• TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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    11 months ago

    Shout out to the legend trying to intimidate me in his new Audi this morning. Bruh I’m in a shitbox hatchback missing more paint than I have emotional issues, you really think I’m scared of you hitting my car? Its 6am, windy AF and I’m doing the limit. The threat of you scratching your +100k car against my 7k (If that!) car aint the threat you think it is.

    • MeanElevator@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Hey now, you don’t how stressful his high powered and important life is. Do you know how expensive Audis are and how much bullshit one hast to put up with to afford one??

      Next time, get out of his (yeah that’s right…HIS) lane and carry on with your lowly non-Audi-owning life.

      • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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        11 months ago

        Bro is game even driving it around my suburb. I mean its not fankston, but we’ve got more commodores with exhausts cut off than we do BMWs. Dunno whos worse, the teens fanging it or the soccer mums in huge SUVs they never quite mastered.

        • MeanElevator@aussie.zoneEnglish
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          11 months ago

          Similar mix to my hood. Done up cars drive by either young european dudes OR european dudes my age that haven’t grown up yet. SUVs driven by people who can’t drive. Mercs, BMWs and Porsche Cayannes all over…again aggressive and clueless.

          The new breed seem to the Rovers. Seeing heaps of them around for some reason.

  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
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    11 months ago
    Cat rambles

    Melbcat got her antibiotics yesterday! Now I have to wrestle her (gently) to ensure she swallows the weird banana flavoured liquid instead of sneakily spitting it out. I am deeply unpopular for a few minutes afterwards (until it’s time to cuddle again).

    If the infection reoccurs after this she may be referred to a specialist to check for underlying causes. I’m so glad I’ve maintained a bit of an emergency fund because if need be I will absolutely be getting a lift and going for it.

     

    I’ve found an old smaller sketchbook + just a normal pencil sharpened in a standard way (both more portable) and am using it to scribble for art exercises. I’m also doing them as multiple tiny drawings on one page just so it doesn’t take forever to get the idea down, shade, draw precise lines or just finish. Also doing it while watching trashy video essays on youtube.

    I really don’t have a lot of spare energy to create so trying to lose the perfectionism and just do easy structured doodles is probably the only way I could get anything done.

    • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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      11 months ago

      I was convinced I was gonna walk out to find the pergola gone. It was built by an idiot before we brought the dump so its not exactly structurally sound.

  • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
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    11 months ago

    Got to my early morning grocery delivery before the birds this morning. It was out there for 15 minutes so they must have been busy

      • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
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        11 months ago

        The gel stuff they use in those deliveries stays cold for a really long time. They’re all enclosed as well so you’ll get no birds in there

  • oztrin@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Just took Sammi for her ultrasound - poor love hadn’t been herself all yesterday to the point where I phoned the vet again - they suggested admitted her overnight but there wouldn’t have been anyone there so I decided to keep her home. Wise choice - the wind woke us both up at 3 and she was straight off with the snuggles and purrs and this morning she was demanding breakfast - unfortunately I couldn’t give her it since it’s a fasting procedure.
    Now having a coffee and cake in Mentone while I wait for the school traffic to clear.

    • Taleya@aussie.zone
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      11 months ago

      wait, is this like a union meeting, or a mid week office catchup?

      The former is ok, the latter is fuuuuuuck off

      • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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        11 months ago

        it was an ad hoc “telling off” meeting by a department who thinks they have power (and probably SHOULD have power) but in reality they dont. Kind of a nothing burger meeting.

        • Taleya@aussie.zone
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          11 months ago

          Yeah fuck that. The whole acknowledgment was probably an attempt to look more important by them

    • MeanElevator@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Welcome to country, or acknowledgement of country?

      I’m pretty sure a welcome to country should only be done by a first people’s elder (or representative)

    • Thornburywitch@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Is this any different to standing up and singing God Save the King/Queen/Whatever or the ‘National Anthem’ before sporting events? A ritual to be gabbled through before the real business begins. As such, it’s a travesty of what such a welcome should be.

      • MeanElevator@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        11 months ago

        I like when we have an elder do a welcome to country. It’s different and always pretty cool.

        Doing the acknowledgement before every meeting is basically tokenism at this point.

        • Catfish@aussie.zone
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          11 months ago

          This is very much my feeling. And if you’re going to do it every bloody time at least use the short form not the 6 paragraph version.

          Disclaimer I have a genetic but not cultural link here, so don’t often claim.

        • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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          11 months ago

          I like when we have an elder do a welcome to country. It’s different and always pretty cool.

          Hundred percent. That feels like we’re honoring the indigenous communities.

      • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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        11 months ago

        Is this any different to standing up and singing God Save the King/Queen/Whatever or the ‘National Anthem’ before sporting events

        Yep, you’d find I’d have the exact same reaction to god save the king before each meeting. Are we really gonna do this 6 or 7 times a week?