Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.
got back from camping on the weekend and had an amazing time. I’ve gotta say guys, tidal river is just the best. Its camping lite. You have hot showers, you can go grab a coffee and a bacon and egg roll in the morning, there is Drinkable water. If you have never been camping you should consider giving it a go. Heck, reach out to me and I can recommend all the gear you need for under 100 bucks. the amount of folks rocking a Kmart tent was pretty nuts. And you’ll come back feeling so recharged you’ll wonder why you didnt do it sooner.
The prom is a spiritual place, lovely spot to recharge!
Its amazing isnt it? And it can be whatever you need it to be. You cant sit still? theres 100s of walks to go on. You wanna do absolutely 0? the wildlife just wonders through for you to look at and you can go grab lunch at the cafe.
Sounds like you had a great place, we went near Licola and had a river nearby and nothing else, but we have a lot of gear and a camper trailer so we were pretty set. I love being in the outdoors and away from everything, eating and sitting around or paddling in the river, really just doing fuck all.
I’ve never been, was it nice? I’ve just started looking into camper trailers. Man it is a slippery slope to go down. Do you mind if I ask what you got?
Licola was lovey, quiet. Our camper is a second hand one from my in-laws it’s an Outback Campers, fairly basic but very solid. In-laws have taken it across the Tanami and Overland tracks.
Someone’s brought a cat in a stroller on the tram and everyone on the nearby seats is awwwing at it. A nice scene after seeing the ol’ AOs interrogate and fine a clueless looking Asian guy while letting a ratty looking white couple go with just a talking-to
So AOs are also racist.
that shit makes me so angry, i’ve noticed it a few times as well
We won. Australia won The Cricket World Cup 2023. 🏆🎉💛💚💛💚💛💚💛💚💛🇦🇺
I bowed out at about 12:30 where we lost 3 or 4 wickets by the 7th over and thought we were gone.
Happy to see we got the chocolates at the end!
I stayed and watched the whole thing. Very tired today.
I didn’t sleep well so I might as well have just stayed up and watched the entire thing.
Still glad I got to see the double century from Maxwell where he cramped up majorly. That was a match for the ages.
It was pretty good. At the start of the Aussies innings you would’ve seen the sea of blue in the stands. Towards the end the stadium was quickly emptying because you could see the seats were red.
I too stayed and watched the whole thing. First time watching cricket. Getting up now.
Wow. What did you think of it? Will you be watching more of it in future?
Yes but not WATCH watch because it lasts way too long. More like something I’ll have on while I do stuff.
Yeah 50 overs each is a long match. That’s why I like BBL. 20 overs each. Night games. Players get mic-ed up and just go out there, have fun and slog them for six for charity. A really good atmosphere.
Cricket is the perfect background sports on TV. I always associate it with having family or family friends over and people chat/eat/do other stuff during the lull periods. Then everyone drops what they’re doing when something exciting is about to happen. Rinse and repeat.
I’m surprised at the lack of interest in the Australia thread. This was such a massive deal, the odds of an Australia win were so low. And then they went and did it anyway!
Work is going to be so much fun!
I think it’s the loss of Cricket “season”. There’s so much cricket year-round that people no longer get that build up/6 month break cycle any more. The team is playing so well at the moment, and there just isn’t the interest there used to be.
I think it has to do with the fact that only Oz games were shown on fta. I watched all the games on foxtel that’s why I knew how exciting this game would be. Even the run up to it. When you take away something that’s normally free to people, they become disinterested.
Willowton Free Range Chicken (available from Aldi) consistently outperforms all other chicken brands I’ve tried which are frequently tough and chewy.
Bugger.
Seems like someone has found my secret spare house key location and it’s gone :(
Been having a few tradies recently and the only way you could see the key would be if you were up high… and tradies were up on scaffolding above where it was.
I’m not accusing anyone but now means my policy is potentially void and I need to change locks.
This is on top of waking up the other week to find all the flyscreens taken off out the back in an attempted break in.
Fuck those people.
May I suggest a key safe?
I’m embarrassed to say this message exchange was what prompted me to tack a Bunnings trip onto my outing to get a really basic key safe for my spare keys (currently naked under an overturned pot in the car port, which has definitely had things filched from it before). Dont know why I didn’t consider it earlier…
Ooh looking at them now.
You can get very small boxes that have a powerful magnet on it. If that helps.
Sitting on the train, on the way to work
In a bit of pain, my stomach kinda hurts
I drank too much and now I’m dying
If I say I’m fine, I’m only lyingAre you feeling any better?
Argh, black friday sales, can’t resist!
I’m sorry but coffee does not taste like chocolate, plum or any other bullshit descriptor.
Agreed. Fruity coffee sucks. Gimme that bitter Caffeine dammit
Every time i see fruity it just means it is sour. I want bitterness dark as my soul.
Can’t help you. I’m too uncultured to taste the Picked by a virgin angel from the western slope of the vineyard during a full moon quince and cardamom fragrant notes in my pinot. My tip is to just nod and say hmmm.
God damn it why can’t people call me by my full name. Why do they shorten it without asking me and despite me telling them to call me by my name?
It’s not a white person name so for example, say my name was Taylor, they call me ‘Tayl’. It really drives me up the wall. Its not even a hard name to say!!!
I agree it’s annoying fulwank
Isnt it just, Botto?..
wait… does that mean you’re actually…
Funny. I HATE it. I introduce myself as Tom instead of Thomas (example, obviously). the amount of people who call me Thomas is nuts even after being told it’s Tom. Its like “No, I told you my name. show me the respect of using it.” I immediately assume you’re being condescending otherwise.
Same but I’m glad I included my English name in official documents so it helps if I am interacting with real people (Ba Con Mash, Mash being my English name). Still banks and companies etc. say Dear Ba,
Am white, but also hate it! My parents didn’t name me “Banana” they named me “Bananafungus”, and unless I’ve told you otherwise that’s what you can call me.
Most people call me DD.
Optus CEO fell on her sword. Or was pushed, either way its the first smart move optus has made in this whole saga.
I imagine she’s off to some “silent” position somewhere that pays her just as much.
I just unfollowed every account I’ve followed on instagram. Not following any accounts. Don’t know why I did it, but I did. Today has been weird.
Also a couple of days ago, I spoke to bar guy about the playlist thing and he said that lyrics are the last thing that he listens to. He eventually figured out that I was trying to convey something through the lyrics and he told me he loved me for the first time. That was cute.
I also found out that I was known as jukebox girl at the beginning by a couple of his friends because he didn’t wanna say my name.
Do you feel better after unfollowing? I only follow a bunch that are all mostly health related. I know it sounds a bit sooky, but as soon as I see a post that is negative, I unfollow. And by negative I mean criticising or calling out where it’s not really that necessary. Like I don’t need to channel those vibes.
Yeah I do! It’s making me more intentional with my social media use and stopped me from comparing myself to people that I know that are doing all sorts of fun things whilst I’m here not doing that. Would recommend if you are interested in doing the same.
Miss Meow is in full snuggle & purr miode. I think it’s a deliberate ploy to keep me from walking Mr Woof.
Edit: she’s gone off for second breakfast now, Walkies is go!
Snuggles would be nice. I’ve got an all pointy bits deployed foot hunter.
Some of the snuggles did involve pointy bits. She does for some reason like giving a boob massage with claws out, no matter how often I tell her it is not welcome.
It sounds like a lot of whipper snipping going on next door. Fingers crossed the blackberries are being cleared out.
Edit: sadly the blackberries are still there. Most of the other overgrown stuff is chopped, but the blackberries remain. Regular border patrols for encroaching canes will need to continue.
Prequel edit: I accidentally travelled back in time and origionally posted this comment on yesterdays thread.
As a film/TV buff in Australia, I will never not be jealous of how the UK/US/Europe get all these cool creative talks/discussions with casts and crews for things. I know I can watch most of them on YT now, but I feel like you miss so much of the “vibe” not being there. When I’ve been to ones here, there’s sort of this buzz of curiosity in the room that sometimes has you leaning forward.
hmmm. anyone have legit tried and true yellowing bedding tricks? His lordship has been an oily oily boy on his pillow protectors.
Already given them the ol’ oxy soak
This is what bluebag was invented for. Find an IGA (not sure if colesworth stock them) and look in the laundry aisle for ‘laundry blue’ - usually a bag or a block. Might be in the cleaning aisle. You wash item, and add the required amount of blueing to the rinse water. Dry as normal. It’s an optical illusion, but makes the yellow tinge disappear. Might be worth considering if napisan or lookalike doesn’t work.
Imo this is the only way to get whiter than whites without nasty chemicals.Have a look into laundry stripping, I wear a lot of white undershirts and have a lot of light-coloured bedding and once a month (or sometimes more) I laundry strip everything.
mm, haven’t given stripping a try. (Usually I don’t need to, 90% of the time the issues it corrects are caused by bad laundry practises). Cheers, I’ll give it a shot.
If you haven’t already, try doing the oxy soak using hot water. It makes a huge difference. Also, check that your oxy powder has not expired. There will be a best before date somewhere on the package. The active ingredient degrades over time.
yup, ultramegahot oxy, know that trick.
Just napisan mate. Put the item in a bucket with water and napisan overnight. Give it a stir with a big stick occasionally. Wash as normal without detergent.
Another way is to give it a quick scrub with Sards wonder soap and cold water. Chuck it in your machine with the soap still on it.
napisan is oxy. Gave it a hot soak, then a scrub with the washboard and laundry soap. then another soak, then into the machine with a shitton more oxy and vinegar rinse.
Whoa. Usually when you soak you use cold or tepid water, never hot. Hot water can set stains. Once it has soaked it can go in the machine on hot. Good job.
Hot water isn’t going to set body oil stains tho. Oxy(gen bleach) you always run hot, it’s soda ash and peroxide.
Hot water sets blood but not all stains
I just buy ivory colour linen.
Question, how often do you wash bed sheets?
Depends on weather.
Our sheets are good btw, it’s a pillow protector.
I used an Asko front loader with a 90C temp setting and pre-soaking. These days I buy coloured sheets as I felt the maintenance for white ones had me wearing through them pretty quickly.
