• TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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    3 months ago

    Sanity check: I’ve got a little bit of chicken alfredo pasta left over. Not enough for a serve by itself, but I was thinking maybe chucking it in the jaffle maker for lunch tomorrow? Mrs says that sounds horrible, but she also says a bakedbean jaffle is gross and hates a hot chip sandwich so I’m not sure I can trust her judgement.

  • just_kitten@aussie.zone
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    3 months ago

    Watched Fried Green Tomatoes. What a sweet and very 90s movie. I felt all the warm and tinglies. Jessica Tandy was very lovely but her accent was all over the place which was distracting…

  • Taleya@aussie.zone
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    3 months ago

    Random question: have you heard the phrase “(he / she /it) went mad and we shot them” in response to a query, or even just answering the phone? It’s something quite commonly used in my family, but when i answered a work call with it “not here, she went mad so we shot her” the zoomer on the other end lost their shit.

    Edit: might be worth dating yourself, genX here

    • SituationCake@aussie.zone
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      3 months ago

      Yes I’ve heard it many times, but now that I think of it, not recently. Did zoomer loose their shit because they thought it funny, or thought it offensive?

      • Taleya@aussie.zone
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        3 months ago

        Just couldn’t handle it. They weren’t offended per se, but there was a lot of “oh my god what???”

    • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I’ve never heard it, but it’s the sort of thing I could imagine an old person saying/having been popular many decades ago. Probably not suitable in a work enrolment, but I see the humour in it either way

      (I wrote this before your edit, forgot to hit post. Pretty firmly gen z here)

      • TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Spot on. Would def be a survival from days when nearly everyone had a rural background or on a farm. Probably originally referred to dogs … even though rabies has been eradicated from Australia for a very long time.

        • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
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          3 months ago

          I don’t think we’ve ever had rabies, have we? There’s only ever been 2 deaths as far as I can tell, one in '87 and the other in 1990, and both were contacted overseas. We do have the Australian bat lysavirus which is similar to rabies, but there’s only been 3 deaths from that, with the earliest being in 1996. Also, I think that’s only been found in 2 horses, and nothing else

          • TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zoneEnglish
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            3 months ago

            Interesting point. Rabies is a virus, and needs a living host. Given the long incubation period I would be very surprised if the virus had not come into Aus with the early european settlers, but died out when not transmitted. The early settlers mostly came from environments where rabies was present and much feared. So much so that even a suspicion of infection was sufficient for an animal to be shot - as per comments above. You might like to read up on the history of Louis Pasteur, yes the pasteurisation bloke. He invented the first rabies vaccine for humans and this is what he was known for at the time. Its quite a story.

            Lyssavirus has an endemic host species here - bats - so there’s an ongoing source of infection present even though the transmission route is complex. Basically, the bat has to piss on grass, then a horse has to eat that grass to catch the virus. Then horse dies and so does any human that’s been in contact with the horse. Vic Rail was the guy who died first from lyssavirus - he was a racehorse trainer and one of the better ones. I knew him way back when, and he is still sorely missed. No vaccine for lyssavirus available or likely as it’s easier and cheaper to just euthanase any affected horses before any people die.

        • Taleya@aussie.zone
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          3 months ago

          Uh, no. It’s just black humour. "Hey dad - " dad: “he’s not here, he went mad and we shot him”

    • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
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      3 months ago

      Yeah it was a common one growing up.

      Along with ‘you might be a pain/pane but we can’t see through ya’ and ‘I’ll give you something to cry about’.

      • Taleya@aussie.zone
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        3 months ago

        That last one needs to die.

        Thebother two may be black humour, but something to cry about is flat out abuse

    • Catfish@aussie.zone
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      3 months ago

      I’ve heard it, but not recently, and certainly not at work! It’s a pick your audience carefully sort of dark humour. Xer

      • Taleya@aussie.zone
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        3 months ago

        Second nsfw comment. Not sure if me being terribly ASD or working in cinema too long.

  • SituationCake@aussie.zone
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    3 months ago

    Saw Deadpool. My review: Lots of sharp self aware humour, and perfectly ridiculous high energy action sequences. Silly plot but it that’s all it needed to be. Had a good laugh.

  • bacon@aussie.zone
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    3 months ago

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  • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
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    3 months ago

    I had a dream last night that the woman buying my sewing machine on Marketplace accidentally gave me way too much money (like a couple of thousand instead of a hundred). I knew the right thing to do was to let her know and give the extra cash back, but holding a big wad of money was way too tempting. I was still wresting between my decision as to whether to do the right thing or keep the money when I woke up.

  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
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    3 months ago
    Politics/class

    I feel like Australia is increasingly becoming stratified. There are people who are still a bit more protected but the people at the bottom are left fighting each other for scraps and dragging each other down like crabs in a bucket.

    Occupy Melbourne was incoherent and quickly squashed but these are the living conditions that were predicted and protested

    • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
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      3 months ago

      It has always been like this.

      For a few decades the middle class forgot they were still part of the proletariat and weren’t really independent bourgeoisie.

      Occupy was a Russian front, ignore it.

      What the Marxists never say, or maybe they never figured it out, is that America and Australia only had good post war living standards for the working classes because they were the only western countries that hadn’t had their factories bombed to the shithouse. It meant we became primary and secondary industry powerhouses. But once industry had enough money again and factories could be built in places with cheaper labour we were doomed. That’s what capitalism is.

      me and my husband had to get professional jobs overseas to escape the old boy network and that was 25 years ago

        • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
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          3 months ago

          The law locks up the man or woman

          Who steals the goose from off the common

          But leaves the greater villain loose

          Who steals the common from off the goose.

          The law demands that we atone

          When we take things we do not own

          But leaves the lords and ladies fine

          Who take things that are yours and mine.

          The poor and wretched don’t escape

          If they conspire the law to break;

          This must be so but they endure

          Those who conspire to make the law.

          The law locks up the man or woman

          Who steals the goose from off the common

          And geese will still a common lack

          Till they go and steal it back

          ~Late 1700s

    • Stephen Darby :ma_flag_aus:@mastodon.au
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      3 months ago

      @melbaboutown @Seagoon_
      Apparently the revolutionary French visited Australia and declared Australia practised “Socialism without doctrine”. That was long ago and trades hall today is a museum of collapsed trade unions. Both left and right totalitarian systems are currently regarded as frightfully modern era and intemperate. I can’t wait to see what comes after post-modernism.

  • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
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    3 months ago

    Late night Movie Review. The Gold of Rome. Italy.1960. Re-enactment of German occupation of Rome in wwii and the extortion of the Italian Jewish population.

    3 hobbits.

    The Abandoned. 1955. Italy. wwii Italy, a young aristo is challenged to become involved and join the cause against Germany when refugees from the bombing of Milan are assigned to his villa.

    3 hobbits

    Both these B&W movies are beautifully shot and acted and they add to understanding modern history of Italy.

  • just_kitten@aussie.zone
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    3 months ago

    I want cooookiiieess to go with my evening cuppa… but I’m too lazy to wear real clothes to go to the shops… I’ll save myself some calories tonight then 😮‍💨