@AliceAvizandum
Once I reported someone writing "Die Islam" in wet cement and the first contractor the council sent out to buff it out gave up and just added a line so it said DIET SLAM
Chief of Police Troy Finner confirms that during the Astroworld Festival a member of security lost consciousness after feeling a prick in his neck.
He was revived with Narcan and medical staff who treated him noticed a mark that could have been from an injection.
@anthoknees
Yep this is where I was when things were really bad here. I think I broke down when I was told I couldn't wear gloves to handle cash and the skin on my hands still hasn't recovered from how obsessively I was washing them basically any time I had to touch anything
@Milo_Edwards
A few years ago the gov brought in a rule that you could only charge what the credit card companies charge you as a surcharge, basically because Jetstar (Australian Ryanair) was charging $20 on $50 fares. And then this gave every cafe an idea to make four extra cents per coffee
*whispers* body positivity and an individual wanting to lose weight//feeling proud that they've achieved a body they're more personally comfortable with aren't incompatible concepts
I hooked up with a guy tonight and the sex was incredible. Right up until he collected himself after finishing and just immediately said "ten points to Gryffindor" 😐
@ByYourLogic
Australians are bred from birth to believe that every incoming flight and boat is riddled with scary diseases and that every tourist is maliciously carrying a plague of locusts, this is the one (1) time that border security brain maybe kinda sorta did something useful
@disco_socialist
alien: features a scene in which a robot is explicitly told by higher ups that it's absolutely fine if all the workers die so long as the thing they can profit off of is ok
this guy: gee I sure would hate if there was social commentary happening!
@disco_socialist
most people who are hardcore into party politics would go along with literally anything their party supported so long as they could claim their team was winning
@patbcaruana
incidentally if you're enjoying '80s prices check out this thing I found when I was helping my mum sort the stuff in her filing cabinet from this era
@AliceAvizandum
I had to do one of those when I saw John Mulaney and I think it might have had something to do with the bit where he explained at length how he did prescription fraud
@jasebyjason
you reminded me of some extremely insufferably middle class guardian piece where someone was anti-bank holidays because she didn't like going to the seaside (?) and it's upsetting me that I can't find it
hey british twitter, can I just confirm that "australian style points based immigration system" is a completely substance-less dogwhistle based off the assumption that we're all white?
Well Labor is in government, Kate Bush is at the top of the charts and I've just been to see the new top gun at the cinema. I wonder what 1988 will bring!
About 5 years ago I got a bit too close to a shark at the beach and hadn’t been further than ankle deep in water since. Anyway I just jumped off the second valley jetty and now I feel alive again
@mathaiaus
I picked it up purely off of osmosis from my mum wanting someone to practice with and my Nanna being obsessed with inspector rex, anyway there was exactly one time in Germany I got more than three sentences in to a conversation without being forced back to english
@AliceAvizandum
@DrRhysPockett
Anyway it took 18 months for her to come back and me and the one other person who'd been around that long were just crying our eyes out the whole time. And now I'm thinking about all the other regulars I've had at different jobs. Knew nothing about them other than what they got.
@IllyBocean
a cool recent realisation of mine was that I still instinctively flinch whenever anyone looks at my phone because I got so used to the fact that anyone who touched it in high school would immediately find some way of being homophobic with it
@disco_socialist
Can't think why people might not feel like voting between someone who actively promises to make things worse and someone who says they'll make things better but does nothing to stop them getting worse instead, truly a mystery
(this isn't a dan andrews fall truther take, just a dan andrews is that little bit more authoritarian than I like my leaders to be especially when it comes to non-cooker legitimate scrutiny take)
@AliceAvizandum
@DrRhysPockett
Ok now I'm reminded of when I worked fast food in high school - every Saturday morning without fail this incredibly sweet old lady would come in. One day she told us she was having surgery and wouldn't be in for a few weeks
@ByYourLogic
basically the stuff from that one Simpsons episode with the bullfrogs is the most accurate summation of the national psyche ever put to film
@thejimmalo
@amymcquire
The way ALP people act like certain seats are theirs by birthright is really quite something. Honestly don't see how someone who lives in a Labor v greens seat can see that behaviour and still vote for them
A quick reminder to my UK friends that if you want the insulation in your home to work you should be treating the place like a cave, close all the doors and windows and blinds