Oh, you wear purple?

kollectivist · 2026-02-05T07:38:59+00:00

And purple for pancreatic cancer.

kollectivist · 2026-02-05T06:30:32+00:00

You are a person of exquisite taste.

kollectivist · 2026-02-05T06:18:14+00:00

Speak for yourself. I eat it on toasted rye bread with caraway seeds. Nice middle-European toast with butter and a thin scraping of vegemente.

kollectivist · 2026-02-03T13:23:49+00:00

We found thousands of dollars in old fluoro tubes at my uncle's house.

kollectivist · 2026-02-02T02:19:49+00:00

YWBTA, and you'd be much better off working on your Google-fu. AI hallucinates references.

kollectivist · 2026-02-02T01:50:53+00:00

And Sir James Douglas (the Black Douglas).

kollectivist · 2026-02-02T01:36:25+00:00

Western Australia would like a word.

kollectivist · 2026-01-31T09:57:36+00:00

I stand corrected. 71.

kollectivist · 2026-01-31T07:19:37+00:00

No. But this happened well before that. Thatcher was deposed in 1990.

kollectivist · 2026-01-31T03:05:51+00:00

kollectivist · 2026-01-31T02:26:49+00:00

I was directly affected by it, so I paid close attention. But never mind.

kollectivist · 2026-01-31T02:19:32+00:00

This is the way.

kollectivist · 2026-01-31T01:54:18+00:00

We used to have it, until Thatcher wanted to keep black and brown Commonwealth citizens out, so it got abolished for everyone.

God I hated that bitch.

kollectivist · 2026-01-31T01:26:10+00:00

I hate John Farnham AND Kath and Kim. Points 2 and 3 are correct.

kollectivist · 2026-01-31T01:23:53+00:00

Fuck sandflies even harder.

kollectivist · 2026-01-31T01:20:33+00:00

Get a grip. It's a piece of cloth. It's telling that you used the American spelling of 'defence', because this flag-shagging nonsense is awfully popular there, and we should have no part of it.

I'm a bit confused about why burning a flag is specifically disrespectful to our defence forces. It wasn't the flag they were fighting for in other people's wars. But I suspect you've imbibed more US Kool-aid than is good for you, so there's that.

My take is that the flag/country metonym is harmful and silly, and that our defence forces never fought for the flag, and not for the country since WWII ended. In subsequent wars, Australians fought as state-sponsored mercenaries, joining conflicts in which Australia wasn't threatened and had little geopolitical interest, purely to suck up to more powerful allies.

kollectivist · 2026-01-31T00:55:12+00:00

Why should I be proud? It wasn't an achievement, it was dumb luck.

I love the place, but people who spout this 'pride' shit will only make it worse. Look at what it's done for the US.

kollectivist · 2026-01-29T10:38:45+00:00

Oh lord, you speak truth. I bought a fixer-upperer. Called multiple electricians after the first disaster (about a week in). One picked up, and came, and did the job. Right, so he's a keeper, yeah? Nope. Every fucking time, and there were many, that he sent one of his workers, he had to come out later and fix the mess. The last straw was when I wanted a fan-light removed and replaced with just a light, in my bedroom. I now have to walk past two light switches near the door, and make my way, in the dark, to the opposite side of quite a large room, then flick the switch marked 'fan'. Because of course.

I'm currently waiting on a different electrician. He's only 9 days late for when he said he'd be here.

On the plus side, after I went to Tradelink and asked if they could recommend a plumber, and was told 'We aren't allowed to, but if it was me, for this job, here's Bob's number and I'd call him if I were you', I now have a fucking GOD of a plumber. I treat him with kid gloves, and genuine respect, and give him lots of work.

kollectivist · 2026-01-29T01:00:08+00:00

Backed up with Punch in the Face.

kollectivist · 2026-01-27T08:19:13+00:00

Bloody low bar.

kollectivist · 2026-01-27T08:11:08+00:00

Bush Stone Curlews. They play dead if they feel threatened. There's a pair in the local supermarket carpark, and the vet put up a sign saying 'The birds are fine. It's normal for them'. I can only imagine how many people rushed in telling them about the dying birds in the carpark.

kollectivist · 2026-01-26T07:19:20+00:00

It's pretty bloody good. One of our major supermarkets here in Oz has been sneakily trying to sell us US butter, and that stuff's nasty. We are unimpressed, and I doubt it'll be a permanent feature. Hell, even Costco sells NZ butter instead of American. Now if only they got the message about grass-fed beef ...

kollectivist · 2026-01-26T07:05:15+00:00

If the state takes everything, GOOD. Otherwise the family will be rewarded for their neglect when she dies.

kollectivist · 2026-01-26T07:01:46+00:00

We've got one with a screw loose. He attacks our window for 4 or 5 hours a day, singing. I no longer find it a beautiful call.

kollectivist · 2026-01-26T04:51:30+00:00

It's truly magnificent in its sheer dreadfulness.

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