Anyone else follow the Farside Lemmy? The cartoons by Gary Larson?
My dad has two of his books of comics and I used to read them all the time as a kid. The Lemmy for it is so damn nostalgic lol
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The cats are complaining it's cold outside like I can do something about it
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Hmm… my health is deteriorating and it may now be time for invasive medical measures. That’s if I can pester hard enough for them or pay privately. Love that for me
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Lemsip is not as bad as I thought it would be.
You probably already know, but just in case, be aware lemsip has paracetamol in it so you can’t take panadol at the same time, as you can exceed the dose.
I hate that today was one of my 6:30am wakeup days, it was torture getting out of bed.
It can't be that cold, I'm only wearing two layers!*
* one is an 800-fill down jacket that is normally overkill for Melbourne
What a weird system. Went to the post office to have my mail held. What an annoying little system the post office has. They need 3 full business days notice, so it wouldn't start until the day before I get back. Then he said he couldn't give me the concession rate because I need a concession card. I showed him my concession card and then he said his system doesn't allow concessions for people under 18...
Ended up not bothering with it. I'm just gonna hope my mail doesn't go missing
I honestly thought the mail would be held at the local post office, but apparently they hold it at the sorting facilities
Too damn early crew checking in 👊🏻
Yo!
Anyone else obsessed with Royal Autopsy? They make some leaps I think are a bit big, but the demo models are amazing. Best historical in ages.
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Okay, I signed up specifically to ask this question...
Does anyone have recommendations for a travel debit card please? Need mostly GBP & EUR for this trip, but there's a couple other European currencies too.
From what I've researched, the Wise & Up Bank cards are coming up a bit, and the Macquarie one is too. I have an account with Macquarie already, but anything else I'd have to open a new account, which I'm not against for the best option.
In reality you should take two cards on your trip just in case you lose one, or one doesn't work.
For me I used my ING card, which provides 100% full fee rebate on the first 5 eligible fee incurring ATM withdrawal transactions made on the account in that month (excludes International ATM operator fees).
My second card was a wise card. You can load the currency you want on the card and use wise set exchange rate, which is very reasonable. In terms of fees, each calendar month you have a free withdrawal allowance (varies by currency and country) — you can withdraw money up to that amount without any variable fees .
A variable fee changes based on how much you withdraw (and the country). For example, if your card was issued in the EEA, your card has a 1.75% variable fee. If you withdraw 100 EUR, then the variable fee would be 1.75 EUR.
Wise charge the variable fee for every withdrawal on your Wise card over your monthly allowance, regardless of how many times you made a withdrawal that month.
Whatever card you use, often the biggest fee is the foreign atm charging like a wounded bull that your financial institution has no control over (I'm looking at you Thailand and your 7 dollar withdrawal fees).
Before you go, check which banks in the destination country charge the lowest ATM fees for foreign cards.
Something else to be aware of is Aussie banks rejecting foreign transactions. Recently overseas I tried to pay for a hotel with an ING card and ING kept rejecting the payment despite me telling them I was overseas. In this scenario I used my Wise Card instead and all was good, so just be aware that Australian Banks in general can be really annoying when you are overseas.
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One good thing about these mid winter days is that the angle of the Sun is perfect for streaming into my kitchen windows. It warms it up plus is a mood lifter.
It's so cold my finger is getting sore from typing on my phone screen
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TV review. Daybreak. Netflix. A bargain basement Ferris Bueller living in Los Angeles survives nuclear war . For a show like this to have any chance of working it has to be believable. Sorry but Glendale would be evaporated and those in the outmost suburbs of LA would sicken from radiation poisoning. If the premise is a weird guy in a normal world then the normal world has to be consistent and believable. Maybe if they lived in a teeny tiny town out in the desert they might have survived. Not even Matthew Broderick reprising Ben Stein's persona as a boring and slightly obsessive principal could save this show.
Compare to Fallout.
This show was so dismissive of the facts of nuclear war it upset me.
1 hobbit
Goosebumps movie. Gees I loved this. So inventive it's a delight.
4 hobbits.
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Ok, my morning duty outside today has left me frozen, my hands were actually hurting I was wearing gloves!
Hopefully we won't get too many of these days or I'm going to have to invest into something a little bit warmer for my hands.
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