• Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
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    13 days ago

    It’s such a beautiful sunny warm day, seems a shame to waste at home. And I think I need some sun and to get out.

    • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      13 days ago

      Ex fiance (lasted 6 years)

      Met through a friend that I used to smoke weed with back in the early 2000 's.

      She was kind of the “star” of her little hippie group. She loved talking about spirituality. All the dudes around her would just agree with everything she said presumably to try to impress her.

      I didn’t. I thought her ideas were not the best and challenged her on a bunch of her woo stuff.

      Apparently that caught her interest because no one else ever disagreed with her. It was cool debating stuff with her.

      Kept hanging out and we hooked up one night and kept going from there.

      I do regret us getting together though. It was a big mistake on my part because I was too young and naive to recognise red flags.

    • useless_modern_god@aussie.zone
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      13 days ago

      Typical love lust at first sight. We met at the Left Bank in East Fremantle and carried on through the night dancing and drinking, we hooked up… and never looked back. Nearly 30 years ago.

    • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone
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      13 days ago

      Ex partner (went for 12 yrs though).

      Working at nandos she was FOH I was back kitchen. Fell in love flirting with each other over a grill with overcooked chicken.

    • Catfish@aussie.zone
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      13 days ago

      On OKC back before it was shit. Ludicrously high match percentage, and no deal breakers. Didn’t anticipate anything serious because of his age, but that’s fine. Met for a drink where it turned out we had mutual friends, had been at many of the same events and just not crossed paths somehow. I informed him he was an imp who would probably flirt with a telegraph pole. Couple of days later he came over to watch my Making of the Dark Crystal doco. We didn’t. Oops, it turned serious after all 😺

      • Llabyrinthine@aussie.zone
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        13 days ago

        Okay, like plus 100 for the doco!

        (Love me Aughra. Lost count of how many times I’ve seen TDC, but haven’t watched it for years. Hmm, got me some nostalgic runs for the near future, I see.)

        • Catfish@aussie.zone
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          13 days ago

          I could probably have recited the whole thing without prompts as a kid. Haven’t dared watch the new series in case it’s awful.

    • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      13 days ago

      I had worked at my old job for 6 years and was an operations and billing consultant; he joined as a temp in the call centre. Xmas Party was coming up and all us permanent staff petitioned to have the temps join the party too, as they were initially excluded. But my team/department wanted to show them how much we appreciated their help so we won.

      Him and I had a bunch of drinks at that party, and he invited me back to his place in Rezza; as it was on my line too (Epping) I said yep… Stayed the night lol. We were FWB for a few months, but we both caught feelings and have been together since Jan 2019

    • SpinMeAround@aussie.zone
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      13 days ago

      He is one of my best friend’s husband’s best friends. We’ve been to dinners together and what not for 7+ years and always admired each other but it wasn’t until early last year that I was out with my friend and was all “soo… how’s xx?”, we set up a dinner for the four of us and finally swapped numbers.

  • PeelerSheila @aussie.zone
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    13 days ago

    Morning all! Bunny Peeler has been discovered in a kind of nest against the fence, made from a hollow between the fence and some grassy orchid-like flowering plant. It’s hard to get to (hidden behind a rose and a geranium) and looks like they’ve been living in there for a while, munching on violet leaves and such (the hollow is well worn).

  • oztrin@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    13 days ago

    Morning all!
    So does Sammi want chicken breast cut up into pieces by my own fair hands?
    No, she wants Aldi pouch food. 🤦🏻‍♀️

  • Mittens_meow@aussie.zone
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    13 days ago

    Does raspberry’s in cookies make the batter look kinda green or did I eat half a mouldy cookie without noticing ? Bought from woolies, was working and snacking without looking.

  • SpinMeAround@aussie.zone
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    13 days ago

    So the Man and I are on the same page - if I get a week off, I’m going to Japan! Now just need a new job… interview tomorrow, please loads of positive energy!

  • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone
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    13 days ago

    I have a co-worker who basically used me to trauma dump about her past abusive relationship. Now she’s being very cryptic with another co-worker, saying things like, “I’ve been publicly humiliated” or when she went to meet with her ex after they had been no longer together for a year, “I’m in trouble”. She met with him to see if she was over him but she was still in contact with him the whole time (because she believed he was her soulmate).

    I honestly feel like she’s just looking for a reaction now and she’s got some growing up to do. Yes, she’s had a shitty experience and I think I’ve acknowledged that to her. But ultimately, this is her life and she can decide what she wants to do. The whole thing is ridiculous and I’m sick of hearing about it.

    • Thornburywitch@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      13 days ago

      It’s not fun being someone else’s emotional garbage can. They dump stuff on you so they can be rid of it themselves.

      That having been said, I reckon the ‘soulmate’ meme is fairly damaging to both participants, although it does allow someone to project all the virtues in the bible onto a partner who probably can’t sustain that level of expectation, particularly if young. But that is just my opinion. Gordon Lightfoot’s song If You Could Read My Mind being a fairly harsh illustration of how it feels to be the recipient of unrealistic expectations.

    • Duenan@aussie.zone
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      13 days ago

      Trauma dumping unbeknownst to the other can actually have an effect on you even if it didn’t happen to you.

      More so if it’s constant. She’s looking for validation or something. She’s got to change her actions or it’ll keep just repeating.

      She’s also fallen into the soulmate trap as well and sometimes for her it’s easier believing in the fairytale than to wake up to reality.

  • MeanElevator@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    13 days ago

    One of my neighbours is having a hard time.

    They’re been playing ‘Nothing Compares to you’ the Sinead version, for like 40 minutes now.

  • bacon@aussie.zone
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    13 days ago

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