Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.
I am feeling a bit rich today. Just banked the money from my Marketplace sales, it’s payday today, I received my tax return a couple of days ago, I got a $50 Bunnings card from my FlyBuys last week and I’m signed up for a study which will pay for my milk for the next four weeks (and give me a $150 Visa card at the end). Why can’t all these things happen every week?
Edit: just found out I’m on the fancy A2 milk for the study. Never had that before.
It’s quite a nice day out today. Depression’s been eating me alive for the past few, so the sunshine is a welcome distraction.
Also tried a Banh Mi for the first time, from the place at Chadstone. Probably not the best you can get, but it was quite nice.
Welcome to flavour town
Good fucking grief! These two anti-vaxxers are now discussing how climate change is fake and that the phasing out of gas will reduce quality of life.
Fucking fuck fuck this shit
Edit: i already feel so “job ready” listening to these two knuckleheads. 🙄
Edit: these men love hearing themselves talk, fucking UGH UGH UGH 🤮🤮🤮
Edit: one of them just told the trainer her qualifications don’t matter… her PhD doesnt matter… i cant even. This is actually wack af
Unfortunately, every workplace has a set of these people. You have to figure out which ones they are and then set face to ‘mild strained smile’ when you see them and avoid conversations that are not work related.
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Huh? I’m unfamiliar with the hate for the guy
Edit: Has he become the new Pepe 😬
Where is that? I love that guy! He has large coffees. Is he an incel icon or something?
Almost makes you wonder if they’re Cennalink plants to somehow force people off jobseeker/whatever just to not have to deal with or be associated with such loons
I wonder! They’re just so… cliché lol. One of them I would say attends those ‘protests’ in the city haha
Honestly, there is nothing you can say to convince climate deniers.
We’re at the find out stage.
I’m just sitting on mute with my camera off, playing BG3. Have completed the ‘activities’ already lol. I ain’t saying shit to them haha
FYI if this is meeting on teams, you can mute other participants.
Do what you will with this knowledge.
Maybe they’re trying to nutball their way out of training too.
That doesn’t work. If they’re insane they don’t have to do it - but if they don’t want to they’re sane, and have to do it.
At least the class sounds boring.
Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it’s to seem long.
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At least we’ve determined the transgender downvoter is also the antivaxxer downvoter probably. I’m so vaxxed trans gay and live right next to a 5g tower. I removed my aliminium foil from the cupboard. I also don’t like rabbit holes or doing any of my own research.
Kiddo can now be tickled. And he LOVES it. And honestly, its made my whole year. I had to do the daycare drop off today. I was very brave, and I handed him over and left, but I wanted to run back in, snatch him up and drive off somewhere fun together.
My favorite thing about the first day of kinder was the contrast between the kids who had been in daycare and knew how to play with kids the same age, and the kids who had clearly never been apart from a parent.
The daycare kids were all “bye daddy/mummy” and off to play with kids in one corner, while the others were a wailing mess. Until their parents actually left and they wandered off to the fun corner with the other kids.
I wish I took a photo of the row of mums outside the classroom, standing on the bench peering in the high window at their kids. They were also crying, having never been apart from their babies. It was sweet.
You’ve done well. Daycare is crazy expensive, but it is worth it for so many reasons. It is good for both of you.
Oh 100% worth it. He is already babbling so much more than he was before he started. He’s probably one of the younger ones in the room so I think its probably doing him some good to see the other kids up and moving around.
He’s going to pick up every plague and pestilence ever from that hive of disease. He’ll bring them home and probably make you sick, also. It’s not going to seem like it at the time, but this is also likely a good thing.
Oh he’s 10 steps ahead of you there. We’re all crook thanks to him. Do you reckon our immune systems get better as a result too?
With the caveat that I am not a qualified medical professional by any stretch of the imagination: I believe that the earlier that we are introduced to the assorted regular viruses and colds etc, the better our immune systems will be taught to fight them off, yes.
I assume this is a given if your kid is in daycare, but the above is a compliment to a proper vaccination programme, not an alternative to it.
Of course. I sort of hated when the MCH nurse asked us about vaccines as if we were gonna argue with her or say no, but I guess they get that a lot.
@TinyBreak @Nath I had my daughter in daycare at 3 months (1 day a week) and she caught EVERYTHING in the first year. I got about half the things, a milder version, but with the 3 gastros I was SO grateful for my standing Zofran script as it would have been awful without.
This year so far (she’s now almost 2), 3 relatively mild colds (touch wood), I know there will be more things but I vaguely hope the experience of covid has made a tiny dent in behaviour so there is a bit less spread.
The policies at childcare have definitely not swung back to precovid norms, so they are stricter now than before regarding temperature, diarrhoea etc and exclusions generally. So I think maybe that is helping a little? The immune system still gets a workout, but I’ve been expecting to be much sicker this year than so far has turned out.
When they start laughing and playing games it’s magic. 💗💗💗🤗🤗🤗
Drove 11 miles out of town to get away from the lights. How’s the serenity?
First day back at work after 1 1/2 weeks off. Shit didn’t catch fire while I was gone which is nice. Have a chat tomorrow with my 2-up boss about how he has treated me (just before I went on leave). Not looking forward to it but I know my worth so whatever happens happens.
Went on a (2nd) date on the weekend too which was great, but also felt like I wasn’t supportive enough about some of her concerns about work etc. so followed up today. We’ll see how that goes…
Should not have let myself doze on the couch yesterday, I kept telling myself it’ll screw with my sleep schedule. Well it did, and now I’ve been awake sine 2:50am and I just want the day to end because I feel all thrown about.
These stupid medications are making my anxiety worse and now im having a panic attack even though the cause of my worry is unfounded. Brain is being mean to me today
I’m sorry your day is starting off poorly.
I thought you may like to know, your username reminds me of an old YT song by Mr Weebl (14 years ago 😱)
JUST DONT LET THGEM TOUCH YOUR BALLS
INVENTORS OF THE SHISH KEBAB!
It’s so interesting that the medication that is there to help you, can in fact, cause it to be worse. Like my anti-depressants can actually make you have suicidal ideation and stuff like that. Like aren’t they supposed to STOP THAT?
Daffodils and jonquils and sunshine, oh my. I’m leaning into all the trite stereotypes about spring being a time of renewal and reenergising and I’m feeling great.
Possibly being on annual leave is helping.
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All done for the day; now to scrub my brain of all the inanity spewed by the other participants bleh
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If you’re coughing every 20 seconds on a bus then you either should have stayed at home or at the very least should be wearing a mask.
Honestly people are fucking animals.
Honestly people are fucking animals.
Pretty sure that’s illegal. You should report them.
Don’t mind me, everyone… just popping down to 7-11 to grab some… knives?
Well… that is highly illegal. I’ll take a rainbow one please.
Edit: Oh yeah you’re in the US
That fluoro one is very curious to me
that looks nasty, a palm knife you put on your pinky and slash with.
I hate knives, psychos love them cos they are “intimate”, they can feel their victim thru the blade
Thanks for that visual. I’ll gut you like a pig
Yeah, i had the unfortunate luck of meeting a nazi through an old school mate who’s new friendship group just happened to contain one. This was almost 30 years ago. He sold drugs, I wanted some drugs. When I went to score, he had a collection of ornamental knives he was showing me. Then there was one he liked, “cos it was one you can use”. He gave me a lift back to the train station like the nice guy he was and he and his girlfriend yelled racist slurs out the car window at his pacific islander neighbours. I was terrified and glad I’d moved away from the area in which those fucking bogan scum lords lived. Oh my, people are shit and drug dealers are some of the lowest piles of shit I’ve ever known.
Ooo please get the patriotic one.
probably can’t take it on a plane.
Can’t even bring it into our country!
Came for the diner food, stayed for the cheap blade.
Is that legal over there?
And are they intended for self defence or are they like camping/hunting pocket knives?
Land of the free, baby! Yeeehawww! I can get a case of beer and some knives to play with! Meanwhile all I got was a cherry Slurpee and the dude said “is that all you’re getting? You’re alright then” and gave it to me for free! Currently slurping in the car on a hill at the edge of Moab watching the sunset over the red mountains.
They have very different self defence laws than we do in some states.
They’re very colourful. Like the old plastic safety knives/scissors you had as a child, which cut about as well as a cricket bat.
US is a godamm crazy place sometimes, there was a knife shop at Denver airport!!!
That actually makes sense, though. Those poor people couldn’t take their knives on the plane, so they can buy one at the terminal as soon as they land.
Why they have to carry a knife everywhere in the first place, I can’t answer. It’s a cultural thing.
Dear God. Phoned into Cennalink to get my current med cert tagged and even when calling in at 8 on the dot I was on hold for over 40 minutes.
Then we had a line with an echo in it.
Then the line dropped out when the CSA was asking me some follow up questions.
At least the med cert was tagged, but my head feels like I’m up in a bell tower while those bloody big bells are being rung.They truly are the worst, arnt they? We’re still chasing our childcare subsidy that we logged last month. They dont reckon they’ll have an update till mid september. Meanwhile, we’re having to pay totally out of pocket and having to people moan about how we need more women in the workforce. How about either pay them what you pay men so dad can stay at home, or actually have universal childcare to enable more mums to go back to work!
I know! And nine times out of ten, the people at the coalface are doing their best; it’s whoever set up the system to be as discouraging as possible for people who are seeking help plus, as StudSpud is currently experiencing, useless ‘job providers’ with their snouts in the trough taking money to do bugger all.
I’m hoping that by the time this certificate runs out I’ll be well enough to work enough hours that I won’t have to jump through those hoops ever again. Fingers crossed…
So, because I have been jobseeking for a while, Workforce Aus are making me do an employability course for the next 4 weeks via Zoom. I’m trying to remain positive, that I will learn something that may help me, but I just feel so worthless having let it get this far. Sigh.
“Uh oh. Sounds like somebody’s got a case of the Mondays!”
A few years ago they tried something like that and when I asked it if that meant watching someone read out powerpoint slides about how smiling during job interviews is good I warned them against wasting more of my time with some bullshit training that they’d get paid for. Then they sent me for a forklift ticket.
I’d rather get a forklift license than do this, but I only have my learner’s driver’s license still so I dont think i can lol
I was so prepared to argue with the instructor about how useless a “be sure to smile in interviews” type training program was. I feel my JSA person saw just disruptive I was prepared to be and did their se instructor a favour and put me elsewhere.
I got curious now I’m off the phone.
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Ugh, I hate that sort of stuff! My last lot did nothing, I got the job without help from them. Then they kept ringing me and insisting on appointments so they could get paid for it! What a rort.
I’m sorry to be a Debbie Downer but man those things suck. I took one back in like 2016 and it was one of the most demoralising things because it’s like "yes I know to be nice to a customer… like why do I have to go get lessons for this???”
I’m so lucky I didn’t have to do it under disability employment services. But man.
