Daily Discussion Thread: 🍷 🎵 💤 Saturday, October 19th, 2024

Tommy Cat is 10 today. He has had prawns for tea and is now basking in the sun, pretty well satisfied with life.

All done. Here's the world's loneliest tomato plant:

Looking good. I've started weeding my raised beds which got a bit overgrown over winter and found a few volunteer tomato seedlings have already made a start for me.
Good work man!
Checkout the florida weave trellis technique if you're growing a row of tomato plants.
Does a tomato need that much room?
- It's a little shy so thought I'd introduce it slowly before the friends arrive. It's also a guinea pig in case I fucked the soil mix but I didn't tell it that.
  edit: fuck I missed that pun

Normally I love putting stuff together, like Ikea furniture etc etc

I'm now in a room with the door locked trying to build this cat tower and there's a monster on the other side of the door who is DEMANDING to be let in.

Edit: She realised if she jumps high enough she can pull the door handle down and open the door.

Gibson can hear the echo of an empty cardboard box.
She just needs to make sure you're doing it properly.
How dare you lock the Queen out of a room in her own house!
You’ll have a makeshift ~~doggy~~ kitty door soon if you don’t finish up that tower soon.
The sheer audacity!
Your toilet paper is no longer safe.

Bought a bass instead of the ps5. Fuck it lol. It was half the price.

Fuck yessssss
You're inspiring me (never played bass guitar before but it's on my bucket list)
- It's a hell of a lot of fun!!! I play bass like a guitarist, not a real bass player, but it's fun as fuck lol
Very nice!
I didn’t get to ask the other day but maybe you can layer a bass track under your guitar?
I don’t know how it would sound though if you did that.
- That's what I'm thinking as well. But it's going to require using my laptop on stage.
  That will require significant testing to ensure it doesn't crash.

At my second inspection. Crusty old dude rocks up and talks only to me and asks if I'm viewing the apartment, then asks if I'm single and gives me this creepy grin and says he'd prefer a single to move into the apartment. Oh and of course he's the owner. Shakes my hand and encourages me to apply. Completely ignores the other attendees (male).

I might've seriously considered this apartment despite the very dated kitchen and bathroom and no fly screens, it's pricey but in a very quiet green location and has a sunlit balcony... But after the above interaction I am definitely not applying wtf

E: I am meant to be cleaning the house but our purritude has other ideas. Purrhaps she has sensed my overall distress. I'll miss this lil sweetie when she leaves on Monday

I find it odd the LL is at the inspection if he has a REA managing the property? And the whole interaction, yikes. The LL will probably have keys. Stay the hell away!
- Yeah it smacked of over-involvement. No thanks! Luckily I'm not being made to vacate so I don't have as much pressure, I'll keep looking.
Yiiiiikes
Good call, don’t get that one.
Warning signs all over the place with that one.
Avoid!
- Sucks because I really might've seriously considered it for the quietness and the cleanliness. Light filled and still convenient for work. I was sat in the park wondering if I stuck on my own fly screens and everything else worked okay, could I still stick it out since there's a REA intermediary... Esp as this is probably one of the few times I have an advantage (??) as a single renter. But it's for entirely the wrong reasons
That's sooo fucking creepy!! What the hell1!
Ewww! Even with the positives it’s not worth dealing with that. Plus, if he’s really dodgy you don’t know what he might do
- Yeah he seems like the kind of guy who lives nearby and might get... too involved in a bad way. He told the REA to send him a report of all the applicants immediately for his review, within earshot of us all. I can't think of any reason why a LL would prefer a single tenant over a couple except that a single person is easier to bully/manipulate. I think I'm going with my gut on this one
Run from that holy shit.
There’s something about the eyes of Soxcats that always stand out.
Don’t know if it’s the colour and the shape but Soxcat always looks so serious.

Breaking news - Rossmoyne Street in Thornbury is having a collective garage sale tomorrow at 10 am to 3 pm - lots of people are all coming together to put excess stoff out for sale. Just got told. See you there.

Of thank F…!

Commbank finally reversed the duplicate transaction that put my account into the negative by a large margin.

Spent the whole day stressing about it. I hope that’s the end of the ordeal and nothing else happens.

Might actually think about getting a 2nd bank account somewhere else just as a backup sometime.

Now I finally concentrate on doing other things other than worrying about things.

Just don't open an account with westpac 🤣 They had issues all week
Excellent news!!!
Fantastisch to hear!!
This happened to someone I know today as well! Apparently something happened with their system.
- They did maintenance last night and when it came back live it started duplicating transactions I made on Thursday, which happened to be when I had some payments to make.
  It really sucked and just shows if something like that happens the bank won’t be there to cover you.
That's a relief for you!
I have accounts with a couple of banks for that reason. I've considered starting an additional one too, but I'm not sure if that's overkill.
- Yeah so it doesn’t leave me in a bind like this even though it’s exceptionally rare.
  Anyway I’m going to destress tonight if I can. I’ve wasted basically all day monitoring it all.

Woke up in a massive panic this morning to an overdrawn back account message.

Panicked like hell to try and work out what happened.

Commbank have really stuffed up and duplicated transactions and now has left me overdrawn and unable to get anything today.

They better fix this up. The duplicated transaction was the biggest thing I had to pay, why couldn’t it have been an 8 dollar transaction?

Time to ditch commbank if they screwed you then left you hanging.
Ah fuck, that sucks the worst when it happens on a weekend! I hope they can fix it up asap. I once had a monthly rent payment duplicated when the REA payment systems changed and that damn near gave me a heart attack
- Yeah. I’m hoping it gets fixed soon. This isn’t helping my stress at all.
  Really need it fixed as soon as possible.
Has it been fixed yet?
- Following up. It now has been fixed for me. Finally!
- It has not been fixed and now the banking app is down as well.
  I feel like I’ve wasted an entire day staring at something I have no power to influence.
It looks like it's affecting heapssss of people. What a major fuck up. So many weekends ruined and much more than that. Wow
- Yeah this is looking like a major issue. Who the fuck rolls out a system update on a Friday night/Sat morning
Oh man that really sucks I'm sorry. Have you got them on the phone yet?
- I tried but was stuck on hold for awhile.
  Was browsing online and they’ve acknowledged the problem but still doesn’t help me since I have payments coming out tomorrow and on top of that I can’t go out and do anything today.

Did my first Parkrun this morning. About 100 people. Was great. Got a PB too.

Bailed and went home, while partner and his dad go to dinner. My everything hurts, and for the first time Macca's has made me feel better rather than worse.

Thank you nuggets and fries 👌🏼

Hope you feel better soon 💕

On the rag, have to look good and go out. I hate this stupid organ. Uterus, free to any home but mine.

I have had pretty good luck with the IUD cutting out a lot of the nonsense. Probably is having some kind of an effect on the rest of my body but I'll take it over the nightmare of the monthly bleed and weep

Figured I'd make a new comment for visibility - for anyone trying to comment/make a post from lemmy.world instance - it isn't visible to anyone on Aussie.zone for 7 days (if it even syncs at all) There was a post explaining it months ago, seems like it still isn't fixed. https://feddit.org/post/3524876

Is this is regards to Seagoon?
I’m not sure how her sign in was done and which instance it was originally linked to.
I actually thought she forgot her password again.
- She has now signed up through aussie.zone so just waiting for approval.
- I saw some posts by her mentioning she was invisible, I could see them on my lemmy.world account because her new account was also on world

Anyone else having pizza tonight?

Edit:

I want to but it's one tram stop away and I'm also in my comfies, guess I'll starve
I'd love to, but due to where I live it costs 50 bucks to get a decent one delivered :(
- Mine was produced in house, much cheaper
Yum yum. Ive had my pizza for the week so no go for me.
Ugh... Tempted. Gave up on cleaning the house today and been in bed all afternoon as I'm just beat. Craving a cheesy treat. But I think I'll leave that for tomorrow when I'm with a friend and have my leftover pasta for dinner tonight.

OK. So, say you want to have a night out by yourself on a Saturday night, where you can talk to randoms and generally be social.

What bars or what suburb is best?

Also, this is where we are at now:

Easy:
The Old Bar, Fitzroy. Go out the back and feel free to join in on anyone's conversations. It's small, and is an alternative crowd.
Oscar The Wild are playing there tonight (Sat) too.
- I used to do that at the Old Bar like 20 years ago. Good to hear it's still got the same vibe
This isn’t helpful at all but I’m sure others know of some good ideas.
Depends. Am I going to hook up or just meet friends? I’m kidding. I don’t know where to go to find either haha.
- Lol it's alright man, neither. It's been ages since I've gone out to socialise by myself.

Everyone gets a present.

Technically Gibson gets two presents. The cat tree and the box
i'm putting my money on the box.
- The shoebox must be put on the bed now or there will be "trouble".
  And by trouble I mean endless meowing at me while I'm trying to sleep.
- I think the box is going to win as well.

I put on the first Paddington movie for the boys the other day because I heard it was good when it came out, and it is quite good.

It's silly and over the top in all the right ways, with a villain that's just evil with clear motivations. It felt like a 90s movie made with today's technology.

Also turns out the director worked on Darkplace and directed all the Mighty Boosh episodes so of course it was going to be good

Yeah for real, they're solid flicks for all tastes and ages.

Hi hi

Morning

Good morning everyone. Wonder how long I can get away with laying here pretending to be asleep..

Been to gym. Been to market.

My fruit and veg people have sold up and retire next week. This is wonderful for them…but I’m kind of a little bit sad

You'll have to do the 'unfamiliar market' tango - find a little old lady dressed in black, and follow her at a discreet distance and shop where she shops, buy what she buys. Has helped me out both here and in France (a longish time ago). No interaction as such necessary.
- ✅bleach
  ✅gloves
  ✅rubbish bags
  ✅rope

Inspection 1 today, this was the best place I'd seen in the listings... mould in part of the bathroom and a lot darker than I expected. Given the amount it's going for though, with aircon and a nice kitchen, no surprise there's plenty of applicants - couples including with kids - suspect I won't be getting anywhere with this one. I also don't really need a 2br unit. I think I'll stick to 1br...

Remember my little 4x4 misadventure? The service department just mentioned some minor damage to the undercarriage. Had to pretend to be shocked.

The line for the ladies at Caulfield sucks ass. God fucking damn.

Edit: its the length of the bookie counter 😭

I always think of that Aussie movie "Kenny" when someone mentions the races.

CC is equivalent to Foster's for us Canadians.

Oh today was fucking hard

What’s up?
- Just a Very Very Autistic Day.

Hey @Nath@aussie.zone can you please see if there are any new accounts pending approval. Seagoon has made a new account.

Pls look for the Goon, we need to Sea her :(
- 🥁
  I miss her too
Alas, no. I'm actually pretty quick on those usually. Much quicker than normal Lemmy usage.
- Thank you for checking. Can you please do me a favour? Can you type out the exact instructions on how to sign up for aussie.zone and I will copy and paste your words to Seagoon. I know she uses a browser and not an app. I have run out of ideas. Thank you.

Where Seagoon 😔

She's having problems getting here. If someone knows what's going on and can help that would be great
- SEAGOOOOOOOON YOU ARE STUCK IN THE UPSIDE DOWN IF YOU CAN HEAR ME WE ARE COMING AND WE LOVE YOU
- I’ve had that exact issue when subscribing to new communities but obviously not the same in this case.
  In is a known issue though
- I was just lurking and seeing if anyone else got screwed over with the CommBank kerfuffle this morning and saw this. Figured I should try and help
  I have no clue what happened or why she isn't on her Aussie zone account anymore, but she made a new account on Lemmy.world called lady_seagoon (which I think she's deleted now). Lemmy.world is currently suffering from ~7 day delays (i.e: nothing posted from a lemmy.world account will be visible here for a week or more). So nobody was replying to her posts or comments. This is because of the way Lemmy is built and Nath/lodion not wanting to invest the effort implement a fix, but that's a separate discussion
  She then tried to subscribe from this community from her Lemmy World account, but when you subscribe to a community on another instance (in this case an Aussie zone community from an LW account), it will sometimes show subscribe pending. Why it does that isn't really important, but it's not because of an approval system or anything like that. It's just trying send that subscription confirmation if you will, over to AZ (which remember has a 7 day transit time before it arrives and processes)
  She's best off logging back into her main account, but I'm guessing she forgot her password and didn't provide an email or something, in which case she can just choose a new username. Maybe "Seagoon_" or something, and all will be well. She'll have to be approved by Nath or lodion (because new accounts on AZ require approval by an admin). She could make an account on another instance (that is NOT LW), but it's really just easiest to make one on AZ.
  To simplify what's happening, since Aussie zone is based in Australia, and Lemmy World is in Finland, you could think of it as Lemmy World sending every comment in a letter via boat. It's gonna take a while to arrive, a week in this case. Now we don't have the same issues, so you could think of us as sending comments and things by plane. The net result is that from LW you can see what's happening on Aussie zone in real time, but they can't see your responses, upvotes, comments, posts, etc for a week.
  (It's caused by issues in Lemmy's code, not actually because we have a faster connection or anything. It was requested that Nath or lodion implement a fix in the meantime, but they didn't want to, so it's going to be like this until that bug is remedied, hopefully soon)
- I think Orange1 is on another lemmy instance, so maybe something has gone wrong and it's gone through the process to try and create a new account elsewhere.
  Maybe try logging out and making sure to be signing in as Seagoon_ on the aussie-zone page?
  Edit: maybe need to clear cookies in the browser too?

Most underrated band of the 80s and 90s...I'll start

REM

Challengers are welcome

Cake.
The album is "Fashion Nugget".
- I love Cake. Unfortunately the drummer is a convicted pedo.
- I saw them in concert (free tickets)
  Didn't appreciate them then, absolutely appreciate them now.
  Strong candidate for 2nd
I’m going to go with Roxette.
One of my favourites.
- To me they're more 80s but still awesome.
  RIP Marie 😥
- My first concert was Roxette. My big brother took me!
I'll bite and I'll say Aerosmith.
- Good candidate but they were big in the 70s and 80s
  Not discounting their 90s influence though.
  Liv Tyler and Alicia Silverstone...so many dead children lost to those videos

Oh post gym nap, why are you so fucking amazing?

Making a prawn and veg stir fry. The smell is pretty great

Yum. What flavours?
- Prawn and veg flavour.

I don't know if I should continue doing this assignment that I am attempting to do. I keep going around in circles trying to find suitable papers. It is four days overdue and we have a 5% per day late penalty. I want to submit something but I have two other assignments due end of this week that I haven't really started and want today to be the last day I work on this.

It's gonna be alright, maybe focus on the other two assignments, and let this one go. You are capable and savvy, and if your instinct says to work on the other two due at the end of the week, then maybe it's worth listening to :) trust yourself. You can do this! I'm sending you all of my good vibes and energy to you over the ether! 💜
- Merci beaucoup <3
  I'm going to wake up nice and early tomorrow, go for a run, then submit something at the end of the day. Then work on the others.

Unsure if this going to edit my previous reply, or make a new comment. Does anyone else use connect app on Android? Whenever I try to make a new comment it 'restores from draft' and prefills the comment block with my last comment.

I'd recommend Jerboa. Super easy to use and has never crashed.
- I use Jerboa too. Every now and then it takes too long to load and times me out, and I can see stuff but not do anything until I assume the mods tick a box.

o/

👋

The new Preston Bunnings sucks. Such a pain to get in and out of. I guess at least it encourages me to go to other hardware stores.

DC coffee and the Italian supermarket next to it had to leave so that place could be built, it's good to know there are more reasons to hate it

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Protein shake?
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Choccy cake, beer and a thicc bacon sammo please.
- Ummm me too please, but witchy can have my cake
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Something to save me from my woes today?
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Bacon sandwich, plz
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A baguette to help with this mountain of cheese
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Ps5 daaaay

Distributing Mushroom compost today which calls for an early satdee rave choon

I put on the first Paddington movie for the boys the other day because I heard it was good when it came out, and it is quite good.

It's silly and over the top in all the right ways, with a villain that's just evil with clear motivations. It felt like a 90s movie made with today's technology.

Also turns out the director worked on Darkplace and directed all the Mighty Boosh episodes so of course it was going to be good

A nice summary into how my brain is working right now (contains Wordle spoiler):

You got closer then me. Stupid American spelling
I definitely get caught out by American spellings. I managed to get it in 5
- Got it 3 baybeeeeeeee but that's almost entirely because I'm an idiot and I didn't even realise I was using the US spelling

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