Today, I heard someone refer to a flannel shirt as a “western shirt”…I had not heard that one before.
You hadn’t heard it before because they’re wrong.
Whaaaaat! Western shirt - tight fitting cotton plaid, sometimes with press studs. Flannel shirt - made with flannelette cotton (which is thicker) or wool, worn looser with ordinary buttons.
Two different style of shirts.
I grew up hearing “western shirt”, another term was a Miller Shirt as that was the popular brand. But then it had to have pearl snaps. I expect flannel shirts have buttons.
Well I asked about it, and they meant “western suburbs” so I was like …ohh snap!
They are clearly not western suburbs natives. Anyone who is would know the official uniform is adidas, hoodies, and fancy sneakers.
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Hungry Jack is dead to me. How dare he.
Let me try one, then I’ll decide
Looks good though. It’s only when you receive it do you realise it’s been slam dunked into the bag from the other side of the room. I’d still call it a parma if I ordered it.
😱💀
Welp, time to grab the pitchforks and drive Jack to the border.
Oh no. What gave they done?
That’s sacrilegious!
So, Planet Ark are trying to register an account to join aussie.zone. I would normally have rejected their application, as they are giving the vibe of ‘we want to spam’. So, I reached out to them on their contact form. I thought it possible they had a google analytics alert and noticed us discussing their products recently.
But, that was longer ago than I realised: It feels like we talked about that a few weeks ago. So now I’m back to thinking they want to spam. Gah!
I want answers, but I don’t want ads. I suppose I’ll wait to see if/how they respond to my website query.
man I cant see a good reason why brands need to be on a social media platform of this size, that’s just my 2 cents.
Businesses routinely have alerts on their brands with Google. It’s quite possible they got an email from Google that we were talking about their products. That part actually makes sense to me.
If they had applied for an account within a week or so of that discussion, and said in their application they were joining the site in response to it - I’d have thought it completely reasonable.
Am I gonna have to use leet speak or completely omit mentioning brands now
Why am I so tired today??
You ever wonder if you’re just tired a lot or if you’re actually Stage 3 something or other and just haven’t gone to the doctor? I think I might have hypochondria.
I just picked up an overtime shift and my inner accountant is thrilled. The rest of me is not so pleased with the addition of another early morning wakeup to my week ☹️
Such beautiful weather out today! I wish I wasn’t stuck in an office for most of it. Tonight is gonna be froooosty, I’m STOKED that I can roll outta bed late tomorrow. Have a meeting on campus at 2, plan is to try and finish all my work off by noon and quietly clock off after that. Would love to have a stroll round campus after if tomorrow’s as beautifully sunny as today.
Well, 11.5 degrees looks to be as warm as I’m getting today. I’m off to have a stroll around the neighbourhood with Mr Woof.
a; Noooo, nooo , do not send.
b; Send sir? The money is now sent.
a; You motherfucker
I love Kitboga 🤣🤣🤣
Retreating to bed cause it’s fucking freezing. Fortunately got the electric blanket on in preparation so beds nice and warm at least. Reckon I’ll leave the electric towel rail on tonight too just so don’t freeze my junk off when I get up at 6am.
Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋
Nice big bowl of porridge with brown sugar and milk and a bit of butter underneath like my Dad used to make it plz chef
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Ta
Muesli with yoghurt berries and banana please
🌾🥛🍓🫐🍌
A meat pie with sauce and a can of coke
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was reading the US papers and this is the name of a judge
Ural Glanville? aka Russian knobtown 🫠
You just can’t make this stuff up
Hot water bottle just woke me up cos sprang a leak. Only by now it’s a slightly warm water bottle which is a relief. And it’s only on its third year of use. Damn. TGF mattress protector. Would not be fun drying a mattress this time of year.
As with so many things in life, they don’t make em like they used to.
Augh. If you have a microwave, the heat discs they use to warm pet beds are very useful. LMK if you want a link.
Mattress is OK, thank the gods. Just sheets, pjs and me and this is all easy to fix. Time for a new hwb I guess.
I got one of those chargeable hot water bottles. Basically a giant version of those reusable hand pocket warmers. Gamechanger
If you change your password, but your password manager fails to capture it did you really even change your password? According to the system? Yes, you very much did.
A password manager that doesn’t capture a password is about as useful as an indicator on a BMW.
Last pass?
yep! Rubbish until the end hey.
Didn’t they have a massive data breach 2 years ago? I swear it was them.
Yes, I believe so. I CERTAINLY wouldnt use it personally. But its more a point to my security team: Either block it, or endorse a corporate solution. Till then im not *technically * doing anything wrong.
At least LastPass asks you if you want to update your password after you’ve changed it.
I’m using 1password and much prefer it. But it asks when the password is generated. What if the password field has a bunch of rules I need to follow and have to make edits after?
Check out Bitwarden. Free and pretty decent.
I know they get a lot of hate, but I actually like the new short Coles paper bags. They have about the same effective carrying capacity (unless you are buying something really light like a bulk purchase of marshmallows) but are much less likely to end up torn. They also seem more stable, things don’t end up rolling around inside the bag as much. The larger bags almost always ended up torn during delivery when they had cans of cat food and similar in them, it hasn’t happened once with the shorter ones.
I have not had the same experience. I find they all rip in no time. The plastic ones lasted 10-15 uses. The paper ones are lucky to last 2.
Lodged my tax return this morning. Took like 5 minutes
That’s how you know I’m poor
When they’re like “you got any investments bro? What about income from dividends? Don’t know what a dividend is? Oh, just put down “no” then, you poor fuck”
On the other hand when you have to answer “yes” it starts opening up a bunch of complicated questions to wade through. I put a small amount of money into some investment funds a couple of years ago and now I get to wade through a whole bunch of extra questions, all over tiny amounts of money. It’s all stuff like $20 of franking credits, $2.31 in foreign investment offsets and $6 of capital gains. I’m looking forward to hitting the age I can access Super and can just shove money in there and take it out tax free without all the hassle.
I’ve always loved the question to the effect of, “have you received any tips?” 🤣
I took an old mattress to the tip; does that count? 😂
The last time I did my tax that quickly I realised later I missed something and had to do an amendment. Turns out it meant the tax refund I had already received was higher than it should have been, so I had to repay the ATO 8c.
I has a quick look and plugged in some travel expenses since I started travelling off site at work and some other deductions.
This year thankfully is looking better than last year’s estimate.
Modern tax return stuff is so good how it already knows about all of my dividend and interest payments etc. Most things are auto-filled but I just need to crack open my google doc I keep with my expenses I put in and keep track of purchases I can claim, whack that stuff in there, get briefly mad at how much tax I pay every year and then hit submit. Probably takes me about 10 minutes. 15 with a double-check of everything.
Before I came to Australia I had this impression that tax was Awful and Complicated and A Nightmare - primarily from American media - and this was before I was old enough to have needed to file a tax return.
Only to find out it’s a total breeze here.
I think USA has the additional complication of having both State and Federal income taxes. There also seem to be a lot of things that can be deductable there that don’t apply here - like mortgage payments on your own home and the value of donations given to charity (not just money, but stuff like old clothes you drop off at the op shop!). Plus they have the option to file a joint tax return as a couple instead of being treated as two individuals, which is beneficial in some circumstances but not others.
Operative phrase there is ‘american media’.
It’s certainly a massive improvement on the old paper forms. The early electronic lodgements were also basically just the paper form online, all of this automatic stuff makes it so much easier.
