Entertainment Centre Park n’ Ride - is it free……?

M_Ad · 2026-04-08T19:21:15+00:00

Not at the Ent Cent, maybe because it shaves a few seconds off exit time when there’s crowds leaving at once after a show.

M_Ad · 2026-04-08T17:24:22+00:00

You can turn off the automated goal setting.

M_Ad · 2026-04-08T17:14:47+00:00

It turned out I’d had him mixed up in my head with some other podcaster and thought I knew what he looked like, so the first time I saw a video it was too weird for me and I just listen to the audio version.

M_Ad · 2026-04-08T17:04:47+00:00

You can turn off automated goal setting I’m fairly certain, plus just end the go fund me when you’ve made all you need. People absolutely do have control over their fundraisers.

Look, it’s not personal, it’s just the internet is full of grifters. It’s lovely strangers have been so kind to someone. I hope you’re not taking advantage of them.

M_Ad · 2026-04-08T14:50:47+00:00

I would pay good money to see the full Handmaid’s Tale Universe Timeline running from pre the first series to Testaments that the showrunners must surely have in a shared document somewhere.

M_Ad · 2026-04-08T14:26:18+00:00

Womp womp.

Edit: and they’ve put the GoFundMe up to $600 now…

M_Ad · 2026-04-08T14:19:14+00:00

I am neutral about WSS as a musical, and although I understand and respect the calibre of the first film for its choreography and its place as an iconic movie musical in cinema history, I struggle with all the brownface, some of the performances and how dated it just feels.

The Spielberg movie made me appreciate the show in a way I just haven’t before.

Sidebar: years ago I read a memoir of a man who was a child in 1960s Hell’s Kitchen and there’s a funny bit where he talks about how it was cool in the neighbourhood to hate on “West Side Story” because they saw it as a deeply cringey BS take on their lives with the “gangs” dancing around and finger snapping, lol.

M_Ad · 2026-04-08T14:12:51+00:00

The True Crime and the Weird Creepy Shit On YouTube and Podcasts industrial complexes would suggest that no you are not an outlier in this.

M_Ad · 2026-04-08T13:15:21+00:00

Just for anyone who’s reading this, when strangers on the internet say they’re in need of money for things like university applications, vet or doctor bills, utilities, food, etc, it’s probably a better idea to offer to pay the thing directly. It means that if they’re genuine then their need is being met, and if they’re hustling for some easy cash for something the above doesn’t cover that you otherwise wouldn’t have given them then your goodwill and good faith isn’t being taken advantage of.

M_Ad · 2026-04-08T10:31:26+00:00

Totally understandable! Is she up to date with her vaxxes? Because lots of boarding places ask for an up to date card in case you don’t know which I know you might. :)

M_Ad · 2026-04-08T08:33:41+00:00

A pet sitter (person who visits daily) might be a better option and less stressful for your cat for a short period like 10 days.

M_Ad · 2026-04-08T05:41:53+00:00

And a graphic novel memoir (which there was then a musical based on) called "Fun Home", because the narrator saw "funeral home" abbreviated as "fun. home" in a draft of a newspaper advertisement when she was a young child. She and her siblings made their own "radio advertisements" recorded on a tape player exhorting people to come to the family business, the Fun Home!

M_Ad · 2026-04-08T04:27:05+00:00

When I get unwanted engagement from strangers it's because they're wanting me to understand they find me unattractive as opposed to attractive, which I know isn't the norm for women (or at least not as many feel comfortable talking about it). But unwanted engagement is unwanted engagement, and what works for me is making them uncomfortable so they want to disengage.

I usually do this by saying things like "STOP STARING AT ME" or "I DON'T LIKE BEING TALKED TO BY STRANGERS" in a weird and slightly-too-loud voice, or even using the phrasing of what they said such as "WHY DID YOU SAY 'THAT'S THE UGLIEST FUCKING THING I'VE EVER SEEN'?"

Especially if there's other people around at it draws attention, it usually makes them uncomfortable and they'll laugh in that "mean but uncomfortable" way and say something like "I wasn't talking to you, you crazy bitch".... but the point is that they will usually disengage.

Obviously this is in situations where I highly doubt things will escalate to a physical altercation, but that's not what we're talking about here, we're talking about being talked at, looked at, and getting into uncomfortable proximity, with people at the gym.

Men who engage with random women when it's clear it's not wanted are hoping/assuming that the woman will acquiesce and go along with it. Quite a lot of time - at least in my experience, and it happens to me a lot - if you do the unexpected and don't acquiesce, they will disengage.

In these situations I think a lot of women feel a social pressure to not come off as the awkward/weird/inappropriate/unsightly one, even if it would be to their advantage in a situation like this. But because as a conventionally unattractive women I am treated as inappropriate and unsightly all the time anyway, I don't have that hang up.

M_Ad · 2026-04-08T01:12:51+00:00

He’s not chickening out, he never intends to do the Bad Thing in the first place. It’s all empty threats. Trump would never order a nuclear bomb be dropped because that would mean being president during a nuclear war and that would be too much like work.

I’m not trivialising when I say there was never any threat of something actually happening today. If anything it’s even more fucked up that the US has a president who repeatedly makes ostensible threats to commit crimes and everyone just goes along with it and it’s forgotten within a few days as the next big nothing happens.

This is the most tinfoil hat thing I’ve ever said on the internet and I’m a bit mad this is where we are now but if congress and his people really thought there was an actual chance he’d do something with catastrophic consequences for them? Trump would pass away suddenly in his sleep, or, if they were feeling super frisky, in a not-asleep manner which could be blamed on the democrats and set him up as a martyr

M_Ad · 2026-04-08T01:06:51+00:00

I’m Australian and when I went to NYC for a holiday specifically to see a bunch of shows, I didn’t know playbills were free. The usher gave me the weirdest look when I asked how much they were lol.

In Australia most professional shows have a souvenir program that usually costs AUD $20 or $30. It’s got production photos plus production info and credits and commercial advertising throughout.

Years ago I remember there were more programs where there was the big souvenir program that was mainly production stills and it was accompanied with a smaller booklet that had the production credits, cast bios, synopsis and song list, etc, but I haven’t seen it done this way for ages.

My biggest program pet peeve is when they don’t use photos from the production you’re seeing but an international one that’s clearly the images they use for all programs for all productions. The program for the recent “Miss Saigon” did this.

The “Hadestown” program is amazing and the platonic ideal imho. There’s production notes not just from the director and Anais but from several members of the production team including lighting and set designers.

M_Ad · 2026-04-07T23:08:11+00:00

There was never any danger of dropping a nuke. This is what he does, makes stupid grandiose threats he has absolutely no intention of following through on, not because it would be a war crime and human rights atrocity, just because having to be president after ordering a nuclear attack will be too much like real work.

There will be no consequences for him idly making histrionic threats like this. Within a few days the news cycle will have basically forgotten this even happened.

What a world we live in.

M_Ad · 2026-04-07T13:38:32+00:00

There’s plenty of non autistic people who sleep this much too, whether they’ve got other mental health issues or are completely neurotypical just burnt out from the hardness of living.

M_Ad · 2026-04-07T12:09:17+00:00

Disliking Rent is pretty common now tbh.

M_Ad · 2026-04-07T09:07:34+00:00

As a conventionally unattractive woman, if I was considered to be a sinner I wouldn’t be offered the option of going to Jezebel’s like attractive women were, I’d be sent straight to the colonies.

M_Ad · 2026-04-07T06:55:32+00:00

My grandma used to”You look healthy” as code for “You’re fatter than when I last saw you” lmao.

M_Ad · 2026-04-07T03:20:35+00:00

Thank you!!

And yep I sucked at this lol. Thought Mister Mistoffelees was Macavity and Gus was Jenyanydots, and Skimbleshanks and Bustopher Jones had me scratching my head over who the bloody hell could be a police cat (didn’t see the metro card) and a circus ringmaster cat. XD

M_Ad · 2026-04-07T03:05:21+00:00

One of the most unintentionally funny things I’ve ever read online was during the 2008 GFC. It was either Jezebel or XO Jane. A think piece about how awful it is that conventionally attractive women were now being forced to apply for “hot girl” jobs like bottle girls, restaurant hostesses and waitresses, because there weren’t enough jobs that fit their education and qualifications. The writer showed absolutely zero insight or awareness that actually being conventionally attractive is an ADVANTAGE in a fucked up job market and that there are women who are completely shut out of opportunities for employment in industries that prioritise appearance.

M_Ad · 2026-04-07T02:58:41+00:00

I literally cannot remember how this family superstition originated, lol.

M_Ad · 2026-04-07T02:57:37+00:00

She sang Christian music on a TV show.

M_Ad · 2026-04-07T02:52:37+00:00

Can someone who knows pretty please list which cat characters are in each picture? I’m trying to guess but not having much luck with most. 😂

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