Any peeps of a fishy persuasion? Looking for a three way valve for 4mm tubing, but water, not air. Anyone attest to water carriage of air direction valves?
this is really scary now , CRC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rL5a3ZAQxs
I setup the replacement Xbox last night and am finally sitting down and giving it a crack. I have Minecraft, knockoff coke Zero from aldi, a full belly, and a comfy couch. Life is good.
nostalgia trip
In 2016 (or maybe 2017), my mum surprised me with an Xbox from my birthday. It was an Xbox 360 E, and a copy of Minecraft. That was my first time on a console, and I stayed up all night playing it. Literally all night. Probably needless to say she was less than happy I was still up when she woke up, but she just let it be. I had a lot of fun, and also had a few cans of coke over night. That’s a core memory of mine that I’ve never really been able to recreate. There was such a feeling of carelessness and peace that night, a feeling I unfortunately very rarely experienced during my youngest years.
continuation, but less of a fun memory more of a historical vent, probably more sad
That was when I was really struggling with “school refusal”, as they call it, and mum was really trying to push me to go. It was a very difficult time, and led to such a feeling of helplessness, probably for both of us. That’s probably why I enjoyed the care free feeling the games provided - a little safe haven away from the constant chaos and incessant disappointment and despair of the real world. A world where the biggest concern is placing enough torches to keep the zombies away.
100%. Any form of escapism that makes us feel like we have some freedom… It’s a strong imprint in our formative years…
I think a lot of us still chase it, be it knowingly or unknowingly.
Hope you continue creating other good memories. Might not be exactly the same, but you can get pretty close. ✨
Thanks llabsy, I appreciate it. New memories will come, although sometimes it takes a few years for them to change from neutral into good
Interesting. The local library was my safe haven as a kid. Or any book really. I predate xbox and electronic games so there wasn’t a huge lot of choice. Nowadays my local library makes a big deal about being ‘fun’ and ‘lively’ and ‘inclusive’ - which to kid me sounds like hell on earth. So it wouldn’t be available as a safe haven now. I suspect we all need a safe haven in our lives - and find it in a variety of places. Another very unfashionable opinion of mine is that quite a lot of illegal drug use gets its root cause in the search for a mental safe haven in a hostile universe, albeit a temporary one with a huge downside.
The end is nigh
Bring back bags of lollies from the milk bar… 😭
1c fizzos.
Okay the memes coming from our breakdancer’s performance overnight are so fucking funny
Anyone got a link to the full performance?
Edit: all I’m finding are ai narrated videos with still shots and snippets.
Found it on 9Now.
You’ll have to try and find it on the 9Now website/app or maybe olympics website
They’re super tight on video copyright and broadcasting rights.
Ah thanks 👍🏼
Just dropped the pets off for their kennel stays while we nip off to NZ - as soon as the staff picked up Toby, I absolutely sobbed 😭
I am having such a shitty fucking day. I’ve honestly never felt this bad so fast before. Just massively angry, wanting to lash out over everything.
Everything is getting worse and none of us are stopping it(I’m certainly not). My attempts to maybe improve things for myself just add more stress and inevitably fail. I feel like I’m trying to climb a styrofoam wall. I can grab at chunks to try and pull myself up, but all I’m doing is fucking up an already shitty wall.
Massive hugs. Climbing a styrofoam wall sounds incredibly difficult. I hope you find a moment of joy today, even if it’s tiny.
I know the feeling. Right there with you. All you can do is give em hell
Edit: Alternatively https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HjPgdhRsGIQ
Hugs. If you can roll yourself up somewhere in the sun I recommend it. You aren’t alone in your feelings.
I read On The Beach a few years ago after the 2020 bushfires and at the start of COVID when I was feeling particularly hopeless. Basically its a classic about an impending nuclear winter - what happens when everyone find out they have six months to live. One of the side characters just carried on tending their little garden, planting out things that they would never harvest and in all probability would never grow. But it was her job - to tend her garden and she figured no-one knew any would be next so she might as well do this thing. She was totally at peace. I think about her a lot when I am in this headspace.
There are green places to be in the sun nearish me, but too far to walk, and I don’t want to be around other people much so a tram would be a bad idea I reckon.
I had read some of it a while ago, but lost my place and never bothered to refind it. Might have to give it another look some time, because it’s a great book. I wish I had the certainty of a set date, honestly. Six months is easier to handle than “it’s a mystery”
I get that. Well there’s no shame in crawling under the doona and being a human burrito for a day. Hope that guy gives you a little respite
Feeling any better?
Not feeling as shit this morning.
Beautiful day. Not much to do, so reading in bed, music and games I think.
Enjoy your day everyone!
You can’t make me
join us at work
Treating myself to a cafe big breakfast because all I got at home is ramen and sardines. While ramen and sardines WAS a tempting option, having no eggs or frozen veg to add sealed the deal
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A tray of scallop potatoes please
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Home made Burger and string fries. Much appreciated 😊
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I’ve discovered Mickey likes to eat spinach. So he got a little pile of it last night and he fully ate it all. May have to occasionally give him a treat of it, he always wants what we eat and it isn’t harmful 🤷♀️
Many moons ago, when Miss Seagoon was Baby Seagoon, I had a void called Mungo who loved corn on the cob. He also used to steal sips of drinks by dipping his paw into cups and glasses.
Fen is fond of Bok Choy. More Twinsie stuff?
Omg they must be siblings 😂
Does yours drool when he purrs?
No, not a drooler. Likes shiny things - trying to steal nose rings at 3am
Mickster doesn’t mind my jewellery, but he loves to chew on plastic. I had to put lemon juice and the stop’n’grow (to stop chewing my nails) on my power cords lol. Also bites my monitors, phone, and laptop lol
Wood in this case. Nothing wood with corners is safe, tables, chairs, doors. The spray stuff seems to be helping. OCD meds did not!
Melbcat likes pumpkin, sweet potato, peas and broccoli. Vegies are actually really good for cats
A long ago cat was obsessed with carrot greens. She behaved like they were triple strength catnip. So much drool and improbable spinal contortions.
🤔
I’ll have to try more with him, he snatched some spinach out of my hand before like a lil goblin haha
If you keep sowing a few seeds at regular intervals in a window box and pull off individual leaves you can have a steady supply of baby spinach
I’m going to the snow at the end of the month and have been messaging a friend I let borrow my ski clothes and equipment two years ago. They just never gave me back my stuff and I forgot about it to now. I’m a bit annoyed they just kept my things, and now my goggles are missing and I don’t remember if I let them borrow. It shouldn’t be up to me to remember and ask for my stuff back, you should give it back once you are done with it without prompt.
Another way to look at it is they were storing it for you while you weren’t using them. Some places charge for that.
Made it to the end of Presumed Innocent, the TV adaptation. What a inconsistent show with stupid legal loopholes and soapy writing. It is incredibly unbelievable that the main character could’ve been a successful prosecutor. Also I hate basically every character in this but not even in a love-to-hate way like Succession. I think I cared more about the cat.
Even Jake Gyllenhaal’s perfect butt wasn’t enough to save this mediocrity, but somehow it’s been renewed for a second season…
I hated the series. It was boring, seemed to be written by a committee ticking off trope boxes.
Just watch the awesome movie with Harrison Ford.
It’s strange - why am I eager to help my friend clean her apartment but leave my own space a dump when a clean space helps me feel less cluttered mentally?
Follow the feeling. Think about cleaning or do the cleaning, how do you feel?
Do the cleaning. Motivation usually follows action :)
I don’t know, but I do this thing where I (usually) leave the communal areas spick and span, but leave my room in a horrendous state, so you’re not alone. I don’t enjoy cleaning at all, but it seems to be a lot easier (or at least an existing habit) to keep the lounge room and kitchen clean, even though I live by myself for the moment. More difficult to keep my room clean
Several of my friends have the same problem as me, much easier to help others clean and tidy than do your own space. I put it down to reduced negative emotional weight (to objects, to the activity, guilt of not doing it in a timely manner, repetitiveness etc) and greater positive emotion (helping others, building social capital, satisfaction from completing tasks, maybe a sense of superiority because others needed your help) when cleaning others’ spaces rather than ones own. I just roll with it now and accept that it’s a thing
after helping to clean BIL’s level 4 hoard ( house was a biohazard ) i have zero motivation helping others do housework, it’s enough i do my own now
Maybe we should all just clean our friend’s’ spaces. Problem solved.
Great. I woke up this morning to 2 notifications from my bank. 2 transactions happened while I was asleep, one to some company called xsolla and another to Netflix. I don’t have Netflix, and don’t know wtf an xsolla is. Called the bank, they told me disputes have to be raised through the app now. The app and it’s stupid fake messaging robot didn’t let me add any context, the whole process is basically just yes and no buttons. Also it kept talking about humans in almost every message.
Not how I wanted to spend my Saturday.
You might need a new bank as well.
I can’t upvote this enough
Probably. I locked my card, and apparently it will be cancelled when the actual humans review my report. I have an account with UBank as well, so thankfully I do have another account to use in the meantime
That does not sound good. Which bank is it?
CommBank. Not my favourite, but they indoctrinated my mum when I was 1 with that yellow platypus thing, and since they don’t charge any fees on under 18 accounts, I haven’t had much reason to switch to a better one
Pretty sure all the Big Five banks all have the no fees for kids/students thing. That’s not a particular feature.
Not that we can talk: my kids chose NAB exclusively on the colour scheme. 😂
Dollarmites!!
Yep
I half expected ANZ, I had trouble with them pushing everything through their app messaging. I have no idea if there app was any good though, I couldn’t use the app because I didn’t have a customer reference number, and all paths to get a customer reference number kept either referring you to the app, or going through phone menu systems that required you to enter your customer reference number. I ended up spending ages trying various combinations in the phone menu to find one that got through to a real person that could transfer me to the right place.
In regards to the fees, most banks have fee-free accounts these days. I like to spread around a few different banks these days so I have something in place if there are any issues with one bank. They make it fairly easy to sign up and to change these days so I’ve tried out quite a few. I think Commonwealth is the only major bank I haven’t had an account with.
Ha, yeah. I signed up for ANZ when I was 13 because I thought they’d offer a bank card capable of doing online purchases and being added to google pay, but I missed the part where they said they only offer those to people 16+. When I turned 14 I called my current bank and they unlocked the setting on my card which allowed that (I’d had a MasterCard for a couple of years, but the setting to allow online purchases was locked and I couldn’t change it).
I went into an ANZ early last year to close my account, and it was a fucking wild experience. The branch was open, but they were in manual mode where the security guard was standing at the door pushing the green open button to let people in one by one. When he saw me, he opened the door but blocked my way and just said “what do you want”, and I was like “uhh hi I guess, I just want to close my account please”. He said, while towering over, complete with having a chewy in his mouth, “Nah mate you’re gonna need an appointment for that.” Then screamed “SHARLENE GET OVER HERE” at a woman over the other side. She came over and said “Yes love what do you need” and then started at me for a few seconds when I said I wanted to close my account. Then she screamed at another woman who came over, they whispered to each other, then the other woman said “okay give me your card and your ID” and took me to a table before eventually closing my account.
I don’t know whether I came right after a bank robbery, or if they were closed or something (there were other people inside though), or if everybody working at the branch was just in a really fucking bad mood, or what, but it was an absolutely wild time. Although of course when I went in to open my account, everybody inside was super lovely and I had no issues. But it seemed like such an odd way to greet people that walk into your branch, I can’t imagine why they’d do that unless there was something happening I wasn’t aware of. Plus side though, I skipped the line and was pretty much in and out
