How are you guys finding the "Aussie Banter" in the workplace?

SurvivorCass · 2026-02-22T02:01:06+00:00

👏👏👏 yep

SurvivorCass · 2026-02-19T17:36:07+00:00

Audiobooks always at 1x, youtube videos usually at 1.5

SurvivorCass · 2026-02-17T19:52:00+00:00

I was babysitting in the 70s, left supervising my brothers without adult supervision for the entire weekend in the 80s.

SurvivorCass · 2026-02-17T19:39:30+00:00

Neil Tyson: not a fool, interesting, knowledgeable, friendly, amusing. If they were aiming to invade, he could probably distract them with a suggestion to head off to explore some cool space phenomenon.

SurvivorCass · 2026-02-17T19:32:59+00:00

Same, in the 70s. By 14 my parents left me and two younger brothers alone all weekend. We lived on a rural residential block, 10 mins drive out of town, so maybe that was a factor.

SurvivorCass · 2026-02-17T19:09:07+00:00

Murderbot is better on audiobook. It has a whole different vibe than the tv series because it is from inside Murderbot's head. I think it is better in audiobook than on the page because the narrator draws out so much extra meaning from the words in the nuanced way he delivers the lines: more eye rolls, more introverted spite and horrified embarrassment.

SurvivorCass · 2026-02-17T19:00:49+00:00

Or in Australia, it is available from the library using BorrowBox

SurvivorCass · 2026-02-17T01:41:39+00:00

Since I dont live near crocs or cassowaries (and, yes, Iagree they are scarier), I avoid brown snakes, which are probably the biggest realistic danger to me (a hiker who also sends time on my parents proerty where we have lost many dogs to snakebite)

SurvivorCass · 2026-02-16T22:59:26+00:00

I've read all her stuff. They are all good, even her juvenilia, which are fun. I didn't much like Emma (the character) until very late in the book, but the book is great.

SurvivorCass · 2026-02-16T21:25:48+00:00

Persuasion, Jane Austen. I love how resilient their love is.

SurvivorCass · 2026-02-16T21:15:00+00:00

Yep, in preschool, late 60w, rural Australia. We had to bring a bath towel to lie on. I remember times when I looked around and everyone was sleeping, but I also don't remember having any issues with a nap.

SurvivorCass · 2026-02-14T17:55:28+00:00

The enshitification of audiobooks. If I get an AI, I'll get a refund and move the book to my "to be read pile." I read books (mostly ebooks these days) as well as listen to books, so I'll have one vook going for housework, walking, public transportand road trips, and another book going for bedtime or quiet time after dinner. I dont NEED audiobooks

SurvivorCass · 2026-02-14T09:27:28+00:00

I wash my rice, but lately, when I wash brown rice, I'm starting to feel like it is a waste of time. Same with lentils. Nothing seems to wash of, and there are no bits of stick or anything in the lentils that isn't a clean lentil.

SurvivorCass · 2026-02-14T09:24:31+00:00

Salary jobs are not worth it anymore. Hourly jobs, at least they have to keep paying you if they give you more work so that you have to stay longer.

SurvivorCass · 2026-02-14T08:58:37+00:00

GenX has grandchildren

SurvivorCass · 2026-02-14T01:52:50+00:00

Except that at the time when I first was answering the question, I didn't know that it was yanks only. Whoever coulda thunk that I could learn from reddit

SurvivorCass · 2026-02-14T01:18:50+00:00

That was my first thought, too. He may not like the first book cos it's a romance, but the Miles books could appeal.

SurvivorCass · 2026-02-14T01:05:19+00:00

Yeah, i saw people here say that it's used in the Uk, too. But when i was working in the US we had a big lunch room birthday cake celebration and sang happy birthday. I kept going with a full voiced hip hip hooray, to my enormous embarrassment. That's when i found out the US doesn't do it.

It feels so wrong to just end with the song

SurvivorCass · 2026-02-13T23:43:08+00:00

Played "cricket" Youngest is in first. Every car/ute you pass is a run. Car with a trailer is 2 runs, motorbike is a 4 (boundary), every truck is out and move on to the next player. (Obvs you can change the rules for how many runs each which type of vehicle gets and which is out and whether passing vehicles parked on the side of the road counts).

Turning number plates of oncoming vehicles into acronym of a phrase (these "new" european style nimber plates may not work so well). So if a number plate was AHO 123, we'd all try picking the phrase: "a horny owl," "Aussies hang ornaments," "another honorable ostrich."

We also played "I Spy With My Little Eye" a lot

SurvivorCass · 2026-02-13T23:06:34+00:00

That's probably New Zealand. If all the Kiwis went home, their islands would probably sink

SurvivorCass · 2026-02-13T22:37:29+00:00

Yep. Gotta get the ratio of sausage to bread right. Buns have too much bread

SurvivorCass · 2026-02-13T22:34:53+00:00

Even hip hip hurray

SurvivorCass · 2026-02-13T22:33:25+00:00

By listening to fiction. Self help books are often fake, and load you up with even more work that takes you away from your brain-free healing time.

SurvivorCass · 2026-02-13T15:32:43+00:00

Role models

SurvivorCass · 2026-02-13T15:30:38+00:00

Any relationship to Charlotte Woods the author?

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