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  • @Seagoon_@aussie.zone
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    4 months ago

    Christmas day report.

    Some of you may remember me writing about my BIL who is a hoarder and for whom we spent a lot of energy and time cleaning up his house and yard. Weeks of horrible disgusting dirty work.

    He does not have much furniture, nearly all that he has he inherited from his dad, just like he inherited the house. And he does need to replace his kitchen and bathroom .

    So I organised a nice big gift card from ikea to him as a present. Just to get him looking at the website or in the actual store as well as getting something that could make his life better.

    He opened the present. He was furious.

    It seems to me he was counting on cash so that in our usual cash gift exchange he would come out even. Take into account he doesn’t make any meaningful contribution to xmas dinners or any fam celebration, he usually comes out ahead.

    I had no idea he was that much of an unredeemed Scrooge.

    • @Bottom_racer@aussie.zone
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      94 months ago

      just like he inherited the house

      ooh.

      Similar thing happened to mum. Boys got the farm (big farm) she got nothing. Her mum made sure her daughter got her little place in WA and completely wrote her sons out of the will. Still tense after all these decades. Different times sure but still rough.

      Anyway tell your BIL that he’s being silly and should be grateful.

    • PeelerSheila
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      64 months ago

      Characters like this in my so-called family are the reason why I don’t talk to half of them anymore. They are just either takers, enablers or ignorant. I washed my hands of them and now only connect with the people who are worth it, and I’m much happier. Christmases are sooo much better now!

  • @Seagoon_@aussie.zone
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    134 months ago

    Ted is enjoying this warm weather by snoozing on the terrace. I am happy he feels comfy and safe enough to snooze outside. 🙂

  • Rusty Raven M
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    124 months ago

    Happy Boxing Day everyone!!

    A general reminder to you all: Do not set things on fire today.

  • @Seagoon_@aussie.zone
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    4 months ago

    Christmas day report 2.

    That cousin who totes disrespected me last week. 🙄

    Started talking about all of us going on holiday with him to Ireland.

    This is after he said the bus tour operator on his last holiday was boring and would point out the most boring things, like ancient ruins of monasteries

    and I said I’d be “Stop the bus!” and would be excited to see the ruins of the places where monks worked to save western civilisation after the fall of Rome.

    To him the tour would be seeing places where some of his ancestors ( the men ) came from . I truly would not have enough eyes to roll.

    Talking with him yesterday was a good exercise on how a very average sexist copes with talking to a woman who is not cowed by him and is way smarter and knows stuff better ( not perfect, just better ) The copium was spread thick.

    “That’s just your opinion.”

    changes subject

    starts to get passive aggressive

    appeals to other people

  • @tombruzzo@aussie.zone
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    124 months ago

    Everyone remember to layer up, put the heater on, and have plenty of hot drinks at hand. We’ll get through this one

  • @Bottom_racer@aussie.zone
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    124 months ago

    Tech support for p’s on boxing day :(

    The speed at which that generation will throw up their hands and say it’s all too hard never ceases to amaze me.

    • @Nath@aussie.zone
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      84 months ago

      I had it at the inlaws yesterday, only he changed his Admin password from what I set it to and doesn’t know what it is. I didn’t have a USB on me that can boot to a live Linux image and hack that.

      So I’ll need to go back in a day or two. 😭

  • Rusty Raven M
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    114 months ago

    Work is over for the day & I finally have two days to myself, yay! Time to start catching up on all the cleaning and gardening I need to do…

    Christmas is nice, but it is a bit hard to fit everything in when you don’t have any time off and I have fallen a bit behind on a few of those not completely vital chores.

  • @TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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    114 months ago

    Anyone interested in doing the Hobart to Hobart with me next year? We just float around on a boat in Hobart and sink some piss. If asked we claim we finished really early.

    • CEOofmyhouse56
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      64 months ago

      Sure. Are you supplying the boat coz I don’t have that kinda dough, Mr Moneybags?

    • Rusty Raven M
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      44 months ago

      Having experienced a really terrible harbour cruise in Hobart many years ago I am very reluctant to step foot on a boat there again. Actually, I’ve had a terrible cruise experience on Sydney Harbour too. I think I’ll stay on dry land.

  • @LowExperience2368@aussie.zone
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    4 months ago

    Ok now for a positive comment. Visited the grandma’s house and she had a guitar amp in her garage that must’ve belonged to one of my cousins back in the day. It was very dusty! She insisted I take it, so now I have an amp with overdrive yay!

    Sometimes good things happen when you’re not looking for them :)