Daily Discussion Thread: 🐲 Sat 10 Jan 2024 - eviltoast

Happy Lunar New Year everyone 🐲 🧧🧧🧧🎉

  • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
    9·
    9 months ago

    Well that’s annoying. I woke up super early (for me anyways) to go to Echuca on the train for the day and 10 mins before we got to Bendigo they told us the Echuca has been cancelled and the train will terminate at Bendigo with a coach to Echuca

    I don’t really want to do the coach but they said it’s at least 20 minutes away anyway

    • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      I ended up coming back to Melbourne and just station hopping until 5ish. I’m about ready to pass out (yay 3 hours of sleep), but 15 individual train trips, 407 new photos/video and at least 400km traversed!

  • oztrin@aussie.zoneEnglish
    8·
    9 months ago

    Six places on the list viewed (plus two not, but they’re out of my price range so they don’t count), four boxes and two pictures dropped off at the op shop and a quick Aldi run done.
    I think I’ve earned a prosecco.

  • calhoon2005@aussie.zone
    7·
    9 months ago

    Anyone here old enough to remember when Rage would debut a new “unplugged” show?.. I used to tape them, both on the VCR and cassette for my Walkman. Currently listening to STP Unplugged - I remember thinking Scott Weiland was so classy sipping that huge glass of red through the set, in hindsight it was probably like 3/4 of a bottle in that glass.

    Edit - thinking about it, I had a DiscMan at that point but no way to burn cds. Hence the Walkman - with the auto reverse magic.

  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
    6·
    9 months ago

    It has been enlightening listening to a spine specialist , McGill. Really changed how I think about my back, the pain and what happened. There is no such thing as an achy back, there are injuries and aggravating weakness.

    seems I have stress fractures of one or two L vertebrates and a touch of a disc hernia on my left side. Ten hours a week of walking on hard footpaths, walking thru pain, with hard shoes will aggravate a weakness from prior injury or re-injure.

    • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
      4·
      9 months ago

      They seem to have been learning a lot about both the spine and pain management in recent years and a lot of the more recent information is quite different to the traditional advice. A lot of the pain seems to be caused by things like bracing in anticipation of pain, which means that learning to react differently can have major benefits. So it is not “all in your head” as it is real, physically based pain, but learning to think about the pain differently can change your physical responses and reduce the pain.

  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zoneOP
    6·
    9 months ago

    The Fire Pig 🔥 🐽 has chosen to go into the city so I the Fire Snake 🔥🐍 and the Wood Rabbit 🌳🐰 will go and deposit some bottles 🍾 and do something with the rest of the sunny☀ day while the Water Snake 💦 🐍 runs around outside barking.

    I’m having so much fun with this. 🌳🐰 isn’t. He assures me he is indeed a 🦁 and he’s sticking to it.

    • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
      5·
      9 months ago

      According to the Vietnamese the year of the rabbit is actually the year of the cat. And a lion is really just a big cat, so I think the claim is justified.

  • Tofu@aussie.zone
    6·
    9 months ago

    Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋

    Happy Lunar New Year!

  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
    6·
    9 months ago

    Resting with the cat. She loves being in bed all day. She’s the little spoon, being cuddled like a teddy bear. And when I rustle for a peppermint she’s instantly alert to get her own treat from a packet.

    We’re a pair of tired oldies who sometimes share a hot water bottle

  • PeelerSheila @aussie.zone
    6·
    9 months ago

    It was time to upgrade the Xbox One, so I took the Nintendo switches (which haven’t been used as much as we all thought they would be) plus games and traded them in for a new series X. Ended up costing me $126 with the traded stuff, so I’m pretty chuffed about that. Not as chuffed as the Elder will be on his birthday when he gets it! The switches were just not as enjoyable to use as the 3DS was.

    • Nath@aussie.zone
      2·
      9 months ago

      I’m the opposite. I gave the kids a switch for Christmas, and ended up buying a second hand switch lite for myself. I am loving it.

      I have a Skyrim campaign in my pocket. Have to sit around for an hour while the kid has Tae Kwon Do? No biggie. It’s a wonder I don’t see lots of these things on the train. I would use it if I had a longer commute.

      The kids use theirs on the TV 90% of the time, but they have upgraded from an Xbox (original one) with wired controllers.

    • bananafungus@aussie.zone
      2·
      9 months ago

      This just gave me the mini butt kick to get rid of my Switch! Also, was definitely not into it as much as I thought I would be considering I’ve owned a fair few Nintendo handhelds, I kinda blame game prices.

  • Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone
    6·
    9 months ago

    I’m playing Mass Effect 2 and being evil. My god some of the lines are hilarious!!!

    I forced a shop assistant to give me a discount by standing outside the store and yelling about how they were discriminating against me because I was poor 🤣

  • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone
    5·
    9 months ago

    Instant Pot Bol sauce on so I have something easy to reheat and put with salad for next few days. Plus I have chopped back the monstera and am now feeling very guilty. She was magnificent but was sprawling everywhere. Now I can get her growing upwards with a moss pole and can get back use of that part of the balcony.

    • calhoon2005@aussie.zone
      3·
      9 months ago

      So, with instant pot recipes for pressure cooking, what do you do with the cooking time if you want to say, double the recipe?

      • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone
        1·
        9 months ago

        I am still learning but basically it depends more on the density. I have a small 3L one and I cook mince sauces for the same amount of time as in the 6L. or say one chicken breast is the same time as two. But a chopped up chicken breast is less time then a whole one

  • just_kitten@aussie.zone
    5·
    9 months ago

    I seem to have misplaced my debit card. Searched high and low and can’t find it at the place I’m housesitting, my own place, or the route I walked to the shops earlier today (the endpoint at which I realised I was sans card). Nobody’s used it in the past 6 hours either.

    Found out I could put a temporary lock on the card and I’ll try looking again tomorrow. I really don’t want to get a card replacement, so many things I’ll need to change 🫤

    Normally I would feel panicked or frustrated but I still feel numb (not necessarily comfortably).

    I do have a mysterious craving for salmon and pizza that’s come out of nowhere though. None of the pizza places here in Preston seem to do in house delivery :( not having a car sucks like that. Old Kodak it is. And just a marinara pizza with garlic bread.

    • Thornburywitch@aussie.zoneEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      Check your wallet - it might have been put into a slot that’s already occupied by another card, only behind it not in front. I’ve done this more times than I can count.

      • just_kitten@aussie.zone
        1·
        9 months ago

        It’s definitely not in my wallet because the last place it was at was in a slot on my phone’s flip cover. Stupid, stupid place to put it because it has fallen out from there before…

      • just_kitten@aussie.zone
        2·
        9 months ago

        I loooove their pizzas and would’ve gone for that but no delivery sadly. Not that I could see on their website. True to their name

  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zoneOP
    5·
    9 months ago

    Someone in the street has a very noisy car exhaust. He revs it. He idles it. Turns it off. Starts it again. Revs it, idles it, turns it off. Repeat throughout the day. When he does take off it backfires repeatedly down the street. I hope it blows up.

      • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zoneOP
        3·
        9 months ago

        Oh that would shit me up the wall. I think this dude’s a visitor. To find out I would have to climb on the step ladder and look over the fence and that’s too much effort for me to care. I just want the motor to die.

    • dumblederp@aussie.zone
      3·
      9 months ago

      I taken to pointing at them as they drive past and making the “I’m wanking” gesture with my other hand.

    • Thornburywitch@aussie.zoneEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      Jam a potato onto the exhaust pipe. He won’t be able to start the engine. It may take him some time to think of checking the exhaust as its a long way from the engine. Does no damage and gets the point across.

  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
    5·
    9 months ago

    I’ve been avoiding the news but saw something awful just now. What’s going on in Gaza is sickening. This shit has to be war crimes.