Discussion Thread 🌻 Tuesday 20 May 2025

Just met hambams vet at the dog park. Lovely lady and very hard core knew her shit and doesn't suffer fools that's for sure. Had a nice long walk and chat with her around the park. Convo got surprisingly personal. She invited me back to her practice up the road, had some champagne w/ her and her assistant and got some great tips on hambam.

Offered me use of her clinic to leave the dog there and for training whenever I need if I need to go help my mum.

So random.

There are kind souls out there but I was not expecting that.

The kitten squeeking is just too cute lol

They’re looking very healthy
- I'm starting to wonder if I'm one of many people feeding them...

Leaving Melbourne for the first time since 2018. Off to Perth this afternoon!

Enjoy! Go to Kings Park Botanic Gardens, highly rate it.
- I went to UWA for about a semester and lived on campus at Currie Hall - King's park was my back yard! I love it there
Safe travels.
Have a lovely time!
Have a great time!
bon voyage 💐
Happy travels!
Enjoy your break!

If ya'll are delaying the dentist piece of advice: a cleaning regularly can prevent a filling. Ask me how I know. Also if your yet to do a will please consider this an order to go get that done ASAP.

😣 both are on my list of things to do. Denist is happening next Monday, but I keep putting the will creation off. Too many hard decisions
- Wills are replaceable. You can make one set of choices now, and change your mind later and make a new Will. This is actually recommended if you have significant lifestyle/situation changes - eg. retirement or divorce or serious illness. If cost is holding you back, some Will providers do a cheapie basic version that can be suitable for say, next 10 years or so. That buys you time to do serious estate planning.
- are you waiting for a sign? Good news this is it! Do your will. Do it soon. Tomorrow isnt promised and you just know the government will give your money away to Gina!
I do have a dentist appt scheduled in less than a month but I'm dreading it because I have NOT, despite repeated pleading from my dentist, been flossing regularly let alone using an electric toothbrush like I said I will. I might push the appt back a bit depending on when I wrap up uni so I can try and make up for bad dental hygiene a bit (I know that's not how it really works, sigh).
I signed up to be on organ donor lists and get do not resuscitate orders back when had just passed 18, but I haven't yet done a will because I have fuck-all to leave behind anyway tbqh. I'll definitely get one drafted if/when I buy my own place, some day in the murky future.
- Those floss piks help a lot. (The green Allsmiles ones are the best ones.) Having a packet next to my bed means it gets done.

First the Liberals get utterly trounced in the elections, now the Nationals are actually deciding to leave the coalition! Well well well. What a year for Australian politics. This will make passing legislation even more interesting... will the Liberals survive being reduced to 28 pathetic seats across the entire country?

Personally I'd love to see country Australia wake the fuck up but these nuclear-touting ass-backward idiots look set to stay for a while. Maybe this breakup could be good for the Liberals to regain some respectability

theyll be back. nationals cant win without libs to try take the city seats. Fuck knows they aint winning any city/suburban seats themselves!
- Maybe they shouldn't aim to win but to represent their electorate.
I was thinking about this when I saw the news. Now is the best time for them to split since they're both so politically insignificant. It won't make any difference and they'll probably all vote the same way. They'll probably get back together in a few terms when the libs seem electable again.
- Well, this might be a wildcard but I'd like to see the Liberals start to follow more in the line of the Teals and importantly, stay that way to win back more seats. In which case the Nationals will either hold onto their ideals and become increasingly politically irrelevant, or be dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century in order to form a coalition with the reformed Liberals.
I'm loving the idea of the Libs as a minor party. Some consequences for the 2 party preferred system though - Anthony Green or young Mr Briggs will have to generate a whole new set of statistics ...
- I suppose it becomes an issue with the 2PP system where the Nats and Libs both contest a seat which is generally quite rare, I think? I would expect that even as separate parties they'll agree not to fight each other on the same turf too much as they wouldn't want to split the vote and have (shudder) some other party win.
At last. The Liberals have not had the interests of rural Australia at heart for decades. Not since that cunt John Elliot betrayed them and sold Elders. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Elliott_(businessman)
- I don't even know if the Nationals have the interests of rural Australia at heart besides mining, really...

Frost on my neighbour's roof this morning. Haven't seen that before. Grass at tramstop was white with frost except for a ring around each tree roughly equal to the canopy of that tree.

Blessed are they who share pet blessings!
thank you, i feel blessed 🙂
🙂‍↕️

Brrrrrr.

That is all lol

I've got this bacterial rash either as a result of how sick I've been , or along side it. My skin feels so dry and gross. I feel like either an unmasked Deadpool without the healing factor or the infected guy in a zombie movie that tries to hide it and spreads it around the office.

rest and phisohex

how goods a crumpet with a bit of butter and peanut butter?!

butter and peanut butter
That argument needs to be put to rest.
There needs to be both.
It has been written and therefore is.
- theres no argument. Theres people who like it and then people who are wrong.
A bit? Lol. Butter needs to be slapped on with a trowel.
Peanut butter and butter. You and @Bottom_racer@aussie.zone are my people.
What is wrong with you?
crumpets are made with little holes so they can hold butter and JAM or HONEY
crumpets are a little sweet so go with sweet things
english muffins with PB is good
It's one or the other and lots of it as well.
My jealousy is rising
I like butter and miso.

I think I am on the mend. 🙂 More rest today .

Good to hear, Goonsie!! Keep that rest and water up!

I've finally figured out how to get Gibson to go where I want her to.

I move to the room and close the door.

BOOM!

2 seconds later she's going nuts for me to open the door for her lol

Cats are always on the wrong side of a door.

Rent paid with about $30 for the next fortnight. Not the worst we've been, but still

That's pretty lean.
Can you get some food assistance? That’s worrying
- The cat has wet and dry food, and some wet treats. We have rice and cheap meat, bread, etc we'll be okay.
  It's just interesting how easy it is to go from 'okay' to 'oof' so quickly. I expected it, but damn lol
Can I drop you off a box of food?
- That's very kind of you! There is a foodbank just up the road from me, so it's not so desperate yet! We'll be okay and it wasn't unexpected - your kindness is appreciated! 💜
!

Didn't get the dim sim pizza, spent my lunch break finalising boyo's birthday card and present for tomorrow. I'm really excited to give him one his presents!

I really wanted to see the frankenpizza 😔
- Next time it's out I'll get it for you!

Ugh company in the little set across the road have put up a new ultra high intensity bright white and blue logo light that blares into our dining, lounge and bedroom and they run the fucker all goddamn night.

Time to go karen at the council...

Light encroachment I think it's called.
- They're absolutely fucked i just found out the goddamn thing is visible through our front door glass WITH OUR LIGHTS ON at 11pm.
  
  Lights off it penetrates the hallway and encroaches on every single fucking bedroom

It is time to get up. I’d rather not

So no one here knows how to produce a FOI report from salesforce...

Reports in Salesforce are annoying even though it's supposed to be one of the main things it's good at. But I've never done a Freedom of Information report before

Throw up. Wonder what sort of alien plague you've contracted before remembering you took turmeric capsules yesterday.

My husband was on that trend a few years back, he lasted about 1 month.
I remember Michael Mosley did something on this a few years ago. It’s only effective when eaten, supplements don’t work. Something about heat activated or fats to absorb it. So just enjoy some curries instead! Huh I actually found it Tumeric
- I cook with it all the time. Just found these in the cupboard and thought why the heck not?

I was going to go to Ballarat today, but I think I might put it off until tomorrow so I can get a few more things organised to take up.

rate cut! Heck yeah. Bank passing it along too!

Tim Wilson is 128 votes ahead with only 86 envelopes left to count; Zoe can't win on indicative preferences but (a) let's see what the formal distribution of preference yields, and (b) CAN THE MARGIN GO BELOW 100?!?! In which case it's more likely that the AEC would do a recount.... though I still think it'd need a total fluke/miracle for Zoe to retain her seat.

Can't take the risk. RECOUNT!
- If the margin goes below 100 after the official count, abso-fuckinglutely!
  Let Tim suffer as much as possible.

I've just arrived at work. I was in my car with the heater on full and a beanie on.

it's cold!

Having a quick coffee before I go out on duty for an hour.

More sorting at home turned out to be a good decision. I got a bunch more stuff onto the hard rubbish pile (just in time, they've just picked up all the metal bits) and have found someone to take the chest freezer from the shed. A couple more things are up for sale, and with the freezer and some other clutter gone I have enough room to actually start sorting and packing things up properly.

Whittaker's Creamy Caramel is like Mars bars before they turned shit.

I miss when Cadbury was good, and owned Yowies. The closest thing to the good old Cadbury is their Easter chocolate, but it's still a pathetic facsimile of the OG 😭
Whittakers is where it's at 🤤
My treat has been rice crackers with Nutella and whole peanuts sprinkled on top.
Well the Dutch savemore Nutella, but whatevs.
- Aldi have cheese rice crackers that are so good I could eat a whole packet. The BBQ and the seaweed ones are really good too.
- If you can get those things that are like rice cakes but made from corn 🤤 They are awesome
I miss Snickers from before they turned to shit.
- Snickers were the best.
That's a family favourite here 🤤
adds go shopping list
- Be prepared for the $8.50 shock.

Birdbath has frozen. Hope the birds have ice skates.

Used to have to go round the horses troughs and break the ice in the mornings.

Most of my team are offsite and so I'm getting absolutely nothing extra done except reading about my favourite KDramas around answering any emails/calls that come in.

Place near me is advertising a dimmie pizza today... should I do it?

Would I do it? Yes. Is it gonna be shit? Yes. Would I still do it? Yes.
The answer is YES! and report back with pics
"we were so busy asking if we could that we never stopped to consider if we should"

Small effort makes me tired. Should rest more. 🥱

You've been sick. Go easy on yourself. Hope you feel better soon
Go sloth mode

Today's going okay, but I'd like a nap

Movie review. The Hound of the Baskervilles. 1978.

a homage to silent movies by Peter Cook and Dudley Moore,

is very english in it's burlesque style

4 hobbits just for the music, which is very very good

and for Dudley Moore's bosom which seems to grow every scene ...lol

( if people are looking for a story that makes sense they are looking for the wrong thing, it's just a framework for pete an dud to make lots of jokes with a bunch of their friends and for dud to play beautiful music )

Movie review. The Hound of the Baskervilles. 1959. With Van Helsing as Sherlock Holmes and Saruman as Henry Baskerville.
A book accurate rendition of the story.
It was ok. 2 hobbits

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