• Seagoon_@aussie.zone
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    16 days ago

    Watched a few movies. :)

    Heads up. Amazon is removing The Hobbit movies from their list in a week.

    Such beautiful movies I could watch them all the day. Everything is a joy to see and the story is good too.

    The costumes , the jewellery, the furnishings, the weaponry, armour, the calligraphy, the saddlery and other leather work, the carpentry. All the artisan work is so beautiful.

    My favourite scenes are the Stone Giants, reading the moon runes, Kili and Tauriel, and finding the gate.

    Anyway, it made me remember I have two acorns I picked up in the oak forests of Pennsylvania on a stop over on a road trip with my bestie Tam. I’m keeping them until I have my own settled place when I can try to grow some oak trees.

    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
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      16 days ago

      So I watched The Hobbit trilogy for about the tenth time and I think I get why they are flawed. It’s not something I’ve read, 99% of lotr fans say it’s because it doesn’t follow the books or is childish or has extra story lines.

      To me that’s not a problem, movies are a different form of storytelling and books needs to be adapted and changed for the screen.

      I think it’s flawed because there are two voices in the story telling. The first is story telling as a child’s story. This has world building and explanations. I really don’t enough about writing to explain, I just know it when I see it.

      The second voice is the same voice we hear in the LOTR movies, adult story telling. The world is not explained, it is.

      Mixing the two doesn’t work. I’m surprised at jackson , walsh and boyens , they know better.

      So I agree that 2 movies was a necessity if they wanted to tell the story of the geopolitics of middle earth and the hobbit story.

      It’s still really good tho.

  • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    16 days ago

    Alright. I’ve got my ticket for the Bang Emo Halloween party. It had better be worth the ticket cost lol

    Also, thanks pointless all hands company meeting, I did have some guitar practice I needed to get done today

  • bacon@aussie.zone
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    16 days ago

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
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    16 days ago

    It has been many weeks now that I have been feeding the birds again. The garden pots have been cleaned of all bugs and currawongs and fairy wrens have started to visit again. 🙂

  • Taleya@aussie.zone
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    16 days ago

    did a rough memory inventory, realised I shoulda had about four irrigatias unaccounted for. Found the last five. Now cleaning up, cycling batteries, fixing diaphragms and all that fun stuff while I inventory 6 years of organically grown watering equipment ripped out and taken with us.

  • tone212_@aussie.zone
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    16 days ago

    Terrible morning. Woke up late, by the time I was ready to leave home I was going to miss the next train and the one after that wasn’t for 25 minutes for some reason. Got to train station only to realise that I left my laptop charger at home. Had to watch the train go by that I would now miss. Back home, then back to station, just made the next train. When I got to Parliament to catch a tram to my co-working office, there was a protest happening so all trams going in the direction I needed to go were stuck. I then had to walk 25 minutes from the city, carrying two bags mind you. It was really comical how nothing lined up for me today. On the bright side, I got a lot of steps in this morning and had a really good coffee once I finally arrived.

  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
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    16 days ago

    I forgot to post something funny.

    I’ve been occasionally stepping out the front door for a second to throw a few high quality cat food kibbles to the maggies, just letting them see my face to learn I’m not a threat and tell their mates not to swoop.

    Yesterday one came walking right up to my screen door wanting to come in! He or she was genuinely curious and hung around peeping in for a couple of minutes.

    I explained that they couldn’t come in because there was a kitty living in here, so they stuck around a little longer and eventually wandered off.

    • PeelerSheila @aussie.zone
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      16 days ago

      I’ve been wanting to give my local maggies and crows a treat, there are heaps in the few tall trees in my street. I love the crows, they’re so shiny!

      • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        16 days ago

        We have crows in Melbourne, but the most common is actually the Little Raven. I think it’s so cool that we have ravens tbh, the little Poe fan in me squeals haha.

        They’re all very intelligent, magpies, crows, and ravens; so if you do give them treats, theyll actually remember your face and tell their mates. So smart 😍🐦‍⬛

    • Duenan@aussie.zoneOP
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      16 days ago

      I’m jealous, I wanted wanted to befriend the local magpie but it’s never really taken an interest in me, at least it’s not swooping me in my front yard though.

      • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
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        16 days ago

        They used to swoop me because I so rarely went out. I’m just lucky they’re coming right to me so I can pop out with some food and say hello

  • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone
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    16 days ago

    Chillies have finally been planted out. They’re so small. Spent months worrying about watering / hardening them up in the sun / led lighting / temp and figured fuck it close enough in we go. Will be interesting to see if I jumped the gun. Really slow growing varieties and you sometimes wonder if you’ve buggered something up. Needs more soil / compost but that can wait.

    But the rest of the gang is getting there:

    • useless_modern_god@aussie.zone
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      16 days ago

      I’m going to ask a silly question because Im not a gardening enthusiast but, if you were to lay out the irrigation line in an “s” pattern. Wouldn’t that reduce the connection points and therefore reduce chances of failure?

      Or would it get too kinky, so to speak.

      • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone
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        16 days ago

        Yep it would. On a really hot day in summer unclipped it would fail left right and centre. But I ran into a problem where the drip line in an S or continuous line couldn’t quite deliver the same amount of water to all corners of the bed.

        I ripped up another large irrigation system a few years ago and ended up with hundreds of clips and connectors and thought bugger it smoke 'em if you got 'em heh. I had doubts but 4 years in no failures (yet).

        edit yea in terms of the kinkiness that was pretty much the issue. Angles were too tight and I just couldn’t keep it in place with pegs etc.

  • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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    16 days ago

    I freaking HATE when you order a coffee with alternate milk. Say a flat white with Oat. You say that to them. They make it and announce “Flat white?” and you go “With oat?” and they go “… yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyes…” in a REALLY uncertain tone.

    Takes all my effort to not lock eye contact and say “Cause bro, if it isnt, and I shit myself to death your gonna experience exactly what this will feel like when I get my hands on you”.

    • dumblederp@aussie.zone
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      16 days ago

      People who don’t repeat orders in full bother me, I like a supreme with extra garlic, don’t say only supreme back to me. Also when I’m giving numbers over the phone… 931 uh huh, 334 uh huh, 553 uhh the computer says no.

    • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      16 days ago

      It must be the location of the cafe lol, the ones around me in Brunswick judge me for just having normal milk, over almond, skim, etc 😂

    • Llabyrinthine@aussie.zone
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      16 days ago

      Yeah, I got one that served me lactose free as if it was the same thing.

      What part of OAT did you not understand?

  • Thornburywitch@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    16 days ago

    I’ve been getting a LOT of ‘bad gateway’ errors on aussie.zone over the last few days. Happening no matter what device. Anyone else having the same trouble? So far today twice on both of two different devices.