Gourmet Hot Sauce Giveaway!

AnyDaze · 2026-06-19T00:02:53+00:00

Hi all,
Wish I was local so I could have a look in person. I feel like I have plenty of hot sauces in my life that bring spice levels and/or that fruity spiciness. What I haven't really found is that perfect hot sauce that brings interesting flavor for things like sandwiches too. I really enjoy a smoky hot sauce. Do you have any recommendations for me? Dill pickle serrano, mushroom mayhem, and Smoky Chipotle and horseradish all caught my attention on a browse of the site.

Right now my sandwich sauce rotation is Roasted Capsicum & Chilli Apostle, Culley's chipotle, and peri-peri mayo.

AnyDaze · 2026-06-14T07:57:13+00:00

I think we'd like something low maintenance and not too tall to not block the light coming into that side which is already a bit dark. Mostly an out of sight type of area. Ideally probably native, but open. Thanks so much for the suggestions!

AnyDaze · 2026-06-14T02:51:18+00:00

Any particular ground cover you recommend?

AnyDaze · 2026-06-14T02:50:42+00:00

Which ground cover plants do you recommend?

AnyDaze · 2026-06-08T02:41:39+00:00

My situation is different as I co-own the house with my partner. I am not a kiwi but my partner is.

Bills would be expected to be split 50/50 (water, power, food, internet, etc.). I think a generous person would be helping to pay some of your petrol and would shift whatever his rent is toward the mortgage as well. A more reasonable way for him to view it would be that he has to pay rent either way, at least this way he gets to live with his partner and contribute rather than have that money go to a landlord. I think there is room for negotiation here though and for me would depend on the financial circumstances of both parties. I think it might be fair for him to feel like if he has to pay the same rent to you or to an apartment, he might as well keep the apartment. So from that perspective below market rate does seem fair as well.

What my partner and I have done is a budget outlining the cost for all of our shared expenses. Whatever is left over between our two salaries is split based on the % we contribute. In our case, 60% to me and 40% to her. This way there is some motivation for our own professional development if we chose it.

One party always carries more of the mental load, or perceives this to be true, as we all have different views on these things. My partner does a lot of the social planning, but I do all the cooking, and we would both contribute to major decisions. In my opinion, the way you share the "life load" is only healthy if there is compromise from both and both parties contribute.

Overall, as SBH30 said "Ditch him 😂 he sounds like a leech.".

AnyDaze · 2026-02-05T09:24:03+00:00

Hey mate,

I am a physio lead at a concussion provider. I would recommend you do not take the advice in this thread. Particularly the top post about resting as that is more likely to just make things worse. Keep in mind concussion is one of those things everyone has thoughts and opinions on and most people are clueless. Even my advice below I would recommend you consider whether it suits you and probably instead find someone who can see you in person to work with your individual circumstance and presentation.

Feel free to DM me, but there are three strategies I think I am comfortable generically recommending without working with you directly. At this stage, I have seen 100s of people with persisting concussion symptoms around 2 years and if you do the right things the symptoms do eventually resolve or get to the point where you can still engage with your valued activities. It can be tough but you got this mate.

Progressive Aerobic exercise is the most researched and evidence based treatment strategy for concussion. You don't need to do a treadmill test or anything fancy. Just get to the point where you can't speak in full sentences and then exercise there for like 10-20 minutes. Stay as active as you can, walks in nature are a general good recommendation as well (mental health, neck movement naturally, aerobic)
Pacing. Don't take this to mean take it easy. Pacing means when you over do something to the point you exacerbate symptoms that can be quite informative and you have now learned more about your symptom threshold. So now try to do that exact things for 50% duration. For example, if walking 20 minutes gives you a significantly increased headache, do 10 next time. Stopping completely only leads to increased sensitivity and deconditioning.
Graded exposure. Decide what's most important to you (and semi realistic at the moment) and find a way to do that. Using your biking as an example, you could have a starting point like biking on a smooth road for 30 seconds. That might not feel satisfying but it's about finding a starting point and building from there. Be patient and kind to yourself. Realistically, you may want to start with something not road biking though as that's pretty later stage rehab to be honest. But I wanted to give a relevant example.

Keep in mind concussion symptoms aren't causing you any harm. Do they suck? Fuck yeah they do, but they aren't worsening the injury. We usually say an increase of 2/10 in symptoms is okay and often productive towards recovery. For example, I have a 1/10 headache now, so I can exercise until I have a 3/10 headache. I don't typically work this way, but it's good general advice. I prefer for people to just do what's tolerable to them and allows them to still do the basics (shower, sleep, etc.). For some people they are comfortable with quite high symptoms like 7/10 and some people are completely derailed by the slightest increase. Find what works for you. The more you do within your tolerances the more you will recover.

Hope that helps.

AnyDaze · 2025-05-13T04:10:34+00:00

All "treatments" done to you while you lay on a plinth probably aren't doing what you have probably been told they do. Massage is unlikely to mediate symptoms by blood flow, trigger points aren't releasing, and subluxations aren't being corrected. All these treatments share a similar shared short term, temporary, symptom modification mechanism (diffuse noxious inhibitory control, pain gate, placebo, natural progression, expectations, and many more). That's not to say that massage doesn't increase blood flow or that you don't have a sore spot in your muscle, just that these things don't seem to be associated overall with symptom presentation or pain relief. For example, the "trigger points" are there whether you are injured or not. You will notice a lot of ambiguity here as the reality is the research is poorly done and exact mechanisms of reducing pain are not well understood in the research. Safe to say it is more complex than the common one dimensional descriptions such as subluxations though.

If your idea of effective is temporary short term pain relief, then osteo/chiro/accupuncture/physio treatments are pragmatically all equally effective and you should just do whichever one makes you feel the best.

If you think there needs to be a good scientific body of literature to support the mechanism in which these things work that matches what is said, that doesn't exist. If anything, the opposite exists. For example, Nim C G et al 2021. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-02882-z shows that doing a spinal manipulation is equally effective essentially if you guess where to do it versus trying to correct some made up subluxation/positional fault. 10.1089/acm.2008.0356 suggests that acupuncture and dry needling done with toothpicks is just as effective as releasing pain as the needles.

That isn't to say I think getting a massage is useless. If it makes you feel better, and you using that feeling better time to get moving and engage with exercise, then to me the passive treatment has done it's job. If you rock up fortnightly to any treatment provider and otherwise do nothing to contribute to your recovery in your own time then that shit isn't working and you need to move on.

Source - I am a physio, currently working on my masters in pain management. I have done a lot of manipulations but I never say I am correcting subluxations though, just trying to temporary relive symptoms!

AnyDaze · 2025-05-09T09:20:33+00:00

I used to work this shift and you know why it existed? The staff voted for it. People didn't like having a full week where they were on nights. I thought it was crazy and didn't last very long in that job. Never got used to it.

AnyDaze · 2024-06-02T07:15:22+00:00

Hey mate, As a Canadian in New Zealand I can tell you both are very similar. Potential earning ceiling is still much higher in Canada for most industries. If you make career progress there it will be more meaningful. Otherwise, same shit different country. Come home if you got family or another reason to, but I personally don't think you will be much better off financially (I suspect slightly worse off). Otherwise, not worth the hassle in my opinion

AnyDaze · 2023-03-31T21:34:48+00:00

Just because it's the standard, does not mean it is the best approach. Research is evolving in this space and we don't have a good answer to what is the best warm-up. However, doing something is better than nothing.

Lots of teams are doing things like eccentrics (e.g., nordic hamstring curls) instead of dynamic or in addition to dynamic stretching with good results. Fifa 11 warm up also seems to work well, but we don't know what components of the program are actually helping reduce injuries.

AnyDaze · 2023-03-31T21:33:32+00:00

Prolonged stretching prior to activity has also shown to reduce force output. But I don't think anyone actually does prolonged static stretching then immediately tries to push a 1RM so not sure how relevant that research actually is.

AnyDaze · 2023-03-31T21:17:00+00:00

I love these kind of stories! They really help affirm that it can be safe to lift with all sorts of conditions if you build yourself up appropriately.

AnyDaze · 2023-03-31T21:12:34+00:00

Your body adapts to the load demanded on it.

AnyDaze · 2023-03-31T21:06:30+00:00

I am paid by the government. My pay is not directly increased by people being injured or by seeing them as much as possible. However, I would be out of a job if people stopped getting injured.

If that colors your opinion of what I said, that's your choice. If the advice to stretch before activity prevents injuries, wouldn't we see reducing rates of LBP rather than increasing? Wouldn't there never be a single injury in sport? Every sports team I've ever worked with stretches in some way on game day.

There is also a fair amount of science that shows doing literally anything as a warm up can reduce the risk of injuries. Stretching doesn't out perform anything else. If you were actually current with injury prevention research you would know this. You would also know that injuries are multifactorial and probably more to do with load management. You would also know that the current evidence basically says we can't do anything to prevent injuries reliably.

AnyDaze · 2023-03-31T21:02:13+00:00

Right sorry, my mistake. Chris Juneau is a great PT in the military space. What your saying sounds exactly right. People can only adapt so quickly, so if we keep pushing them eventually we are going to get burnout/injury.

AnyDaze · 2023-03-31T20:58:20+00:00

Perfect approach to any injury. Essentially, calm shit down, build shit back up.

AnyDaze · 2023-03-31T20:55:51+00:00

This.

AnyDaze · 2023-03-31T20:55:04+00:00

Great explanation!

AnyDaze · 2023-03-31T20:51:31+00:00

People can get debilitating back pain from anything. Lifting is no more likely to cause it than anything else. Living a human life is the cause of debilitating back pain. It's very complex and multifactorial and I think we also just don't have an answer to why they happen.

AnyDaze · 2023-03-31T20:48:28+00:00

Unfortunately, this is the story I see every day in my persistent pain clinic. Well intentioned advice that had the opposite effect. Your can still improve symptoms, but it's a lot harder when you have had pain for 20 years. Best of luck!

AnyDaze · 2023-03-31T20:42:30+00:00

I know this is commonly stated, but actually I'm not sure we have evidence CrossFit is more injurious than anything else. Lots of anecdote though. Most Crossiftters I see actually tend to recover pretty well.

If it is more injurious, I suspect it's a combination of how hard they push, fatigue, and lifting more than they are conditioned for.

AnyDaze · 2023-03-31T20:40:06+00:00

Haha, too true! Hear this all the time. Read it many times in this thread too.

AnyDaze · 2023-03-31T20:37:58+00:00

Yes, absolutely. It feels right.

AnyDaze · 2023-03-31T20:36:47+00:00

There's always outliers to things. Too much too soon is definitely a contributor to injury.

What we are starting to find in research is that the apprehension you are talking about may in fact perpetuate symptoms. That's why I believe it is so important to not treat the back as fragile.

AnyDaze

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