• TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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    13 days ago

    I freaking HATE when you order a coffee with alternate milk. Say a flat white with Oat. You say that to them. They make it and announce “Flat white?” and you go “With oat?” and they go “… yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyes…” in a REALLY uncertain tone.

    Takes all my effort to not lock eye contact and say “Cause bro, if it isnt, and I shit myself to death your gonna experience exactly what this will feel like when I get my hands on you”.

    • dumblederp@aussie.zone
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      13 days ago

      People who don’t repeat orders in full bother me, I like a supreme with extra garlic, don’t say only supreme back to me. Also when I’m giving numbers over the phone… 931 uh huh, 334 uh huh, 553 uhh the computer says no.

    • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      13 days ago

      It must be the location of the cafe lol, the ones around me in Brunswick judge me for just having normal milk, over almond, skim, etc 😂

    • Llabyrinthine@aussie.zone
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      13 days ago

      Yeah, I got one that served me lactose free as if it was the same thing.

      What part of OAT did you not understand?

  • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    13 days ago

    Alright. I’ve got my ticket for the Bang Emo Halloween party. It had better be worth the ticket cost lol

    Also, thanks pointless all hands company meeting, I did have some guitar practice I needed to get done today

  • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone
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    13 days ago

    Chillies have finally been planted out. They’re so small. Spent months worrying about watering / hardening them up in the sun / led lighting / temp and figured fuck it close enough in we go. Will be interesting to see if I jumped the gun. Really slow growing varieties and you sometimes wonder if you’ve buggered something up. Needs more soil / compost but that can wait.

    But the rest of the gang is getting there:

    • useless_modern_god@aussie.zone
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      13 days ago

      I’m going to ask a silly question because Im not a gardening enthusiast but, if you were to lay out the irrigation line in an “s” pattern. Wouldn’t that reduce the connection points and therefore reduce chances of failure?

      Or would it get too kinky, so to speak.

      • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone
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        13 days ago

        Yep it would. On a really hot day in summer unclipped it would fail left right and centre. But I ran into a problem where the drip line in an S or continuous line couldn’t quite deliver the same amount of water to all corners of the bed.

        I ripped up another large irrigation system a few years ago and ended up with hundreds of clips and connectors and thought bugger it smoke 'em if you got 'em heh. I had doubts but 4 years in no failures (yet).

        edit yea in terms of the kinkiness that was pretty much the issue. Angles were too tight and I just couldn’t keep it in place with pegs etc.

  • Thornburywitch@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    13 days ago

    I’ve been getting a LOT of ‘bad gateway’ errors on aussie.zone over the last few days. Happening no matter what device. Anyone else having the same trouble? So far today twice on both of two different devices.

  • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    13 days ago

    The Sun beats down on my back
    But I shiver from the cold
    Small in the sea at the track
    Of people far younger; I’m old
    I would rather be out the front
    With the protestors and signs
    But it would be insulting, an affront
    If the ticket paid for I declined
    So I drink too much and run away
    To smoke away from the crowd
    Of wealth and youth led astray
    By bets, in debts they drown

      • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
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        12 days ago

        You could add a slow attack synth pad to really fill in sections like the chorus of a song. The possibilities are endless with the Helix

        • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zoneEnglish
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          12 days ago

          Dude! I’m gonna give that a go tomorrow!

          Because open mic venues usually have stereo speakers setup for their PA, you can build some really cool, multipath stereo patches in the helix.

          For example:

          Blend 2 amps on the first path and path 2 can have 2 delays, each panned hard left and right with a stereo reverb at the end.

          Sounds fucking insane!

          I used to buy pedals every week and had some weird obsession with buying more and more.

          Since I got the helix, I only have bought one. The hologram microcosm because it’s trippy as fuck lol

          • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
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            11 days ago

            I saw a video on the Microcosm, it looks very nice.

            And yeah, the Helix can be more than a pedalboard or your rig in a box. It can almost be your whole studio on the go with all the things you can do with it. Get crazy on the outputs and blow everyone away with what you can do at an open mic with just your guitar and a single floor unit

  • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone
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    13 days ago

    Had a picnic with the uni gardening group I’m in today. It was really nice to chat to everyone.

    There’s an avocado tree that was planted at the beginning of the semester with two avocados. I hope I will be given an update when they’re ready to harvest.

    I will miss this uni because of the familiarity, but the garden is what I’m sad about leaving. I’ll go back to visit if I’m ever in the area :)

    • TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      13 days ago

      If the avos were planted as fruits at the beginning of the semester, you’ve got several years to wait for harvestable fruit. If the trees have fruit on them already, well, the fruit doesn’t ripen until removed from or falls off the tree. Ripening then takes up to 60 days and can be longer depending on storage temperature. They might be waiting for the fruit to get bigger before taking them off the tree, though. This might give you something of a timeline.

  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
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    13 days ago

    Watched a few movies. :)

    Heads up. Amazon is removing The Hobbit movies from their list in a week.

    Such beautiful movies I could watch them all the day. Everything is a joy to see and the story is good too.

    The costumes , the jewellery, the furnishings, the weaponry, armour, the calligraphy, the saddlery and other leather work, the carpentry. All the artisan work is so beautiful.

    My favourite scenes are the Stone Giants, reading the moon runes, Kili and Tauriel, and finding the gate.

    Anyway, it made me remember I have two acorns I picked up in the oak forests of Pennsylvania on a stop over on a road trip with my bestie Tam. I’m keeping them until I have my own settled place when I can try to grow some oak trees.

    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
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      13 days ago

      So I watched The Hobbit trilogy for about the tenth time and I think I get why they are flawed. It’s not something I’ve read, 99% of lotr fans say it’s because it doesn’t follow the books or is childish or has extra story lines.

      To me that’s not a problem, movies are a different form of storytelling and books needs to be adapted and changed for the screen.

      I think it’s flawed because there are two voices in the story telling. The first is story telling as a child’s story. This has world building and explanations. I really don’t enough about writing to explain, I just know it when I see it.

      The second voice is the same voice we hear in the LOTR movies, adult story telling. The world is not explained, it is.

      Mixing the two doesn’t work. I’m surprised at jackson , walsh and boyens , they know better.

      So I agree that 2 movies was a necessity if they wanted to tell the story of the geopolitics of middle earth and the hobbit story.

      It’s still really good tho.

  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
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    13 days ago

    It has been many weeks now that I have been feeding the birds again. The garden pots have been cleaned of all bugs and currawongs and fairy wrens have started to visit again. 🙂