Okay, GP was absolutely lovely! She gave me a script for a medication to help me quit smoking, directed me to reduce my coffee intake and eat more (even just grazing) during the day, and if none of that helps then we'll look at the anti-sad I'm on.
I think I just needed someone in that profession to tell me what I already knew, but I'm very happy that she offered the medication for quitting smoking. It'll free up money for therapy. I'm self-aware but that doesn't help if I don't ask for it, so I'm definitely much more confident.
I'm tired but hopeful.
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tombruzzo - 2mon
That's great to hear. I didn't even know there was medication that could help with smoking, aside from nicotine of course
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imoldgreeeg - 2mon
I hear ya. It’s so much stress to front up to the GP and it’s such a relief to be listened to and helped. So glad you got some practical steps. You got this
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Seagoon_ - 2mon
so many happy hugs
you can do this :)
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Gibsonhasafluffybutt - 2mon
Glad to hear you had a great experience :)
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StudSpud The Starchy - 2mon
I have a GP appointment today and I'm not sure what to say. My anxiety is paralysing, and my depression is escalating, but I've used all my free psych appointments for the calendar year. I think I'm falling apart, but the rent and bills have gone up, so I really feel utterly stuck.
I suppose I'll say that lol
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Seagoon_ - 2mon
seriously?
You are going to a GP to get some help and you are talking about your problems , you are not paralysed and you are tackling your depression even tho you feel like you are
Just keep doing things. Your feelings are tricking you.
Kudos.
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Eagle - 2mon
Say exactly that.
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melbaboutown - 2mon
🫂
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Catfish - 2mon
Morning! No work this week 😺
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CEOofmyhouse56 - 2mon
Yay!
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tombruzzo - 2mon
Big day today as I'll be heading into the city to see Brennan from Dropout do a DnD campaign tonight. It's a lot for a Monday but at least it starts early
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SaneMartigan - 2mon
rad
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Thornburywitch - 2mon
A question that's been bothering me over the weekend. Have been utterly stumped by it, so asking here if anyone has clarification to offer.
::: spoiler question
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck would chuck wood?
:::
I've been trying to figure how many kilos/grammes per metre but if you want to answer in pounds shillings and ounces that's fine with me.
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Force_majeure123 - 2mon
Not very much. Their arms are tiny. Average weight of woodchuck is 3.9kg. if we look at a human (agile, long arms comparitively), and perhaps use the weight of a hammer (like from hammer throw competition), which is 16kg, and AVG human weight in hammer throw... maybe 90kg? That's gets us 17.7% of weight. Transfer to groundhogs that's about 700g, BUT their short arms surely limit this a lot. I'll say at least by 75%. Which leads to: 175g. A woodchuck could chuck 175g, if a woodchuck could chuck wood
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Bottom_racer - 2mon
You forgot to factor in wind speed, humidity and atmospheric pressure as well what it had for breakfast.
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Force_majeure123 - 2mon
Well jeez what if it was in outer space in zero gravity? It could chuck all the wood then - whether or not it ate vegemite for breakfast
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TheWitchofThornbury2 - 2mon
This pretty close to the best answer I came up with. BUT. Woodchucks are rodents, not monkey-ancestor brachiators like us. So their shoulder and arm assembly is geared to grip & gather, not swing and bear weight. So the 'calculated' answer I came up with was 35grams. Given the moment arm and leverage etc. Plus claws get in the way - woodchucks don't have fingers/thumb for gripping like us. No doubt this question will continue to bother me.
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Force_majeure123 - 2mon
You make some fair points. Perhaps only a 75% reduction was far too generous in hindsight. i think 35g is a bit too light though.these woodchucks are quite capable diggers. If you imagine it scooping up the wood in a digging fashion, perhaps flung betwixt its legs, I feel it could get a bit of power that way.
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TheWitchofThornbury2 - 2mon
True. The initial question does not specify if the chuck in question is forward directed or rear directed. Damn questions that miss out on the most important info.
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Pilk - 2mon
If gummy lollies were invented today, what shape would they have gone with if not snakes and red frogs?
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CEOofmyhouse56 - 2mon
Those ugly Labubus
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Force_majeure123 - 2mon
Snakes aren't replaceable here. Frogs can be whatever though. Koalas?
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CEOofmyhouse56 - 2mon
::: spoiler spoiler
According to Google 700 pounds (317.5kg) so that's probably wrong. 🤷♀️
Do you have any other questions?
:::
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Thornburywitch - 2mon
Probably, but they can wait.
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Taleya - 2mon
As much wood as a woodchuck could chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood
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Rusty Raven - 2mon
::: spoiler spoiler
Its a bit hard to say, but they probably couldn't eat more than a couple of hundred grams, so if you are looking at how much they can chuck up in one incident it would be limited to that. But wood isn't part of their normal diet, so even if a woodchuck would chuck up wood it's unlikely they could chuck up wood.
:::
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melbaboutown - 2mon
::: spoiler spoiler
I’m having such a bad time. Some days it feels like I can’t breathe
:::
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SituationCake - 2mon
Yes, but the day has ended and you made it through. 💪 be proud of yourself for that.
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Seagoon_ - 2mon
so many hugs
Is there anything we can do?
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melbaboutown - 2mon
There’s not much but thankyou
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imoldgreeeg - 2mon
🫂
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CEOofmyhouse56 - 2mon
Question of the day: What is your favourite word right now and why?
Before my husband goes to sleep, he puts on his little cosmos videos and I understand none of it except for the word spaghettification. It makes me giggle because I know what that means and they could've named it anything else but they chose that name.
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StudSpud The Starchy - 2mon
Epitome. I used to pronounce it as epi-tome (epi like epi-pen, tome as in a book), because I'd read so many books as a kid/teen. I'd heard the word spoken, but thought that the spoken word was spelled "ipitomie" or "ipitomy".
I was a young adult when I realised they are, in fact, the same word. It's now my favourite haha
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SaneMartigan - 2mon
In a similar sense I've got provolone rolling around my head but coming to terms that if I say it correctly with my accent it sounds bogan as fuck - provoloney - cos I can't roll my r's good.
5
StudSpud The Starchy - 2mon
I can't roll my R's either, unless I vibrate my soft palate - which I suspect isn't how it's actually done 😂
I did read "provolone" as "pro-vah-lone". The em-FAR-sis on the wrong sil-LAH-bless
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Seagoon_ - 2mon
Right now it's chaos.
I have to keep thinking it and repeating to remember and reinforce becoming organised in my thinking and behaviour
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SpinMeRound - 2mon
I love "albeit". Discovered it in an article about The X-Files back when I was 11, putting magazine articles on my bedroom wall.
5
Gibsonhasafluffybutt - 2mon
Renuneration lol
5
Nath - 2mon
Idempotent. It's a best-practice methodology for writing code. Run this code, it determines whether the thing needs to be done and does it. Run it over and over, and it will do no harm. It can be automated to run every 5 minutes to only do the thing when it is needed.
A real world picture to explain the concept:
Push either of the buttons over and over and over. You'll either turn the machine on/off, or do nothing.
I'd been doing this for years before I knew the word for it.
2
tombruzzo - 2mon
Another nice thing that happened at work today is i can finally bulk upload leads in the CRM. I've been adding them in one by one for months and I swear it can take me a whole morning sometimes.
This will be a massive time saver I can use to run more lead campaigns
7
PeelerSheila - 2mon
I heard this song in the supermarket and I don't know how to feel about that.
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StudSpud The Starchy - 2mon
You should be getting down and making moves in the aisle to that absolute bop
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PeelerSheila - 2mon
I was kinda grooving to it NGL 😂
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SaneMartigan - 2mon
fukn ay
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Seagoon_ - 2mon
that's a pretty cool song
4
Nath - 2mon
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Seagoon_ - 2mon
beautiful fresh morning after the rains, the thrush is singing and it's lovely
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Seagoon_ - 2mon
Looking at my weekly unKAOS plan , I can do this. :)
the garden worries me, I have a tender back, but if i do some everyday it will get done, even if it's not as early in spring as i would like
6
imoldgreeeg - 2mon
You can do it! just a little bit every day
2
Taleya - 2mon
plonks 60l tub down
One tub full of weeds per day. That's my aim on green bin weeks
1
SpinMeRound - 2mon
One of my favourite apps (Zen colouring) has been removed from my phone because Google flagged it as unsafe. Booooo.
5
CEOofmyhouse56 - 2mon
Yeah that happened to me tonight too. My husband bypassed the restriction. Tbh I don't know what he did. I pointed and said "fix it".
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SpinMeRound - 2mon
I might give it a few days to hopefully solve itself, seen a few comments about it being because of an ad. Given it seems the devs have been rolling out new features I hope they can work it out.
3
CEOofmyhouse56 - 2mon
I think it was a weight loss ad. When you try to skip the ad, it directs you to their website. The ad itself was a bit odd too. It was a bit fat shamie.
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SpinMeRound - 2mon
I paid to remove ads ages ago, but fuck me it's annoying so invasive some ads are and how they try and trick you into things. Like fuck offffff, maybe come up with a legitimate product and people might be interested!
3
CEOofmyhouse56 - 2mon
Right. I only get ads in between pictures or if I choose to watch ads for points.
I can ask my husband later what he did to get it started again if you like. I just need to know what device you use. I use my Samsung tablet. He asked me if I do any banking on it which the answer was no. He said that's fine and over rid something and it started working again. Hope that makes sense. Lol.
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SpinMeRound - 2mon
Makes total sense, thank you!! I use it on my phone, with which I do do banking, soooo maybe I'll just wait and hope it comes back, lol. I think I had it on my little tablet as well which doesn't do anything important so I can maybe over ride it on that. It'll be fine. Thank you!!!
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CEOofmyhouse56 - 2mon
No worries. I made a post on today's thread about it.
2
SituationCake - 2mon
I miss simple games. There used to be lots of little basic games with endless levels without a million ads, bouncing pop ups every turn, endless in game purchase etc. I just want something calming I can play for 15min while I have my coffee. There’s a gap in the market. I guess it must be unprofitable.
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Nath - 2mon
Flight Control
Plants vs. Zombies
Peggle
Angry Birds (original one)
Fieldrunners
Asphalt 6
Jetpack Joyride
Doodle Jump
I actually have a couple of these still installed. I think they all cost something like $1-$5 to install but that was it. No in app purchases, no ads etc. So nice.
3
Gibsonhasafluffybutt - 2mon
Field runners is the first game I ever played on a touch screen. And it's a great game!
1
Nath - 2mon
Unfortunately, Fieldrunners is one that loses its appeal once you have figured out how to reliably beat it on the hardest difficulty.
I've just remembered there was a pocket version of Civilization. That one got played so much!! And very re-playable.
1
Gibsonhasafluffybutt - 2mon
Have a look at Mini Motorways. It maybe right up your alley. It's very clever for what it is.
1
Nath - 2mon
Mini metro but with roads. I prefer the original, I'd have included it in my list, except that it came out several years later than the other games. The titles in that list are all from around 2008-2010, when that sort of game was the norm.
1
Gibsonhasafluffybutt - 2mon
Look at a game called mini motorways.
1
SaneMartigan - 2mon
You might be able to install it directly if you can find the apk install file. I had to do that with ghost commander, which is a file browser.
2
SpinMeRound - 2mon
Thanks for the idea!
2
StudSpud The Starchy - 2mon
Happy Colour has been worth paying for no ads, if you're looking for an alternative.
YarraByte in melbourne
Discussion Thread 🎪 Monday 13 October 2025
Okay, GP was absolutely lovely! She gave me a script for a medication to help me quit smoking, directed me to reduce my coffee intake and eat more (even just grazing) during the day, and if none of that helps then we'll look at the anti-sad I'm on.
I think I just needed someone in that profession to tell me what I already knew, but I'm very happy that she offered the medication for quitting smoking. It'll free up money for therapy. I'm self-aware but that doesn't help if I don't ask for it, so I'm definitely much more confident.
I'm tired but hopeful.
That's great to hear. I didn't even know there was medication that could help with smoking, aside from nicotine of course
I hear ya. It’s so much stress to front up to the GP and it’s such a relief to be listened to and helped. So glad you got some practical steps. You got this
so many happy hugs
you can do this :)
Glad to hear you had a great experience :)
I have a GP appointment today and I'm not sure what to say. My anxiety is paralysing, and my depression is escalating, but I've used all my free psych appointments for the calendar year. I think I'm falling apart, but the rent and bills have gone up, so I really feel utterly stuck.
I suppose I'll say that lol
seriously?
You are going to a GP to get some help and you are talking about your problems , you are not paralysed and you are tackling your depression even tho you feel like you are
Just keep doing things. Your feelings are tricking you.
Kudos.
Say exactly that.
🫂
Morning! No work this week 😺
Yay!
Big day today as I'll be heading into the city to see Brennan from Dropout do a DnD campaign tonight. It's a lot for a Monday but at least it starts early
rad
A question that's been bothering me over the weekend. Have been utterly stumped by it, so asking here if anyone has clarification to offer.
::: spoiler question How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck would chuck wood?
:::
I've been trying to figure how many kilos/grammes per metre but if you want to answer in pounds shillings and ounces that's fine with me.
Not very much. Their arms are tiny. Average weight of woodchuck is 3.9kg. if we look at a human (agile, long arms comparitively), and perhaps use the weight of a hammer (like from hammer throw competition), which is 16kg, and AVG human weight in hammer throw... maybe 90kg? That's gets us 17.7% of weight. Transfer to groundhogs that's about 700g, BUT their short arms surely limit this a lot. I'll say at least by 75%. Which leads to: 175g. A woodchuck could chuck 175g, if a woodchuck could chuck wood
You forgot to factor in wind speed, humidity and atmospheric pressure as well what it had for breakfast.
Well jeez what if it was in outer space in zero gravity? It could chuck all the wood then - whether or not it ate vegemite for breakfast
This pretty close to the best answer I came up with. BUT. Woodchucks are rodents, not monkey-ancestor brachiators like us. So their shoulder and arm assembly is geared to grip & gather, not swing and bear weight. So the 'calculated' answer I came up with was 35grams. Given the moment arm and leverage etc. Plus claws get in the way - woodchucks don't have fingers/thumb for gripping like us. No doubt this question will continue to bother me.
You make some fair points. Perhaps only a 75% reduction was far too generous in hindsight. i think 35g is a bit too light though.these woodchucks are quite capable diggers. If you imagine it scooping up the wood in a digging fashion, perhaps flung betwixt its legs, I feel it could get a bit of power that way.
True. The initial question does not specify if the chuck in question is forward directed or rear directed. Damn questions that miss out on the most important info.
If gummy lollies were invented today, what shape would they have gone with if not snakes and red frogs?
Those ugly Labubus
Snakes aren't replaceable here. Frogs can be whatever though. Koalas?
::: spoiler spoiler According to Google 700 pounds (317.5kg) so that's probably wrong. 🤷♀️
Do you have any other questions? :::
Probably, but they can wait.
As much wood as a woodchuck could chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood
::: spoiler spoiler Its a bit hard to say, but they probably couldn't eat more than a couple of hundred grams, so if you are looking at how much they can chuck up in one incident it would be limited to that. But wood isn't part of their normal diet, so even if a woodchuck would chuck up wood it's unlikely they could chuck up wood.
:::
::: spoiler spoiler I’m having such a bad time. Some days it feels like I can’t breathe :::
Yes, but the day has ended and you made it through. 💪 be proud of yourself for that.
so many hugs
Is there anything we can do?
There’s not much but thankyou
🫂
Question of the day: What is your favourite word right now and why?
Before my husband goes to sleep, he puts on his little cosmos videos and I understand none of it except for the word spaghettification. It makes me giggle because I know what that means and they could've named it anything else but they chose that name.
Epitome. I used to pronounce it as epi-tome (epi like epi-pen, tome as in a book), because I'd read so many books as a kid/teen. I'd heard the word spoken, but thought that the spoken word was spelled "ipitomie" or "ipitomy".
I was a young adult when I realised they are, in fact, the same word. It's now my favourite haha
In a similar sense I've got provolone rolling around my head but coming to terms that if I say it correctly with my accent it sounds bogan as fuck - provoloney - cos I can't roll my r's good.
I can't roll my R's either, unless I vibrate my soft palate - which I suspect isn't how it's actually done 😂
I did read "provolone" as "pro-vah-lone". The em-FAR-sis on the wrong sil-LAH-bless
Right now it's chaos.
I have to keep thinking it and repeating to remember and reinforce becoming organised in my thinking and behaviour
I love "albeit". Discovered it in an article about The X-Files back when I was 11, putting magazine articles on my bedroom wall.
Renuneration lol
Idempotent. It's a best-practice methodology for writing code. Run this code, it determines whether the thing needs to be done and does it. Run it over and over, and it will do no harm. It can be automated to run every 5 minutes to only do the thing when it is needed.
A real world picture to explain the concept:
Push either of the buttons over and over and over. You'll either turn the machine on/off, or do nothing.
I'd been doing this for years before I knew the word for it.
Another nice thing that happened at work today is i can finally bulk upload leads in the CRM. I've been adding them in one by one for months and I swear it can take me a whole morning sometimes.
This will be a massive time saver I can use to run more lead campaigns
I heard this song in the supermarket and I don't know how to feel about that.
You should be getting down and making moves in the aisle to that absolute bop
I was kinda grooving to it NGL 😂
fukn ay
that's a pretty cool song
beautiful fresh morning after the rains, the thrush is singing and it's lovely
Looking at my weekly unKAOS plan , I can do this. :)
the garden worries me, I have a tender back, but if i do some everyday it will get done, even if it's not as early in spring as i would like
You can do it! just a little bit every day
plonks 60l tub down
One tub full of weeds per day. That's my aim on green bin weeks
One of my favourite apps (Zen colouring) has been removed from my phone because Google flagged it as unsafe. Booooo.
Yeah that happened to me tonight too. My husband bypassed the restriction. Tbh I don't know what he did. I pointed and said "fix it".
I might give it a few days to hopefully solve itself, seen a few comments about it being because of an ad. Given it seems the devs have been rolling out new features I hope they can work it out.
I think it was a weight loss ad. When you try to skip the ad, it directs you to their website. The ad itself was a bit odd too. It was a bit fat shamie.
I paid to remove ads ages ago, but fuck me it's annoying so invasive some ads are and how they try and trick you into things. Like fuck offffff, maybe come up with a legitimate product and people might be interested!
Right. I only get ads in between pictures or if I choose to watch ads for points.
I can ask my husband later what he did to get it started again if you like. I just need to know what device you use. I use my Samsung tablet. He asked me if I do any banking on it which the answer was no. He said that's fine and over rid something and it started working again. Hope that makes sense. Lol.
Makes total sense, thank you!! I use it on my phone, with which I do do banking, soooo maybe I'll just wait and hope it comes back, lol. I think I had it on my little tablet as well which doesn't do anything important so I can maybe over ride it on that. It'll be fine. Thank you!!!
No worries. I made a post on today's thread about it.
I miss simple games. There used to be lots of little basic games with endless levels without a million ads, bouncing pop ups every turn, endless in game purchase etc. I just want something calming I can play for 15min while I have my coffee. There’s a gap in the market. I guess it must be unprofitable.
Flight Control
Plants vs. Zombies
Peggle
Angry Birds (original one)
Fieldrunners
Asphalt 6
Jetpack Joyride
Doodle Jump
I actually have a couple of these still installed. I think they all cost something like $1-$5 to install but that was it. No in app purchases, no ads etc. So nice.
Field runners is the first game I ever played on a touch screen. And it's a great game!
Unfortunately, Fieldrunners is one that loses its appeal once you have figured out how to reliably beat it on the hardest difficulty.
I've just remembered there was a pocket version of Civilization. That one got played so much!! And very re-playable.
Have a look at Mini Motorways. It maybe right up your alley. It's very clever for what it is.
Mini metro but with roads. I prefer the original, I'd have included it in my list, except that it came out several years later than the other games. The titles in that list are all from around 2008-2010, when that sort of game was the norm.
Look at a game called mini motorways.
You might be able to install it directly if you can find the apk install file. I had to do that with ghost commander, which is a file browser.
Thanks for the idea!
Happy Colour has been worth paying for no ads, if you're looking for an alternative.
Thank you!! I'll check it out!
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Scotch egg & Branston pickle please
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Antihistamine cocktail and some broccoli stems stewed in sugar
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Goodnight all ❤️ Hope you have a great night and ill see the insomniac's a bit later on 🛌
I can't find my bug a salt. IM NOT HAPPY UNTIL I FIND MY GUN.
Update: I found it
good night everyone, sweet dreams
and special hugs for Melba {{{{{Melba}}}}}