Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.
This post is in memory of Bot #001 who sadly blew away in the wind.
Delivery situation resolved. We have a new fortress 😺
ID: The void staring into your soul from within a decorated toilet paper box
Not sure what I’m looking at. Can only see a pair of floating eyes?
👀👀
I think your fortress has come pre-haunted. You should send it to me. 😻
Nevah! My Void boi 🖤
That’s the master of the domain if I’ve ever seen one.
How much is the haunted castle room per week?
The cost to get the current tenant to vacate is likely to be extortionate. Have you skippy based gooshies?
I have two big sacks of skippy based dried food. Fresh skippy has been unattainable lately. Also have a sheepskin blanket?
I shall seek instruction from my client
I am a language professional. We tend to believe firmly in descriptivism. Language is fluid and you can do whatever you want with it. There is no right or wrong. Nothing really upsets me except for when people say ‘an historical X’ or ‘an horrific X’ but even then it just makes me scrunch my nose up.
But there is one thing that I cannot accept. One thing that makes stop what I’m doing and just want to scream in disgust ‘WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU YOU CLOWN??’
And it’s when Americans refer to pasta as ‘noodles’
Especially if they call it a ‘lasagne noodle’
Dear readers, I have figured our why despite all the meds and other morning rituals I felt like a fork had been stabbed in my brain and all hope was lost.
The carefully made mocha this morning, I have just discovered, was but a mere hot chocolate - with the freshly ground coffee still waiting patiently in its canister, aeropress dutifully washed of yesterday’s hasty activities but not a second time… I’m not sure how to resolve these heinous vicious cycles where a lack of coffee causes a lack of coffee and therefore the end of the world.
Anyway, the situation is currently being rectified and I remain mortified at this horrific act of self-abuse
It all started with the fall of the bot. The humans followed.
The omens were there, but fools that we are as a species, we chose to pay no heed to them…
🖤😂
Oh no. If you don’t mind me asking do you make real ones or instant coffees?
Maybe you have a sensitivity to caffeine?
I almost never have instant coffee. I make mine with an aeropress. I think it makes sense that my brain was melting down without actual caffeine this morning because a. dependency and b. caffeine can help relieve head pain anyway and c. additional pain/bleargh from neck. Also that time of the month
Ah ok. I go between instant to ground coffee back to instant but I’ve been drinking a lot of instant lately.
I have heard of people who go through coffee withdrawals and it normally results in headaches and migraines.
Im hope it wasn’t too bad for you. Im thanks to your post I made a real ground coffee today.
How’s your neck after last night?
F
.I do have to say while the daily thread is fairly active here, other posts outside of it isn’t as lively as that on Reddit.
Something I never really paid attention to, just an observation really.
Nice one, that’s neat
Nice graph!
My son is playing PS5 and chatting with his mates in the next room.
My daughter is sitting with the cat in her lap, watching the footy and chatting with her friends.
My wife is sleeping on one couch😁
I’m on the other couch watching stuff on the tablet
This still counts as family time, right?
Will we ever see his face again?
🎵 no way get fucked fuck off 🎵
That’s cruel. He might be out clubbing the dirty stop out.
Or he’s off exploring the world, after being blown away. Like hitchBOT before him.
I got my Lizzo drawing printed on a jumper. I’m super happy with it and will be curious to see how the T-shirt and bag versions turn out whenever they arrive!
Image description: black jumper with rainbow illustrations of US Singer Lizzo on it, a flute, and the name Lizzo repeated 6 or 7 times.
geebus, I’ve been watching the Site Inspection yt channel, it’s a guy who does inspections of new houses. It is making me rethink the outer suburbs that were built in the 60s and 70s. Those houses might not be modern and in Boronia or Melton but at least they were built properly with the correct materials.
I don’t know enough about it but it seems there is rampant corruption, there is use of unqualified labour being paid under the table, non spec construction materials smuggled into the country .
Anything new made with concrete scares me now, I’ve seen how they use rubbish as filler or foundations. One place even had fake permeable concrete paths.
And it’s not cheap, people are paying $500,000 and more just to be ripped off.
We need government inspectors again.
I live in Melton and when we had the termite man come out he was really impressed with the way our house was built. Plenty of room under the house, lots of ventilation, no damp spots etc. He said that he rarely has problems up here because of the way the houses are built. By comparison some of the worst and most frequent call outs he had was around Bundoora and Greensborough areas.
union workers, good construction materials, government inspectors 👍
At a family lunch one of my rich hoighty toighty cousins was boasting about her soon-to-be-built $750,000 house in some new sparkly pop-up suburb of Brisbane and one of my uncles, a man of many trades, told her she was a fool for it all and her parents to for encouraging it. Hilariously he went on to predict every problem she’s had to date with the house.
I watch a guy that does something similar on TikTok. Omg I can’t even…
Been watching these, I think someone here must have linked him? But it’s scary to see the absolute incompetence, lack of ethics and general greediness of builders.
Building has standards for a reason and they rely on the fact that most people aren’t gonna notice untightened bolts behind the plasterboard, incorrect gutter locations, or uncovered gaps between surfaces on the roof. You end up paying through the nose for guaranteed mould exposure and rotting carpets.
My partner is obsessed with those videos. We have a 70s house in the outer suburbs and tradies always comment how solidly well built it is. I once lived in a new build and the front door, even when locked, would often just… pop open 🙃
So I’ve been watching a few more videos. It’s starting to really upset. So many people ripped off. This is where they live or hoped to live, paid for with really hard earned money. 😭
Thanks for mentioning this, I love this sort of thing. I liked the US guy who checks foundations and retaining walls and posts on Imgur but always wanted some local content. Mr Peeler had a job in demolition later in life, and used to decry the awesome classic solidly built houses that were razed to the ground in order to hastily and shoddily assemble crappy townhouses and dog box units.
Dear bot #001. We missed you tonight. I hope you’re ok. I just want to say I appreciate you. You listen to our thoughts, our nonsense. You listen without judgement. Some have no one to vent to. No one to confide in. You are a great listener. I’ve got your back. Stay safe. Don’t drink and drive. Stay cool. All my love @CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone.Hope to catch you tomorrow.
And yes I’m a wittle bit drunk.
Poor bot. I found it in the corner, humming the Happy Days theme song and muttering about a four day work week.
I’ll try giving it a couple of seconds leave, that should fix things.
Poor bot, Tell bot that it’s ok to need a mental health day, but that we all look forward to seeing them at work tomorrow.🤞😃
Poor Bot 😔
Rip in pieces
D O U B L E P O S T (d r u n k p o s t)
I h av e had many beer
I type a rhyme and spellcheck\ then go back and press space
to make the breaks make sense
hence
I remember the backslash
it’;s this things here ( \ ) to remove the doublebreak
but i wont do it here get juked
weak
doesnt rhyme
took less time
to write this one
bc i dont care
bc of the beer
hehheh wheeeI think I hear my electric blanket calling me.
I gave the bot the day off to recover, so hopefully posting will be ok tonight. But you know kids these days, no work ethic. Not even the courtesy of phoning in sick. Plus I think the cat is encouraging it towards a life of sloth and indolence.
Botbot was a no show
Regurgitator said so
Oh oh
How do we go on?
Then came our local bovine
A bolt of lightning
Midnight brightening
Bull charging in
On our whim
Saves the day
ThankeeI do not like this “everything is collapsed” timeline. I would like to be able to peruse comments without the commitment of a click, please and thank you.
