Yesterday on the way home I saw the fire brigade breaking out somebody stuck in one of the old cast iron toilets. Hope you all have a better day than that unfortunate person 😸
When I was little I got my hand stuck in a trolley. All I heard was a staff member say "I'll get the butcher". My dad was a butcher. I knew what they did. I cried. The butcher brought out a tub of fat.
Resident magpie remembers me so appeased it w/ cheee. Really makes you wonder just how much memory they have. Haven't been here for months and the thing was right at my feet without a second thought.
I think I’m going to bail on that 1st birthday this weekend. The only people I know at this birthday are the parents and they’re going to be busy socialising with everyone, and I’ll probably feel awkward in this setting being childless. I’ll just message the day before that I’m sick and don’t want to spread germs. Does this make me a bad friend? I’ll plan a catch up with this friend in a few weeks and still give a present then.
Nooooo, fav banh mi place nearby has had a ~glow up and is now offering heaps more fancy things, looks like it's changed ownership. Unfortunately means it's no longer reasonable to nip there on a lunch break, boo.
... though I do need to try the Salted Vietnamese Coffee...!
My fav local banh mi place is still slinging loaded rolls for $7.50 and is never that busy, I hope it never gets a glow up. The salted coffee sounds great tho.
I kind of hope Hungs Bakery doesn't sell out and go up market because the tofu banh mi is absolutely legit especially for that price and speed. But I'm guessing so long as those commission housing towers are the, Victoria Street won't gentrify like the rest of Richmond
Took the Minipeelers to Highpoint today and had a fun time topping up our supply of trackpants, T-shirts and other things that were not so practical lol. Some Lush products were purchased and bathing indulged in once we got home. The house smells a treat!
I've been so successful in weatherstripping around the sliding door the dog door panel is inserted into that now the air pressure is blowing the dog flap open and letting in even more cold air than was coming through the gaps.
I decided to check the status of my tax return and my voluntary super contribution has been reset to $0?!!?! Wtf! However, it's still being processed ("Balancing accounts") and I don't want to slow anything down so I think I'll just wait until it's been finalised and maybe it'll be added back in by then. I'll be a very unhappy camper if I have to amend the lodgement and delay getting my money back...
I was going to be in that position due to an improperly taxed second job and a taxable cash scholarship, but dumped a load into super to get around it. I really need that tax return and not a tax bill, so it'd be nice to get that processed properly...
Yeah, I got the letter confirming the NOI and saw the deposit in my super balance minus 15% tax several days before I lodged my tax return. I didn't enter a value for TFN under my super contributions (just the fund name, fund ABN and amount contributed) because I couldn't find a TFN for the super fund (I assume that's for SMSFs or something), so not sure if that was an issue.
But, my ATO account has been a bit weird, random errors when logging in (not a scam) and there's a new "payments" prompt at the top of my home page even though there should be nothing outstanding
Edit: I'm a goose, the "debit" account in the payment prompt would be the amount I owe if I didn't have deductions. Sooo I have no idea why it isn't through yet. I'll wait and see...
I wouldn’t necessarily assume asking how your day is going is for nefarious info gathering. It’s just a normal part of small talk. (However I’ve never used any matching apps so don’t know the context, eg I just found out thumbs up emoji is apparently rude to younger gens). You can give nonspecific answers, just like you would in real life. Conversation needs to star somewhere.
I experienced some of the story from season 2 from the game. It didn’t sit well with me to be honest and I heard the tv show has some problems in season 2
Ok, I despise Amazon, but sometimes you can't find something anywhere else. I now accidentally have 30 days of their TV thing. What should I check out?
You can just cancel it now, you'll still get your 30 days free but won't have to worry about forgetting and having it auto renew. Just ignore all the warnings about what you miss by not having a subscription, they just put them there to make people reconsider cancelling. You are just cancelling the auto-renew of the subscription not the membership itself.
@MeanElevator@Catfish seconding The Boys, and I don't even like violent or superhero. It's very clever, but quite awful, and very watchable if you can get past the ultraviolence.
Compare violent to opening sequence S1 American Gods?? Violence is fine by me if it has purpose and plot. That Bone Tomahawk bit was a shock, but made sense.
I don't even remember any violence at the start of American Gods. I just remember absolute boredom. I didn't even finish the first episode the first time I watched it, and then slogged through a few episodes after being assured it would get really good and be worthwhile. Spoiler: it wasn't. I didn't enjoy any of it in the slightest.
I had a spot of cleaning mojo and vacuumed and mopped the floors. I now have nice clean floors but the kitchen's too wet to go in and make a cuppa. Boo.
I have considered making some absorbent cotton slippers to wear after mopping the floor, so I can walk all over the wet floor and call it drying the floor.
I may have gone a touch overboard when ordering embroidry kits from Temu. I think I now have a lifetime supply, plus a bit extra.
The kits are mostly pretty good quality (except for one dodgy one I asked for a refund on) but a few of them will be a bit challenging as they are quite complicated. I'm chalking them up as a work expense as they are to help keep me awake on quiet night shifts. Unfortunately the ATO is unlikely to agree with that assessment, so I can't claim a refund on them.
I also bought a few more decals, hopefully Miss Meow will like her litter trays being in a small jungle. In any case having a plastic coating on the wall should help protect it from her over-enthusiastic litter digging practices.
Yeah, also when she refused to bring her kids to the hospital after the staff were urging her to do so, when they thought the kids had eaten leftovers. (Due to her claiming so). Her excuse was ‘no I don’t want to upset them from school’. It meant she 100% knew she hadn’t fed any to the kids. Because what normal person wouldn’t be terrified their kids might have eaten some, and are about to suffer a horrific death? No. She knew what she did, and hadn’t served any to herself or the kids.
But that's my go-to whenever anyone argues that veganism is the most sustainable diet. An argument that has also caused me problems on Reddit when I added that for greatest sustainability impact we should start with eating the rich. They got a bit funny about that one.
Some of the groups do go a bit overboard with banning people, and some seem to have quite biased moderators. I can understand some of the removal of posts and comments being a bit heavy handed at time, just because of the difficulty of moderating a large group and the impossibility of stepping on some toes, but going to banning people as a first step is not a good option. Especially if it is people that have contributed to the group in the past, not just a random coming in looking to cause trouble.
I guess it's the double edges sword of social media though, allowing everyone to contribute tends to lead to trolls and bad actors flooding the group and turning it into shit, but it's also very easy to destroy a group with excessive moderation destroying the ability to have a free discussion.
I love how Temu tries to trick you into taking a credit on your account instead of getting a refund to your card. They tell you it will take days to repay to the card, but it actually goes through instantly. Plus they put in an extra pop up to try to get you to change it without realising that clicking on "get refund instantly" means getting an account credit instead of an actual refund.
Oh well, I know their tricks and have the refund in my account and gave a bad review to the dodgy embroidery kit I was sent. I was actually a bit surprised that only one of them was actually dodgy, and because I didn't have to return the kit I'll be able to use the cotton on the stitch book I got that didn't come with any, so that works out ok.
They often don't want it back, especially if it is low cost and you say it is defective instead of just change of mind. They also sometimes offer you a partial refund if you don't return it, but ask you to send it back if you want the whole amount back. I also discovered tonight that when you put in a bad review for an item it prompts you to return it, and gives you an additional chance to return an item at no cost (normally you have to do all returns in each order in one go). Which was handy, I had something that seemed ok at the start but then didn't actually work after I used it for a while, but I thought it was too late to return it.
I am back from the local museum. Photos were not allowed.
It was terrifying. This whole area of colonised NZ was founded by a psychopathic cult leader who made his own rules and basically governed like a psychopath. Looking at the photos, after 3 generations the population starts to share too many facial characteristics. And I learnt a new definition of frolic. ( it means having to smile while you work )
Other than that there were some beautiful artifacts that settlers brought over. Tools an personal items. Very lovely. It made me question what I would bring to a new world.
::: spoiler spoiler
I thought once you got your vein ripped out you'd die instantly and not hang on for half an hour so you can club a cunt with a 2 by 4 with nails sticking out.
:::
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Yesterday on the way home I saw the fire brigade breaking out somebody stuck in one of the old cast iron toilets. Hope you all have a better day than that unfortunate person 😸
When I was little I got my hand stuck in a trolley. All I heard was a staff member say "I'll get the butcher". My dad was a butcher. I knew what they did. I cried. The butcher brought out a tub of fat.
to feed you and fatten you up?
I did wonder what they were gonna do with it.
Oooh I wanna know the whole story. I wonder how long they were there before they realised they needed proper help. Oh that poor person!
I need that fucking cable I've been saving for probably 8 years and never used and I can't find it anywhere.
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuck
Edit: I'm going to go buy one and I know I will remember where it is when I get home.
It's a 3.5mm extension cable. To go from the drum kit to the audio interface.
You rationalised it in the last house move
I have a draw of very tangled cables collected over the years. I’m sure I have one of everything by now but digging through there is not fun.
I just dropped all of mine off for recycling, so I can't help, sorry.
Hehe i know this pain.
With you fam.
Can't have mine though because I can't find mine either.
I can literally see it in my minds eye in the spot I left it last time and it's not there :(
Hooray made it down to the beach.
Not so hooray fucking weeds.
Is good to be down here though.
Resident magpie remembers me so appeased it w/ cheee. Really makes you wonder just how much memory they have. Haven't been here for months and the thing was right at my feet without a second thought.
Glad you made it down there today!! Love that you got a birb greeting. Clever little tackers!
Beach. 😊
I think I’m going to bail on that 1st birthday this weekend. The only people I know at this birthday are the parents and they’re going to be busy socialising with everyone, and I’ll probably feel awkward in this setting being childless. I’ll just message the day before that I’m sick and don’t want to spread germs. Does this make me a bad friend? I’ll plan a catch up with this friend in a few weeks and still give a present then.
Not a bad person. I’ve skipped plenty of kids parties for similar reasons. Was fine.
It's ok. 😊
Nooooo, fav banh mi place nearby has had a ~glow up and is now offering heaps more fancy things, looks like it's changed ownership. Unfortunately means it's no longer reasonable to nip there on a lunch break, boo.
... though I do need to try the Salted Vietnamese Coffee...!
Is there still boxes of tissues on the tables?
My fav local banh mi place is still slinging loaded rolls for $7.50 and is never that busy, I hope it never gets a glow up. The salted coffee sounds great tho.
I kind of hope Hungs Bakery doesn't sell out and go up market because the tofu banh mi is absolutely legit especially for that price and speed. But I'm guessing so long as those commission housing towers are the, Victoria Street won't gentrify like the rest of Richmond
Already so cold, it’s going to be a cold night.
Going to need my hot wattle bot again.
I could do with a wattle bot 🌳 hot or otherwise!
I've been living in my oodie all day today. Tomorrow I will Be Productive (tm)
My frozen fingers can’t type.
I’m hoping it’ll be somewhat warmer tomorrow too.
Fireplace is working overtime in anticipation
Hot water bottle doing it for me, the ambient air in here is cold.
Took the Minipeelers to Highpoint today and had a fun time topping up our supply of trackpants, T-shirts and other things that were not so practical lol. Some Lush products were purchased and bathing indulged in once we got home. The house smells a treat!
Good morning. 😘
Today we are going to the local community museum, pictures will follow.
I've been so successful in weatherstripping around the sliding door the dog door panel is inserted into that now the air pressure is blowing the dog flap open and letting in even more cold air than was coming through the gaps.
This be me tomorrow night
https://www.reddit.com/r/SipsTea/s/Rx4M9CKLPP
I’m with you. Big 16th is tomorrow night and I might disappear into the hedgerow with a beverage haha.
Don't let your parents catch you sneaking a drink.
Nah just joking. Happy Birthday Miss God. 🎂
Thanks. It could get hectic.
I decided to check the status of my tax return and my voluntary super contribution has been reset to $0?!!?! Wtf! However, it's still being processed ("Balancing accounts") and I don't want to slow anything down so I think I'll just wait until it's been finalised and maybe it'll be added back in by then. I'll be a very unhappy camper if I have to amend the lodgement and delay getting my money back...
I'm paying the ato this year :(
I was going to be in that position due to an improperly taxed second job and a taxable cash scholarship, but dumped a load into super to get around it. I really need that tax return and not a tax bill, so it'd be nice to get that processed properly...
Me too. They usually hit me up for about $4000 :-(
Are you sure your fund has processed your NOI yet?
Yeah, I got the letter confirming the NOI and saw the deposit in my super balance minus 15% tax several days before I lodged my tax return. I didn't enter a value for TFN under my super contributions (just the fund name, fund ABN and amount contributed) because I couldn't find a TFN for the super fund (I assume that's for SMSFs or something), so not sure if that was an issue.
But, my ATO account has been a bit weird, random errors when logging in (not a scam) and there's a new "payments" prompt at the top of my home page even though there should be nothing outstanding
Edit: I'm a goose, the "debit" account in the payment prompt would be the amount I owe if I didn't have deductions. Sooo I have no idea why it isn't through yet. I'll wait and see...
Yeah. Can't say I'm surprised.
I did meet mine on OKC, but that was before it joined the Swipe club, and shock horror, had questionnaires and profiles
I’ve never tried them myself but I’m glad I never had to rely on them.
I hope you at least start to have some luck with it.
I wouldn’t necessarily assume asking how your day is going is for nefarious info gathering. It’s just a normal part of small talk. (However I’ve never used any matching apps so don’t know the context, eg I just found out thumbs up emoji is apparently rude to younger gens). You can give nonspecific answers, just like you would in real life. Conversation needs to star somewhere.
I am so sick of being interrupted when I’m talking. However, I’ve finally started to grow a backbone and call people on when they do it.
Going to see if I can finish I watching The last of us Season 1 tonight.
Then I’ll start making my way through Andor.
Last of Us was just amazing , I totes recommend
I haven't seen Andor yet.
Stopping at season 1 though.
Past few nights I’ve done a few movies, Thunderbolts, Heads of State and the Amatuer.
season 2 seems to have lost the plot, I watched the first 2 episodes and just did not care for it
I experienced some of the story from season 2 from the game. It didn’t sit well with me to be honest and I heard the tv show has some problems in season 2
First sing and play since I dropped suboxone. Felt like my head was going to explode from endorphins.
Baby steps.
This is wonderful. 😊
Ok, I despise Amazon, but sometimes you can't find something anywhere else. I now accidentally have 30 days of their TV thing. What should I check out?
Check out that it doesn't automatically renew after the 30 days are up.
Oh I will!
You can just cancel it now, you'll still get your 30 days free but won't have to worry about forgetting and having it auto renew. Just ignore all the warnings about what you miss by not having a subscription, they just put them there to make people reconsider cancelling. You are just cancelling the auto-renew of the subscription not the membership itself.
Thanks, looks like I'm getting the bullshit trial of single episodes, so it can get right in the bin
I think the expanse might be there if you like space shows
Invincible
The Boys
Reacher (S2 is kind of a dog, but still worth watching).
The first two suggestions are violent and I mean VIOLENT
@MeanElevator @Catfish seconding The Boys, and I don't even like violent or superhero. It's very clever, but quite awful, and very watchable if you can get past the ultraviolence.
That show is so disturbing and excellent.
Compare violent to opening sequence S1 American Gods?? Violence is fine by me if it has purpose and plot. That Bone Tomahawk bit was a shock, but made sense.
I'm pretty sure the first scene of the Boys someone gets vaporised except for their hands.
It's gory as, but somehow with a purpose.
Thirding The Boys. Yes it’s blood soaked, but in a comedic style. It’s very cleverly written and is a parody and warning of current American politics.
I'll Fourth it. I really enjoyed it (although I've only seen the first two seasons, as I only use streaming services occassionally)
I don't even remember any violence at the start of American Gods. I just remember absolute boredom. I didn't even finish the first episode the first time I watched it, and then slogged through a few episodes after being assured it would get really good and be worthwhile. Spoiler: it wasn't. I didn't enjoy any of it in the slightest.
There was non book set up scene for the undocumented Scandinavian first North Americans.
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
Nine Perfect Strangers.
I think Sneaky Pete is on Amazon, I was ambivilent about whether I wanted to watch it at all and ended up really enjoying it.
I had a spot of cleaning mojo and vacuumed and mopped the floors. I now have nice clean floors but the kitchen's too wet to go in and make a cuppa. Boo.
Please, how do I catch cleaning mojo? Need some for the weekend.
It really doesn't come my way often. I recommend impending visitors with a tight deadline.
Imagine your besties are coming to visit and you want the place to be nice and clean
I have considered making some absorbent cotton slippers to wear after mopping the floor, so I can walk all over the wet floor and call it drying the floor.
Rain, so much rain here over next 36 hours.
One more day to go.
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Morning chef 😸 can I please have all the yum cha classics?
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I may have gone a touch overboard when ordering embroidry kits from Temu. I think I now have a lifetime supply, plus a bit extra.
The kits are mostly pretty good quality (except for one dodgy one I asked for a refund on) but a few of them will be a bit challenging as they are quite complicated. I'm chalking them up as a work expense as they are to help keep me awake on quiet night shifts. Unfortunately the ATO is unlikely to agree with that assessment, so I can't claim a refund on them.
I also bought a few more decals, hopefully Miss Meow will like her litter trays being in a small jungle. In any case having a plastic coating on the wall should help protect it from her over-enthusiastic litter digging practices.
You reminded me to check my temu cart lol
I just listened to a very interesting YT on the mushroom case, this was all new to me
and it changed my mind completely
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra_e-c3gNKU
Changed your mind in which direction?
Guilty
Yeah, also when she refused to bring her kids to the hospital after the staff were urging her to do so, when they thought the kids had eaten leftovers. (Due to her claiming so). Her excuse was ‘no I don’t want to upset them from school’. It meant she 100% knew she hadn’t fed any to the kids. Because what normal person wouldn’t be terrified their kids might have eaten some, and are about to suffer a horrific death? No. She knew what she did, and hadn’t served any to herself or the kids.
Lost the laundry gamble
Another day, another subreddit banned me.
I was reasonable, used facts and spoke the truth. 😞 My bad.
You haven’t lived until you’ve been perma-banned from r/recipes 😀
how the hell does one get banned from recipes ...lol
Endorsing cannibalism.
But that's my go-to whenever anyone argues that veganism is the most sustainable diet. An argument that has also caused me problems on Reddit when I added that for greatest sustainability impact we should start with eating the rich. They got a bit funny about that one.
Calling out bot activity but one of the commenters was probably real. Mods booted me pretty quickly without a warning.
That seems like a talent!
Hat doff to you!
Some of the groups do go a bit overboard with banning people, and some seem to have quite biased moderators. I can understand some of the removal of posts and comments being a bit heavy handed at time, just because of the difficulty of moderating a large group and the impossibility of stepping on some toes, but going to banning people as a first step is not a good option. Especially if it is people that have contributed to the group in the past, not just a random coming in looking to cause trouble.
I guess it's the double edges sword of social media though, allowing everyone to contribute tends to lead to trolls and bad actors flooding the group and turning it into shit, but it's also very easy to destroy a group with excessive moderation destroying the ability to have a free discussion.
I got a temp ban from a Pokémon one for calling Ed Sheeran a nasal whiner
Here here!
I love how Temu tries to trick you into taking a credit on your account instead of getting a refund to your card. They tell you it will take days to repay to the card, but it actually goes through instantly. Plus they put in an extra pop up to try to get you to change it without realising that clicking on "get refund instantly" means getting an account credit instead of an actual refund.
Oh well, I know their tricks and have the refund in my account and gave a bad review to the dodgy embroidery kit I was sent. I was actually a bit surprised that only one of them was actually dodgy, and because I didn't have to return the kit I'll be able to use the cotton on the stitch book I got that didn't come with any, so that works out ok.
They often don't want it back, especially if it is low cost and you say it is defective instead of just change of mind. They also sometimes offer you a partial refund if you don't return it, but ask you to send it back if you want the whole amount back. I also discovered tonight that when you put in a bad review for an item it prompts you to return it, and gives you an additional chance to return an item at no cost (normally you have to do all returns in each order in one go). Which was handy, I had something that seemed ok at the start but then didn't actually work after I used it for a while, but I thought it was too late to return it.
I am back from the local museum. Photos were not allowed.
It was terrifying. This whole area of colonised NZ was founded by a psychopathic cult leader who made his own rules and basically governed like a psychopath. Looking at the photos, after 3 generations the population starts to share too many facial characteristics. And I learnt a new definition of frolic. ( it means having to smile while you work )
Other than that there were some beautiful artifacts that settlers brought over. Tools an personal items. Very lovely. It made me question what I would bring to a new world.
YL is watching Chicago Med on the telly. Someone is getting their innards massaged by a surgeon. Time for me to do some housework.
I just watched Heretic
::: spoiler spoiler I thought once you got your vein ripped out you'd die instantly and not hang on for half an hour so you can club a cunt with a 2 by 4 with nails sticking out. :::
4/5 hobbits
Such wasted potential. Hugh Grant as a psychotic killer is genius casting and like most horror movies just falls apart in the third act.
Yeah it was gripping up until the end and then it was like "huh".