Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.

  • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
    19·
    1 year ago

    Someone needs to open a business called The LaundroCat which combines a laundry and cat cafe. Have a coffee and cuddle a cat while you wait for your laundry to be done. There is a lot of potential for extra sales in the cafe as no one would be able to leave because the cats would immediately sit on the freshly washed clothes.

  • goodviking@aussie.zone
    18·
    1 year ago

    I’ve reached a stage in my life where new kitchen gadgets are a source of excitement. Bought a blender yesterday that also heats/cooks the food as it is being blended. Think of all the possibilities…

    • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
      11·
      1 year ago

      I watch those late night infomercials just for the food porn. The exercise ones bore me but the cleaning and food ones excite me.

      • Hongohones@aussie.zone
        5·
        1 year ago

        Have you seen come dine with me UK? It’s camp and bitchy and the food is ok. Watching soccer was worth connecting the aerial for, sbs food is worth keeping it connected imo.

      • Hongohones@aussie.zone
        4·
        1 year ago

        Also did anyone you know get one of Multi Level Hippie Marketing thermomix things? They were like 2 grand at the time. They have imitators now for much less, they were pretty good, but so fucking woo it was like a wannabee yoga gurus must get object in 2012 or something.

  • just_kitten@aussie.zone
    16·
    1 year ago

    Hu-fucking-zzah! For anyone following my utterly tedious work sitcho, it is finally SIGNIFICANTLY better after some feet were solidly put down at today’s meeting. I have time frames! And $ figures! And direction! And managed to tell our overbearing yet thoroughly incompetent admin/“HR” to (a) stop patronising me (not in those words) and (b) that her particular processes might be protecting the business, but if she was so genuinely concerned about my well being then her officious way of doing things and dragging them out 1000% didn’t help (almost in those words).

    Definitely much better work life balance coming up, I CAN LET GO OF MY OLD PROJECTS FUCK YES, and I can genuinely taste the freedom to finally start moving on, whether it be here or elsewhere. Now, if only my rent wasn’t so high - but at least it won’t change until next April. Feeling p good right now. I’m much happier with the uncertainty (atm) of the next chapter vs the dread of staying on.

    Until then… Hectic couple of weeks before the role change!

    E: soxcat tax as it’s her last night here. She’s been an exceptional kitty the last few days. Love this little bunch of fur and cuddles.

    prrrr

    closeup of tuxedo cat on lap

  • Walter_Ego@lemmy.arpatubes.netEnglish
    15·
    1 year ago

    bought a little 12" ooni fyra the other day and gave it a kick in the guts last night. pumped out a margherita and a pepperoni pie. each pie took a little over a minute to cook.

    i think i focused a little too much on getting a high temp, something difficult to do with my other pizza cooking options. first one came out with a bottom that was burnt evenly across the whole bottom (though the carbon layer was very thin), the second one i dropped the temp of the stone about 50c and it came out much better, but i probably need to drop it a little more, and let the pies cook for a little longer. the dough was fully cooked, but some of the toppings (like buffalo mozzarella chunks) didn’t have time to melt fully. the pepperoni did cup though.

    i think i also need to blend my pizza sauce (usually i like it chunky) but on a small 12" pie cooked super fast it can lead to a bit of unevenness, and makes it harder to get the sauce much closer to the edges which i also need to do (with the cheese too), as large rising edge crust caused the ingredients to shift towards the middle.

    after 2 pies we were full (puppers also got a slice each, and the cats got some pepperoni), but i reckon next weekend i will do much better. still, they were fucking delicious and pretty damned good for a first poke. apologies for unappealing torch-lit pizza pic, gets dark early these atm.

    the machine itself is pretty easy to operate, just runs on hardwood pellets, though it can only store about 15 mins of pellets at a time, so you need to keep topping it up. getting pizzas into and out of the small aperture is pretty easy too. seems like a pretty good contraption, and i reckon it wont be long before i have a technique down to pump out ripper pizzas.

  • bull⚡@aussie.zoneEnglish
    14·
    1 year ago

    Got dinner from a pizza place called The Gusher.

    There’s only one choice of drink for the occasion…

  • bull⚡@aussie.zoneEnglish
    13·
    1 year ago

    The dude who runs the dodgy laundromat I’m in paid for my machine because I’m wearing a Raiders cap and he is too. He doesn’t know I just wear the hats because I like them, I don’t follow NFL at all.

      • mysticgreg@aussie.zone
        10·
        1 year ago

        “Did you see that ludicrous display last night? What was Wenger thinking sending Walcott on that early? The thing about Arsenal is, they always try to walk it in!”

    • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
      8·
      1 year ago

      Don’t worry, soon they will be an actual teen and you’ll struggle to get them to event grunt at you in the morning.

    • Walter_Ego@lemmy.arpatubes.netEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      my spicy puppies love to growl at me in the morning, and leap about on the bed like lunatics while play wrestling. one is about 30kg, the other about 40kg. sometimes it hurts, but generally i love it.

  • oztrin@aussie.zoneEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    Ha. Posted that “Awful Aspects of Spring” Leunig cartoon to the Book of Faces because I found a copy of it during Operation Sort Shit and it seems to have gone down like a lead balloon.
    Dear me.

    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
      9·
      1 year ago

      he’s no longer the darling of the virtue signalling upper middle classes , eh

      it’s like they never took any real notice of his cartoons at all , if there is one thing he hates it’s them

        • oztrin@aussie.zoneEnglish
          7·
          1 year ago

          He lost me before he went full cooker - he disappeared up his own arse and became neither interesting nor amusing.
          That one, however, made me laugh just as hard as when I first saw it - good grief, it would have been in the eighties.

      • oztrin@aussie.zoneEnglish
        8·
        1 year ago
        spoiler

        Sorry it came out tiny! Caption is “Awful aspects of spring: the new dog digs up the old dog.”

        • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
          5·
          1 year ago

          Oh dear. Reminds me of the time I visited my parents with my old dog, and she brought us the body of one of their chickens she had just dug up. After being buried for about a week it was definitely not in good condition, but she was so incredibly proud of herself. I told her she was a good dog, swapped it for a dog treat and the chicken was re-buried in a less accessible place.

          • Hongohones@aussie.zone
            4·
            1 year ago

            We had a big party at one of my old share houses, so there were a few dogs. We’d buried a dead possum a week before but I can’t remember it’s fate. Probably road kill knowing that place. We had a giant backyard as our place backed onto council land and a creek. Dogs dug it and fought with it for a while well before anyone noticed. It was in a lot of places by that time and of course, the dogs stank. I may have been on halucinogens too, so it was yucky but fucking hilarious.

  • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone
    11·
    1 year ago

    Really hoping the local woolies has sweet potat noodles (the glassy type).

    I had a dream about japchae last night. Specifically it was an intimate macro close up sesame seeds.

    I know I’m going to be disappointed. One didn’t just dream, I really did so plz universe I need that japachae.