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si_fuller

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I'm a middle-aged single dad living on the Atherton Tablelands, Australia. I work in Aged Care. Hobbies include tabletop roleplaying games, casual computer gaming, short hikes, and wincing in pain. Take it as read that I believe in all the usual left-wing, egalitarian stuff, but I rarely post about any of it.

I talk about Sweden way too much for someone who isn't in any way Swedish. Sometimes I even try writing in Svensk.

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si_fuller, to random
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I have to take a bunch of teens down to Elixir Music House in Cairns to watch some bands. I've never heard of the place, but I was ready to be the one old guy in a crowd of children.

I just looked at their Facebook page, I now think I'll be on the young side.

si_fuller,
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@timrichards I don't have a clue.

timrichards, to melbourne
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I'm not too bothered by this. Libraries have other roles than lending books nowadays; the increased study space is much needed.

Melbourne City Library: Book collection culled as shelving reduced to make way for more meeting spaces

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/pulped-fiction-thousands-of-library-books-removed-as-collection-culled-20240509-p5jb7a.html

si_fuller,
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@timrichards Hahaha if only they knew the dark truth. Libraries discard books constantly, often large sections of the collection. I personally destroyed many thousand books in my former career. Often, I enjoyed it.

timrichards, to Korean
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Note: it's "yea or nay?", not "yay or nay?" (Though the pronunciation is the same.)

#Language #English #Writing

si_fuller,
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@timrichards Ja eller nej.

timrichards, to random
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Back home again! My journey back from Longreach to Melbourne broke down as follows:

Spirit of the Outback train 🚂
Airport train 🚊
Plane ✈️
Airport bus 🚍
Tram 🚃

Phew. Feel exhausted just writing that down.

Also on the walk from the tram to the apartment I passed H&M, which had somewhat lurid brothel colours going on:

si_fuller,
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@timrichards I didn't know we had H&M in this country. I bought a selection of very nice undies from H&M when on holiday in a AirBNB that didn't have a washing machine.
Travel. It's all about the memories we make.

si_fuller,
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@timrichards It looks pretty amazing from the outside too.

TarkabarkaHolgy, to Parenting

I am considering a new dissertation titled

"Parental gender roles, weaponized incompetence, and differing masculinities: Bandit vs Papa Pig."

#parenting #cartoons #Bluey #PeppaPig

si_fuller,
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@TarkabarkaHolgy The thing about Bandit is in the first season he was competent, a caregiver, all that stuff that gave the show a good reputation. But later he became more and more like the stereotype, beside his hyper-competent ultimate authority stereotype Mum. He even picked up a weight problem, which is weird because they're all identical rectangles. But the reputation remained.

dgar, to random
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Just when you think that food cannot possibly call you on your phone....BOOM!!!

Onion rings.

si_fuller,
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@dgar

si_fuller,
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@dgar It was the most pointless cartoon, but Richard Ayoade voiced Onion, and he's great.

futurebird, to random
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I’m very fond of stories in a universe where some advanced, but long vanished, race of enigmatic aliens has left behind strange artifacts: like puzzle boxes or dungeons for our heroes to explore and nearly get killed in. If not aliens let it be a lost human civilization.

I also like to think about those ancient people who built the ‘Temple of Doom’— for all of those traps to work so well after thousands of years they must have been very clever. What was it like to set them up?

si_fuller,
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@futurebird You know how at the end of Raiders where you see the huge secure warehouse full of mystic artefacts? What if that's exactly what the hidden temples were, and there was some Biblical Indiana Jones who stole the Ark from an even older secure site. And some day, a 45th century Indiana Jones will rob the US warehouse and defy its security.

timrichards, (edited ) to books
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Just finished this, a fun read about a largely forgotten war between Britain and Spain. Lots of larger than life characters and awkward mishaps involved, which the author brings to the fore. The ebook version is overpriced, but it is entertaining.

si_fuller,
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@timrichards Ah the one where you have to stop and think, was that the name of a real war, or was it from a Terry Pratchett book?

dgar, to random
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Remember before the internet when you’d have a disagreement on the actual lyrics to a song, you could only win the argument if you had the album sleeve with the lyrics written in it?

si_fuller,
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@dgar These days you can just look up what some stranger thinks they heard, and verify it by looking at over 500 different sources that all use the same incorrect lyrics they pinched off each other.

timrichards, to Travel
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Oh dear. Cc @travelfish

A drunk Australian ran ‘amok’ in Bali. Locals locked him in a mini-mart

(maybe paywalled) https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/a-drunk-australian-ran-amok-in-bali-locals-locked-him-in-a-mini-mart-20240414-p5fjor.html

si_fuller,
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@timrichards @travelfish An Australian man in a mini mart, story illustrated with a woman in tight pants on a scooter. Is she even in Bali? Who knows.

dgar, to Bloomscrolling
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These plants sprouted in the garden after the eclipse. They grow really quick and have the most spectacular flower!

Anyone know what they are?

si_fuller,
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@dgar I can't see the picture

dgar, to random
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Chocolate comes from cocoa, which is a plant.

Therefore, chocolate is salad.

The end.

si_fuller,
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@dgar you'd have to mix it with a couple of other vegetables for it to count as a salad. Like maybe chips and heroin.

si_fuller, to random
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"We are currently experiencing a higher than normal volume of calls ..."

They invent robots to answer the phone, then almost immediately teach them to lie.

timrichards, to coffee
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Fun read:

Who invented the flat white? Italian sugar farmers from regional Queensland likely played a big role https://theconversation.com/who-invented-the-flat-white-italian-sugar-farmers-from-regional-queensland-likely-played-a-big-role-224747

si_fuller,
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@timrichards Huh. Living in a town with a huge Italian heritage, it's fun to read that we had the most espresso machines after Italy and Spain.

It's also endlessly amusing listening to all the things New Zealanders claim to have invented. Planes! Jogging! Pavlova! Fire probably!

si_fuller, to random
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Mate. Just buy a reasonably sized car.

timrichards, to auspol
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It's striking how similar the UK's housing problems are to those in Australia. This state of things cannot endure.

Neglected, derided and exploited more than ever: why won’t the UK protect those who rent a home?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/24/uk-rent-homes-housing-demand-supply-politicians?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

si_fuller,
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@timrichards The similarity isn't surprising though. I remember one T. Abbott making regular trips to conservative conferences in the UK.

dgar, to random
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Shout out to the people asking what the opposite of in is.

si_fuller,
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@dgar The cool kids always tell me the opposite of in is me.

dgar, (edited ) to Nostalgia
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Now listening to:
The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper’s Feast
~ Roger Glover and friends.

The entire concept album. Simply amazing.

https://songwhip.com/roger-glover/the-butterfly-ball-and-the-grasshoppers-feast

si_fuller,
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@dgar Sung by the frog who would become heavy metal legend Ronny James Dio.

dgar, to random
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Life is too short to remove USB safely...

si_fuller,
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@dgar At my last job we had a photocopier where it actually made a difference. If you didn't safely remove it, you'd lose your work.

si_fuller, to random
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Six years I've lived in the desert,
And every night I dream of the sea.

si_fuller, to random
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The graffiti is more refined down this end of town.

timrichards, to coffee
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The Google Doodle today is a flat white. Cute. Is it international coffee day or something?

si_fuller,
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@timrichards Google doodles were once quirky, fun, rare, and often informative. There doesn't seem to be any point to them now. The difference between doing something lighthearted because you can, and doing something because market testing suggested a 3% increase in eye focus, I suppose.

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