Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.

  • just_kitten@aussie.zone
    11·
    11 months ago

    I had one of those super vivid and engaging dreams that was so engaging that I snoozed my alarm 5 times (over 50 minutes) to get to the end of it. Felt like a therapy session that I didn’t want to leave hanging.

    E: also this is the first week in a while I have worked every single day. I am pretty sick of it. Next job definitely has to be part time…

    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
      6·
      11 months ago

      I dreamt Mr Seagoon was reading one of his stories to people but they didn’t know he wrote it. I was totes proud of him. 💗

      And then I went to a second hand book shop /old library to look for ancient travel books but they didn’t have any. There was a totes cool planetarium of Earth but there was only one person looking.

      But I did find a bunch of lost jewellery in a corner off the marble steps and some of it was cool. Then I felt guilty about finding it.

      Then Ted Cat meowed in my ear and patted my hair. Time for first breakfast.

      • just_kitten@aussie.zone
        3·
        11 months ago

        I wish my dream was so cool! I mean, I’ve had other cool dreams before, but this one was more about revisiting many people and places in my past as an adult and actually rewriting the story of how I relate to some of them. Also v good though and wish I had more of thosr

  • Bacon@aussie.zone
    11·
    11 months ago

    whinge:
    I’m annoyed. I have not done anything to deserve getting a cold. Last two times I caught something I went to a memorable event. I have been staying hydrated, eating fruits and veggies, and exercising. What do I get? A sore throat now and a cold coming up.

  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
    10·
    11 months ago

    For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth.

    Genesis 7:17

    Enough already. Thou shall bring the sunshine to to the people asap.

    Melbourne 1:12

  • omoikiri@aussie.zone
    9·
    11 months ago

    Thanks to everyone that popped by to say congrats yesterday! Sorry for not replying but I have been celebrating very hard. Tonight I discovered frozés and my life is better for it.

    • Thornburywitch@aussie.zoneEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      What’s a froze? I think this is important information, given what the weather is going to do next week. Unrelated but maybe there is a connexion, I have just tipped over my glass of wine into my spectacles case. Bugger.

      • omoikiri@aussie.zone
        2·
        11 months ago

        A cross between rose and a slushie! I bought it thinking that it wouldn’t be very strong and would be more for the looks, but god damn is it boozy.

        They sell them at The Mitcham Social, if you’re ever out my way.

        • cuppaconcrete@aussie.zone
          1·
          11 months ago

          Fun fact, alcohol freezes at something like -114 Celsius - so drinking the liquid from a frozen wine drink leaves most of the water in the cup and a high alcohol content liquid in your tummy.

          Another fun fact - this method is used to make those super yummy German dessert wines, aka eiswein (icewine).

  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
    9·
    11 months ago

    So this is Christmas And what have you done? Another year over Still getting fucked up the bum

    Rent increases are ridiculous Shopping’s a chore Can’t feed the family People still poor

    No backbone has Albo Keep your tears and your shit What choice do we have now? When the other’s a twit

    A very merry Christmas And a happy new year Shit is going up, including the price of my beer.

  • fullkitwanker@aussie.zone
    8·
    11 months ago

    I live two stops from the free tram zone. I am too miser to pay $10 every day and am too anxious not tapping on a tram so instead I just walk two stops 💁‍♂️ added benefit of upping my step count for the day in addition to savings

  • bull⚡@aussie.zoneEnglish
    8·
    11 months ago

    A friend of mine reminded me that one of my favourite things to do on a cruise is air dry on my room’s balcony after a shower when underway at sea. So I tasked AI with making a majestic visualisation of that and then I did a wee bit of Photoshopping and… BEHOLD!

    Pixelated for modesty (in reality there's just a pinkish coloured 'shape' under there which looks suggestive when pixelated)

  • bull⚡@aussie.zoneEnglish
    7·
    11 months ago

    Happy (what we still call even though the seasons have obviously shifted later by at least a month) Summer!

    I have the day off today. I might go to Costco.

  • useless_modern_god@aussie.zone
    7·
    11 months ago

    Successful acquisition of Christmas tree. They didn’t have any 7 footers unfortunately so maybe a 6’2” or so. Plenty of room for my topper this year.

    It’s still in the car because it’s beer o clock and need a little sit down

  • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone
    6·
    11 months ago

    So over locky lockdowns I was betting with myself on what time it was when waking up. Using sun, road noise, birds… I got pretty good at it with no alarm.

    Anyway this morning I was 1.5 hrs off which is shameful.

    • just_kitten@aussie.zone
      5·
      11 months ago

      I live near a school so I get to cheat at that game. Locky d was very surreal because the school bell was still there… but no students or road noise.

    • PeelerSheila @aussie.zone
      8·
      11 months ago

      I’m sick of working more or less the same hours every week for over 2 years and yet I’m a casual.

      On a deeper level, I’m pissed off that I didn’t make more of my life due to low self esteem and confidence and a lack of self belief. Any bright spark of confidence and independence of spirit I displayed as a child was vigorously and abusively snuffed out by my parents, who wanted obedience and servitude from me. I was the dux of my school but I never believed I was good enough for anything worthwhile. I was a perpetual doormat in my early relationships, and more than occasionally a punching bag. Now I’m working as a casual in manufacturing, 50 years old, physically tired and working my arse off.

      I’m pissed off that my mother’s sons from her first marriage (who she blatantly loved more than me) contested her Will for a greater share of my childhood home (that they never lived in) so I didn’t get to inherit that house, and that was probably my only shot at home ownership.

      I’m pissed off that I was such a wimp for much of my life, too scared to take risks, too worried about failure… and that in itself is a failure.

      Wow! 🥫🪱🪱🪱. Sorry guys! Well, you did ask…

    • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
      7·
      11 months ago

      I’m so tired of being stressed out and in constant pain. Not a fan of talking about it because it’s such a bummer but every single day is a battle

    • Duenan@aussie.zone
      4·
      11 months ago

      Not a gripe but I’m ashamed I’ve treated myself to way too much stuff in the last few days.

      Also I snuck out from work early today to do shopping.

      • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
        3·
        11 months ago

        Don’t be ashamed. It is what it is. Enjoy yourself while you can. When you’re older you’re not going to go “Well shit I spent to much back in November 2023”. Regret is useless.

    • Bacon@aussie.zone
      3·
      11 months ago

      getting the bacteria or virus or whatever it is off my upper respiratory tract 🦠

      • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
        3·
        11 months ago

        When I’m sick I just get a scoop of Vicks and smear it on the shower floor and stand in there and hack everything up.

    • Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone
      2·
      11 months ago

      I want a 2nd cat so Gibson has a friend, but I don’t have the time to spend to properly introduce them because I’m in office 5 days for the next couple of months.

      A little ginger lad would really be great! We could pass the braincell back and forth lol

    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
      1·
      11 months ago

      This week I have come to the realisation my MIL is a bad person. I don’t say that lightly. She’s not stupid/unaware, she’s not good , she’s not evil, she’s over the edge of neutral and into bad.

      • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
        2·
        11 months ago

        Mmm. I don’t think she’s a bad older person. I think she’s always been bad. Probably always gotten her own way so she won’t change. Stay true to you. You don’t have to answer to anyone.

  • Taleya@aussie.zone
    6·
    11 months ago

    Woke to a bunch of people who decided to put aggro panties on and are determined to make it my problem.

    I care not, 'tis Friday and i am above such things 🧘🧘

    • just_kitten@aussie.zone
      4·
      11 months ago

      People with aggro panties on often have shit festering in there and want everyone else to join them in their misery, I reckon.

      • Taleya@aussie.zone
        4·
        11 months ago

        yup, hence the refusal to engage. Not my circus, not my monkeys, not my shit filled panties.

  • TuxOfStars@beehaw.orgEnglish
    5·
    11 months ago

    My Spotify wrapped was full of dead people - thanks to going on a deep Rodriguez and Sinead O’Connor retro this year (PSA Rodriguez Cold Fact is one of the great albums but I forgot it existed). Plus Beethoven is one of my headphone concentration go-tos …

    … time to add the Pogues to that list I guess. RIP Shane McGowan. Impressed you made it to 65 old man.