• wscholermann@aussie.zone
    15·
    3 months ago

    I look at some children, then I look at their parents and I think to myself you poor bastards you never had a chance.

    • MeanElevator@aussie.zoneEnglish
      12·
      3 months ago

      Seeing perfectly happy and innocent kids be themselves and seeing their drongo dead shit parents kills me inside.

      We have tests for driver’s licenses, we should have tests for people becoming parents.

      • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
        8·
        3 months ago

        Got an aunt who works in childcare, she says the EXACT same thing.

        I’ve got mates who cause of their unresolved issues are fucking up their kids, so they decided to have another kid. Like. um… what?! how about NO guys.

      • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
        6·
        3 months ago

        I’m wary of tests.

        Pretty sure I have family members who would ace the test because they intellectually know the right answers and can express themselves with authority because they are educated.

        But in practice they are not good parents at all because they have shit personalities.

        And then there would people who are not very literate or well educated who would stink at a test but who are great parents.

        iow, what are we testing and how are we testing?

        • MeanElevator@aussie.zoneEnglish
          7·
          3 months ago

          Honestly I don’t know what we could test. Too many variables. I do think that some kids lose the genetic lottery and are born into shit situations. If we could prevent that, that would be great.

    • SituationCake@aussie.zone
      9·
      3 months ago

      It really breaks my heart when I see this. I once saw a woman aggressively screech ‘shut up you cnts’ to her two toddlers crying in a supermarket. Seriously what chance do these kids have? When youth crime is committed, people often comment ‘where are the parents’. Well the parents are deadshits who don’t care and were probably doing the same thing when they were kids. We can’t expect these kids will get help from their families, but no other options for ‘parenting’ are available other than foster care. All you can do is hope that against the odds, as adults they are able to overcome the shitty birth lottery they got, and start a normal life. The ones who succeed are truly amazing.

      • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zoneEnglish
        5·
        3 months ago

        The problem is even if they manage to live a normal life, they will be missing things most people have.

        And because of that, they might find it hard to relate to the average person.

        And they don’t have the safety nets either.

    • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
      101·
      3 months ago

      I think to myself you poor bastards you never had a chance

      thank you. We’re doing our best but he is a handful. 🤣

  • just_kitten@aussie.zone
    13·
    3 months ago

    I’m coming to a very sobering realisation that my mind really isn’t as capable as it was five years ago, it’s taking a lot more effort to understand academic journal articles and new concepts than it used to. I spend so much energy on maintenance tasks and quelling anxiety, that there isn’t much left for novel/challenging thinking outside of a conversational context

    • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone
      9·
      3 months ago

      understand academic journal articles

      I’m not reading the room quite correctly but I just forgot why I went to the fridge… twice… so I believe in you :)

      • just_kitten@aussie.zone
        9·
        3 months ago

        I don’t have a banging social life or much physical capacity, so I’d always relied on my brains as something to be proud of but even that’s going downhill too :(

        I’d accept it if I was more capable of ripping out 10 metre long retaining walls and growing bushels of vegetables …at this stage in life I feel like I’ve dumbed myself down to a pencil pushing automaton. I guess I can still change that just that it’ll take more effort than imagined.

    • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
      7·
      3 months ago

      of course it’s harder to learn new things as we get older but it’s not from any lack of ability or stamina

      At an older age humans have a vast bank of knowledge and complex world views that explain and unify all the knowledge.

      Each new piece of knowledge had to be tested for correctness and whether it fits in the world view. The world view is also tested to see if it is still the best explanation for all the knowledge acquired. The more knowledge and more complex the world view the more testing.

      It can be tiring.

      • just_kitten@aussie.zone
        6·
        3 months ago

        I thought some life admin would become less taxing with experience and age, but I find that they seem to take on more of a mental load and not just from the post viral fatigue.

  • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
    12·
    3 months ago

    Study day, discovered I’ve filled most of my assessments as we’ve been going. I’d forgotten I’d done that. So my homework is already done. Just watching some YT vids of vets showing safe practices to handle various animals, and animal behaviour.

    Every day I am grateful to be doing this for myself.

  • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone
    11·
    3 months ago

    Hooray survived the 8 day outta date cheese kransky from last night. Flying a bit close to the sun. It did burn the roof of my mouth though but it was delicious so only a small price to pay.

    • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
      8·
      3 months ago

      Lucky duck… I throw everything out once it goes past it’s use by (non refiregrated best befores usually stay until I realise it’s just been sitting there for ages and I’m not going to use it). I’m traumatised from all the food poisonings I seem to suffer a couple of times a year

      I’m so traumatised in fact, that I quite often burn things out of fear they might not be properly cooked. Then I eat at a dodgy place in Footscray market and get food poisoning the next day ☹️

  • just_kitten@aussie.zone
    10·
    3 months ago

    Okay so I think it was someone in here who recommended Potato Utopia chips and I’ve diligently waited and they’re almost at half price this week… time to try it out tomorrow night I reckon.

  • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
    10·
    3 months ago

    I really want a hot dog for some reason. Not even a nice one. I just want whatever low tier fake processed rejected scrap meat cylinder things they have at Wendy’s

      • AJ Sadauskas@aussie.zoneEnglish
        4·
        3 months ago

        It’s still around, barely: https://wendysmilkbar.com/

        There was still one at Eastland last I checked, as well as Parramatta in Sydney.

        There were also stores in Chirnside Park, Waverley Gardens, and Cranbourne, but I’m not sure if those ones are still open?

        • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
          4·
          3 months ago

          The one in Horsham was still open a couple of years ago. Still open according to the Googley map

          It’s in the middle of a shopping centre and was heaven to go to when I was a kid. It’s right in front of a Kmart. You’re dragged into the plaza by your parents to go buy new shoes from Kmart (“these fuckin kids are outgrowing the bloody shoes every bloody month!”). You walk past Brunbys bakery, the smell of bread, and the sight of pink icing taking up your whole vision. You start walking to it. Mum says “no. We’re here for bloody Kmart and that’s ALL.”. Sad, you keep walking through the plaza and towards the Kmart. You pass all the clothing shops and fancy shoe shops (aka: footlocker). The smell of new clothes and shoes now overpowering the smell of Brunbys. Then as you pass the toy car rides, and gumball machines, the smell hits you. WENDYS. The smell of hot dogs overpowering everything else. Must. Get. Hotdog! And then you see it: a giant “W” marking the source of smell, like an X marks buried treasure. The W is so gigantic and pink, it instantly steals your attention and gaze. Sensing what’s about to happen, mum says “NO WENDYS” and pulls you into the Kmart. Very sad now, you go into the Kmart, past the prison guard they pay to stand at the door and observe the parents one by one caving to the pressure and taking their children to Wendy’s. You buy new shoes, but what’s even the point of going to kmart if you don’t get a Wendy’s??? Eventually, shoes are bought, Kmart gets another 60 bucks, and you leave. But nothing is going to stop you from getting Wendy’s. “PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEEEUH”. Eventually, she caves.

          You did it. You’ve won.

          Now you can happily enjoy your hot dog and milkshake on the way back home with your new shoes

          • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
            5·
            3 months ago

            If your my sibling you’re also missing the last step: get the banana smoothie thing and spew in the car. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME! My mum used to get pissed off like she wasn’t the person responsible for buying my sibling the drink that was proven to make them spew every time they got it. Like after 4 or 5 times mum, lets be honest YOU are the problem here.

    • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
      9·
      3 months ago

      are you my toddler? “dad just washed the floors? Time to rub a crumbly biscuit all over them!” “Hello chicken I liked yesterday? Have you and the ground met before?”