Discussion Thread 🦘 Friday 17 October 2025
Discussion Thread 🦘 Friday 17 October 2025
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@PeelerSheila@aussie.zone when is your birthday because I'd like to wish you a very happy birthday and hope all your wishes come true. You are an inspiration 🎂 ❤️
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We ❤️ you, Peeler!
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Happy birthday Peeler! 🎂
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Happy birthday from me, too! 🎂🥳
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It's the 16th 🙂 And thankyou for your kind words
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My front security camera had a short story to tell me today. A small dog came to visit, trotting up the driveway and trying the front door and side gate. A bit of wandering around, looking like it expected someone to let it in. Then a person showed up, there were happy greetings and the dog was picked up and carried away. Poor dog, all the houses around here look the same!
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the irises have started blooming, the colour is intense
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ooh they're out!
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Beautiful. I was just wondering yesterday if they were blooming yet!
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:) not frilly but the colour is so deep
I was reading they are one of the few flowers that come in all three colours, reds, yellows and blue/purple
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What a gorgeous colour! 💜
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Beautiful! Mine started blooming out the back and exMIL decided to chop them and put them in a vase in her living room ☹️
Edit: she knows not to, I've told her off before.
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I have been mildly stoned daily this week and have been very productive (home related things). Still managing to chill and nap regularly.
Great week off.
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Actually living the dream.
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If this is what retirement is, I'm ready.
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I used FB for my buildings FB group, and insta for memes, but it gives me the heebies when it recommends "friends" from highschool. Like, no thank you, they were all bullies. It gives me schadenfreude though when I check their profiles and the girl bullies are all stuck in a pyramid scheme though 😂
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Didn't really feel like a swim after work but dragged my ass there and of course felt 1000x better after some laps. Being in water is healing, even when it's chemicaled up the wazoo.
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I will definitely be going to the beach tomorrow
maybe one of these I will even go in the water
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Go karting was funnn. We had enough for two groups, after the first set of races we got split into the fast group and the slow group. I was the slowest qualifier for the fast group 😎 and then I came sixth of eight in the finals which was the fasties
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My elbows hurt for a week afterwards. I have shitty elbows though.
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Lots of complaints about sore wrists but I was okay, let's see how I pull up tomorrow
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Friend who is a big procrastinator and only started her assignment today keeps messaging me to tell me how frustrated she is because her code didn't work or something and she wants to kill herself. Fucking yikes.
I procrastinate like that too but I keep those thoughts as inside ones.
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FWIW, they really sound like a programmer.
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Talk like that concerns me. I don't find it funny, tell her to not ever say anything like that in jest
and if she is being manipulative I would cut her as a friend.
What does she want from you?
If she doesn't overtly ask for something what do you think she trying to manipulate you into doing?
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Yikes. Sounds like girl needs to join a coding forum or something for the technical help, address her pacing struggles with the teacher, and not say such things to you even as a joke.
Edit: She needs help if she’s actually serious and it’s not hyperbole or even if she’s genuinely just overwhelmed. Friends can help of course and I’m sympathetic but I feel like without boundaries and proper supports in place this lady could bring you down with her
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What are we doing today Skip?
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Taking over the world! Oh wait..
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Spending the day on the couch with a wheat bag and chocolate.
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I’ve got my wheatbag in the microwave as well speak.
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Lego & vacuuming
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We have a wedding to attend 😃
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Practising for open mic night soon.
Sleeping because the roadworks etc
Maybe some video games but probs just more music stuff.
Maybe a night out if band rehearsal isn’t tonight.
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Work
Finishing an assignment hopefully on time
Maybe watching an episode of something if I finish the assignment before the deadline.
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Cheers everyone and 'ave a good weekend 🍺
Update on my experiment. I definitely feel better than before. My head, nose, ears, throat feel a bit clearer. Possibly just masking symptoms but atleast I can breathe a bit better. I need more Guinea pigs if anyone is game.
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Ibuprofen is antiinflamatory, hayfrever is partially inflammation.
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True. I didn't expect it to work as well as it has. I walked out to the letterbox and came back. No sneezing. I was very surprised. It's like a booster.
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Cheeeeeeers!
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Cheers 🍺
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I've been silently informed that just because I've come back from band rehearsal, doesn't mean I get to disrupt her quiet time by singing.
Goodnight all ❤️
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Good night.
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I spent an hour fighting with youtube revanced only to install new pipe via f-droid without issue and immediately start watching YT on mobile without ads.
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I still haven’t got around the pin of this unused spare android to do that. I have an idea how but unsure if it’ll work and kinda gave up in the middle
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New Tame Impala album dropped. Still listening, but he's gone down a different direction from all his other stuff.
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I did not like the pre-release singles I heard, but I am going to dive in anyway and hope for the best. Currents is one of my favourite albums ever, what happened?!
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Agreed. Dracula sounds like it should have been a Dula Peepa track. Also that line about watching Family Guy?
I'm listening to the album right now, and so far I'm not really meshing with it. I miss his signature guitars and drums too. I feel like his older music was more 'eventful' if you catch my drift. E.g. the different parts of Let It Happen.
I predict Afterthought will be the commercial success from the album. Very much a dance track.
I don't dislike the album as much as the new Taylor Swift one though!
Do let me know what you think of the rest of the album when you listen to it :)
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Question of the day: What's something good that happened to you this week?
The other day the man and I had been out and about and when we got back home I said "You've either got a stone or nail in your tyre because i can hear click click click". I got out and had a look and yep there was a small screw in there. I felt like a hero because any more travelling and he would've been changing a tyre at 5am on the highway.
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The derelict van belonging to the squatters in the local (derelict) milk bar got towed by the council. No more of their 3 flea-stricken mongrels wandering in and out of everyone's front yards. Yes those dogs were definitely NOT being looked after properly - all were entire males and challenged every other dog in the street and people too. Sometimes very loudly. They chased small children from the local school coming home, were fed mostly on KFC and were disobedient to their 'owners'. And the squatters' non-registered land cruiser got towed as well. I think everyone in the street rejoiced at the sudden increase in parking and now can walk their dogs without fear of large vet bills. And let their children come home after school unaccompanied. Which I think is healthy. There's far too much helicopter parenting nowadays. While I understand there's a housing crisis, and mental health (and drug) issues make it hard to find a cheap rental, keeping 3 hungry, disobedient dogs in a derelict van only a couple of blocks from a primary school is just plain bad pet parenting. I'm very glad indeed that there were no tragedies.
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Was at the shops with my wife and and saw an elderly couple struggling with their trolley.
Took the trolley to their car, wife chatted with them. I loaded the groceries and they couldn't stop thanking us.
Was hoping to get in their will, but alas a thank you was enough.
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I’ve reduced my internet time and pivoted my interactions a bit more to some nicer people. It’s early days and I feel like I should keep my internet usage minimal (plus one or two are still friends with the mean people - a bit worried they might follow me even though I left) but it’s a start. Not everyone is going to automatically hate you.
I finally managed to get the vets to prescribe the antibiotics. I missed picking them up today (doh) but can tomorrow.
I’ve decided to accept a little help around the home sometimes, from maybe one person I trust.
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Wow that's lucky!
I think I already commented it a few days ago, but people at uni asking me to paint with them! Also have received a bunch of compliments this week, which may or may not have boosted my ego 😊
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Yes I did! So jealous! It's the small things that give you that boost to punch the air and continue! 🥰
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Definitely the job. I’m not designed to have so much spare time. I find that I use my free time much more effectively when there is a hard limit.
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That's definitely a good thing. Well done. 👏
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Nothing in particular but it's just been a good week. I've been eating less animal based food. I've reconnected with a bunch of old friends. I've lost some more weight. My knee hurts which blows because I've been really enjoying doing more exercise. Spring, it's not kick-in-the-dick cold all the time. I've started doing an NDIS course to try and retrain my myo degree into something more useful to me. I seem to have a bunch more money than I thought. I normally don't pay much attention because I live so frugally and it's been stacking in the background. Not life changing money more like an extra grand for booze and toys - like the Ninja Creami, I'm having a tub of low-cal sorbet most days now - which is odd because I'm probably frugal to a fault so splashing out feels weird.
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Not me, but on my way home I told a guy in the tram that his boots were the coolest thing I've seen all week (they were, pointed leather cowboy boots with red all over them, very baller). I like to think that is one thing that sticks with him as a highlight of his week!
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I managed to get a "I feel like a proud dad" comment out of my boss when I pulled off a joke on him.
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NAS win. Pulled the drives and blew on them like my Atari 2600, it booted back up no worries. Checked the error log, nothing recent.
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I used to do that to my Gameboy cartridges lol, works like a charm
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I've had a lovely afternoon in the sun, planting some of my tubestock and listening to the kids next door having a great time playing outside with their parents. There is something very uplifting about hearing children play.
I'm a bit behind on where I would like to be with the planting - digging out the grass is tough work - but I am progressing steadily. I do have all the herbs planted now and the larger natives, it's mostly the smaller ones and ground covers to go. It is nice being able to go outside and see actual plants.
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Nice! I especially love that you have dwarf lemons. (I had to go back to remind myself what plants you had.) They’ll be good for fish, lemon drinks, and maybe some jars of lemon butter.
My favourite variety is Meyer lemons
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My sister is acting like a mysterious teenager. She's trying to work her way up in her company into a team that's actually relevant to her studies and interests. Did an interview, doesn't want to talk about it. Ask her how she is, she will not respond. I think she thinks I'm prying, but either way, I hope she's fine
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Maybe she just doesn't want to jinx it!
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8/10
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Sweet 8/10
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6/10
many guesses involved todday.
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8/10
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7/10 not bloody bad
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3 I'll get back under my rock
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This just dropped on abcnews. Might be of some interest to people here. Common sense really, but it's kinda nice to see it spelled out.
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Train!
At Newport railyards I saw a goods train go by that had 60 cars ( I counted ) , heavy cars that had long bogies with big suspension, each car with bogie must have been 15 metres. Including the 3 engines the train would have been a kilometre long. All types of cars too, refrigerated, containers, chemical. All going to rural Victoria. :)
Cool.
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Metallica - St.Anger is a fucking banger song and I won’t hear otherwise
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I've never understood the hate that album got.
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It was album that came out following the doco Some Kind of Monster. Which I’ll admit didn’t paint them in a great light.
The metal community can be high grade cock waffles sometimes though and the Metallica hate was in vogue.
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I read an opinion piece that St Anger is an alright album if you treat it like a punk album and skip the songs before they go on too long. I can see the appeal, but you're also saying 'This album is great if you skip half of it.'
There's probably a severely edited down version that goes alright. Like if they played a St Anger medley live like they'd do for Justice sometimes.
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I think I may have found a hayfever hack by accident. Yesterday I took my telfast as usual but after a few hours I noticed it wasn't kicking in. I had a whopping headache, aches and pains. You know the deal. So I thought fuck this and I popped an ibuprofen with my coffee. After an hour or so I felt normal.
I'm trying this again today to see if it wasn't a fluke. Of course I'm not gonna do it every day. Will report back later with the findings when it's beer o'clock.
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This glasses thing is really doing my head in. One pair has weird distortions, and both make me 'seasick' if I change focus. Understood they are for Reading but I don't want to puke if the cat meows for attention
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Are they multi-focals? I believe they can sometimes take a bit of getting used to. But my first pair distorted things badly because they had done something wrong with the script and everything was bent out of shape, I had to get that pair replaced.
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Are they multifocals? They can take a couple of weeks to get used to
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No, singles. What I don't get most is the supposedly identical scripts being so different
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Oh dear… special earphones for phone seem to be broken and the standard pin style doesn’t fit, so I thought to go back to the trusty old iPod shuffle. Redownloading music to freshen the selection, oops computer entirely full? I better move important but less frequently accessed stuff like pictures over to the storage drive to make some room.
Dig through to find those drives and… it’s not there. There is no second drive for storage. When I’m pretty sure there was before, and there usually is. Is my own computer gaslighting me? I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.
I hate Windows 11 so much and wish I never “upgraded”.
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Tram ticket inspectors on st Kilda rd. Successfully confirmed even if they see you touch on only when they board they won't do anything. Quickly touched on when they got on right Infront of me, then presented Myki for checking and she was just like - don't worry I saw you touch on, you need to do that when you board the tram. And that was it
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Half the fun is getting on the tram and as it's slowing down to stop, looking to see if there's ticket inspectors ready to board. If that's the case, this is my stop.
Ps. It's rare I don't have a ticket.
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I've had the exact opposite happen on the bus. Watch you then come stomping on. Also demanding to see my concession card when I have a full fare ticket. Zero common sense.
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My sister did that on the tram and they told her that she could've been fined! Interesting...
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Newest historical series: newest whing about no underwear! King& you are found lacking
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Apple & cucumber salad and 2 croissants and coffee please chef.
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🍎🥒🥗🥐🥐☕️
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Croissants sound good, I'll have those please.
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🥐🥐
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May I have a Mexican croissant?
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🌵🥐
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Can I please get a haircut and a burrito?
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✂️🌯
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A child sitting on your lap insisting they watch train videos on your phone means no ride in today. Since yesterday wasn't so bad, I wonder if all that rain planned for next week will pan out?
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Well that's the end of my little break :(
Good swim, no meltdowns, no "what's for dinner", good sleeps, good comet, no locking of horns...
Only spoke to a dog at the dog beach and the magpie. Bliss.
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