Discussion Thread 🧃 Monday 30 March 2026

7 months ago by YarraByte to c/melbourne

Gibsonhasafluffybutt 14 points 7 months ago

Interview in 15.

Wish me luck!

I do wish I could take some time to properly recover from the health stuff but the bills need to be paid.

Edit: made the short list!!!!!!

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CEOofmyhouse56 7 points 7 months ago

Good luck 🤞

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Catfish 6 points 7 months ago

🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛

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Seagoon_ 3 points 7 months ago

yay 😊😸

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StudChud 11 points 7 months ago

Apartment below me is doing renos blegh. So loud when it echoes up the alleyway oof. Also hear the weeping of one of th residents next door (assisted living building), I hope she is okay.

tw abuse

I spent yesterday with my Dad. He travelled all the way from the East to me, braving the replacement busses. We had a delicious lunch at a local cafe and I updated him on how I'm going. I finally told him what my mum said to me, that has coloured all my experiences since I was 14. And he said it was unforgivable. We commiserated about how we were victims of her abuse, and he said that it's okay if people don't understand because he understands.

It was cathartic, exactly what the small scared child in me needed.

I messaged my cousin (mums niece) on Facebook , and told her I what Pop did to me. She can do what she wants with that information, as she is a mum to two kids. I don't expect anything from her or to believe me, but I felt I needed to say something (something I wish someone had done for me).

I'm feeling scared, but more confident that I can be okay and eventually even happy.

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Eagle 8 points 7 months ago

It can be so hard to be honest about things like that, we get trapped in the idea that it happened because there is something wrong with us and we allow our abusers to control how we think and feel about ourselves. People who genuinely love us will always understand, and there is nothing wrong with us, only what was done to us. ❤️

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StudChud 6 points 7 months ago

It absolutely gave me a complex about my worth as a human. But hearing dad's side, and his experiences, it helped so much to hear him say he did want me and he has no regrets about me coming into being. I am wanted and loved. It'll take time to incorporate that into my brain properly.

Thank you for your kind words and care 💜💜💜 this community has helped so much

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Seagoon_ 5 points 7 months ago

this is so true 😭

spud is a beautiful person and her dad sounds just as good

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Seagoon_ 5 points 7 months ago

so many hugs for you all 🫂🫂🫂

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StudChud 3 points 7 months ago

💜💜💜

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Bottom_racer 4 points 7 months ago

I think the other day you were talking about catching up w/ your dad more. So glad that happened and he understands :)

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StudChud 5 points 7 months ago

Thank you, I'm glad too. It scared me to ask if we could catch up, but honestly it helped so so much.

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melbaboutown 4 points 7 months ago

Well done, that’s so brave

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Gibsonhasafluffybutt 2 points 7 months ago

♥️

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PeelerSheila 2 points 7 months ago

I'm glad for you spud, you deserved that catharsis a long time ago 🙏🏼

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Catfish 9 points 7 months ago

Hello week, I hate you already. Can the clocks go already please?

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SituationCake 4 points 7 months ago

Good news, it’s a 4 day week.

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Catfish 5 points 7 months ago

Three for me, then leave for 3 weeks 🎊

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Simon 9 points 7 months ago

Apcos selling a hot cross bun cut in half with coleslaw, pickles and a dim sim inbetween, worst news of 2026?

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Thornburywitch 6 points 7 months ago

Nooooooooooo

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SituationCake 6 points 7 months ago

Sounds like they put a Labrador in charge of recipes.

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CEOofmyhouse56 5 points 7 months ago

They're just cleaning out their fridge.

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StudChud 5 points 7 months ago

I love all of those foods, but together?

That is an atrocity.

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Alamutjones 5 points 7 months ago

…why

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tombruzzo 7 points 7 months ago

Oh god, I rode through a park this morning to avoid where I got hit by the car and the dew on the long grass immediately soaked through to my feet. And I had to ride through the grass for such a long stretch to get to a gap in the fence to go back on the road again.

If anyone can actually get Whittlesea city council to mow their lawns in a reasonable timeframe I am begging you to do so with the recent drop in temperature

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calhoon2005 7 points 7 months ago

Looks like they finally found Dezi Freeman - https://www.abc.net.au/...

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CEOofmyhouse56 7 points 7 months ago

Wow. Cops found Dezi and shot him.

https://www.abc.net.au/...

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StudChud 6 points 7 months ago

Holy shit he was alive!? Wtf!!!???

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CEOofmyhouse56 5 points 7 months ago

Yeah. He had help for sure and they will find out who that was.

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Thornburywitch 5 points 7 months ago

And that person or people will be marked out and under suspicion for the rest of their lives. I hope for their sake that they have a clean record and nothing outstanding against the law.

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Alamutjones 4 points 7 months ago

He knew that ground exceptionally well. He would have known where he could go

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Thornburywitch 5 points 7 months ago

Fairly inevitable when they found him. Coppers really really don't like it when people shoot fellow coppers.

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CEOofmyhouse56 1 point 7 months ago

Bang bang freeze.

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SituationCake 4 points 7 months ago

Maybe someone dobbed him in for the million dollars.

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CEOofmyhouse56 3 points 7 months ago

Possibly. Interesting.

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melbaboutown 4 points 7 months ago

Far out

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Force_majeure1234 3 points 7 months ago

😯

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LowExperience2368 3 points 7 months ago

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melbaboutown 6 points 7 months ago

Mr Trouble has had his April spot on a bit early and is frequenting my back yard again. Yesss. Yesss. This makes it much safer and easier if he has a medical emergency/gets injured and needs to be trapped.

Edit: He’s grumpy about me applying the antifungal cream and just kept sulkily walking away from me and pulling his leg back. He doesn’t want it. But if I’m letting him in I better start trying to treat.

I found spray cans of carpet sanitizer… hope I don’t choke on the perfume.

spoiler

It feels like Melbcat has just stepped out for a minute but I know that’s not true. I am breaking up inside about my girlie. I hate that she’s now no longer the focus

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RustyRaven 6 points 7 months ago

I've been working on updating my budget so that I'm tracking a lot of things in my spreadsheet that I was using multiple bank accounts for previously. It will make it easy to change over to a home loan with a single offset account in future and should also make it easier to provide the bank details when I apply.

I've been trying to make things as automated as possible so that I don't fall behind on tracking and can still see the balances of the different savings categories easily. I'm most of the way there, and have also been able to simplify a few areas that were getting a bit out of control - it's amazing how chaotic a spreadsheet can get when you keep tacking new things on here and there.

It is frustrating how many places still make changing direct debits difficult. My main credit card it looks like I have to cancel the debit and start again with a new one which isn't too bad, but BankWest still make you send in a paper form.

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Alamutjones 6 points 7 months ago

I’ve bought my allowance of Easter eggs. Ooooof

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Seagoon_ 4 points 7 months ago

or Ooooeuf

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Alamutjones 3 points 7 months ago

Booooo

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Seagoon_ 2 points 7 months ago

Boooeuf

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Catfish 2 points 7 months ago

eyren even 👀

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melbaboutown 6 points 7 months ago

I’m being downvoted for posting frugal tips… in the frugal instance. Alrighty then.

(Probably the clickbait headline but I seem to remember some rule about editorialising headlines. And I put a TL;DR:)

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StudChud 6 points 7 months ago

Eh try not to worry about it. There's bots and just idiot Americans and Aussie cookers on here sadly, and they'll downvote everything that goes against their ideology.

The points mean nothing

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Bottom_racer 3 points 7 months ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWFF7ecArBk

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melbaboutown 2 points 7 months ago

I know. It just seems a bit weird.

‘A fork in the kitchen? Get that out of there’

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Seagoon_ 4 points 7 months ago

🤨

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LowExperience2368 6 points 7 months ago

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CEOofmyhouse56 5 points 7 months ago

Eat the fruit. Fruit is good for you.

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SaneMartigan 5 points 7 months ago

I buy fun sized stuff for that. I can have a whole* candy bar.

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Seagoon_ 4 points 7 months ago

the fruit is really good this year

and fruit is healthy 👍

( and I am not allergic )

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SpinMeAround 5 points 7 months ago

This sunshine is absolutely glorious, I just want to bask in it!

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Seagoon_ 4 points 7 months ago

beach was nice

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Taleya 5 points 7 months ago

Oh dear. Been gradually getting Cerys used to maniacs in dining room, then His Lordship comes out and halfway through a scrubs episode with Cerys we see a tiny ginger head emerge from under the couch.

Good news: cerys is kinda ok, but we ain't pushing it. And i need to fix a door that won't latch.

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RustyRaven 4 points 7 months ago

I bought some magnets recently and can't find them anywhere. I think I must have thrown them away with the packaging by mistake. 🙁

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Seagoon_ 4 points 7 months ago

I am making good inroads into fixing up the garden 😭 Knowing is was ruined and a mess was such a weight on me

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Seagoon_ 4 points 7 months ago

so dark

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tombruzzo 4 points 7 months ago

Getting on top of things this week and preparing ads for the long weekend now instead of having an 'oh shit's moment Thursday afternoon. Will be interesting to see what the response is come Tuesday

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bacon 3 points 7 months ago

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bacon 3 points 7 months ago

Beep Beep 🚚
🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋

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Seagoon_ 3 points 7 months ago

No coffee please, it just doesn't agree with me anymore

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bacon 4 points 7 months ago

🍺

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Seagoon_ 3 points 7 months ago

Thank you. I love fermented herbal drinks. 😸

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Alamutjones 4 points 7 months ago

Beer is a health food!

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Force_majeure1234 3 points 7 months ago

Yes

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bacon 2 points 7 months ago

🍫

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Force_majeure1234 2 points 7 months ago

THANKS CHEF!

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Catfish 3 points 7 months ago

Carrot soufflé please

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bacon 3 points 7 months ago

🥕🥚🥧

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Seagoon_ 3 points 7 months ago

and beach 😊🌞🐚

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Seagoon_ 2 points 7 months ago

Last night was the first time in my life I dreamt about food.

I dreamt I was drinking a big cool glass of milk with a spoon of milo on top. It was so delicious

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tombruzzo 1 point 7 months ago

It's meant to be warmer tomorrow but i might try my boots on the bike. I got these boots from Rivers but they all turned out to be duds. Weird sizing and they must be for a super narrow foot because they hug my feet in all the wrong places. Plus they're super heavy with a tread so hard it doesn't seem to grip anything.

But they are meant to be waterproof

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