My new slippers were delivered today, but they took them to the post office for me to collect. I could have had toasty warm purple feet tonight, but instead I have to go out on a day with possible small hail predicted to collect them. ☹️
Eh. I’ve given in and paid much more than I wanted for a duplicate pair of Cotton On trackies from years ago. Because these days to keep trying to get a comfortable cheap pair without the opportunity to try them on is throwing good money after bad. 🙄
(That also allowed me to get a manual paper shredder on clearance - the noise of the motorised one is intolerable so it doesn’t get used.)
I got only one pair though because I will be going through and culling my clothes in an effort to find the other cheap ones I had… they can’t have walked off on their own. Also even if the $30 ones are quality Melbcat’s claws will pull out many threads before too long, or I’ll stain them. That’s why I buy cheap… Between the two of us nice things don’t last.
Pretty angry about it. I was happy with bare bones cotton basics until they became so ill fitting as to cause discomfort. You shouldn’t have to pay premium to have a usable item.
Even just the cost of basic groceries is obscene now
Sending some warm, muggy, late night love…
Man, it’s been years since I’ve spent time in the more chaotic parts of Asia. Favs atm are:
- A passenger on a scooter legit carrying a ladder upright.
- Gramps on his scooter living his best life riding at about 10kms an hour.
- Women riding scooters in PJ’s
and nearly all are wearing sandals
I rode it scooter around Thailand. As it’s dangerous for tourists generally, I’d pick a grandma and potter along behind her through the chaos. Never had an issue.
I did, too, years ago.
Though checking in a hotel in Patong and watching a slight Japanese woman wheeled out in wheelchair after she broke both and and legs (face looked fine, luckily) on a scooter, should be enough to make some people think twice.
Donating every piece of clothing I just bought because despite being the ‘right’ size it actually sucks.
Socks that are so tight in the ribbing they strangle my ankles. Bra with straps I can’t tighten enough to keep them from slipping off. Trackies that are waist high with wide tight/rigid elastic that feels like it’s squeezing my stomach despite fitting exactly/slightly loose, and an excessively baggy arse.
What the hell Kmart? That was a complete waste of money because despite shelling out I still don’t have what I needed.
Now I have to wait until I can get support to go shopping and see what I’m getting.
fucking tell me about it. Bought a pair of jeans from BigW, they lasted less than a month before the thighs and ass split open.
twenty pairs of jeans in two years from Target, Big W, and Harris Scarfe.
I’ve even tried Levi’s and they lasted all of two weeks.
At least Nudie Jeans guarantees free repairs and alterations for life, but they’re so expensive.
Kmart used to be decent, I had no complaints. Now even ‘universal fit’ types of things have to be carefully tried on in person. Apparently even baggy elasticated items and socks. Pilled on the first wash too
(The trackies also fit more like the next size up. The tight feeling came from the weird exaggerated hourglass cut. Completely different in sizing and cut to the past pairs I bought that were out of stock.)
Nudie Jeans
I miss my old nudies. $300 back in the day, hard to justify, but jeez they were very good.
Kmart sizing is nuts! I ordered some tops recently in 2 sizes above what I would usually wear, to make sure they’d be comfortably loose. They turned out to be way too tight, while other stuff is the right size relative to the tag. Very annoying
It is very strange.
Undies (except the bamboo midis) must be bought one size up minimum. Usually I go to Big W for those.
Shoes are so long and narrow they must be bought a size up minimum, yet are still extremely long and narrow on feet that are naturally that way. Normal feet would require two sizes up just for the width.
Pants must be a size bigger than shirts even though my shoulders are wider than my hips (so it should be the other way around).
Tshirts are basically different sizes despite the tag.
Bras with the same tag are functionally completely different band and cup sizes.
And the trackie daks of the same size vary from small and very straight cut to running very large and exaggeratedly hourglass cut.
I unfortunately don’t have frequent opportunities to go in person otherwise I would. You really need to.
I’ve sorted my LP collection, shucked out a dozen I will never listen to because they are just crap, right now I have on vol. 1 of the 1960 Aussie jazz festival. The other Ray Price https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNUgQdJA3g0
Someone at Crowdstrike is getting fired 😂
Cold and wimdy 🥶
The thing I’m looking forward to the most is moving into a place that has insulation.
is your current place far from your new job? and is the new job close to where you’d want to live?
New job is in the city. Current place is pretty far, near Werribee.
I have a house to myself for a bit more than what I’d pay for 2 or 3 bed apartment closer to the city and civilisation. That’s the only real draw. A house compared to an apartment.
But I need to be around people and this area is dead.
dont know if you’ve ever checked it out, but fairfield is pretty great. Or at least it used to be. Close enough for a cheap uber to the city or fitzroy without paying fitzroy prices. It might’ve got a bit more expensive since i left though.
It’s truly amazing
Wot ‘e sed 👆🏻
Late night run last night to the strange and liminal spaces that is bunnings after dark. Why? Well, you see, his lordship accidentally hooked his spunding valve to the beer line on a pressurised keg feement and we realised we really, really need all the furniture in the brewery to be on wheels so we can hose that room out if need be…
^but at least it really smells like a brewery now^
Especially if you have a blowout of the broken glass sort!
Thankfully not, we don’t bottle
Anti gratitude!
I cannot feel my toes. Left bread directly under the radiator to rise overnight. It sunk. Fragrant brick for breakfast.
I woke up with a sore neck and a headache, yay.
My house is freezing and it hampers my desire to get out of bed.
Lack of insulation in this country is disgusting. Climate change is only going to get worse, and I’m fully expecting that people will die in their homes when it’s too hot and too cold.
My buildings OC installed insulated windows in all the apartments, which has caused more condensation because they are airtight, and now it’s the occupants responsibility to make sure mold doesn’t occur 😑😑😑. But there no insulation in the roof as far as I can tell, so we lose heat through the roof. Either we have the split system on, which is old and inefficient, and lose heat. Or we leave it off and stay cold AS FUCK all day and night. The only saving grace is having oodies.
Hate the way we build in this stupid cuntry
I seem to be living in my oodie this winter. Nice clean clothes everyday then oodie goes on top, which I try to keep clean. Looking at it carefully it’s starting to wear out. 🫥
So the go live was a disaster. to be fair it worked for the first 10 minutes or so. Its the 11th where we started to run into problems. Turns out when the vendor says “yep no worries”. what they REALLY meant to say was “Yep? No. Worries!” We got lionel hutz’ed!
And now the blame game begins, but we cant do much when the vendor straight up lies, can we? I didnt pick the vendor or the product. And I’m MORE than happy to call the Vendor and say “Listen here fuckface, you screwed up BAD how are you going to fix it!?” but I dont think the business want me to do that for some reason.
Tell me the rollout didn’t involve Crowdstrike? 🤣
But yeah that is super frustrating.
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Asafoetida powder?
Now I regret not going to the supermarket yesterday.
Me three. At least for perishables.
Me too.
Uh oh. I forgot to turn the central heating off before I left…
A friend of mine asked the groupchat for a ‘nostalgic’ pizza place. We figured out he meant a good bad pizza, not the Pizza Hut buffet from days of yore.
It got me thinking about good takeaway pizza places where the pizza isn’t fancy but it still hits the spot. Fairfield Pizza is great, I could get two large pizzas and a garlic bread for $20 back in the day. Original Sinners in Macleod is up there as well. There’s a place near me called Romulus Pizza, it’s a bit more fancy but still takeaway. Probably one of the best takeaway places I’ve ever gone to, they make their own dough and you can feel the difference.
