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Hey all! Realised I spelled it wrong in the title, sorry!

Looking at maybe doing a family day at Mt Coot-tha or the City Gardens.

We have a 4 year old, and I can't really find much info of what's at Mt Coot-tha. Are there playgrounds and things there? The only website I can find is through Brisbane City Council and it's pretty sparse.

Thanks!

ETA: We will also have my dad, who is in a wheelchair we will have to push. Are the gardens particularly steep/hilly? I'm aware it's MOUNT Coot-tha, but are there areas we can park that aren't just at the top and still enjoy the gardens?

Hey all!

Looking for a family activity with my sister, nibling and our parents. I found Bluey's world, and like all 4 year olds, nibling loves Bluey!

Just wondering if anyone's been and what they thought of it.

Also, my father has limited walking capabilities. We're hoping to get a walker for him (he's been very stubborn about admitting he has issues, especially as he walks very little at home, just from his chair to the fridge), at the very least, but that might not happen. Are there places to sit down? How much walking is involved?

Any and all impressions, thoughts and experiences welcome! Thanks!

ETA: FOUND! Thanks to u/Sure_Reception_9922 and u/breakoutleppard for their fantastic detective work! Bloody legends!

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Does anyone know if there's a copy of this ad floating around online?

I can't remember the product.

Two girls in the schoolyard, unwrapping their lunches. One has a pre-packaged snack cake of some kind, other girl starts banging on about 'my mother says all food should be baked at home and the most important ingredient is a little pinch of love'.

Other girl gives her a smirk and says 'so does mine, but she has a life'.

I remember it was edited to cut the line because a bunch of stay-at-home mums got offended at the implication they didn't have lives.

Anyone remember the product or have a link?!

Thanks!

Having done a bit of reading about the predatory practices of Monsanto (TL;DR they have patents for their seed and don't allow farmers to use seed from prior crops, they HAVE to buy new seed every year) I'm curious as to where Diddly Squat get their seed from.

Anyone know?

Thanks!

Hey all!

I have a few questions about various things that I'm hoping you can help me with, I'm a total noob and know nothing about this. I'm also not good with 'tech speak' or any technical terms, so please keep any answers as basic as you would a toddler, or a very smart labrador, lol.

I would also appreciate any and all sources that back up the answers (even if they contain tech speak; I can try and parse out the jargon in my own time but it will take a while).

1. transferring files: if a file is transferred from one device to another, is there data within the file that says it was transferred?

2. if a file is transferred to a device, does it have a 'date of transfer' attached to it?

3. if a file is transferred to a device, is there any data to say what it was transferred from (ie: a website, a harddrive, cloud storage, etc)?

4. what data is in a file that shows it was made on the device it's currently stored on (for example, a word document that's on my home computer that was made on that same computer)?

5. what kind of fragment data is used to prove a file was once held on a device but isn't there any more (so if a file is deleted, and the recycling emptied, what date will remain to prove it was there)?

6. if a device undergoes a factory reset, does that erase all data or are fragments left behind?

I may have more questions later, but thank you for any answers you may provide!

Throwaway account for personal reasons.

My husband (50M) and I (45F) have always had a good relationship with my niece (20F). She was always very well-behaved as a kid, and has grown into a beautiful, intelligent, and successful woman. I have always thought of her as a bonus child.

Over the past 3-4 years, she has considerably distanced herself from me and my husband. She moved across the country for college and grad school (which I am all for), but has only responded to our invites for holidays twice. I have to practically beg her for any details about her life. My son (22M) and her are close, so I decided to finally ask him why my niece is so aloof. He told me that she was mad about her childhood woes, which completely blindsided me. I know that she didn’t have an ideal childhood, but as extended family, there was not much that we could do. 

For context, my late SIL was not a great parent. According to my husband, she had schizoaffective disorder and struggled with addiction. She and my niece lived with my late MIL. By the time I met them, my MIL was basically raising my niece all by herself. There was never much contact w/ SIL because she couldn’t stay away from drugs, but our niece has always been welcome in our home. We didn’t get to see her much due to drama with her mom, but we have always helped her out, financially and otherwise. 

Here is where I might be TA. After asking my son to elaborate, he told us that she said that she believed that CPS should have been called because of her mother’s issues. Now, I am a middle school teacher and a mandated reporter. I know the signs of child abuse and neglect, and there were none. It would be one thing if she were just unhappy (aren't we all?), but mentioning CPS crosses the line. 

A few days later, my husband and I decided to call my niece to clear things up, and she said exactly what my son said. My husband told her that she was selfish, and that to say that she needed to be removed is to say that his dead mother was complicit, which he would not tolerate. He told her that his mother sacrificed 18 years of her life to take care of my niece out of pure kindness, and that she should be grateful that she did, and hung up on her.

Admittedly, his delivery was rather harsh. She also has mental health issues, so I didn’t want to exacerbate anything, so I decided to text her to smooth things over. I told her that my husband and I love her, but her accusations are reckless and offensive, and she needs to apologize. I also politely asked her to stop communicating with my son about this. My MIL was a wonderful person, and we won’t have my son’s image of her tainted. She didn’t respond, but my son has since called me to tell me that she blocked him. (I am assuming she blocked us, too.) My son thinks that I had no business “invalidating her experience.” But how is it wrong to invalidate something that is not valid?

So, AITA for setting boundaries and being honest?

I’ve tried it all: yoga, dancing, weights, walking, sports (ugh). I’ve listened to music and watched tv and I hate audiobooks but I’ve tried reading and it’s all. so. BORING.

I hate my mind being inactive. It doesn’t take all my concentration to listen to music or watch tv or whatever.

Something like writing this, which is taking my mind to compose, and my fingers to type, is what I want in a workout.

Dancing works at first because I have to concentrate on the steps, but once I’ve learned the routine, it becomes boring.

Yoga is also boring, and you need to stand there and hold poses for various counts. With weights you gotta count reps.

It just really bugs me because all I can think is ‘I could be using this time so much more productively’.

If I actually had something to show for my time, I probably would be a little more willing to do it. Something I could actually hold or point to and say ‘I did something productive’. Like this post. Ok, it has no interest intrinsic value, I won’t make money off it, but I can point to it and say ‘this is what resulted from 3 minutes of my time and effort’.

You can’t really do that with exercise. Especially because change happens so incrementally. By the time you notice it, it’s been at least a few months, maybe a year.

Anyway, that’s my vent/rant, lol.

ETA: I’ve tried classes but they’re also boring. You can’t exactly talk while you’re working out, and chatting before and after rather defeats the point, lol.

ETA: thank you all for your replies. It’s done now, so I’m turning off notifications.

Hey all!

Short version, a friend of mine's ex partner has been accused of a crime. The police have contacted my friend and asked them to come in to give a (ETA: what I assume with be a witness) statement. They've asked me to go with them for support.

Neither of us have done this before, so we're not entirely sure what to expect.

I wanted to know if we would be allowed to make our own recording of the 'statement interview'. Various website have said yes, but I'm cautious of potentially pissing off the cops doing the interview.

I understand that as a moral support person I'm supposed to keep my mouth shut, but I know my friend wants me there because I'm a little more emotionally removed from the situation. Will I be told to leave if I interject at any point, such as if I see my friend becoming overwhelmed and ask for a break?

I want to support my friend as much as possible, but I also don't want to make this any more difficult for them than it already is. I would appreciate any advice or experiences people would like to share.

My friend is in a very confused and conflicted emotional state. I agree with them that the crime their ex has been accused of is very out of character and my friend isn't entirely sure what to believe. Any advice on how to support them (aside from watching movies, eating junk food and drinking!) would be appreciated.

Thanks!

ETA: MY FRIEND HAS NOT BEEN ACCUSED OF ANY CRIME, AND IS NOT INVOLVED IN THE CRIME THE EX HAS COMMITTED. MY FRIEND IS NOT A SUSPECT.

>'OMG, I met this really cute person but they're deaf and when I signed to them asking if they wanna date, apparently I signed 'do you wanna fuck'?! But it's ok because I explained my mistake and she forgave me and now we've been together for years!'

If that had been me, they would've been disgusted and likely told all their friends, and I would've ended up with a reputation for sexual harassment.

>'So I missed my last train home last night, and was stuck at Grand Central Station. I got talking to this guy who was busking, playing his trumpet, and we ended up spending the entire night together, just walking around, talking. It was an amazing, intimate night!'

Sure, I might've been able to have a short chat with the busker, but he eventually would've packed up his shit and gone home. He wouldn't have hung around to 'make sure I was safe and keep me company'.

>'This hot person has been coming into the diner I work at every day for the past year. We've chatted and become really good friends, so I asked them out and now we're getting married!'

Everything would've been fine until I asked them out, at which point they'd start coming in when I'm not working because they're horrified at knowing I was into them.

My inner masochist is craving a story where the 'you'll make someone very happy one day!' fatty is constantly rejected despite everyone agreeing they're a wonderful person who've very loving, loyal, supportive, tolerant and compromising, you know, everything a good and healthy partner is supposed to be, but no one wants to date them because they're fat.

I'm so tired of 'you'll find someone!' and 'don't give up hope!' and 'it always happens when you're not looking for it!' and 'you're such a great person, it'll happen to you one day!'

I want someone to show the REAL experience of fat people: looks trump personality every time, and no one wants a fatty no matter how 'good, sweet, kind, caring, supportive, and compassionate' they are.

People who have a knee-jerk emotional reaction to a statement and refuse to engage with what you've actually said.

Someone says 'here are some great tips to help keep yourself safe!'

They hear 'all victims are at fault for allowing themselves to be attacked'.

Someone says 'Ted Bundy worked for the suicide hotline and convinced people to continue living'.

They hear 'we should forgive Ted Bundy all his crimes'.

Someone says 'actually, I didn't mind Episodes VII-XI'.

They hear 'they were the greatest films of all time and no other cinema can ever compare'.

S1 EP2: SHEEPING

After moving the sheep to a new paddock, Clarkson can’t get the troughs to fill.

“Feeling like Jean de Florette, I set about investigating the problem.”

Jean de Florette is a character in the novel The Water of the Hills, written by Marcel Pagnol in 1962.

In the book, Jean de Florette inherits a farm but can’t make it work, due to relentless drought and interference from his neighbours. It’s not until after his death that his daughter sees the neighbours unblocking a spring the neighbours had deliberately dammed in order to prevent Jean de Florette from accessing water for his farm.

S1 EP3: SHOPPING

When building a fence to keep the foxes out of the chicken coops.

“And so the day continued under the lash of the rural Ant Middleton.”

Anthony Middleton is a British political and television personality, former UK Special Forces soldier, Royal Marines Commando, and Royal Engineer in the British Army. He is best known as the former chief instructor on the Channel 4 television series SAS: Who Dares Wins, a role he held from 2015 until 2021.

S1 EP6: MELTING

Planting trees in the driest May on record.

“When Monty Don does this, he makes it look so easy.”

Monty Don is the host of the BBC gardening show Gardeners’ World.

S1 EP7: FLUFFING

Kaleb is in London trying to sell the Wasabi. After striking out at the first restaurant and getting a parking fine, he drives to the next on, getting harried by the lockdown traffic.

“Desperate to make some money from the trip, Sir Ranulph, aided by his trusty sat nav, was now looking for the next restaurant.”

Sir Ranulph Finnes is an English explorer and writer who holds several endurance records.

Found this while mooching around YouTube, procrastinating work.

I've never had the lager, not a huge fan of lager or ale or beer in general, no idea if the drink's any good, but I admit, I rather like the slogan, 'fuck me, it's good'.

Clearly not ads made for any broadcast space, lol.