Milk milk lemonade around the corner chocolate’s made. 🥛🥛🍋🍫

  • Alamutjones@aussie.zone
    16·
    9 months ago

    I went downstairs to the bin room. Left my door unlocked, because it’s only as far as the bin room.

    Came back up to find A STRANGER IN MY FUCKING HOUSE

    • bull⚡@aussie.zoneEnglish
      9·
      9 months ago

      WHAAAAAT?? More details please! What happened? Who were they? Why were they there? Are they gone now or did you make a new friend?

        • just_kitten@aussie.zone
          7·
          9 months ago

          What the fuuuuuck. That’s fucked, I’m so so sorry you have to deal with this shit on the eve of a PH no less so great fun trying to rapidly replace everything. Can’t even trust your neighbours wtf.

          I kinda hope your parents can stay out of this somewhat, given their patronising attitude towards you in times of need tbh.

          But otherwise I wish I even knew what would help in this sort of situation. I guess I’d be playing loud calming music at night to help block out the anxiety for a night

      • Alamutjones@aussie.zone
        6·
        9 months ago

        Dad’s been. I asked him to leave because it felt like I had to pretend to be okay. While I’m being observed, I have to pretend.

        I’ll get there. I’m just not there now

  • MeanElevator@aussie.zoneEnglish
    14·
    9 months ago

    One of my colleagues tried to organize a meeting tomorrow. Simple mistake yes?

    Well the other party that was invited were reps from an Aboriginal organisation that is pretty cold towards us (Vic Gov) at the best of times.

    Our director is giving him some feedback on ‘reading the room’ right now.

  • Alamutjones@aussie.zone
    13·
    9 months ago

    Just got my locks changed.

    My local locksmith is such a sweetheart. He seems to like me (he says “you’re always pleasant”). Lovely guy.

    Somehow I feel better for the chat

  • Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone
    13·
    9 months ago

    Anti depressent must be working. Had a dream last night mum and I caught up for a coffee and woke up feeling ok about it.

    For context, my mother passed away 25 years ago and I lost all the family I had within a few months of her passing away.

    Of course I wish I could have met her in real life now, but that I wasn’t despondent when I woke up is a good sign I think.

  • Duenan@aussie.zone
    12·
    9 months ago

    Bit of an update on my next door neighbour. I just ran into him as I took my bins out and he’s let me know that they now have a new baby born early at 31 weeks old.

    It was lucky that they decided to get his wife to the hospital and I’m told both baby and mum are doing well though of course being born so early the baby has to be looked after for a good while.

    So happy for them. Was worried because they had a rough pregnancy of late.

    Also it explains why there was noise at 3am last night. My neighbour had his phone on silent so his sister came over and tried to scale his front gate using bins to do it.

  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zoneOP
    121·
    9 months ago

    I’m gonna put it out here. I’m gonna have some drinks tonight and play some Aussie music. I’m proud to be an Australian and I love this country and I’m not gonna be made to feel guilty for appreciating this beautiful land, people, flora and fauna.

    The atrocities that were done to our first nation’s people are unforgettable there is no denying that. I hope for a solution to Australia Day asap because it’s gone on far to long.

    Feel free to downvote me because I don’t give a shit.

    • bull⚡@aussie.zoneEnglish
      7·
      9 months ago

      Same. I might even have a few drinks myself. I’ll continue to celebrate Australia Day on whatever day it happens to be. I’m not tied to the date, just the day itself. My intention isn’t to celebrate the date January 26, it’s to celebrate Australia and I won’t feel bad about celebrating Australia.

      I’d guess most, nearly all Australians who celebrate Australia Day feel a similar way. Make it the 27th or 25th. Makes no difference to me.

    • Taleya@aussie.zone
      5·
      9 months ago

      You can celebrate being Australian

      You can also acknowledge that the modern nation state came from very dark roots.

      The two aren’t incompatible in the slightest

    • Thornburywitch@aussie.zoneEnglish
      5·
      9 months ago

      We hear you. I feel something of the same way - we should remember the past but strive to do better going forward. Australia Day serves very well as a reminder to do just that. And lets face it, Aussie music is great.

    • Jay Stephens@mastodon.social
      5·
      9 months ago

      @CEOofmyhouse56
      Two things can be true at the same time right.
      I’ll help out whenever and wherever I can to get the sick date that commemorates the start of a genocide shifted to a different day, but whenever my day off work is granted by the powers that be, I’m gonna party on that day.

  • oztrin@aussie.zoneEnglish
    11·
    9 months ago

    Saw car, drove car, liked car. Will buy car Monday.
    Got the quote for the insurance. Given the higher value of the car and I suspect the recent claim… ouch. 😬

    • Nath@aussie.zone
      1·
      9 months ago

      Insurance is still a probability game. They ask if you’ve made a claim because that’s a parameter in their equations. You made a claim because your car was stolen? Is your car more likely to be stolen than we realised last time? If yes, insurance goes up. If they determine it was unlikely to be stolen and those chances haven’t changed, then that part of their equations will remain unchanged.

      It’ll still go up, because your car is newer and because insurance companies. But they shouldn’t shaft you over your claim.

  • bananafungus@aussie.zone
    11·
    9 months ago

    Full bladder pelvic exams I hate you!! I just want to have a nice little chat with the person who thought, you know what, this person is having some serious pelvic pain so let’s fill em right up where it hurts.

    Last time I had one I had an active bladder infection and I cried so much I thought the technician was going to start crying from the amount she was apologising.

  • just_kitten@aussie.zone
    10·
    9 months ago

    I decided to see what the forecast in the BOM app looked like for Townsville with that cyclone coming up. Haha holy shit they have a whole separate icon and rainfall ranges that would make you think the app had glitched. They also have five active weather warnings - two cyclone watch warnings, marine wind, flood watch and a current heatwave.

    Couldn’t pay me to live full time in nth Qld, I tell you what. These poor sods have taken a real beating this summer

    • mysticgreg@aussie.zone
      6·
      9 months ago

      My parents, brother and his family all live in Townsville, so I’m up there at least once a year myself.

      The locals are actually thinking this will be a fairly ‘baby’ cyclone that they should ride out fairly easily (fingers crossed). That said, the panic buying has still been nuts. First-timers expecting they’ll need a year’s supply of bottled water, when you can just fill buckets and the bathtub ahead of time and have all you need for most purposes.

      Most people are fairly prepared. My dad is in full-time care due to advanced dementia, and a lot of the staff there have actually moved in with the residents to ensure they’ve got proper care should everything go south.

  • wscholermann@aussie.zone
    8·
    9 months ago

    It’s really not clear why Dutton is going off hard on these tax cuts. Most people will be better off than they otherwise would have been if it had of gone ahead according to the previous design. He’s the only one who seems mad.

    • Taleya@aussie.zone
      13·
      9 months ago

      because labor bad is the only policy he has and by god, he’s gonna jam it everywhere.

      • wscholermann@aussie.zone
        4·
        9 months ago

        Ok but even as a political move it doesn’t make sense because no one is going to line up to agree with him, including many who might ordinarily vote liberal.

        • Duenan@aussie.zone
          5·
          9 months ago

          While it doesn’t make sense and still hasn’t for a decade they keep going on about soul searching and looking at the party values and reevaluating it when they lose and yet they haven’t changed a thing about how they campaign or present to the average people.

          All they do is smear campaigns and talk bad of Labor and that’s it.

          I don’t understand why they keep following this path.

          • MeanElevator@aussie.zoneEnglish
            2·
            9 months ago

            Because it easy and it works.

            Look at Trump in the US.

            You don’t need a platform you just have to be against things (including best interests of the voters).

            The last 30 years of gutting education is paying dividends for populist candidates

        • just_kitten@aussie.zone
          3·
          9 months ago

          Sadly due to decades of media bias there’s plenty who will just ignore that it’s Dutton saying it and still agree at the kneejerk outrage against Labor

        • Pilk@aussie.zone
          3·
          9 months ago

          If political beliefs were aligned with objective truth the world would be a very different place.

      • MeanElevator@aussie.zoneEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        The fact that he’s the best the LNP has to offer as far as leadership speaks volumes of the party.

        The fact that he’s actually a contender for PM speaks volumes of how brainwashed this country is.

        He’s trying to start a culture war to divert attention from the class war we should be having.

        • wscholermann@aussie.zone
          2·
          9 months ago

          Agree re his leadership. I’m somewhat politically neutral in that there are ideas that I find sensible from both the labour and liberal party. But from the liberal party they tend to be small L liberal values which the party doesn’t seem to align with anymore?

    • MeanElevator@aussie.zoneEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      The wrong people (in his opinions) are benefitting.

      He doesn’t care about the average Australian and just wants to make noise for the sake of making noise.

      • wscholermann@aussie.zone
        2·
        9 months ago

        Yes but the average Australian makes up most of the voting based so it seems bizarre he would make himself deliberately unpopular.

        It’s always weird seeing politicians living in bubbles and both sides do it. For example labour drank the cool aid when they kept pushing the voice when it was obviously going to fail hard.

        • MeanElevator@aussie.zoneEnglish
          2·
          9 months ago

          The average Australian won’t read past the headline.

          People have short attention spans and rely on minimal information.

          The voice was an absolute bungle by Labor. But if that’s the worst thing they’ve done it pales in comparison with the decade of LNP fuckery.

          Sadly it will be in the media and people will focus on it.

          • wscholermann@aussie.zone
            3·
            9 months ago

            “Always back self interest”. If people see a juicy tax cut they won’t say no to it just because Dutton is crying.

  • just_kitten@aussie.zone
    8·
    9 months ago

    I had an awful sleep with a nightmare that had no right being as vivid as it was.

    night horses

    I was part of a group of young women who had been drugged and woken up in a facility where we were told nothing about the outside world except that we were no longer women, later we found out that the supreme leader’s young son had decided he wanted to be a woman and all men should heed his example, and modify their genitals if they wished, but as a result any biological women had to be locked up and made to accept that men were real women and they were sexless drones (however, we had to keep our genitals intact as it later turned out that we were being kept for breeding purposes but the child was entirely the mens) near the end I was part of a group that was allowed outside to do strictly limited work and we bravely lobbed a brick at a politician’s window before getting ready to escape. But just as I got back in the escape car I heard a man’s voice in the back seat saying “we got you” and a hand reached out to touch my shoulder; I screamed and bolted awake drenched in sweat and couldn’t go back to sleep for an hour.

    0/10 experience

    • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
      5·
      9 months ago

      That sounds extremely dramatic and disturbing.

      My nightmare last night involved the alarm clock going off way too early and having to go to work. I am hoping to wake up in bed some time soon.

    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
      4·
      9 months ago

      What an odd nightmare.

      My nightmare last night was of being raided by terrorists. Out gunned. Lots of blood. I am not sure if I survived. My mates fell. Some in the backrooms had better chances.

    • Llabyrinthine@aussie.zone
      2·
      9 months ago

      This is a wild ride! Not that I want you to have nightmare, but I dig how detailed it is because this is how I dream.

      I hope you feel better!

      • just_kitten@aussie.zone
        3·
        9 months ago

        I haven’t had such detailed dreams in a while but I used to have these kind of cinematic ones all the time as a kid and young adult (and then a spate last year because of some meds I was on).

        Pretty awesome when they’re good dreams, but the nightmares are awful - the sleep disruption sucks and my body is in a heightened state of alert for the rest of the day.