WORLD SLEEP DAY 🛌
Up to Harry Potter 7.
Just another fight for world domination story.
All these nuts are the same. Blofeld, Dr Evil, Putin, Smersh, Voldemort.
Voldy was more nuanced than that. The movies don’t really cover it that well, but his big motivator was to be special. He used control of the ministry and domination of the muggles as a carrot for his supporters. But at a personal level, he didn’t care about power and control as end goals.
He wanted to be the most renown, feared and admired person in the world. He wanted to be so special that everyone just did whatever he wanted. Not that he wanted to rule the world - but whoever did rule it answered to his every whim.
It’s a very petty and vain motivator. But, I can actually believe it. Actually ruling the world sounds like too much work.
Dr. Claw, Skeletor, Brain, Shredder, Baron von Greenback…
Edit: I think I just aged myself big time =)
NARRFF!!
makes as much sense as anything
Appleman, Texas Pete
In my fave action adventure show as a kid, Thunderbirds, there was no evil organisation trying to take over the world 🤔
International Rescue was totally a front for something nefarious I’m sure.
Nobody gets the cash to have such a sweet base and all those cool vehicles by being legit :D
Wow! Lucky they warned me 🤣
I did warm calling for SP Ausnet, back when they were installing smart meters. Boy oh boy, the amount of drivel I heard about the “dangers of 5G”. Literally had one guy threaten to shoot our tech and myself. (I got him a police escort instead haha).
People are wack af
Funny how they still use their phones and microwaves lol
We still doing the 5G thing? Damn.
We’re a little behind out here in the west
I went on the puffing billy today. I didn’t like it, but TIL that anything can become fun if you have people to shit talk with
Also maccas was broken. No drive through, no app, no self serve, no chocolate ice cream, no frappes, no receipts, no registers. They were hand writing the orders. I really did take a trip back in time today
There’s a Maccas out Puffing Billy way? I thought they protested that
Edit: Oh ok. They’re in a bunch of places out there now
Idk whether there are or not, but we stopped at this maccas on the way back, so the other side of the city
The maccas outage is apparently world wide or nearly. link
Maccageddon.
McGeddon - do you want FRIES with that?
Maccapocalypse
McPocalypse - regular or large?
Oh wild. I thought my maccas was just uniquely fucked.
They were still taking EFTPOS payments, I’m pretty sure that at least for my store the issue was only that the orders could be put through, but the screens displaying them were all broken, so they closed the self serve and drive through so that people’s orders wouldn’t be losf
Metal detectors at the G.
Rumours of my criminality precede me
I saw them doing sniffer drug dogs at Oakleigh station early last year. It was a full scale operation, with command vehicles and everything. Kinda wanted to go through it just because I’ve never experienced it before, but my roommate was smoking a lot of weed and I didn’t want to end up being strip searched so I just took photos of them from a safe distance away instead
My bird :(
oh poor little duolinggo bird!
Tragedy
It took about a minute for the hot chip line to run out of chips
Shit 2 weeks at work and I’m OK? It’s my job to look after my people even if they have fucked up and they have
But I’m not doing great generally. I’m feeling worn down. I will literally expend my all my energy to provide support for my team, but I’m flagging.
I’m thinking about the milky caffeinated dumplings (edit) @Force_majeure123 was dreaming of.
I have zero energy, lactose intolerance and my stomach is being a massive jerk so I can also only dream. But I found a coffee pastry cream recipe. You could probably stir some condensed milk in there too for a Vietnamese coffee sort of taste.
I was thinking the thin slippery unleavened dumpling skins might not go well unless you wanted to fake it with mochi or use one intended for sweet buns. I wondered about sweetening a pork bun dough recipe and making it like bao.
Then I found out Cantonese custard buns exist. Perhaps if you cooked the pastry cream down thick enough or added coffee to the intended custard filling it might work. It doesn’t look quite creamy though. These are more complicated but look runnier.
Actually… the supermarket used to sell tubes of coffee flavoured condensed milk. You could put the flat dough skins in muffin trays to hold up the edges against spillage, squeeze it into the centre and quickly wrap it inside.
I can’t see the coffee tubes at Woolies or Coles but there are still tins you can spoon it out of… unfortunately the brand is Nestle.
I think steamed is probably the way to go. The filling would need to be either frozen or some sort of gel to melt when you cook the outside. Not going to try it, coffee disagrees with me.
You could use invertase like in chocolate cherries. I have no idea how it would respond to heat though. Would it speed the liquification, get denatured/not survive the cooking process, or would it still take weeks as the dough went stale…
Freezing is possible. They do it for Bombe Alaska. But it could cause the filling to split
I love that you have put so much thought into this!! I think the ‘more complicated’ Cantonese custard buns look like the closest to my dream - but it was even runnier. I feel like you could just add some caffeine powder to that and it would be the one. Strangely enough - in my dream the dumplings were caffeinated for sure, but were not coffee flavoured, just milk flavour. Maybe I need to think about it it patenting this idea… 🤔
Yeah I love weird food science. It’s interesting to think about. There was this Wonka book when I was a kid that let you make edible marshmallow pillows.
Sounds like a great breakfast idea, or perfect for an afternoon slump
Edit: The filling sounds like an unfrozen ‘sweet cream’ flavour icecream base
I’ve never been the type of person who plays online games. But this helldivers game is pretty fun.
Is it because it’s coop instead of competitive? Or because spreading managed democracy is just that fun?
I generally stick to single player story driven stuff. But this is really, really cool.
my rig just arrived today. DEFFO giving this a go.
Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋
An absence of pastry and a sleeping pill please
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Mapo tofu and rice please
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craving steak right now
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Bacon and egg muffin with a hash brown please
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Look it’s great my friend loves his dog but posting 10+ photos a day of the dog on social media makes me think he might have issues.
some people might want to his dog pictures :)
they might not be able to have a dog and are living vicariously
Honestly there are better ways to do that - go volunteer at a shelter and offer to walk a homeless dog etc.
The FishieCAT has earned a hat trick for disconnecting the internet three days in a row. It would help if the moron who installed the NBN box knew what plaster plugs were (or put it on the same wall as a power point)
Hot cross buns
Hot cross buns
Now my house smells of
Hot cross buns
If your daughters don’t like them
Give them all to me
I will happily take them
Hot cross bunsAny music makers in here? Just curious.
Can I ask what genre of music you make? Where do you get your inspiration from? Favourite bands?
Hi! Sorry for the late reply 🙂
I listen to everything from Ben Harper and Jeff Buckley, to nine inch nails and Deftones.
My inspiration mainly comes from my past and my day to day life. I find it I’m being a hermit then I lack inspiration. I need experiences to push my creative buttons.
These days I mainly make acoustic singer songwriter stuff, play in a punk band, and also make my own “Egyptian industrial” weird thing lol
How about yourself?
We play all those on a Friday.
I like anything a little bit different. Talking Heads, Supertramp, T rex, George Thorogood, Paul Simon, RHCP, Jack Johnson. So many to name. Mainly stuff with a good bass.
I don’t know if you know who Natacha Atlas is but you might like her. She’s an Egyptian-Belgian who we sometimes play.
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In the last couple of years I’ve been learning drums. Have had a few jams with a mate on guitar. Does that count? Tell me I’m an ARTIST!
It absolutely counts! Electric kit or acoustic?
I started on electric, but kinda hated it, so recently splurged on an acoustic kit, which I love!
if you do stuff you’re an artist
but being an artist who is famous and earns a good living, that’s something different again
some people want to be famous, some just want to do their stuff and maybe make themselves and other people happy and that’s enough
I’m due to make my ~quarterly subscription movie/tv show switch from paramount to somewhere else. Who’s got a good tv show I should watch that’s recently released somewhere?
Switch to plex and watch whatever TF you want whenever you feel like it until the end of time (or your hard drive fails)?
Never heard of Plex before wow. Looks kinda… Awesome?!
It’s great. There’s also JellyFin or Enby if you don’t want to pay for anything, but imo Plex is simple enough that it’s worth it, at least as a jumping off point. But of course they have a good enough free tier too
