it is sweet and strange

Twenty-something Australian, more fairy godmother than princess, enjoys sequins and women punching things.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#me sending this to everyone I know who’s from Toowoomba

So like four people

[produdfctititty]

Says the person from Mt Gambier

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Hey we're the second largest population centre in the entire state

Don't look up how populated our state is overall that's not important

[rhyperographer]

For anyone confused according to the 2021 Australian census Toowoomba has 6x as many people living there as Mt Gambier. 162,059 to 26,878.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Oh sure if you want to do NUMBERS about it

[a-queer-little-wombat]

Looks like this post is starting to do numbers, eh?

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#at this rate this post might to do more numbers than Mt Gambier

Hey,

[safetynotincluded]

posts that have 26,879 notes to me

[necroticboop]

✦ Tiana's new outfit for Tiana's Palace at Disneyland [x]

[ever-a-surprise-again]

it’s mad cute but idk if i would actually realise she was an official face character and not just a black girl disneybounding you know???

[hiveswap]

If you got enough money to live happily and comfortably for the rest of your life, but everyone who saw you immediately knew what fandom you are in and understood what that means, would you take it?

[ever-a-surprise-again]

the primary reason i want money is so everyone can know my fandom on sight, in my snidel dresses and dior book tote like every other 2.5 girlie

[apas-95]

the year was Two Thousand and twenty-four. I took a puff of my Electronic-Cigarette, inhaling the vapours. my mobile terminal buzzed in my pocket, a flat slab of microchips and glossy touchscreen. I ignored it....... probably another Electronic-Mail

[murraysiskind-deactivated202406]

Thinking about how when my oldest brother took Japanese classes his professor was like your pronunciation is really good 😊 but you need to watch movies that aren't about the Yakuza because you sound like a criminal

[doing-90mph-in-central-london]

somewhere in this beautiful world there is a man who sounds like Paulie Walnuts because he learned English by watching the Sopranos

[lame-kid-on-couch]

Really in love with some of the notes on this post

[amelia-bede1ia-deactivated20241]

Imagine you're meeting the guy who carried out the Russian Revolution. You hear him give a speech in Russian, and then moments later he speaks to you in your own country's accent.

[vvvarinn]

its important to do this every time a museum or school thinks this is a good idea

[alexilulu]

Did you intentionally make him Cajun before that screencap or was that baked into the prompt already. I ask only because the eyes as green as the bayou got me good

[vvvarinn]

he's naturally australian so i gave him an upgrade

[thehungrycity]

Of Course, People Are Already Breaking an AI WWI ANZAC Veteran

We can do better than rely on an AI to recount ANZAC Day histories to us, can't we? We don't need a tech solution for this.

[sarasa-cat]

The thing that really strikes me is:

Specifically the instruction to “avoid graphic descriptions of violence or suffering.”

So, is this bot supposed to generate some sort of feel good heroic depiction of what was actually a horrific brutal war?

That intent feels even more suspect than the stupidity of thinking that some hyped up techbro chatbot could actually be useful as an educational tool in this context.

As per the article: Australians (and all of us elsewhere) are far better off reading real accounts. Obviously, age/grade/reading level appropriate if we are talking about historic accounts to be read by younger school children. But definitely not this.

[quoms]

"Rent should be no more than 30% of household income" is a really funny and roundabout way to say "property owners as a class are entitled to 30% of gross wages"

[slitherpunk]

judas was probably like "jesus has pulled off so many wacky things, he'll get out of this one lickity split, and i get three shiny coins out of it, too"

[maxknightley]

[samueldays]

[schistcity]

i come from the 8tracks generation where you weren't allowed to just dump three and a half twee indie folk/tswift records into a fanmix and call it done. on 8tracks you had 8+ handpicked songs in rigid chronological order and an accompanying mission statement and thesis defence detailing exactly why each one applied to your derek x stiles coffee shop au AND cover/track-list art hodgepodged from stolen pinterest/tumblr aesthetic photography, and all of this was done under constant threat of death because it was the DMCA wild west and the site was in a constant state of gradual collapse.

[gemsandjunk]

If your goal is to normalize gender-nonconformity you’re gonna have to accept that some people will fuck with gender as hard as they can while still being unequivocally, 100% cis and that is okay. There’s no egg to crack or callout to write. This is a good thing actually.

[the-real-seebs]

Yeah. I knew in college, so far as I know, a cis guy who liked dresses. And he wore dresses, and sometimes people would say "you are a man in a dress" and he would say "yeah".

[ace-aussie-asshole]

So many cisgender people absolutely destroy gender and that’s fine. Let that cishet man wear skirts and heels. Let that cishet woman use they/he pronouns. Let people exist.

[ancient-string]

Anyone: *is watching Leverage for the first time*

Me: have you heard about watch order? Do you know the watch order? Hey. Hey. Are you aware that season one is out of order and requires a specific watching order. Hey. Hey. Hey. Have I told you about watch order yet?

[ancient-string]

May I present, the actual Leverage Season 1 intended viewing order:

The Nigerian Job (#101)

The Homecoming Job (#102)

The Wedding Job (#107)

The Snow Job (#109)

The Mile High Job (#108)

The Miracle Job (#104)

The Two-Horse Job (#103)

The Bank Shot Job (#105)

The Stork Job (#106)

The Juror #6 Job (#111)

The 12-Step Job (#110)

The First David Job (#112)

The Second David Job (#113)

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[blondekidwithgatoradebottle]

Oh my god I have it in my 1946 Lily Wallace New American Cookbook too I’m screaming

[mybabymylatte]

This is it! This is the white culture we’ve been looking for!

[professorsparklepants]

I’m sorry are we just not gonna mention “Beef Tea” “Raw Beef Tea” and “Cooked Raw Beef Tea” one after the other

[fluffmugger]

#WHY

Because the majority of human existence has not been to the knowledge and supply level we are at now.  You can’t just give someone electrolytes in the 19th century, you have no idea what the fuck they are. Someone is sick, and can only keep weak liquids down, but you know enough at this point to realise that man cannot live on water alone.   So you work out really weird ways to infuse foodstuffs into liquids they can handle to try and keep food into them. A lot of these also come from a way to stretch nutrient sources in times of poverty and scarcity. 

[tuulikki]

Thank you for this addition. People are curiously comfortable assuming everyone in the past was stupid and illogical, and it’s always struck me as showing a sad lack of empathy for fellow human beings. It’s like people in the past aren’t seen as, you know, people

[aylwyyn228]

Your local 19th century PhD researcher popping in here to add to this. Toast water is 100% a drink for treating illness. It turns up listed in several household medicine guides in the 19th century, and is listed as for treating people with fever, diarrhoea and vomiting, who can’t keep anything down. It’s essentially oral rehydration therapy. 

It interestingly starts turning up in literature in the period covering five major cholera outbreaks in the UK and US (this was obviously an English language Ngram search).

And peaks several times at epidemic peak points (1830s, 1850, 1880s), including its first peak in 1831/2, which corresponds with the first cholera epidemic in the UK. 

It also corresponds with the year William Brooke O’Shaughnessy discovered that a lot of people who were dying of cholera were severely lacking water and salts in their blood and urine. Dehydration was found to be a major cause of death in cholera patients. “Toast water” was suggested in the Lancet medical journal in 1832 as an initial treatment for cholera patients. 

Most of the recipes in household medicine guides I found suggest sweetening or flavouring the toast water with something if the patient could keep it down in order to cover the terrible taste.

People in the past were just people. And in this particular case, they were trying to keep their loved ones from dying of cholera. 

[actuallynotautomated]

And here is a link to possibly my fave ever book, with some modern recipes to do the same job , including the water you cooked rice in with the water you cooked rice in plus half a teaspoon of salt - so really toast water was pretty smart - https://en.hesperian.org/hhg/New_Where_There_Is_No_Doctor:Dehydration#Rehydration_drinks

[ever-a-surprise-again]

I wonder if 50~100 years from now people will be on whatever psychic plug in alternate reality we have instead of social media being like “lol look at these stupid electrolyte drinks people used to drink” and others being like “well come on it’s not like they understood (science babble word) back then”

[beeftea78-deactivated20200113]

Throwback to the time my poor German teacher had to explain the concept of formal and informal pronouns to a class full of Australians and everyone was scandalised and loudly complained “why can’t I treat everyone the same?” “I don’t want to be a Sie!” “but being friendly is respectful!” “wouldn’t using ‘du’ just show I like them?” until one guy conceded “I suppose maybe I’d use Sie with someone like the prime minister, if he weren’t such a cunt” and my teacher ended up with her head in her hands saying “you are all banned from using du until I can trust you”

[deflare]

God help Japanese teachers in Australia.

[languageoclock]

if this isnt an accurate representation of australia idk what is

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Australia’s reverse-formality respect culture is fascinating. We don’t even really think about it until we try to communicate or learn about another culture and the rules that are pretty standard for most of the world just feel so wrong. I went to America this one time and I kept automatically thinking that strangers using ‘sir’ and ‘ma’am’ were sassing me. 

Australians could not be trusted with a language with ingrained tiers of formal address. The most formal forms would immediately become synonyms for ‘go fuck yourself’ and if you weren’t using the most informal version possible within three sentences of meeting someone they’d take it to mean you hated them.

[hollowedskin]

100% true.

the difference between “‘scuse me” and “excuse me” is a fistfight

[fozmeadows]

See also: the Australian habit of insulting people by way of showing affection, which other English-speakers also do, but not in a context where deescalating the spoken invective actively increases the degree of offence intended, particularly if you’ve just been affectionately-insulting with someone else.

By which I mean: if you’ve just called your best mate an absolute dickhead, you can’t then call a hated politician something that’s (technically) worse, like a total fuckwit, because that would imply either that you were really insulting your mate or that you like the politician. Instead, you have to use a milder epithet, like bastard, to convey your seething hatred for the second person. But if your opening conversational gambit is slagging someone off, then it’s acceptable to go big (”The PM’s a total cockstain!”) at the outset.

Also note that different modifiers radically change the meaning of particular insults. Case in point: calling someone a fuckin’ cunt is a deadly insult, calling someone a mad cunt is a compliment, and calling someone a fuckin’ mad cunt means you’re literally in awe of them. Because STRAYA. 

[kayloulee]

case in point: the ‘Howard DJs like a mad cunt’ meme.

I recommend this bloody good article by Mark Di Stefano of Buzzfeed Australia about the origin of John Howard’s DJ skills: We Found The Guy Behind Australia’s Greatest Ever Meme.

[itsaroosterteeththing]

The similarities between Australian and Scottish communication never fails to astound me

[fuckthisbloganditscurses]

Happiness Will Come To You.

[12goblins]

when tho

[fuckthisbloganditscurses]

When You Least Expect It. Probably Late March

[wizardshark]

reblog for happiness to come for you in late march!

[zigxortega]

[zac--efren]

I reblogged this last year and I hung out with blink-182 backstage on March 30. Reblogging again because it worked the first time.

[scientiablr]

honestly, last year one of the best days of my life happened in late March

[delta-domine]

I really need this march

[peetas-left-leg]

Marius is stronger than me because if my entire friend group except for me tragically died at a failed rebelion I would feel so left out of the group,

the Romanticism equivalent of your friends going to the mall without you

[gorps]

Me n my mutuals logging on

[moved-to-orpheyon-deactivated20]

Combine your chinese zodiac and astrology sign to make your true fursona

[eternally-a-dreamer]

i still hate this post so much. i’m an ox and a taurus. i’m a bull bull. i’m so fucking annoyed oh m y go d

[raevenlywrites]

SCORPION TIGER I WIN MUTHAFUCKAS PINCH PINCH STAB STAB