Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!
Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!
Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.
So, how’s it going?
As many of you will know, we don’t allow users to add communities in the lemmy.nz instance. Rather, we like to discuss these sorts of things as a group and give people a chance to raise concerns.
There has been some interest lately in creating a RocketLab community on Lemmy.nz.
Does anyone have any concerns around this?
I was watching the livestream of the social services and community committee interviewing the heads of MSD and the meeting got interrupted by something, they took a 5 minute break and then didn’t come back. Based on the timing I am pretty sure they got interrupted by the news about Efeso Collins.
Man, the news about Efeso Collins is sad. I hope his family heard about it before it hit the news. Pretty disrespectful reporting if not.
Oh man, it’s the first I’m hearing of it!
Between him, Golriz, and Shaw, that’s a significant chunk of their list changing, isn’t it?
Yeah, it’s quite a year for them already. Will be interesting to see what the party looks like in a few months’ time.
My new van has the left hand wing mirror on an arm attached to the body, rather than attached to the door like most vehicles. This means you look through the windscreen at it, rather than the side window.
Whoever put the registration and RUC labels up put them right in the line of sight of the mirror.
That would wind me up too!
As some who likes to try to get my windscreen as clean as possible, I absolutely hate the wof, rego & RUC labels. Why can’t they just be digital already!
Also hate when workshops put their huge stupid labels when you get work done on your car
Also hate when workshops put their huge stupid labels when you get work done on your car
I particularly love when they put stickers on your back windscreen over the demister line things, so when you pull the sticker off it rips off the demister lines.
Oh yeah that irks me too. The AA I took one of our cars to last time used some new clear sticker under the WOF sticker with they’re AA advertising attached to the bottom of it, so you can’t remove it without the WOF sticker coming off. Infuriating. I really don’t like any kind of advertising on our cars - I always take off the license plate surrounds that dealers put on too.
Oh man, sneaky!
I also dislike being a driving advertisement, but I don’t think I have thought about it enough to take the dealer license plate thing off.
I already bought a car from them, I’m not going to advertise for them too! 😆
Fair enough!
I’ve been enjoying some Brown Lightning today, though I’m not too sure I like that name.
I get that too after my first morning coffee usually
Haha I’ve been having brown lightning as my first morning coffee.
What is it? I’m scared to google.
Haha whoops, I had intended to post a link but forgot. Have updated my comment now, but long story short, it’s coffee.
Cool! Raglan huh, I love how many little local coffee roasters we have in NZ now.
My parents said when they were kids every town seemed to have its own brewery and usually cool stuff like e.g a local icecream factory.
There are so many coffee places I feel like I almost never have repeats!
When we travel (which doesn’t happen much since kids), I like to try local beers, coffees, etc. I once had ice cream made by Amish in Pennsylvania while visiting. Had an interesting alcoholic fanta-like drink in Indonesia made locally (I probably wouldn’t do that again, as in hindsight that was probably a pretty big meths risk). Local beers in Canada were good and one place came for with the option of a 64oz mug. Local beers in New York were… well I didn’t enjoy them. The US also didn’t do great coffee.
I think there’s a resurgence of locally made stuff. With your example of ice cream, I think there’s heaps of locally made ones but now it’s called gelato.
Yeah I think you’re right.
Back when I was able to travel it was all about the local stuff. I don’t understand people who go overseas to eat familiar food.
I remember the first time I was going overseas the doctor said I didn’t need my hepatitus jabs unless I planned to eat street food and I was like, um okay well I really need them then!
I went to Malaysia and had KFC. I remember ordering the zinger burger and being disappointed that it tasted the same as anywhere else.
I also find it’s good to try the food that the locals actually eat, not just what’s traditional. Had some boring food in Indonesia before working that one out!
I also learned about Bali street dogs ending up sold as chicken in street food only after going there, though I don’t think we had any in Bali, just in Jakarta and surrounding areas we visited. Bali was so super touristy, easily my least favourite place to visit. I’d rather take the driver in Jakarta that doesn’t speak English taking us to a Buddhist temple that half burnt down, and the other half was full of awesome diorama things as tributes to different deities, where everyone there was friendly but no one spoke English.
I also find it’s good to try the food that the locals actually eat, not just what’s traditional.
Glad to hear that, cos it’s pretty much all I have ever got to do. My travel was when I was a student (mostly alone, my trips were paid for by grants) so I didn’t have much money and would mostly just follow down-at-heel locals to see where they ate that was cheap/good.
Some of the coolest was when I would just queue up behind people and copy what they asked for, with no idea what it was going to be since nothing was in English. Also sometimes people just give you stuff.
Would love to visit SEA countries like you have. I’ve only lurked in their airports.
Hahaha the coffee is as good as the name is questionable
