Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.
DAY 30 COMPLETED! 🎉🎊 The first time in my whole life I have stuck to a daily exercise regimen! I’m feeling pretty chuffed right now. The only question for me now is what to do next! Should I move on to the intermediate level? Do something different? Decisions decisions!
PeelerSheila you are an inspiration.
Aww thanks!
I’m no expert on this, maybe if you feel ok work up a little to the next level but in incremental steps.
Anyway congratulations! Keep up the good work!
Thankyou for your encouragement!
Yoo that’s amazing peeler! You did it! Personally, I’d stick at the current level for maybe a few days to a week, but that’s just me. Perhaps you might be one of the people that needs an ever increasing (but doable) challenge to stay engaged?
I’m definitely interested in tweaking the current routine to make it more about exercises I like doing. That is unless I find some other low impact cardio routine I like the look of.
Smashing it!!! You should be so proud of yourself! Love it and loving your journey! 💜😍
Thankyou!
You’re honestly an inspiration given everything else you need to wrangle in your life!! I envy being able to stick to a regimen. What does the intermediate level vs Something Different look like?
Thanks for the encouragement! The intermediate level has some exercises I’m not really sure are that good for the back, so I’m a little sceptical of my ability to do it. I’d be more interested in some good low impact cardio. Or making my own routine based on the ones I’ve been doing.
Awesome! Proud of you sis. You’ve helped me maintain my routine as well. 10k will be walked today, I did nearly 5 at work so it’s just another hour.
My advice is to keep doing what you can make into a habit but you do you.
Thankyou! I can safely say that I am totally in the habit of going for that 10 or so minutes of exercise before work in the morning. I actually look forward to it! It’s me time for self improvement and I’m still enjoying it! I’m thinking of making up a 10 minute routine based on the ones I’ve been doing but with some of the exercises swapped out for ones I enjoy doing more. Unless I find some good low impact cardio routine I’d like to try… I’ll have another look tonight.
Yeah it makes you feel good and the benefits over time start adding up. I generally just do brisk walking and work is good exercise too. I might add some home floor stuff in time. Keeping it simple and enjoyable definitely cements the habit.
Old mate next door (he has a few screws loose) is cutting his lawn on his knees with hand shears again.
I’ve tried to lend him a mower but it’s his thing.
If it sparks joy then who am I to say anything.
Just a bit unnerving to see/hear someone do that for a few hours when it’d take 5 mins max with manual push mower.
Wait, you’re supposed to cut that stuff? I just assumed other people had special dwarf varieties that were better behaved than my rampant tree climbing kikuyu.
I wish my neighbour would use shears instead of his mega loud mower. Still takes him a few hours though.
It’s like a really big flat bonsai!
He must be drowning in painkillers for his knees and back to keep tolerating that
Dude has to be on something I’d give up after 2 minutes.
It’s the circle of grass.
Shit, housemates cat has cognitive heart failure… I feel so sad for them, we got our cats at the same time and we’ve shared since they were kittens so it’s heart break all round.
congestive perhaps
and lot of hugs
Today’s ride to work is in a Tesla! It’s a fancy car but I still hate Musk.
@landsharkkidd @bot001 for what? Freedom of speech and academic, professionalism?
Freedom of speech as long as you don’t criticise him or disagree with him. Not exactly freedom is it now?
And hard to apply professionalism to him, as he’s essentially a rich toddler throwing tantrums.
Not sure what his contribution to academia is to be honest.
If he were racist he’d have been cancelled long ago. But cos he’s a transphobe and exploits his workers it’s considered freedom of speech and business as usual. I imagine his money doesn’t reflect his thoughts when it’s just him and his pillow trying to sleep.
He ain’t getting cancelled even if he showed his racism. Too many fans that lap up his every thought and being the CEO of a massive social media platform reaffirms his presence.
He’s got a cult following now so no getting rid of him unfortunately.
Techbros like Elon are why I like to work boring tech jobs.
He’s not even a proper ‘techbro’
All he has is ideas and money. Very little tech skills and knowledge AFAIK
Freedom of speech doesn’t have to stop people from hating you. Enabling transphobia is worthy of all of our hatred. Opinions on trans people are invalid. We just are who we are. Fuck him and his dirty money. My old boss had a tesla. I called it the big ipod on wheels. He wasn’t impressed.
I guess the Musk bots are out in full force.
Not even going to humble you with a response. Go back to licking his boot.
lmao. douche even downvoted the obvious trans. hahahaha, go elon!
@landsharkkidd lick or bite his boot, up to you [laugh]
Renaming Twitter to X amuses me. Although it’s fitting since it’s mainly X rated content 😂
Meetings at 4pm are bad enough, but you know what’s worse?
When some fuckwit actually says ‘Hey can everyone please turn their cameras on so we can see you all’. They said it with waaay too much enthusiasm for a 4 pm meeting, or any meeting for that matter.
My workplace forgot to issue me a camera and I haven’t bothered to push the issue. Maybe it’s time for your camera to break and for IT to drag their heels on a replacement.
I just got a new laptop not long ago. Do not want to go back to the old one while this one is being ‘fixed’
I’ll just keep the camera on and not pay attention as usual.
I’d activate my avatar (this is in Teams, not sure if other apps have similar)
We use Teams, I just put on the most obnoxious background possible.
My old team had 5pm stand-up’s.
Fuck me, I hope that included standing in the lift or on the train.
Just had a look at the rent prices in Port Melbourne, and now I’m going to go throw up. If I had $4k to spend on rent per week, I wouldn’t be renting 😭 😭 😭
It’s a wealthy area, gentrified decades ago. You’re not gonna find cheap rent there. Try for the surrounding areas or further out.
My Dinner
Image of a bowl of firecracker chicken, beans, spring onion, chilli flakes and rice.
It was really good guys. Really fucking good.
expertly placed and shaped rice!
Thank you. I use the plastic little cup that measures my rice for the rice cooker.
I use a cappuccino cup!!
That looks really delicious. Can you come and be my cook for a while?
Only if you do all the cleaning up.
Deal.
I just finished my dins and somehow this photo made me hungry again. Very nice 👍
My daughter says my camera is crap and I have to admit it is. The dish was more vibrant irl.
That’s just poor lighting and insufficient depth of field. If you improved the lighting and used a narrower aperture it would look a lot better.
That makes a lot of sense because outside the photos are better.
I’m cooking a soup which got me thinking about the quirky but practical little things I do and I’ll share them with you.
Onion. I hate when all the little foliage shit from the root gets on my chopping board so I place a piece of paper towel on my board, I cut the onion in half on the paper towel, peel it leaving the bits on the paper towel, move my 2 clean pieces of onion to the non paper towel covered board and chop it up. Discard the waste. I don’t use my fingers to peel the onion I basically whittle it off with my knife.
Eggs. When I peel them I lay paper towel down in the sink and all the shell goes on the there and then I discard.
Garlic. When you use garlic cut the clove in half and you’ll find a green shoot in there, discard it. It’s bitter and it’s the difference between a good garlic sauce and a shit one.
Maybe you could share some of your tips.
Have a ripper fucking day everybody and don’t forget it’s NATIONAL WINE AND CHEESE DAY TODAY
Garlic. I buy Gourmet Garden garlic in a tube. 👍
I buy it in jar. 👍
Just be careful it’s grown in Australia.
It used to be but I don’t think it is now. I try and use fresh as much as I can but if the one in the tube is aussie made then I’ll buy that one from now on. I’ve only ever used the lemongrass and the basil in the tube.
I love that lemongrass in a tube.
Tube garlic gang.🧄🧪
Quirky kitchen thing : I store tomato sauce in cupboard but BBQ sauce is in the fridge. What’s that about ? lol.
You are a rebel. Um It’s written on the bottle as to what to do with it.
Tomato sauce is made with vinegar and sugar and should be shelf stable. Even so I put mine ( home made ) in the fridge
Eggs. I peel boiled eggs in water.
Submerged or running water?
Submerged. I don’t do running water, conserving water is bred into me.
My mum brought me up with the habit of always laying out a piece of newspaper or other unneeded paper (eg paper bag torn flat) on the bench before food prep. You’d pile all the trimmings, peelings etc on that as you go (e.g. peeling the onion or taking out the root over the paper, or doing it on the chopping board then immediately sweeping the bits onto the paper without necessarily having to lift the whole board). Then at the end you just package up the waste paper and put the whole lot directly into the bin/compost. Uses up waste paper, doesn’t take up chopping board space, self contained, doesn’t require an open bin (and all the smells associated with it).
My mum would quiver at how I cut onions now, but I picked this up from a housemate: I cut the onion in half, skin on, and then peel it and remove the root. It is 500000% easier than peeling a whole, intact onion.
I also use my knife to peel the onion especially as I grew up with shitty onions where the top half of a layer would be papery and the other half fleshy, so I’d use the knife to score off the papery bit and discard it.
Thank you for your tips - I did not know that about the green part of garlic and will definitely chuck that out next time I come across them!
I leave the root on because it gives me something to hold onto while I’m dicin’ or slicin’.
Ooh, I could never do that. I don’t like the bits of root hanging on. I just use a clamp like hand position to lock the onion in place and do my best. Usually the onion behaves. At least they’re not slippery like tomatoes.
Onion can be slippery and that’s why I leave it on until last because I don’t want to lose a finger while I’m hanging on for dear life.
Fully endorse the paper tray/wrap trick. Do something similar myself. I have an old crappy colander in the 2nd kitchen sink, lined with a piece of paper towel. All peelings go in there, plus tea leaves tea bags, coffee grounds, egg shells (crushed) cooked & raw bones etc. If it was once alive, it goes into the colander. Once a day the contents are wrapped up and taken out to the compost heap and buried in the top layer. Top layer of compost heap is mostly grass clippings, which are very effective at removing smell. When compost is turned (after mowing), all the paper packages get broken up and mixed in and a new hat of clippings goes on top. The worms love it. I don’t peel garlic much - just smash it flattish with the flat of my heavy kitchen knife, then slip off the skins and chop/pound it smaller. Only peel garlic if I’m using the whole cloves, and do this by snapping off the dry lid where the garlic meets the bulb, then pulling off a strip of peel from there and the rest of the clove is easy from then on with a thumbnail.
Also fully endorse washing knife in hot water, then drying immediately and putting it away in a wooden knife block. I also sharpen it with a steel immediately before food prep, and get it professionally sharpened when the steel isn’t enough. Sharp knives are safer than blunt ones. Especially if slicing tomatoes or anything slippery.
Capsicums, I hold the fruit upright with the stalk end on top, and slice off the cheeks all around, then toss the stalk, middle and base into the colander in one piece. Most of the seeds stick to the middle section and any on the cheeks can be rinsed off or ticked off with the end of the knife into the colander. If roasting caps, I will cut around the stalk, twist and remove the middle bit that way.
I don’t peel spuds usually. Not even for mashed potato. Pumpkin is easily peeled once cooked - raw is another matter. Just steam pieces for 10 mins then the hard skin slips off easily.
There’s a wonderful product in jars that is a 50/50 mixture of minced garlic and minced ginger - I use this for curries to combine the fried spices into a curry paste - bloody wonderful stuff and I strongly recommend it. When I see it at Aldi or Colesworth I stock up. Can be used to make a nice variation on garlic bread too.Definitely heartily endorse the garlic/ginger minced paste - I used to pooh-pooh it but honestly has made a world of difference in convenience with south Asian food and even the occasional stir fry - without as much of a compromise in flavour as I used to think. Regularly affordable at your local Indian grocer.
With capsicums I normally slice off the top and then pull out the core of seeds from the rest of it using my hand, then cut it in half and use a knife to tick off the remaining seeds/pith. I used to loathe getting capsicum seeds all over my cutting board.
Same with you re garlic peeling and spuds. Half the deliciousness of spuds is in the skin, not to mention so many of the nutrients.
I assume most people know this; to prevent a pot from boiling over, put a wooden spoon across the top. No more messy stoves!!
What I do is if my pot lid is doing a little dance I move the lid off a little and that stops it from boiling over.
Punch a hole in the “blunter” end of the egg before you boil it. Can just use a tack to do it. The water gets in between the shell and the white and makes peeling so much easier.
Onions, I peel by hand (it’s meditative for me, even if impractical lol), I pull off the dangly root bits, chop the top off and then chop in half. Can slice and dice from the halves, and then discard the root. I like leaving it on as it keeps the onion together when dicing heh
If you are sensitive to onion (as in you get tear-gassed), I found wrapping a wet facewasher or teatowel around your mouth and nose helps heaps.Never knew the garlic thing! Will try it next time!
I use a small knife to chop out the stem of a capsicum, then pull it out. I then fill up the capsicum with water and wash out the seeds, then chop up. I just hate the seeds sticking everywhere.
Home pizza (pita bread/pizza base), I keep the cheese and heavier ingredients mostly at the edges, with a little bit in near the centre - this ensures the cheese browns and the middle is cooked without being soggy.
If you have good chef knives (i have one lol), wash and dry it immediately after use - keeps it from getting weird and rusty.
that’s all I can think of atm
I love this. I don’t get teary until maybe after the second onion but if I do I run my hands under the cold water and that stops me from tearing up. I hate peeling them because I once copped a hard bit under the nail and jesus fucking Christ that onion got thrown so basically I use my knife to scrap the peel off.
Das a cool lil pizza hack.
I cut the ends off onion (without cutting in half first) and spend 5 minutes trying to peel it in one clean piece.
5% of the time it works 100% of the time.
My mother could testify to your statistics except she refuses to admit that it’s the clearly inferior way of peeling an oñon
Whenever you have to crack an egg, whether it’s boiled or not. Always crack it on a flat service. At least with raw eggs if you crack it on an edge it’ll concave in and you’ll get more shell pieces that way.
Onions, you shouldn’t cut the base if you don’t want to cry. But don’t cut off the base if you’re dicing onions, because it’s easier that way.
Isn’t that wasteful? Every extra paper towel you use has an environmental impact. Even if they’re recycled, there’s still a substantial energy and water cost.
It’s one piece of paper towel I use for all my peelings and I generally flick all the peelings into the bin, give it a wash under the sink and use it to wipe my bench down then my bin or the floor then I throw it out. I just wasn’t going to go into detail. I don’t call that wasteful. I call that resourceful.
There is also a substantial energy and water cost in washing out reuseable cloths. I believe which is better is not clearcut as there are lots of variables, but if you rinse out a cloth in hot water it uses more energy & water than a piece of paper towel embodies.
Holy shit Mrs B’s car problems have finally been identified!!! Even better it’s under warranty. Glad I didn’t just drop it and let her keep driving it, cause they said eventually it woulda gone bang.
I must admit I read that as ‘cat problems’ the first time - and got increasingly concerned when I read the bit about ‘under warranty’ and ‘dropping it’ - until I got to the bit about driving! Upon re-reading, it made a lot more sense.
Nah our cats are fine with being problems, sadly we can’t do much about that short of a personality swap haha
What was the problem in the end?
A bad sensor. That’s all it took apparently.
@Duenan@aussie.zone check Ur DMs friend :)
You know that thing where your brain tricks you into thinking your phone is vibrating in your pocket? I keep having that feeling that we’re having another earthquake. I feel the earth. move. under my feet.
And feel the sky tumbling down
Day off work, that’s good. But it’s because I’m sick, that’s bad.
Ooh hope it’s nothing too serious. Lots of sniffles going around.
Elon’s X logo totally looks like the X Window System’s logo.
His love affair with the letter X is wild. I’m not calling Twitter X, that’s embarrassing. What are tweets called? Exs? Retweets are Ohs? Like…
Edit: Okay so I was shitposting and didn’t see this until now.
It’s hidden sexual innuendo. Just like the Tesla lineup, S3XY.
Zuck trademarked ‘X’ a few years ago. Elmo might have a nice legal battle at his hands shortly.
There is some poetic justice given the way Zuckerberg has apparently steamrolled other trademarks like Meta PC and Threads.com.
Hopefully the user-unfriendly corporate social media companies get so distracted fighting each other and destroying their own products that it gives FLOSS fediverse software a decent opening to get everyone onto the fediverse.
Interesting to see the old Melbourne daily thread users noticing that we’ve left. https://www.reddit.com/r/melbourne/comments/158bid9/its_the_rmelbourne_daily_discussion_thread/jt9285m/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1&context=3
It is of interest that the only reason most people cite for not participating here, is the user interface of the platform and that it takes precedence over the familiarity and pleasure of interactions with the long-standing group of DT users who are here now.
…If that makes sense
So you mean they don’t care about us as much as their pretty little reddit page :(
I think also some of them didn’t like the regulars in there that came over here. Something about an echo chamber or something.
I still use Reddit for communities that didn’t migrate but I didn’t fully appreciate what the mods did by shutting down Melbourne for an extended time.
I hope we can grow this community though, there’s room for both unless Reddit implodes and goes under.
Well that’s the more succinct version yes. There’s a lot to be said for a smooth user interface experience I guess. And familiarity of the platform.
Ima simple person
Simply marvellous you mean.
Stop using big words. 😂
Which is a bit odd, given that most people need to use RES to be able to interact in a satisfying way with reddit.
I took a peek at the the Reddit DT a couple of days back. Didn’t recognise half the usernames and not many posts. On a good day the DT could get over 1000 posts. Sad what it’s become but glad we have this. Yes Lemmy is not as visually appealing as Reddit but that’s not the reason I use Reddit, it’s for the community.
Yeah I’ve been on a few times recently and I noticed that too. It seems to mostly be people I’ve never seen before, or at least don’t remember. There’s a couple of people who are active both here and Reddit, and then like a couple who are against Lemmy for various reasons, but that’s it. It’ll bounce back though eventually. But as long as things here stay at least a bit lively, I’m not too uspey over it
Love you all here ♥️
On other road news, on my forward trip tonight I drove past a vehicle with a few blokes inside, windows down, singing the barbie song at the top of their lungs.
