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Discussion Thread ๐Ÿ›ณ๏ธ Tuesday 9 December 2025

SaneMartigan - 3day

Job Interview on Thursday in Cert3 field. Woo.

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SpinMeRound - 3day

Oooh good luck!!!

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TheWitchofThornbury2 - 3day

Best of luck!

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StudSpud The Starchy - 3day

Congratulations!!! ๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿ’œ

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CEOofmyhouse56 - 3day

Yeehaa!!!

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Seagoon_ - 3day

๐Ÿคž

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SpinMeRound - 3day

Looks so lovely!!

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SpinMeRound - 3day

Thanks for a new word!

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Bottom_racer - 3day

I'd never heard of it either.

New words!

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StudSpud The Starchy - 3day

It always amazes me how Mickey can disappear if wants to in this 2b apartment lol. The Cat Dimension is real and there are portals everywhere

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Gibsonhasafluffybutt - 3day

There is no greater panic than when you shake the treat bag and you don't hear them running lol

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StudSpud The Starchy - 3day

I was whispering his name when looking for him, like I was afraid I would anger Bastet or something ๐Ÿ˜‚

He reappearing in a closet I already checked ๐Ÿ˜‚

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Seagoon_ - 3day

no cat can resist the tin of red salmon

stuck up a tree, tin of red salmon

lost in the house, tin of red salmon

hiding in the backroom of a speak easy, tin of red salmon

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Rusty Raven - 3day

lost in a red salmon cannery?

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TheWitchofThornbury2 - 3day

Offer tube.

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SituationCake - 3day

So with the under 16s social media ban looming, does anyone know what will happen to this group? I donโ€™t want to loose the amazing group here.

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SituationCake - 3day

Thankyou! Unfortunaly I get logged out when I click on the link, so am unable to comment or message Molly? Iโ€™m hopping there are some clever people here who could tell me what Iโ€™m doing wrong?

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SituationCake - 3day

Yes it does! Thankyou for your smarts!

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LowExperience2368 - 3day

Friend from high school was one of the loveliest people I've ever met. Haven't spoken to her in ages and from our mutual friends, it seems like she's joined some church called City on a Hill. It seems culty. I hope she's okay.

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TheWitchofThornbury2 - 3day

The name references the Pilgrim Fathers of america - they openly and publicly wanted to build a 'city on a hill' to be 'shining example of holiness' to the rest of the world. They both started and ended up as religious extremists of very nearly the worst possible description. Check out the Salem witch trials. Yeeesssss, the cultishness risk is present and def should be guarded against imo. I hope she's OK too. She might see through the jargon to the very present risk of woman control/subjugation in the name of holiness.

Still, as Terry Pratchett puts it, slavery is a wonderful refuge from uncertainty. Maybe she's feeling in need of some certainty in her life. Or maybe anxiety relief. Which is reasonable given the chaotic nature of modern times. I do think that joining a church with a history of very prescriptive behaviour for women is is NOT the best possible way to relieve anxiety about her life choices though. Best you can do imo is to be present but not judgmental about her choices. As stated before, she may well see through the bullshit and make better choices in the future.

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Gibsonhasafluffybutt - 3day

My barber goes to one called city on a hill and it's pretty much hillsong lite.

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LowExperience2368 - 3day

Wait whoops it's actually city on a hill not church on the hill

Maybe it should be called shitty on a hill

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Taleya - 3day

old fart rant:

back in the day you could be trying to work out how to do something on an obsolete OS and post a question and if people didn't know they'd just walk the fuck past the post and leave it there for people who knew what they were talking about. If you got no answers, you kept plugging away yourself.

nowadays you get straight up headshotted by some uppity fuckwit mod "this software is EOL" aye no fucking shit sherlock has it occurred to you that we are aware of this and there is a specific reason we persist?

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melbaboutown - 3day

Magic phrase to copypaste: โ€œNot the question I askedโ€

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Taleya - 3day

It doesn't matter what question you asked, the software is EOL. Please click here and educate yourself on why running an outdated OS is a bad idea.

Closing this thread now.

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melbaboutown - 3day

Too real

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LowExperience2368 - 3day

::: spoiler conversation with my dad Dad: I can't work anymore, my arm's gonna fall off (he does a trade as a weekend job)

Me: what's wrong with it?

Dad: tennis elbow

Me: what did the Dr say?

Dad: they've done all they could

Me: what about a physio?

Dad: they're going to make me do exercises

๐Ÿซฃ๐Ÿซฃ๐Ÿซฃ๐Ÿซฃ :::

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SaneMartigan - 3day

He should get the forearm strap and watch a few youtubes on it. Massage the extensor compartment (hairy side muscle) of the arm with the elbow tip of the other arm. And do the exercises or it'll get worse.

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StudSpud The Starchy - 3day

Word. I hurt my superior and inferior extensor retinaculum in my left ankle and had to do some physio to strengthen them again. All because I wore bad shoes and was very stationary during COVID lockdowns.

Had to get one of those exercise strap loop things and do exercises with it, and I still do the tips toe exercises for both ankles (one hand on wall, stand on one leg and move from flat foot to tip toe and back, for each leg, a few times a day).

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SaneMartigan - 3day

You can increase that a little by standing toes on a step, heels free hanging, then going up and down. It'll give your ankle a larger range of motion working the calf muscles more. If you're ready for the next stage.

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StudSpud The Starchy - 3day

Thank you!! I will try this! ๐Ÿ’œ

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LowExperience2368 - 3day

Have passed this on, thanks :)

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SaneMartigan - 3day

The pathology is the muscles are pulling on the bone and the bone is getting pissed off about it. The strap means the muscles pull on the strap. The massages relaxes the muscles - he'll be able to find the sore spots easy enough, they reveal themselves.

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LowExperience2368 - 3day

Thank you so much!!! I know what I'm getting him for Christmas!

Edit: I think he's actually got one already but isn't using it properly. I will find some videos for him. He loves his YouTube tutorials

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SaneMartigan - 2day

There is a perfect position but its mostly a smidge closer to the elbow than the widest/muscliest part of the forearm. He needs to give his elbow a break or it wont heal good.

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LowExperience2368 - 2day

Try telling him to stop working ๐Ÿ˜‚

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Seagoon_ - 3day

went down bar today and had some Moscato, that stuff is like lolly water to me, love it ๐Ÿคค

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SpinMeRound - 3day

Pakidge just got dropped off at home, now I have to go all day know there's fun new stationery for me!! That's gonna make the day drag, no doubt.

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Seagoon_ - 3day

Stationery ๐Ÿค“๐Ÿค“๐Ÿค“

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SpinMeRound - 3day

Washi tapes and a junk journaling starter kit ๐Ÿ˜

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Seagoon_ - 3day

Nice. ๐Ÿ™‚

Today I am going to try to find some double sided tape or spray glue

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Force_majeure1234 - 3day

Woke up with one eye very bloodshot. Weird. Hope antihistames clear it

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bacon - 3day

Thatโ€™s what you get for joining the Fight Club

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Force_majeure1234 - 3day

๐Ÿคซ

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Seagoon_ - 3day

Trying a different eyeshadow everyday from the palette done. ucanbe sunbaked and glitter, I like all the glitter ones and the one dove grey, the others didn't suit me.

Next up, Chi Chi Brights palette. Bright oranges and greens and blues and such.

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Seagoon_ - 3day

I made a panettone , this one was pretty good, made with sunflower oil, not nuttelex

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Seagoon_ - 4day

Ted Cat has started his breakfast wait at 3.30 am

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tombruzzo - 3day

I decided to buy a bunch of the Golden Hills mid strength beer because we have two christmas things on at work this week. It should be a good sensible beer for everyone else because they drive, but I bought the beer and plan to ride so I don't have such weakness

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StudSpud The Starchy - 3day

::: spoiler religious propaganda in my mailbox :::

Everyone in the building got one and we're all pissed (either someone tailgates a resident in the building to put them in our mail, or someone in the building it distributing them lol).

Published in 1983, it's doomsday shite that's been wrong about the end of the world for over 40 years ๐Ÿ˜‚

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LowExperience2368 - 3day

Another person from the forum I mentioned a bit ago who was in a really dark place is almost a paramedic! Yay! I'm so glad they're doing a lot better than they were. I love seeing people's lives get better.

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StudSpud The Starchy - 3day

::: spoiler it's COVID baby ๐Ÿค˜ :::

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Catfish - 2day

Nurse Mikey to the care suite stat

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StudSpud The Starchy - 2day

He's been extremely sweet, and patient while we sleep.

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Eagle - 2day

Oh damn. Rest, fluids and antibiotics for secondary infections!

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StudSpud The Starchy - 2day

Will do! ๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿ’œ

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tombruzzo - 2day

Take it easy and I hope you have a game or series to get through

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StudSpud The Starchy - 2day

Yeah, partner is watching The Rookie on 7, and I bought Astroneer on sale (~$14 down from $40, #winning) and have been playing that a lot. I didn't buy any DLC so I had to laugh when the Devs had to apologise for breaking the game with their new Megatech DLC and have been pumping out patches and hotfixes ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚ none of this affected me in the slightest so I'm having an absolute blast with the base game ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚

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Seagoon_ - 3day

damn, so many hugs

You take care, rest and drink water

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StudSpud The Starchy - 2day

Thank you ๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿ’œ

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SpinMeRound - 3day

Vivid dreams all night have left me feeling exhausted.

::: spoiler Crazy Dreams Dreams about attending a Mandy Lee Brooks ghost meditation (she sucked, she just rambled), running 3km with my cousin in strappy sandals, hiding on board a boat/plane and having to convince the pilot who caught me that I was just in my Whacky Adventure Era (thankfully he believed me - might have helped that I'd rescued a tiny dog) and getting invited to eat at some super exclusive restaurant. It all happened in the same dream, all disjointed themes but flowing together. The colours were so intense and there was always water everywhere.

Followed by a dream about friends who had little gadget like brooms that could erase the world. And trying to run away from my own wedding because my mother was about to ruin it. Or maybe I was running towards it but trying to ditch my mum?

Am so so tired now. :::

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Seagoon_ - 3day

::: spoiler spoiler I dreamt I was in Dad's Army and Captain Mainwaring was yelling at me :::

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LowExperience2368 - 3day

Wow, that's a whole novella.

I slept for maybe three hours, woke up and was awake for two and a half, then slept for another hour. In that hour, I had a dream that someone I met recently confessed their love to me. It was so weird.

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CEOofmyhouse56 - 3day

I bought this little dude for the man

Looks great. The nebula moves and stars shine in out

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SpinMeRound - 3day

That's so cool!!

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CEOofmyhouse56 - 3day

It is!!! Changes colour too

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Eagle - 3day

My son was gifted one last year. He loves it, and the cats chase the stars on his bed!

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Seagoon_ - 3day

that is so cool and fun ๐Ÿค“

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tombruzzo - 2day

I bought the regular projector version of this but the nebula effect on this looks so good

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CEOofmyhouse56 - 2day

It looks awesome

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melbaboutown - 3day

Iโ€™ve saturated all the mould with a spray bottle of neat cleaning vinegar and left it to soak. But Iโ€™m out of energy and my head hurts. Guess I leave it to sit until I get the energy to respray and wipe down.

Melbcat is going to the specialist tomorrow.

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Seagoon_ - 3day

hugs for you Melbcat

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melbaboutown - 3day

Iโ€™m nervous but hopefully we get some answers

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LowExperience2368 - 3day

Got only four hours of sleep last night. Sat in hammock and dosed off for a couple of hours. I don't feel refreshed but am trying to stay awake until bed time.

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melbaboutown - 4day

::: spoiler Ranting about how the spring cleaning list just grows.

Fucksake. Iโ€™ve been really good about airing my place out regularly, but thereโ€™s one set of windows and blinds I donโ€™t open due to privacy and just saw mould has secretly grown behind there over winter.

So this means at some point I have to clean all that with vinegar and paper towel then soak it in Concrobium. (Thankfully I bought a jug of concentrate.) Then maybe buy some net curtains to block the view of inside while I occasionally raise the blinds and crack the window to keep the damp from collecting.

I canโ€™t drill holes because 1. metal frame and 2. even if it wasnโ€™t I am not spacking it back up and prising out a chip of gloss paint to get it matched when I move. So I either need to get a tension rod long enough to span it or use command hooks and hope thereโ€™s no drama or residue on removal.

I want to definitely get my bond back.

Thereโ€™s a conduit rod at Spotlight with spring ended attachments I assume you just bung on? This would look neater but Iโ€™ll have to measure and see if one of the available lengths is enough. If not itโ€™s the sticky hooks.

Iโ€™ll have to check another risky window while Iโ€™m at it.

I could just clean them and throw a disposable moisture absorber tub behind there. Already did that before. But they fill up so fast and then I forget to buy more.

โ€ฆWith my luck the net curtains will just go mouldy too. :::

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Taleya - 3day

Those expandy rods are awesome, bunnings sells them too. You can get from 80cm to about 2m.

Do you get enough sunlight in that window to bung in a cheap solar powered fan? A charcoal bag would also help

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melbaboutown - 3day

Itโ€™s 2m, but a friend just gave me a good suggestion about putting command hooks on sideways and running them along a curtain wire.

Iโ€™m a bit leery both of the sticking power and potential damage because of the crap gloss paint on the frame/trim but it does work out a lot cheaper than what I was going to do.

Unfortunately thereโ€™s not a lot of sunlight in that window and I canโ€™t leave it open. Iโ€™d only even have the blind open under duress as the cheapest options are sheer curtains that hide less than lace, and a lot of sus looky lous go past.

Charcoal bags are a good idea, I know chalk bundles are easily accessible and eco friendly but donโ€™t seem very powerful. I could also just buy the generic disposable moisture tubs (bad but cheaper than refilling brand). I considered a dehumidifier but thatโ€™s more spendy and clutter

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Taleya - 3day

::: spoiler these are what you're after

::: Get the ones with those ends - I literally hang washing on this every week, multiple heavy jackets, even bedding on coil hangers. They're pillar IIRC, and from bunnings (one of those bastard things you KNOW they have in-store, but they're not on the site). Punkin used to also hang off the bedding on occasion. They're solid af.

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melbaboutown - 3day

Thatโ€™s what I was originally looking for but youโ€™re right, they werenโ€™t showing up on the site

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bacon - 3day

Beep Beep ๐Ÿšš
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Thornburywitch - 3day

Moar caffeeeeeine please chef.

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bacon - 3day

โ˜•๏ธโ˜•๏ธโ˜•๏ธโ˜•๏ธโ˜•๏ธโ˜•๏ธโ˜•๏ธโ˜•๏ธ

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SpinMeRound - 3day

Caffeine IV, please Chef!

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bacon - 3day

โ˜•๏ธ๐Ÿ’‰

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SpinMeRound - 3day

Thank you, Chef!!

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Force_majeure1234 - 3day

Two new eyeballs please, and I'll take my current ones in a spicy soup

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bacon - 3day

๐Ÿงฟ๐Ÿงฟ

๐ŸŒถ๏ธ๐Ÿฒ

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Force_majeure1234 - 3day

My eye is fixed thanks chef

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Seagoon_ - 3day

and goodnight everyone

sweet dreams ๐Ÿ˜˜

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