those electric throws from K-mart when I can afford one.
I haven’t owned any soert of electric blanket before but I figure it’d be nice to be on the couch with one.
the electric throw on the couch is good as! I brought the mrs one from kmart for mothers day last year and it got a fair workout all winter.
I’m definitely thinking about it next week.
Do they work well and get really warm? Or anything that might be worth taking note of?
I am in a love hate relationship with my electric blanket. Love the warmth in winter, but it’s a bit lumpy and stiff. The warmth wins out though. Can someone invent a soft breathable electric blanket please. Agree it’s almost time to put it back on, nights are getting chilly!
Same and the control thingy is always too close to where I lie on the bed.
Today is my day
How are you gonna spend your day?
I’m going to:
- finish my coffee
- get dressed
- get a cafe coffee
- walk around Savers
- cuddle the cat
- colonise Mars
Please add Curing the Common Cold to the list. Someone needs to do this.
I mean, I can try, but it may be out of my scope as day-keeper
Fair point. Schedule it in for next week???
Sounds like a good plan 👍
No way! I got dressed too!! I didn’t know I had so much in common with the very first mars coloniser!
We truly are an interplanetary race
no sharing?
my day is everyone’s day for I am a benevolent and generous day-keeper
thank you oh great starch for the day
omg i saw three cats outside one meowed to wake me up i just put down a dish of kibbles
You have been Chosen
I don’t think they are eating this one (haven’t checked yet). Will put a fresh dish out before I sleep tonight.
Cat Distribution System in action. Congratulations.
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I appear to have taken on too much at work.
Still going through papers?
oh yes. many papers.
Israel doesn’t care what Australia thinks about Palestine. This is taking up way too much space in newspaper headlines.
takes people’s minds off their low wages
You’re right, a bit of bread and circuses
That what Australian press has been doing since the 1890s when jingoism and a fake image as a rural pioneer country was started to distract city folks from the nascent industrial city based workers rights movements in Europe
Like the joke that was the voice campaign. They could have just done it instead of diverting attention from the of living and housing crisis
Bloody mental how up in arms the media are now that an aussie is dead. Lets just ignore the tons of dead Palestinians.
I’m bored with fluffy statements from Australian politicians and diplomats. You have no power, Israel doesn’t care about you so shut the fuck up until you have something useful to say.
It may still be 18 in my room, but I’m still going to sleep in a hoodie under 2 blankets with thick socks
18 outside = fine unless there’s wind, 18 inside = I think I’m going to freeze
As much as I really want to live in Europe, I’m not sure I’d exist past the first week of autumn there
They have 5he advantage that their houses are actually insulated. Ours are tents
Lol that’s a good point. It’s honestly a bit of a miracle my room was even 18 when it was 12 outside. My bathroom was most certainly not though, that was definitely 12…
Where there are extremes in weather the poor suffer .
so don’t be poor and you’ll be fine s/
Ay problem solved! Thanks SG!
This reminded me of the first place I lived when I get sober. The walls had a giant crack, so I had to wear all of my clothes and had a blanket but was still shivering so bad I couldn’t sleep.
Good times, good times.
Yikes. I’m glad you’re in a better place now gibsy
At the p’s clearing out their rain tank filters from on top about 2.5m up.
Reminded me when I was a teen scaling them (wasted) at night without a ladder full ninja to sneak in when I forgot my keys as the laundry window which was never locked is directly above one. Used to get in so much shit for doing that.
Now it’s sanctioned, with a ladder, sober and far less exciting.
I remember being accidentally locked out as a kid, and having no trouble breaking in through the aluminium-framed bathroom window. Bit of a worry in hindsight, and lucky there weren’t more crims around at the time.
Twice I’ve locked myself out of my house. Had to take the glass slats out of the toilet window, scale up the down pipe, perch on the window sill and decide whether I wanted to take a giant leap missing the toilet or risk sliding off the lid and slamming into the closed door. We now have a spare key hidden in the yard.
In those instances it’s better to see if you can hold on to the ledge and scale or drop down instead of jumping or making a leap.
It would significantly reduce the height from which you come down if you did that or had room to do that.
Learnt this from if we ever had to escape a fire from out of a window.
I think I did that the second time around.
Spare keys somewhere useful, memorable, and not one of those dumb fake rocks is an art.
I really wish they’d let us have spare keys. So far I haven’t locked myself out when nobody’s home, but if I do I’m probably fucked. I would just take the keys to Bunnings and get a spare one cut and hide in myself, but they’re those stupid security ones no locksmith will duplicate. I guess that’s good since they don’t change the locks when people move out, but it’s also a PITA because they refuse to authorise a spare key
They gave some half arsed excuse about how people could break in by smashing a lockbox with a brick or a rock. They don’t seem to realise that windows can also be broken with bricks and rocks
Truthfully, locks only stop honest or lazy people. If they really want in, things are getting broken. Get windows that look really noisy to smash 🤷🏻♀️
Don’t worry it’s safe under the mat.
Totally. Number 32 wasn’t it…
Ooo close. Number 13. Lucky for some.
