I got the full story about that guy I’ve mentioned the other day.
Everything I’ve told him in confidence has been spread around. People I haven’t met, know about my substance issues from the past.
I am so fucking angry right now. But, it will pass.
He’s dead to me.
Is this the one who’s been self destructing?
I’m sorry gibsy. I’m not sure this is the case, although it probably does feel like it but I’m sure you won’t be judged about your past as much as it feels like you might. Those people don’t even know you, they’re probably not likely to pass too much judgement
Try not to let it affect your trust too much (which I realise is easier said than done). There’s still good people out there, and speaking from experience, isolating yourself won’t help
That’s the one. Yeah the first thing in my mind is “fuck this, never trusting anyone again”, but ultimately that’s the wrong option. I can’t let a shitty experience stop me from an important part of relationships with people. I’ll just have to be much, much more observant of people before I discuss certain topics.
And totally agree about the self isolating. I do that too and it never works out well in the long run.
I’m so sorry.
I was thinking about what you wrote, how he was doing things to teach people a lesson.
That’s just crazy, what would be the point?
It’s really just sadism framed with words that blame the victim.
He’s a bad person.
Thank you. I’ve been stewing about it most of the day, but it’s passed now. I blocked him on everything. I hate losing a friend, but this guy definitely isn’t one.
Is this the bloke who use you as an emotional crutch whilst he fucks away his life?
Maaaaan how pathetic do you have to be that someone respectfully tells you that they need space so you proceed to dump on them to make yourself feel better? Dudes done you a favor bro, hes made a very clear statement: “I’m a piece of shit and your time spent being my friend is wasted”.
Also its 2024, if other folks dunk on you for overcoming a substance abuse issue that’s just more trash taking itself out.
Exactly right mate. At the end of the day, it’s out there now. It took a metric fucktonne of effort, work and willpower to get where I am. I’m over being ashamed of it.
I’m over being ashamed of it.
damn fucking straight! you should be proud as shit bro
Ugh. That is awful. What a POS.
Well I will be. The nice pest control ossifer that I rang up for this morning turned up almost to the minute. Will be removing 2 wasp nests. If wasps still present after a week, they come back and do it again. Could get used to this sort of service.
edit: Surprise of the week. One of the wasp nests wasn’t wasps - it was bees. European honey bees. So that nest wasn’t poisoned, but dug up and the nice pest control ossifer took it home with him in a bucket to add to his collection of hives. There may be some stray worker bees looking for it over the next few days but he successfully found the queen and two baby queens too. The nest didn’t have much honey in it, so I freely gifted him with any that was there. He then reduced the quoted cost cos the quoted cost included the chemicals for destroying 2 wasp nests and only 1 lot was used. Shout out to him.
This is a story which makes me happy! I’m still peeved at my kids school because there was a bee hive/nest thing in a tree and they brought in exterminators who fumigated with toxic chemicals and killed all the bees. The kids said when they went out to play there were all these bees dying and convulsing on the ground 🥺 I like how your story goes better: bees saved and taken to where they’re useful, and wasps sent to hell in a haycart 👍
All this fuss about a baby at comedy show. In order to be effective some performances demand that noise in the audience is controlled. Would you take a baby to a classical musical performance or an opera?
And all these false equivalences to restaurants and cafes. It’s really not the same. People go to those places specifically to converse and make noise so it’s not a problem there (or shouldn’t be).
She deliberately went into the performance knowing it might be an issue, and then is shocked pikachu when she got booted.
She 100% would be the person who takes their baby to the movies (to see a non-kids film). The entitlement is off the charts.
Ironically, Ms Faranda was politely asked by hosts of The Project to hand her baby to her partner last night after the child’s crying disrupted the interview.
HA!!
Yeah, I took the kids out all the time when they were babies. Shops, markets, cafes etc. I never took them to a cinema or a show, because that would be inconsiderate.I’m all about parental rights, and absolutely all about parental facilities catering to dads. But my rights end at the point where they impinge on yours.
I took little miss seagoon to see bambi when she was five, matinee of course, at valhalla
I also took her to see Cats when she was about 7
here’s the thing, by considering the needs of the child the child will be content and happy and easy , any place where where the child is going to miserable you don’t take them and that also works out for the other people there
I feel so bad for that baby in the news
At five and seven there’s a good chance you can regulate behavior. It also wasn’t a comedy show targeted at adults.
The thing is when you make a mistake and everyone does, you say “I am sorry. I didn’t mean to make anyone uncomfortable and I apologise” then you end it.
She deliberately went into the performance knowing it might be an issue, and then is shocked pikachu when she got booted.
Munchausen by proxy… sorta
used the child to get attention for herself
The “fuss” is just media hype bullshit.
Also it was clearly advertised as 15plus. To me that’s not just a content warning but an indication that it’s not a kids event.
Welp I’ve booked weekend accommodations because I refuse to sit in my apartment for my birthday. I’ll hit the road on Thursday and make for the border. Each of the 3 nights away will be a different town along the border (nowhere new… I think I’ve been to all of the border towns now anyway) before I come back to Melbourne on Sunday for dinner with the family to cap off the long weekend.
Looking forward to hitting the road, a few nice dinners and chillaxing.
Well, there’s another border apart from the Murray - try Nhill and the Naracoorte caves.
Naracoorte caves are cool. 👍 The south australia border area is really nice, spectacular coast and inland the forests are beautiful
Hot take Tuesday. Whenever I’m scrolling on news sites or the other place and I come across headings like “What is this thing?” or “You’ll never guess what someone found in their Big Mac?” I don’t want to know. I’m not clicking.
Same.
I can’t be bothered with teaser headings, that includes on news articles.
@Seagoon_ @CEOofmyhouse56 And more often than not, the answer is lame.
“You’ll never believe what this '90s heartthrob looks like now!”
It looks like him, but 30 years older.
And I would believe it, because he was famous 30 years ago.
“You’ll never believe what the kids of this celebrity are doing now!”
Going to uni.
Because they’re in their early 20s.
Celebrities with lookalike kids. Yep. That’s usually how it works.
i hate news headlines
“Ukraine will get its U.S. funding. But can that turn the tide?”
and don’t get me started on “hush money” 😡
“X happened, will the reserve bank lower interest rates?”
😱
ABC is unreadable these days
I feel bad for kids who will grow up not knowing what they’ve missed (by extension I’d be the same, I never really experienced Australia prior to 2009 when I first arrived). The new normal…
The Age in the 80s-90s was excellent, before and after, not so good.
Piggybacking off from you I hate news articles that tease something then it ends with “Click here to find out!”
Pisses me off to no end.
Also I had to look up the interview news about the baby and The Project.
Sky news and News.com.au have the headlines of the “host mocked for interview”
Most other news outlet are neutral with their headlines but the vitriol of sky news and News.com.au is disgusting.
Sitting in a city office, after having spent 2 hours getting here. Wearing a with mask, listening to all the coughing around me. Doing work that I could do just fine at home. Wearing headphones with music on to block out the noise from all the other people on teams meetings, so no “culture and collaboration” is happening. How has the world come to this absolute bullshit of “return to office, Covid is over, back to having no life”?
Landlords, micro managers and boomer managers enter the chat
I have lost this game of bedtime chicken. Hopefully not see you until breakfast.
Goodnight mate!
I fear I may have developed a chocolate pudding addiction. I have had chocolate pudding with custard for dessert 3 nights in a row, and now I have some in the oven for lunch. If this continues I may end up having breakfast pudding.
I’m gonna become a gamer tomorrow. I’ve got the Nintendo Switch juiced up. I found a game called Warshmellows. It’s a shooty game but fun with cute and violent characters. I’m gonna see if there’s a cricket game too. Just waiting for the “technicians” to hook me up so I can practice today.
I’ve never played the Switch before. Should be fun.
Oohh sounds exciting if it’s your first time.
I just played Mario cart. I felt like I could easily break that tiny little control.
If it’s the little joycon I can understand.
Holding the unit itself on portable mode gave me hand cramps so I had to invested in a cradle/grip for the unit.
Best investment I ever made and so comfortable in portable mode.
The switch is the perfect console for lower case G gamers. It’s fun as hell!
Made grilled chicken with mash and Brussels for dinner, but also a casserole to simmer away. It smells bloody lovely and I can foresee a second dinner being partaken of 😆
Also I ripped out a molar which has been giving me the shits for a while, rotting away right up the back there. It feels great! I feel strangely fantastic! I can smile without something jabbing me in the cheek! I can eat without accidentally chomping down on an out of place tooth!
Sounds like a great dinner. But wait, do you mean at dentist or DIY?!
DIY. I’ve known this tooth was a gonner for over 10 years as a result of consulting a periodontist all those years ago. Lately it got a bit loose, so I’ve been working on this tooth for a month or so, just wiggling it and gently twisting. Today I figured it was probably at the stage where it’d actually come out. Horrid thing it was, glad to be finally rid of it.
I cannot condone a course of action that will lead to a gum infection.
Ugh only got 4 hours of sleep from stress, did not pick up car last night due to poor communication from them around payment methods. Got in a really foul mood and threw aside my people-pleasing tendencies to let the seller know how disappointed I was that they wasted so much of my time after already having spent so much time on this and giving them a frankly better price than they deserve. Fuck it, I knew it made them uncomfortable and I dug in because I’m tired of always being the one copping it.
Thankfully the husband at least gave me a ride all the way home and I found a friend who’s kind enough to drive me back down tonight. I cannot wait for this saga to be over!!!
Is it still worth picking up after all you had to go through?
It’s too far gone now as I had paid a fair bit for a pre purchase inspection and don’t have the time and energy to follow up with other sellers who haven’t got their rwc and whatnot organised yet. My brain can’t handle any more stress 😭
At least I can finally confirm I’m starting my second job next Monday. Things have been alarmingly tight after losing 5 days worth of pay thanks to my current employer dragging their heels on authorising additional work 😒
I hope whoever you’re buying from gets their shit sorted so you don’t have to wait any longer.
It’ll ok, it’ll be done and done soon enough.
Damn. How did you end up losing 5 days of work? Was it days you were already working before the change?
Well at this point it’s really the bank that needs to get their shit sorted as for some reason 2x large payments yesterday went through fine but the balance payment today has been held up for more than 12 hours and my bank can’t suggest any reason why except that… it happens 🤷♀️ and might take up to 2 business days to transfer for no reason at all??? I’m so over payment systems here!! Literally sitting around refreshing my bank app to see if the payment has gone through and hoping I can still make it in time to pick it up today but that window is narrowing. Which means another day of carshare and trouble and ugh.
As for losing 5 days of work - I should say 5 days of income, I was meant to start last Thursday, but as I only got the go ahead today, new workplace has asked me to start Monday instead (Thu being a PH and not many around Fri). So thats a real bummer. I just have to suck it up and move on and make the most of what I can control
Only thing I can think of is fraud protection maybe or an odd processing quirk.
Sometimes I do wonder if they do it for shits and giggles, the one time or moments you need for transfers to happen it gets held up.
Soon as something not so legit pops up oh it’s free reign for them to dine out.
Fingers crossed that the payments you’re waiting on get processed sooner rather than later.
Oh that’s a bugger for that to happen. I’d be frustrated at that as well.
My husband is on holidays. We declared tomorrow “Operation Special Biscuit Day” while the kid is at school. We are trying to think of everything we may need so we don’t need to leave the house. So far on the list is chicken nuggets.
Lube.
WD-40 ✅
pjur
German made! The man will be so into this! He loves German made stuff! Thanks.
Laundry liquid
👍
and Barry White albums haha
What kind of debauchery do you think we’re gonna get up to? My plan is a couple of biscuits and a game of Twister.
Hey I’m all for your kinky “twister” fetish. Live and let live I say. Just make sure you have a safe word so things don’t get out of hand.😉😃
Deep Heat! Deep Heat! Deep Heat!
Don’t know about you but I’d go pizza and lollies more snacks
We bought a box of party pies, cheese & bacon rolls, ice creams, peanut m&ms, chips etc. The funny thing is I don’t even get the munchies. They’re there just in case.
I’m about to go do an Aldi trip.
God help me, no idea what I’m going to come out with.
The middle aisles are a trap.
@CEOofmyhouse56 @Duenan Fun pack of mini Mars bars?
Tempting but I went with too many pizzas, lollies, drumsticks, jam and a bottle of pink moscato.
Ooo. They’ll go nicely with the whipped cream.
@CEOofmyhouse56 Also, maybe a good sauv blanc.
That’s not necessarily for the biscuit day — you have kids, you deserve it 😊
Already got a six pack of beer chilling. Biscuit Day may turn into Party Night.
beer
That’s always stocked.
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Finished Fallout. I’ve played 3 and 4 so the revelation wasn’t a MASSIVE surprise. But I like how effectively everyone stuck to their game roles. Bad guys were bad, morally grey guys were grey, and nice smattering of wasteland just to make everything a touch more complicated. My only complaint was we saw a more Fallout 4 Brotherhood than a Fallout 3 one.
I ought to play Fallout 3, never got around to it. Though, having never played 1 or 2, I think I should start there. But the timer puts me off… But I want to talk to Killian Darkwater in 1 because it’s voiced by Richard Dean Anderson, and oooh boy did I have a crush on him when I was a kid watching SG1 and MacGyver 👀
New Vegas is way better than 4, imo.
And my partner is raving about the show, so I should watch that haha
I played all the Fallout installations and loved every one, however, I cannot get on board with the show. Most of it feels like “filler” that I must trudge through to get to any meaningful revelation.
After my last disastrous attempt at picking up this spare number plate, I’m trying again. There’s a teacher’s strike on, so I have a rare opportunity during office hours for this.
We left home at 7am, just got to the department of transport just now. It opens in 15 minutes. 8am on a Tuesday morning is obviously a busy time, since I’m 36th in the queue.
all hail melatonin
Must get around to trying that 🧠🧠
