• Pilk@aussie.zone
    18·
    10 months ago

    I mentioned the other day that I knew one of the boys that was murdered in Sydney. It was Luke Davies.

    I had only known him for a couple of years, since his cabin crew training here in Melbourne, so I am not close enough to his friends or family to really be connected to their community in mourning.

    But in my own way I just want the universe to know that each and every word about how he was a beautiful soul are true.

    This is a fate that I am still failing to comprehend. My heart aches for his family and close friends. I will dearly miss him.

    Just one more big bear hug would have been nice, hey fella?

    • Thornburywitch@aussie.zoneEnglish
      5·
      10 months ago

      Library trip!!! Or take a leaf from @baku’s book and go travelling to somewhere. St Kilda pier for cakes and coffee? Altona Beach? PT goes to a lot of places even if you limit yourself to trains/trams.

      • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        Ooh I think you’re the first person to intentionally mention me. But it would seem boost doesn’t notify for mentions, and now I’m wondering if anybody else has mentioned me and I’ve just never seen it

  • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
    8·
    10 months ago

    Omg we have a VHS player! I actually have a bag of VHS tapes I got from an op shop last year. I’ve never played a VHS before and I’m kinda excited ngl

    I don’t even know what I bought honestly. There’s a handwritten one about wildflowers, and some Disney movie, but I don’t know about the rest. I just saw 10c each and was like “ooh! Old people media! I will buy!” Love ya, Vinnie’s

    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
      2·
      10 months ago

      If they taped shows or movies off the telly there will be old ads

      ( first show I saw on tape was Blake 7 , I borrowed a player from the library at school, it was 1978. )

      You might also need to use a tape head cleaner first .

      • Catfish@aussie.zone
        3·
        10 months ago

        Clean the heads, but please don’t use a head clean tape ( in the bizzare offchance you find one) those things were sandpaper, you want a light solvent.

      • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        I thought taping over movies was the sort of things parents yelled at you for

        So far the most annoying thing people have done is not rewinding their tapes

        I don’t know what a tape head cleaner is, or for that matter what a tape head is, but I’m just going to put the tape in the box and hope for the best

    • Nath@aussie.zone
      2·
      10 months ago

      Ha. I have a VCR. I don’t think it has been plugged into power at any point in the kids’ lives. It’s just been there at the bottom of the entertainment cabinet, dark and mysterious and ignored.

      The only tapes I still have are Star Wars remastered (Han still shoots first) and 1997 editions. Widescreen versions.

      I should put them on one day. In this day and age of streaming and Bly Rays, VHS will be an experience.

  • Duenan@aussie.zone
    8·
    10 months ago

    This weekend has made me moody and I don’t want to socialise much. I hate to admit that I’m trying to make food stretch as long as I can so it’ll be less of a burden to deal with food next fortnight, let’s hope I don’t get sick from doing it.

    Waiting for my dad to come by who wants to store something, will I be at home today? Yes I will.

    Thanks son, I’ll come by and put it in your garage, oh by the way, I need your help carrying it into the garage.

    Thanks dad, just make it all the more inconvenient and disturb me when I don’t want to see anyone and have a headache.

    sigh

      • Duenan@aussie.zone
        2·
        10 months ago

        Yeah though I was left feeling annoyed.

        Clearly I wasn’t feeling well and I said I wasn’t doing well but he didn’t ask about what was wrong, just interested in putting the glass table top in the garage to store for some god forsaken reason.

        Pretty pissed with him that he didn’t a shit.

    • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
      2·
      10 months ago

      I hesitated to post Life Of Boris, because with the Ukraine situation it seems really touchy. But while his cousin is/was in the military Boris himself is a civilian using a fake accent and likely not even Russian. (People speculate that he’s Estonian.)

      So here’s a playlist of extremely budget food ideas if you’re really stuck. This dude’s specialty is surviving the end of the month. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbS0HkS8Xsoq1j4kiZFLP9w1e3pQADR3g

      • Duenan@aussie.zone
        2·
        10 months ago

        Not too stuck on what to do. Just wish I had money to actually do things with.

        I’m going to see if I can get some more cherry tomatoes from work, they add a nice sweet taste to my sandwiches at the moment.

        My rock bottom is just 2 minute noodles and a bunch of frozen veggies.

        I’ll have at it when I’m in a better mood. Videos don’t click with me when I’m not in the mood because I have to stop everything I’m doing to watch one.

          • Duenan@aussie.zone
            2·
            10 months ago

            I’ll be ok. I have a lot of pasta and pasta sauce here and a lot in the freezer as well.

            Thank you for your thoughts and help

    • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
      6·
      10 months ago

      My cat finds onion skins to be very entertaining. Cats are very adept at finding joy in the simple things.

  • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone
    7·
    10 months ago

    Presenting the beginnings of the metric polypipe DOME OF DOOM for the chilli patch.

    Garden ties and an old bike tube as lashing. I doubt it’ll be sturdy enough but we’ll see

    Think I might wait and think about the netting for the next week and just see if the frame holds up.

    • Thornburywitch@aussie.zoneEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      This is giving off pyramid vibes. Maybe put razor blades under it to sharpen them up (and discourage the chilli thief).

  • Taleya@aussie.zone
    7·
    10 months ago

    full offense to A Certain Workplace but me kinda drunk operating with a hand full of fruit tingles is a better fucking laptop repairer than their entire dedicated staff.

    (going over my loot so far not even a bung part. JFC. Corporations that do this need to be shot.)

    • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zoneOP
      4·
      10 months ago

      I know. It’s lucky I didn’t reef it across the room.

      I’ll take a rain check on those gummy worms. I’ve been very good on the sugar lately.

      Edit: whoops I replied to the wrong comment. I knew this would happen some day.

  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
    6·
    10 months ago

    Why is it so hard to figure what to write about difficult family stuff in a kind considerate way when dickheads seem to have no trouble finding the words to be nasty .

  • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
    6·
    10 months ago

    Ahhhhhh, it’s VHS Cinderella!

    All I need now is one of those boxy TVs with the bulgey front and a fireplace (and also to sit half a cm away from the screen) and I’ll be a certified 90s kid!

      • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        Ah yep that’s the term. I’m not quite young enough to not remember them at all, we didn’t have enough money for a flat screen so I think we kept ours until 2014 or 15. Those guys were strong as, I knocked it off the stand once running inside and it still worked perfectly afterwards

  • Catfish@aussie.zone
    6·
    10 months ago

    Not enough brain for proper sewing so made twiddles. Very happy with colour match, but the advisability of usage near felines remains to be seen. tassels

  • just_kitten@aussie.zone
    6·
    10 months ago

    The crazy yelling guy in my neighbourhood is getting quite deranged. He was sitting at a tram stop screaming incoherently at a bunch of people sitting outside at the pub for a good ten minutes or more, a cop car even drove past entirely unaware. He always sounds really hoarse and threatening, always loud, but I can barely make out what he’s saying

    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
      4·
      10 months ago

      he sounds like he’s in terrible distress

      not that he should be scaring people tho

      fuck this meth epidemic

    • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
      4·
      10 months ago

      I don’t want to ask your catchment area, and these might just get you handballed around… but hopefully one of these services might prove useful or get you referred to one that is?

      You could also call psych triage and see if there’s anything they can advise

      Edit: Sorry it’s some random BPD resource but it’s got all the CATT numbers for each area in one place https://www.bpdcommunity.com.au/hidden-content/is-this-a-crisis

    • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      God I’m actually starting to wonder if you live near the same tram stop I was abused at last week. I saw that yelling dude from last week at the same tram stop today, which actually is fairly close to a pub. Although he seems to be fairly understandable, just not entirely sensical

  • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone
    5·
    10 months ago

    Something ate a bunch of my chillies :(

    Not all of them, only the ripe ones but i’m still upset.

    I’ll try and put a little cage over them and see if that helps.