I am finally taking advice from here and getting out of my relationship.
The boyfriend is doing exams. I didn’t initiate anything for a few days. Heard nothing from him. Couldn’t even fit in a five second text message in his day or a five minute phone call. It’s like the relationship didn’t exist. He knows how much consistency means to me as I have told him countless times. I understand being busy but totally disappearing off of the face of the Earth and me getting worried is not fun. I thought I was being unreasonable but I have needs and wasn’t asking for a lot? My birthday is soon and watch him not even send me a message then as well.
I call him out and explain how I feel (over text but still - he lives kinda far). He replies saying he doesn’t have time to deal with me and wants to put the relationship on hold for two weeks until he can see me again in person. Also that if I messaged him, it could only be bare minimum stuff and light-hearted. Great way to make your partner feel like they can’t talk to you, particularly when they’re constantly anxious! So I am detaching and treating this like a breakup, and then when I see him in two weeks, it will officially be over.
Exams are serious and it’s not as easy as taking five seconds.
it’s not easy because he has to stop what he is doing , change his thinking, then try to pick up where he left off
I suggest you , or he, set a time, the same time, everyday or every second day , so he can plan around it.
also, waiting for calls to come all day because it’s random sucks, it creates worry
set a time so you can stop worrying
How would you have coped before telephones? You had to trust.
big hugs
he doesn’t have time to deal with me
To me I’d have to say I really wouldn’t like that.
it could only be bare minimum stuff and light-hearted.
I wouldn’t like that either.
On the phone in bed.
6kg worth of cat jumped a 2m gap onto the most sensitive part of me.
Cats.
Cat launches off boobs frequently and gives zero fucks.
Sammi’s going to think her name is “Get. Off. My. TIT!” at this rate.
I once received a clawed paw somewhere there shouldn’t be one and I’m still annoyed by it months later
Ouch :( are you feeling ok?
They definitely know what they’re doing.
My departed WhiteBoy used to ask for breakfast by very carefully inserting a single claw into your nostril. Nothing accidental about it.
Was he funky?
Boogied until he died
yes sir, he can boogie
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=32wDFCM7iSI
sorry, couldn’t help myself
This is hilarious because it’s totally not his style
At first glance that reminds me of redhead matches.
I can get that! Not my first thought, but I knew the little grublin 🤍
It’s also our asshole alpha female that steals the other two’s food and turns OFF my laptop while I’ve stepped out for 30 seconds to grab a snack or use the toilet.
@Cendana @Seagoon_ @melbourne Wifey has a habit of eating in bed, and then just leaving the bowl on the bed head instead of taking it back into the kitchen.
(I’ve given up asking at this point — she never listens.)
Anyway.
One night a few weeks ago, after I’d already done the dishes, she decided to eat a bowl of ice cream in bed. And, as usual, left the bowl on the bed head.
Sometime around 3am, I’m awakened by a noise.
Bump! Splat! Scream!
I switch on the light.
There’s poor wifey with a bowl on her side of the bed, covered in the melted ice cream at the bottom of the bowl.
Mr Snowy was laying down on the spot on the bed head where the bowl had been moment earlier.
I just looked at her for a moment and deadpanned: “I did say to put the bowls back in the kitchen when you’re done with them.”
I slept like a log last night, from having finally released so much stress. Now I can start tackling other parts of my life…
Part of me wants someone to just come and do it for me tho 😩
Wouldn’t life be so much easier if I could just hire a bloke on Fiverr to fix it?
Someone just help me coordinate all these decisions and also please serve me breakfast in bed so I feel like I have enough energy to go plant out the seedlings I bought 10 days ago
I must be crazy, I enjoy planning, organising and doing things. I’m also really good at it. ( yes, I discuss, take suggestions and act on them and delegate if I have to )
😀😐 just got another insight
I like planning and organising sometimes, but when things aren’t going smoothly and involve other peoples’ trust and large amounts of money it takes a lot out of me and it takes a while to recover the energy.
I also find it harder to enjoy planning and organising when it’s just for myself and I can’t show off or do something for someone else. I seem to be very uninterested in my own well being sometimes
You can, it’s called a personal assistant, it just takes more money than a fiver
I know, that was the joke
Well here’s an ANZAC story from my fam.
WW2 my gramps went to tubruk as a doctor. Aus captured a bunch of Italians late jan '41. The Aus docs and Italian docs that they had captured apparently really hit it off, let them out of captivity for a bit, drank / smoked together and shared advice on battlefield medicine.
Gramps was very quiet about his experience but to my old man he did say a few stories (which to me are only second hand).
He never marched in the parade, never watched it apparently. The blinds would come down when us kids asked about it.
So I think today means something different to everyone.
I always reflect on my grandparents stories.
Grandma’s barn (Europe) was hit by an errant shell back in 1941 a few minutes before she went to milk the cows. Livestock died, she survived cause her parents were giving her a taking to for sneaking off with a guy…my grandpa
Same grandpa was captured by the germans twice in a span of 4 weeks, and managed to escape both times.
Neither ever elaborated on the stories and we never pressed them.
Bored, so I decided to have a look at my old Reddit comments. Hard to believe it’s almost been a year since rexxit.
It also made me remember how damn negative Reddit is. So many of my comments are either at 0, negative, or have a little controversial icon next to them. And the ones that aren’t (outside of the DT at least) are mostly just upvoted because I was being a dick to people who were getting downvoted.
Maybe I was just aligning myself with bad crowds, but that feels like it was a common theme on Reddit, I noticed it almost everywhere. Also their new web UI is disgusting and clunky and I don’t understand how anybody is able to use it
The place reeks of negativity. Even when I go there to browse these days, I feel myself getting sucked into the void of shittiness.
choose nicer subs
I am in illegallysmolcats, lotrmemes and some hobby subs
I was in most of the cat subs, as well as a bunch of snake and rat subs (cute animals tbh), and it still seemed like every second comment was someone being rude about something minor.
My hobby subs were even worse. I joined one of them in the early days before it became popular and got to “enjoy” the sub slowly become fuller and fuller of elitists. I ended up leaving because I don’t like the whole gatekeeping and anti beginner sentiment thing they had going on
Have you tried r/CatsStandingUp ? Many cat pictures and I can guarantee you won’t find any negative or nasty comments there.
I very seldom use Reddit these days
Someone asked for stock tips in one of my Facebook groups. My suggestion of Knorrs chicken stock concentrate is currently the most popular answer. I am very proud.
I’m going to be controversial and suggest massel chicken stock cubes
@Seagoon_ @RustyRaven I’ll second that vote for Massel.
Better yet, it’s plant based, which makes it good for adding flavour to any vegetarian or vegan dishes you have to cook.
Thirded. I like the lower salt ones. Not as keen on the “beef’
Lower salt is why I use them.
@Catfish @Seagoon_ @melbourne If you ever have to cook for a vegetarian or a vegan, a good substitute for mince is the textured vegetable protein from Woolies with Massel chicken.
For those who’ve never used it, you find the TVP as a dry powder in the health food aisle.
Basically, you mix it up as per the packet instructions, but add in one teaspoon of Massel, plus herbs, spices, and seasonings. (I usually use a pinch of cumin, pepper, and paprika.)
Best of all, because it’s dry, it will happily live in your cupboard for an extended period of time.
I’m a ex-vegetarian, but thanks
Atleast it’s real chicken. Sorry guys, Massel should be renamed Clayton’s. I’m an Oxo gal all the way. I like flavour.
I’m an absolute wanker and splurge on San Elk vegetable stock powder. Look, I don’t use stock powder that much, but when I do, I want it to be goddamn delicious
yes to knorrs
Tomorrow is a sickie I reckon. Fuck that its obvious
@Force_majeure123 @Seagoon_ @melbourne That’s a nasty cough you got there, Force majeure. Sounds to me like a severe case of fakenitis. You don’t want that spreading across your workplace. Time to see Dr Howlong to get the day off, I say…
Apologies for giving you Covid
Who’s gonna help me turn the wheels of progress?
Well I’m actually legitimately sick now so you can most definitely borrow my sickness to take an extra day off.
Yay. Beer o’clock starts early 👍
Still riding high from venturing into the city yesterday. Can’t wait to move closer to civilisation. Soon. Very soon.
@Gibsonisafluffybutt @Seagoon_ How far out are you at the moment?
I’ve arrived in Mulwala. Staying at the golf club resort and got myself a balcony. How’s the serenity?
I don’t know whether you mentioned precisely which day this weekend is your birthday, so I’ll get this in now: Happy Birthday, Bull!
Thanks, it’s tomorrow :)
Can I just say my sinuses have really cleared up in a tropical climate.
I often find at night in particular in Melbourne I do suffer nasal congestion. It’s like the tissues themselves in my nose swell. And I’ve done all sorts of things to keep on top of it which to be fair helps but it’s not bullet proof.
I regularly change bedding. I regularly thoroughly vacuum. My floors are not carpet. I don’t have pets. My pillows are relatively new. I’ve tried shutting the window at night.
And given this problem has gone away in a tropical climate I can only deduce I’m constantly surrounded by pollen and dust in Melbourne.
There should be a campaign to change Victoria’s number plate slogan to something along the lines of “allergy capital”
@wscholermann @Seagoon_ my sinuses cleared up when I stopped living in Melbourne most of the time - I still visit very regularly, but I live rurally and the difference has been dramatic. Not tropical, far from it - but I’m originally from Perth, and I developed a few different health issues when I moved to Melbourne. I think it’s unfortunately got pretty poor air quality generally compared to many other places in Australia.
@kudra @wscholermann @Seagoon_ Same here.
Every time I return to Melbourne, I get hayfever within the first week.
It clears right up when I’m away.
I think it’s just the weather and the pollen in the air?
@ajsadauskas @wscholermann @Seagoon_ I think it’s a combination of different things, pollen, dust, weather, pollution: all of which may be somewhat more localised?
@kudra @ajsadauskas @wscholermann @Seagoon_ someone told me that it’s partly to do with the interaction between the prevailing wind from the west and the Dandenong range to the east. also all the evil london plane trees
@luciedigitalni @kudra @wscholermann @Seagoon_ The plane trees makes a lot of sense.
Every time I’m in Melbourne, within a couple of days, I get hayfever. Then when I fly up to Sydney, it clears up within a day or two.
I would be seriously surprised if Sydney has significantly less air pollution than Melbourne.
Sydney has the Blue Mountains, the Royal National Park, and Ku-ring-gai Chase surrounding it on three sides.
So just by process of elimination, that leaves the temperature and pollen from some local plant as potential culprits.
But… but… the HUMIDITY?
Yes it’s unfortunate that it comes with an unbearable climate.
Perhaps the universe is telling you to move to a tropical island?
Hmm I’d still prefer a drier climate. Maybe Perth or Adelaide.
I forgot to bring my noise cancelling headphones to work and now I have to listen to noises. ☹️
while we slept, five horses in london ran away, throwing off four horsemen. one of the white horses turned red from bleeding.
the big ben stopped before chiming the wrong time an hour later
The end is neigh 🐴
I thought it was 4 horses to signal the apocalypse. What does it mean if there’s a fifth one?
You have to add Pollution to the canonical four. Or possibly E Musk esq.
extrapocalypse
Kaos, according to Pratchett.
Something exciting with helicopters here…
Oh dear…
Don’t know if anyone’s a superhero fan but a new trailer came out a couple of days ago for Deadpool.
I have to say that the trailer was pretty awesome and the unexpected use of a song from my childhood was a really big surprise.
Here’s the link for anyone who hasn’t seen it.
I’m on media blackout for this film. No teasers, no trailers. They show too much in them and I’m already going to see it so I’ll wait and be surprised.
I’ve been keeping an ear out for if they put out anything which is a promo without footage from the film though.
Me too, only I’m like this for every film. I much prefer going into a cinema unspoiled.
I just learned this week that the trailer for Captain America civil war trailer had Spiderman in it. I can’t imagine how annoyed I’d have been if that surprise were denied me as I watched the movie.
Same deal here. If I know I’m seeing it I avoid the marketing.
I actually pity people who watched Infinity War and Endgame trailers and/or read spoilers. Those films were a RUSH for a fan going in blind.
If I’m remembering right I went in blind for the Infinity Wars and Endgame.
I’ve given a miss for the last few marvel movies and the Deadpool trailer popped up and I was a little curious.
Now I can’t stop watching the stupid trailer but it does contain a lot of spoilery things in the trailer so give it a miss unless you can do it without looking at the visuals.
I take that back. Some audio might have spoilers too.
I think I might break my no big screen run for this
Coming together.
Let’s fuckin’ go.
Let’s fucking go.
so I’m showing my age but I went to the black box gig at the forum last night and im still riding high! riding on time, one might say
Day 5 of the 4L chilli ferment and all is well! Moved it to the back bathroom shower incase it explodes but so far lots of little bubbles when you shake it a little which is great (means I didn’t fuck up the salt / water ratio which is a relief).
Spilt some brine on my hand and hoo boy… brutal.
