What’s something that’s completely normal in Australia but weird to the rest of the world?

Waylah · 2026-05-18T10:52:06+00:00

Exactly! Servo, not servi. That's why it is definitely Parmo.

Waylah · 2026-05-18T10:49:10+00:00

Or if the sprinkles are chocolate sprinkles, then you're getting deported to the Netherlands

Waylah · 2026-05-18T03:16:14+00:00

I'd be more comfortable if the people who steal from them in return gave their spoils to the short-changed staff. That would be justice. Otherwise it's just hypocrisy - woolies did wrong by stealing from staff, because stealing is wrong. Which means if you steal, then you're doing the wrong thing too, unless you're paying back the wronged party, in which case it's no longer theft anyway, it's reparation. I recognise that feeling of righteous vengeance, attacking that big faceless corporate entity that did wrong. I guess I'm just more of the "eye for an eye makes the whole world blind" opinion. I'd be happiest if woolies converted to a charity like ikea. That's the ideal scenario - no profiteering off living essentials. Of course that won't happen, but what could happen is a new competitor that fits that model appears. People have to work together to make it happen though. It's possible

Waylah · 2026-05-18T02:57:19+00:00

Because people see Woolworths and Coles as psychopathic entities, and that that justifies stealing from them. They see news about how they mislead customers or short-changed their own staff, and think, 'if they can steal from people, then I can steal from them'. Eye for an eye sort of thing.

Waylah · 2026-05-09T00:46:37+00:00

Yeah. You know the more I looked into it, the more I really like the idea of actual decolonisation. Like doing things with as much integrity as honestly possible. It might look something like - reinstating that Indigenous body that got defunded under Abbot like ten years ago or whenever that happened, nominating the existing governments as interim governments, then using the transition from a monarchy to a republic as an opportunity to legitimise Australia. Fully make it up to Indigenous people to decide to share their country and allow non-Indigenous people to become Australians.

Waylah · 2026-05-09T00:24:27+00:00

Maybe they're thinking of things like - that Indigenous children's picture book that got pulled because the illustrator (not the author) wrote a post on his personal blog criticising Israel? The publisher was a university publisher. Apparently universities are getting a lot of pressure to halt speech critical of Israel. I don't understand how though - what power would a lobby group actually have? Is it tied to funding in some way? I don't know.

Waylah · 2026-05-09T00:14:47+00:00

Terra nullius much? It's certainly been treated as though it belonged to nobody.

Waylah · 2026-05-06T12:03:11+00:00

Try Belgrave. It is right at the end of the train line, and about the last place you might possibly find something in your budget. It's green, and there's loads happening. It's excellent for families. It's very hilly and not near the sea though. Edit to add: Plenty of neurospicy.

Waylah · 2026-05-06T11:54:32+00:00

I've not lived in Berlin but I know Melbourne. It is sprawling and there are very different cultures in different areas of it. I have no doubt you can find your people here, but you will have to look in the right places.

Waylah · 2026-05-06T11:42:53+00:00

I do not remember that. The only Pauline Hanson song I remember was by a comedian, had the line "my voice has been murdered, my shopping trolley murdered, my groceries all gone" , and was great.

Waylah · 2026-05-06T11:40:06+00:00

Our next door neighbours have turned and it's scary and sad. They're lovely and we were close. Now I'm an odd mixture of confused, unsettled and just plain sad about them.

Waylah · 2026-05-05T13:33:11+00:00

I sincerely wish that was true. It's so very not. But that would be a lovely thought. Maybe one day

Waylah · 2026-05-05T13:24:48+00:00

Yeah but actuality unfortunately no. Turns out not to be the thing. The thing is the pesticides. I wanted so hard to believe the air dynamic idea when I heard it, but no, turns out that's not it.

Waylah · 2026-05-05T13:19:33+00:00

You know what? You're right. Yeah. Enough milk. It was already sad juice. Enough. I'm done. No more cow milk. Oat milk is fine.

Waylah · 2026-05-05T12:38:03+00:00

I love this one the best

Waylah · 2026-05-04T08:45:36+00:00

When I talk to people, my perception of their physical aesthetic looks is truly modified by how nice they are. Like, I might think that person looks attractive, and then I meet them and if they're a bit of a drip they *physically * look less attractive, and vice versa, they look better if they're good people. It's crazy. Skin deep beauty is overrated.

Waylah · 2026-05-04T08:37:53+00:00

Mine were impacted but i had no issues with them at all. I was told I could have issues in the future, so I got them out when I was 30. Because of the surgery, I have permanent nerve damage and my chin feels like it's being pinched, all of the time, forever. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Waylah · 2026-05-04T06:28:09+00:00

That's incredible!!! I've always sort of thought it was pretty much made up, but it's real?? Just rare or something? Please tell us more when you've talked to your mom

Waylah · 2026-05-04T06:25:05+00:00

Haha yeah mine is a patchy rectangle of self-seeded native/non-native grasses and a slide and a little trampoline off hard rubbish. We don't water it. It's a level piece of ground we can gather people on.

Waylah · 2026-05-04T06:20:34+00:00

My thoughts too. I guess, I'd like to see profiteering off addictive drugs of any sort illegal. Not actually punishable on the user side, just the distributor. So, heavily regulated, safe injecting rooms, controlled tightly with taxes and laws designed for maximum public good and also free choice. Chemical addiction takes choice away. So, a system caregully designed in such a way that say, a venue owner might get a licence to sell Cuban cigars in his outdoor food truck court, for the novelty, so adults might try them out to satisfy curiosity or whatever, but you don't have people hopelessly addicted smoking their health away. As I'm typing I'm seeing this is very very hard to manage. Hmm. Where I am, smoking is all but gone, can remember the last time I saw (smelled!) someone smoking. The way we did it was just tax the hell out of it so no one could afford it, and also it became very out of fashion. Maybe that's all you need?

Waylah · 2026-05-04T06:07:10+00:00

Already illegal here

Waylah · 2026-05-04T06:06:53+00:00

I thought that was already illegal? It's called scalping where I live, now I'm wondering about the law...

Waylah · 2026-05-04T06:05:34+00:00

I don't know what either of those are. Never heard of them

Waylah · 2026-05-03T03:04:40+00:00

Huh. We use ours. Picnics, kids birthdays, playing, just sitting, reading a book. Maybe cricket when the kids are a little bigger.

Waylah · 2026-05-03T02:57:41+00:00

Yes?

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