• melbaboutown@aussie.zone
    10·
    2 months ago

    I’m really sorry if my mood lately is affecting anyone else. I used to tough things out, macgyver my way around problems or distract myself with projects but life has been really difficult for a long time now and I am struggling severely.

    If I seem really fractious, getting upset at what seems like small things, or oddly rough/blunt in my manner it is not at you.

    • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      Melba, please stop it. You’ve got so many horrible things happening at the moment, and as you said yourself the other day, can’t seem to catch a break. Nobody expects you to be all happy and upbeat

      And I haven’t noticed you being short, rude, or disrespectful to myself or anyone else. So keep venting as you need, and when things improve, you can shout us brekky at Bacon’s food truck :)

    • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      It’s okay Melba, I havent noticed you being blunt or anything :) besides, being fractious is understandable with having to deal with your health and melbcat’s, and the stress of it all.

      We love you, I don’t think you could do anything to turn us against you :D

      • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone
        6·
        2 months ago

        ^^ this. I have never thought you were whiny or otherwise antisocial. Please vent away. You are going through shit and we are here for you. I like to hear your updates, and I feel good when you have little wins.

  • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
    10·
    2 months ago

    I wonder if constant strange weather is going to effect each of our psyche’s and well as national mood.

    it’s known hot weather and windy weather effects us, what if strange weather was a constant

    • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      I think it definitely will. If nothing else, wetter, windier days (and longer periods of them) lead to more accidents, disasters, and general chaos. And hotter and hotter days lead to a bigger strain on the power grid, and tougher conditions for the vulnerable and people who can’t afford to run air conditioning. Although, at least recently, that seems like it’s been happening more in the northern hemisphere and we’ve been mostly copping the colder and wilder weather

      With the weather getting crazier, I wonder if the gen alphas might find it easier to adapt to, having been born into a pandemic and worsening climate change. I wonder if everyone else, millennials and prior especially, will find it trickier to adapt to, having grown up in more consistent weather.

      All in all though, I think the cost of living crisis and the lack of housing affordability is going to be the biggest and most immediate burden on everyone’s mental health and wellbeing in the future, rather than crazy weather and climate change

    • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
      8·
      2 months ago

      Dear The BoM,

      I hope this message finds you well, although I’m beginning to wonder if perhaps you’ve recently indulged in some rather… creative forecasting methods, shall we say? Crack cocaine, maybe? No judgement, but your prediction that it will be 23°C overnight has left me scratching my head. It’s currently 17.5°C, raining, and we have winds fast enough to launch my rubbish bins into another suburb. A balmy 23°C just seems, well, ambitious.

      Speaking of ambition, you promised us a delightful 27°C tomorrow, which I was frankly looking forward to. But now, out of nowhere, 23°C is all we get? What happened to our summer dreams? Was the 27°C forecast just a fleeting fantasy?

      I trust you’ll look into this sudden shift, and kindly consider laying off whatever inspired such optimistic figures. I’ll be sure to hold on tight to my umbrella and hopes in the meantime.

      Sincerely,
      Baku

  • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone
    9·
    2 months ago

    Going to try to get part of Big Assignment done today!! Shall report back.

    Can’t wait until this is all over and I can finally study my education course (that has no lectures yay)!

  • Catfish@aussie.zone
    8·
    2 months ago

    The Void has discovered that he is actually athletic enough to get to the top of the fridge. The house parkour range has been noisily expanded.

  • Cendana@aussie.zone
    8·
    2 months ago

    Is the average teenage population really have a lack of respect?

    Appointment booked for 7.30pm last night. Quick c++ basics lesson and homework help as a favour for my wife’s classmate’s kid. I never used c++ by trade so I spent some time getting familiar with it, and how to play Farkle.

    7.30pm comes and the 17yo just bails and says they’re having dinner, no apology. Wife and I were like, fuck it, dumped the appointment and went to sleep at 8pm.

    Sent another message this morning reminding them to be there or cancel 4hr before, some notes and a reminder that they don’t have enough time now, and don’t chicken out. Straight up says they promise, no greetings.

    • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
      10·
      2 months ago

      Sent another message this morning reminding them to be there or cancel 4hr before, some notes and a reminder that they don’t have enough time now, and don’t chicken out. Straight up says they promise, no greetings.

      Nope. Message 'em back and say “Sorry no longer able to assist you”. If they ask why just be blunt “Mate, you were disrespectful as heck, I was helping you as a favor, if your gonna be rude then I dont have to do shit”

    • dumblederp@aussie.zone
      7·
      2 months ago

      They did go through a few years of covid that probably fucked them up in ways like this. You could let them know their tone seem unappreciative of being given a tutoring favour. Mind you, I’d’ve thought there was enough online about learning C++ in a self directed manner so maybe the kid just isn’t interested. Don’t measure all 17yo’s by Baku’s level of maturity.

      • Cendana@aussie.zone
        4·
        2 months ago

        I didn’t directly use Baku as a reference.

        But I did have Overwatch friend, so mature I thought they were 25, until they mentioned they suddenly mentioned that they were 15 at the time. So that was the baseline I had since then.

      • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        How do we even know Baku is actually 17 🤔 lol but yeah some teens are just… Something else. I think most teens are like normal and respectful, they just test boundaries, it’s what growing up is about lol

    • Duenan@aussie.zone
      7·
      2 months ago

      Lack of consequences is also part of it.

      If they got charged for not cancelling in time they’ll learn real fast.

      • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        Can confirm. I don’t miss or cancel GP or psych appointments since I started being responsible for paying the late cancellation fees. Not too bad with the GP because they’re just 4 hours notice, the psych may be a problem though since they’re 48 hours. I’m hoping by the time I’m next super sick, I’ll have gone enough they might consider waving it

  • tone212_@aussie.zone
    8·
    2 months ago

    I’m doing an open day trial at a co-working space today as I seriously need to get out of the house at least one day during the week, full time WFH gets super monotonous and negatively affects my mood. As sad as this sounds, I was excited today to get dressed up and leave my house on a work day. The office I’m at is new and super nice, if a bit loud. It’s nice to be around people during work time but nobody doing the trial (I think we’re all sitting in the same area) is talking to one another? I’m not sure it’s worth paying to use a co-working space where I just keep to myself, I can do that at home for free. I need to suss whether the place organises networking opportunities for members to mix, to make a membership worth it.

    • just_kitten@aussie.zone
      5·
      2 months ago

      I also get this, I know most commentators online would rather WFH all the time and don’t get me wrong, I do love 1-2 days WFH in the week - but every single day would drive me to depression (and has done so). Not necessarily because I have no friends/life outside of work but because I like my work to feel like I’m not operating like a slave in solitary confinement all the time (worse yet having that dungeon of confinement be a permanent fixture of my home). I’m really glad I have at least 2-3 work days involving positive colleague interactions that take me out of my headspace

    • Catfish@aussie.zone
      3·
      2 months ago

      I like working at home, but only the boringest bits of my job can be done there. Te good stuff requires being on site. Unfortunately I lost my ‘office’ to Covid rules and now have to be around other people while there. This sucks rancid donkey gnads

  • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
    8·
    2 months ago

    Off for a drive in the country today. Fingers crossed I can still get petrol at under 190c this afternoon when I need to fill up. I do have a lock on 180c at 7/11, so if it has a massive jump I can at least get the 25c discount. These 40c+ jumps suck.

    • tone212_@aussie.zone
      2·
      2 months ago

      I’ve seen under 170c per litre around lately, I’d be re-locking. Just used my app, found 164.9/l. When I was in NZ petrol was almost $3/l! We have it good.

      • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        Got it for $1.59 last Friday in Truganina. Well, not me, but a support worker I was with. She had a 4 cents off at Ampol so decided to go to that one which was at $1.59, rather than the one down the road at $1.58, since the discount thingy should bring it down to $1.55. But then they told her they didn’t accept them at this store! Ridiculous

        /Rant

  • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone
    8·
    2 months ago

    just heard a long time raver friend passed away.

    Her family went over to hers’ on father’s day to see why she wasn’t picking up. She had a fall in the bathroom and hit her head. Apparently she’d been there for 2 days. She was only in her 30’s. I really cannot imagine what that’d be like finding your daughter and sister that way.

    I’m at a loss for words. edit and by that I mean shocked

  • dumblederp@aussie.zone
    7·
    2 months ago

    Vaccinations aren’t on the PBS, getting hep a/b; and whooping cough+tetanus . $110ish.

    EDIT: Are you male under 26 who plans to eat a few vaginas in your life? Consider getting the HPV-vax while you’re eligible: +1 Vs. some oral cancers.

    • Catfish@aussie.zone
      5·
      2 months ago

      Get the cough one! I didn’t know the one you get as a kid wears off. Very unpleasant lesson.

      • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
        3·
        2 months ago

        Same. Misery for months. Not sure if throwing up buckets of frothy sputum for a week or 2 months of cough tickle was worse.

        • Catfish@aussie.zone
          3·
          2 months ago

          I had six months of cough until you vomit. And my gag reflex has never recovered. Have trouble eating yoghurt!

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

        You should get it every 10 years, for both it and the tetanus it is paired with. I’ve been sent for additional boosters after injuries with tetanus risk, so apparently the more the merrier.