The spelling bee show on abc has the potential to be entertaining, however, the host Guy Montgomery is exceptionally creepy to me. There’s something about his voice and mannerisms that gives me uncanny valley murderous vibes. I am probably alone in this but feel better now that it’s off my chest.
Eugh! I just googled him and he looks like a creepy weirdo 😭😭
Just found out a neighbor (man in his 60s) was being love scammed. Relatives have been warming him for six months it’s a scam.
Now he’s spent all of his savings and he’s been evicted.
I have some sympathy, but I can’t help but think his pig headedness is a big contributor here.
Happened to my FIL and it wasn’t even over the internets. Real life.
She even forged his will.
Regarding your neighbour’s pigheadedness. The scammers target people with those personality traits, they test for it.
I’m curious - what are the personality traits and how do they test for it?
ignorance, pigheadedness, gullibility, sexism.
They will look like an obvious scammer so it weeds out the ones who know about scams.
They tell obvious lies and see if the other person will let the lie pass. They test to see if the victim, if male, is sexist, a sexist victim doesn’t think they can be outsmarted by a woman. They play victim. They flatter. etc etc
Interesting. Well I just found out this guy has been scammed by a phillipino woman before. Guy bought the woman a farm in Thailand then she dumped him.
So this is actually round 2 for being scammed. At this point I want to believe it’s some kind of mental illness.
It would take a certain personality to believe that a random international internet stranger who is much younger, very good looking, flirty and generous with flattery would develop an instant adoration and sexual attraction for someone they’ve never met.
I think there might be a subgroup of victims who fall for it out of loneliness, even if they may suspect something is not right they continue because it’s respite from their loneliness. But sounds like your neighbour is not in that group, and just has a lot of ego.
Sometimes people are just very lonely. Combine that with naivete and pride and you have a very vulnerable person
I know not of this cold basking in 22C and full sun out in Bestern Australia. 29C tomorrow, then a Melbourne-esque pivot to 19C and rain on Friday before I head home.
I’m not really that keen on going back to work at one of my jobs after this…
23 degrees and sunny on Saturday. Could be worse. Grand Final day too. Airlines gonna be chockers …
Daiso lego project fail. The bits are just too small to hold together a big model.
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If you can find the brand Nanoblocks, they are pretty cool. Mini lego type pieces that fit together properly.
Are the snap together joints giving out under the weight? It looks like a lot of unsupported limbs there and unequal distribution of weight.
I dunno if a dab of glue or green stuff at the joins would be cheating but perhaps if you built the legs first as kind of an arch, perhaps with something supporting them underneath, and then assembled the rest of it while being supported by a doll frame.
The head is over the neck and over one leg so maybe that might stay put. The tail is going to be most at risk of snapping off
the pieces are small, 90% are 1x1 and there are no spanning pieces larger than 2x1 to hold it all together. iow, can’t do proper brick laying
Yeah, I’m not a Lego person, was just thinking about how buildings and bridges stayed up… but yeah I think they put more work into marketing than functionality and it just won’t work :( It seems very poorly designed.
Edit: If you were curious though the bit at 2:17 was my thought process https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iqyLlscQrvQ
Superglue alone often needs to be supported as it dries or might not be strong enough
That looks cool, I love looking at new hobbies. I might do that if I wanted to keep the big model but I want to pull it apart and rebuild the 12 little dinosaurs.
Well boo to that
Do people honestly breeze through life living safe and carefree? I just can’t. Way too many bad things have happened to live on such a delulu state.
Per Buddhism, Sickness, ageing and death are universal sufferings, everyone experiences them. The First Noble Truth is that All life is suffering. There’s no escaping it. Sure some people have what appear to be easier lives, but everyone is suffering. The theory is that we get to choose how affected by that suffering we are.
I sure don’t.
It depends what you choose to focus on.
If I let what I’ve experienced be my focus I would dig a hole and lay down in it.
From my perspective, I do my best to never let any of the negative stuff I’ve experienced stop me from living the life I want.
I fail often. But I never give up. We may not be able to change the things that make our lives harder, but we can still live our lives on our own terms.
No. Or rather, not all the time. I’ve had some baaad shit when I was younger which was largely of my own making, but have come now to a safe haven. Which I will defend with my life. I intend to live long enough to be a nuisance to my younger relatives. It will be good for their souls if they have any such thing. This should not be difficult I think.
even people who live a financially secure life can have bad things happen. Illness, accident, bereavement, interactions with bad people, victims of crime, natural disaster could happen, war
Like Pilk said, the middle path is best. It can be a struggle tho to remember that bad times are usually short lived,
But more than that …
I’ve read whole books on this, philosophy and psychiatry books. People who live best are those who have stable healthy relationships with friends and family . This helps them cope with adversity and brings extra joy in good times.
I was in Footscray a while back and my husband said “we’ll cross here” and I said “no we won’t” and we kept walking. He understood I saw something he didn’t. So if you’re talking about personal safety yeah some people walk through life unfazed and for some of us (most women) have our eyes and ears open at all times whilst outside.
I’ve been in Foots for eight years now. Totally seen some drug shit, but the unsafest I’ve ever felt had nothing to do with any of that. Boyo on the other hand has had repeated and frequent mugging attempts and is totally fed up. They really shouldn’t try that, he hits fight mode at explosive speed and does not play nice.
We were walking through the mall? and I noticed a derro on the other side asking just the women who were walking past a question and getting angry at their response. It’s not my stomping ground so my senses were a little more heightened than usual.
I feel like the sleazy types have become bolder since the pando
At the moment the ones to look out for serm to be a young guy begging at the main atm (total scam) snd one near the station slapping fake spiders off people to cop a feel
Oh dear. Thanks for the heads up.
You come across as a naturally pessimistic/depressive person. There is absolutely a middle ground between that and delusional optimism.
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Yeah! My birth certificate arrived! Now I can begin the process of getting my driver’s licence! 🙂😬😳🙂😬😳
You officially exist! Woohoo!
Happy birth certificate day! 🎉
Congratulations! You now have a piece of paper that says that you are allowed to be. Cherish the moment.
Congratulations upon existing.
Existing officially.
…pakidge…
Ran out of monthly audiobook hours on spotify half way through listening to Reaper Man (part of an ongoing quest to finally read/listen to all the Terry Pratchett books). But I had a voucher for amazon from a stuffed up delivery so I bought an actual book copy because it’s probably my favourite so far.
Looking up ideas to make a new 3d filament rack…and seeing a lot of clearly “man putting hobby in closet so can hide to please wife”
…so glad I’m the wife. And the resident trashpanda. And we have our own offices that the other person gets zero fucking say on.
To be fair some of it could be ‘hobby in closet so you yourself don’t trip over it’
I used to consider putting a small desk and folding chair inside a closet so whenever I wasn’t working on something I could just shut the door.
<— also a trash panda
I don’t know what any of that means but I can tell you if you leave anything on my kitchen (my office) table it will be seriously pointed at until it is removed.
We kinda started that with the dining table, but then, cats, north facing window, so …we just gave up.
if there’s room for a cat to sprawl, we good
Cats on the table, not my thing but I understand that would be pretty hard to police.
Isn’t respecting personal space the norm?
you would be fucking astonished
Is now the right time to give interwebble hugs?
nah, I’m talking about other couples I’ve observed. His Lordship and I are good. 'tis why when hunting we had a minimum three bedrooms. we can’t even share an office because his is all just “me work from home hence me have office” whereas mine is “I work from home / sew/ d print / scream at video games / build rack servers / swear at things / cats everywhere / it’s a fucking muppet workshop.”
Mr Seagoon has a big office, it’s a mostly serious place because he is serious about his work and serious about work privacy. Izza job . When he has time he is welcoming .
me, I need another desk, one for writing and one for art and crafts. Tho I have realised that much of my sewing/knitting etc is expression too as I do my own designing .
i have a giant L desk I slapped an extension on for work / fucking around - holds my main rig, work laptop, and a kvm area with room to build servers. Then there’s an ancient and oh so sinfully comfy two seater couch thing I’ve had since last century the cats have entirely claimed, a giant workbench on the other wall, old school corner hutch / shelving for my printer - previously for sewing, but I didn’t have enough elbow room so I built a mobile table with foldout wings - and of course my massive fuckoff bookcase for stuff that’s not going in the wraparound in the lounge. Still never enough bench space. Never will be
Bet your office is more interesting. Is his office purely functional in an IKEA bland/greige kind of way?
I will admit he’s actually gotten more personality in the new place - mostly because we own so he can punch holes and hang his road bike and shizz. but we don’t actually tend to ikea furniture save some weird niche pieces anyway.
I did go much much bolder in my office though, from paint to parts. I’m actually dragging my arse on putting in the network cabling because I’m making a custom wall mount patch panel based on the old servant bells layout. I want pretty dammit, and I shall have it.
Sadly, I wouldn’t be astonished.
Man she was pissed when I dared wake her up so I could have some space on the bed. The nerve of me.
Mrs’s cat came over and went “I want a pat… wait, your not mrs B! Wait… is she around? Can she see us? hmmm, ok, you may pat me but ONLY if you dont tell her I am cheating”. Her cat and I have a very complicated relationship.
The thing I love the most about cats, and maybe Gibson in particular, is the sheer fucking audacity and attitude for a ball of fluff that is literally 1/20th my size.
Zero fucks given. “I do what I want, when I want and too fucking bad if you don’t like it. If you try to stop me in any way, I will make your life miserable for as long as I deem necessary”.
I respect the confidence lol
My cat was lounging on the window sill in the sun the other day when he decided my pot plant was an affront to him and he punted it onto the ground. So yea, I agree with your assessment and no it’s not just Gibson.
My Pepper has that confidence. All 3kg of her, and it’d only directed at me. Every one else gets lovey Pepper, I get spicy bitch cat! I still love her, and suffer multiple scratches from trying to show her how much.
Spicy bitch cat 😂 😂 😂
Her nickname is Pepperoni. There is also a home made song about her being the spiciest of all the sausage cats.
I might have a slow day today, just do stuff slowly and with stress and also try to finish this dinosaur lego thing I have. 🙂
Rainy today. I’m sitting here with the heater one and the sound of traffic and rain on.
Don’t know is this is of any interest to you because it comes from a video game ambit late last night I started a game called Death Stranding and the vibes from the intro sequence which was mostly cinematic reminded me of you and what you might enjoy watching.
thank you 🙂 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h898oNXJ7Oo
I don’t play video games because I’m saving money, but I do love them
It’s all good. It’s a media format I consume and some of them have a stellar storytelling.
There’s more a little bit after that though there’s a small gap missing though after the intro you linked.
This is the after that.
and I love Low Roar, used to listen to him all the time 🙂
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Thanks chef! And thanks again for putting up with my weird orders all these years ❤️
We are at your service.
Please… No. More. Movicol.
Just cordial. Pretty please.
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Smoked salmon sushi please Chef.
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Thank you Chef!
Ooh I’m on time today! I’ll get a Duenan ™ double bacon cheeseburger please
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There’s nothing like having a nice relaxing bath with… an audience and running commentary. I provided the entertainment now they need to make me a cuppa tea.
Did the house pets also sit in the audience?
Yeah. They set up camp on the mat then the little one tried to get in with me. I replied “This is a one woman bath my friend”.
Audience and running commentary?
What we’re you doing? A bathtub performance?
Did you at least score 9s?
They owe you a cuppa for sure.
Just doing the usual things you do in a bath in privacy of your own home. I don’t know about the score but I got recommendations of beauty products.
Horizon Zero dawn remaster, despite you know only being released and perfectly playable on the ps5. What about the original ratchet and clank trilogy? Infamous 1 or 2? Jack and Daxter remaster? No? How about some stuff that ISNT playable on ps5 instead of a title that absolutely IS playable?!
I just want a remaster of sleeping dogs. That game was fucking amazing and is totally underrated.
Yeah HZD is the remaster no one asked for. Apart from GOT the entire State of Play was quite ‘meh’
yeah VERY meh. Glad to see its not just Xbox struggling with content at the moment.
I am looking forward to Assassin’s Creed Shadows. Looks decent enough. Just finished playing Star Wars Outlaws and it was fun as shit.
Got Black Myth Wukong queued up now (once my son gets off the PS5)
Studios are still making content, just the exclusive stuff seems to have dropped off a bit.
I’m not sure what to think of Outlaws at the moment.
I have Jedi FO and Survivor in my backlog at the moment.
I don’t mind the remasters of the RPGs they’ve announced either, would like to see what they end up doing to them though.
Im getting a little fatigued by the all Souls like games over the last few years.
I havnt gotten into Outlaws yet. No chance I’m touching another AC game though. I keep hearing rumors of a Black Flag remaster which I would be down for. Also interested in the NFS Most Wanted Remaster rumors.
I’m a glutton for punishment with AC 😁
Mirage was fine to be honest. Just long and interesting enough. Much better than Valhalla and Odyssey, but still lacking.
I didn’t have huge expectations for Outlaws, just wanted to play a Star Wars game. It’s well made with a decent enough story. Some missions are irritating (the stealth isn’t fantastic, but serviceable).
Heaps of Easter eggs and fanboy fodder. Sabbac is cool too.
I’m excited about Ghosts of Tsushima getting a sequel. I really loved the first one.
I think it’s a waste remastering zero Dawn though.
I would really like the see Jax remastered as I never played them before and the ratchet trilogy as well.
Original R&C and Deadlocked/Gladiator!
I could leave Deadlocked tbh, I didnt think the first person worked all that well on PS2. But I would play the SHIT outta 2 and 3 remastered. I mean, we BASICALLY got 1 remastered with that PS4 remake.
Interview went well! Hopefully hear if I’m onto the next stage tomorrow. Will also include a practical test, but let’s see what happens! Thanks for the good vibes, peeps!!
Turns out I haven’t been drinking enough water for the movicol to do its thing.
Apparently 8 sachets in 1 day is a lot lol
I’ve occasionally had four in a day and you certainly know about it the next day. Eight could be dramatic when they kick in. I would be staying home!
8 🫠
Gives me the shits when that happens.
I was having one a day post hernia surgery. It worked a treat.
Plus you’re working out so you need even more.
Yeah that was the key. Water.
Now I regret taking 8.
Ummm. Yeah. That is a lot.
