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If I had no food and there was no open food outlets around to buy from I'd consider it - they're only making 1 dish per night, which is a lot safer, and the desserts don't need to be kept in temperature. Only the gnocchi though, the rice for the other two they'll make in a big batch earlier and a home kitchen won't be able to get it cool for reheating later in a safe amount of time - if anything that's what'll make you sick. Salad getting cross contaminated by the meat in the fridge or benches would also be a contender.
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They're not trying to help - there are still food outlets open. The cynic in me suspects they're trying to make a tax free buck on food that's going to be written off as an expense ("thrown away") by their original business by cooking food in an uninspected home kitchen with unknown sanitation, storage, and temperature-control. A lot of places are still open and doing takeaways. And given the number of people working from home or in self isolation, there's a lot more people with time to make their own dinner.
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Humphreys posted:Also got some normal spaghetti, Dinosaur pasta! What a crazy world we live in! You can buy penne that's as long as spaghetti!
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Apr 4, 2020 06:32
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It's okay to make a sandwich for dinner, or have toast. There's no rule that says you have to cook.
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Apr 4, 2020 09:00
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Eh, that food looks fine. It's not presented very nicely, and could use some more peas, but I doubt it was "stone cold" given the condensation visible on the containers. I mean, it's quarantine. It's 14 (?) days. You don't have to do any meal prep. What sort of luxury lives are they leading that grilled chicken breast, roast pumpkin, mashed sweet potato, and peas are beneath them?
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Apr 6, 2020 08:55
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Those shopping bags definitely can not be put through the washing machine. I've tried doing that in the past rather than wiping them down and they just rip apart after the first wash.
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Apr 9, 2020 11:20
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Blow posted:Negative. My money's on the mask tearing at the points the elastic's anchored pretty quickly.
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Apr 9, 2020 11:40
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Found some machine bobbins lying around and went to put them away in the drawer in my sewing machine. Put my hand in to pull out the plastic bag without looking and my fingers screamed "that's spider web". Pulled the bag out directly onto the floor and a black not-a-redback-but-similarly-sinister-looking spider tumbled out with it. I think I'll release this one off my property. I don't like the surprise of the hidey ones.
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Apr 12, 2020 10:25
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Of the few dentists near me that are open for emergencies, if it requires oxygen or using the drill they won't be able to do the procedure because of Covid risk. gently caress.
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Apr 14, 2020 09:51
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I got some dentafix from the pharmacy but couldn't get the temporary filling one, so I've got the crown gluing one to try to stick my tooth back together. It should help cover the sensitive bits. Until it wears off after a few days and I swallow it and a chunk of my tooth... Here's hoping the dentists aren't closed until September!
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Apr 14, 2020 10:31
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People are pro-social. I think a problem in the US is that they have seen time and time again people taking advantage of others in difficult times that they're extremely wary of anyone claiming to be working in their best interests.
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Apr 16, 2020 10:58
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Airstream Driver posted:Yellow mushrooms keep growing in my lime tree pot and it's giving me the shits. I've scraped off the top layer of soil a couple of times but they keep coming back. I'm worried the cat is going to eat one eventually. You could create a little mesh cage at the bottom of the tree to keep your cat away. Best (longer term) solution: get a lemon tree and graft your lime onto it and have a lemon/lime tree, and donate the original to someone without a mushroom craving cat
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Apr 17, 2020 09:29
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Bill Posters posted:Apparently the app doesn't use location services and instead uses Bluetooth to record other users that come into its proximity. That way it knows with who you've been in contact rather than where you've been. Of course that would be possible to infer given enough of a dataset. The Australian one uses GPS location. The news articles have been a bit confusing (deliberately?) by always mentioning the Singapore one (to normalise it?), but even it only had an adoption rate of 20%.
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Apr 18, 2020 00:54
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Bill Posters posted:It was the comparisons to Singapore that gave me the impression but it looks like we just don't know yet. ABC says "The app will monitor people's daily interactions using GPS" under key points: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-14/coronavirus-app-government-wants-australians-to-download/12148210 Though that article is old at this point - updated 3 days ago.  I'd say they'd go for location data - there's a pretty authoritarian/controlling streak in a lot of politicians, and I wouldn't be surprised if they just pass legislation so they can take the data straight from the telco companies since they'll get a very low number of people voluntarily installing the app Also, a lot of people I know don't leave bluetooth on as it is/perceived as a battery hog, so they'd have to make leaving bluetooth on compulsory as well if they went down that road.
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Apr 18, 2020 05:48
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UnfortunateSexFart posted:My apartment has 500 units and is on top of a shopping centre with a Woolies in it... ( it's not really about protecting you from the virus, it's about getting a foot in the door for mass surveillance in the mid-long term )I think I read the idea was that if you're in a certain (horizontal I would assume) distance of someone diagnosed with covid for more than 15 minutes you'd be considered potentially infected. Walking past the supermarket on the way home won't trigger it, but travelling in the same train carriage for 20minutes would. Lolie posted:There's rain forecast for later today but I want to spray the edges of my yard. To trust the forecast or not is the question. Also, what are you spraying for? If it's weeds, boiling water from a kettle is pretty effective and doesn't care about rain (depends on how much property you've got)
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Apr 19, 2020 00:03
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Deacon91 posted:Any way all the gluten free options for bread are actually really small, like two pieces put together probably make up one normal slice. I want to buy a bread maker and make her some decent sized loaves. Anyone got any experience or advice about brand or what to look for or even any other stores that stock some gluten free breads that might be better. So my suggestion is instead of toast for breakfast, make her a batch of breakfast quiches in a muffin tin (egg + bacon + veges + whatever mixed up - no pastry obviously).
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May 13, 2020 08:29
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Lolie posted:NSW is going to let pubs and clubs which provide sit-down meals open from Friday subject to the same 10 customers at a time limit which will apply to restaurants and cafes. I've always been under the impression that pubs and clubs don't really make a profit from serving meals so it will be interesting to see how many bother opening given the 10 at a time limit. A pub near work spent up big a few years ago on a fancy kitchen that could crank out meals like nobody's business and was a bit of a passion area for the owner. They've been doing take-away during the shutdown, I'd be shocked if they didn't open up even if it needs another staff member put on. Sometimes pubs also sub-let out the kitchen/dining areas to other businesses/chefs. No $10 lunches to be found in some places.
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May 14, 2020 08:52
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Malcolm Turnbeug posted:Most sense of routine I have atm is based around the fact that we're still on water restrictions for gardens so wed-fri--sunday I get up early and hose everything Also, bore water is salty and it builds up in the garden over time.
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May 15, 2020 09:06
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well why not posted:it’s been cold as in Sydney already. At least winter is only 3 months here. In the UK it’s like 8. Atrocious climate. I'd take consistency over the last month of rando overnight frosts followed by t-shirt-weather afternoons.
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Jun 1, 2020 02:35
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What? You've never tried to anticipate the wild fluctuations in temperature that is most of Australia in winter? Never been stuck trying to decide on whether to wear stockings under your pants because it's freezing in the morning but it'll be 25 degrees from 11am and then you'll be sweating? Or tried to plan ahead to take them off and put them back on to socialise after work when it's freezing again? The only thing I generally had to adjust in London was my coat - wear it in to work when its cold and hang it up until hometime when it's cold again. Your heat is mostly kept in by clothing layers, and if you're a bit too warm you can tug on some for a cool breeze to your skin.
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Jun 1, 2020 06:40
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Yeah, wearing "winter" clothes 10 months of the year is, in fact, great. Less time in the year I have to see a bunch of hairy-legged thongs and shorts wearers in summertime. And the beer isn't warm - it's at ambient temperature. When ambient temperature is "standing outside the pub while it snows" it's actually nice. 25C isn't hot, but it is if you've put on tights under your pants, are wearing a singlet, long sleeve top and jumper because when you left the house in the morning it was 2C. Double bagging yourself in hoodies and then having to manage them all day is a form of mild torture to me. If it's a cold day, it should be cold. Not freezing first thing, then hot by midday, then warm in the evening so you have to get partly undressed and then carry around your clothes all day.
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^^ Wednesday usually. Have a look at the bottom of the catalogue page for valid dates if you're waiting on something in particular.Infinitum posted:"Oh wait I had my teeth out last year, I can claim that on taxes for sure!"
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Jul 22, 2020 09:50
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bee posted:I did when I had all four wisdom teeth removed in a private hospital. That was ten years ago though so maybe the rules were a bit looser back then?
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Jul 23, 2020 09:03
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bee posted:It was ten years ago though? iirc it was the medical expenses tax offset and you were only eligible if you spent more than $2000 on medical/dental related stuff. Sorry about your backup tooth loss though! naeka posted:Sega genesis pride!
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Jul 23, 2020 10:13
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Was anyone else confused back in the day when people would complain their well cared for snes turned piss-yellow? It's the american snes. It turns piss-yellow over time.
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Played lots of Street Fighter Alpha/2 on the Saturn. Best controller of probably any generation of gaming console.
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~Coxy posted:what kind of maniac would make their official paper standard 27.94 cm
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The solution is simple, buy a house no one else wants.
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Jul 25, 2020 06:54
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I haven't seen a washing machine that takes hot water for 20+ years. I'm new to the dishwasher game, but the one I got 10 years ago only has cold water too, and taking hot water was never a feature mentioned on any of them. I didn't know machines that took hot water had been made for decades. Surely it wouldn't be that different to the energy used by your hot water system refilling?
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Oh, that makes sense - I don't have gas and top loader washing machines use too much water (and you can't use the space above them), so I've been on electric front loaders.Chewbecca posted:Clothes should be washed in cold water anyway
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Jul 26, 2020 03:29
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Sillybones posted:Why do my clothes keep coming out of the front-loader with white streaks all over them? I think my washing machine might be a piece of poo poo. It's soap. There's a few possibilities 1) you're adding too much soap to your wash (front loaders need much less soap that top loaders) 2) you've got a build up of too much soap over time and now there are reservoirs of it in the machine 3) you're overfilling the machine so there's not enough actual agitation so the soap just sticks on the outer clothes 4) you're washing in cold with one of the above factors - soap doesn't dissolve as well in cold 5) all of the above Try putting it on a 30-40C cycle and 'half' fill the machine. You could even try not putting soap in - if it still foams up you've got soap built up in it.
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bee posted:The only thing I don't like about it is that when it finishes, it beeps in a really angry pissed off way. Seriously, why do some washing machine and microwave manufacturers feel that they need to alert you that these non-time-critical processes are complete and not shut up about it until you open the door? Fire alarms are meant to be annoying so that you pay attention and don't die. Is it so critical that I get to my microwaved food within 15 seconds? Apparently a lot of them have a secret mute button by holding stop or something. Sillybones posted:I've no hot water outlet to connect to the machine. I'll try run with no soap, though I understand clothes also hold on to soap for a few washes, so it might still foam up. It sounds like you're putting too many clothes in a load if you feel like it doesn't use enough water. If it's full to the top and tightly packed, you've got way too much in there and stuff won't get clean as well as be streaky. The soap doesn't get agitated and dissolve and it'll stick to the clothes. Start by doing loads that only go halfway up the drum when loosely packed- anything over 3/4 even loosely is probably overfilled.
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stirlo posted:My gD Toaster beeps so loud  What?Is this a deliberate plot by big manufacturing? Make everything a "smart" device, beep, or do unnecessary things, and then in 5-10 years sell more machines with less bullshit in them to the broken consumers who would pay anything for some peace and simplicity?
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I could live with that. I still prefer my mute button, but that's an alright tune as long as it only plays ONCE. I don't need it going off again in 30 seconds.
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Caesar Saladin posted:i need help writing my ironically australian chats style punk song, Sausage Roll on the Dole
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KajiTheMelonMan posted:All of my cousins are literally this, tattooed and rocking a hot gf Nobody uses those jar sauces as instructed though do they? You always fry up some onions and other veges and add them (and reduce the amount of meat) and tweak the flavour by adding herbs and spices. It's just so that you don't have to spend 3 hours (!!) cooking a stroganoff for mid week dinner.
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Malcolm Turnbeug posted:the nats what I reckon dude has a LOT going on for him in terms of fuckability but i'm not sure i'd count a good face as one of em. If anything he's a very good representation of what a dude butterface looks like if you're not into the D.HALL sort His face is fine - you're calling this a male butterface?  How high are your standards? I'm not talking about his style - the tatts, piercings, and long hair are unusual enough to be a 'taste' thing. But this face makes you want to put a bag over his head? Schneider Inside Her posted:If you have gone to that level of effort you may as well just go 15% harder and put in some chicken stock, completing the meal without using jar sauce. I'll stick with the occasional jar sauce mate, you've not sold me on it.
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Nats, if you are a goon, the blokes may be negative, but the sheilas think the structure of your face looks just fine  Agreed on the hair needing a bit done to it though, at least get some wave in there. RE the covid testing - they seem to get back to people really quick if it's positive, within a day, but it takes about 2 or so days to hear back if it's negative in NSW (maybe they retest to make sure it's negative, idk)
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^^ Post a video of yourself not looking like a complete slob and doing some basic life skill and the ladies will be showering you with compliments. Edit: Lol, now youtube is suggesting me stuff like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTSG346IWFw Strong Convections fucked around with this message at 09:08 on Jul 27, 2020 |
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Tokamak posted:don't care about the guy's looks, but the sweary 'humour' is incredibly forced and awkwardly winces as he puts it on. i guess if you want The humour derived from the juxtaposition between his aggressive language and his refined cooking style (or at least, more refined than is typically associated with the stereotype of people that talk that way). He doesn't strike me as a phenomenal cook - I don't think he's setting out to become a celebrity chef. It's a character, that might work pretty well if ensemble comedy shows like Fast Forward were still a thing.
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