Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.

  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
    23·
    1 year ago

    Many years ago I grew and birthed a baby. Today I did it again. 😎 Feast your eyes on my loaf

    Image of a loaf of bread

    Update will happen when I saw into the thing.

    Image of loaf with two cut off piece. One buttered.

    Verdict: Lovely crust. Soft inside. Maybe a little under done but still edible. 4/5 yum yums.

    Note to ones self: Do not eat the whole thing before the roomies come home.

    https://www.recipetineats.com/easy-yeast-bread-recipe-no-knead/

  • underwatermagpies@aussie.zone
    15·
    1 year ago

    Apparently it’s International Cat Day. I’d say make sure to spoil your cat, but mine’s very spoilt already.

    Cat tax: a tabby cat sunbaking his paws through the window

  • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
    14·
    1 year ago

    The Herald Scum are at it again. According to them firefighters are being offered a “whopping pay increase”. 12% over four years - which means 3% a year. Wow, less than half the current inflation rate, how outrageous. 😡

  • landsharkkidd@aussie.zoneEnglish
    13·
    1 year ago

    Had a chat with my boss, and I apologised for listening to things. He said that it’s fine to listen to things, just not to have my phone out. So podcasts and music are back on the menu boys!

  • PeelerSheila @aussie.zone
    13·
    1 year ago

    Exercises for this morning were completed, and to my surprise the Elder Minipeeler asked shyly if he could join me! It was a good teaching moment about not going at it too hard when you’re beginning with exercises so you don’t hurt yourself and get disillusioned, and doing 10ish minutes a day is a good habit to get into no matter what age or ability you are. He also showed me some exercises he’s been taught at school!Let’s see if he joins me again tomorrow or starts his own thing!

  • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
    12·
    1 year ago

    Shout out to daycare for being a pit of germs. He’s been in 1 bloody day and Im already fighting off some stupid cold thing.

    • Eagle@aussie.zone
      10·
      1 year ago

      Your immune system is about to see shit it hasn’t ever seen. Best of luck, stock up on hydralyte and panadol.

      • Kudra :maybe_verified:@aus.social
        6·
        1 year ago

        @Eagle @TinyBreak and if you don’t have it yet get a standing script for Ondasetron from your GP. Saved my ass 3 times in the first 12 months of my daughters many illnesses (yes, pretty much everything came from childcare, possibly one from swimming class) the one time I didn’t have it with me was miserable and the first time I had worshipped at the porcelain throne since pregnancy (which, fortunately, I only had to once… yes I was very lucky)…

  • stardustingss@aussie.zone
    11·
    1 year ago

    New fave baby age unlocked: he’s 9 months and when I put on a silly voice for a toy he thinks the toy is talking to him 🥲🥲🥲

  • batarians@aussie.zone
    11·
    1 year ago

    Curse my stupid healthy sleep routine for making me miss the cool alien space junk. I’m feeling awake and refreshed, but at what cost?

  • heyheyitskay@aussie.zone
    11·
    1 year ago

    It’s okay guys. The prawns were NOT on the counter. They were defrosting in the fridge. The years are getting to me and I can’t remember shit and now I can’t find my glasses. God save me.

    • PeelerSheila @aussie.zone
      8·
      1 year ago

      I’m always saying to myself, "If they’re not on your face they’re in the case" to get me to put them back in the case when not in use. Doesn’t work, I’m often leaving them in some random place!

    • just_kitten@aussie.zone
      3·
      1 year ago

      Now you can have prawns to celebrate!! Isn’t it so good that it wasn’t the other way around? What will you be making? 🍽

        • just_kitten@aussie.zone
          2·
          1 year ago

          I’ve always thought of prawns as a finicky, difficult dish but since starting to use frozen prawns I’ve realised how they can actually be simple enough

          • heyheyitskay@aussie.zone
            2·
            1 year ago

            Depends on what you want to make I guess but seafood in general is pretty quick to cook and can be a really simple meal if you’re not fussed.

    • A1kmmAEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Once mine fell on the floor next to my computer, and the arms camouflaged perfectly with black mouse / keyboard cables etc. It took me a long time to find them that time - if you haven’t found them yet, good luck!

      • heyheyitskay@aussie.zone
        1·
        1 year ago

        Thanks lol I found them right on my desk but I actually don’t normally leave them there so that’s a new one but it was still a big duh.

  • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone
    10·
    1 year ago

    There was a legitimate big bang about 40 mins ago and I heard it hooray. Apparently something entering the atmosphere.

    Videos people got are pretty impressive.

  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
    10·
    1 year ago

    If I killed 3 people and seriously wounded another accidently with my cooking my face would be puffy from crying and my body would be so incapacitated that I would not be able to move from the couch.

      • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
        5·
        1 year ago

        Do you know what I reckon she’s done? She’s grabbed a toadstool from the back yard and mixed it into the Coles packaged mushrooms, fried em up. Dig in. Bon appetit.

        • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
          6·
          1 year ago

          I wouldn’t be surprised tbh. What an idiot. Like, at least buy them from the dealer down the road and have a fun trip. Don’t grab the fatal ones from your yard. Some people 🙄

    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
      6·
      1 year ago

      It’s quite possible it was completely accidental and she still doesn’t care because she hates them because they treated her like a servant.

      It would not surprise me if they collected the mushrooms themselves and asked her to cook them.

        • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
          7·
          1 year ago

          if it were my relos they would never heed my warnings

          I note the victims were in one of those baptist cults. They are pretty misogynistic , so I bet they wouldn’t listen to her if she said something.

          Also possible they wouldn’t share the mushrooms because there weren’t enough

  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
    9·
    1 year ago

    So since we are a very international mob here let’s share some good and bad flying stories.

    I think my fave flight was flying on xmas eve/xmas day, London-Singapore-Melbourne. The pilots came on board dressed in santa suits and we had xmas dinners and got gifts! Surprisingly the plane was half empty.

    Another time, this was before 9-11, I arranged for young Miss Seagoon ( age 15 ), and her friends who were travelling with us, to visit the cockpit. They were allowed to experience the landing into Singapore, they sat in the cockpit. . ( and that’s a lovely airport at night , the harbour is so pretty with all the lights )

    • calhoon2005@aussie.zone
      7·
      1 year ago

      my dad worked for a multi-national so i travelled a lot growing up.

      • i remember flying business class on Malaysian Airlines in something like 1987 or so. It was our family and like 3 other people on the whole top floor of the 747. The flight attendant came up to me and asked how i would like to be addressed (i was 9), i said your majesty as a joke…they referred to me as your majesty for the rest of the flight.

      • another business class flight around the same time (give or take 5 years), coming into land at Kuala Lumpur when there was a tropical storm happening, pilot tried 5 times to land, each one more turbulent that the last. me aged ~7 or 8 throwing up progressively louder and more violently with each touch&go.

      • also through a perk of my dad’s work, i got to fly on a private jet (Gulfstream i think) Melbourne to Wellington. Sat in the cockpit from takeoff to landing with a headset on. was cool

      for the record, i have not flown business class since the 80s.

      edit - oh yeah, and that time i flew to Argentina and the plane had an engine failure 2 hours after we’d passed NZ. I was sitting window seat over the wing, and was watching out the window. saw something that looked like that vapour like you see on take off and landing sometimes on a cold day, all wispy-like…then it got a bit thicker and blacker. then there was a small bang and little puff of extra smoke. then the seat-belt lights came on and the pilot very very causually told everyone that we had had an engine failure and would need to turn back to NZ.

    • Thornburywitch@aussie.zoneEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      Best flying experience was during the airline pilots strike. I had to go to Adelaide on business, and caught the dreaded army cargo carrier there. Which was interesting in its own way but NOT COMFORTABLE. Rows of high school moulded plastic seats welded together and bolted to the floor with seatbelts superglued onto the plastic. Only some of the bolts were loose and the whole confection wiggled and groaned whenever we hit a patch of rough air. Felt like a Centrelink waiting room with added sound effects and no toilet.
      On the way back, however, I scored a seat on a 12 seater private jet - single line of seats, sheepskin seat covers, ample leg room, luxxury food, and the pilot did a low altitude sweep over the Coorong which was humming with birdlife and full of water. That flight was magical. We stopped in Mt Gambier to re-fuel, so I got to see the blue lake which was very blue. Also some of the best fish & chips I’ve ever had at one of the hotels. All courtesy of the plane’s owner.
      Another good one was from Alice Springs to Sydney over the western plains of NSW. It was just on sunset, and we got high enough that we could see the whole terminator from the plane windows - that is, behind us was broad daylight, then a fuzzy zone, then black night ahead of us. No clouds, you could see the darkness creeping over the land as the sun set.

    • Force_majeure122@aussie.zone
      6·
      1 year ago

      Melbourne to Toronto 14 years ago (via Sydney and Vancouver), ~28 hours all up. I was withdrawing from nicotine and couldn’t sleep a wink. It was a torture I wouldn’t wish on anyone.
      Flying from Bali to Sumbawa about 20 years ago as a kid. 12 seater airplane. Takeoff was held up for half an hour while the pilot unscrewed the panels containing wiring behind all the cockpit controls etc and tinkered around in there for a while , which was in plain view😬

      • MeanElevator@aussie.zoneEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        I flew Melbourne to Toronto via HK (cause it was much cheaper). HK-Toronto leg was like 16 hours. Never again.

    • useless_modern_god@aussie.zone
      6·
      1 year ago

      I’ve got another one for ya. Barely took off from Anchorage, Alaska. Around a 500 meters AGL, a flight crew come bolting towards the rear of the aircraft screaming “WHERE’S THE MANUAL!!??” Everybody looking around shitting themselves haha. Me included.

      Turns out we had multiple bird strike. When deboarding after landing you could see the front of the plane riddled with red splotches. Like some giant paintball gun shot the plane.

    • mysticgreg@aussie.zone
      6·
      1 year ago

      Oh man I also remember going up to the cockpit on a Melbourne-Darwin Ansett flight back in 1988 or so. Such a shame my own son will likely not experience that (unless he becomes a pilot himself of course).

      My least favourite flight would have to be on a work trip across the Cook Strait between Auckland and Christchurch, in a small (I think Saab) commuter turboprop. Went through a storm so bad that I swear the wings were about to come off… the only flight I’ve ever been on where a round of applause broke out on landing and the pilots looked physically relieved afterwards.

    • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone
      5·
      1 year ago

      Flying into (and out of) Lukla airstrip Nepal in '99. On a school trip… that was a very bad idea.

      2nd scariest moment of my life.

    • bull⚡@aussie.zoneEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      I’ve done a fair bit of flying in my years but I can’t think of a single eventful tale to tell from them lol

      No misbehaving passengers, no plane troubles… all pretty boring. I did miss a plane to Thailand once in 2014 because I was too busy chatting in Nandos (so before the international entry/customs in Melbourne Airport) and didn’t realise it was so close to boarding/didn’t take into account how long it’d take to get through customs and then get to the gate which was a bit of a hike. Ran but didn’t make it. That was embarrassing. The annoying thing was I was REALLY early to get to the airport.

      Told family and friends the plane had been cancelled until the next day rather than admit what happened. Luckily nobody checked online to see if it was a lie… but I did admit it to my family only earlier this year what actually happened.

    • MeanElevator@aussie.zoneEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Best flight - got upgraded to business class on a Cathay flight from HK to Melb. Fell asleep at one point in the comfy seats and I swear when I woke up, the flight attendants put a blanket on me and tucked it around my arms.

      Worst flight - flying Caledonian airlines from Toronto to London (Gatwick airport). The food warmer was down so everyone enjoyed a very cold meal. Hot water ran out halfway through due to some technical fault. My parents were quite miffed. Thankfully it’s only like 6-7 hour flight.

    • landsharkkidd@aussie.zoneEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I don’t have many stories. I have such a PTSD trigger response to the Barefoot Investor though because when I was coming back from Sydney, I had the middle seat and I’m also fat so this middle age grumpy Karen was giving me death glares because I have the audacity to be fat meanwhile I had no idea because I was trying not to have a panic attack (I hate flying).

  • Taleya@aussie.zone
    9·
    1 year ago

    Current pet peeve: Repeated doorbell ringers.

    I’m not talking the “press button, wait , try again” kind, I’m talking about the utter bastards who will press the button, then if you have the temerity to not IMMEDIATELY open the door to their vaunted presence will hit the button again. And again. And again. And again.

    My desk is less than 6m (EDIT: I just measured with my rolling tape for shits and it’s actually 4.785m from my desk, to the office door, out the door and then back down the hall) from the front door. If you ring the doorbell more than once in the time it takes me to get from my desk to said door I should be legally permitted to beat you with a chair.

    • mysticgreg@aussie.zone
      5·
      1 year ago

      Similar problem at work. IT, but we are -not- helpdesk/support.

      Have a few frequent flyers who will continually just keep knocking on our (locked) door, constantly, no pauses, until someone turns up. Don’t even have the decency to knock and wait at least 3 seconds.

      Inevitably it’s something they should be calling the helpdesk for (no we cannot reset your password or create a shared calendar for you) or they want to ‘just borrow’ some random cable that we’ll never see again. They get all huffy when sent away, but it keeps happening.

      So thankful we won the fight with management to be allowed to lock our door, it was even worse in the before times…

      Sorry that triggered a rant… :|

      • Taleya@aussie.zone
        2·
        1 year ago

        if they’re frequent flyers flag it with their managers. Make sure to couch it as friendly concern for the poor poor idiots dears