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[โ€“] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Got the details for the funeral for my old colleague. I'm going to go, even though I haven't spoken to him in years and years, since before COVID even. He made working at Computershare tolerable - guaranteed to make me cry-laugh with the jokes and witty comebacks he had for the micro-managers there๐Ÿ˜‚ taught me how to handle those managers when I took over his role.

It's the least I can do I think, pay my respects and remember how he made me laugh so hard.

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  • [โ€“] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Good news: test results came back, i am not a pencil

    Bad news: noro

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  • [โ€“] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Someone used just about all of my butter in the work fridge! I'm probably more annoyed that they left the tiniest little scrape in the corner instead of just throwing it out the container.

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  • [โ€“] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Wake up early and refreshed, get dressed, drive to the train station.......bus replacement service.

    So back at home in trackies and debating whether to chuck a sickie.

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  • [โ€“] 8 points 1 year ago (38 children)

    I need to liven this place up a bit.

    What would be the worst gift someone could give you?

    Me: Tickets to a musical.

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    I was highly unimpressed with being given a calculator and apron for the next school year. Also a 20+ year old hairdryer. A hot pink thong (hilarious ๐Ÿ™„). And a cheap bench mixer bought in a January sale so it had 2 weeks warranty

    I did like the kitten

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I once got a pair of Donald Trump socks. Complete with a little turf of hair at the top. They were part of a "Shit Present" gag gifting thing, but they were the most awful and was so happy to swap it for a book of dad jokes.

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 1 year ago

    One Christmas an aunt gave me a ceramic oil burner cork with some wick through it. Just the cork and wick. No oil. No bottle. I was about ten. Straight to the op shop.

    Today I guess an ex rocking up with the gift of a child.

    More locally, hoppy hipster IPA beers. I like plain beer: aldi blonde, Heineken, corona, Carlton dry.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    things to do while you poo book by โ€œHugh Jassburnโ€

    Push? Grunt? Consider more fibre in your diet?

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    All you can eat tickets to a baked bean festival

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I wouldn't mind that as long as there's toast to go with.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I know having received them.

    Gold class movie tickets and gift vouchers for David Jones/Myers.

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    I donโ€™t go out for movies and Myers and David jones donโ€™t offer me much and are overpriced.

    They gutted their electronic departments and have nothing for me.

    Sitting on a David Jones voucher at the moment, all I can think of buying from there is coffee.

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  • [โ€“] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    "Oh hey, sorry I'm going to need the rest of the week off. My cat is having seperation anxiety."

    Edit: I had my first random endorphin rush today. And my first real laugh in a decade.

    Felt great :)

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Please report on how BFF goes! I just looked it up and am disappointed to be told I can't be friends with guys. This is dumb.

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    She is apologising profusely.

    But not actually doing anything about fixing her behaviour? That's crappy, you deserve better than that. Even if you had waited for her to text to, she's still leaving you waiting when agreed on a time and then chose to game. And the rub salt in the wound by sending you a picture of said game.

    Sorry, that makes me very angry on your behalf. You are not overreacting, she is not respecting you.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    FYI https://www.reddit.com/r/bumblebff/comments/1bhy7xz/this_creepy_man_wont_give_upkeeps_making_new/

    Be careful as you donโ€™t know who youโ€™re meeting. Anyone can pretend to be anything on the internet.

    Also still be cautious as even if the person is a girl looking for friends, because thereโ€™s a reason some of them donโ€™t have any.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 1 year ago

    Iโ€™d be pissed as well.

    Excuses excuses excuses, I canโ€™t really be ok with that

    Her attitude is basically if itโ€™s her skin or responsibility then she can shrug it off and do whatever she wants.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    What are your hobbies? Can you find hobby groups and then friends within that?

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    DnD is a great place to make friends. Try to find a group of your peers. Many Uni's have role playing clubs as well as a bunch of options around town.

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  • [โ€“] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I know how to describe what's happening.

    My life feels neglected while I was taking suboxone. Now I'm awake and it's like "where is everything?".

    It hurts a bit.

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  • [โ€“] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    deep thoughts for 7am which may or may not be relevantMaybe what you're feeling is grief for the time spent on suboxone - grief for the wasted time. But taking it may well have been a higher priority at the time, and so should not be regretted in the overall scheme of things. Feel the grief, and move on. This takes courage, which you have in plenty.

    EDIT: Like a broken leg: you go to hospital and a plaster cast is put on, then when the bone has healed the cast comes off and your leg is shrunken and muscle wasted, so you do physio to get back function in the leg. Then you can put away the crutches and walk forward freely. In this analogy, the cast was was suboxone, the grief is the physio. Eventually you'll walk forward freely. The physio is not wasted - it's a necessary step in healing.

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  • Thank you โค๏ธ

    It makes sense and the analogy is accurate. There is a panic to make up for lost time as quickly as possible.

    Which can't be done, which then turns into frustration and sadness.

    You've given me a lot to think about, thank you :)

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  • [โ€“] 7 points 1 year ago (25 children)

    I went to Hobbiton yesterday. AMA.

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    No. I acquired a stein from the Green Dragon.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    They were given out to everyone. ๐Ÿบ

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    What was your fav thing? Which part did you geek out over the most? Were the banquet staff in theme or just casual? Did it feel tacky or genuine? Was it crowded?

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    My favourite thing was the night walk with lanterns through the village.

    Geek out? The biggest geek out was seeing how the paths of the location was designed to take good pictures .

    And how props were just everyday things that were personalised for the movie. For example sets of kitchenware that were all different but painted to look like a set.

    Banquet staff in casual.

    Not tacky. I think the people who got most out of it were deep fans.

    It was super crowded. We had four geeks in costume, I sat with them for drinks and they were so nice and so very very happy to be there.

    I felt a little patronised but then I have to remember most people are not super geeks

    the location itself is being slowly consumed by the New Zealand tropical environment

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  • [โ€“] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Seeing the newly released Erin Patterson evidence, like photos of dehydrator with mushrooms in it, and mushrooms being weighed, and her trying to leave the hospital despite being told her life was at risk, and having zero concern about her kids being at risk; makes me wonder why the jury deliberated for so long. She knew what sheโ€™d done and confidently knew she hadnโ€™t served herself or the kids any.

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  • [โ€“] 7 points 1 year ago*

    Muting people on my Insta excessively posting about being in Europe. Iโ€™m happy for them and all, and yes Iโ€™m jealous, but I donโ€™t need to see daily stories & every-other-day profile posts about your trip.

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 1 year ago

    I had too much coffee... several hours of indigestion and burping later, I'm still wired and tired, deep in rabbit holes over what constitutes an employee vs independent contractor for the purposes of superannuation guarantee... and how to word contracts so as not to hand over IP or be stuck in exclusivity classes...

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