Daily Discussion Thread: Thursday, 13 February 2025

This mornings meeting with the old manager and new manager was glorious lol

They absolutely detest each other and watching them try to snipe each other politely is comedy gold lol

with all due respect
- We are well past that now lol
  There's no niceties involved at this stage.
holding your professional competence in the highest regard
- This place is an absolute shambles. Decorum between respwctive leadership teams was thrown out the window and few weeks ago.

Sad day today. My favourite pair of house/pj pants have come to a end. They're threadbare, the elastic has gone and now there's a hole where my crackhole is. We've had some good times, shared a lot of beer but it's time to let go of the 3/4 length polka dot favourites. 😔

and now there’s a hole where my crackhole is.
you fart too much and too potently
- I think you're correct. Blew a hole right through 'em.
It's a grief when a favorite garment finally gives up the ghost. Also applies to shoes. I will weep when my favorite dagging-around-at-home sandals finally cark it.
- It’s especially bad when I can’t find any new clothes I like to replace them
Farewell to the PJ pants! It is sad when something that comfy finally gives in. Do we need to hold a service?
- I might have a valentine/farewell party tomorrow. Who am I kidding? I WILL be having a party tomorrow.
You could patch the bunghole and replace the elastic /denial
- 😂
  I would but they are actually classed as see-through now.
RIP pj pants.
- Yes, the rip is the problem
- Amen

Someone got let go from work yesterday just for doing a half ass job and continually costing money to fix, only for it surface that he’d been let go from a previous job due to something pretty heinous (not, like, THAT, but still bad!!) that it’s probably for the best that it didn’t come to light until because now there’s quite the ick. The two situations had zero correlation, someone else just googled their name because something didn’t add up and wow.

You never know people.

oh come on dont leave us hanging!
- They filmed their partner's friend in the shower, without consent (obvs). Friend raised hell, with reason, but charges were dropped.

Toshiba messaged me yesterday saying they have another role they might fit me into. Meeting at 3pm.

Let's see what happens.

Toshiba? I haven't heard of them in years.... What do they do these days tech wise?
- Pretty much hardware. Lots of industrial stuff mainly.
- 🤣 I just realised the typo lol

By the time I seen this comment the downvote was gone. I added it back for you so Ur comment makes sense. You're welcome 🤗

Toshiba is going to make an offer. Not too excited because of the police check, but still. It's a good sign that I'm interviewing ok!

Speaking of:

I had a phone call with a possible job this morning. I want you to picture every total fuckwit, arrogant and insecure IT person and this guy was it. Patronising as well.

He was hired 6 months ago and fired everyone and brought in his "own team". That is never, ever a good sign.

And i don't want to stereotype, but he kept talking about Linux 🤣

I said I appreciate it but I don't think we'd work well together lol

- This guy was like when you give a bullied teenager a lot of power lol
  Cheers:)

I have opened up every window and door in my apartment. Let it rain

My coffee is pretty

The coffee machine at my regular cafe was broken this morning. So I had to do the unthinkable and go to another cafe.
The coffee was better and 40c cheaper. Furthermore, the lass serving at the alternate place used to work at my regular one. It's been surreal.
... I may need to shift my cafe allegiance.
- Nice 👍

sunrise very pretty

Awake tax (besides feeling tired)
These were taken ten minutes apart.

I give up on sleep. It is futile

3rd day I've woken to the sound of a cat puking
- Furball season.

First drops of rain! Great big ones! I was wrong in my estimate of when it would start.

EDIT: now it's stopped

about five small drops here
I could smell the rain but I don’t think anything has fallen where I am.
Got a decent downpour right now.

P-plater lost control, jumped the curb and smashed into the local fitness park this morning....no one was hurt, driver and passengers shook but ok. I've stood on that corner with my intrusive thoughts wondering if I could get out of the way in time if I saw that happening...bloody hell

Almost certainly the P plater was pushing the limits.

Dear fungus gnats: could you please go back to where you came from and get stuck on the traps instead of hovering around my monitor and face

I'm pretty tired still.

Why is everything I touch today so FUCKED

This.
At work, the battery for a pinpad on a safe with lots of money in it died, so I couldn't close the door.
- I got sent a pair of left handed scissors when it should have been right handed.
  So annoying!

Trimmed claws mean open windows! Yay!!!!

I don't think I've had an actual date on valentines day for at least 6 or so years.

Goodnight all ❤️

I'll be your valentine.
I choo choo chose you
- 🤣🤣🤣

Existential dread pretty.

Mmmhmm

Got about 2 drops :(

BoM only forecasted 1mm for down here so can't get too upset.

I got lucky, 20 or so mins of steady rain but my plants need much more.

sky pretty

It is. Hopefully not caused by fires tho.
Edit: what the fuck why are there 2 million duplicate comments
It is. Hopefully not caused by fires tho.
It is. Hopefully not caused by fires tho.
It is. Hopefully not caused by fires tho.
It is. Hopefully not caused by fires tho.

I could put some laundry on?
I have outdoor plans at 7, so I'm predicting heavy rain and storms for about 7:02 if that helps
- If I'm reading the radar on windy.com right, that sounds about right for timing.
that rain band looks like a soft drizzle that wets the ground and steams you instead of bakes you
The BOM radar rainband is in the exact same spot it was when I looked an hour ago. I would like it to quit stagnating and hurry up.
Time to denounce Thor and his kin?

Mythbusters came up with the perfect solution to this, should be on the front of every bus:

I cannot believe I just saw someone walking their dog.

Saw someone in the tram today wearing a quilted jacket.
- Madness!
Might’ve been a quickie for a toilet break.
- Thankyou for your reasonable attitude. I will give benefit of the doubt.

Don't wanna

I dreamt it was snowing. I miss snow.

I’ve seen snow only once. When I was eight
- it is truly beautiful
  but deadly too
  and at the same time it's a protective blanket for the soil
I miss seeing snow, not dealing with it.
- snow is nice if you have a warm house, warm clothes, a good car and don't have to shovel it

Pretty pissweak effort after all this heat 🫠

Sky pretty

I'm pretty

vacant
- 🤣 savage

Right. To work.

Same here.
I will spend my day drinking coffee while I laminate and cut things today.
Heigh-Ho, Heigh-Ho

Breeze is amazing, also probably a lie

Lies.

Pretty Pretty 🛍️
🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋

I just realised what the date was. Shit. Sorry Mum

Listening to Died Pretty.

I played Doughboy Hollow until it broke. Awesome band live too. RIP Ron Peno.

Got the headphones in the office now and they've been great. I can leave them plugged in to work straight with the laptop or have them connected to the laptop and my phone wirelessly. I'm going to get some cheap plastic cables so I don't feel it rubbing against my shirt, the only downside to wires

- I like my big over ear wireless headphones, but I can't do wireless little ones. I'd lose 'em in an instant!
- There seems to be no pure wired USB C headphones. You need to get Bluetooth headphones that can also do audio over USB. These ones don't have a headphone jack though, that's the only thing they're missing

I've figured out how to stop the migraines. I feel so fucking stupid lol

It's my posture. For some reason, unless I have good posture, especially when sitting down, my right shoulder hikes up a lot, which starts the chain reaction.

Sigh. I lost friends because they couldn't understand how a "headache" could be that crippling. And all the money on physio. Thousands and thousands of dollars.

Fml

Posture. It's important. Deportment they used to call it. The school I went to taught it - as a preventative measure for all sorts of health problems particularly for girls but I guess the same would apply for blokes. I'm still feeling the benefit of it even now in my advanced age.
Maybe consider doing Alexander technique or something to help you get into good posture habits. My personal opinion of yoga is not as positive as many people. Fine if you're young and healthy, but if you've already got a physical problem then you need something that focusses on correcting that problem imo. I am a fan of Alexander technique for fixing pre-existing problems but a good pilates teacher could probably do likewise and be much cheaper. And there are zillions of them around everywhere, hiding in every shopping strip with vacant or hard to rent shopfronts.
- Thank you! Will look it up and give it a go.
  I had perfect posture circa 2020 but then lockdown killed my fitness stuff for a while.
hugs, I hope you get some relief , it's no way to live
eyes dart around to check if anyones watching before sitting up straight myself

I’ve been feeling really sick but the mini pumpkins have sat in their paper cups so long that I sucked it up and planted them out.

Hopefully they do okay

Marge!!!!!

Doing a little DIY project (currently at the what-have-I-done panic stage) and noticed the little pack of sandpaper I have from a "variety" shop is priced at $1.50. Must have bought it in the 80s for it to have been that price.

The cats have voluntarily left uneaten biscuits from dinner. Can't be feeling well, furcoats in the heat and all.

My aunt thinks that keto will help me feel less anxious. Hmmmm, where is the science behind that

The only physical effect I can think of that might be relevant is that sticking to such an extreme diet occupies all available brainspace, leaving no room for anxiety. But you'd pay a heavy price for not doing anything other than watch your diet and stress out over whether something was or was not keto. As with any extreme diet, you really have to make sure you're getting all your dietary needs met, and extreme diets really really limit your options. And they all have a built-in guilt for failure stress included.
I have a feeling that taking this option really isn't wise, but you do you. If you wanted to try it for a while to see if it helped, well why not. But I also wouldn't beat myself up if it turned out not to be helpful.
And then you can say to aunt, well I tried it and it didn't work for me. Which might shut her up.
- Yeah I think in this case, the costs will outweigh the benefits.
  It doesn't really work for her either because she's keto one month, and then the next, she isn't.
I think her controlling your diet will make her feel less anxious.
- Thanks for the link on B6 :) Yeah such a restrictive diet would not work well for me
I've personally been on keto on multiple occasions and definitely noticed improved mental health, including reducing anxiety.
I feel like it's the best diet for me but it's hard to keep it up, most of my social events revolve around meals and alcohol and it's just annoying and tricky to stay in keto - and it's really an all or nothing kind of diet

Started season 3 of Invincible last night, only got up to episode episode 3 but maaaaan. That show can get under my skin unlike anything else.

I think they set it up nicely in EP2 with the Cecil backstory.
It's a bit on the nose, but good at showing Mark's conflict on being a hero and always doing the 'correct' thing.
Am so looking forward to this season

I watched Judgement in Nuremberg for the tenth time last night.

Every single scene is genius.

Last night I took particular note of the opening argument of the prosecution , what a brilliant mind and writer . Makes the crime and guilt clear https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di3Xh95aXp8

life in Germany, how people fooled themselves into support of evil https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ui6xrGQzmhs

I am tired. 😔

off to daiso

here's some western music for while I'm out 🙂 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfRFET2UZok

Daisooo dreamy sigh

Has anyone tried a weighted blanket? Is it comforting or just annoying

hit miss. Some nights its a godsend. others it just annoys me. and no rhyme or reason as to what it'll be on a given night. worth a try though, especially if you can get one second hand.
- Thanks. They do seem expensive

Today I am listening to Quincy Jones

the sixties were weird https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EKspREtVZQ

another 60s song, not a song I expected on this album. exodus jazz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XS5eEG0PCU

Didn't they use the Soul Bossa Nova in Austin Powers?
- They sure did - but this video is sublime. I'm very happy with this little time capsule of weirdness.

a legitimate academic video on medieval killer rabbits , I kid you not https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o-Vqu6Z5fY

That was excellent (though I feel he was curbing his accent) see also why so many knights jousting snails?
- Because they don’t know which one is the decoy snail
- because snails have armour

Kinda Pregnant was a good movie. Lots of funny moments. 4/5 hobbits

Is anybody playing Last War? It's fun, but driving me nuts. For one the obscene in game purchase prices (not a hope guys!!) but mostly because everything is so damn small. I'm blindly clicking on things because the instructions are microscopic. Must be intended for a pad not a phone.

Maybe that's when brother/friend gets off work. Headphones?