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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I gave my 5 year old niece a kazoo

Satan calls me for ideas

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

My mother in law gave our 5 year old a very loud toy WHISTLE... sounds like you mix in the same circles 🀣 πŸ‘Ώ

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Elder finally got picture of elusive rabbit

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

That looks like a pet rabbit, I wonder if it is possible to catch it and have a vet scan it for a microchip.

You'll prolly need a towel and a heap of patience. Try to throw the towel over the bunny and that should keep it calm, and if you pick it up it is best to tuck it into your elbow and armpit while keep it's back legs supported, and it's front legs in your other hand. This should stop it from kicking and possibly breaking its back.

Leafy greens should be a good coaxing method, and carrots. Or you can just take the time to befriend it and it may be more amenable to being touched.

Edit: I am trying to use the photo to id the breed. Possibly a Lop of some kind based on its ears, but it could also just be nervous. Hard to tell without knowing it's actual size

Maybe a dwarf lop? I think it's a dwarf lop, so prolly someone's escaped pet.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The last time I bought USD cash from the bank I walked in, spoke to the teller who hooked me up and I was out within maybe 4 minutes including them going to get the cash for me.

Today I was directed to take a seat as if I was there to apply for a home loan and nearly 50 minutes later was walked to a back 'office' and sat down like I was applying for a home loan, had to verify my email address, phone number and then verify via the mobile app that I was indeed sitting in front of someone at the bank, then re-state what I wanted. The guy went and got a single form for me to sign stating they're giving me 4 x $20 and 2 x $10 notes, then quizzed me about what I do for a job and about my large savings account and what I'm saving up for, and I said no I'm not looking for a home loan right now, then he just walked me to the teller which I'd been sitting next to who had been there with no line in front of her for the entire time I was there and she sold me the cash. I very rarely complain but I complained and remained obviously angry that this was taking so long during my entire chat with the guy in his little office but he still felt it was a good idea to give me a little quiz rather than just sell me the fucking piddly $100 cash I came in for.

CommBank, you fucking SUCK now.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Good night everyone and welcome to our newest member, BunnyPeeler. 😘

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I made a choc ripple cake for my man coz he been working hard lately. I'm gonna top it with crushed Maltesers because he gave me the idea.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (7 children)

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).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Gym before work. Urghhhhhh

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I used to do that but then I'd be wiped out and wrecked for the entire day.

For me exercise can only happen if I have nothing else left to do afterwards!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I just can't be fucked after work. And I figure, why should work get the best of me?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

And HERE is my Catch-22 😁

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

They've changed it to Meatloaf 'I would do anything for love' now, things must be bad.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

So I was cleaning my teeth when I heard this odd sound of water glugging in the shower.
Turn around to see Zooks with her fluffy bum hovering over the drain, pissing down it.
Saves on the scooping, I suppose...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It doesn't look pretty with the Maltesers but I tell you what it works.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Morning all!
So does Sammi want chicken breast cut up into pieces by my own fair hands?
No, she wants Aldi pouch food. πŸ€¦πŸ»β€β™€οΈ

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

You've gotta pretend it's for you, then she'll want it.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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!

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I am more movicol than man.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Get some pear nectar into you. Warm it if you need a fast result, cold tastes better if you just need a helping hand.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Are you getting enough fluids and fibre during the day? If it's due to medication then you gotta up those fluids and fibres.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah it's medication that's doing it. I eat a fair bit of fibre but probs could drink more water.

I'm hoping it settles soon because it's a slight alteration of meds.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm more movicol than man
I'm now resigned to the can
Sweat beads upon my forehead
My time is utterly torrid
Here on this throne of porcelain
Oh Lord I swear I'm tryin
Answer the prayers of this mere man
Straining upon this off-white can

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

I'm so tired but it's the nice kind of tired. Maybe it's the happy chemicals from the gym this morning.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Shout out to my main man Archimedes who just helped me pull a bunch of deep steel stakes outta the ground. Getting a new veg patch so old one has to go.

Bashed the shit out of the first one with a hammer and wiggled it like a caveman, came out eventually and whilst cathartic wasn't ideal was a bit of (rave alert) a Dustup. So Archi came to the rescue.

Basically screwing the stake into a long bit of wood using the ground as a fulcrum and lift.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I come back with pineapple rings.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I think every cop in Melton and surrounds including the serious suit wearing types are at Woodgrove shopping centre in Melton and they have a whole entrance taped off. Wouldn't be surprised to hear something on the news if it isn't already.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

A sixteen year old has been stabbed. He is deceased. Very sad.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I need to wash some dishes but can’t do that while also lying down in bed.

I’m sure you understand the difficulty.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I had to buy a few things from the supermarket, it's a minefield of really really bad food/snacks. I was strong, only good food and necessities were bought. At home now having afternoon coffee, with skim milk , and some peanut butter toast.

Vintage LPs have been bought, more Peter Cook and Dudley Moore and some music. πŸ‘

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Looking for my glasses ??? They are on my face. πŸ™„

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

No. It sounds like they were packaged when they were still warm. It's most likely mold.

Can you take a photo of any remaining ones and show us?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Sounds like mould to me. Probably won't kill you, but ewwww.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (9 children)

Ok I love hearing stories about how people met their partners! So how did the partnered people among us meet their SOs? :)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month 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 β€œsoo… how’s xx?”, we set up a dinner for the four of us and finally swapped numbers.

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