• Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone
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    4 months ago

    I love writing lyrics in the moment, But then when I read them the next day they’re cringe as fuck.

    More practice I guess, but it’s annoying.

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      If you ever want cringe lyrics the stuff Tim Rice wrote for Andrew Lloyd Webber are amazingly awful. And look how popular they were!

      Lyrics are an interesting thing, when blended with the music they can often convey emotions and ideas in a way that transcend what the actual words themselves do. Language is an amazingly intricate and complex communication method that can sometimes convey more through imperfection than when you get everything right.

  • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zone
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    Definitely warmer this morning than yesterday morning. Almost winter solstice and it’s like, 19c today and 20c tomorrow.

    And they say climate change isn’t real, pfft. PFFFT!

    Editing this so not to double post lol:

    Got a rent increase notice, from Sept it’ll be over $2k per month. And yet, for the location and apartment, it’s still below market 💀💀💀 Fuck this fucking fuck shit.

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      Ouch. This is why I have ended up in Ballarat. I just count myself fortunate that I could move my job too. Trying to find an affordable rental that was appropriate for a dog as well was not looking likely.

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      That’s a huge amount for rent 😠

      wages and benefits should be so much higher, since the destruction of unions and manufacturing industry wages have severely declined

      and fuck the REA industry, they get a percentage of the rent so of course they are going to push increases every year, also the scam of all the inspections

      reas do not give a shit about renters, their source of money is the landlord and it’s them they are squeezing too

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      4 months ago

      Pretty sure it’ll be candles for Sol not a proper fire. But it can be a many, many candle event.

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    At the p’s… the complaining is getting too much so left a jar and a whole lot of 5/10/20c coins on the kitchen table. Basically a swearing jar but for complaining about things that no one cares about.

    Kicked it off by telling ol’ boy off about the position of the butter in the fridge. Cost me 20 cents.

    Bread board not parallell to the edge of the kitchen bench… And I’m 50 cents down.

    I’m losing money but geez I should have thought of this before. Haven’t had any complaints in 2 days.

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        There was a complaint about me complaining about them complaining which I complained about.

        Only put 5 cents in for that one.

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          I have a stash of 1&2 cent coins. Happy to give you one if you the think the point might get through.

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      I love this idea.

      Can we add cats into this, Bill and Ted are constantly complaining about the food service here. Not enough second breakfasts ( there are none )

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        I think cats would have to add in a whisker per swear so to speak. Not having opposable thumbs would make it difficult to pick up a coin to put in.

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        Pepper would complain that she only got 12 temptations, and Foxy got 13. Foxy would complain that Pepper exists. Oreo would complain about the lack of sunshine hours in which to bake, and the dog does complain about people walking past, birds in trees and cats that want to smooch her but change their minds and bite her mid smooch.

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    4 months ago

    I would like to thank my past self for freezing some cheese sauce that went very well on my cauliflower and broccoli to serve with some baked salmon. I would also like to thank yesterday’s self for making enough apricot crumble that I could eat it two days in a row.

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    I’m having one of those Reddit conversations where I’m not sure if the other person is a troll or just really, really dumb. It’s a bit of a coin flip at this time.

    I’m always a bit perplexed by people who troll that way. Why do people find coming across as really stupid to be something to aim for?

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        I tend to err on the side of assuming really, really dumb, but part of me doesn’t want to believe people are actually that stupid. But I don’t engage unless it’s something that I think will be useful to other people to read anyway so it’s not like it matters that much.

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    The Young Seagoons were just here to mow and clean up the front yard. 😍 They also brought vegan cake for lunch which was delicious.

    I am so lucky. 🥹

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        I paid 'em. …lol Which is better than paying someone else, this way they get some money and I get the job done. The cake was free and a total surprise. They also brought some nice bread. 🙂

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    Nightmare stuff at trivia tonight. The venue had a complete AV overhaul since last week. My powerpoint and HDMI port are gone. They’re using a new wifi based system that requires downloading another program, but that required a reboot and windows as forcing an update on me so I wasn’t going to play the brick lottery right before trivia.

    I managed to share a screen but couldn’t extend the display, so it required a lot of ALT+TABing. I think it’s sorted now after the reboot, but it would have been nice to know ahead of time

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    I can’t concentrate today. Definitely a peri symptom. Thank goodness it’s short lived. I know I’ll be fine tomorrow.

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    And another cash win tonight. Got pizza on the way home, came out to $20.90. So I was like, “Sorry, the best I can do is $30.” So they said $20’s fine, because of course it is. They may not have done it if I was like “is $20 okay?” but because I tried to accommodate them in the worst way possible they gave me almost 5% off

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    Beep Beep 🚚
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      Heck yeah. Happy birthday, Vegemite!

      Vegemite Adventure Memory

      My favourite Vegemite memory is myself and three friends taking a plate of properly spread Vegemite bread to a bar in Upstate New York. We were a spectacle (even the town Mayor came out that night!) but no one wanted to try the bread. At one point, one of my friends was sitting in a booth, crying and stuffing her face with the bread in order to try and sober up. Meanwhile I horrified a room full of Americans with my liberal use of the word cunt.

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      Oh, another fun USA related Vegemite memory.

      Reverse Trick-or-Treating

      My partner at the time at in were in Boulder Colorado for Halloween and I’ve always wanted to go Trick-or-Treating (thanks to reading Goosebumps as a kid), but since we were WAY too old, we decided to go Reverse Trick-or-Treating - as in, we got dressed up as bogan Aussies, filled our treat buckets with mini caramello koalas, tim tams and those individual serve packs of Vegemite (like at breakky buffets and whatnot) and off we went, handing treats out.

      At the end of the night, we still had most of the Vegemite in our buckets, it seemed people assumed they were the trick. Lots of confused and delighted people though.

      Meant we were leaving handfuls of Vegemite at our AirBnBs for the rest of the trip!