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Daily Discussion Thread - Tue Jun 17 2025 (aussie.zone)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Ok so I don't expect anybody to believe this story. I have owned a Chapstick for over two years ( see some of you have stopped reading already ) and I haven't actually had to use it. I'd say this is because I've been inside at work during the colder months, in workshops. Well I had to get it out last week. Yes it's unbelievable that I even found it I know. I mean I found it after my lips had already cracked, but it's been a great relief.

Anyway, slightly warmer for the rest of the week. Did anybody notice the wispy clouds all day yesterday ?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 22 hours ago

I found a chapstick that had been lost for, I'm pretty sure, years a couple of weeks ago.

And promptly lost it again.

And then found my other chapstick, which was lost since last winter. Kept that one around for a few days. Lost it again.

slightly warmer for the rest of the week

It's amazing! I actually had to take my socks off in bed last night for the first time in weeks.

Did anybody notice the wispy clouds all day yesterday

Yeah I did. Definitely not a fan of the full cloud cover today though. My solar panels are producing less than half of what they did yesterday. Which is still enough to cover my usage, but I dunno if my battery will be recharged by this evening.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago

I actually bought chapstick the other day... This dry weather is making my beautiful lips go from all pouty and supple to the equivalent of planks of 2x4 strapped to a buffalo or something. Especially at night... I wake up smacking my dry old chops in the middle of the night with this dry weather. A little sloppy goo on the kisser seemed like the right way to fix that.

Used my pal Amazon to get some Burts Bees or some bloody thing which I swear I read was Australian... When it arrived its made in the US! And had the weight measured in ozzes, gross. Maybe I got some lysdexia and mixed up AUS->USA... I think I got stung (pune) because Burts Bees has a .com.au domain, but if you read the blurb on the about page its all about some bloke named Burt (funnily enough) wandering around the US and eating cheeseburgers + harvesting bees and long story short beeswax -> lips -> chapstick.

I'll probably end up with lip cancer or something because everything in the US is basically made to be as destructive to the environment and as terrible as possible for you in the pursuit of profit, but it does come with this nice disclaimer: All our products are over 95% natural origin, without phthalates, parabens, petrolatum, or sodium lauryl sulfate .... which I guess is good? I never new phtatlataksjbens were even something I needed to look out for.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Lost my Chapstick at work yesterday, it fell out of my pocket. All these years and I have never been able to finish one.