Daily Discussion Thread: Thu 30 Nov 2023
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Just poking my head in after a very long absence to let everyone know that as of 3:15 today I am henceforth to be known only as Dr. Omoikiri ๐ช
eeeyyyyyy welcome, and congratulations!
That is mega wonderful! Our own Dr Omoikiri!
I will make sure not to serve apple breakfast when youโre around.
Congratulations doc ๐๐ฅ๐พ
respectful Japanese noises
Congratulations ๐ฅณ
Congratulations Doctor
eee congrats!
Hello Dr. Omoikiri ๐๐๐
Congratulations Dr!
Congratulations Doctor Omoikiri!
That is a huge achievement and you should be very proud of yourself.
Dromoikiri
Omoikiri-hakase!!!! We have missed you but are also unworthy to be in your presence ๐โโ๏ธ ๐ซก
But also mega congrats ๐ฅณ
FUCK YEAH! CONGRATULATIONS DOCTOR!
Congrats! Amazing achievement.
Congrats and long time no see Doc!
My kid won an award today for visual arts. She received a $30 Coles gift card which she bought a packet of chips, large tub of cottage cheese and a lactose free drink.
She also got 100% on her history exam. โบ
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Well done Kid CEO!
Agreed! AMAZING! ๐คโจ
Back from the hospital. Both positively and annoyingly, results were normal despite being in a fair bit of pain. But I will be getting a referral to a new specialist and also to a pain clinic so that's a win.
I'm missing the pitter patter of tiny beans. I downsized to a week. It's tempting to get Melbcat back asap but someone said maybe it's it's best to leave her there for a few days to settle in and get used to the cattery just so she knows it's safe for next time.
Had to call in sick today for the first time - had a sore throat on and off, and definitely sinusey. RAT says negative at least.
Since I work around the elderly and frail, coming in sick is a no-no. But I nearly blubbered down the phone when I called in.
You did the right thing. We have sick leave for exactly such reasons. Take care of yourself :)
Today I made 108 large lasagnas. I discovered a little hard lump in my hand, right where my rude finger joins on the palm side. You can move it around a bit, it's kinda freaky. Doesn't hurt too much but I'll swing by a Dr next week and get it checked out.
You and Raven trying to out bulk-Italian food each other? ๐ค ๐ค ๐ค ๐ค ๐ค ๐ค ๐ค ๐ค ๐ค
Given Raven is doing it as a home cook and I'm doing it in a factory setting, I declare Raven the winner. Doing that kind of thing at home is truly impressive.
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im boredddddd
Can I offer you an early lunch?
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Oh yes wow thatโs a lot of food! I will have a responsibly sourced koala steak and camel milk latte please, thank you.
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The koala is fresh and medium rare for optimal flavour.
Delicious! Thank you!
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Iโm livinโ like a dog
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This is indeed Mary Poppins weather.
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Exotic kite and yoyo carved from bear bone and sinew
Hi Bored, I'm dad!
Hi Dad! Can I have some money please?
Ask your mother.
The house feels empty without Melbcat. I keep thinking she's going to come looking for me in the shower or looking down so I won't step on her. It's probably a good chance to do things like a big vacuum and use cleaning chemicals when she's not around but I'm still feeling like crap
Okay okay I'm playing Hot Take Thursday too.
I think trams are inefficient... they are so inflexible with rerouting, you can't have express services, they can get majorly delayed by traffic, and because they can't overtake, if one breaks down a whole lot get stuffed, and I still think it's wild you often have to walk into the road to get on/off trams. And new routes are next to impossible to establish these days. I think people defend trams for the romantic charm but I think they are increasingly impractical for a city this size. Would rather see electric buses with bus lanes or fully separated light rail, not this worst of both worlds kind of thing.
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Aggressively dings at you
This is a good hot take I like this.
Trams are garbage. They manage to be both shit trains AND shit busses.
KISSINGER IS FINALLY DEAD!
(Sorry if celebrating the death of a horrible war criminal is not good).
50 years too late
This is the man who sent our jobs to China , who enabled the Chinese to have slave labour.
Now THIS is hot take thursday.
I have hated Kissinger my whole adult life
You're not alone there :)
This isn't a hot take! Because it's very factual.
Reminder that no matter how much marketing and weird hype there is from McDonald's and Americans.. the McRib is garbage and they only bring it out once every now and then to capture the curiosity of those who fall for the hype.
Hot take thursday
I'm here for it.
Saying McDonaldโs food is garbage is not really a Hot take is it ?
Not a fan of regular ribs, I don't think I'd ever voluntarily consume simulated ribs.
I do like their simulated chicken though.
They should name it the McRip
I switched to Deezer partway through the year - Coal Makes Me Cum came up in my top 25. Don't ask me how.
The amount of country music I've listened to in the last year REALLY came through in my wrap up. It even gave me a little custom video from Luke Combs which he recorded for his top fans on Spotify to say thanks.
Looking at that you'd never think a lot of the time I'm listening to other things like Rap Classics 1990-2010, Metal, Classical, Dance/Electronic, Various oldies, Punk, Rock (it does say my top genre is Rock though) and whatever else tickles my fancy.
I did mine with YouTube Music and my top artist was The Beatles. Second was Ringo Starr. Third is George Harrison. Fourth is Paul McCartney. Fifth was Hail the Sun.
I just realised why The Beatles was number one at 10 hours, it was because I listened to the Anthology albums (1, 2 and 3), which are 2 hours and a half hours (give or take). And also the times I relistened to Now and Then.
God this is fucking embarrassing hahaha.
lots of stressful life stuff going on lately, so I've dealt with it in a mature way by doing some random retail therapy.
what are some good apps/uses for a galaxy watch? 6, if that mtters
I'm ashamed to admit I'd get a smartwatch to remind me when I've been sedentary for too long...
hahahaha I JUST commented to my wife that I need to get moving because my watch told me so
Steps/exercise tracking?
this was one of my primary self justifications in splurging on it!
Nothing like having some hot fucken dal with fucken toast at TWENTY TO ONE IN THE FUCKEN' MORNIN'
I really need to make sure I don't loll around in bed til 12 this time lol. Feels like all I've done is bed -> bathroom -> work -> bathroom -> bed
A VB longneck is better
I haven't fully naturalised yet, but I'll get there.
VB is like the Vegemite of beers. If you weren't raised on it as a kid, it's basically unpalatable.
Don't feel obligated to get there - I'm fully naturalised and I can't stand the stuff. My first beer was XXXX. There are very valid reasons why we don't drink those first beers again, they're the cheapest at the bottle-o because they are awful.
Ha, don't worry, it was all in jest - I'm much worse, I don't even like beer at all and don't drink much anyway so I'm pretty sure that precludes me from ever getting citizenship. ๐
Dal with toast is new to me. Must try.
My mum used to make sandwiches of it (albeit with fairly dry dal)! Also can use toast to scoop up dal instead. Toast is basically a holey second cousin of naan...
Today will hurt for me.
but for the rest of us may it be kind.
You okay mate, or have you just eaten too many chillis?
Please shout if you need some support โค๏ธ
hugs
What do people do for lunches? Iโm having one of those days where I want something but I donโt know what. Stare in the fridge, stare in the pantry, decide I donโt want anything but know Iโll end up eating too many biscuits because Iโm hungry. And I know it makes no sense to stare in the fridge and pantry, because I know exactly whatโs in there because I did the shopping!
Fry up some mushrooms, onions and sausages (or your choice of protein). Add eggs, mix vigourously. Put into warm tortillas and wrap them up.
Have a pickle/salad/sauerkraut on the side.
10 minutes from fridge to plate.
In the office today so it's a sandwich (pickle and lactose free cheese),some fruit, a little cucumber and cherry tomato mix, and a little jelly cup.
Soup and a sandwich. Both can be minimal - eg cupasoup and peanut butter. If you want to get fancy put a couple of slices of bacon in the peanut butter sammo.
Eggs. Scrambled, omelette, sunnyside up on toast.
Today I air fried a few dim sims and made a ketchup/aioli mixture dipping sauce
yay, finished another puzzle, maps are normally easy but this was hard because none of the places exist ๐ so I couldn't do it from memory
( gees that pot plant looks a little sad ๐ฌ )
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I love Ted.
Oh my gosh you had a little helper โบ
he was reminding me it's afternoon tea time
I love him so much ๐
I love his cheeks and intense expression ๐โโฌ ๐
That intense expression is insanity
I had to google what Hot Take means and I want in too. I just gotta think of something. Brb
You know when you go to Aldi and discover something so you go back and buy 8 packets because you know they're gonna disappear. I present to you macadamia lamington balls
I wish ALDI delivered
I was just thinking that
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This moment is the closest we may have ever been to legalising cannabis in Victoria.
If you think it's reasonable and fair enough that we do, now would be the time to email Jacinta Allan.
Jacinta's contact details: https://new.parliament.vic.gov.au/members/jacinta-allan/?tab=panel-contact
For more info or to start from a draft email: https://rachelpayne.com.au/legalise-it/
Hard this morning, but I maintain that this song is the best running song of all time - makes me feel like I'm in a montage.
Rebel Yell - Billy Idol
I like exercising to
Body Movin - Beastie Boys
I'm running with a 150 bpm playlist. Fight for your Right is in there. Sabotage is too, but seems a bit quick. Looking it up Body Movin' is apparently about 100.
Honey by Moby is another I like.
I'm going back a little but whenever this gets played on the radio I crank it up, just makes me feel good.
Eye of the Tiger
https://youtu.be/btPJPFnesV4?si=f3yWkhdnlntHtR-I
That is a good song
https://tvovermind.com/surprising-reason-eye-tiger-became-theme-song-rocky-iii/
Interesting article.
When I first bought my car, a guy at the dealership made me a mp3 to play on the way home. It was full of pop shit but Eye Of The Tiger was hidden amongst them. I put it on repeat the whole way home. I had a new appreciation for that song.
100bpm is CPR IIRC.
Looks like the red christmas bows are slowly being rolled out in my area.
So I declare today.. hot take thursday
Those bows are stupid.
And another hot take..
Anyone who get a fade hairdooo are secretly trying to make their head appear less big.
What you got against bows?
Also as someone with a huge melon we will do whatever it takes. Don't head shame us big-brainers!
Truthfully nothing really.
But fades are a conspiracy by the AHC to keep you going back every 2 weeks.
I'll vote for you. Where do I learn more about your policies?
Also, I hope today hasn't hurt as much as you thought it might.
Next thurs. I'll be updating my banal policy platform.
But yea.. I really put my foot in it yesterday family stuff. I will update that too once the storm passes.
Banal for bottom being anal!
I thought it might be family stuff :( wishing you strength, definitely hits differently, difficult conversations can be particularly draining
Spotify really do be making stuff these days. The fuck is "chamber pop"
Thatโs funny, I was listening to a band today described in Wikipedia as a โ post-punk dance noise hanxiety band โ ๐ซ lol ok..
i am a radical face fan too
Hasn't chamber pop has been around for a long time? Orchestra heavy pop arrangements going back to the Beach Boys and Burt Bacharach, I'd also imagine Eleanor Rugby fits
I am vexed. My pipeline build at work keeps failing, leading to new commits for tiny changes, except finding a colleague to peer review/approve my pull requests is hard this week.
And now I've just spent half the evening failing to get an arm build of Fedora to boot on the RPi4. About to revert back to the default OS, but I could have done that hours ago! ๐ก
I understand hardly any of that, the grammar is too weird for me.
Computer Bad, Nath Mad
Computer problems trying to do something new at work. Computer problems trying to do something new at home.
Catfish spider murderer to the rescue!
Spotify wrapped is out and there is no surprise that Closing Time is our #1 song followed by Dreadlock Holiday.
My Apple rewind or whatever itโs called is completely wrong and Iโm disappointed
My wife has brutalized mine. Who the hell is Stone Sour. Still, blink182 came out on top so its deffo right. I think this is the first year Glass Animals - Heatwaves isnt in the top 10
Stone sour were my #3! Is your wife okay!? Seriously, they're my 'everything is wrong so I must listen to music that understands' band.
Hahaha. I don't know who Stone Sour is but Blink 182 seriously mate.
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Stork ankles, donkey teeth and some collard greens please.
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I'll allow it
A nice hot bowl of porridge and a latte please.
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Something nice and sinus cleary.
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Ta muchly.
Champ & sausage please
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Fried egg on rice please
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I have a two week cough (and counting). No signs of letting up, my voice is destroyed. The only good part of this is the cough medicine I got prescribed. Itโs delicious and makes me feel woozy.
I had one of these when I was 20 and they gave me liquid codeine. That tasted awful though but forced me to go ni nighs. Not just a gentle "hey, wanna go to sleep?" but more like a "haha sleep time, idiot". Magic stuff.
Ooooh, I gotta get me some of that
hugs
sleep and drink a lot of water
Just discovered this - upload an audio file and search for the animal/bird/reptile that is closest to it. A20 Acoustic observatory Full article on abc Could be a lot of fun when going bush/hiking.
There's also BirdNET from Cornell University. Need to have data connection though. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.tu_chemnitz.mi.kahst.birdnet
Edit. Seems this might be the old version of the Merlin app.
Surprisingly, I really enjoyed this yearโs Spotify Wrapped. Itโs so far out of the genres I usually listen to, it included podcasts and Iโm surprised I was in the top 3% listeners worldwide (contextually itโs a bit ambiguous, it might have meant when I peaked in June).
been watching videos on narcissism ๐๐๐ญ every single emotion and thought and insecurity I have has now been pathologised
Friendo, while you might have picked up some maladaptive behaviours (maybe) an actual narcissist wouldnโt care.
It would just be everyone else that was wrong and no need to self reflect.