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Daily Discussion Thread:🍪 Fri 22 Mar 2024 (aussie.zone)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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World Water Day

The day serves as a platform to advocate for the sustainable management of freshwater resources and bring to the fore the importance of clean, accessible water for all.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Movie Review

El Conde. Netflix.

this movie is awesome. First thing. It's different and new. The hardest thing to do in the world is to make something different and new.

Imagine Iñárritu ( I googled them tildes ) made a parody of Isabelle Allende's tiresome sickly sweet books ( yes I have read some ) , Sound of Music, Interview With a Vampire, Knives Out and Judgement at Nuremberg .

Visually, it's really very beautiful. Tawdry scenes in horrible places with horrible people look like art. Even the dialogue of the English translation is very good, the Spanish must be like poetry. The story is a mind fuck.

Scenes that really stick. The nun learning to fly was lovely. A joyful mind using a gift from Satan.

The scene where Pinochet is describing some of his crimes against humanity. I have been hearing this stuff for decades and have to intellectualise or I get too distressed.* At the same time * he is blending a heart and then drinks it. Which makes me feel disgusted and sick.

!!! Shouldn't the description of his crimes have made me feel the same? Am I numb. 😔 Not unwillingly, but I have to make myself numb or I can't function to do good in the world/fight these bastards in my own way.

I will watch again.

5 Hobbits

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Alright, got kiddos artwork in the post for his Nan. Shes gonna love it. Also, 5.20 for an a4 envelope!? Yikes!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I have some tradies in the house today, and I've just walked upstairs to find two of them giving Gwyn a belly rub and Gwyn lying flat on his back, loving life. Was so funny. He's such a little belly rub slut and I love how friendly he is.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

I believe it has been a while since the Gwyn tax has been paid...

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

I'm going to be wrecked for a week but I got the ear wash. Hopefully it cleans the wiggies out so the medicated drops can do their thing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This mortgage app thing sucks. Looking like can only get enough for a revolting cookie cutter joint in Kath & Kim Land.

In better news I have found Bruce the Chimera Cat. We WANTS him we does.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Friend of mine sent me the trailer for a movie called Late Night with the Devil. It looks so good. And no cinema near me appears to be showing it. Hopefully they'll update it since it's still got a few weeks.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Lovely day out there today. I've done a bit of gardening, been down to Bunnings for supplies and am planning a bit more gardening. Lots of ratty summer plants needing to come out at the moment.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (8 children)

Anyone here sleep with noise cancelling earbuds in? Looking to cancel out some snoring next to me. I'm a side sleeper though, so not sure how that'll go with earbuds in. Currently do not own any so can't really test it....

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Have you tried a fan or similar? Sleeping near noise I find it to be partially an anticipation or regularity problem. A broken snore pattern isn’t too bad, a regular one is. The drip hole in the gutter pinging at precise intervals is unbearable!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Side sleeper and regular washing machine/snore like truck = Llab. Although I myself can’t sleep if someone gets to a snoring before me.

So I’ve tried a few, though YMMV. Anything hard is a no: EarPods, Loops, Earphones etc., all hurt in time.

Soft plugs for me take time to get use to. Ones I have used for riding have been Alpine and Surefire. ATM for riding I love the Surefire Sonic Defenders EP5. Haven’t tried them in bed, but they might be a bit too suctiony.

Honestly though, if I was a flat out back sleeper and could get my Sony 1000XM5 headphones to stay on… That would be heaven.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I have some Loops and side sleep. Haven’t tried the combo. You might get too much pressure which can cause damage.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Um excuuuuuuse ME. Women don't snore. We purr.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Speak for yourself. I’ve been informed I can impersonate a MAC truck.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Hahaha.

Sometimes I wake from a nap to a blaring tv because "someone" can't hear it. Usually it's because I'm exhausted.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

NOT airpods pro. They suck for side sleepers.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Employment extended for 2 more years. Yay!!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Nice one! That must be a relief

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Congrats! Does that mean you dont have to keep applying for new gigs? or still wanna get out of dodge?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Gives me some breathing space to only apply for gig I actually want, instead of anything and everything. I'll keep my eye out still, but will be very picky. My manager is supportive of me getting a higher paying role and might advocate to make my current role a level higher.

At least I don't have to deal with interviews.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's definitely a great position to be in! The feeling of desperation and having to sell yourself is really demoralising.

If I wasn't so burnt out at my last place I would've definitely preferred looking for jobs while knowing I still had my existing job, but I was in no headspace to look for new jobs without first quitting my old one

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

I've done that once in the past. Had enough and quit. Found another role fairly quickly, but it wasn't fun at the time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Nice! Yeah always better to job search without the metaphorical ticking clock hey.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Had an interview recently and was shortlisted. Didn't really vibe with the role and the team, but work is work. Glad I can withdraw from that process now. Two years of certainty is very welcome :)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Lovely day for a walk back from the dentist with an entirely numb mouth. Also, turns out my phone has this AI assisted action pan photo mode.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (4 children)

I have not thought at all about what to do with the weekend yet and then I realised next weekend is a long weekend and I also have no ideas for that.

BUT I am finally getting my dashcam installed on Tuesday so maybe I should hit the road for the long weekend and see if I can get some Dashcam Owners Australia footage of some dickhead doing dickheadery.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Go up to bright? thats doable in a day. Its a big day, but its doable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Considering blowing out the Easter long weekend into the next week and doing a significant drive. Back to looking at the map and thinking about where's new and interesting. I have never been west of Adelaide city in SA, or really anywhere in SA besides Adelaide city and a suburb around it or two. Adelaide is barely worth slowing down for but maybe Port Lincoln or Flinders Ranges could be alright.

I've done the east coast up and down a bunch of times so it's not super appealing to me unless I decide to go FNQ which I've only visited twice but I do like me some tropical holiday.

Will have to do some pondering.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Have you been to Victor Harbour? Or anywhere on the Limestone coast? Nice drive at this time of year. Whale watching etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Nope I haven't spent any time in SA besides Adelaide and traversing to/from it by car without detouring. Could definitely be an option though. FNQ is nice and all but it is a lot of driving to pack into a week.

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll look into that area.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Confest is 5 hours.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

I did some googling into what that is and although slightly intriguing.. I'm not sure that's something I would be comfortable attending solo. Also I feel like I'm already judging imaginary attendees in my mind as poseurs and phoneys and I can't handle people like that very well. I'm pre-gatekeeping a community I'm not even a part of and that's a me problem.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ah, Confest. Rock out with your cock out. In mud.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The one time I went, decades ago, there was indeed a man with the aforementioned out, greeting people at the front gate. Luckily he had a hat and top on, so was being SunSmart

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There were many more than one dressed much less when I attended. Can’t imagine it would be a fun sunburn location. An entertaining weekend, but too crunchy woo-woo to make a habit of for me.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

In my experience you won't have to drive far for dickheadery or arseholitude. They're everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

The Macedon Ranges are lovely this time of year.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I got some blue blocker spectacles for the dark morning dog walks to take out some of the high intensity headlights and they're working a treat. It seems to have become fashion round me to have auto-high-beams on, which is a cunts act in suburbia with pedestrians about, IMO.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Try to register the Mykis I have to top up because it's been so long, all of them have expired. Shit system

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