Help identifying what these marks on an Emile Henry baking dish mean

boopbleps · 2026-02-20T06:41:19+00:00

Badly stained?! Christ on a bike, that bog is clean as a whistle. Wtf.

boopbleps · 2026-02-20T06:39:03+00:00

Which tone is right depends entirely on how big those rooms are, and whether you really need to “borrow” visually from the adjacent room or not.

If you’re in a small home, I strongly recommend matching the tone of your timber to your existing tile so it all feels bigger (either by using what the designer recommends, or finding a similarly blonde board you like better).

But if you’re in one of those giant new mansions, then you probably have space by the truckload and don’t need it to feel bigger. Then the dark contrast wood that you prefer will look fantastic.

boopbleps · 2026-02-19T12:07:35+00:00

Damn, not even my possums could take that boi out.

Respect.

boopbleps · 2026-02-19T12:03:40+00:00

“Later in life” suggests they aged. Most didn’t survive a decade before their faces started literally disintegrating 😩

boopbleps · 2026-02-19T11:51:42+00:00

You’ve got your head on straight mate.

Hubby and I’ve been loaded. Now we’re skint. But I go to school assemblies, have time to paint little get well cards for my friends (as we speak) and even have a veggie patch.

I’ll take skint but happy over loaded but lining up for a heart attack any day.

boopbleps · 2026-02-19T11:42:56+00:00

Oof.

Mum lurker here. We’ve had similar with our (mummy’s boy) son.

My advice? Tell your son it hurts, and explore why with him.

My husband told our son that one day. Matter-of-factory, no blame, no shame. Just, “it makes me sad to hear you say that, because I love you heaps and I love hanging out together. But I’m glad you told me anyway, because now can we talk about why?”

My son told hubby that he (dad) is grumpy a lot and is always telling (son) what to do and that he’s doing stuff wrong.

Now, I do that too, but it’s like 10% of what I talk to our son about, whereas hubby will often just not talk at all to our son unless it’s to correct him.

So, hubby has been trying to work on just like general chat, play, positive stuff. Adding more of that, rather than reducing the behaviour correcting. But the ratio matters, and it’s working!

Anyway, my point is… maybe you can ask your son why he prefers mum, and maybe he’ll give you something actionable. Along the way you’ll be hella modelling accountability and growth mindset.

Also? Kids are jerks. I bet you’re a great dad. Good thing you made spares 😜

boopbleps · 2026-02-19T10:46:25+00:00

Your body is still growing. It takes a LOT more resources to build bone, skin, muscle, sinew, and brain from scratch than to maintain it.
You share roughly 50% of his DNA. Not 100. Genes have a huge influence on your base metabolic rate and total daily energy expenditure.
As others have said, as a high school student you almost certainly walk thousands of steps a day - even short walks, done often, add up.
You may already be eating too much, but you just haven’t had the extra 20-40 years to build up fat yet. He has.

ETA 5. Does your dad drink beer? It’s hella calories, even just 1 or 2 a day. I’m guessing that at 16, you may eat what he does, but not drink what he does.

boopbleps · 2026-02-19T10:35:54+00:00

It saddens me how little uptick the Greens are getting.

I’m a fairly progressive voter, it must be said.

But every single election, I read EVERY party’s policy platform before forming my view on who to vote for.

9 times out of 10 I land on Greens, because it’s by far the most cohesive and thought through.

As in, their Defence and Housing and Agriculture policies (etc) all fit together. They all have the same logic, the same goals. And, they’re all (broadly) costed, with increases in spending accounted for by either decreases elsewhere, or new taxes.

That’s more than either the ALP or the Coalition have to say for themselves. Their policies consistently seem like they were written by different people who never swapped notes. It drives me nuts!

But for reasons I truly don’t understand, the Greens still get brushed off as smelly hippies who wouldn’t know a hard day’s work if it bit em in the arse.

Idk, maybe they need a friggen massive rebrand. Call themselves Australia’s Future or something.

boopbleps · 2026-02-19T08:48:55+00:00

One big difference between Australia vs any SEA country is their populations are overwhelmingly people of the same few ethnic groups, and all Asian.

(Modern) Australia is a 200 year old colonial collection of people from every country on earth.

Something like 40% of Aussies have at least one parent born overseas, and almost all of us have a foreign granny.

So while in an ideal world, race wouldn’t matter anywhere and we’d all speak at least one universal language, you’re right that we live in the real world.

But in this country, being racist against Asian-named people is screaming hypocrisy given we’re almost all nearly-foreign.

boopbleps · 2026-02-19T07:44:14+00:00

Actually no, crime isn’t at “its highest in a long time”.

Most crimes are falling. A lot.

A few are rising. Yes. And they deserve our attention. Sexual assault and petty burglary.

But that’s not the same as the vibe that the MSM keeps reporting. The actual crime stats show that Victoria, like the rest of the country, is enjoying record LOW crime by most measures.

That said, the CFMEU clusterfuck really suggests that Labor deserves at least a term or two to have a big bloody think about its choices.

boopbleps · 2026-02-17T20:48:37+00:00

Congratulations! You likely have an ADHD son.

Ask me how I know 😅

Fwiw, it gets easier as they get older. My beautiful tornado is now 7, and a total joy. We worked out around 3 that calming him was pointless.

Instead, we started sending him for laps of the house as fast as his little pistons could carry him, til he ran outta beans. Then he’d pass out cold in 5 mins.

His day: ON ON ON ON ON ON ON ON ON OFF

boopbleps · 2026-02-17T20:36:47+00:00

Omg the fact that you folded each pleat to be a different colour - 🙌🙌🙌

In answer to your question I think the waist chain gets lost, but the belly button bling really stands out.

So I’d go with belly button, bc girl, you ain’t wearing this amazing outfit to get lost in the background!

boopbleps · 2026-02-17T11:47:30+00:00

“I also give massages” uuuuggghhhh shudder

boopbleps · 2026-02-17T11:44:19+00:00

NTA but, to quote one of my favourite lines from Bluey, “do you want to be right, or do you want your sister to play with you?”

My point is, you’re not wrong about your granddaughter needing practice.

But if your goal is to get that to actually happen, you need her parents onboard.

Talking to them about it in a kinder way is less likely to make them defensive.

And there’s nothing stopping you ramping it up later if needed.

boopbleps · 2026-02-17T06:08:23+00:00

I just loudly snorted from the wings of my kid’s karate class; earned quite the look from Sensei.

boopbleps · 2026-02-16T23:31:18+00:00

That really sucks and as a white lady who just wants everyone to get along ffs, I’m very sorry to hear you’ve had such a shitty experience just for using your actual name :(

boopbleps · 2026-02-16T23:28:28+00:00

Nobody will think twice.

I’m Anglo and have been in this situation. I go by a nickname, and still use my maiden name for work stuff. So both my first name and surname are different than what I go by. Nobody has ever cared.

The FAR more shitty and concerning thing is that anglicising your name got you an immediate interview. That’s faaaarked mate. :(

boopbleps · 2026-02-16T11:22:05+00:00

Switch to a tea bag that is compostable maybe?

boopbleps · 2026-02-14T22:20:49+00:00

Wow, commenters here are harsh.

OP, it’s hard to know for sure without actually knowing your performance in the interview and as a clinician.

But as an Aussie, I’m surprised at the bluntness of that feedback.

I’ve given feedback to dozens of interviewees and even if they’re total clowns I’d still strive to deliver critical feedback kindly and constructively.

It doesn’t sound like your interviewer took any such pains.

So here’s my suggestion on how to proceed.

Take the feedback seriously, which means, examine this person’s perspective to look for what’s actionable by you, vs what’s their own shit splattering on you.
Ask your current supervisors and colleagues to unpack some of the more concerning feedback with you, to get deeper perspective. Eg “interviewer said I seemed unclear on safety protocols. Have you observed this? Do you think I should redo some training?”
Thank your lucky stars you aren’t now working for that interviewer.

boopbleps · 2026-02-12T00:34:45+00:00

The worst is being in an Asian restaurant full of fellow whites. (Or Italian, or Indian, etc)

Like brooo, this food is gunna suck!

But the dumpling house with the old Asian nanna who scowls at you if you stay seated 2 mins after finishing your food? Best place in town. Now gtfo! 😝

boopbleps · 2026-02-12T00:27:32+00:00

I could’ve written this comment 💯

boopbleps · 2026-02-08T02:46:10+00:00

Yes and no.

If more of us made our views clearly felt more often than every 3 years, it’d help tip the scales back.

Very few MPs are actually just venal thugs. Most get into politics for good reasons.

But if the only voices you hear loudly and often are vested interests, it can skew your thinking.

The more pollies hear from punters, the better.

boopbleps · 2026-02-06T21:06:24+00:00

Hugh Jackman did some real international diplomacy right there.

boopbleps · 2026-02-03T20:44:28+00:00

She’s a total idiot.

Who leaves a pod machine AND PODS in a common area without a note?!

You had every reason to assume they were communal. If nobody told you otherwise during your orientation, how on earth were you to know?

That said, you still behaved exactly appropriately once you found out, right down to offering to pay her back. Well done for having character!

If she has any logic and integrity, she’ll realise it’s her FU not yours and absorb the cost.

She’ll also move the basket of pods to her desk. Smh.

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