• tone212_@aussie.zone
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    5 months ago

    Sometimes I read back on a professional email I’ve sent and think - wow I actually sound like I know what I’m talking about. Get me on the phone though and I become a mumbling mess sometimes.

  • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
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    5 months ago

    TV review and a bit of a rant. Dostoyevsky. Made by Rossiia 1 tv station. https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/a-review-of-amazon-primes-series-dostoevsky

    Stunningly beautiful and emotionally harrowing. 4 hobbits

    Rant. I’ve studied Russian history, read so many books, read the great novelists, read modern history books, music, movies, watch so many documentaries and podcasts, keep up with news. No, I can’t read/speak Russian.

    and I swear I understand them less and less

    I think the puzzle lies in the internal psychological conflict caused by the difference in the beliefs that Russia has about itself ( they think they have been a great world power for millennia) and reality ( as long as they are ruled by their medieval religion they will always be medieval )

    The smart ones are cynical, like Gorky.

    And it’s so bloody cold.

  • bacon@aussie.zone
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    5 months ago

    Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋

  • Duenan@aussie.zone
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    5 months ago

    For anyone needing petrol, this is the time to fill up, a good number of petrol stations have jacked up their price for the long weekend already.

    • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      5 months ago

      $1.70/L for diesel in Dandenong. $1.79 in Creswick. Probably $2 on Saturday

      • dumblederp@aussie.zone
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        5 months ago

        God dammit, best I saw on petrol spy was 1.86 for diesel in Keysborough, which I bought 50 litres of.

    • anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone
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      5 months ago

      Oh damn, thought about that this morning then forgot to do it and I forgot there was a long weekend. Hmm, do I brave the cold and the reversing back out into the traffic 🤔

    • Thornburywitch@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Feel for you. Dentists are not fun. Not even close to fun. I have an appointment at the dentist on my birthday next week. The only day available. Poo.

      • Catfish@aussie.zone
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        5 months ago

        Birthday dentist is mega poo! I’m not scared of them as such, but have a seriously messed up gag reflex which makes it very un fun indeed.

        • Thornburywitch@aussie.zoneEnglish
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          5 months ago

          Ditto. Also a needle phobia that just won’t quit. I have to take muscle relaxants before getting vaxed for anything too, or my muscles go into hard spasm and the vaccine oozes right back out. Which is embarrassing and stains one’s t shirts.

  • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
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    5 months ago

    I have now updated my budget ready for the new financial year. The tax cuts will help a bit, although an actual pay rise would be better.

  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
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    5 months ago

    Here’s my TV review

    Korean Fried Chicken Rhapsody on Netflix

    Holy moly. If you love chicken, you will love this. It’s chicken porn. Sexy Hot chicken porn every which way in oil. It’ll leave you hungry. 5/5 yum yums.

    • Force_majeure123@aussie.zone
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      5 months ago

      Haven’t seen that one yet, but I have seen the other ‘korean rhapsody’s’. It actually came up in conversation today. I passed Mr Paiks restaurant around Healey’s Lane in the CBD and mentioned the serieseses. There is pork, noodles, broth, can’t remember what else. Good stuff

  • Ntcc661@aussie.zone
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    5 months ago

    Police helicopter circling near my kid’s school. Distracting…

    In unrelated news: I have never clipped a cat’s claw before. When we adopted our void cat in February she desperately needed her claws clipped as they had curled under, almost pushing into her paw. We had them clipped at the vet and since then she has been great at using the many scratching posts we have. But I knew that if I could clip her claws it would be an added bonus.

    Today, with the assistance of a treat, I did 3 claws! Just small clips and I stopped as it felt like an excellent start. No scratching or biting. One hiss but a bit of the treat helped her. Made sure not to go too low.

  • Force_majeure123@aussie.zone
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    5 months ago

    My workplace has recently banned access to the Seek website. There have been quite a lot of departures recently lol. They also banned the website of a competitors company when said competitor took off with a few of our staff, and we were too stingy to match their pay offer

  • Pilk@aussie.zone
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    5 months ago

    The discourse has been saying Apple Music is better than Spotify in every way, especiallu now it’s also cheaper.

    Does this only apply to Apple Music on Apple devices? The app is laggy and slow on my Pixel 8 Pro and I don’t really notice a sound quality difference.

    I assume, though, that playlists and Radio would get more personalised over time? Any knowers?

  • bull⚡@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I’ll tell you a couple of things this medicinal indica flower does: it makes my bed way more comfy and it makes rewatching Psych even better.