• bacon@aussie.zone
    17·
    3 months ago

    going to do the good old fashioned walk into a place hiring with a smile and a CV and maybe a handshake

    big pay cut if i get it but it is the line of work i’ve always done and enjoyed instead of this random job i have right now

    it will also bring regular breakfast back

  • wscholermann@aussie.zone
    12·
    3 months ago

    For the first time in what seems like ages I haven’t needed to turn any heating on. It’s nice. I could get used to this.

    • just_kitten@aussie.zone
      7·
      3 months ago

      I had a night like that last week but I aired out my house today so it’s gotten a little cold again. I can’t wait to not need heating daily. Just about a month to go…

  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
    10·
    3 months ago
    Politics/class

    I feel like Australia is increasingly becoming stratified. There are people who are still a bit more protected but the people at the bottom are left fighting each other for scraps and dragging each other down like crabs in a bucket.

    Occupy Melbourne was incoherent and quickly squashed but these are the living conditions that were predicted and protested

    • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
      7·
      3 months ago

      It has always been like this.

      For a few decades the middle class forgot they were still part of the proletariat and weren’t really independent bourgeoisie.

      Occupy was a Russian front, ignore it.

      What the Marxists never say, or maybe they never figured it out, is that America and Australia only had good post war living standards for the working classes because they were the only western countries that hadn’t had their factories bombed to the shithouse. It meant we became primary and secondary industry powerhouses. But once industry had enough money again and factories could be built in places with cheaper labour we were doomed. That’s what capitalism is.

      me and my husband had to get professional jobs overseas to escape the old boy network and that was 25 years ago

        • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
          5·
          3 months ago

          The law locks up the man or woman

          Who steals the goose from off the common

          But leaves the greater villain loose

          Who steals the common from off the goose.

          The law demands that we atone

          When we take things we do not own

          But leaves the lords and ladies fine

          Who take things that are yours and mine.

          The poor and wretched don’t escape

          If they conspire the law to break;

          This must be so but they endure

          Those who conspire to make the law.

          The law locks up the man or woman

          Who steals the goose from off the common

          And geese will still a common lack

          Till they go and steal it back

          ~Late 1700s

    • Stephen Darby :ma_flag_aus:@mastodon.au
      4·
      3 months ago

      @melbaboutown @Seagoon_
      Apparently the revolutionary French visited Australia and declared Australia practised “Socialism without doctrine”. That was long ago and trades hall today is a museum of collapsed trade unions. Both left and right totalitarian systems are currently regarded as frightfully modern era and intemperate. I can’t wait to see what comes after post-modernism.

  • PeelerSheila @aussie.zone
    10·
    3 months ago

    So Mr P tested positive for covid today, but via some miracle or misadventure all the rest of us have tested negative. Thank goodness, as Miniest was at a party earlier and if she’d tested positive I’d have had to contact the parents 😬Now he is quarantined in his room moaning and demanding things lol.

    • AJ Sadauskas@aussie.zoneEnglish
      6·
      3 months ago

      Oh that’s no fun — poor thing 😔😷

      I remember a couple of months back when my partner had covid, it was a logistical nightmare.

      She got the bedroom, I got the living room and slept on the couch.

      We both wore masks if we had to be in the same room for any reason.

      And then one day I gave her a bowl of soup and she managed to spill it all over the bed. (Thank heaven for mattress protectors!)

      Making the bed while wearing gloves and a mask is not an experience I’m keen to repeat anytime soon!

      The good news is she started getting better after a week or so. And had completely recovered after a month.

      She first noticed her sense of smell was returning while walking past some smokers in front of Woolies.

      “Do you smell that? Wait — I can smell that! I can smell the smokers!” I don’t think I’ve ever seen a nonsmoker so overjoyed at the smell of cigarette smoke! 😆

      Anyway wishing Mr Peeler a speedy recovery. Yeah, it’ll be tough, but hopefully he’ll be feeling better in a week or two. Take care 💜🫂

      • PeelerSheila @aussie.zone
        3·
        3 months ago

        Thankyou for your kind thoughts 🙂 It’s awkward here as he’s walking through the lounge to use the bathroom frequently enough for me to be concerned about mine and the children’s health. So I hunted up my family’s old chamber pot (mum called it “the gazunder” because it gazunder the bed) and gave it to him to use. But, like all diehard smokers, he still goes out to smoke 😠

      • Taleya@aussie.zone
        2·
        3 months ago

        Hubs lost his sense of smell and taste both times with covid - the one time I caught it i didn’t. He’s still scuntch about it.

        • AJ Sadauskas@aussie.zoneEnglish
          2·
          3 months ago

          My partner seriously freaked out when she lost her sense of taste and smell. But thankfully it returned (allbeit slowly) over the following weeks.

    • anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone
      3·
      3 months ago

      I had covid recently and my OH and kid didn’t get it, despite all being together in the house. Fingers crossed you’ll avoid it (and I hope Mr p has a speedy recovery)

  • just_kitten@aussie.zone
    10·
    3 months ago

    I want cooookiiieess to go with my evening cuppa… but I’m too lazy to wear real clothes to go to the shops… I’ll save myself some calories tonight then 😮‍💨

  • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
    9·
    3 months ago

    I had a dream last night that the woman buying my sewing machine on Marketplace accidentally gave me way too much money (like a couple of thousand instead of a hundred). I knew the right thing to do was to let her know and give the extra cash back, but holding a big wad of money was way too tempting. I was still wrestling between my decision as to whether to do the right thing or keep the money when I woke up.

  • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone
    9·
    3 months ago

    Anti-gratitude thread.

    Got like five hours of sleep and woke up late for work. Was a minute late. Every Sunday it’s the same and I feel like I’m sacrificing my mental health for the sake of this three hour shift. But it’s the only consistent shift I get. Time to look for a new job I reckon. Once I finish uni, I shall exit retail.

  • Taleya@aussie.zone
    9·
    3 months ago

    Random question: have you heard the phrase “(he / she /it) went mad and we shot them” in response to a query, or even just answering the phone? It’s something quite commonly used in my family, but when i answered a work call with it “not here, she went mad so we shot her” the zoomer on the other end lost their shit.

    Edit: might be worth dating yourself, genX here

    • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
      5·
      3 months ago

      I’ve never heard it, but it’s the sort of thing I could imagine an old person saying/having been popular many decades ago. Probably not suitable in a work enrolment, but I see the humour in it either way

      (I wrote this before your edit, forgot to hit post. Pretty firmly gen z here)

      • TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zoneEnglish
        6·
        3 months ago

        Spot on. Would def be a survival from days when nearly everyone had a rural background or on a farm. Probably originally referred to dogs … even though rabies has been eradicated from Australia for a very long time.

        • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
          4·
          3 months ago

          I don’t think we’ve ever had rabies, have we? There’s only ever been 2 deaths as far as I can tell, one in '87 and the other in 1990, and both were contacted overseas. We do have the Australian bat lysavirus which is similar to rabies, but there’s only been 3 deaths from that, with the earliest being in 1996. Also, I think that’s only been found in 2 horses, and nothing else

          • TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zoneEnglish
            2·
            3 months ago

            Interesting point. Rabies is a virus, and needs a living host. Given the long incubation period I would be very surprised if the virus had not come into Aus with the early european settlers, but died out when not transmitted. The early settlers mostly came from environments where rabies was present and much feared. So much so that even a suspicion of infection was sufficient for an animal to be shot - as per comments above. You might like to read up on the history of Louis Pasteur, yes the pasteurisation bloke. He invented the first rabies vaccine for humans and this is what he was known for at the time. Its quite a story.

            Lyssavirus has an endemic host species here - bats - so there’s an ongoing source of infection present even though the transmission route is complex. Basically, the bat has to piss on grass, then a horse has to eat that grass to catch the virus. Then horse dies and so does any human that’s been in contact with the horse. Vic Rail was the guy who died first from lyssavirus - he was a racehorse trainer and one of the better ones. I knew him way back when, and he is still sorely missed. No vaccine for lyssavirus available or likely as it’s easier and cheaper to just euthanase any affected horses before any people die.

        • Taleya@aussie.zone
          41·
          3 months ago

          Uh, no. It’s just black humour. "Hey dad - " dad: “he’s not here, he went mad and we shot him”

    • Catfish@aussie.zone
      4·
      3 months ago

      I’ve heard it, but not recently, and certainly not at work! It’s a pick your audience carefully sort of dark humour. Xer

      • Taleya@aussie.zone
        3·
        3 months ago

        Second nsfw comment. Not sure if me being terribly ASD or working in cinema too long.

    • SituationCake@aussie.zone
      4·
      3 months ago

      Yes I’ve heard it many times, but now that I think of it, not recently. Did zoomer loose their shit because they thought it funny, or thought it offensive?

      • Taleya@aussie.zone
        3·
        3 months ago

        Just couldn’t handle it. They weren’t offended per se, but there was a lot of “oh my god what???”

    • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
      2·
      3 months ago

      Yeah it was a common one growing up.

      Along with ‘you might be a pain/pane but we can’t see through ya’ and ‘I’ll give you something to cry about’.

      • Taleya@aussie.zone
        2·
        3 months ago

        That last one needs to die.

        Thebother two may be black humour, but something to cry about is flat out abuse

  • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone
    8·
    3 months ago

    Back from the bellarine with yet another big bag o’ lemons. Never ends! will have to give more away.

    Starting to get thoughts about doing icy poles though.

    Basically squeeze them into ice cube trays. thaw them out come summer. Chuck it in moulds (with water / sugar and some berries)… wait for it to freeze. Grab a drill, pour liquid-ish icecream in the holes, partially re-freeze, jab the stick in, then back in the freezer… hrmm.

  • Cendana@aussie.zone
    8·
    3 months ago

    A major difference between my wife and I:

    • I spent 10 minutes banging a wooden spoon on a standard kitchen knife trying to open a coconut. I give up after the wooden spoon disintegrates, the coconut still closed.

    • My wife comes into the kitchen and swings the same knife at the coconut a few times. Less than a 30 seconds later, we have access to coconut water.

      • Cendana@aussie.zone
        1·
        3 months ago

        😅

        I’ll see how long it takes her to open one from the mostly-original state next time we’re in the kitchen.

    • just_kitten@aussie.zone
      5·
      3 months ago

      I grew up watching my mum crack open coconuts all the time though I’ve only done it myself a couple of times. I think you have to do it perpendicular to the seam. Whereabouts are you getting fresh coconuts? Are they any good? I’ve wanted to have a go at getting some but for grating the flesh, not for water.

      • Cendana@aussie.zone
        2·
        3 months ago

        We’ve gotten it from a few vendors over the months, like from Queen Vic market, Footscray, and most recently yesterday in Springvale Central.

        My wife otherwise thinks they’re all not fresh - it lacks the taste of when the young coconut is opened freshly chopped down from the tree. I thought it’s so sweet it’s almost artificial.

        In my wife’s home town home we have a rather large heavy knife. A few well placed hits is all it takes to get the water.