think I’ll watch Strangers on a Train tonight. been many years since I’ve seen it. 👍
shakes fist at google sheets
Fucking Alphabet changing the shortcuts for their Chromebooks and suites from the accepted standards -shakes fist- pretentious af
Another day another data compromise. This time it’s the Shebah ride share. At this point any business using name address and dob to verify a person is not good enough security.
I use random passwords for everything so I’m not worried about the password getting out.
What’s a shebab
It’s what you get after a drunken night out for the trip home
😂😂
Taxi service catered for the female demographic.
Female drivers only and passengers I think.
clearly a male IT Security team though.
Why do you say that?
Oh
I really want a hot dog for some reason. Not even a nice one. I just want whatever low tier fake processed rejected scrap meat cylinder things they have at Wendy’s
does wendy’s still exist?
It’s still around, barely: https://wendysmilkbar.com/
There was still one at Eastland last I checked, as well as Parramatta in Sydney.
There were also stores in Chirnside Park, Waverley Gardens, and Cranbourne, but I’m not sure if those ones are still open?
The one in Horsham was still open a couple of years ago. Still open according to the Googley map
It’s in the middle of a shopping centre and was heaven to go to when I was a kid. It’s right in front of a Kmart. You’re dragged into the plaza by your parents to go buy new shoes from Kmart (“these fuckin kids are outgrowing the bloody shoes every bloody month!”). You walk past Brunbys bakery, the smell of bread, and the sight of pink icing taking up your whole vision. You start walking to it. Mum says “no. We’re here for bloody Kmart and that’s ALL.”. Sad, you keep walking through the plaza and towards the Kmart. You pass all the clothing shops and fancy shoe shops (aka: footlocker). The smell of new clothes and shoes now overpowering the smell of Brunbys. Then as you pass the toy car rides, and gumball machines, the smell hits you. WENDYS. The smell of hot dogs overpowering everything else. Must. Get. Hotdog! And then you see it: a giant “W” marking the source of smell, like an X marks buried treasure. The W is so gigantic and pink, it instantly steals your attention and gaze. Sensing what’s about to happen, mum says “NO WENDYS” and pulls you into the Kmart. Very sad now, you go into the Kmart, past the prison guard they pay to stand at the door and observe the parents one by one caving to the pressure and taking their children to Wendy’s. You buy new shoes, but what’s even the point of going to kmart if you don’t get a Wendy’s??? Eventually, shoes are bought, Kmart gets another 60 bucks, and you leave. But nothing is going to stop you from getting Wendy’s. “PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEEEUH”. Eventually, she caves.
You did it. You’ve won.
Now you can happily enjoy your hot dog and milkshake on the way back home with your new shoes
If you’re my sibling your also missing the last step: get the banana smoothie thing and spew in the car. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME! My mum used to get pissed off like she wasn’t the person responsible for buying my sibling the drink that was proven to make them spew every time they got it. Like after 4 or 5 times mum, lets be honest YOU are the problem here.
Gratitude thread :)
Grateful the days are slowly getting longer.
Grateful my melatonin arrived safe and sound. I put off ordering more until I was almost out of the last one, and then when I did order them, I got a notification that “shipping will be delayed” because apparently they missed the plane or something. It only arrived the day after they estimated it would, so it wasn’t that bad
I’m grateful for the time I get to spend with my kids. I look them to the park on Monday and took turns taking them down the slide. They had such fun saying ‘Bye bye’ to each other before going down. It feels like I’m in the good old days right now and I’m lucky enough to know it
Mine are older now, and they love watching the cute videos of them doing stuff like this when they were little.
It’s funny though: They’re way too cool to make videos of their play, now. I try and tell them “think of how much fun it’ll be in a few years to look back on the today”, but nope.
That is incredibly sweet ❤️
Grateful for my family not being too sick, and for the sunshine so I can put out some washing while I’m at home 😀
Grateful for this lovely weather - drive to client’s was much more pleasant and took ten minutes less
Nothing but keyboard clicks and a loudly ticking clock. This office is so depressing.
Each to their own I guess, I much prefer a quiet office.
We have a visitor here once every week or so who is one of those people that seems to think silence is a bad thing to be avoided, so it’s -endless- chatter, it’s a nightmare when I’m trying to concentrate.
The odd bit of conversation is fine, but he seems to be deeply offended by silence and it drives us nuts!
Too much babble is bloody annoying, but listening to the day bleed away is it’s own awful
better than that monster who was playing music off a Bluetooth speaker the other week. Hopefully it means HR have taken them up to the 25th floor and pulled a Russia on them.
Or the people in my office that don’t know the concept of an ‘indoor voice’
Maybe you need to adopt the role of angry office teacher
"UM, YEAR
944, MY GRADE 5’S ACT BETTER THAN YOU. NOW USE YOUR INDOOR VOICES OR YOU WILL ALL BE STAYING INSIDE AT LUNCH!Sidenotes:
- It’s always the bloody year 9s
- 44 wasn’t a random number, apparently 44 is the median age of an APS worker. They were the most office based field I could find stats on
I’m 45 and work in Victorian Public Service. I have never felt more average :)
I’d like that compared to everyone wearing headphones and being in random teams meetings all day. Can’t concentrate. Have to wear headphones and play music louder than I’d like.
Anti - Gravity thread :
This is brilliant
Anti - Clarity thread:
Clarity thread
Ah yes, that must be why.
Beep Beep 🚚
🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋All the fruit please and a blue heaven milkshake.
🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍋🟩🍌🍉🍇🍓🫐🍈🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥝🍅🍆🥑🦋🙏🏻🥛🥤
I suddenly feel like some sausages.
🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭
An avalanche of Mexican food por favor
🌯🌯🌯🌯
🌮🌮🌮
🌮🫔🫔🌯🌮
🌮🌮🌯🌯🫔🫔Thank you, I am now buried-to in deliciousness
Noodles please chef. Lots of noodles.
🍜🍝🍜🍝🍜🍜🍜🍜🍜🍜🍜
Thankyou chef. Hit the spot perfectly 👌
Anyone here been to Basement Comedy Club? I’ve got tickets for there tomorrow night, but do they pack people in like sardines?
I think I accept that I’m too worried to go - I’m flying to NZ on Sunday and am doing loads of limit my chances of becoming sick before this holiday. So… does anyone want 2 x tickets to Andrew Hamilton (from YeahMad) tomorrow night?
Study day, discovered I’ve filled most of my assessments as we’ve been going. I’d forgotten I’d done that. So my homework is already done. Just watching some YT vids of vets showing safe practices to handle various animals, and animal behaviour.
Every day I am grateful to be doing this for myself.
That’s a gold medal performance, well done!
Ahh thank you! 🙇♀️
Well done! It’s a huge step that will pay off in spades ❤️
Better than I was when I was in highschool lol, prolly because I’m not trapped in a classroom of ferals ha!
Thank you! I’ll keep it up so I don’t fall behind! More time to chill on my days off heheh
Same for me in high school, plus the dumbass rebellion on my part.
I went back a while ago now and studied and it was a great time!
Oh yeah I feel that, I didn’t attend year 10 at all haha.
It feels so good to go back as an adult and be fully invested. Not just because of any money spent for the course or degree, but because we do it for ourselves, to better ourselves.
I wish I was that organised! Although I have done more than I thought but it still is like pulling teeth.
I’m not perfect lol, we do what we can! Getting any task done is an achievement worthy of praise, no matter how big or small!!
Eeeeeee!
Eeeeee!!!
You and I can do this, fellow student! 💜💜
Yes we can!
I’m coming to a very sobering realisation that my mind really isn’t as capable as it was five years ago, it’s taking a lot more effort to understand academic journal articles and new concepts than it used to. I spend so much energy on maintenance tasks and quelling anxiety, that there isn’t much left for novel/challenging thinking outside of a conversational context
Trauma and covid will do that. Don’t blame yourself, it’s got us all
of course it’s harder to learn new things as we get older but it’s not from any lack of ability or stamina
At an older age humans have a vast bank of knowledge and complex world views that explain and unify all the knowledge.
Each new piece of knowledge had to be tested for correctness and whether it fits in the world view. The world view is also tested to see if it is still the best explanation for all the knowledge acquired. The more knowledge and more complex the world view the more testing.
It can be tiring.
I hear you. Just concentrating on staying on top of stuff is exhausting
I thought some life admin would become less taxing with experience and age, but I find that they seem to take on more of a mental load and not just from the post viral fatigue.
hi are you me?!
understand academic journal articles
I’m not reading the room quite correctly but I just forgot why I went to the fridge… twice… so I believe in you :)
I took my washing off the line and took my letterbox key with me.
I tried to put my dirty plate in the fridge instead of the dishwasher.
I don’t have a banging social life or much physical capacity, so I’d always relied on my brains as something to be proud of but even that’s going downhill too :(
I’d accept it if I was more capable of ripping out 10 metre long retaining walls and growing bushels of vegetables …at this stage in life I feel like I’ve dumbed myself down to a pencil pushing automaton. I guess I can still change that just that it’ll take more effort than imagined.
There is no such thing as too late. Believe me.
I’m so tired and cranky these days. Everything is just a hassle
Why can I only press the upvote button once? I’m mashing the button and the number isn’t going up by more than one…
I gotchu
👍
Mood
Afternoon brain fog is heavy. Really feel a quick power nap coming up soon.
Bit of an odd one tonight for dinner. Zucchini slice and banana bread with custard.
It does feel good to use up dodgy fruit and veg though.
I could be doing homemade garlic bread with a side of orange for dessert.
Look on the bright side too. I did eat chocolate cake for breakfast the other day.
I keep seeing videos of a crazy lady snoot bopping big cats
I know they’re gigantic danger cats that will kill you for fun, but I can’t see them as anything except oversized stray kitty cats. They have NO BUSINESS being as cute as they are. They even do the slow blinks! And purrs!!! It’s kind of fucked up that something that looks that huggable and petable is also so murderous (or at least, murder capable)
I agree, it’s incredible how much of cat body language translates from small to big cat species. But it is also important to note that many of those big cats in those videos were raised from kittens, generally. They might not be able to be released, for medical or socialisation issues, and it is better for their welfare to remain looked after. So their body language and how they act is influenced by their proximity to familiar humans. Wild big cats would communicate similarly between themselves, but would not be able to be captive and happy. Enrichment can only go so far when taking an animal like that from the wild, hence why they always try to rehabilitate and release of possible.
Interesting Cat Fact: big cats (tigers, lions, etc) don’t purr or meow. They growl and roar, grumble. But the cheetah does both; it is essentially a big small-cat.
I always like to imagine cats throughout history, and their owners kissing them and being annoyed with them. Like that cat that walked on that monks writings from the 15th century. It’s just so wholesome and cute to think this learned fellow was writing and his cat just walked across the ink and his page. Immortalised forever. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/centuries-ago-a-cat-walked-across-this-medieval-manuscript-1766202/
Yeah, of course. No matter how rich I was, I’d never keep one as a pet. I’ve seen people keep servals and similar as household pets, and it always really annoys me. Not only does it deprive the animal of their natural environment, and more often than not, companionship, when something inevitably goes wrong, the animal’s going to cop it.
Thankfully it does seem that these days it’s moved from “the wild animal tore some dude abducted from the wild tore a dudes arm off! Let’s kill it!!” To more of a release or rehome into a safe environment situation, but it still can’t be a good situation for the animal itself. That gorilla that crazy lady in America kept really solidified that in my mind.
I did actually see a video of a cheetah meowing in my rabbit hole of adorability, too. It was so cute, and not what I was expecting at all
All that said, when I brought planet zoo, I was gushing over how cute the hippos were as well. Oh, and I think chickens are cute. And goats. And sheep. And kangaroos. Maybe I’m just a defective unit
One of my best memories was visiting with some people in India that had a pet Lynx rescue with a spinal injury. It was semi-tame. About the size of a Labrador. It had quite a strong playful bite but never broke my skin. I got to play with it for about four hours. It’s claws and teeth were large enough to no longer be sharp points like domestic cats.
Boyo used to have a ServalX before they became totally illegal here. The stories are neverending as was the couch replacement. Not a favourite person of the Council runaway run.
