Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.

  • @[email protected]
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    82 years ago

    Shower had, lemsip made and in bed about to listen to Vikki Petraitis’s podcast on the frankston murders. Oddly, listening to it has been helping to distract my anxiety about life.

  • CEOofmyhouse56
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    132 years ago

    I fucking love this community. I’d rather drink my own piss than drink instant. Very good sir/madam. We are all very excepting here. Take my upvote.🔝

    • @[email protected]
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      42 years ago

      Someone should print that on a tshirt and put it in a souvenir shop. I’m also surprised license plates haven’t changed to “victoria - the coffee capital” I’m fine with instant when real coffee isn’t available.

  • @[email protected]
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    62 years ago

    I left my car not undercover so it could get washed by Mother Nature and washed she got 😎

  • @[email protected]
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    72 years ago

    So I tried the sardines in oil today. Mixed it in with a bowl of pasta for dinner.

    Not quite as tasty as the herring and was quite….grainy at times?

    Little bit of a tougher sort of fish as well, I’d still eat it but if there was a preference it would still be the herring.

    I’m not sure if the taste was influenced by it being 90c a tin as well.

    • @[email protected]
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      32 years ago

      If it was 90c a tin, it was almost certainly packed in SE Asia for the export market. Check the packet. The one good thing worth paying for with the more expensive brands is the source of the fishies - SW Africa and/or SW America is prime. As is Alaska. The upwelling of cold water along the SW American and SW African coast is where sardies bloom. And fush from there are the best.
      The grainy feel is almost certainly the bones of the sardies. Yes, just crunch them up - extra calcium and useful collagen. Not a problem imo but I can see that a newbie might be confused by the texture.

      • @[email protected]
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        22 years ago

        Oh ok. I didn’t realise that it could have been from bones. It wasn’t really a please t experience when I came across some though.

        Maybe next time I’ll try a more expensive brand but Herring for the same price point per gram was more to my liking.

  • @[email protected]
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    122 years ago

    Just picked up that carolina reaper hawt sauce from woolies someone on here recommended.

    Much excite.

    These fajitas for dins are going to be a seething, raging orgy of scoville units.

  • @[email protected]
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    72 years ago

    Heads-up: Petrol at the nearest service station was up to 224.9.
    Everywhere else was around the 185 mark but that servo is generally a canary for impending price rises…

  • @[email protected]
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    72 years ago

    And now i’m back to 'in two weeks i’m going to be out of a job and i’m going to lose my apartment because i can’t pay rent and be homeless or dead" fuck I hate anxiety so much

    • Hongohones
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      2 years ago

      Sorry to harsh your buzz there friend. If you need a change of scenery while you decompress the shitstorm of your old workplace, bar work would be fine. I was in the music business, as a performer for the last 17 years. So I worked in hospo by proxy. I never got my rsa by I dealt with a lot of drunk people and was still treated like a sex object by a lot of bar staff. Bartending is not without it’s pitfalls but an easy job you can probably leave at work in the short term.

      I took a cleaning job with a great small business. At some stage I’ll do something else, maybe. This employer is the best I’ve ever had and actually cares about my quality of life and not just making super duper profit. If you’re at the end of your rope, no matter what industry you’re in, it’s probably for the best you do something low pressure for a while. I was a nervous wreck after my last job. Drank way too much etc, kicked up too much fuss and got spat out after incredible loyalty and severe mistreatment. I as anxious as fuck. It takes time to work through that’s for sure. But I quit drinking, am much healthier and have a less bleak outlook despite only scraping by really.

      • @[email protected]
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        32 years ago

        No need to apologise friend! Sometimes a dose of cold water reality is needed. Something low pressure, where i just have to be responsible for me and my output and down have to work for a cowardly, manipulative boss would be an absolute dream come true right now.