Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.

  • MeanElevator@aussie.zoneEnglish
    19·
    1 year ago

    So like one in five desks at work have some sort of issue. Screens/docks not working. Chairs are missing or broken. Meeting rooms can’t connect to the network. Absolutely amazing.

    Whoever is sabotaging this, I applaud you, you mad mad bastard.

    I’m also being super vocal about stuff not working correctly, making sure the managers who really push for office days hear me.

  • heyheyitskay@aussie.zone
    12·
    1 year ago

    I’m naive AF and I probably treat people with too much trust but I’ve recently seen some pretty ugly stuff at work. People who are nice to your face but will throw you under the bus as soon as you turn your back because you mean nothing to them. It’s disgusting and I’m losing faith in humanity.

    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
      10·
      1 year ago

      One of life’s most important skills is learning to tell good people from cunts and then stay away from cunts.

      So my faith is pretty intact, I just hate cunts. Problem is the stupids, too many stupids who follow cunts.

    • Hongohones@aussie.zone
      5·
      1 year ago

      I had exactly the same experience. Gave so much of my time to my own detriment to help others feel safe and offer solidarity but was completely taken advantage of left to fend for myself once I needed some help and safety in return. My lesson learned, keep giving. Keep helping. Just be very selective of where and with whom. People I actually truly cared for were bitching about me and suggesting because I was trans I was having a hard time. Fuck that, it’s because they were a bunch of ungraetful bitches. They’re all on my resentment list. I’m getting over it but fuck it’s still annoying.

      I helped a work colleague get their license by letting them drive my car a couple of time this week as practise and wondered if I was getting myself into a similar situation, but they are giving me some money for petrol, are very humbly thankful and it’s been incredibly well recieved by my superiors. The difference this time is sobriety. People say a lot of shit they think they mean when they’re drunk. I still have faith in humanity, but I have much stronger boundaries now of who I let in. First red flag and all bets are off.

      • heyheyitskay@aussie.zone
        2·
        1 year ago

        It’s sad and disappointing when you think you could be nice and they’d reciprocate but really they can’t give a shit about you and maybe laugh at you behind your back for being naive. It’s also sad that these bad experiences leave you wondering if others are going to be the same and you just end up being less trusting.

        • Hongohones@aussie.zone
          2·
          1 year ago

          Most people are selfish and enititled. They’ll say whatever bullshit they think will make them seem reasonable in order to gain some small pathetic, little, imagined benefit.

  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
    11·
    1 year ago

    So yesterday I bought 5 new calligraphy brushes, cost $70. I bring them home and start to prepare them for use, this means soaking in water to remove the starch from the bristles. I did this and 2 of the brush handles soaked up water and exploded. I looked at them carefully. They were made of particle wood, ie sawdust mixed with glue and moulded. ffs, I would prefer a cheap brush to a fake brush.

    And this is why I usually buy plastic or bamboo brushes

      • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
        2·
        1 year ago

        I don’t buy basil anymore (supermarket rescue) because it died of some fungal wilt and I don’t want it spreading to the next. (Apparently the disease can hang around in the environment.)

        No idea why it got sick, perhaps the exposure was before I bought it or maybe there were spores already in my back yard

      • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
        2·
        1 year ago

        I have trouble with both in the garden. I’ve never managed corriander outside, basil I’ve had ok but not great results. These are just the pots you get at the supermarket veg section. I just leave them in a container with a bit of water at the bottom, and add a bit of seasol occassionally and they regrow really well, as long as it gets enough light.

        • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
          1·
          1 year ago

          I used to love rescuing plants. There was a sad dusty indoor cactus left behind by a previous tenant so I adopted it, took it with me when I moved and just left it outside in sun and rain. It’s still alive after more than 10 years. Started flowering and fruiting which means they’re happy.

          • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
            2·
            1 year ago

            Lucky cactus. The supermarkets used to sell plants, and of course they didn’t care for them a all so they would get marked down to almost nothing once they started to die. I got a lot of cheap miniature roses that way.

  • bananafungus@aussie.zone
    10·
    1 year ago

    Anyone remember reading Cloudstreet in school? My friend and their family are trying to move, and I’m gearing up to do the same soon, so I joked that with this economy we should start our own Cloudstreet. They missed the reference though, and now I’m asking others and they’re also not getting the reference.

    • Thornburywitch@aussie.zoneEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Me neither. What is an ‘own Cloudstreet’? I’m actually serious here - I’ve never read the book as it postdates my own schooling and I have limited tolerance for Tim Winton’s prose.

        • Thornburywitch@aussie.zoneEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          I was underwhelmed by his prose, and seriously turned off by all the adulation and hagiography. I put him in the same basket as Patrick White, another author I can only tolerate in very small doses.

      • bananafungus@aussie.zone
        4·
        1 year ago

        Cloudstreet is a book based on two very different families who decide to move from the country to the city, where they end up cohabitating in a big house called “Cloudstreet”. It follows the two families’ trials and tribulations over the next 20 years as they all live in Cloudstreet.

    • eye82much@aussie.zone
      3·
      1 year ago

      Pretty sure Cloudstreet was practically mandatory reading in all Perth schools when I was growing up!

    • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Haven’t read it, but I remember reading a book about two immigrant pearl divers based in WA, one of them was called Jesus (pronounced Hey-zeus) and somehow involved a movie theatre - i think it was set in the 1930s? Or 20s? I’ve been trying to remember the name of it for years but it eludes me.

      It was not The Pearl Divers Daughter or whatever - forget the author too lol

      Edit: after an hour and a half of googling, I have found it!!

      Nights in the Sun by Colin Bowles!! Holy fucking shit lol

      • useless_modern_god@aussie.zone
        4·
        1 year ago

        I sent a resume in to a pearl dive company once(Paspaley). They never responded. Probably for the best, though because even though it’s a “tick the box” type experience, I have a feeling it’s nowhere near as glamorous as it sounds. Probably work you like a dog too…

      • bananafungus@aussie.zone
        3·
        1 year ago

        Well, that was wild start to finish! I’m glad you found your book though, absolutely hate forgetting a title.