Daily Discussion Thread: 🍊 Saturday 30 November

I’m ready to face Christmas now.
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- Holy shit that is brilliant! Compare with my laughable effort
  
  I love yours! It's so wholesome!!!! 😍 Big cozy vibes!
  
  Love the sloth!
  
  I love it ❤️
  
  This is so sweet!
  
  This is awesome!
- Here's mine for this year which fits the mood
  That yew tree has seen 150 xmasses. Great grand parents would be rolling over in their grave if they saw that.
  Edit wonder if anyone has put a goon bag and peanut butter on a yew tree before. Could be a world first.
  
  I like the idea of a poisonous Christmas tree 😈
- That's beautiful
  
  Thank you. It’s a passion.
- That's a mighty fine tree you have there.
  
  Thank you!
- The mirror ball is genius!
  
  It’s possible that it stays up permanently 😂
- This is both too much and not enough
  
  Well , you’re half right
- Badass!!
  
  Thank you!

Got a delayed buttock / hamstring injury from moving concrete the other day.
No-one expects the ~~Spanish inquisition~~ delayed buttock injury.
- Our chief weapon is buttocks, buttocks and glutes, glutes and buttocks. Our two weapons are glutes and buttocks, and ruthless hamstrings. Our three weapons are glutes and buttocks and ruthless hamstrings and an almost fanatical dedication to the arse.

It’s nice seeing people’s Christmas trees. I myself don’t decorate because no kids and can’t be bothered. There are a couple of houses nearby that do lots of lights and I look forward to them putting their decorations up. So to all the decorators out there, thankyou for the Christmas spirit, sincerely from the non-decorators. We appreciate it.

olive buns are done
- Cut one in half! I need to seeeee!
  
  ok ...lol

Goodnight all ❤️

can I just add , this weather is really shitty for humans
but it's good for bread making so today I will be making a dozen olive bread dinner rolls and I'll add a cup of warm milk to the mix to make it extra soft, tender and milky white.

Man, I really have to go out more. I'm the awkward person in the group tonight.
Admittedly I'm the outsider in a somewhat close knit group, but still.
Noted.
- I've spent the last 9ish days at home. Working from home as well.
  It ain't good I tells you. It ain't good :(

SENPAI NOTICED MEEEEEE
_{will upload screenshot when Lemmy stops being a jerk and timing out}
https://imgur.com/a/k55qmdi
I've died and gone to heaven 😍🩶😍🩶😍
- Squeeeee!
- Nawwww :)

Place is looking a bit more habitable, wfh desk setup, still very cluttered and need to get rid of the poang footstool (chair in bedroom piled with crap) which will open up more space.
Let's hope my plants will look this lush over the next 6 months! These are the survivors after many deaths (and much neglect in a sunnier place).
- Holy shit that looks fucking amazing!!!
  
  Thanks! It is nice looking at the plants from the couch (where I took the photo). Starting to feel cozy. It'll definitely look nicer once I get rid of the footstool and unpack some of the books.
- you're an inspiration 🙂
- That's amazing! 😍😍😍 You are a fantastic home decorator!!
  
  Aw thanks, I definitely have not been trying hard here, just working with what I have. Sometimes a small space forces you to get creative...

Two breakfast day today 😍 scrambled eggs on toast with avo first. Then cafe at 1130 W my friend to play some chess and have a bagel and coffee

So what's everyone doing tonight?
- Drinking beer in my armchair and playing games
- Babysitting. So watching minions probably. Party on
  
  Not babysitting but I just did Mario Brothers movie.
- This mob is playing at Shotkickers tonight. Heard them before and they're pretty good most times. Cover charge though. Shotkickers does a decent feed too. Haven't yet made up my mind to go.
  magic machine
- Putting up the tree with beers, not sure about mixing alcohol with untangling and placing Christmas lights but let’s see what happens.
- Staying in with Minipeelers and trying to decide on a movie to watch.
  
  How about wall-e?
- work
- cooking and cleaning, if I'm lucky I can do some reading or watch a movie
- Probably put on the WAFL finals tonight with pizza.
  Rest of the time I think I’ll be just trying to pass the time.
- Now starts the Xmas parties. Had a stupid headache before so I’m hoping I’ll feel better to go to a night I’ve yet again already bought a ticket for.
  Beverages may or may not be enjoyed.
  Am also in an Uber right now who may be taking the crap route. 😑
  
  Beverages help everything.
  And seriously, I'm so over shitty uber drivers. Can't foolow a route, drive like shit etc

Back from shopping. Soooooo humid. Preston market is crazed, they had the misting spray on to cool people down - in close to 100% humidity. Not terribly effective.
Side note : found a lonely block of frozen tofu at the bottom of the freezer. I'm bored with my usual marinades so any suggestions? I usually do either a curry paste based one or a standard soy/mirin/chilli one.
- I ❤️my Teriyaki Sauce:
  1/2 cup low sodium Tamari (or soy sauce)
  3/4 cup pineapple juice
  1 tablespoon rice wine vinegar
  5 tablespoons brown sugar
  1 tablespoon grated fresh ginger
  2 teaspoons grated garlic
  1 teaspoon sesame oil.
  In a small saucepan over medium heat, add the Tamari, pineapple juice, vinegar, brown sugar, ginger, garlic and sesame oil. Whisk to combine well.
  Bring to a boil then reduce the heat to medium low. Continue to cook for 10 minutes stirring occasionally. Remove from heat to cool and set aside.
  
  ooh that looks good.
  
  Oooh looks yum and I have all the makings. Thanks umgod!
- tofu is yummy with peanut satay sauce

The amount of sales-related emails and texts I’ve been getting is staggering. More than any previous year I feel. These businesses ask for a mobile for an online order and then it gets used to spam promotions. Mass unsubscribing is in order.
- Only slightly related, but my monthly average for spam emails on my main Gmail account is 100. Early last year, I got 22,000 in a single month. And they auto delete after 28 days...
  Then, 2 months later, they all vanished and it's been back down to about 100 ever since

Slept straight through the night. ~10pm-5am.

Paloma time!! Cheers, all!
- Cheers ☕️

Errrrgh. Morning. It's raining. And I have to do a big shopping. Errrrgh. Does anyone sell intravenous coffee?
- A friend used to buy powdered caffeine and keep it in a snuff box.
- I can make supercharged lethal coffee, you have to bring your own iv bag.
- Does anyone sell intravenous coffee?
  I don't know but I need this asap
  
  Will post when I find a provider.

Hectic rain on its way, thank goodness - it's been so warm and humid overnight!
Gonna have a bit of a lie in and then start on moving around shit in the living room and unpacking that stuff once and for all. And putting together the damn bookshelf.
- While we were heading from Hay towards Echuca last night, we saw this crazy thing:
  Sure hope that's not on its way...

I don't understand how people can eat a hsp in one go. I have a small one and this is at least 3 meals.
- I reckon I could eat two.
  
  Can you go a whole bag of chips and tub of dip, and follow it with a handbag chook?
  I'll note this remorseless eating machine has a 28 inch waist
- Either your local is more generous than ours, or you lack Boyo's apparently hollow legs. What that man considers a snack is terrifying.
  
  I reckon it's probably both lol
- I can do it. The goal is that juicy garlic soaked bread at the bottom. Then I don't eat anything else for the rest of the day.
- I can put away a small or a medium and sometimes I regret it

We'll go with this one, the daily threads have been creeping too far before the day they're for.
I'm fine with a little early, it's better than too late.
- Shoutout to the time I had a nap and woke up at 6pm thinking it was 6am and made a new thread thinking no one else did
  
  😹
  
  Hahahahahhahahaha
- Not sure what happened but sometimes we have to make it early because we have to do it manually and it was taking a toll on people staying up when they needed to sleep.
  In the interests of looking after people that’s the concession we arrived at to look after people so in the grand scheme of things it’s not a big problem.
- Brion, are you volunteering to stay up til 12 every night to start the thread?
  
  😂😂
  
  I can probably do them most nights, but I'm weird about doing things in what I perceive to be "the right way", so only post exactly at, or after, 12
  I liked the idea of checking in a few hours before and working out who's available to post it, but Nath (I think) told me to stop asking, so I did

No xmas tree but bI've assembled the bookcase after much effort...

Really annoyed with myself because i hate sending shit to landfill out of my own carelessness, but I'm going to have to just move on (and remind myself at least my consumption and waste ends with me).
At least the bookshelf is still usable for now and I can start moving shit onto it so I can finish unpacking. And it's probably had a good run. Still, feeling low... need a win... that doesn't involve spending money...
- If it helps you can sometimes borrow access to 3D printers at makerspaces. They would absolutely let you print out a replacement especially if it’s small
  
  how is it DT has all the brains with all these brilliant practical ideas?
  
  Actually if there's one thing I really need 3D printed it's a replacement for my fridge shelf. Fucking thing just cracked on me and broke 2 nights ago (with hardly anything on it - had to clean a smashed bottle of lime pickle to boot). Can't seem to find a replacement, someone has a 3d printer design for something that looks similar though...
- Would some L shaped shelving brackets help? You can get a lot of different types and sizes and they aren't very expensive.
  
  I'm a bit hesitant to drill anything into the wall given I'll be out of here in 6 months and don't want to go through the whole spakfilla nonsense especially with a carpeted floor. I've got a friend who has a narrow lightweight shelving unit that she doesn't need any more, that'll probably fill the gap in terms of additional storage once I've cleared everything up. I'll have to store some kitchen items in the living room as there's simply no space
  
  and another.
- You could probably cover the scuffs with some permanent marker or paint (even nail polish, if they make it in that colour)
  
  There are wax crayons made in most natural wood colours for this exact purpose. Lifesaver if you (or the bloody movers!) scratch a wooden floor.
  
  Yeah I'll probably cover the scuffs for now with permanent marker. Not sure if I will bother storing this/taking it with me when I leave this joint. Maybe my mood will be different then and I'll make more of an effort to try and keep it...
  
  There are paint marker pens and and also scratch fix pens especially for wooden furniture
  
  another great idea

Blue skies, smilin' at me ... for the first time today.

Slowly trying to reorganise my living room and unpack in bits and bobs. Realising how goddamn little space this place has sigh. Can't fit my wfh desk and my bookshelf on the same side of the room without the bookshelf completely blocking access to the blind cords and window winder... unless I have my desk facing the window but that seems like a really bad idea. Then again, I doubt I'll be wfh that often. It would help if I didn't have all these damn boxes in the way...

Androids update for my phone has changed all my overlay weather thingies to Fahrenheit. I've gone into every setting I can find and changed it back to Celsius, I've restarted my phone, but it's still Fahrenheit.
😑😑😑😑
- Nice looking widget though lol
  
  Oh and that is transparent, what you're seeing is my background I made in Pixlr lol.
  
  I fixed it now lol! The android 15 update reverted all languages to US English. So I had to go into every setting (there were 4) and revert them back to Aus English. Then changed the units to Celcius, AND THEN remove the widget and re-added it so it would update 😮‍💨 But now it's all metric again, lol.
  I sent Pixel feedback about it via my phone lol, because that was a major pain in the arssssssse
  It's the just widget for the default Pixel Weather app haha
  
  It's called "at a glance", the colours behind it would be Stud's wallpaper:
- Mine did that, too. I don't know what changed, but after a couple of days, it changed itself back to Celsius. It was weird. But ever since the update, it has a habit of not even telling me the weather half the time, it just says the date
  Slightly related: outlook and windows outright refuse to respect my requests to give me the weather in Celsius. Windows is always telling me it's 75f° in Melbourne or whatever, and when outlook sends me daily summary emails at 3am, if I have anything on which is just a teams meeting and doesn't have a location attached, it will tell me the weather in a random city in California

It was worth going out!
Was decent and Defs feeling a lot better despite not having heaps in common with the people.
Time for leftover HSP, Cat cuddles and PS5

I’m going through my social media profiles retrieving anything I might want to keep and deciding who to give an email address to. Perhaps a vpn might help me continue using them but then if I get caught that’s it.
I’m not expecting many people with weaker ties to keep in contact if I close them.
Ps. This isn’t actually going to protect children, just drive them underground and into unregulated spaces. It’s 100% a grab for surveillance/control and cheap political point scoring on the part of the Australian government
- What are your specific concerns with the legislation? Are you expecting to be asked to upload your passport to continue using Instagram or something similar?
  
  I refuse to tie my rl identity to my online presence. Some things I need to such as ordering essentials but this can go get fucked
  Edit: I’m not giving them any of this. Or my myGov. https://theconversation.com/australias-social-media-ban-for-kids-under-16-just-became-law-how-it-will-work-remains-a-mystery-244736

I made a big batch of chicken stock today. Seven serves in the freezer for future soups. Also a load of scraps & soft bone in the dehydrator for future dog food.

Sleep? What a novel concept.
- You've given me a great idea for my afternoon activity.

Today is the type of soaking rain that is great for the garden. Pity my garden plan is to pull out almost everything currently there and put in some new plants that have not arrived yet!
Oh well, I do have some tomatoes that will be enjoying it, along with the potatoes I planted yesterday.
- At least it will be good for the soil whether plants are in there or not
  
  yes and no, too much rain washes the nutrients out of the soil

So Indian Dubstep is a thing. I'm actually kind of impressed. Beats the standard Bollywood stuff you generally hear.
Edit: oh shit now it's down tempo lofi! fucking cool!
It's interesting that traditional elements are kept in these western song structures.
- Metal too https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mi106DZJhuQ
  Check out Bloodywood https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a65A626Ed20&pp=ygUKQmxvb2R5d29vZA%3D%3D
  
  YESSSS BLOODYWOOD IS SO DAMN GOOOD!!!!!!
- You should check out Tiger Beats Elephant Grooves on PBS FM on Monday evenings (back catalogue available online) - I'd been really sleeping on Indian music until I heard some of the sick beats on that show

gees I look tired, it's the weather, i've had a headache all week
also new glasses this week 🤔

Feels so muggy, yucky!
- Nothing a beer and some left over pizza can't fix mate 🍻🍺🍕
  
  Beer is basically liquid bread, so why not have it for brekky? 🍺
  
  Funnily enough because i chose to eat the massive meat roll and almost made myself sick again from eating it, I still have that 2nd pizza!
  No beer though sadly.
  Just a lonely bottle of pink moscato
- I'm just grateful it's not hot and muggy!
  
  It was a little warm here. I caved and turned on the cooler but I think I’m going to run the dehumidifier mode now and see if that changes anything

I haz a headache, but I am waiting for my tyre change. The cafe across the road has no oat milk and I can’t stop yawning.
Also Captain of the Crap Sleep Gang Log #17633416.

I forgot how loud pubs can be.
RIP my ears.

Good morning. I’m off to the market. Please communicate any requests
- A rose and an apple tree please.
- Breakfast please. A bacon and egg roll would be great.

I wonder if there's a vegan equivalent to salami? The best part of salami is the spices they put in it so surely there could be a plant based equivalent to the filling part
- I think it is also the fat which has absorbed the spices and spreads that flavour through the dish. You could probably infuse an oil with the spices and use that in a lot of dishes, but if you are trying to get something to eat like a stick of salami it would be tricky to get that sort of texture etc.
  
  Probably one thing that would help there is animal fat goes solid whereas plant oils usually stay liquid. Maybe something like tofu could absorb all the flavours
- fruit leather
  https://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/how_to_make_fruit_leather/
  ingredients
  Fresh fruit (apricots, peaches, plums, berries, apples, pears, or grapes)
  Water
  Lemon juice
  Sugar, optional
  Spices such as cinnamon and nutmeg, optional
  
  I'll need to check this out. I think the boys might like it as well

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- Glorious Bacon! Please bestow upon me blessings of coffee and motivation to tidy the house 🙏🏼
  
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- Some olives please. Mine have gone off and I donne wanna walk to the shop.
  
  🫒🫒🫒
- I'll take a third breakfast I guess.... I'll go eggs Bennie with smoked salmon not bacon please
  
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The plastic bottle irrigation isn’t working as intended. Leaving the caps off means the water all just runs through fast rather than remaining as a reserve for the plant to sip from. Of course. The opening is too large for capillary action, there is too much air pressing the water down and out the holes.
If putting the cap on quickly after filling doesn’t fix the problem I may remove them and replace with terracotta pots.
I don’t want to have to… at least I’m doing all the initial mistakes on the zucchini plants which are quite tough
Edit: It didn’t work even with the caps on. I think I made too many holes. Fuck it I’m just buying some standard drip spikes.
I was also flipping up leaves to check for whiteflies and accidentally snapped the central vein of a leaf 😭What the hell. I’ve never done that. I’m distracted and out of sorts today
- My mum got that working and it sounds like the problem is too many holes.
  I think all it takes is one toothpick sized hole and you control the flow with how tight you screw on the cap.
  
  Ahh ty

Ahh… I’ve noticed Melbcat’s fur looking a bit spiky with a few greasy spots on her lower back. It’s hard for her to groom there because of a long back and bending with arthritis but I think the increased oil is from the vitamin b deficiency.
The mega doses orally from the fortified nutritional yeast and the monthly vet shots don’t seem to be enough then. I’m going to have to harden up and give her the extra shots at home.
For now I’m helping her with brushing and she hates it
- Check with the vet first. Even at the end, Punkin didn't need more than his monthly shot.
  
  I was told by the vet because of her gut malabsorption (ibd) she would need shots weekly, I just have a thing about needles and was also afraid of accidentally hurting her.
  Feeling bad as I don’t think feeding her the fortified stuff is getting more of it absorbed… guess I have to