I really don’t know why parliamentarians are bickering about Israel/Palestine. Spending hours on the parliament floor fighting about it does nothing for Australia, you know, the country and the people you were elected to represent.
The people they were elected to represent have been making repeated and strong representations to their members of parliament on this issue.
To not discuss it would actually literally be doing nothing.
And? Politicians ignore their constituents all the time on issues they very much have control over.
Very convenient that parliament time is being chewed up on this. It very much looks like you are doing something, full well knowing you have no power to have any effect over the outcome and you’ll never have to be held to account for anything. Yes Greens I’m looking at you and some of your silly outlandish statements.
It’s the perfect noisy issue to distract the Australian population on issues politicians could take an interest in but choose not to.
At best, the issue takes up way too much time in parliament relative to the involvement we have in it and the amount of control we can exert.
We already providing Palestine circa 30 million in aid this year, as well as calling for a two state solution. But even the most strident have to recognize at some point that no matter what Australia does if these two groups want to fight they will continue to do so regardless.
As for the constituents who feel strongly about it, if they really want to make an impact then by all means travel to Palestine as aid worker, or protest in front of the Knesset.
I actually agree with a lot of your comment. We as a country are almost completely irrelevant to the actual issue. If people want to get het up about it, go the relevant piece of geography and protest there where it might do some good. Here, they do the whole performance of ideology without risk to themselves. God forbid that they should actually, shock horror, put themselves in danger.
Someone said it here before but it’s basically equivalent to a Facebook post.
I think I like metal now… I mean, soft metal… but I keep listening to all these Electric Callboy songs. I prefer the non-screaming bits, but appreciate value the screaming gives to the overall experience.
You’ll find yourself going deeper into the rabbithole looking for harder stuff. I like technical and progressive metal, it’s amazing what some of those bands can do
I like all sorts of metal, my favourite being Power Metal. Blind Guardian is great, and Battle Beast has an amazing female singer who is just an absolute boss. Blind Guardian doesn’t really do screamo, but Battle Beast has a raspy voice.
Silverstein is also good, not power metal, but half normal singing and half screamo mostly.
I’ll give Electric Callboy a go, I haven’t heard of them!
Edit: I also unironically adore Dragonforce. Amaranthe and Dynazty are great too!
Did you go see Blind Guardian a few months back? They were awesome, as ever, and have such great fans 😊
I didn’t, devo about that. Too expensive for me to justify when I’m jobless hahah. Next time (I hope!)
Literally in my top 5 favourite bands, always one I go back to when bored with other metal bands. Battle Beast is close, but given I haven’t read Berserk, most of their references go over my head. Blind Guardian are my exact type of nerdy lol
Yeah, fair enough, international acts aren’t cheap! And yes, my kinda nerdy too. Haven’t heard Battle Beast, I’ll give em a spin, despite also not knowing Berserk.
My thing as far as metal goes extends to Symphonic Metal.
Nightwish, Within Temptation, Evanescence, Epica were some of my favourites.
Not a fan of screaming tracks myself.
Nightwish is so damn good. And Evanescence!
I’ll give the others a listen too 💜 this thread is giving me lots of reccs haha
Did you catch the otamaphone cover of Bring Me to Life that’s surfaced recently : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmxLja-DRIw
Nah, not yet, I’ll have a look when I get home later tonight.
I am ashamed to admit I haven’t listened to much new music the past ten years
had a lot of metal albums when i was a teen, deep purple, led zeppelin, black sabbath, that kind of thing
not that i don’t like new music, just that apps have make it harder to find new stuff, youtube and last.fm algorithms give you more of the same now, not much new at all
I live to give music recommendations. 😁 What vibes you after?
I try to listen to the hottest 100 each year to keep up with the times, but I must admit I seem to like less and less new music each year. Last year I really added lots of music to my library was 2019
Riverside might fit this bill well. Everyone needs more Riverside in their life. Criminally unknown. Youtube link
Actually, you might prefer Ghost
What specific kind of sounds/moods do you like?
Have you considered offshoots like viking metal or folk metal? Metal before it became a lot harder or aggressive? Or those bands that used to be black metal but turned fully into ambient or folk?
You might like Amon Amarth, Bathory, Myrkur/Amalie Braun or Venom. [[[[[ Ps. If checking out folk viking or black metal you might want to check out ‘Is It Sketch’ and stay the hell away from white supremacist bands. />>';/[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[
Edit: Judging by the above Melbcat strongly agrees
Anyway I’m willing to drop suggestions
You’ve got great taste in music!
Thanks, it’s not the only stuff I listen to tho
Try a band called “Poison the well”. Album is “apathy is a cold body”.
Try the title track.
Nellie’s update has landed.
This time we get an encyclopaedic life cycle description. https://perthzoo.wa.gov.au/a-year-in-the-life-of-the-numbat?
Is there anything we can do to support Nellie?
Other than give the zoo money? Not that I am aware of. Are you artistic? You could do a Thing for $ with a donation pledge ?
That looks like a good idea. I could do a watercolour of her. 🖌️
… and females receive an augmented termite diet for optimal breeding conditions.
I wanna augmented termite diet!
Would anyone here that works in IT please be able to offer a reference? My so called friend just dropped me completely
How IT are we talking about? I have an IT adjacent role that could convince people
I’ll DM you
Fuck that fuck noodle, he can go piss in his own beer. I’m mad on your behalf. Ugh. I’m sorry I cannot help, but I know you will get through this!
Thanks heaps. I wish I didn’t have to ask people here for help, but without this reference I’m sunk.
Oh what a shit head. Sorry I don’t work in the right IT adjacent space to help but I will rage on your behalf
Thank you ❤️ I’ll be ok. I never give up no matter what.
I can’t help (never worked in IT) but I wanted to say I’m sorry this happened to you. What a shitty thing to do!
I really appreciate it ❤️ I’ll never give up easily.
I bought googly eye nail art stickers 😀 might be a bit too freaky 😹
My workplace has recently banned access to the Seek website. There have been quite a lot of departures recently lol. They also banned the website of a competitors company when said competitor took off with a few of our staff, and we were too stingy to match their pay offer
I used to browse seek on my phone in the toilet years ago lol
Yep. That’ll totally stop 'em leaving.
@CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone please provide recap and review of your dinner/margarita last night. Also did you accept, wear and bring home a sombrero?
Well, first I didn’t get the sombrero. I did see the fish bowl though, that was fucking huge. I got 2 margaritas, one strawberry, one mango. The strawberry was ok. The mango did not taste like mango. Did not expect them to come from a slushie machine.
The food was good. Prawns were great
Stuffed jalepeno were really good
And Chile fries were really good
I would definitely get these again but take away so I can make proper margaritas at home. The fajita was ok not great because the meat wasn’t tender. Good experience 3.5/5
I’ve been walking past the dog’s bed all morning giving him a little pat and talking to him (he likes to bury himself under his doona). I thought “oh you haven’t popped your head up for awhile” so I have a proper look and he’s not even in there. He’s in the kid’s room because they have a time share thing going on.
Here’s my TV review
Korean Fried Chicken Rhapsody on Netflix
Holy moly. If you love chicken, you will love this. It’s chicken porn. Sexy Hot chicken porn every which way in oil. It’ll leave you hungry. 5/5 yum yums.
Haven’t seen that one yet, but I have seen the other ‘korean rhapsody’s’. It actually came up in conversation today. I passed Mr Paiks restaurant around Healey’s Lane in the CBD and mentioned the serieseses. There is pork, noodles, broth, can’t remember what else. Good stuff
Ooooo. I’ll check it out. Thanks.
Mr Woof has made himself nice and cosy.
There is no dog in this picture
Police helicopter circling near my kid’s school. Distracting…
In unrelated news: I have never clipped a cat’s claw before. When we adopted our void cat in February she desperately needed her claws clipped as they had curled under, almost pushing into her paw. We had them clipped at the vet and since then she has been great at using the many scratching posts we have. But I knew that if I could clip her claws it would be an added bonus.
Today, with the assistance of a treat, I did 3 claws! Just small clips and I stopped as it felt like an excellent start. No scratching or biting. One hiss but a bit of the treat helped her. Made sure not to go too low.
When we adopted our void
You dont adopt a void. Voids adopt you.
Yassss
We stopped at Maroona station, which closed back in the 80s which was pretty fun.
I never quite realise the sheer size of these things until I’m standing at the same level as one and I’m about the same size as a wheel. Just like planes
Jelly. I like that trip on a train - did it a few times years ago.
Really? They were saying it’s the first time a passenger train has run to Mildura since it was axed in '93.
I’m talking 80s here. I am an ancient monument.
Agreed ;)
Just joking, I’m actually super jealous. Mildura is my favourite place in Vic, and I would give a kidney to be able to regularly catch a train there
My late partner came from there - well, a farm outside of town. Until about a decade ago his parents still lived there, they’ve now passed on. When my partner and I took up with each other, I spent a bit of time going up there.
Love me a good N-class. Used to take these a lot between Gippsland and Melbourne growing up. Shame they’re all V’Locity’s now :(
They are good trains. I also saw one that had been debadged and was hauling a freighter, which looks… Interesting.
Yeah that seems to be where they’re all heading, without so much as a proper re-paint
https://wongm.com/2024/04/retired-vline-locomotives-hauling-freight/
The probiotic/uti preventative supplement for Melbcat arrived… Cystopro. Cripes it’s expensive for a small bottle of 30. For best results I might save it til she’s finished her antibiotics to replace her good gut bacteria. Hoping the artificial chicken flavour isn’t an issue with her poultry allergy and that she’ll eat it sprinkled in her food
You are the best catmum. so many hugs and I hope Melbcat gets better soon
Thanks. I hope so too, my poor little girl is in for a rough trot
Apparently, I don’t have enough money in my credit card to pay $0.00 for my kid to go on an excursion:
This is some oldskool software gore content.Hooray! I did not throw up.
Feel for you. Dentists are not fun. Not even close to fun. I have an appointment at the dentist on my birthday next week. The only day available. Poo.
Birthday dentist is mega poo! I’m not scared of them as such, but have a seriously messed up gag reflex which makes it very un fun indeed.
Ditto. Also a needle phobia that just won’t quit. I have to take muscle relaxants before getting vaxed for anything too, or my muscles go into hard spasm and the vaccine oozes right back out. Which is embarrassing and stains one’s t shirts.
