Weather forecast today (Melbourne CBD, 3000): min - 21°C, max - 41°C. 80% chance of no rain
Remember to slip slop slap and keep up with your water intake today! It’s a hot one!
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I didn’t plan well… delay in getting seeds = grabbing more plants. Now I want to plant both the pumpkin varieties and they might actually need bigger pots. Normally I avoid third party sellers but bought a 5 pack of 20 gallon grow bags via Beeg Dubya and hope they arrive soon/safely.
A bit worried about the size of them when filled. Normally I’d just stubbornly heft whatever I had to but I’m noticing myself getting older and having to be a lot more conscious of the risk of injury.
My tooth still hurts despite almost being finished with the antibiotics. I couldn’t get in with the dentist this year without someone to accompany me home (they’re flat chat) so maybe my gp would give me a second course to hold me through Xmas.
Bad day to be fluffy.
In other news, I’ve talked people at work onto volunteering at an animal rescue! We get a set amount of paid volunteering hours so why not make the most of it and help some critters along the way.
GIBSON! aw poor gibsby. It is indeed a rough day for fluff. We used to give ours cool showers on hot days like this. Probably a bit traumatic, and sticking them straight into a shower isn’t the way to go about it, but with sufficient treats they usually don’t mind when it’s really hot
I’m strongly considering animal fostering once I turn 18. I was reading an article on a foster org and apparently they’re very in demand around this time of the year. I’m actually even considering emailing one and explaining my situation and even though I can’t adopt one, seeing if they’d be willing to give me a shot anyway
Why is it still going to be 38 at 7pm when I finish work and need to go buy groceries 😭 I thought I would be safe
So we get far more hot days in Perth than in Melbourne. If you ever get a Perthy telling you to harden up: Melbourne’s heat is worse than Perth’s. Perth’s weather comes from the west and every afternoon we have a sea breeze come in (Fun fact: The sea breeze used to be called the “Fremantle Docker” because it brought the ships in to dock) to take the heat away. The evenings are far nicer. In Melbourne, that heat tends to come from the north. It moves down into Melbourne and just settles over the city. You can get days where the minimum is still around 30.
Perth doesn’t have that. Even on 40 degree days, our minimum temperatures tend to be in the low-20’s. We can still sleep. Remind anyone from here of that sea breeze if they ever get smug about Melbourne’s hot spells.
Agreed. Been to Perth and prefer it in the summer because of the sea breeze. Melbourne sucks sweaty ass cracks when it’s summer.
Punishment for your arrogance in thinking you’ve outsmarted the weather gods!
To give people a little hope in these trying times… am I the only one here doubting it will hit 40 today? Was just outside and yeah it’s warm, but I don’t feel it in my bones…
Temp is currently dropping: http://www.baywx.com.au/melbtemp2.html
E: If I’m wrong, I’m more than happy to eat my imaginary hat!
At the moment it’s predicted to hit 41 at 5pm.
Going to be a steady climb in temp till it that point.
It’s already 2° above the predicted temp right now
Salt. Specifically (in this context) the salt of sweat.
Seriously, if the cloud cover persists then the temp will probably stay low. As soon as the sun comes out the temp will soar. Looking at windy.com the cloud cover is pretty patchy so I don’t hold out much hope for a reduced temperature.
I can see some wilting tomato and potato plants outside that disagree strongly with your assessment.
And I see the temp is rising again.
So… does anyone know the best seasoning to use on hat? Asking for a friend.
Probably activated charcoal, depending on how nasty a substance said hat is made of.
Sounds like it’s trying to rain outside
Who’s winning the indoor temp comp?
Put shoes on this time cause you guyz are pervs.
didnt wanna end up on wikifeet? I can understand that. you know lily alen makes more from her foot based only fans than she does from her music royalties? Sad really.
That’s crazy… I’m in the wrong biz.
You could have a fully automated hectic chillo grow setup purely funded by feet pics but noooo you want to live life the hard way.
That’s too hot for shoes.
I was gonna make the joke but decided it was maybe a bit too far so didn’t. Then everybody else did and got all the upvotes!
Anyway I opened my door and maxed out my fan, so it’s dropped a couple degrees.
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now I wanna know the joke!
Nothing specific, more of observational humour
Deviants pay for feet pics. Even ugly feet.
Neighbour is outside watering. I swear, I’m gonna find his corpse one day with the hose going.
I mean, if he is hitting himself with the hose I kind of understand it. But wouldnt you wait till the sun sets or at least it cools down? nothings is gonna stay damp for long in this heat.
I have decided to stop wondering why he does anything 😁
Quick walk to get some iced coffees and holy shit it’s already warm af. Even the wind is warm! 🤮
I think the man and I have kept the economy going with a consumption of pies and coffee. Oh and beer.
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A plain pie, beef pie or beef mince pie is wrong. It’s a mince pie.
A vanilla slice is not called a vanilla slice custard square thingo. You will be met with confusion, recognition then a smirk all within seconds. Coconut maybe included. A nice surprise.
A large coffee is in fact a medium. An extra large is a large and rarer to find so will elicit a very eager YES PLEASE.
I think NZ is sponsored by Speight’s. It’s everywhere. On tap, at the bottle-o, 2nd aisle of every supermarket. Milk, bread, eggs, a six pack.
I really miss my little dog and doona covers.
A plain pie, beef pie or beef mince pie is wrong. It’s a mince pie.
Don’t the poms eat a fruit pie thing they call a “mince pie”? It’s like a Christmas thing I think
A lot of places just call basic mince pies “plain pie” or similar which I don’t mind all too much
They do indeed. So do Australians - check out colesworth. The original ‘mince pie’ would have had beef or pork mince in it. It was a protein/sugar/vitamin blast reserved for celebrating the 12 days of Christmas (which go from Christmas Eve to 6th January) before the peasants went back to eating pottage only until Easter. Its a small pie that can be made in quantity and handed out to all an sundry to celebrate the holy season. Which was a thin Christian layer over a much older tradition of celebrating the darkest coldest time of the year with fire and good food and good company.
So I’ve ended up with a gift card to one of my mot hated shopping places.
David Jones.
Overpriced and almost nothing that interests me there.
One possible thing I could do is use it to buy a laptop bag or am I better off spending my own money and claiming it as a tax deduction?
Wait for sales and buy a gift. I got my friend a $110 chopping board for $50 during a sale. Meanwhile myself I use a $3 tiny plastic thing
Hmm I rather buy 100 dollars of kippers if I could.
🤣 my breakfast today was two tins of kippers topped with lemon juice, hot sauce and pepper.
You’ve reminded me I could do with some tinned fish for late week dinners this week. As long as it’s not stiflingly hot and I can air the kitchen out.
I haven’t touched the kippers I bought yet.
I was thinking of throwing them into pasta sauce and eating with pasta.
I got a $100 one and bought a bottle of gin.
Ooohh booze. Might have to look into that.
For whatever it’s worth, I bought my iPad at David Jones 3 years ago. At the time, stock was very limited - with a 2-week wait time even at the Apple Store. But because nobody thought of David Jones as an Apple seller, they had stock. They charged the same price for Apple stuff as everyone else.
Can your employer provide a laptop bag? It won’t hurt to ask. Then the gift card is all yours. Prices are the same as Myer, there no difference between them compared to how it used to be years ago. There will be good sales for Boxing Day, so you can maximise the gift card. Some plush towels? Any kitchen items you need?
wait for the sales and buy online
Got an appliance you’ve been pondering? It might have just gotten $100 cheaper for you
Not at the moment, bigger airfryer sometimes plays into my mind or a better toaster since mine is halfway not working.
Toaster time! Get a reaaaaal fancy one that does baguettes and shit
Can you use it to shop online?
Yeah, from the David Jones website I assume.
Use it like that. I can’t stand going into DJ, as the staff is very up themselves.
That’s fair enough. I can’t really stand going there as well.
Does David Jones sell gift cards? Can you use your David Jones gift card to by a better gift card? 😆
I’ll have to look into it.
I haven’t tried that at David Jones before but have been refused at Woolies and Jb hifi recently.
Smoke alarm dude may have been on time, but he moved the alarms for the third time in as many years. I refuse to believe the regulations have changed that often. They are now all out of non ladder reach so I can’t hit the button when they get set off by humidity. Four times so far this afternoon. TheVoid literally shat himself.
Thirteen…
That is totally not on. Can you disconnect it so you can stop it going off until they can come back and fix it?
I have borrowed a ladder from the neighbour and taken the fucker down. Not sure there is a fix that doesn’t involve building works. Ha bloody ha!
Good thing. It’s going to be hard enough to sleep tonight with the heat, an alarm activating all night would be awful. It also means you don’t need my next suggestion of calling the Fire Brigade, who should know how to disconnect an alarm and also carry ladders. The big red trucks and flashing lights tends to draw a lot of attention though.
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THANKS CEO!
The majesty of New Zealand’s natural beauty
24c in my house, and we were not only not using mains, we were still feeding 30kwh into the grid today. I want to fry every landlord that has never taken advantage of solar incentives.
Let’s see who wins today:
Place built in 1914, upstairs in shade no aircon. C’mon bby hit over 40’s.
Winner gets an icypole and electrolytes.
27° in my bedroom. We have air con though, I’m just trying to fight against the zero insulation and the aircon being on the other side of the house
fight against the zero insulation
We’ll fight together baku. Runner up also gets an icypole.
I have Zooper doopers in the freezer, but I only have raspberry left :(
Raspberry yucky
Raspberry is yucky!! They’re the only ones in my freezer too 😂
I know this is controversial, but I hate lime too
I miss classic Zooper doopers, the robot ones. The lady robot ones were the best, with the Jaffa Jetstream and strawberries and cream 🤤🤤
They also did “Aussie flavour” Zooper doopers for as while. I can’t remember what they were just that I liked all the flavours
E: oh and what happened to lemonade Zooper doopers? They were great. You can still buy packs of just lemonade, but I don’t want just lemonade, I want all the others too
Amen!! A dude after my own icy pole flavours 😂
Now that you mention it, I might pick up just the lemonade ones if I can find them, that sounds like a better plan than buying the big multipacks and hating half the flavours 😂
My iced treat hate, is the ice creams you get on the stick, but they’re coated in icy pole. I hate that mix of icy pole texture with ice cream texture. ONE OR THE OTHER, PEOPLE, ONE OR THE OTHER!
You mean those treats of deliciousness called Splices?
My iced treat hate, is the ice creams you get on the stick, but they’re coated in icy pole. I hate that mix of icy pole texture with ice cream texture. ONE OR THE OTHER, PEOPLE, ONE OR THE OTHER!
PREACH, SISTER
Fucking hate that weak-ass bullshit just COMMIT, PEOPLE
gasp Sacrilege! Bulla Splits and Bulla crunches are my favourite ice creams on a stick! While we’re on the topic, Coles knockoff drumsticks win for favourite ice cream cone for me, and Zooper doopers (but the lady robot ones) are my favourite icey poles
Every time this situation comes up, I think of this comic: https://www.instagram.com/p/B7g51mwgGbU/
Didn’t even notice the feet until you posted this, lol
I should know better, having viewed a couple of Tarantino pics recently 😆
😂😂
This is why I’m careful to crop my feet out of photos I post lol
If someone gets off on my feet that’s all good. I’ll show the underside next should put a quick stop to things.
Here’s you thinking they don’t enjoy crusty, dirty, bunioned feet 😂
Hrmmmm…
omg, my innocence
I could make so much money from the state of my feet. But it’s gross and I want no part of it 😂😂😂
21 here, haven’t turned on the evap yet.
Sorry.
Couriers please you fucking numpties
Fuckin incompetent couriers 🖕
Before anybody tries to decent them, about 10 metres away is a gigantic, vehicle sized, wide open gate he could’ve used. But he couldn’t be arsed
In other news I got a pamphlet in my letterbox about “labour indoctrinating children with gender-fluidity” yeah… Righto lol. Honestly the sort of person with the intelligence to leave a parcel on the side of the footpath is definitely the kind of person that believes “immigrants are ruining the economy!”, “labour indoctrinate$ children with the gay!”, and “petter Dutton will save the economy!”
I had a CP driver walk up my driveway and throw it over my back gate. I was literally standing behind him.
Lol! The postie just like “fuck this shit I’m out” 😂
I’d be sending those photos to the courier company tbh, that’s bullll
