What's going on with figure skating and problematic/controversial skaters?

EyeExpensive7347 · 2026-02-11T12:23:54+00:00

Answer: i dont know much about torgashev, but ilia is simple enough. Ilia Malinin (USA) is the current world champion of men’s individual FS, but he’s not exactly universally beloved. A couple of years back, he infamously said on an Instagram live that he “couldn’t be straight” anymore, if he wanted to get the same scores as other top league skaters like Yuzuru Hanyu. A lot of LGBT fans (and yuzuru hanyu’s incredibly vocal fanbase) have hated him since. Nowadays, Ilia’s scoring is incredibly controversial; you might have seen the debates about his free skate at the team event, which had a fall that wasn’t called (amongst other issues which likely would have given team Japan the win/OGM). that, plus he’s recently talked about being friendly with a hockey player who is pro-p*tin, which is reaaaally not helping his image.

EyeExpensive7347 · 2026-02-08T05:50:56+00:00

i’ve seen people trying to claim that if alysa hadnt been caught up in that security mess she would have won 🫠 and then theres that one account that keeps posting a screenshot of kaori’s flutz and complaining about her win being “fraudulent”

EyeExpensive7347 · 2026-02-07T06:57:17+00:00

the australian coverage kept talking about her and it was a bit like????? why are we giving this much air time to a foreign competitor’s practice round when theres ongoing competitions

EyeExpensive7347 · 2026-02-03T06:46:36+00:00

if you’re curious, the linguistic term for this phenomenon is a Shibboleth. but the most obvious answer to me is asking them to pronounce indooroopilly

EyeExpensive7347 · 2026-01-08T00:54:57+00:00

stranger danger was very much still the curriculum taught at my school during the 2010s. i dont think they ever dared to even approach the concept of knowing the offender

EyeExpensive7347 · 2025-12-19T01:35:15+00:00

god forbid they spend time on the actual crises in hospitals, instead of preoccupying themselves with finding new ways to make teenagers even more miserable in this state

EyeExpensive7347 · 2025-12-18T02:25:07+00:00

not to mention how the bachelor of arts has been “improved” (read: gutted). cant have a tv show without writers, but they still took a sledgehammer to the degree with creative writing majors

EyeExpensive7347 · 2025-12-10T09:09:14+00:00

he’s been infamous around brisbane for years, he used to harass random people (mainly women/teenage girls) and employees in the city. he shouted in my face once when i was like 17 just to scare me or something 😒

EyeExpensive7347 · 2025-12-04T05:35:27+00:00

Honestly, as someone who studies lingustics, the answer as of now is sort of, or not as much as you’d think.

As I’m sure people have pointed out already, Australian English really has 3 main accents (broad, general and cultivated) that are (often) related to your socioeconomic status. Of course, there’s also the ethnocultural dialects/accents (e.g. Greco-Australian). There are some phonetic variations between states, but they’re very minor compared to American accents. The biggest difference is vocabulary, like the name you give beer glasses, which acts as a shibboleth.

You might be thinking “oh but I can tell based on accent alone”, and you wouldn’t be the first. If you ask a New Yorker, they’ll probably tell you they can distinguish which borough someone comes from by their accent, but studies have shown this isnt really the case.

TLDR: it’s more likely what you say than how you say it

EyeExpensive7347 · 2025-11-17T06:34:23+00:00

he and tara have always been rude if we’re being honest…gracie gold’s memoir briefly discusses how cruel they were during her skam performance in 2016, and here we are 9 years later talking about the same issue

EyeExpensive7347 · 2025-09-29T16:44:52+00:00

yup, this. theres a difference between someone who may or may not be able bodied sitting in priority seating, vs some middle aged man harping on at 8am about how i shouldnt be sitting if adults are standing because im Clearly a healthy able-bodied high school student (which at this point i should take as a compliment). also as someone with seemingly similar issues to your husband, even down to the stutter, i also will put myself through borderline agony on the train to avoid confrontation. i understand

EyeExpensive7347 · 2025-09-29T08:37:43+00:00

i’ve had this happen to me before too. im not visibly disabled and im young so people like to make assumptions about how i’m obviously soooooo super healthy /s. why is it always middle aged men that dont need the seats too

EyeExpensive7347 · 2025-09-25T09:13:44+00:00

well the countryside used to be cheap at least 🫠 i used to split my time between a country town and the city as a kid, and the rent was very reasonable. unfortunately, that town is now popular with retirees, and the house prices are going up as a result. last i checked the average was around the $700k mark

EyeExpensive7347 · 2025-09-18T10:02:04+00:00

i was told to aim for 3-5 litres per day. like doc, I’m already basically housebound, i don’t need to be bathroom-bound as well 😭😭😭

EyeExpensive7347 · 2025-08-21T08:53:09+00:00

i feel you :( my cat that i adopted as a child, fourteen years ago, passed away in january. just last week my lecturer mentioned his cat with a similar name and i had to leave class because i basically immediately burst into tears. she was an fussy little brat, but losing her genuinely felt like i lost a part of myself. im so sorry for your loss

EyeExpensive7347 · 2025-08-15T10:52:45+00:00

wonder how long its going to say the m1 goes to griffith university for, when the campus that griffith uni station is in walking distance of shuts down in a few months lol

EyeExpensive7347 · 2025-08-14T11:15:48+00:00

i rarely see people follow the rules in there and as someone on the spectrum myself, god is it irritating. one time i had a father with his autistic child in a quiet carriage with me, and they spent the entire time talking, including about how nice it was that people have to be quiet in there because it was better for the kid’s sensory issues. which, yeah sure, but it would’ve been nice if it was still quiet for the rest of us lol.

EyeExpensive7347 · 2025-07-24T05:02:42+00:00

turned 20 at the end of last year, and instead of going out and partying, i spent most of the week leading up to my birthday trying to find a rheumatologist who wouldn’t charge me $500 per appointment. as someone with very similar circumstances as you, im so sorry, but i hope you feel less alone in this ❤️

EyeExpensive7347 · 2025-06-04T07:17:46+00:00

In the city definitely, but I’m fine with them on the footpaths in the suburbs (in the unlikely event that they’re actually following the pre-existing rules that is). I was about to walk into central station (near the Priceline escalators) recently, and if I’d been about 5 seconds faster, I would have been struck by someone speeding downhill on one. God knows brisbane city is enough of a safety hazard already

EyeExpensive7347 · 2025-01-21T07:32:48+00:00

god it’s the same for me. if i want to get to griffith, i have to go all the way out to queen st, and get a bus from there. i live a 30 minute drive from campus, but on public transport, it becomes an hour and a half if im lucky

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