This is DJ G bringing you all the good beats to get you through this day

Haha hello Melbourne DT’ers! This is your host Ms GA and I’m back and hosting another Friday thread.

Hope you have a marvellous Friday irl. And if not then I hope today’s thread will turn that around and you have fun here! ☀️

  • Alamutjones@aussie.zone
    21·
    1 year ago

    It’s cold, it’s dark and I’m on my way home having been given the nicest compliment anyone has ever given me

    You have a presence that lifts everyone around you

    My heart

  • MeanElevator@aussie.zone
    20·
    1 year ago

    As it’s Pride month (love all my gay/queer/trans homies and homettes) I’d like to share that we have had three separate friends of our kids, come out to us before telling their parents.

    My wife responds with a motherly hug and I put the kettle on.

    I’ve told all the kids that if they need adult backup when (if) they tell their parents, I’ll happily accompany them and offer sanctuary, just in case.

    I may not be their parent, but I’ll pretend to be one if it makes them feel safe.

    I don’t share this a lot in real-life to keep our space safe for the kids, but felt like saying it here tonight.

  • Duenan@aussie.zone
    19·
    1 year ago

    Forgot to say hello to everyonehere, I finally made it here today.

    I was wondering where everyone from the DT went when it came back and I stumbled across a stray comment after Epicpillow said someone was impersonating them here.

    Good to see all the familiar names I used to see!

  • MeanElevator@aussie.zone
    17·
    1 year ago

    Had an influencer encounter at the gym this morning. Their session lasted about 10 minutes before a staff member escorted them out.

    Local council gyms don’t play that shit it seems.

      • MeanElevator@aussie.zone
        17·
        1 year ago

        A fitness influencer (or wannabe one) was recording an exercise set at the gym. The gym has very strict policies about recording equipment (forbidden without a permit). Several people complained, including a trainer who was running a class behind this person. Staff member came over, grabbed the phone, turned it off and essentially said “Let’s go” and started walking away.

        Person didn’t even have a membership and were on day 3 of a free trial too.

  • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
    16·
    1 year ago

    “Safety isn’t important” says man who would later go on to implode under the ocean taking 4 other people with him.

    Probably the single greatest win for climate change in a while.

  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
    16·
    1 year ago

    I have a little story to tell. I’d never been interstate so for our first trip together we booked a flight to Tassie and booked a nice cabin out the back of the pub with a “continental breakfast” included. How good is that we thought. I wonder what a continental breakfast involves. Bacon, eggs maybe some sausages and mushrooms thrown in if we are lucky. Now we couldn’t google this because internet wasn’t really a thing back then. It was so long ago that we flew there on Ansett.

    Anyway we arrived at the pub to book in and thought we’ll stay for a meal. Half way through, old mate calls us over and says “Here, I may as well give this to you now so I don’t wake you up in the morning” and he hands us a freezer bag with 4 slices of white bread and a small carton of long life milk. Still nothing jerried.

    We get to the cabin and we do what any respectable couple does. He checks the TV for channels. I raid the fridge. And there I discovered the open jar of jam, Vegemite and margarine. “Um Dear, I don’t think the continental breakfast is what we think it is” “What do you mean?”" Well there’s condiments in the fridge. I think it just means toast".

    Everytime we here those words “continental breakfast” we laugh.

  • Miss Cellophane@aussie.zone
    15·
    1 year ago

    After pushing through to finish out the work day (bossy boss & my last day before a week off), I found and booked in with the Richmond Priority Primary Care Centre, to have my increasingly painful ear looked at. Now have confirmation of an infected ear.

    That clinic takes in urgent cases that can be handled without going to emergency, and was such a great alternative given all the standard GPs seemed to have closed for the weekend. They were super easy to book in with via HotDoc. Highly recommend.

    spoiler

    Also, my (newish) BF is being really sweet and is offering to postpone our plans for tomorrow so he can just make me dinner and take care of me 🥹

  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
    14·
    1 year ago

    I don’t know how some find it hard to sign up here. I just googled aussie zone, followed the prompts to login (I think Chrome keeps my deets) and I’m in and I’m technically challenged. Like I only learnt how to screen shot last night.

    Also I think we do need to come up with a new name like Tinybreak suggested. Something like The Melbourne Literary and Microwave Potato Society.

      • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
        6·
        1 year ago

        See I don’t know what that means having never facebooked. My husband has always said to me If in doubt back out. The back button is your friend.

      • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
        2·
        1 year ago

        Oh no shade. I was just curious as to what was going wrong for many because I know it’s a little glitchy but it was workable for me. I’m thinking there is probably other ways to get in to here that I am oblivious to. I hope you’re all good now.

        • anobium_punctatum@aussie.zone
          3·
          1 year ago

          It’s quite glitchy for me on my phone - the app just doesn’t work for some reason. But the browser page is working just fine, so as long as that still works, we are all good.

          • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
            2·
            1 year ago

            Yeah I’m using the browser on my phone. I don’t need to sign in everytime. I didn’t need to change my user name. The hardest thing was coming up with a password that it liked because it kept saying weak.

    • calhoon2005@aussie.zone
      3·
      1 year ago

      you know what is tricky though, successfully searching for other fediverse communities. like on beehaw & kbin. seems to work somethimes, then not work others. i followed guides to it so i’ve got the syntax down. it just doesn’t work sometimes.

      • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
        1·
        1 year ago

        See this is all in another language that I don’t understand. I hope everything works smoothly for you in the future.

        • calhoon2005@aussie.zone
          2·
          1 year ago

          …and now apparently the Jerboa has been updated, but Lemmy hasn’t yet so the app is incompatable from the aussie.zone instance… instance needs to be on 0.18.0…i have no idea what any of this means yet…

    • jaybb3rw0cky@aussie.zone
      3·
      1 year ago

      undefined> Also I think we do need to come up with a new name like Tinybreak suggested.

      I missed this - what’s the idea behind changing the name? Is it just to separate us from the Reddit DT?

    • Duenan@aussie.zone
      2·
      1 year ago

      I had problems this morning signing up. It looked like it was forever loading and not going to the next screen or registering or logging me on.

      • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
        1·
        1 year ago

        Oh. I hate when things don’t work straight away because I immediately think is it me? What’s happening? Back out, back out, back out.

  • tone_212@aussie.zone
    14·
    1 year ago

    On the menu for tonight is takeaway pizza, a bottle of red and a TV show which requires no thinking. I’m mentally spent, today was a really tough day. Recharge required.

  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
    14·
    1 year ago

    I’ve been up for 6 hours. I’ve had 4 hot drinks and I just realised I didn’t give little dog his breakfast. He didn’t even complain. Bad mummy.

    • jaybb3rw0cky@aussie.zone
      9·
      1 year ago

      Isn’t it a horrid feeling! I feed our cats in the morning when I wake up, but noticed if I sleep in on the weekend they help themselves to their kibble (which they’re very good at rationing). If I feed them later in the morning they still eat it but then likely throw it up, so I usually feed them in the afternoon if I have slept in.

      I forgot for the first time ever the other week, and we’ve had them for nine years. They didn’t complain but it wasn’t until the next morning when I got their food out that I realised. I felt so fucking terrible.

      • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
        6·
        1 year ago

        Sometimes he does his little dance so I feed him (he gets dry stuff in the morning) takes a nibble then goes back to bed. If it’s still there in the afternoon he scoffs it down so that he still gets his wet stuff.

  • PeelerSheila @aussie.zone
    14·
    1 year ago

    BEHOLD!

    The paupers Pop-Tart!

    Image shows a crustless jaffle-like food with Nutella filling, sealed around the edges by pressing with a fork.