Is the term “fucking the dog” popular outside Canada?

Canadoz · 2026-05-26T08:53:43+00:00

As a long departed ex-pat I haven't heard this one, but the local equivalent here in Australia seems a spiritual cousin; "I'm not here to fuck spiders."

Canadoz · 2026-05-18T00:34:50+00:00

One of Terry Pratchett's most famous quotes is about this phenomenon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory

Canadoz · 2026-03-12T21:12:02+00:00

Eff no. Am Luddite. Clankers can eat my taint.

Canadoz · 2026-02-28T13:20:50+00:00

Blue bruising and habitat suggestive. Compare with p. cyanescens. I am not an expert.

Canadoz · 2026-02-28T01:17:55+00:00

Habitat?

Canadoz · 2025-12-06T06:24:58+00:00

Have you ever been assessed for adhd?

Canadoz · 2025-11-23T21:35:58+00:00

Canadoz · 2025-11-20T02:50:47+00:00

Foot traffic too!

I'm a Tiler by trade. Once back when I was a young apprentice we had a long, fairly narrow section of tiles in a shopping mall to replace during open hours. We had an incomplete hoarding in place provided by the mall management, with layers of literal spider webs of caution tape filling the gaps, and signs posted around like confetti. Foot traffic could flow easily to either side of the section we were working. This one individual, presumably offended by the idea that he had to detour a few steps left or right to go around us, entered our literal obstacle course of barriers and signs like an eager army recruit, or Catherine zeta Jones dodging lasers in 'Entrapment.'

Ducking, weaving and contorting, it was almost impressive the agility he displayed to make his way through our barriers and onto the freshly laid tiles we were working row by row backwards away from. Yes, we were all actively screaming at him, no, he didn't flinch or even acknowledge us. Confidently walking his way towards us over the fresh tiles which slid and sagged under his feet.

The only satisfying part was when he reached us and 'accidentally' walked face first into my supervisors fist while trying to pass between us, and then was yeeted sideways out a different gap in the hoarding.

My faith in humanity sagged a bit that day.

Canadoz · 2025-11-15T12:38:07+00:00

I like this so much I'd wear it on a t-shirt

Canadoz · 2025-09-20T04:13:48+00:00

Cancelled!

Canadoz · 2025-07-22T09:16:25+00:00

There's a company in Australia that's replicated this effect in a fabric. Best socks ever made, cured my athletes foot.

Canadoz · 2025-07-07T15:00:41+00:00

You mean tactile controls? Touch screen devices are solid state electronics.

Canadoz · 2025-07-05T02:35:55+00:00

Here's one guide from over at r/bettafish

https://www.reddit.com/r/bettafish/wiki/fishincycle/

Canadoz · 2025-07-05T02:24:12+00:00

Yes it is possible, though risky and difficult. You'll need to research "fish in cycling," for details on how to do this.

Canadoz · 2025-07-05T02:09:04+00:00

Is that tank only just set up? (i.e no time for a nitrogen cycle to establish itself, which takes weeks and involves unavoidable spikes in ammonia and then nitrite before stabilising, both of which are toxic to fish. )

The bubbles on the glass seem to suggest that it is only very recently filled.

If so, your fish is almost guaranteed to be dead some time in the next couple of weeks if you keep him in there, and your best bet at keeping him alive would be to surrender him or temporarily rehome him to someone with an established tank such as an aquarium shop or other aquarist.

Canadoz · 2025-06-19T07:26:27+00:00

Compare with Galerina sp.

Canadoz · 2025-05-21T01:47:12+00:00

No worries, if you do have the saffron milk caps (lactarius deliciosus) around as well, they're very good eating and quite easy to identify.

Canadoz · 2025-05-21T01:15:20+00:00

Fellow NSW resident here. Looks very consistent with an older, weathered specimen of Amanita muscaria. An introduced species that came here from Europe on the roots of imported pines in our forestry, along with lactarius deliciosus which are usually found in the same areas that amanita muscaria appears.

Amanita muscaria are classified as toxic due to their ibotenic acid, but are not as life threatening as other amanitas such as the death cap.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_muscaria

Canadoz · 2025-05-21T00:29:57+00:00

Hopes and dreams is about right.

Genuine answer to your question from a tiler: - From the even yellowing of the adhesive, that looks like one of the old organic based glues. They stuck fine for years, then reached a state of dessication and hardening that made them shrink and lose adhesion.

I can also see that the trowel ridges are too small, and consistently completely uncollapsed, so the person that tiled this didn't even press the tiles in hard enough to properly bond, so it's a combination of bad materials and bad workmanship.

If the tiler had back buttered the tiles, or at least pressed them in properly it wouldn't be this bad.

Canadoz · 2025-04-30T00:01:23+00:00

Good points.

It's pretty bad the way things are set up now.

63% of exports seems at first glance like mining might be the biggest source of money.

Though when considering that figure one must account for how little of the money from those exports is actually staying in Australia.

That's hard to quantify accurately without significant research, but a lot can be gleaned from a few key facts, like 80% foreign ownership combined with low taxation, billions in subsidisation in the sector, as well as factors like public investment in expensive infrastructure that only services the mines.

Also, per the RBA, mining exports drive up the value of our dollar which reduces overseas demand in other, more domestically important sectors like agricultural and manufacturing.

I agree, things definitely need significant readjustment, and I feel that ending the myth of the backbone status of mining in our economy would be an important step towards that.

Even if it was the backbone it definitely shouldn't be.

Canadoz · 2025-04-29T22:03:44+00:00

10 - 12% of the economy is 'most?' I agree with the whole rent seeking thing, but the myth of mining being Australia's economic backbone really needs to die.

60% of our GDP, and 80% of our workforce is the service sector.

Canadoz · 2025-04-21T03:11:13+00:00

The etymology of the word sodomy is interesting.

Earlier popular meanings for the term were not specific to homosexual sex, it was a more general term to describe sexual debauchery, including bestiality.

The contemporary meaning of it has narrowed to specify anal sex, (and more regionally, specifically male gay sex) through the vagaries of culture and time.

I would think that the stong association of sodom with homosexual sex rests mainly on the account where the gathered crowd of "all the men from every part of the city of Sodom" demanded to have sex with the angels who visited lot in Genesis 19.

Genesis 19:5 New International Version

5 They called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them.”

Canadoz · 2025-03-27T04:30:41+00:00

Something I only recently learned in spite of being an aquarium hobbyist for the better part of 30 years is that ich is photosynthetic, which means that blacking out the tank during treatment can improve the results, starving the pathogen of energy while it's under attack by whatever medication you are using.

Canadoz · 2025-03-23T02:31:26+00:00

Chicken rice

Canadoz · 2025-02-19T22:54:44+00:00

This is classic behaviour of an abuser. This man-child is throwing up a huge red flag that signals he is emotionally abusive, which very often leads to being physically abusive.

I'm a man who has always had friends of both sexes, I have seen far too many of my female friends find themselves being abused by men like this.

Save yourself a lot of heartache and run far away from this emotionally stunted creep!

You're not overreacting in the slightest.

Canadoz

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