I really don’t know why parliamentarians are bickering about Israel/Palestine. Spending hours on the parliament floor fighting about it does nothing for Australia, you know, the country and the people you were elected to represent.
The people they were elected to represent have been making repeated and strong representations to their members of parliament on this issue.
To not discuss it would actually literally be doing nothing.
And? Politicians ignore their constituents all the time on issues they very much have control over.
Very convenient that parliament time is being chewed up on this. It very much looks like you are doing something, full well knowing you have no power to have any effect over the outcome and you’ll never have to be held to account for anything. Yes Greens I’m looking at you and some of your silly outlandish statements.
It’s the perfect noisy issue to distract the Australian population on issues politicians could take an interest in but choose not to.
At best, the issue takes up way too much time in parliament relative to the involvement we have in it and the amount of control we can exert.
We already providing Palestine circa 30 million in aid this year, as well as calling for a two state solution. But even the most strident have to recognize at some point that no matter what Australia does if these two groups want to fight they will continue to do so regardless.
As for the constituents who feel strongly about it, if they really want to make an impact then by all means travel to Palestine as aid worker, or protest in front of the Knesset.
I actually agree with a lot of your comment. We as a country are almost completely irrelevant to the actual issue. If people want to get het up about it, go the relevant piece of geography and protest there where it might do some good. Here, they do the whole performance of ideology without risk to themselves. God forbid that they should actually, shock horror, put themselves in danger.
Someone said it here before but it’s basically equivalent to a Facebook post.
Sometimes I read back on a professional email I’ve sent and think - wow I actually sound like I know what I’m talking about. Get me on the phone though and I become a mumbling mess sometimes.
I love the phone. I have a “professional” voice I put on. It’s fun lol
I bought googly eye nail art stickers 😀 might be a bit too freaky 😹
I’ll tell you a couple of things this medicinal indica flower does: it makes my bed way more comfy and it makes rewatching Psych even better.
Small victory. I tipped the Tigers tonight in an upset and got it!
Fixable finished off the coaching and most of the packing. Usually I wake up 4 hours before I’m due to leave and then pack from then, but I have to leave by 5:45 so that ain’t happening. I’ve tidied up the house and cleaned out the new kids half of the fridge and freezer. Also packed so my clothes and most of my backpack, but I’ll have to pack a few odd ends when I wake up. I’ll also have to wake up around 4:45 or I won’t get be able to get up until 5:30.
Although it’s kind of a heritage train, the heritage is more about where we’re going than what we’re going in (which is the opposite of regular heritage specials). These carriages are the same ones that were on the Albury line before standard gauge vlocity trains like elsewhere displaced them. So I guess they’re technically heritage now. But it feels weird calling something I rode in regular service like 3 years ago heritage, even if the stock is old. If anybody wants to keep up with what’s happening, I’ll post wrap of photos of the day in c/MelbourneTrains when I get a chance, and share whatever funny/weird/annoying experiences stand out to me here
God I was tired when I typed this lol
“Fixable finished off the coaching” was meant to be “finally finished off the cleaning”
There’s a bunch of jumpy Bois in front of my hotel!
They look kinda like rocks or something, but nah, they’re all jumpies!
The train trip included a fancy dinner and drinks with the train crew. Obviously I can’t drink [:(], so I just had a bottle of Pepsi Max to look the part. I also had to learn how to do fancy eating. Dinner and meal manners aren’t something I’ve ever had to use before, so I never learnt them. But I feel under qualified to eat dinner now to be honest. I’ve never put a napkin thing in my lap, or wiped my face with a black cloth, or had 3 different knives + 3 different forks + 2 spoons + 3 glasses before. I was also the only person at my table under 50 (seriously, that’s not a hyperbole), so that makes it harder to know how to act and what to do.
I mean it was a good experience, and I’m happy that I did it, but there’s so many generational differences that it gets really hard to know what to do or say and how to act. 1 lady was super nice, but the dude next to me shouted at me to not play with my food (there was a flower on my dessert and I was trying to figure out if it was edible or not). It was that sort of formal.
Baku, I would’ve played with the flower too 🤷♀️
After he yelled at me I decided to just eat it. I think it was intended mostly as decoration, but it didn’t taste like anything so I assume it was intended to be safely edible. I was the only person that are it at my table though
For future reference. Yes, it’s edible. No, you don’t need to eat it.
If some random punk on a train who I didn’t know yelled at me not to play with my food I would give them a death stare and a few choice words they would never forget
That dude was a dick.
I am very middle aged and I still remember my first “fancy” dinner… I kept.forgetting how to hold my knife and fork and my mate’s mum leant over and helped. I still feel a bit out of place at fancy dinners. It’s fun to play and try new things though.
I was at a foster care house for a while and the foster carer and her son both got really, really, really angry at me for not holding a knife and fork right (I held a knife in my left hand and more like a broomstick despite being right handed), but neither of them wanted to teach me or explain what the go was. I only learnt how to properly hold cutlery and knives when I was 14/15. My previous fanciest dinner would probably have been an RSL, but since those tables aren’t really shared, nobody gives much of a shot how you eat things as long as you’re not obnoxious about it and meet their dress code thing.
I’ve actually picked up a lot of my manners and social norms from old Australian soap operas (namely prisoner) + stories from my mum. Just generally speaking, I don’t think much beyond basic manners is really a thing in my generation. Even an expensive sit down restaurant doesn’t necessarily mean it’s fancy or will even have a dress code, let alone any concern about manners or over a dozen types of silverware
I went through a similar thing. I’ve had to teach myself how to do pretty much everything. Like how to shower properly, use cutlery etc. You get the idea.
If it makes you feel better, you’re not the only one having to deal with this crap 🙂
There are probably YT videos.
No doubt, but I think I’m mostly set now. I mean I guarantee I’m going to forget everything I learnt tonight, but I have never needed them before so I don’t think it’s likely I’ll need them again any time soon. The only reason I really cared about them is that it was 10 person shared tables with older people, and the innate urge to try and fit in ear overpowering
Ignore the guy, he had very bad manners. The best good manners are a smile, please and thank you and a kind heart like greeeg’s friend’s mum.
And that train trip looks really awesome, so jelly. 🥰🚂🦘
That was something that stuck out to me. Nobody was even really acknowledging the waiters at all, and I was the only person saying thank you to them each time they brought food and took plates and drinks and stuff. The only time I could justify not thanking them is if I was in a conversation, but even then I’d at least acknowledge them with a head nod, or duck to the side to make it easier for them to get the plates
So you had the best manners there after all.
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100%
Mr Woof has made himself nice and cosy.
There is no dog in this picture
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Courage to withstand the dentist please
Close your eyes and take yourself to a tropical island.
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Instant ramen with some frozen veg and a couple eggs please
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What are the staple foods in your pantry? I’ve never bothered filling one before, but I need a source of cheap meals if required.
Add to what the others have said some sort of packet sauce/curry for can’t be fucked cooking days, and about 8 varieties of hot sauce. I’ve usually got rice paper sheets, tortilla/wraps, Mustard and pesto. The spice list is too long to type.
Patsa, Pasata, Beans, Rice, Canned Fish, Frozen Veg, eggs, herbs/seasoning. You can make a ton of stuff from just those items. Get as MUCH as you can from Aldi too. The aldi pasta is god tier when compared to Woolies home brand. I’d probably just skip aldi’s tuna.
Another good option is NEVER cook a meal for 1 meal. Batch cook. Make some soup or bolognese and freeze multiple serves from it, a big batch of chicken stroganoff reheats super well. Our Freezer has got like 10-20 meals ready to go at any point.
Baked beans. I have some oats in there too. Oh and sultana bran.
Nothing else in there is or could be considered a meal (spices and whatnots). Classic bachelor pantry.
Everything everyone else said plus cans of chickpeas, hummus and baked beans.
rice
This is whole topic worthy of an extended rant. It depends on what you like to eat basically. Mine has (among other less used items) :
- 2 minutes noodles and other pastas
- tinned fish
- Couscous
- tins of crushed tomato
- tins of corn (small)
- bricks of stock in various flavours and sizes
- Rice(s) various
- cider vinegar
- spices & sauces like soy, sweet chilli sauce, hoisin
- Flour/cornflour
- Tea
- Sugar
- Spreads like jam, vegemite, peanut butter
- In the fridge:
- potatoes
- carrots
- apples
- lemons
- onions
- garlic & ginger
- bottle of mayo
- Uht milks
- Butter
- Cheese(s)
These plus fresh green vegetables allow me to cook up a fast cheap meal in a variety of cuisines. If stocking a pantry, I’d keep shopping receipts for a month, and see what you’ve actually used and base purchasing decisions on that. Food that just sits in the pantry and isn’t used is the most expensive of all.
EDIT: I forgot eggs & olive oil (or whatever oil you like to cook with)
You refrigerate onions & potatos? This seems rather odd to me.
It’s dark and cool in there. I don’t have another space that’s suitable as all my cupboards are full of stuff. I used to have a proper root cellar, but lost that when I sold my EBrunswick house.
I use vegetable oil for more unhealthy things, like stuff that needs to be fried or deep fried and olive oil for things that just need a drizzle. Vegetable oil isn’t the best, but it’s not the worst and it’s generally quite cheap for massive bottles of it.
Only thing I’d add to your list is some noodles. Personally I despise 2 minute/ramen noodles because a lot of days that was breakfast lunch and dinner for me for weeks on end (same reason I hate spag Bol), but you can buy it super cheaply and you can make it in a lot more ways than just boiling a kettle and letting it sit for 2 minutes. Also good if you get sick and need something easy, cheap, and not too hard to digest (just forgo the spice).
Edit: noodles were the first thing on your list… FML.
plain flour, salt, rice, pasta, wokka noodles, tinned tomatoes, tinned beans, tinned coconut, thai curry pastes, soy sauce , sesame oil, herbs and spices, dried fruits, nuts, baking powder. lots of frozen vegies in freezer
Dried beans are considerably cheaper, but you need to think ahead to soak them.
dried beans take too much work and electricity, if the mexican supermarket i used to visit had a full aisle just for cans cans are most economical
there’s pantry foods and foods that need refrigeration
try not to buy foods that can go bad
buy from asian grocers, don’t travel to shop unless you are walking, the cost of transport soon eats up any savings
Dried pasta (many types), tinned fish / spam / beans if you partake (jaffle stuffings), flour if you bake, corn flour at least for sauces, tinned tomatos, you basically build it around what you like and longer shelf life stuff
Pasta, some tinned tuna/fish, 2 minute noodles and some canned stuff when they’re on discount works for me.
Also some herbs and spices can so a long way in flavouring a meal sometimes.
Rice, canned fish, pasta, pasta sauce, salt n pepper, hot sauce, soy sauce, instant ramen
Depends what you like to eat. Eg having dried pasta and a jar of your chosen red sauce you can throw in leftover chicken and/or veg and have an easy meal. If you like curries and stir fries it makes sense to keep rice. If you want to bake, then flour and sugar. For breakfasts things like cereal, jams, peanut butter, eggs, and keep some bread in the freezer for toast. Start small and build up what you need, and when you use something up put it on your shopping list to replenish. Buy quantities that you will use in a reasonable time. Buying in bulk can be cheaper but if it’s only one person you don’t want items going stale waiting to be used. Not everything is equal in being shelf stable, for example cooking oils can go rancid, so keep an eye on the expiry dates and don’t overdo the bulk buys.
I have now updated my budget ready for the new financial year. The tax cuts will help a bit, although an actual pay rise would be better.
I’ve been calling him ‘old man’ because it makes me laugh. He is displeased and reminded me he is only 3, going on 4.
He’s still my grumbly, chatty old man though.
I’d take advice from this wise old man
He does have an old man face, in a respectful way!
Pretty sure he can be a handsome old man and a little baby kitten at the very same time.
He looks wise
@CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone please provide recap and review of your dinner/margarita last night. Also did you accept, wear and bring home a sombrero?
Well, first I didn’t get the sombrero. I did see the fish bowl though, that was fucking huge. I got 2 margaritas, one strawberry, one mango. The strawberry was ok. The mango did not taste like mango. Did not expect them to come from a slushie machine.
The food was good. Prawns were great
Stuffed jalepeno were really good
And Chile fries were really good
I would definitely get these again but take away so I can make proper margaritas at home. The fajita was ok not great because the meat wasn’t tender. Good experience 3.5/5
Here’s my TV review
Korean Fried Chicken Rhapsody on Netflix
Holy moly. If you love chicken, you will love this. It’s chicken porn. Sexy Hot chicken porn every which way in oil. It’ll leave you hungry. 5/5 yum yums.
Haven’t seen that one yet, but I have seen the other ‘korean rhapsody’s’. It actually came up in conversation today. I passed Mr Paiks restaurant around Healey’s Lane in the CBD and mentioned the serieseses. There is pork, noodles, broth, can’t remember what else. Good stuff
Ooooo. I’ll check it out. Thanks.
Would anyone here that works in IT please be able to offer a reference? My so called friend just dropped me completely
Oh what a shit head. Sorry I don’t work in the right IT adjacent space to help but I will rage on your behalf
Thank you ❤️ I’ll be ok. I never give up no matter what.
I can’t help (never worked in IT) but I wanted to say I’m sorry this happened to you. What a shitty thing to do!
I really appreciate it ❤️ I’ll never give up easily.
Fuck that fuck noodle, he can go piss in his own beer. I’m mad on your behalf. Ugh. I’m sorry I cannot help, but I know you will get through this!
Thanks heaps. I wish I didn’t have to ask people here for help, but without this reference I’m sunk.
How IT are we talking about? I have an IT adjacent role that could convince people
I’ll DM you
