Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.
FUCK you, duolingo, you don’t get to ding me for using mangi over mangiate translating ‘you eat the grapes’ you don’t get to fucking do that
I just did my tax and holy shit they weren’t kidding about getting less back this year. I really really need to get myself an accountant/financial advisor who can help me finesse my money so I can pay less tax. It’s friggin insane. I’m all for paying a fair share but I feel like I’m paying my share and maybe someone else’s too.
Edit: just updated my income/tax spreadsheet and found that even though the amount of tax I’m paying is obscene, the % of my income paid in tax is actually pretty consistent, even marginally down from the previous 3 years. Still hurts but this puts it into perspective.
image is of a chart of my % Tax Paid for the last 14 years
Yeah but mate we’ve all gotta pay for poor Gina and Clive! The poor multimillion dollar bastards can’t afford to pay their fair share!
Also don’t forget, we gotta slash the NDIS!
I got 18k back last year due to a workplace fuckup (they forgot to put in the low income threshold) so I’m already expecting a significantly smaller return lol. My accountant loves me though, i literally give them a fat record of every hour worked from home to calculate claims against
With the scrapping of the low and middle income tax offset, stage 3 cuts are needed.
However I do disagree with the timing. Implementing them while inflation is high is just going to make it worse.
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Seriously the man keeps shitting himself and it’s putrid. Even the dog left the room in a huff and left me in the dust cloud. I have succumbed to tying a hanky around my head cowboy style with a little eucalyptus on it so I don’t vomit.
Oh as in stomach bug? Not fun. Not fun at all!
No as in “he has a cold and can’t smell his own farts”
Oh just farts? Yeah that could be a lot worse ey.
My cat is very confused by the new schedule and just screams at me for the first 10 minutes of me being home. He does have my housemate and their cat but I do worry about separation anxiety after me being home all the time for the past few years.
I have almost reached 50 reviews/ratings on goodreads. That’s about how exciting my life is these days.
What are you all excited/happy about recently?
My blog had two viewers today. They were both me using different devices, but it’s something.
Also I have a burger planned for dinner tonight. That’s pretty exciting.
What’s your blog?
Blog! Please share (if you feel comfortable with other people reading it, of course)?
It’s pretty much just my holiday photos, with a bit of writing so I can remember where I have been! It’s mostly just to record for myself and share with family and friends. I already put a link to my trip in to Melbourne last week, you can have a look if you like. 🙂
I’m very early to Lizzo but my anxiety is soothed because I’m here and in the correct seat.
Better to be early than late. Hope the show is awesome!
It was amazing, worth being there early for! Lol
Have an amazing time!! I’m meant to be there but had to give up my ticket because I’m sick. I’d be more pissed at my body, but I saw her on Friday in Perth. Enjoy every moment, she’s AMAAAAAZING!!!
SHE WAS AMAZING!! I’m going to her show again tomorrow but kind of wish I had a GA ticket lol
It seems like Beyonce is going to be a judge on The Voice this year. How did they manage to get someone of her calibre?
Because she’s hard up for a crust. She’s got a family to feed.
She is going on a huge world tour though.
I feel like the reason why Beyonce is so ‘big’ is just because people say she is. Am I misreading that?
may i direct your attention to the Grammy awards?
That’s just more people saying she is though, isn’t it? I don’t really take much notice of awards like that. Someone told me to listen to her newest album I think a year or so back and I really didn’t think anything of it. From memory it was just her singing about how great she was and nothing special. I know she’s had some huge hits in the past though. I dunno… I just always thought people spoke about her like some shining golden goddess and I never saw her being at that level.
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So, at the start of the year my regular GP said that I “probably have chronic fatigue” and that it’s likely due to my depression. But lately my depression has been okay (anxiety, okay maybe not so much but I’ve been under far better control all things considered). And yet the feeling has come back of being super tired, headache, with pain at the back of my neck/top of my spine.
Anyway, found someone locally who specialises in chronic fatigue. He’s away on holidays as of today though, so it’ll be a while before I even set up a chat with him. Still, I’m hoping maybe it can lead to a bit more than a vague diagnosis with no real plan.
Hopefully you can get some answers!
This woman next door (next building, not in mine) just won’t. stop. yelling. Someone else in my building yelled at her to ‘shut the fuck up’, which made me giggle. But this is the same yelly woman from a few weeks ago… she has not abated; she goes out for whatever, and just yells the most heinous stuff. Super triggering content, like really bad, littered with swears (I swear a lot, she makes me cringe) and I just cannot deal anymore. I don’t anyone else on my side of the building can deal anymore.
I wish I had of gone to Perth with the cat and mein liebe instead of renewing this lease; it would have been difficult, and expensive, but we could have made it work… I could be chilling the fuck out at Noranda Palms Red Rooster right now. Fuck. FUCK.
I have an actual migraine from being triggered, I swear to FUCKING GOD if I have night terrors tonight I am going to fucking SMASH SOMETHING FUCK
/ENDRANT ENDME
EDIT: AND XBOX GAME PASS IS GOING UP TO TWENTY-MOTHERFUCKING-DOLLARS MICROSOFT YOU ABSOLUTE SLAGATHOR GREEDY MFS
What is the woman yelling about or at? Or is it random and nonsensical?
I wonder if there’s something where you might be able to call the authorities for either some sort of wellness check or for a noise complaint or concern.
Ack. Is that by 20 dollars a year?
$20 per month, you sweet summer child lol
Heavy Trigger Warning - CSA/SA
I am not a doctor, tho it appears to be some kind of psychosis. She often yells to back off and fuck off and worse, but no one is there. She yells about being raped and assaulted, as a child and adult, both events I have experienced as a child and for 8 years with my ex-partner. It’s confronting, triggering, my heart races; I cannot imagine the level of pain she has experiences and the lack of support she has had so far to deal with it. It saddens me deeply, as that could very well be me down there, I just want to fix it for her and take her pain away, but I can’t even do that for myself. I have the start of a migraine coming, and I want to throw up.
I’ll call the non-emergency line in the morning; right now I’m just going to keep crying and listening to music. I’ll be fine.
Oh I’m so sorry, it’s so sad to hear that you’ve had to go through that horrible experience.
My partner was also subjected to it by her ex and occasionally also gets triggered by certain things even after all the work she had to do to get to where she is now.
Unfortunately I’m not sure there’s much we can do for the poor soul. Even I feel helpless that I was not able to help my partner when she was in need of support at the time thought I had met her long after those events.
You do what you need to do to do but if you need some help or something to distract you or to talk to, you know where to find it.
Is your partner around to give you some support?
Also 20 dollars extra a month is insane.
Baby kicked me in the throat. Do not rate.
When my son was a baby he threw his head back suddenly and clocked me right in the jaw in the knockout place. Was all I could do to stay conscious! The throat though, that would hurt.
The initial hit wasn’t too bad. But is suspect he’s bruised something cause it’s sore to swallow now.
So I finally got off my butt to get a hideous photo of myself for my passport renewal of which I had to pay handsomely for a rapid renewal, and… my mug was too big.
So I had to pay for an AusPost mugshot. Like, truly, a mugshot. The only thing missing was an orange jumpsuit.
If I didn’t like photos before, now I truly detest them. 😂
Rapid renewal is a fraud.
I did normal and got mine in business 5 days. The lady doing the mugshot (mines not great either heh) / renewal for me was very naughty in trying to upsell the express imo.
Yeah, I didn’t know I could pick it up on Wednesday until after I paid, meaning I could have brought a resized photo. Unfortunately, I had to be sure I’d get a renewal due to flying out in a fortnight.
Typical, I had to escalate my resignation to upper management as my boss hadn’t bothered to reply to me. Such a lazy spineless pos. He had sent the letter on to upper management. A simple cc would have been easy. At least I don’t have to rely on him to get my separation certificate. Not sure what to do next, I want to have the book thrown at them but I also want to put it all behind me. My best thought is to focus on the future and accept that I had a music and dj career far and beyond most people’s dreams. Let the people left there deal with the bullshit themselves.
Easy day, dental hygienist appt, wasted trip to the bank, my first hiccup using my preferred name. Whatever, these things take time and I have the rest of my life to sort the beauraucratic crap out. Working in the moring at 630 am. It’s nice becoming a morning person and I finish work before afternoon traffic. The cats always get me up pretty early but I’ll need an early night. I’m tired of saying onward and upward, I just want a peaceful life. This endless search for more, better, easier is a load of capitalist crap. No walk, had an afternoon nap and glad I decided a rest day was in order.
So I know I always call him Mr. Omoikiri but that’s just for ease because he’s my human and he has been for a long time and we always knew we were stuck with each other for forever. But I guess he really is (soon to be) mr. Omoikiri now
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Congrats!🥂
Yay! Congrats, nice nails too!
This is the biggest compliment of them all. I always read ‘ladies, make sure you have a manicure in case you get proposed to’ and when I was trying to take a photo of it this morning I thought ‘damn. I really should take better care of my nails/had a manicure’
Nice. Imperfections are what makes us human anyway. All the very best for your future wedded bliss.
Congratulations! 🍾🎉🥂
Shiny!
🖤🖤🖤
oooh congrats!
Yay! Congrats! 🥳
CONGRATULATIONS!
Also, nice ring.Congrats! That is a lovely ring
💜 💜 💜
Congrats to you both. Looks like serious conversation turned out to be super cereal! 💍
Congratulations! This is so lovely ❤️
Congratulations!!! What a lovely ring!
To Mr and Mrs Omoikiri! 🥂
aww, congratulations to you both.
Congratulations! So happy for you!
Congratulations 🎉🎉 exciting news!
Congratulations 🎉 After the vanilla slice incident he did owe you big time though.
He was on thin ice after that
hah I’d forgotten about that.
Maybe he’s making up for it by proposing.
Omg congratulations!
Congrats to both of you.
What’s the appropriate abbreviation? 婚おめ!!! You are both such a lovely couple. All the best for the road ahead.
Thank youuu! We were just saying how dumb and formal 婚約者 sounds actually. Now he’s going around calling me マイ婚約者 like a dummy.
That is exactly the kind of dorky lovable humour I’ve come to enjoy so much from your postings about the soon to be ハスバンド
Yay, congratulations!
Congrats!
That’s a nice ring there too.
Hope you’re both very happy!
I was always against the idea of diamonds, but mr Omoikiri thinks we’d best have something we can hawk in case the internet goes down and/or we have a zombie apocalypse and everything goes to shit.
CONGRATS!!
Congratulations to you both 🎉🎉
Congrats!
