We have a massive, decades-old lemon tree so guests and family keep asking "can i take some lemons?" And i am "please god take some lemons they are everywhere and the ones i miss that drop make the yard smell like pine o cleen as they rot yes please take the fucking lemons here's a large bag fill it, fill it to the brim for christ's sake And lo, they taketh of the lemon.
And then. Aaaaaand then. They feel bad about rescuing us from lemons and GIVE US FUCKING LEMON CURD IN RETURN. Always lemon curd. No tarts no cheesecake, no marmalades, no limoncello, no lemonade, no lemon cakes, no lemongeddon solo derivatives no, just lemon curd. Curd upon curd upon curd. My life is becoming a hell of small repurposed cream cheese jars.
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Huw Rowlands - 3w
@Taleya sometimes local grocers take them to sell in their shops, which could be an option for you. You could swap them for something you want, or just donate them.
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Cornelius - 3w
@YarraByte@Taleya I will take your lemons and give you nothing in return. Nothing, do you hear me? Nothing.
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Taleya - 3w
HOW MANY BAGS WOULD YOU LIKE
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Seagoon_ - 3w
a big box of lemons on your nature strip should help get rid of lemons
the strangers won't feel compelled to give you lemon curd or anything really, they know they are doing you a favour by taking them
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Taleya - 3w
sadly last time I tried that the local meth head started hocking them at cars on South Road
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Rusty Raven - 3w
Buy something large and heavy from Temu. Put in for a free return, but fill the box with an equivalent amount of lemons instead. Make sure you put the reason for return as "item was a lemon".
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Frank - 3w
@Taleya@YarraByte have these people never heard of lemon butter? Lemon tarts? Monsters.
I made those once a few years ago. Didn't care for them, so i'm cool with them missing the list
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Cycling Stu - 3w
@Taleya they are an essential ingredient for a range of things, and useful in salads too. But mostly used in tagines
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CEOofmyhouse56 - 3w
I don't see the problem. Love the stuff.
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Taleya - 3w
So do I. That should give you an idea of how much curd is being inflicted.
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CEOofmyhouse56 - 3w
Hahaha. I get it. It's like when every year for birthdays, Christmas, Easter I receive boxes and tubs of Maltesers from friends and family. I love 'em but please stop.
My inlaws give me massive jars of olives. I love olives but not those olives. I've had to decline at times which leaves them sad.
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LowExperience2368 - 3w
Let me guess. They give you green olives?
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CEOofmyhouse56 - 3w
Yeah. They are the biggest jars I've ever seen in my life. They don't fit in my fridge.
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Taleya - 3w
I will trade you lemons I fucking LOVE those cunts
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CEOofmyhouse56 - 3w
I don't need lemons. I go shopping at my inlaws. They grow a lot of food.
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Taleya - 3w
teach them to spanish stuff
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CEOofmyhouse56 - 3w
Teach me cos I don't know what that means.
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Taleya - 3w
spanish stuffed olives are the ones you get at any grocery store, the green ones in vinegar that have had the pips cored out and stuffed with peppers (well pimento) instead.
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CEOofmyhouse56 - 3w
Right got it.
You know how you say you have a large lemon tree well they have TREES plural. Buckets and buckets of olives. Enough to make litres of olive oil which is delicious. Happy to take that. Pipping and stuffing ain't an option.
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Alamutjones - 3w
Salt preserved lemons are good, and easy should you wish to try
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LowExperience2368 - 3w
If you have heaps and are on the same side of town, I will happily take some lemons! I like the selling idea that Huw gave or even just leaving them in front of your house in a basket with a free sign
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Taleya - 3w
You don't see the other side
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Rusty Raven - 3w
I will show this picture to my baby lemon trees as inspiration.
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Catfish - 3w
I covet this tree
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SaneMartigan - 3w
My lemon tree shames his bloodline.
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Taleya - 3w
He's a true classic beast, came with the house. Farken pear tree is three times the size!
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Catfish - 3w
Spiny?
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Taleya - 3w
kinda, but in that way that you don't really notice if you get what I mean
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Catfish - 3w
Ah. One I had at an old rental was pretty frecking dangerous, spines bigger than fruit
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LowExperience2368 - 3w
Wonderful. Reminds me of my grandma's lemon tree before her neighbour reduced it to a stump.
I also have a loads and loads of lemons from the lemon tree, but noone wants to take them away and return them as curd to me.
Why don't you try giving the curd away.
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Taleya - 3w
People want the jars back
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Seagoon_ - 3w
accidentally put them in the recycle bin or say they broke because they shouldn't have been repurposed
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Taleya - 3w
I can't go smashing people's jars in this economy!
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rusty - 3w
@Taleya :blobcatsurprised: oh! how demanding of them!
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Taleya - 3w
I feel you are failing to understand the sequence.
I am drowning in lemon curd. I Cannot on gift this lemon curd because the original gifters want the jars back. These jars therefore cannot in good faith be passed to yet another party who may fail to return them. I am now their custodian, the one to guarantee their safe return. They have become chinese obligations.
so I do not understand the sarcasm you appeared to employ when I reply to "can you give them to someone else" with "They want the jars back", you see my quandary?
Or it may have not been sarcasm I'm kinda working against both text interface and a peak ASD day here
Not a big fan myself. Lady who lives nearby was doing the same, taking lemons and giving us jars of curd. After the third time I said, can we stop giving lemons to this woman FFS!
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TheWitchofThornbury2 - 3w
Came home from work sick - chills, fever and shaking in every joint. If not better by this arvo, will contact nurse on call.
edit: Courtesy of nurse on call, the nice paramedic has just been and filled me full of antivirals. Back to bed until they kick in.
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Alamutjones - 3w
Go to bed. Go directly to bed. Do not pass Go, do not collect $200
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SpinMeRound - 3w
Please do and keep us updated!! Rest and water for you!
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Catfish - 3w
Meep. Get well soon.
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Force_majeure112 @lemmy.world - 3w
Fantastic idea
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Seagoon_ - 3w
oh dear
bed, water, aspirin or panadol
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Gibsonhasafluffybutt - 3w
Hope you feel better soon ♥️
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anotherspringchicken - 3w
Rest up, hope you’re on the mend soon
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Bottom_racer - 3w
Tonight's wave:
Not a soul on the beach tonight.
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SaneMartigan - 3w
You were a soul on the beach tonight my G. Nice wave.
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Alamutjones - 3w
Balnarring has its charms
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MeanElevator - 3w
My irritating next door neighbour is having visitors over tomorrow during the day.
Guess who's going to be gardening and using each and every power tool available.
This guy right here.
I actually have to do gardening, but now I have a reason to be very thorough and meticulous.
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Bottom_racer - 3w
Angle grinder on rebar (safely) time!
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MeanElevator - 3w
I like your thinking.
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CEOofmyhouse56 - 3w
Blast the music for motivation.
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MeanElevator - 3w
Once the mowing is done, we'll definitely need some tunes to assist with the weeding and pruning.
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Bottom_racer - 3w
DSLR cleaned and ready for the sunset swim and dins. C'mon waves I need pretty pictures.
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LowExperience2368 - 3w
You're brave bringing the camera out there
In the water
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Alamutjones - 3w
I've played three games of chess today and won them all.
Granted, my opponent is 11
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CEOofmyhouse56 - 3w
Doesn't matter. A win is a win. Onya. 👍
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StudSpud The Starchy - 3w
Family gathering on Sunday for the October/November/December birthdays, including my dad.
As a present to them, I'll be baking pretzels :3
Gathering ingredients tomorrow and prepping dough, shaping, and then bake Sunday morning before making the trek to Doreen.
I hear cousin is making tiramisu, and uncle (host) is doing something in the smoker or bbq (I'm hoping smoker).
Should be fun!
Edit:
::: spoiler I am being O B S E R V E D
:::
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melbaboutown - 3w
Cats love yeast. Be careful he doesn’t eat any raw dough
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StudSpud The Starchy - 3w
Oh yeah in conscious of that! I'm lucky in that he has never been inclined to jump on the benches, even when I was baking every few days during COVID lockdowns. He just never cared to. Jumps on all the other tables, never the benches 🤷🏼♀️
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Rusty Raven - 3w
Good morning all. I have another day in Melbourne today, followed by lasagne with my mother. May the traffic gods smile upon me and the sun not shine too brightly into my eyes as I head directly towards the searing fireball of morning.
Edit: the traffic gods smiled, I arrived quite early. And the searing fireball was tempered by some low lying clouds and so I arrived with my eyeballs intact and fully funcitional as functional as they normally are.
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Seagoon_ - 3w
Early night to night. Good night everyone, sweet dreams 😘
Tomorrow I'll finish some garden work, go for a walk , do some stuff around the house and listen to some vinyls I bought at the opshop today . Just a relaxing day.
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Force_majeure112 @lemmy.world - 3w
Interesting work week. My manager is moving to a new department - and our whole team is actually devastated because she's a legend. Had a few very good client interactions. One was a vulnerable person, homeless, and a bit abusive - his experience thus far with our company for what he was trying to do left a lot to be desired to be fair. He spoke with me and I decided I would not end the call until I'd resolved his issue. Ended up having to call him back 7 times to get the job done, but we did it, and he was very thankful in the end. My efforts did not go unrecognized internally either and I got a few shout outs. Felt good!
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Seagoon_ - 3w
so many hugs and kudos for caring
it must be incredibly hard to be homeless, that any homeless person has patience or has any manners at all is amazing
( saw a homeless man today in pjs at the train station, dragging his suitcase. He has no bedroom, no privacy, no personal space, all the places we use when we self care. They lose so much that we take for granted 😔.
One time I saw a group of homeless reminiscing about home cooking. Just random things we don't think twice about 😔 )
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Catfish - 3w
On the otherside, reminiscing about how everybody in a squat would turn up with a handful of something and a a pot of pretty good soup would emerge.
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melbaboutown - 3w
I wish I could be chill like that. I’ve had mixed experiences with people in squats.
I managed to help one girl in a bad situation, others kept to themselves and I covertly dropped a few things off without interacting or narcing (vegetable seeds and cat food).
Others were bad news though
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Catfish - 3w
Finding chill seems to help. Other stories are about belting yourself onto rafters to sleep. In somewhere many here may well have had coffee
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melbaboutown - 3w
It sucks because I could help to some degree but have had to learn to be so wary :/
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Rusty Raven - 3w
My plans for a toasted sandwich for lunch have been completely ruined by forgetting the bread. 😭
Edit: I have been saved! There was a course with a catered lunch today. I have now dined on leftover sandwiches and rockmelon.
I've been feeding an orphaned stray the last few days. One of the local criminals was found dead at home. I've seen his cat milling around the front of his house. I picked up some cat food and filled a water jerry. The house is on my dog walk so I stop by and refresh the water and put some fresh wet+dry food out. It's being eaten be something. The cat is afraid of me and runs off, the dog probably doesn't help either. Dog's just giving me dirty looks because it can smell the cat food and wants some.
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Gibsonhasafluffybutt - 3w
You're a kind hearted person mate.
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Seagoon_ - 3w
look at those fluffy tails 💖
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LowExperience2368 - 3w
Beautiful babies
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Catfish - 3w
Amusing interaction at shops. I bought a plush capybara, guy at next shop wanted to know wtf it was, cue me & the person behind me in line both delivering a mini seminar upon their awesomeness. Gigantic Guinea pigs Rule!
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SpinMeRound - 3w
Wicked For Good has been seen! The costume department absolutely knocked it out of the park, so many beautiful pieces. I wore sparkly green eyeshadow and sparkly shoes, love me a theme.
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anotherspringchicken - 3w
One of my work friends went to see that and absolutely loved it, too. Had a good cry n all
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SpinMeRound - 3w
Can't saw I was that inspired by it, but I love that your work mate enjoyed it that much!
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Seagoon_ - 3w
🎆
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tombruzzo - 3w
@CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone's card from yesterday reminded me of this movie I watched a while ago. Burning Hell is one of those so bad it's good movies where a pentacostal preacher is telling you how bad hell is:
Be warned if you watch this you'll never be able to get the way he says 'hell' out of your head.
I watched this and the documentary Jesus Camp around the same time and I figured something out about these religions, especially in the States; they spend all this time telling you how bad hell is and to not be bad, but never tell you what a good person does. This movie is an entire hour about how bad hell is, with no explainer on how to be a good person or how to get into heaven. Imagine living your entire life only being told what not to do with no direction on what you should do. I think things over there start to make sense by seeing this as the mentality people were brought up with and how they impose their will on others.
Better than the big concrete box they had it in up until now
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LowExperience2368 - 3w
I saw this the other day!! It's cool, after years of it being covered by a wall
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StudSpud The Starchy - 3w
Mickey is so funny. He asks to be picked up, so I do, but sometimes I have to put him down quicker than he prefers (water boiling, toilet, usual home stuff).
When that happens, he'll rush back over to my legs and bite my calves or bat at my ankles. No real damage or pain to me, but let's him display his displeasure at the cuddles ending sooner than he'd prefer 😂
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Catfish - 3w
TheVoid bites toe/calf when he wants food and there is Pain. He's a rotten meanie
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StudSpud The Starchy - 3w
They do make their desires known, whether we like it or not 😂
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melbaboutown - 3w
You need to sew a baby sling
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StudSpud The Starchy - 3w
Oooo I should I should! I'll look into that after I fix a pair of pants I forgot I had, and now fits me 😂
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tone212_ - 3w
Booked flights to Sydney - been invited to a client Christmas event which I can use as an excuse to claim flights / accom on the business, and also using the trip as my "work" Christmas party. I've been feeling so wound up and stressed lately, looking forward to a couple of nights away.
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Alamutjones - 3w
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StudSpud The Starchy - 3w
Are you in the Northern Hemisphere? Is that why you're upside down?
I had a dream that I literally contracted HIV from the single mosquito bite I got in Africa. I was back in Perth and did a swab test for it for some reason and it was positive. The. I went to my GP for a test and they were like yup you have HIV now but it's not so bad, take these meds and you'll be okay in 6 months, but you have to be very careful and don't use any sharp objects for the next 6 months, not even butter knives, to avoid spilling blood and starting a pandemic in Australia
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Seagoon_ - 3w
that's rough
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Gibsonhasafluffybutt - 3w
Fuck yeah it's Friday!
Sweet fuck all tonight, night out tomorrow then renaissance fair Sunday.
Have a great day everyone ♥️
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CEOofmyhouse56 - 3w
Telling people to have a great day, they don't like it but you have a great day. ❤️
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Catfish - 3w
Kryal? Hope you enjoy cartoons.
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tombruzzo - 3w
This park near me should be finished now. It's a nice big space and should make cutting across the hills to work easier if I ever want to go that way. I think I'll take the kids there at some point this weekend to check it out
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Alamutjones - 3w
G'night
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melbaboutown - 3w
Stripped the bed and put on clean sheets. Did a little vacuum. Doing laundry.
Anxiety is going nuts though
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Catfish - 3w
Those are two huge things. Pet the Enuff Monster goodnight
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melbaboutown - 3w
I still have so much more to do
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Seagoon_ - 3w
Go for a little walk. 👍
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melbaboutown - 3w
I’m cuddled with the floof and debating whether I have enough daylight left
Edit: yeah I went
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LowExperience2368 - 3w
The metro tunnel is not on any line near me, but I still want to go through it just for funsies. I reckon other people will have the same idea when it's free on the weekend. I have wanted to try a Footscray banh mi for some time though, and hopefully it will be worth the whole train switcheroo situation
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tone212_ - 3w
Go to Nhu Lan when you do your Footscray trip, it’s a local institution. The Savers is pretty good there for some op shopping.
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Catfish - 3w
Except that they have installed self checkout machines. WTF dudes?
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Taleya - 3w
Most savers have those now, the one in moorabbin has for a year or two.
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Seagoon_ - 3w
there's a very popular banh mi shop across from the main train station entrance, past the tram stop and near the bus stops
but Footscray is looking pretty run down and dodgy, think the worst parts of Richmond
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Catfish - 3w
Eh, the most transport central bit is doing pretty well but the edges are certainly run down and emptying rapidly. There were a couple of nasty fires, and a bunch of landlords who fail to see an empty shop earns less than an occupied one at less exorbitant rent. Damn pity.
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bacon - 3w
boo
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anotherspringchicken - 3w
Exactly how I feel about being awake at this hour
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Seagoon_ - 3w
off to the city for a walk around and some shopping
the garden can wait for tomorrow and nicer weather, UnKAOS is going well
laters guys 😽
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CEOofmyhouse56 - 3w
Update on the cricket: Oh fuck 🏏
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calhoon2005 - 3w
Quick 5 minute sketch using Earthsworld reference
::: spoiler spoiler
Happy (test) cricket day to all those who celebrate. Boo to having a meeting at 1pm that will interfere with watching the start of play*
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(*) by which I mean I have to have it on my ipad on silent while I nod along on the video call....
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CEOofmyhouse56 - 3w
Yessss! Hopefully the weather realises it's cricket and beer season and starts to warm up a bit.
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Catfish - 3w
Woo! I get to spend Valentine's Day with Baldrick's turnip
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imoldgreeeg - 3w
You know, Nathaniel, it takes me right back to our wedding night.
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Seagoon_ - 3w
Tell us more about this turnip
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Catfish - 3w
Check the Hammer Hall schedule 🖤
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Seagoon_ - 3w
The Eastham Turnip Festival?
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Catfish - 3w
Genuinely confused. No, Valentines Day in Melb.
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Seagoon_ - 3w
it came up on the Hamer Hall event search engine 🤷♀️
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Seagoon_ - 3w
I'm just reading about Mar a Lago face. The trend by women involved or following Maga to modify their face.
I don't think this is the first such trend, there has been the Kardashion/insta face and bum trend before that.
maybe what is new and shocking is that people are using cosmetic surgery to change their face now, rather than make what they have a bit nicer.
For the rest of us it's a good keep away signal.
And now I'm thinking with sadness how my pretty sister at the age of 35 cut off her long natural blonde hair and got a Karen haircut with stripes. If she was concerned with looking professional she could have worn a bun.
( my make up was designed for me by miss seagoon , it's natural looking or fun )
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StudSpud The Starchy - 3w
It's a status symbol. The women with mar-a-lago face, Republican face, etc are part of the aristocracy. Their face is the symbol of their status. Plastic surgeons will advertise this look as "refined", "sophisticated", and "aristocratic".
These people are some of the wealthiest people in the US and the world, and they want to look different from the peasants they underpay and abuse.
Similar to how aristocracies of the past would speak French, and peasants spoke more Germanic languages, generally speaking.
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Seagoon_ - 3w
I thought most of the motivation by Trump to enter politics was because he was rejected by the aristos on account he is a pedo, he is boorish and criminal ( they would have forgiven criminal if he wasn't a pedo or a boor )
these people are not the aristos , they are just trying to rewrite history
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StudSpud The Starchy - 3w
I should have clarified sorry! They think they are the aristocracy/high class, and therefore require a way to show everyone else their status.
I didn't mean to imply that they are, in fact, aristocracy lol! Just that they think they are.
And pedophiles have been in the upper echelons of power and wealth for many millennia (Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, are well known examples), it isn't new. Positions of power are sought after by those who would use the position to abuse and use others. 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade (written 1785, published 1904) is, amongst other things, a commentary on lengths the elite will go to explore and perform their perversions, the corruption of society starting at the top the chain, and how people in powerful positions will always abuse those they perceive to be less than human, or less worthy. And that was written in 1785.
There are good people and bad people of all classes, races, wealth status, gender, sex, political affiliation, whatever. But those who desire and would perform their perversions gravitate towards positions of power, so they can get away with their activities will little to no repercussions. Presently, the US "aristocracy" is full of pedophiles and abusers, rapists and nihilists, their president is all four of those things. They are literally enacting a coup, to retain power, to remove "undesirables", and to keep their ability to abuse people free of consequences.
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Seagoon_ - 3w
ok, I think I have figured what freaks me out about this and it's not the actual look.
It's not status seeking or youth seeking or trying to be a particular ethic or racial group
it's identifying/showing an extremist allegiance to a political ideology . It's extreme because it is body modification for politics. It's not just speaking french or dressing in a certain way or a hair cut.
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CEOofmyhouse56 - 3w
People turning themselves into Barbie and Ken dolls has been happening since the 80s.
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Seagoon_ - 3w
yes, the more I think about it the more this is just a shift within a demographic from Northern European beauty ideals to Eastern European beauty
modification to change or modify ethnic or racial traits to appear as another group happens everywhere
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CEOofmyhouse56 - 3w
People talk about the altered eyes and forehead but the mouth and jawline always looks more weird to me. Like something not quite right there.
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CEOofmyhouse56 - 3w
Cheers everyone 🍺
Update on the cricket: Aussies are doing good 🏏
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Force_majeure112 @lemmy.world - 3w
T minus 60 minutes to lift off
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CEOofmyhouse56 - 3w
I'll be waiting 🕒
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Force_majeure112 @lemmy.world - 3w
Cheeeeeers 🍻🍺🙌🙏
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CEOofmyhouse56 - 3w
Cheers mate 🍺
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Gibsonhasafluffybutt - 3w
Cheers!
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CEOofmyhouse56 - 3w
Cheers 🍺
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calhoon2005 - 3w
Asking this here as I'm fairly sure some of you do this sort of stuff for a living and for the life of me I can't find a fix...
::: spoiler spoiler
Windows 11 popped up with this two days ago. Was from a fresh boot and the computer sits unused for days so there had been no multiple log in attempts. My pin won't let me in, and the use other sign in option does not come up as an option. To be honest, I can even think whether there is a password set, might just be the pin.
I can log into my kids profile, not using their pin, I get the same message, but with their password backup.
The leave for 2 hours does jack. I still get this screen after multiple attempts trying to do this....
Is there a way I can log into my admin account from my kids account and fix this? Or another way to fix this...?
:::
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Taleya - 3w
oh god.
ok ok ok ok so there is a very Big Shit Thing going on with win updates that is bricking things it shouldn't. But. Try this:
Hold the power button to force shut down, then power it back on. Hit and hold f4 to see if you can trigger a safe mode boot.
If not, then we try recovery mode - same thing, but hold down f8 and see if loads a boot options menu . If not THAT then:
Turn the PC on again, then quickly force it off again by holding down the power button two more times during startup. On the third time, it should autoload Recovery Mode.
After the restart, press F4 to start in Safe Mode.
Once you're finally in Safe Mode, Windows should ask for your account password, not the PIN. After logging in hit winkey+I to open settings. Go to Accounts > Sign-in options and under PIN (Windows Hello), click Remove to disable the PIN.
Anyone stuck with this dog sneeze of an OS, make sure you have pin disabled by doing that last sentence.
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Bottom_racer - 3w
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Eagle - 3w
Your brain is incredible. Just in case no one has told you that today.
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Taleya - 3w
I have been doing this for a very very long time :P
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calhoon2005 - 3w
....and in swoops the user I was hoping would comment. Thanks, I'll try this later when I get home.
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Taleya - 3w
Oh noes not a reputation!!!
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Taleya - 3w
How'd you go?
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calhoon2005 - 3w
I think I'm just gonna install Linux mint. I figured basically everything I use is web-based or has a really good open source alternative.
Only tricky thing I had to figure for my kids (and me actually) was Minecraft bedrock, which I've found a workaround for using the MCPE version... Thanks though
Recovery mode...😬... Flashback to regularly soft-bricking my first android after trying to flash custom ROMs
But thanks, will try tonight
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imoldgreeeg - 3w
Ouch. Sorry my solution to this was to change to linux 🐧
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calhoon2005 - 3w
Yeah, I was thinking that too. No real need for windows that I can think of. I used to run Linux and ran into issues every now and then hence changing back....
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SpinMeRound - 3w
Finally decided to use a gift card that I've had for a few years... so of course I can't find it.
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CEOofmyhouse56 - 3w
Because I know youse wanna know.
Update on the cricket: Aussies are doing well. 🏏
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Catfish - 3w
Attention! I hereby redeem my monthly Au etc. card for 3 mild misunderstandings, 2 wtf my fault, and hope to carry over a massive good overreaction
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CEOofmyhouse56 - 3w
Hayfever has been really bad lately so I bought a Vicks inhaler. Do I try and stick it all the way up my nostrils cos mine ain't that big and I don't want to burn the entrance? Help please.
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Bottom_racer - 3w
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CEOofmyhouse56 - 3w
😂 that's real helpful.
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SaneMartigan - 3w
Start light.
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CEOofmyhouse56 - 3w
Got it. I can only get it half way. Feels good already. I can breathe again.
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Taleya - 3w
bosisto's are where it's at. Sniff that fucker and you'll see god
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CEOofmyhouse56 - 3w
I like bosisto's stuff. I'll look into it. Thanks
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Seagoon_ - 3w
I would like to see "Project Blip A" the movie from the perspective of Rocky. Maybe it would be better called Voyages of Iridians because they don't name ships
( tho we don't know exactly what they call themselves, it would be fun to try saying/writing it 🎶🙂🐕 🕷️🪐🎵 )
YarraByte in melbourne
Discussion Thread 🐢 Friday 21 November 2025
People keep giving me lemon curd. Help.
We have a massive, decades-old lemon tree so guests and family keep asking "can i take some lemons?" And i am "please god take some lemons they are everywhere and the ones i miss that drop make the yard smell like pine o cleen as they rot yes please take the fucking lemons here's a large bag fill it, fill it to the brim for christ's sake And lo, they taketh of the lemon.
And then. Aaaaaand then. They feel bad about rescuing us from lemons and GIVE US FUCKING LEMON CURD IN RETURN. Always lemon curd. No tarts no cheesecake, no marmalades, no limoncello, no lemonade, no lemon cakes, no lemongeddon solo derivatives no, just lemon curd. Curd upon curd upon curd. My life is becoming a hell of small repurposed cream cheese jars.
@Taleya sometimes local grocers take them to sell in their shops, which could be an option for you. You could swap them for something you want, or just donate them.
@YarraByte @Taleya I will take your lemons and give you nothing in return. Nothing, do you hear me? Nothing.
HOW MANY BAGS WOULD YOU LIKE
a big box of lemons on your nature strip should help get rid of lemons
the strangers won't feel compelled to give you lemon curd or anything really, they know they are doing you a favour by taking them
sadly last time I tried that the local meth head started hocking them at cars on South Road
Buy something large and heavy from Temu. Put in for a free return, but fill the box with an equivalent amount of lemons instead. Make sure you put the reason for return as "item was a lemon".
@Taleya @YarraByte have these people never heard of lemon butter? Lemon tarts? Monsters.
@Taleya @YarraByte @stib preserved lemons? As per Moroccan tradition?
I made those once a few years ago. Didn't care for them, so i'm cool with them missing the list
@Taleya they are an essential ingredient for a range of things, and useful in salads too. But mostly used in tagines
I don't see the problem. Love the stuff.
So do I. That should give you an idea of how much curd is being inflicted.
Hahaha. I get it. It's like when every year for birthdays, Christmas, Easter I receive boxes and tubs of Maltesers from friends and family. I love 'em but please stop.
My inlaws give me massive jars of olives. I love olives but not those olives. I've had to decline at times which leaves them sad.
Let me guess. They give you green olives?
Yeah. They are the biggest jars I've ever seen in my life. They don't fit in my fridge.
I will trade you lemons I fucking LOVE those cunts
I don't need lemons. I go shopping at my inlaws. They grow a lot of food.
teach them to spanish stuff
Teach me cos I don't know what that means.
spanish stuffed olives are the ones you get at any grocery store, the green ones in vinegar that have had the pips cored out and stuffed with peppers (well pimento) instead.
Right got it.
You know how you say you have a large lemon tree well they have TREES plural. Buckets and buckets of olives. Enough to make litres of olive oil which is delicious. Happy to take that. Pipping and stuffing ain't an option.
Salt preserved lemons are good, and easy should you wish to try
If you have heaps and are on the same side of town, I will happily take some lemons! I like the selling idea that Huw gave or even just leaving them in front of your house in a basket with a free sign
You don't see the other side
I will show this picture to my baby lemon trees as inspiration.
I covet this tree
My lemon tree shames his bloodline.
He's a true classic beast, came with the house. Farken pear tree is three times the size!
Spiny?
kinda, but in that way that you don't really notice if you get what I mean
Ah. One I had at an old rental was pretty frecking dangerous, spines bigger than fruit
Wonderful. Reminds me of my grandma's lemon tree before her neighbour reduced it to a stump.
@Taleya @YarraByte how sad for you.
I also have a loads and loads of lemons from the lemon tree, but noone wants to take them away and return them as curd to me.
Why don't you try giving the curd away.
People want the jars back
accidentally put them in the recycle bin or say they broke because they shouldn't have been repurposed
I can't go smashing people's jars in this economy!
@Taleya :blobcatsurprised: oh! how demanding of them!
I feel you are failing to understand the sequence.
I am drowning in lemon curd. I Cannot on gift this lemon curd because the original gifters want the jars back. These jars therefore cannot in good faith be passed to yet another party who may fail to return them. I am now their custodian, the one to guarantee their safe return. They have become chinese obligations.
@Taleya I get that.
so I do not understand the sarcasm you appeared to employ when I reply to "can you give them to someone else" with "They want the jars back", you see my quandary?
Or it may have not been sarcasm I'm kinda working against both text interface and a peak ASD day here
@Taleya I'm not being sarcastic.
Not a big fan myself. Lady who lives nearby was doing the same, taking lemons and giving us jars of curd. After the third time I said, can we stop giving lemons to this woman FFS!
Came home from work sick - chills, fever and shaking in every joint. If not better by this arvo, will contact nurse on call.
edit: Courtesy of nurse on call, the nice paramedic has just been and filled me full of antivirals. Back to bed until they kick in.
Go to bed. Go directly to bed. Do not pass Go, do not collect $200
Please do and keep us updated!! Rest and water for you!
Meep. Get well soon.
Fantastic idea
oh dear
bed, water, aspirin or panadol
Hope you feel better soon ♥️
Rest up, hope you’re on the mend soon
Tonight's wave:
Not a soul on the beach tonight.
You were a soul on the beach tonight my G. Nice wave.
Balnarring has its charms
My irritating next door neighbour is having visitors over tomorrow during the day.
Guess who's going to be gardening and using each and every power tool available.
This guy right here.
I actually have to do gardening, but now I have a reason to be very thorough and meticulous.
Angle grinder on rebar (safely) time!
I like your thinking.
Blast the music for motivation.
Once the mowing is done, we'll definitely need some tunes to assist with the weeding and pruning.
DSLR cleaned and ready for the sunset swim and dins. C'mon waves I need pretty pictures.
You're brave bringing the camera out there
In the water
I've played three games of chess today and won them all.
Granted, my opponent is 11
Doesn't matter. A win is a win. Onya. 👍
Family gathering on Sunday for the October/November/December birthdays, including my dad.
As a present to them, I'll be baking pretzels :3
Gathering ingredients tomorrow and prepping dough, shaping, and then bake Sunday morning before making the trek to Doreen.
I hear cousin is making tiramisu, and uncle (host) is doing something in the smoker or bbq (I'm hoping smoker).
Should be fun!
Edit:
::: spoiler I am being O B S E R V E D
:::
Cats love yeast. Be careful he doesn’t eat any raw dough
Oh yeah in conscious of that! I'm lucky in that he has never been inclined to jump on the benches, even when I was baking every few days during COVID lockdowns. He just never cared to. Jumps on all the other tables, never the benches 🤷🏼♀️
Good morning all. I have another day in Melbourne today, followed by lasagne with my mother. May the traffic gods smile upon me and the sun not shine too brightly into my eyes as I head directly towards the searing fireball of morning.
Edit: the traffic gods smiled, I arrived quite early. And the searing fireball was tempered by some low lying clouds and so I arrived with my eyeballs intact and
fully funcitionalas functional as they normally are.Early night to night. Good night everyone, sweet dreams 😘
Tomorrow I'll finish some garden work, go for a walk , do some stuff around the house and listen to some vinyls I bought at the opshop today . Just a relaxing day.
Interesting work week. My manager is moving to a new department - and our whole team is actually devastated because she's a legend. Had a few very good client interactions. One was a vulnerable person, homeless, and a bit abusive - his experience thus far with our company for what he was trying to do left a lot to be desired to be fair. He spoke with me and I decided I would not end the call until I'd resolved his issue. Ended up having to call him back 7 times to get the job done, but we did it, and he was very thankful in the end. My efforts did not go unrecognized internally either and I got a few shout outs. Felt good!
so many hugs and kudos for caring
it must be incredibly hard to be homeless, that any homeless person has patience or has any manners at all is amazing
( saw a homeless man today in pjs at the train station, dragging his suitcase. He has no bedroom, no privacy, no personal space, all the places we use when we self care. They lose so much that we take for granted 😔.
One time I saw a group of homeless reminiscing about home cooking. Just random things we don't think twice about 😔 )
On the otherside, reminiscing about how everybody in a squat would turn up with a handful of something and a a pot of pretty good soup would emerge.
I wish I could be chill like that. I’ve had mixed experiences with people in squats.
I managed to help one girl in a bad situation, others kept to themselves and I covertly dropped a few things off without interacting or narcing (vegetable seeds and cat food).
Others were bad news though
Finding chill seems to help. Other stories are about belting yourself onto rafters to sleep. In somewhere many here may well have had coffee
It sucks because I could help to some degree but have had to learn to be so wary :/
My plans for a toasted sandwich for lunch have been completely ruined by forgetting the bread. 😭
Edit: I have been saved! There was a course with a catered lunch today. I have now dined on leftover sandwiches and rockmelon.
tis Friday my lord
5/10
6 for me!
8/10
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I've been eating really clean for a while now.
I had a Burger at a pub and now I have a migraine from it.
In other news I have a short video of the strays. How can I get it here to show you guys?
Upload it to imgur then post the link?
I thought they were bad now?
They've been bought by a bunch of cunts but you can still upload stuff there for free for now.
Done
strays
I've been feeding an orphaned stray the last few days. One of the local criminals was found dead at home. I've seen his cat milling around the front of his house. I picked up some cat food and filled a water jerry. The house is on my dog walk so I stop by and refresh the water and put some fresh wet+dry food out. It's being eaten be something. The cat is afraid of me and runs off, the dog probably doesn't help either. Dog's just giving me dirty looks because it can smell the cat food and wants some.
You're a kind hearted person mate.
look at those fluffy tails 💖
Beautiful babies
Amusing interaction at shops. I bought a plush capybara, guy at next shop wanted to know wtf it was, cue me & the person behind me in line both delivering a mini seminar upon their awesomeness. Gigantic Guinea pigs Rule!
Wicked For Good has been seen! The costume department absolutely knocked it out of the park, so many beautiful pieces. I wore sparkly green eyeshadow and sparkly shoes, love me a theme.
One of my work friends went to see that and absolutely loved it, too. Had a good cry n all
Can't saw I was that inspired by it, but I love that your work mate enjoyed it that much!
🎆
@CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone's card from yesterday reminded me of this movie I watched a while ago. Burning Hell is one of those so bad it's good movies where a pentacostal preacher is telling you how bad hell is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8Pvkl0d_Z0&pp=ygUSYnVybmluZyBoZWxsIG1vdmll
Be warned if you watch this you'll never be able to get the way he says 'hell' out of your head.
I watched this and the documentary Jesus Camp around the same time and I figured something out about these religions, especially in the States; they spend all this time telling you how bad hell is and to not be bad, but never tell you what a good person does. This movie is an entire hour about how bad hell is, with no explainer on how to be a good person or how to get into heaven. Imagine living your entire life only being told what not to do with no direction on what you should do. I think things over there start to make sense by seeing this as the mentality people were brought up with and how they impose their will on others.
Thanks I will watch it this weekend.
Town hall station is naked 👀
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/39a658e2-f4e5-4868-9742-7ba42faba147.jpeg https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/b6c14b62-fb57-484a-a4dd-dfc3e7e89a50.jpeg
The harlot!
Better than the big concrete box they had it in up until now
I saw this the other day!! It's cool, after years of it being covered by a wall
Mickey is so funny. He asks to be picked up, so I do, but sometimes I have to put him down quicker than he prefers (water boiling, toilet, usual home stuff).
When that happens, he'll rush back over to my legs and bite my calves or bat at my ankles. No real damage or pain to me, but let's him display his displeasure at the cuddles ending sooner than he'd prefer 😂
TheVoid bites toe/calf when he wants food and there is Pain. He's a rotten meanie
They do make their desires known, whether we like it or not 😂
You need to sew a baby sling
Oooo I should I should! I'll look into that after I fix a pair of pants I forgot I had, and now fits me 😂
Booked flights to Sydney - been invited to a client Christmas event which I can use as an excuse to claim flights / accom on the business, and also using the trip as my "work" Christmas party. I've been feeling so wound up and stressed lately, looking forward to a couple of nights away.
Are you in the Northern Hemisphere? Is that why you're upside down?
Standing on my head at the time
That poor bird
Bird? I only see a bat.
Bat nightclub video
https://youtu.be/wNeD0EWyamc
I had a dream that I literally contracted HIV from the single mosquito bite I got in Africa. I was back in Perth and did a swab test for it for some reason and it was positive. The. I went to my GP for a test and they were like yup you have HIV now but it's not so bad, take these meds and you'll be okay in 6 months, but you have to be very careful and don't use any sharp objects for the next 6 months, not even butter knives, to avoid spilling blood and starting a pandemic in Australia
that's rough
Fuck yeah it's Friday!
Sweet fuck all tonight, night out tomorrow then renaissance fair Sunday.
Have a great day everyone ♥️
Telling people to have a great day, they don't like it but you have a great day. ❤️
Kryal? Hope you enjoy cartoons.
This park near me should be finished now. It's a nice big space and should make cutting across the hills to work easier if I ever want to go that way. I think I'll take the kids there at some point this weekend to check it out
G'night
Stripped the bed and put on clean sheets. Did a little vacuum. Doing laundry.
Anxiety is going nuts though
Those are two huge things. Pet the Enuff Monster goodnight
I still have so much more to do
Go for a little walk. 👍
I’m cuddled with the floof and debating whether I have enough daylight left
Edit: yeah I went
The metro tunnel is not on any line near me, but I still want to go through it just for funsies. I reckon other people will have the same idea when it's free on the weekend. I have wanted to try a Footscray banh mi for some time though, and hopefully it will be worth the whole train switcheroo situation
Go to Nhu Lan when you do your Footscray trip, it’s a local institution. The Savers is pretty good there for some op shopping.
Except that they have installed self checkout machines. WTF dudes?
Most savers have those now, the one in moorabbin has for a year or two.
there's a very popular banh mi shop across from the main train station entrance, past the tram stop and near the bus stops
but Footscray is looking pretty run down and dodgy, think the worst parts of Richmond
Eh, the most transport central bit is doing pretty well but the edges are certainly run down and emptying rapidly. There were a couple of nasty fires, and a bunch of landlords who fail to see an empty shop earns less than an occupied one at less exorbitant rent. Damn pity.
boo
Exactly how I feel about being awake at this hour
off to the city for a walk around and some shopping
the garden can wait for tomorrow and nicer weather, UnKAOS is going well
laters guys 😽
Update on the cricket: Oh fuck 🏏
Quick 5 minute sketch using Earthsworld reference ::: spoiler spoiler
Beep Beep 🚚
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Chicken & champagne please chef.
🐥🍗🍾🥂
A vat of flying potion please
🪶⚙️🥤
You blended the baby well
toast and marmalade and tea please
🍞🍊☕
Motivational fruit salad please
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Happy (test) cricket day to all those who celebrate. Boo to having a meeting at 1pm that will interfere with watching the start of play* . . . . (*) by which I mean I have to have it on my ipad on silent while I nod along on the video call....
Yessss! Hopefully the weather realises it's cricket and beer season and starts to warm up a bit.
Woo! I get to spend Valentine's Day with Baldrick's turnip
You know, Nathaniel, it takes me right back to our wedding night.
Tell us more about this turnip
Check the Hammer Hall schedule 🖤
The Eastham Turnip Festival?
Genuinely confused. No, Valentines Day in Melb.
it came up on the Hamer Hall event search engine 🤷♀️
I'm just reading about Mar a Lago face. The trend by women involved or following Maga to modify their face.
I don't think this is the first such trend, there has been the Kardashion/insta face and bum trend before that.
maybe what is new and shocking is that people are using cosmetic surgery to change their face now, rather than make what they have a bit nicer.
For the rest of us it's a good keep away signal.
And now I'm thinking with sadness how my pretty sister at the age of 35 cut off her long natural blonde hair and got a Karen haircut with stripes. If she was concerned with looking professional she could have worn a bun.
It all seems decadent and cult like.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar-a-Lago_face
there is also Republican make up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_makeup
omg, it's heavy make up with zero fun
( my make up was designed for me by miss seagoon , it's natural looking or fun )
It's a status symbol. The women with mar-a-lago face, Republican face, etc are part of the aristocracy. Their face is the symbol of their status. Plastic surgeons will advertise this look as "refined", "sophisticated", and "aristocratic".
These people are some of the wealthiest people in the US and the world, and they want to look different from the peasants they underpay and abuse.
Similar to how aristocracies of the past would speak French, and peasants spoke more Germanic languages, generally speaking.
I thought most of the motivation by Trump to enter politics was because he was rejected by the aristos on account he is a pedo, he is boorish and criminal ( they would have forgiven criminal if he wasn't a pedo or a boor )
these people are not the aristos , they are just trying to rewrite history
I should have clarified sorry! They think they are the aristocracy/high class, and therefore require a way to show everyone else their status.
I didn't mean to imply that they are, in fact, aristocracy lol! Just that they think they are.
And pedophiles have been in the upper echelons of power and wealth for many millennia (Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, are well known examples), it isn't new. Positions of power are sought after by those who would use the position to abuse and use others. 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade (written 1785, published 1904) is, amongst other things, a commentary on lengths the elite will go to explore and perform their perversions, the corruption of society starting at the top the chain, and how people in powerful positions will always abuse those they perceive to be less than human, or less worthy. And that was written in 1785.
There are good people and bad people of all classes, races, wealth status, gender, sex, political affiliation, whatever. But those who desire and would perform their perversions gravitate towards positions of power, so they can get away with their activities will little to no repercussions. Presently, the US "aristocracy" is full of pedophiles and abusers, rapists and nihilists, their president is all four of those things. They are literally enacting a coup, to retain power, to remove "undesirables", and to keep their ability to abuse people free of consequences.
ok, I think I have figured what freaks me out about this and it's not the actual look.
It's not status seeking or youth seeking or trying to be a particular ethic or racial group
it's identifying/showing an extremist allegiance to a political ideology . It's extreme because it is body modification for politics. It's not just speaking french or dressing in a certain way or a hair cut.
People turning themselves into Barbie and Ken dolls has been happening since the 80s.
yes, the more I think about it the more this is just a shift within a demographic from Northern European beauty ideals to Eastern European beauty
modification to change or modify ethnic or racial traits to appear as another group happens everywhere
People talk about the altered eyes and forehead but the mouth and jawline always looks more weird to me. Like something not quite right there.
Cheers everyone 🍺
Update on the cricket: Aussies are doing good 🏏
T minus 60 minutes to lift off
I'll be waiting 🕒
Cheeeeeers 🍻🍺🙌🙏
Cheers mate 🍺
Cheers!
Cheers 🍺
Asking this here as I'm fairly sure some of you do this sort of stuff for a living and for the life of me I can't find a fix...
::: spoiler spoiler
Windows 11 popped up with this two days ago. Was from a fresh boot and the computer sits unused for days so there had been no multiple log in attempts. My pin won't let me in, and the use other sign in option does not come up as an option. To be honest, I can even think whether there is a password set, might just be the pin. I can log into my kids profile, not using their pin, I get the same message, but with their password backup.
The leave for 2 hours does jack. I still get this screen after multiple attempts trying to do this....
Is there a way I can log into my admin account from my kids account and fix this? Or another way to fix this...? :::
oh god.
ok ok ok ok so there is a very Big Shit Thing going on with win updates that is bricking things it shouldn't. But. Try this:
Hold the power button to force shut down, then power it back on. Hit and hold f4 to see if you can trigger a safe mode boot.
If not, then we try recovery mode - same thing, but hold down f8 and see if loads a boot options menu . If not THAT then:
Turn the PC on again, then quickly force it off again by holding down the power button two more times during startup. On the third time, it should autoload Recovery Mode.
Select Troubleshoot > Advanced Options > Startup Settings > Restart.
After the restart, press F4 to start in Safe Mode.
Once you're finally in Safe Mode, Windows should ask for your account password, not the PIN. After logging in hit winkey+I to open settings. Go to Accounts > Sign-in options and under PIN (Windows Hello), click Remove to disable the PIN.
Anyone stuck with this dog sneeze of an OS, make sure you have pin disabled by doing that last sentence.
Your brain is incredible. Just in case no one has told you that today.
I have been doing this for a very very long time :P
....and in swoops the user I was hoping would comment. Thanks, I'll try this later when I get home.
Oh noes not a reputation!!!
How'd you go?
I think I'm just gonna install Linux mint. I figured basically everything I use is web-based or has a really good open source alternative. Only tricky thing I had to figure for my kids (and me actually) was Minecraft bedrock, which I've found a workaround for using the MCPE version... Thanks though
Can't say i'm sorry you're leaving an abusive OS
Done. It's instantly so much better.
Hrmm.. might help?
Recovery mode...😬... Flashback to regularly soft-bricking my first android after trying to flash custom ROMs
But thanks, will try tonight
Ouch. Sorry my solution to this was to change to linux 🐧
Yeah, I was thinking that too. No real need for windows that I can think of. I used to run Linux and ran into issues every now and then hence changing back....
Finally decided to use a gift card that I've had for a few years... so of course I can't find it.
Because I know youse wanna know.
Update on the cricket: Aussies are doing well. 🏏
Attention! I hereby redeem my monthly Au etc. card for 3 mild misunderstandings, 2 wtf my fault, and hope to carry over a massive good overreaction
Hayfever has been really bad lately so I bought a Vicks inhaler. Do I try and stick it all the way up my nostrils cos mine ain't that big and I don't want to burn the entrance? Help please.
😂 that's real helpful.
Start light.
Got it. I can only get it half way. Feels good already. I can breathe again.
bosisto's are where it's at. Sniff that fucker and you'll see god
I like bosisto's stuff. I'll look into it. Thanks
I would like to see "Project Blip A" the movie from the perspective of Rocky. Maybe it would be better called Voyages of Iridians because they don't name ships
( tho we don't know exactly what they call themselves, it would be fun to try saying/writing it 🎶🙂🐕 🕷️🪐🎵 )