Got a new floppy eared best mate on the weekend. Astro
Astro! Adorable.
I’m giving about 1/2 a week on those thongs, 1 week on the washing basket. 2 on the rug.
He does love the thongs already lmao. Diverting his attention to the 5000 fluffy toys my partner has purchased is the main goal at the moment
astro you little champ
Hello babyyy!! What a sweetie!
Astro is adorable! What breed?
Kelpie x collie. He’s going to be a maniac
I hope you have somewhere between 500 and 1000 sheep in the yard…
Or anything else that can be rounded up. Children, chickens…
Socks, shoes, remote controls, various food items.
Small children will also do, in a pinch.
There’s a kind of toy called a “herding ball” that might be good for him.
It’s a weighted ball - you fill it with water or sand - that’s too big for him to get his mouth around it, so if he wants to take it anywhere he has to push it along and guide it so it comes with him. Basically he’d be proxy-herding it instead of you everywhere he goes. It might help give him an outlet and a job to do, so he’s productive instead of destructive.
Yeah nice I’ll give them a look, cheers
Maybe herding tennis balls will help. My old kelpie/heeler cross loved his bicycle tyre on a rope tied to a tree branch. Hours of chewable and swingable fun.
Yeah I had a kelpie a while ago, makes golf practice in the backyard easy. He would bring the ball back for hours at a time
Gorgeous! Astro looks like a handful but in the best kinds of way.
Aww, look at those floppy ears!
G’day Astro
Hello Astro! scruffles ears
Is it just me or does Astro look like he’s smoking a fag?
Not just you. :)
Such a cute little black pupper 😍
So we’re all here because of a change in circumstances that none of us expected. I’m in my early 50s and a creature of habit, I don’t cope well with change. I used to enjoy Twitter, but it’s gone to shit, every third tweet is an irrelevant ad for something I’ve never expressed any interest in (crypto etc.). It’s pretty much unusable now. I used to subscribe to The Age, hard copy, home delivered. But then Nine took it over and it started to go down hill, to the point where it’s now the Herald Sun but for people who can read big words and long sentences. Pre-CoVid my favourite local bar was open five days a week, from at 5pm. I was usually the first in the door, and Fridays and Saturdays we’d be a big group handing a fair amount of money over the bar. Post-CoVid restrictions, the owners changed it to Fri/Sat only, late opening, and more of a club vibe to attract the younger crowd, so that killed it for me. I could go on, but this is turning into a bit of a rant, so I’ll just finish by saying that because of the way my brain is wired, I need routine and predictability, and I’m really over shit changing around me in every aspect of my life and having no say in it. How do you guys cope with change?
I don’t mind change. It helps me to learn things I wouldn’t normally seek. What I don’t like is that our community that I learnt so much from was basically deleted forcing people to splinter off. The more people, the wider range of topics, better the conversations. :(
I am grateful for this little corner :)
I’m grateful for this space too, really impressed how quickly we’ve adopted a new home.
I think I just want a stable and predictable (read: boring!) life these days, after decades of upheaval and forced changes that I wasn’t ready or prepared for.
There’s nothing wrong with that. Being comfortable is what makes us happy.
I’ll let others reply with more serious answers but your post just gave me a thought which you may or may not enjoy:
People usually say “change is as good as a holiday” but as someone who doesn’t like change, you could say “change is as good as a holiday to Adelaide”
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i’m a millennial used to social media platforms changing every few years. I guess I’ve just given up on the concept of anything online being permanent.
A lot of us are feeling this way with the loss of Reddit, I hadn’t realised that I used it daily for the last decade.
I think it isn’t as bad when you have something new and exciting to look forward to, like maybe you find another bar that ends up being better than the old one.
I was disappointed when Fairfax got bought and was hoping the newspapers wouldn’t be part of the deal.
I feel this. I’m starting to wonder if it’s the pace of change rather than change itself (if that makes sense).
I think humans naturally adapt - and that includes you. What did you do before Twitter, for example? And hell, you’re here, instead of the DT on Reddit. It’s similar, but there’s still change involved.
What I think is important is recognising that maybe the “change” takes a little longer to adopt, or adapt to when you’re older (and I say this as a late 30s individual who’s starting to notice things like this). But that’s okay, as long as we do evolve and change in some capacity. Otherwise we’d still be stuck in caves smashing rocks together to make fire.
Funnily enough 1 million years on from the first Homo erectus making fire… I can’t do shit without a lighter or matches.
I was hoping for a shittymorph-esq transition of this comment into Grandpa Simpson’s rant about wearing an onion on his belt.
Well someone changed the onion to an apple and I’m not happy about that either!
I’ve never actually had ‘regular’ habits so accepting change is kind of easy.
Always had different groups of friends and interests growing up.
Even with work, I tend to change jobs every 3-4 years.
The only constant in my life for the past 20 years has been my wife and, more recently,kids.
Swapping a platform to talk shit with people ain’t no thing 😁
I miss the Age in its heyday too. There was proper in depth journalism, especially liked the weekend editions. There’s nothing the same anymore. It’s all easily digestible snippets or click bait. But anyway, reddit DT is back now and I’ll be using it because I like the interface better. I find it clunky and a bit too start-up here.
Oh my gosh yay I found you all. I have been so sad without the DT I missed everyone :-( Where else to post my anecdotes such as the following:
Woolies massively messed up my order today. Received half of some other family’s order. I have all their dairy, including a bunch of kids stuff. They presumably are the ones with my week’s worth of dinner meats, among other things. I am now the owner of 6L of milk, 3 tubs of spreadable butter, a ton of kids yoghurt pouches, and much more. I am going to have to see if any of the mums at play group want any of it.
Woolies had been suspiciously good with my orders there for a while, absolutely zero issues the past several orders. I feel like I’m being punished for finally trusting them lol! Waiting to hear about a refund…
Great that you’ve found your way over here! I was so pleased that the dt had reassembled itself over here - was feeling quite bereft thinking I had lost everyone after the reddit closure thing
Yes I was honestly quite upset! Checking the DT is part of my lil neurodivergent routine so realising it didn’t come back after the few days freaked me out.
Egh… this is the one reason why I don’t do home delivery of stuff. I feel like the stuff I actually need will never arrive, and so I’ll just be stuck with chocolate (well now… I guess things can’t be all that bad).
Also, yay for finding us! It’s now quite the same and there’s still a handful of regulars still wandering out in the wilderness somewhere, but for what it is, it’s still a nice place to come and chill :)
Pretty much what it’s like! I’ve been relying on it since we had baby and only my partner can drive at the moment. But once I get my licence I am hopefully saying FU to the supermarkets altogether and shopping elsewhere as much as possible.
Welcome back to the party. There’s a list of who’se been reached out to. I think I saw it in yesterdays thread.
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That’s great to hear StudChud
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fuck yeah get dat employment!
well done!
Getting there slowly, but stronger and geez more femme every day. The boost to my oestrgen levels last week and quitting booze have had marked effects on my mood. I’m teary but it’s cos I feel so in love with life at the moment. I planned to arrive at this moment and did.
I have so much to look forward to today and I’m grateful for everyone here for being here and sharing mine and your thoughts. So many kind and funny people in one place, this is the Melbourne we all know and love. The bits where we are not being tailgated down punt road or made to feel like pawns in a property investment scheme. People wonder why we love this place so much, it’s because of the people not the cool shops and so called liveability.
Happy pride, both rainbow and city!!
That was a lovely read, glad to hear you are so in love with life, thats a pretty special feeling!!
I mean the cool shops are a bonus… haha. Happy pride!
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I love seeing your updates and I’m so glad you’re getting to the place you want to be :) Happy Pride!
Thanks so much. I might have lost my old melbourne comments but I’m thinking maybe it’s the writing of them that’s the good bit anyway.
Good girl. I’m thrilled for you
Thanks!
Just like that, week long tum tum woes went away.
Cannot begin to describe that fortunate timing.
lordy what a piece of shit day out there. peace to all those in the struggle outdoors i’m not leaving this apartment
The drive in to work was pretty miserable, as was the walk to and from the car. I do believe that it is good to have a bit of unpleasantness to help us appreciate when we are warm and dry better. Or maybe that’s just my sour-grapes-style envy of people with garages connected to their houses.
I’m working from home as I picked up a cold late last week and don’t want to spread it throughout the office (like some people seem intent on doing). But I feel guilty being home in the comfort of my home when some of my coworkers would have had to trudge in through this weather.
Yeah I’m glad I can potter and answer some emails. Finally cable up my speakers and fx pedals and put away all my laundry.
Now that we have direct and open competition we’ll see where the DT goes. I for one am not going back.
edit: awww you guys
Well that was a miserably wet walk this morning. Mr Woof kept mostly dry with his raincoat on, but is still a bit wet around the ears so I’m getting the whole wet dog smell experience.
The good news is that Thursday is the turning point for the days gettting longer again (although I believe getting warmer lags behind that). I am looking forward to seeing a bit more sun. I know a lot of people have strong preferences for summer or winter, but I am definitely in camp autumn & spring, the extremes I could do without.
Same. There’s not much decent weather for those who hate cold and heat (can’t tolerate well)
I did make this tonight. I called it Peking duck conFusion. I used rice noodles instead of rice. Oh how the Asian chef angels wept.
Yes that’s a shadow of my head.
Today has been shit, and likely to get worse this afternoon. BUT, the sparkly shoes I spent an obscene amount of money on have arrived, so there’s a silver lining.
Are they lovely?
They are! I might wear them every day.
ugh i don’t want to go back to work
I’m going to make this dish tonight. I have some luv a duck Peking duck so I’m going to slice it and fry it. Take it out to rest. Fry some onions and add garlic, ginger, gochujang, kecap manis and the left over sauce from the packet to make a new sauce. Pair it with rice, steamed broccoli and top with an egg. I think it will taste good. Hopefully. Also kimchi on the side.
Hey it’s me, your surprise dinner guest.
i’ll be right over
That’s sounds absolutely delicious.
The more work dump on me the longer I take cause I’m stressed out and overwhelmed. Not really sure where this leads tbh.
Should lead to changing jobs. Sounds dreadful.
I’m certainly looking yeah.
Gah, I feel this. I mean, there’s only so much one person can do in any given workday, but yeah, the mental toll it can take on top of the actual job itself isn’t ideal. Not by a longshot.
Nup. They hired for role x. I applied, they said you might not be ready for x, how’s x-1 sound? I said sure. They proceed to not hire an x and all of x’s responsibilities fall to me with none of the pay. Fuckers.
Gotta love it when they move the goal posts like that. Had an interesting conversation with a mate on the weekend about this very thing - the constant internal struggle between not giving a fuck versus admitting that you do to some degree, but then having it affect you because of how much work you actually have to do. Or the quality of the work. Or the output. And it’s all implied, yeah? Like, you might not have a boss who outwardly says “you need to do X by Y” but you know deep down that if X isn’t done by Y then you’re liable to get called into the office for a stern talking to.
And what is it all for in the end? You’re just going to get lumped with even more work to do if you do a great job.
Definitely! I HATE the idea of getting a bad score in the performance review, but I can’t understand why I’m killing myself for this job either.
I love the name of this monday thread btw, i loved garfield as a kid 🥰