• Bottom_racer@aussie.zone
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    9 months ago

    Presenting the beginnings of the metric polypipe DOME OF DOOM for the chilli patch.

    Garden ties and an old bike tube as lashing. I doubt it’ll be sturdy enough but we’ll see

    Think I might wait and think about the netting for the next week and just see if the frame holds up.

    • Thornburywitch@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      9 months ago

      This is giving off pyramid vibes. Maybe put razor blades under it to sharpen them up (and discourage the chilli thief).

  • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Omg we have a VHS player! I actually have a bag of VHS tapes I got from an op shop last year. I’ve never played a VHS before and I’m kinda excited ngl

    I don’t even know what I bought honestly. There’s a handwritten one about wildflowers, and some Disney movie, but I don’t know about the rest. I just saw 10c each and was like “ooh! Old people media! I will buy!” Love ya, Vinnie’s

    • Nath@aussie.zone
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      9 months ago

      Ha. I have a VCR. I don’t think it has been plugged into power at any point in the kids’ lives. It’s just been there at the bottom of the entertainment cabinet, dark and mysterious and ignored.

      The only tapes I still have are Star Wars remastered (Han still shoots first) and 1997 editions. Widescreen versions.

      I should put them on one day. In this day and age of streaming and Bly Rays, VHS will be an experience.

    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
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      9 months ago

      If they taped shows or movies off the telly there will be old ads

      ( first show I saw on tape was Blake 7 , I borrowed a player from the library at school, it was 1978. )

      You might also need to use a tape head cleaner first .

      • Catfish@aussie.zone
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        9 months ago

        Clean the heads, but please don’t use a head clean tape ( in the bizzare offchance you find one) those things were sandpaper, you want a light solvent.

      • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        9 months ago

        I thought taping over movies was the sort of things parents yelled at you for

        So far the most annoying thing people have done is not rewinding their tapes

        I don’t know what a tape head cleaner is, or for that matter what a tape head is, but I’m just going to put the tape in the box and hope for the best

  • just_kitten@aussie.zone
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    9 months ago

    The crazy yelling guy in my neighbourhood is getting quite deranged. He was sitting at a tram stop screaming incoherently at a bunch of people sitting outside at the pub for a good ten minutes or more, a cop car even drove past entirely unaware. He always sounds really hoarse and threatening, always loud, but I can barely make out what he’s saying

  • Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone
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    9 months ago

    I wish a bug was as entertaining to me as it is to my cat.

    That said, big day of interview preparation coming up. Got my friend to help me with some technical stuff this evening so that will help heaps.

    Enjoy your day everyone ⭐

  • bull⚡@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Just drove back home to the city from Ballarat. The smoke is absolutely disgusting there. Got into my apartment and promptly spewed my guts out. Not sure if it’s the smoke or something I had.

  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
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    9 months ago

    Why is it so hard to figure what to write about difficult family stuff in a kind considerate way when dickheads seem to have no trouble finding the words to be nasty .

  • Catfish@aussie.zone
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    9 months ago

    Not enough brain for proper sewing so made twiddles. Very happy with colour match, but the advisability of usage near felines remains to be seen. tassels

  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zoneOP
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    9 months ago

    Questions for those who use water chestnuts. Is it ok to sample them from a can before they get to the wok? Basically will I die? I may have eaten 1/4 can.

    • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
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      9 months ago

      All food in cans is cooked and sterilized so should be fine to eat straight from the can. There are few riskier foods in general than fish which we eat straight from the can all the time without a second thought, so water chestnuts should not worry you at all.

      • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zoneOP
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        9 months ago

        I was thinking more if they’re ok to eat raw like cabbage cooked or raw good. Potatoes cooked yes. Potatoes raw no.

        • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
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          9 months ago

          Everything in a can is cooked. The process involves being heated in a pressure cooker and held at above boiling temperatures for a length of time. So it definitely passes the cooked test. But even if it didn’t water chestnuts are also fine to eat raw. So if there are still any left feel free to finish off the can.

    • Simon@aussie.zone
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      9 months ago

      Try out water chestnut cakes if you haven’t already. Tasty little things will scratch that itch

  • Taleya@aussie.zone
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    9 months ago

    full offense to A Certain Workplace but me kinda drunk operating with a hand full of fruit tingles is a better fucking laptop repairer than their entire dedicated staff.

    (going over my loot so far not even a bung part. JFC. Corporations that do this need to be shot.)

    • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zoneOP
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      9 months ago

      I know. It’s lucky I didn’t reef it across the room.

      I’ll take a rain check on those gummy worms. I’ve been very good on the sugar lately.

      Edit: whoops I replied to the wrong comment. I knew this would happen some day.

  • Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone
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    9 months ago

    Shoulder injury headache is kicking my ass. Bed for the rest of the day. It’s been a long time since I’ve had one, I’ve forgotten how shitty they feel.