Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.

  • Bacon@aussie.zone
    17·
    3 years ago

    9am appointment.
    1:30pm appointment. A duck ton of money spent during these two.
    Possible admin task in the afternoon.
    Emotional support for friend in the evening.

    I should get up.

  • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
    17·
    3 years ago

    Today is looking to be a great day. I am not working. Weather is mostly sunny and 17. It’s pay day. New content is released for both my gardening and housing subjects today. And tomorrow is the installation of the split system. No Mondayitis in this household 🙂

  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
    16·
    3 years ago

    Sitting on a bench near a bus stop some guy sits a bit too close to me. Starts asking general questions. Then asks me if I know about Jesus. Told him I know Jesus didn’t harass women at bus stops. Asks me what I was reading. It was a book by Albert Schweitzer. He told me to burn it. Told him to stop harassing me and I just got up and walked away.

    Absolute lunatic.

          • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
            5·
            3 years ago

            that’s different

            does anyone know who Schweitzer is nowadays? he was a xian theologian who won a Nobel Prize for developing an ethic of humanitarianism called Reverence for Life . If you’ve ever watched The Fifth Element that is the ethic. “good consists in maintaining, assisting and enhancing life, and to destroy, to harm or to hinder life is evil”

    • Thornburywitch@aussie.zoneEnglish
      4·
      3 years ago

      Many years ago, was on the 64 tram and reading Religion and the Decline of Magic by Keith Thomas. An elderly gent in full hasidic dress opposite me leaned forward and told me I was going to Hell for reading such a book.
      It’s actually about the counter-reformation and the decline of the witch cult (as imagined at the time).
      I’m not sure elderly gent actually knew that - but must have seen the picture on the front with an alchemist’s laboratory as imagined by a 17th century artist. Lots of alembics and stuffed crocodiles and mystik diagrams on the floor and nekkid wimmen holding said alembics. All very symbolic. Gave him a death stare but didn’t say anything.

  • Electronic_Owl@aussie.zone
    14·
    3 years ago

    So my home town Mordialloc is in the news today following the 30-year sentence handed down to a 73 year-old who murdered two of his neighbours over a trivial garden hose incident 18 months ago. I walk past the scene every day and wondered why there was a TV crew setting up outside this afternoon.

  • landsharkkidd@aussie.zoneEnglish
    13·
    3 years ago

    CW: Diet culture + medication

    One of the things I hate about diet culture (amongst everything) is how there’s medication and people go “oh you can also lose weight!”. Like… it feels so gross. I was listening to my news thing with Google and I was listening to CNN and they were talking about Ozempic, and how America advertises medication on TV they played one of their ads and it’s like “this is for people with diabetes, but it can also help you lose weight!” and it’s like so gross. I feel like people with diabetes is trying to just survive the day and not worry about losing weight.

    Similar to when I had my psychiatrist appointment to start taking Ritalin, and my psych is like “it’s great for adults because you can lose weight, usually for kids we have to watch them just in case, but for adults it’s great.” And I’m like sitting there, a fat person, just like… ugh. Felt so gross. Like, I just want to be able to make it through the day and get my tasks done, and not procrastinate, I don’t care if it makes me lose weight.

    • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
      14·
      3 years ago

      Our society has a very messed up view of weight. You get the same sorts of comments about being sick - someone is really sick and it causes them to use weight and you will have a ton of people piping up with “I could do with some of that” type comments. People with severe illnesses get comments about how great they look because they have lost weight.

      The other ones that annoys me is that when talking about food we use “healthy” to mean low calorie, and we call a metabolism that uses lots of energy “efficient” (would you call your car efficient because it uses more fuel?). Yes obesity can be a problem, but thin is not inherently healthy, and losing weight can be a very bad medical sign.

      • just_kitten@aussie.zone
        9·
        3 years ago

        The amount of positive comments I’ve got from certain people when I’ve been unintentionally losing weight over the last year from stress and inactivity and loss of appetite is really not cool. Nobody seems to believe me when I say it’s not a good sign and I am not healthy

      • landsharkkidd@aussie.zoneEnglish
        7·
        3 years ago

        Yes yes yes.

        It frustrates me that I can do an hour of workout and eat greens and stuff, but yet people will see me as “unhealthy” yet my mate who can eat like 10 dim sims and 2 large chips from KFC but are still hungry. I love my mate, but it is just… wild, that skinny = healthy and fat = unhealthy. Like yes, of course, being fat isn’t always healthy. But you can be healthy at any size and you can be unhealthy at any size. It just makes me so mad and upset that to be considered “healthy” you need to be skinny.

        • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
          1·
          3 years ago

          I think it’s not so much the word itself which bothers me as that we push weight loss as an extreme, short-term endeavour which we do to become “healthy” and then stop. So when people think they need to lose weight they tend to go for extreme calorie reductions, meal replacement shakes, and a complete but short-term change in their eating. What people generally should be doing is making much smaller but permanent changes to their diet and lifestyle.

          Which is probably when talking about myself I talk about “The Diet” somewhat tongue-in-cheek, because I am not really “dieting” in that regard, its really just a small part of a change towards a permanently healthier diet and lifestyle.

          • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
            1·
            3 years ago

            Yeah exactly. When I say my diet is a little out of whack lately I’m taking about my overall nutrition intake not a restricted “cant eat that” one diet.

      • dumblederp@aussie.zone
        4·
        3 years ago

        Semiplegic tettany has the added benefit of making people shredded from constant barely controllable muscle spasm.

      • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
        5·
        3 years ago

        A few years back I too lost about 15 kgs from being poor. I planned meals carefully, I read food stats on packets, ate sooo many carrots as they are cheaper than potat. So many eggs as meat is expensive. The last thing I was thinking of was the latest food fad espoused by media. I knew I was eating healthier than before. No junk and a better balance.

        Husband did not like it even tho he lost weight too. For him healthy food has to be health food, nothing to do with nutrition, it’s a spiritual thing. I remember being very annoyed the times he would eat my dinner, grabbing my food before I served myself because he thinks he can eat as much as he wants, even more if it’s health food, cos more is better right?

        I grew up eating healthy but modern media tells us traditional diet is bad, right?

        • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
          2·
          3 years ago

          You probably already know this but during ww2 peoples diets were healthier than ever before probably due to the fact that sugar and fats were limited due to rationing.

            • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
              3·
              3 years ago

              Yes and no. Fat back then was often plentiful and cheap so a common meal for the poor was left over drippings and bread. What we know now of course is that there are good fats and not so good fats. A small amount of animal fat is good for us but not what they were eating.

              • Force_majeure122@aussie.zone
                2·
                3 years ago

                I’d also disagree that drippings are not healthy! And imagine if now instead of bread and drippings you just have bread. Pretty sad state of affairs that would be

    • Hongohones@aussie.zone
      3·
      3 years ago

      I hate the judgement people lump on us for not being some fucked up influencer / media ideal of beauty and that that pertains to health somehow.

      That a psychiatrist passed judgement over your weight when he was treating a neurodivergence (I assume) I find fucking gross too honestly. “Here vunerable person, have my 2 cents worth about your appearance”

    • melbourne_wanderer@aussie.zone
      2·
      3 years ago

      For all you people interested in “diet culture” and how society views weight, nutrition, health etc, I very strongly recommend the podcast “Maintenance Phase”

      • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
        2·
        3 years ago

        Thank you for that recommendation. I’ve just been reading some of the transcripts (which I’m happy to see they have, I’d rather read than listen) and it’s really interesting.

      • landsharkkidd@aussie.zoneEnglish
        1·
        3 years ago

        I LOVE Maintenance Phase. Highly recommend it. I also recommend Fad Camp, similar idea as Maintenance Phase but it’s Irish folks. They’ve covered some similar stuff but there’s some interesting stuff in it.

  • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
    12·
    3 years ago

    I am SICK to freaking death of learning things from overhearing my wife on the phone! Is this a common thing or a just us issue?

  • Bacon@aussie.zone
    11·
    3 years ago

    i went to the GP, got two cavities filled at the dentist, and joined a gym today

  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
    11·
    3 years ago
    My dinner

    Image of mashed potato, corn on the cob, garlic sauteed spinach, steak with a runny egg on top.

    We had a real life Marge the rains are 'ere moment when the juices from my corn travelled across the table and aimed for the man’s face. I burst out laughing so hard that some came out of my mouth. Then we all laughed while he wiped his face.

  • just_kitten@aussie.zone
    11·
    3 years ago

    Hate that feeling of finally feeling you can kick back after a shitty day and get ready for a 7am start one hour away tomorrow… Only to realise you’re out of cooked rice and now you have to wait. Hangry.

      • just_kitten@aussie.zone
        5·
        3 years ago

        It has been resolved and as a bonus I managed to finish this report while I was waiting so now I can truly knock off for the day. Yay.

    • heyheyitskay@aussie.zone
      4·
      3 years ago

      I noticed myself literally eating angrily these days. Usually it’s some sort of resentment about not having prepared earlier or the time that it’s taken for the food to be ready. I’m reverting back to my infant self on a high chair.

      • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
        2·
        3 years ago

        One of the shows I really encouraged Miss Seagoon to watch. Along with Xena and Buffy and all the John Waters movies.

    • SituationCake@aussie.zone
      3·
      3 years ago

      I like older shows like that. They don’t make shows like they used to. Long seasons, interesting stories, positivity, episodes that have proper closure. Most shows today seem to be dark and miserable storylines with writers that are completely incapable to write an actual ending. Rant over.

    • melbourne_wanderer@aussie.zone
      2·
      3 years ago

      the episode where Janeway goes full boss arse bitch and is crawling around in Jefferies tubes in a tabk top, singlehandedly saving the ship/crew was always one of my favourites.