• Nath@aussie.zone
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    4 months ago

    I accidentally left my teaspoon in the office kitchen when I washed my dishes the other night. I didn’t realise until I went to eat my lunch just now. Went to the kitchen, and it was still there! Three days later!

    I don’t know what the odds of a teaspoon vanishing in an office kitchen are on any single day, but they must be over 50% across three days. I was lucky!

  • just_kitten@aussie.zone
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    4 months ago

    Really great week so far at work. Falling quite behind on personal/life admin because I usually have no brain for it when I get home and I’m just fully switched on at work. This weekend I better not fall sick or have some other shit suddenly happen… I do need to smash through a lot of stuff.

    I am glad that I feel engaged enough at work that I neither feel like I’m drowning, nor bored enough to be on my phone - it’s been really great having hours away from my phone and actually concentrating on something else (and getting paid for it), even though it’s behind a screen.

  • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
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    4 months ago

    Miss Meow is snoring away loudly in her tunnel tonight, so Mr Woof has taken over her bed in the corner. I think he’s decided it’s a good spot to look through the window and keep an eye out for marauding possums in the backyard.

  • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
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    4 months ago

    I think I’m going to do it. I’m going to betray my barber and find another one.

    I can’t do these places that only accept walk-ins. I want to book a time and get it over and done with.

    I don’t want to sit in a barber’s for an hour watching a Ministry of Sound playlist waiting to get my hair cut

    • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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      4 months ago

      I can’t do these places that only accept walk-ins. I want to book a time and get it over and done with.

      RIGHT?! 5-10 years ago this was amazing! These days having to wait friggin sucks!

      • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
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        4 months ago

        I think no bookings and cash only is meant to evade the taxman but it’s not convenient enough for me to want to help the barber out

  • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    4 months ago

    My neighbour has some sort of car alarm thing that goes off genuinely dozens of times a day. Day or night, it doesn’t matter. I don’t understand what the appeal is or what’s causing it. Is the actual car alarm, complete with flashing lights, etc. it’s been going on since before I moved in (so easily a year), mostly happens between 7-9pm, but less frequently at various times overnight

    Just why

  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
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    4 months ago

    Movie review. Dream Scenario. Netflix.

    Nick Cage plays a narcissistic arsehole who thinks the world revolves around him. More specifically, he is incredibility selfish in thought and action, never thinks of others or their point of view or suffering and he never does a single thing to help another. The internets chews him up alive and we cheer.

    3 hobbits

  • Taleya@aussie.zone
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    4 months ago

    wooooo. Today we had

    • plumber to put in pressure reducer and new lever ceramic swishy tapware
    • Cerycat to vet for checkup
    • shitload of servers to complete and ship to nz

    last now done, hubs at vet with cat, tapware completed, I’m having a bloody cuppa

  • Catfish@aussie.zone
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    4 months ago

    They have changed the shape of Strepsils. I don’t recall having given permission for this.

      • Catfish@aussie.zone
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        4 months ago

        Don’t remember that. I loath individual packets but guess they’d otherwise get mixed up with Granny’s tin of acid drops

        • Thornburywitch@aussie.zoneEnglish
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          4 months ago

          Yes. I still have some of the tins around as they are the perfect size for storing button sets, small screws, tacks and the like. You opened the tin with a 5c piece, twisting up the lid at the corner. The lozenge wrappers were tinfoil, and once the tin was opened the lozenge would get sticky and the foil would stick to it like glue. I can’t recall how many times I could only half unwrap a strepsil and resorted to dissolving it out of its tinfoil in my mouth.

            • Catfish@aussie.zone
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              4 months ago

              Kind flat ovals, like those “wine” gums. But the logo is still round. This makes no marketing sense to me.

              • AJ Sadauskas@aus.social
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                4 months ago

                @Catfish @CEOofmyhouse56 I can just imagine how that meeting went down…

                Faceless manager: “To meet our KPIs, I worked out that we need to make our product 7% smaller. But how do we make them smaller without anyone noticing?”

                Sally from operations: “We’re part of a big multinational conglomerate that made millions of dollars in profit last year. We can afford to keep them the same size and keep prices where they are!”

                Greg from accounting: “Not on my watch!”

                Faceless manager: “And I won’t meet our KPIs!”

                Sally from operations: “We could just be upfront with our customers and say that we’re raising our prices a little in line with inflation?”

                Faceless manager: “Yeah, but then they’ll notice!”

                Colin the Consultant: “Let’s make them a bit thinner, and make them an oval shape! That way, they’re the same length, but a smaller width!”

                Faceless manager: “Thank you Colin! That’s why we pay you the big dollars!”

  • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Update: they agreed to my request (I think), but it’s a 2 week waiting period until they actually change over the number. I lodged my requests yesterday, which is why I heard back so soon. It seems to be a mostly automated process, as far as I can tell. Everything’s done down to the minute. The email telling me all of this came 24 hours after I submitted the request yesterday at 4:57pm, and they will call me at exactly 4:57pm on the 22nd to tell me it’s been changed over (apparently).

    I’m just happy they have procedures in place I guess. I have bad memories of losing accounts to lost phone numbers. I’ve learnt my lesson though, and will switch over to a proper TOTP app once I get back in. I’ll probably buy a yubikey one day too

  • Tofu@aussie.zone
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    4 months ago

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