Daily Discussion Thread : Saturday 28th December 2024 This is an emoji free zone

Miss Meow has declared today Snoozy Saturday.
- Here here

Just a absolutely gorgeous sunset with the doggo.
- That looks very similar to the lonny backbeach with barwon heads in the background?
  
  Half right. Bit closer to the river

Front yard planting has been done. The augur to go on the drill worked well & made digging holes one handed much easier. I was very careful to make sure I was wearing gloves.
A couple of the plants might not have survived the wait, but I planted them anyway in case they are able to regrow from the roots. I've just got a few more plants to go in the shady spots and down the side of the house and that will be everything.
- Augers, so hot right now :)

Got a crook back today and it's not even a shagger's back. How sad is that.
- As far as everyone else is concerned it's 100% shagger's back.
  
  It's not his birthday.

I walked home through the park and took a great pic of the century plants all in flower. They must be at least four metres tall.
- Cool :)

Pain so bad....I may need a margarita.
- Have two.
  
  Alright then. You've twisted my arm.

I may have been convinced to try karaoke tonight. May have confirmed my knowledge that my enthusiasm for singing is not entirely matched by my talent. Heaps fun though. So good to have stupid fun with friends and family. Laughed so much I nearly threw up.

I swear cashew cream is so good. Especially if you don’t have cream on hand or are a bit iffy with it. I soaked my cashews for about 15 min in hot water then just blitzed in the NutriBullet. Perfect!
- A shame they’re so expensive. Vegan cheese and cheesecake…

Fucking broke the door of my washing machine 😭😭
- You need a margarita too.
  
  Highly recommend it.
  
  ASAP
- Oh shit!

day is soo slooow today
- Agreed. How is it only 4:30pm.

Started dragging stuff down but it was heavy and took more trips than I thought… Didn’t pay attention to time so the place shut before I could bring everything down and had to drag one load back home as it rained. Still half to go.
At least there’s more floor clear because I really need to vacuum

Still sick. Fucking hell. Hope to be better by new years eve :(
- Hope you feel better ASAP!
  
  Thank you ❤️

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- Discount Turkey please
  
  🐥
- Cba doing a grocery shop so can I get one of everything please chef?
  Also the coal is working: 🚶‍♂️☠️🦪
  If only you'd both agreed to my terms...
  
  It’s all inside this box. We got it from Pandora. �*

@imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone your team is playing. Good luck. 🏏
- Cool. Am at the pub with fam but will check in
  
  Stars will chase Thunder for 8/182. Big score but let's roll baby.
  Update: And they lost.

The brand of pumpkin baby food my cat gets is Rafferty’s Garden…
Raefarty’s Garden
- 🎃☀️💨
  
  No empjis

Set up podium tennis. Children have massive fight with each other. Have a few angry hits myself after they storm inside. Why HIT can't HIT we HIT just HIT have HIT fun HIT like HIT a HIT normal HIT fucking HIT family HIT It was hard to put in the lawn because, although lush and spongey to walk on, the ground is so hard. Gonna need a deeper hole. Brought it in so it doesn't get rusty when it rains, which it looks like it will soon. Now I feel a bit flat because the fun thing wasn't fun for them. I'm gonna stop pouting and make some bolognaise I think.
- podium tennis
  Have to admit I have no idea what that is.
  
  Actually I think it might be called totem tennis and I miss named it? It's a pole you stick into the lawn with a tennis ball on a long string attached to the top on a spiral so it spins around when you hit it. You get a couple of bats with it and you can play solo or with two people.

There's 3 types of people in this world: those who can count and those who can't.

- Brian FM

Question for the wildlife people:: I can hear an owl hooting outside. It's 2pm. I've not generally known owls to hoot at this time, although I know some don't always sleep all day. Just feeling like a hoot? Injured? Overheating? Normal?
Very distinct "Hoot-hoo-hoot". Always in triples, second one slightly shorter (fractions of a second) than the first and last one. It's been intermittent since I woke up about 8:30. Been going about 15 mins this time
- It might be a dove. Does it sound like this?
  
  Omg that's exactly it! Whichever one lives in the tree seems to only be doing the part from :06-:10
  TIL the thing I've thought was an owl I'd actually just a dove! Had no clue they made that noise. Guess I need to brush up on what exactly an owl sounds like. Thanks raven!
  
  Love those doves.
- For the Android users, there's a cool app on F-Droid called whoBird that identifies bird songs/squawks. Its ace.
  
  Upvote for the F-Droid love alone!

Terminus parma suuuucks
- It's horrid, I gave it three opportunities because it's around the corner. I should have known the first time when it came out with chips underneath.
- and what is terminus parma?
  
  Terminus Hotel on Queens Parade. Decent little beer selection though.
  
  One in Vic st. and Queens parade. Guessing one of them.

Hubs just destroyed incel ideology by pointing out danny devito fucks and I can't stop laughing
- I agree, but it is Danny De Devito after all.

Love getting a box of Nan's Christmas bikkies 😍

The only downside is having to share them with my partner 😂
- What's this 'share' shit? When my elderly friend brings me the traditional Christmas container of chhena jili, chhena poda and other assorted indian delights His Lordship knows that shit is mine, not his.
  
  One year she made a box up for each of us, I think it was my partners and I first Xmas together. Since then, we've become one Cronenberg entity, so we have to share the box now 😂
  With how much I hype them up, it would be against the festive spirit to deny my partner his share 😂😂
  But if your mate, makes you delicious treats, they are yours and his lordship can languish 😂
- Tax Invoice
  1x Nan's Bikkies Genuine Biscuit range - $0.00
  10x Nan's love - $0.00
  Total: $0.00
  Total tendered: $0.00
  Change: $0.00
  - Taxable item - includes CST
  
  😂😂 I love this!

RAIN! THE MARGE IS HEREE!
- Yep pouring down here in Thornbury. Fast moving and won't last long, but the garden really really needs it so I'm grateful.
  
  All the new plants I put in today will be very grateful - I gave them a good watering, but this sort of soaking is what they really need.

I'm very much enjoying Contraband Police but FFS can they please stop with these damn near impossible shootouts? Jesus Christ. They seem to have rebalanced since the playthrough a on YouTube, because I keep getting so many more enemies seem to spawn for me, and my mission thing I'm stuck on is going for longer :/

Thanks for doing thread, @TheWitchofThornbury! 🖤

Is anyone running a rooted android that still works with Google wallet?

Thanks witchy
I got 11ish hours of sleep. Very very very much needed. Still feel like I could use a bit more though, but I'll probably call it here

Food pantry win today - I got a whole chicken & some crumbed tenders. This answers both my "what should I make for dinner" and "what should I take for work lunch tomorrow" questions.
- Wish my area had a decent food pantry! For an area with such expensive real estate people here can be remarkably scummy. "Visitors" from an even scummier nearby suburb would most likely pillage everything and trash the pantry. We had several little libraries trashed in the last few years. Food donations around here are limited to well meaning church groups with their packages of mostly expired food. Sad.
  
  There are definitely people around here that do that sort of thing too. Someone stole one of the cupboards once, and there was someone doing lovely things like hiding fish at the back of the cupboard. There are also people who will just take everything.
  The lady who runs the pantry puts a lot of work into putting out just a little bit at a time of the good stuff so there is not a big amount to take at any one time. There is usually plenty of bread, other things are only occasional (or if you go at the right time in the evening when they are getting the supermarket deliveries there is more). I get a fair bit because I walk Mr Woof past it twice a day, but it's often empty (except for bread).
- !
  Score!
- Silly question - how does the chicken stay cool and safe to eat? Is there like an esky or a public fridge
  
  No fridge or anything unfortunately. Mostly it is put out frozen & you can judge whether it still feels cold. Otherwise it is up to you to judge for yourself wheher you think it is ok based on smell etc. - and it is usually at/past expriy when donated to start with. Happily the chicken was still frozen solid when I got it, sometimes things are a bit more iffy.

Sky pretty.

I'm glad I don't need to watch the amount downloaded on the home Internet any longer. Between my kid downloading most of his Nintendo Switch library to his shiny new SD card on Christmas night and me downloading 100 GB or so off Steam tonight, it would have blown away whatever limits my account had.
To think, I took a screenshot of an especially heavy download session one time in the 90's, where I managed to stay online for almost 24 hours and downloaded 139 MB! One session!
- I'm glad most home internet has gone unlimited, too. In my comparison spree, I didn't even see any that were limited, though I'm sure they still exist somewhere
  My thing that I feel like I got to grow up seeing get better isn't internet speeds, it's mobile data allowances. The first phone plan mum had that I remember anything about had 2gb data for $30 a month. When I got my first phone plan, that climbed up to 5gb for the same price.
  When I moved to melbs, I ditched Telstra and doubled it at Optus with 10gb a month. I switched to boost for a little while who were offering 15 a month. Then when I turned 14 and could sign up for Amaysim, I switched to them and started getting 30 a month. Then after I'd been with them for a year, they just all of a sudden upgraded me to 55gb a month at no extra cost. I've only ever been on a $30/mo plan.
  Having to keep an eye on data usage was fun haha. Even when I was on 10gb, I had to setup a little thing on my phone that would automatically turn my data off every 100mb so I would be more aware of my usage. I never had any left by renewal time, which means I had to have used an average of 280mb per day. Not a lot without wifi
- I hear you. My current upload since I moved into this place is 43tb. And download is 18tb lol
  I remember struggling to download 1.6mb for a shareware game over an hour or so...
  
  I might have 18tb total storage capacity in the house (5 phones, 3 tablets, 5 laptops, two servers, one desktop and external storage). I sure as hell don't have 43 tb. What the hell are you transferring?

Upload Download. Many loads are happening.
I haven’t checked internet speed since moving into this house. Is 54 mbps any good?
- Is that upload or download? By Australian standards, that's acceptable. 50 up is about as good as you'll get for now. 50 down isn't the best, but should be fine for one or two people who only make light usage of it mixed with the occasional Netflix
  You probably have room to upgrade though, unless you're on truly ancient technology
  
  Thank you. It’s download speed. We got an offer to install FTTP and I didn’t follow up on it. Maybe I’ll check it out.
- Many loads are happening.
  Mostly laundry in this house. Internet speed irrelevant.
  
  Yeah I was referring to this morning’s thread comments, but that got me thinking about what I’m paying for versus what I’m actually getting with the download speeds.
- I'm told that is good.
  
  Thanks.