Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.
Work from home, light day on the schedule at work, so I decided to do a cheeky bake session in the garage.
Guess who was looking at the wrong Friday, and has meetings all afternoon?
Go on, guess.
This gave me a good chuckle, thank you lol. Good luck! 😂
I’ll manage. Not completely baked, just nice and toasty. Can function without arising too much suspicion.
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Of course not. Mine neither.
the garage?
Compression session!
I wasn’t ‘baking’ I was getting ‘baked’
I’d say you read the schedule 100% and applied the correct survival strategy
Good advice. Got one more to go and am, thankfully, feeling grounded
The baker
Dinner is served. The silverside did not fall apart.
I am the master chef, come at me bruh 🖐🖐
Yay, go you! Perfect!
🥰💜
Masterfully executed silverside!
First time too, I don’t generally cook meat. Turned out real nice. Leftovers will be used in another dish.
Looks fantastic.
Leaving me drooling here with how tasty it all looks.
Minus points for ovening potato… but I still want it
I’ll cook you a smol german feast instead: homemade pretzels, kartoffelpuffers, sauerkraut, bratwurst. Much better than this.
I accept your terms of surrender
😳🥔😍
That sounds delicious!
You little beauty. Tuck in and enjoy. Don’t forget the mustard.
🤤👉👉
Day off today to celebrate Mr Smeg’s birthday.
Then tomorrow is the day we pickup the dog
Not a bad week really
Happy Birthday! 🎂
Happy birthday to Mr Smeg! I hope you all have a lovely day and omg yay Batdog!!
Happy birthday to Mr Smeg and happy gotcha day to little Batdog! Have a great long weekend.
Oh.
Oh no.
As part of the sorting I redid the TV stand (we’re going to eventually put the TV on an articulated arm up over the fireplace, with the cavity cabinetted out as a console nook), moved it out into His Lordship’s office ‘cos the little bugger has had greedy eyes on it since we started dating 20 odd years ago and wants it for his gaming corner (it’s actually mine and predates him), then shufted the big ol’ 78 record player over where the TV stand was and plonked the TV and accoutrements on top of it as a temporary measure.
Thing is, that’s over a heating vent.
And Misha remembered she fits under it
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Image ID: A fat buttery cat wedged under a record player in front of a heating vent with no intentions of moving
I have made a terrible mistake
Your cat is really adorable!
She’s a demon shitbag, mother of buttheads!
I know the feeling lol
Good kitty.
Apparently the Melbourne subreddit has been banned for “violating the Reddit rules”? Huh…
I wonder what rules 🤔
Honestly I think this is Spez going after the subreddits that dared to challenge him. He did threaten to some time ago, after all.
Looks to be back now… seems like the mods are either not saying why or don’t know themselves.
Edit: “We reached out to them and they did the bleep bloop and we’re back from the dead 🙌”
People are asking why on r/australia. This looks interesting. Also comment history for r/melbourne is gone too.
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Good :D
Holy shit!
Dins:
Image is of spring rolls in lettuce.
yum yum spring rolls in lettuce is my fave 😍🤤
bloody hell there are lots of great cooks here on the dt😊
Yummm.
Good grief! Just sat on the West Gate Bridge for almost over an hour, contemplated driving off the edge for a second there. 25 minutes home took almost 2hrs in the middle of the fkn night.
I hate that bloody thing
I swear the west is cursed
I do love the hubs but jesus I get a lot more done when he’s not around. Dining room is 100% cleared, most of lounge, things getting squared away and navigable w00t w00t. Also I get to blare music like whoa.
one horrible upside to the housing crisis: It’s real easy to get rid of packing boxes on your local buy nothing group
Whats on for the weekend all? Last night i went out dancing to a live jazz band which was lots of fun. Tonight is Fish & Chips and mead maintenance. Tomorrow is yoga/meditation at the Buddhist centre followed by my first date in 2 years, going to see Oppenheimer, excited and nervous haha. Saturday night going to see the Burnt Sausages and then we have a nice chilled out Sunday :)
I have a cake to make today, drinks tonight and lunch at the local Vietnamese restaurant on Saturday.
Chocolate mousse cake?
You are correct.
Goodluck :)
Thank you.
Just a chill night tonight. Tomorrow going to an “Emo vs Anime” club thing which should be super interesting lol Sunday I train a friend of mine at the gym and make meals for the week. Good luck tonight!
Sounds like a great weekend :)
Final (8 week follow up) psychology sesh with the really awesome dude, gonna be back at mine for the weekend after a month so lots of plant maintenance to do. Cooking. And then maybe Barbie with a friend
Good luck on the date mate!
Enjoy the plant maintenance and movie :)
Date should be okay, at least its not an app first date. Its someone i met on my snow trip who was a friend of a friend that we were staying with, so we have already spent some time together :)
I think, and I could well be wrong here, that we don’t have any kids birthday parties on this weekend for once.
Haha, i hope for your sake that you are correct and you get to enjoy your weekend some other way :P
Ok, get the pitch forks out.
I don’t like sardines. They are too fishy. There, I said it.
I’ve been learning a lot about investing and making a few small investments in shares and funds over the last couple of years, and can definitely say that buying shares in individual companies is not my forte. For the most part the shares I bought have been steadily declining in value, against the trend of the market. Apparently if the shares drop enough the company can arrange to buy back the shares from small stockholders whose parcel of shares has become worth so little they don’t meet the minimum trading amount to be able to sell them through brokers. Who knew?
I have had one success - Estia Health is being taken over, which means the shares I bought for them have seen a 43% increase in just over 12 months. Unfortunately I only bought $200 worth, and the profit from them is still nowhere near enough to make up for the losses on the others, but definitely better than nothing. I am definitely sticking with the index funds in future, I really don’t have the interest or knowledge for individual companies. And the clear winner is my Super fund - I got around 13% last year, plus many tax benefits.
I did some penny stocks the other year and it was wild. I don’t understand it enough, but they basically became worthless and somehow got folded back into the company. 😂
kidcalhoon2 just skated to school for the first time, we were late, and i couldn’t get Huey Lewis and the News out of my head the whole time…haha. just needed a car to skitch on
Oh sweet you got a board.
Yeah. MrsCalhoon actually grabbed one, just a basic cruzer as there was a lot of asking and whinging whilst at the shops… Just from Kmart to start, but decent size wheels so a sympathetic board. Kidcalhoon2 loves it.
This pleases me greatly.
Cheers you bohemians 🍺🍺🍺
Cheers maggot 🍺🍺🍺
I think I’d really like a miller hi-life, the champagne of beers
or maybe some stella on tap
Cheers fellow (or fellette)
Just perusing r/BannedSubs for clues. Multiple subs got banned and returned. No explanation given yet.
I’ve taken today as well as part of yesterday off, but having spent most of today out of the house, I’ve totally lost my momentum and left a shit tonne of chores till tonight - as well as a plethora of packing after a month of sprawling out around here - I gotta be out by 9am tomorrow for an appointment.
It’s feeling overwhelming but I’m using the washing machine and dishwasher running time to give myself a breather or time other tasks.
Driving on the Western was yet another shitshow today (even counter peak). Honestly there’s a special brand of insanity out there. I think what took the cake today was seeing a white SUV with a custom plate doing at least 130km/h (actual), undertaking both lanes on the left by using the MERGE LANE that was just ending from an on ramp
sleep is over rated 😬
Disagree. If anything sleep is underrated in society.
I’m joking 🥺
Ugh tell me about it and me still paying dearly for 3 almost-all nighters in the span of one week. I’ll get to have a massive sleep in on Saturday evening though.
