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- maquito2
My mother in law did this amazing cheesecake for my son’s bday, but unfortunately it didn’t get enough cold and couldn’t even hold the candles. It’s been 5 days and we’re still eating it (wife & I. Son doesn’t like). Nomnom.
- Nutter4
Fridge update:
Got a email from repair company with a code I were to mention when calling support. So I had to ask them if it was the support of the company I brought the fridge from, or the manufacturer as they did not specify that.It was for the manufacturer. So I call them and mention the code, but they say that the company I brought the fridge from has closed the case and asked if I had heard anything from them (I had not). The person couldn't see why, as that was off limits to all except one department, but that it was still within warranty.
So I have to call again tomorrow when they hopefully have found out why it was closed...... all because of one bolt. Sigh.
- NBQ000
How does your week look like work wise? Do you work 100% Monday-Friday or less?
From next year on I just want to work Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday and either take the other days off or do some other part time job.
- Usually I make up a few hours earlier in the week so I can leave early Friday or not go at all.BuddhaHat
- 40 hours at the office, 10 hours of actual workdrgs
- Probably 30 hours of work from home. Never go to an office. I take off time each day as required by life and nobody notices.monospaced
- stoplying12
What's that? How did my day start? Funny you should ask.
Doing morning crunches on the bedroom floor with 10 year old son getting dressed near me. As I get to my last crunch, I rip a fart.
Son instantly kicks me in the butt, but the kick simultaneously makes a direct hit to the back of my balls. I roll over in agony groaning, he starts crying and apologizing. After 5 minutes of eyes closed, slow breathing, and cupping my balls, I ask him to not ever do that again. He agrees and goes to basketball practice, I ice my balls and start my day.- Monday was yesterday.
Stop that foolishness on a Tuesday!
Also: FUCKING OUCH.Continuity - lol, ouch. Do you ordinarily ice your balls to start the day tho?Nairn
- Some people pay good money for that action.hydro74
- Is your son named Damien?garbage
- I am dreading the day of the first proper kick the goolies from my little one. My sympathies.BuddhaHat
- hahahahmilfhunter
- HAHAHHApseud
- Doesn't want a brotherpango
- lolstoplying
- Monday was yesterday.
- Nutter10
joined a beginners running club today, it went well
- imbecile4
i think i may have inadvertently been involved in a road rage incident?
traffic was going slow in the left lane of the highway so I proceeded past a gray van and a white truck. the van going slow and the truck right on his bumper. as soon as i got in front of the van, another car moved over slowing traffic, so now my right turn signal is on and a white van is right beside me. i'm stuck.
the gray van then comes screaming up besides me, passing on the left rumble strips while i'm still in the left lane. surprised by this, I look over and there is a gun being pointed at me, held by the driver. i slam on the brakes. the truck's turbo whines loudly as it spins up and he takes off around me on the right. both of them speeding off.
I speed up to get the van's plates, he brake checks me but I still call 911 with the info. i follow at a distance to my exit, informing the dispatcher of their exit / direction before mine.
good morning
- PhanLo1
Watched Oppenheimer today at the cinema, really liked it, even though it was a Nolan movie it was pretty decent and intriguing the whole way through.
- I will watch at some point. But Murphy has a face that annoys me, much like Brian Cox (scientist not actor), like they took an E that never wore off.fadein11
- Considering how cheap his dialogue is in his other films, I thought Oppenheimer played out really well. Some of the chopping around got a tad confusingIanbolton
- Ianbolton2
I've hit the gym every day this week.
My routine is a simple:
Run: 1000m in under 5 minutes.
Row: 1000m in under 4 minutes.
Cycle: 6000m in 10 minutes.
Weights: until I can't feel my body.Today I feel exhausted.
- Re: 6km Cycle - is that on a machine? ';cos it takes me nearly that to do 3½km on an uber bike going home, I think.Nairn
- 36kmh or 20mph is a pretty decent pace to hold for 10 minutes straight, depending on the resistance of the machine.BuddhaHat
- it's a hill climb thing on the machines. No stop-start in traffic etc. Either way, my body is not happy today. I ache like fuck. Playing football this evening!Ianbolton
- and the bike must be set to 'least resistance' for most of the session as it's not that hardIanbolton
- You do all that in one workout? Fucking hell. How long is the weights part of it? What are you fitness goals, exactly?Continuity
- 25-35 mins. I don't really smash the weights. It's more for cardio as I want to be able to do the 5km park run under 25 mins like I used to be able to do.Ianbolton
- Aha, OK. Because otherwise, all of that cardio would actually be counter-productive to muscle-building.Continuity
- sarahfailin1
ok you guys know I'm just a graphic design fanboy/amateur, but what's the deal with the "make the logo bigger" demand?
Why is it such a laughable or idiotic request? I've really never gotten it...
- make it pop!YakuZoku
- The request is often made with no regard to overall composition, just a dim idea that bigger is better. It’s often from someone irrelevant to the job whoscarabin
- just wants to rub their dick on the project and say they had a hand in the designscarabin
- in short, don't hire someone to do something for you, then tell them how to do it.imbecile
- Empty space? There's obviously more room for the logo.duckseason
- The nuances of composition, balance, negative space, etc, are often lost on the client, who just sees room for More More More.i_monk
- They think the logo is what makes the sale. It's their identity.Hayoth
- Up one pixel, right one pixel, down one left one – now there ya' go!ArchitectofFate
- autoflavour6
Laying here at 3 am, jet lag forbidding sleep and thoughts of life choices tormenting me. After 3 weeks in Germany am acutely aware of past lives ending and the distance of family especially for my wife. In this sleep limbo am feeling a distinct sense of limbo in my life, between what we have and what we had .. the past is long gone and even revisiting Berlin there was a strong sense of visiting a memorial to a time past. The hardest part was going to our old hood and having my 12 year old start weeping uncontrollably.. he was 6 when we left but there is a sadness in him I can’t relate to. For him it was half his life, the part where all his aunts and uncles where only a 3 hour train ride away.. and while when I ask him if he would want to move back he says no, he likes his new life in Australia, the disconnect from the rest of his family is real.
Going back to Berlin was sad in a lot of ways, most of our friends have left and the ones who remain were about to leave or probably should for their sanity.. yet I come back and I look my own life choices in a much starker light..
it was 5 years between visits, which wasn’t planned but Covid .. so for him it’s impossible not to see the next time being 5 years from now, while for me given the state of everything every time I leave the country part of my half expects never to make it back.Couple that with us buying a percentage of my mums house to help her out with her mortgage literally the week before we left and then us spending the last of our savings on this trip, it’s hard not to feel a bit overwhelmed.. granted the money situation is temporary as pays will start rolling back in next week, but the 70k safety net is gone, all our accounts are tapped and that sense of not having a contingency plan which loomed so strong over our 7 years living in Berlin is here again.. albeit temporarily..
Jet lag sucks.. and perhaps self reflection is something I have spent too long avoiding so when I am stuck unable to sleep, the crushing realizations of time become all more apparent.
It’s also been a good few weeks without weed, which has helped a lot with insomnia generally but I am also sensing the rut of that returning isn’t the way forward.
I feel stuck between two worlds.. my mother is old and will eventually pass, and then we are alone in Australia.. my wife’s family is big but far away and while we could move back, it’s such an upheaval and the thought of starting over again crushes me..
Anyway, venting over
- I mean my prescription is for insomnia .. so that helps usuallyautoflavour
- TLDR, jet lag sucksautoflavour
- I can relate to the bit where you mention your mother is old. Mine is 75, and in Canada, whilst I'm out here in DE. Crushes me, a bit, because I actually don'tContinuity
- ... want to move back there.
In any case, daunting as it might be, maybe hitting your and your wife's Refresh button might what you need.Continuity - I know you've got kids, and it really is an upheaval, but — sometimes — up-ending everything to get what you truly want is the way to go, regardless of age orContinuity
- ... circumstance. I'm looking to do similar, where i feel I've done the DE thing to its maximum potential (for me), and am turning my eyes towards France orContinuity
- ... Spain as my life's Refresh button.Continuity
- Just some thoughts to mull over, if you're so inclined.Continuity
- Thanks Conti.. i guess for us the last 20 years we have either lived here or there, it’s been almost 7 years since we moved back and a big part of that was soautoflavour
- Our kids could put down some roots and go to school, and i don’t think a reset at this point would solve anything .. Berlin is over for us, and it’s not likeautoflavour
- We are going to move to Bielefeld anytime soon.. my kids speak very broken German so it would be a huge step backwards for themautoflavour
- Not to mention we would be starting from scratch, again .. we moved back also so my mother could see her grand children grow up, so moving back would be counterautoflavour
- To our original move. My wife’s mum has all her grand children near by so while she is sad we are so far, it’s not the same. At the end of the day we need toautoflavour
- Live our lives for us, and Australia for all its flaws is a good place to live, it’s just hard to feel so isolated sometimes. I’m just emotional and tired.autoflavour
- Gotta live somewhere, right? It’s just so hard when it’s here or there.. both have advantages and both have issuesautoflavour
- It’s now 4:40am. Still no sleep.. only endless thoughts of the future, the past and the present. I am constantly worried I am not present enough for my kids,autoflavour
- Especially after this last few weeks, my eldest was super clingy the whole Time always wanting to hold my hand and hug, which was sweet but also made me thinkautoflavour
- Perhaps he is lacking me being around .. it’s not that I’m absent, but I do have a lot of things I do outside of parenting .. it’s a wash of thoughts right Nowautoflavour
- Big choices to make, and the decisions may not be so hard after a good night of rest. Jet lag is real, and it does suck. Good luck with everythingstoplying
- Life choices are often made for us.. also for the record we have been back literally less than 24 hours.. so this will pass I’m sure .. just Would rather sleptautoflavour
- You had a mad time in Berlin though, must have some great memories, met some amazing artists, I imagine partied a fair bit. Things change but sometimes for...PhanLo
- ...the good. Oz is a pretty good place to exist, slightly more aggie scene for graffiti and mural art I suppose.PhanLo
- autoflavour5
Also I want to add our lives her in Australia are completely chalk and cheese to that we had in Berlin. We both have stable well paying jobs, are kids are mostly doing ok in school and the stability of routine balances things mostly .. and going back to Berlin and seeing what it is becoming or has become I think both saddens me but also makes me happy we left when we did, which is a weird feeling to say the least as for such a long time there was a hole left inside of me which would ache whenever I thought of what we left behind. Sounds dramatic I know, but there was a sorrow that would manifest almost as a mourning for that world, but also probably more so knowing that if letting go of that stage of life ..
Then I look and what we have here, who I am, what I do and I am acutely aware that in 6 years my son will be an adult, and 4 years later my daughter will too..
Fucking jet lag.. fucking with my soul in ways I really don’t need today
- i_monk3
Neighbour fell again.
- Old neighbor? :(jagara
- earth quake?pango
- In love?futurefood
- The old guy. At least he had clothes on this time, but still bled everywhere.i_monk
- oooof.....pango
- getting old sucksNutter
- so, was he allrite?islandbridge
- My grandma died that way.islandbridge
- A retired nurse in the building patched him up.i_monk
- Continuity6
I bought a nice Camembert au lait cru two days ago, and put it in the fridge.
I've eaten half of it so far, it's very yummy.
My fridge smells like Death itself farted in it.
- :)
But does it smell when the fridge door is shut?fadein11 - Not at all, but I really don't know if that's a good or bad thing. Because when it's closed, it's like the pong builds, up and builds up, until it's underContinuity
- ... explosive pressure.
Does smell ferment? If so, I'm in real trouble.Continuity - Or, rather, odour.Continuity
- I was referring to my 'Whiff' philosophy ha.fadein11
- AHAHAHA!! Yes!
Schrödinger's Whiff!Continuity
- :)
- imbecile1
Venture Brothers streaming
- Not for Canucks, eh?ideaist
- Mehico tooYakuZoku
- https://1337x.to/tor…scarabin
- fooler1
I had a McDonald's Big Mac for the first time in my life today. It wasn't good but I finished it.
- It's garbage.i_monk
- Backstory please. For never to have one was by will. To have one now had to be, suspiciously, in the need for sustenance?canoe
- We hardly ever had fast food growing up and never McDonalds. If did go I would get chicken nuggets or even a filet o fish. Then I was a vegetarian for 10 years.fooler
- Now I'm a single parent and my 2 boys wanted some McDonalds (A treat they hardly get) and I didn't feel like cooking.
So I decided I should finally try one.fooler - It was a disgusting mess with all the "special sauce". I do eat read meat and even burgers. I had a Shake Shack Burger for the first time last week and it wasfooler
- 100000xs better than anything McDs have produced.
edit = read = redfooler - I didn't have a Big Mac until I was like.. 25? Same meh. I'd eat their fries in a pinch when I was veg, then pissed but not surprised..garbage
- ..when I found out they were given a lard bath.garbage
- They don’t use lard anymore sadly.monospaced
- Yeah, but when there was a time where I had ethical concerns about food I was misinformed and eating tallow sticks.garbage
- I fucking love me a Big Mac!HAYZ1LLLA
- PonyBoy9
I was blown out of bed this morning by a full building fire alarm. I ran to the front door in my underpants to check the apartment hallway... it was filled with smoke. Threw on clothes and grabbed my IDs / money / laptop / dog and hauled ass outside with the rest of the building.
Turns out the twit in 306 put her oven on self clean then went out for a walk... that horrid lingering smell has made its way through the entire building now.
Side note: More than one tenant called 911. We are a tiny little town however the Fire Dept we can WALK TO in less than 8 minutes. The fucking FD didn’t show for over 20 mins - some of us were informed that because it’s Sunday nobody was directly at the fire house... it’s funny how you think you live in a nice small town with what appears to be good people that you would think their emergency services were on point... nope. My building would be rubble if it was an actual fire.
- Defug. Her oven must be filthy. I've done oven self cleaning many times but never any smoke.pango
- Wow! I had to call 911 recently and local police and an ambulance were there in less than 4 minutes. I couldn’t believe it.monospaced
- No FD in sundays?? Oh my...OBBTKN
- Local town FDs are volunteer-run in the States, aren't they?Nairn
- I'm asking. Sorry, that sounded like a challenge. "AREN'T THEY?!?!"Nairn
- How ironic you ask that Nairn... I'm right in the middle of building a new website for a very rural desert FD manned primarily by volunteers...PonyBoy
- ...the point of the site is primarily to bring in new volunteers. :)
Thing is—where I live... everyone is paid - no volunteers. Wealthy f'ing town too. :/PonyBoy - This is the site I'm rebuilding: http://www.tontofire…
circa '95 when it was built - the State does a shit job to keep many of these Dept's funded.PonyBoy - I'm building the site for 'free' ... however, I can write it off to an extent so I'm not exactly Mr. Good Community Boy here. :)PonyBoy
- I know there are volunteer fire fighters, I know it’s a volunteer system in general.monospaced
- it’s not :)monospaced
- oh wow. ya that screams 90spango
- DamnYakuZoku
- The site is on fire.
Talk about a poorly shod shoemaker!palimpsest - Ambulance for 4yo having allergic reaction to nuts. Eyes, face swelling, coughing. Friday evening. 2 Hours wait!...microkorg
- Could've driven to the hospital in 10 minutes. Even an indirect bus and changes would've been under an hour. Crazy.microkorg
- Ok, that website is the funniest thing I've seen in quite some time. The "Our Fire Chief" page is amazing.garbage
- garbage1
re: Pony
Had a similar situation a few weeks ago.
We've got a tiny utility room with storage racks, washer and dryer, waterheater, etc. It's probably 6x10, if that.
I was about to walk out the door with one of our dogs, and I heard a thump from the utility room. I'm thinking "Wait, didn't the missus have a meeting scheduled right now?". Roll my eyes and start to head back out, and I hear a POW.
So now I'm thinking "Jesus Christ, she probably just broke something" and head to the utility room. Open the door and the wall is on fire. Turns out our hand vac decided to commit suicide.
The there were several tiny lithium fires that were dangerously close to Monday morning's laundry that I stomped or swatted out. Then I turn around and the wall behind me is on fire, eating away the base of the water heater. So that explains the second pop. Google "LiPo fires" if you want to know how ridiculous these can be. Some cells will spew lithium lava, and others will violently explode.
At this point the gf is apprised of the fire, and is screaming "Should I call the cops?!"
Me, internally: "WHAT THE FUCK ARE THEY GONNA DO, SHOOT THE FIRE!?"
Me, externally: "I need you to Google how many cells are in this battery pack, right now".
Her: Six!
Which meant I was absolutely fucked in a claustrophobic room with 4 more LiPo bombs ready to go off.
I found Cell Three, and while I was reaching for it, it blew up in my face. GF says it was one of the most horrifying things she's ever seen. I only saw orange, and had temporary hearing loss in my right ear for a few days.
Found Cell Four, and it blew up just as I got it outside the door. Dug out Cells Five and Six, put them on the stoop and doused them with water to try to set them off, but apparently they were never compromised.
It was fucking traumatic, and insane to think that because she was on headphones and in a meeting, if I left the house 30 seconds sooner, it's very likely that all I would have left is one of my dogs and my car.
- Good god, what a story. Happy everything turned out OK. Did you get any injuries from Cell 3's detonation?Continuity
- Just the temporary deafness, ruined my favorite shirt, and I had to trim the left side of my beard to match what was seared off the right cheek.garbage
- Thank fuck that I had a beanie on and my hair tied back, or I'd have a really weird haircut at the moment.garbage
- Holy Sh*t!! lucky timing... lucky you had that beard tooPonyBoy
- https://www.youtube.…zardoz
- Shiet... I have the model.... Checking now just in case...pango
- The Pacha Mama from Salar de Uyuni has cast her spell on your vacuum cleaner.shapesalad
- All these cordless homeware tools, garden tools, made in China with low tier quality control are going to literally explode in the next few years.shapesalad
- not too sure. almost everything is made in china but I've never had anything exploded on me yet.pango
- @garbage. insurance?pango
- Jfc. I have drawers full of aging 18650s i should probably addressscarabin
- Wait what?! So, if I understood correctly all my battery hand tools are bombs waiting to explode in case don't know what?oey_oey
- Shoot the fire, lol!kaiyohtee
- perhaps compensation from dyson.pango
- That is fucking nuts, I'm glad you're okay. It makes me want to bin the Dyson which I hate anyway. Can't even vacuum a whole car before it goes flat.BuddhaHat
- @pangs It was a replacement battery from China, lol. The original battery doesn't have a very long life, and the gf ordered a Chinese knockoff.garbage
- But yeah, any LiPo you have could possibly rupture. If you have a phone where you can access the battery, take it out and spin it on a flat surface.garbage
- If it spins, you have a firecracker with a long fuse right next to your junk.garbage
- I'm assuming what happened here was the room got really humid. It's also next to the shower, and the washing machine is rumbling.garbage
- All it takes is a little bit of moisture and one compromised cell will go off, and trigger a chain reaction. I side-eye my DeWalts now.garbage
- glad everything is ok GarbageNutter
- https://youtu.be/zS6…shapesalad
- Have a similar Dyson. Utter shite. Battery goes flat after 1 min of use. Need to replug in again for a second then it'll run for another 20 seconds...microkorg
- then plug it in again for 1s for another 20s. until eventually just goes flat.
Charges in a cupboard. Maybe should just charge under supervision.microkorg - mine is doing fine so far. gets about 20 min run time at normal speed.pango
- We just replaced our Dyson vacs with Bosch versions. Battery lasts about 35 mins if you run it on high which is mind blowing compared to the Dyson. Was $200 tooslappy
- It was about 20 min here. The other day I spilled some bread crumbs and was like "oh where's the.. nvm, it exploded" lolgarbage
- We got a Shark hoover. Plug type not battery. Absolute SHITE. No suction! Advertising said 'no hair tangle technology'...microkorg
- ...The thing tangles more hair than any other vaccum I've ever owned.microkorg
- Really? We have the Shark robot, and that thing is a beast. My only complaint it's supposed to have AI mapping..garbage
- ..which I guess means it knows how to make a beeline for me, wherever I am, at all times.garbage
- autoflavour1
Jetlag Still kicking my ass.. although I am managing a few hours each night now.. still.. 4am is not the time to be awake
or maybe it is..
- shapesalad0
@garbage
Chinese battery quality:
- most chinese stuff is shitezardoz
- And https://youtu.be/yOA…shapesalad
- yeah the cheap stuff but not CATL. also next gen solid state batteries should get rid of this issue. It sucks for now.NBQ00
- We don't really get along, but I don't know why you're getting downvoted. It's dangerous tech that does not warrant any cut corners.garbage