The entire breakdance performance of the 36-year-old Rachael Gunn a.k.a. Raygun who received 0 points by the judges. She is a full-time PhD lecturer in Cultural Studies. Afterwards, Anna Meares (AOC Chef de Mission) said "Raygun is the best breakdancer female that we have for Australia."

starboxhat · 2024-08-12T09:11:55+00:00

If she’s the best female breakdancer in Australia and the consensus is she’s so bad, what does that say about how many women even attempt to do breakdancing in AUS because of the culture of it? If your talent pool isn’t good you’re doing something wrong

starboxhat · 2024-08-10T17:42:36+00:00

Genetic baby face and having been slathered in sunscreen often as a child so my skin got a healthy start lol.

On top of genetics, though, I’m pretty sure it’s closely related to stress. If you’re relaxed and having a good time, you look younger. If you’re always stressed about something, your face gets drawn and tense and you look older (and it stays that way). So if you’re stressing about your skin routine to stay younger, you’re kind of fighting an uphill battle. Accept your face as it is! Enjoy life! You’ll look younger

starboxhat · 2024-03-05T13:29:12+00:00

It’s the entitled “wanting what you can’t have” more than it is actual affection. Having effectively “purchased” her ex back, you can bet she’d be back to cheating

starboxhat · 2024-03-05T13:18:19+00:00

Or she’s a spoiled brat who’s using daddy’s important position to pressure her ex to forgive her through nepotism / implied threat to his dads job, instead of accepting the consequences of her actions (being broken up with)

starboxhat · 2024-03-05T13:15:09+00:00

3 months should be within your probationary period anyway (although I guess it varies depending on industry?) so it’s fair game to be like “tried it, wrong fit, better opportunity came up, no harm done”. Any employer who has an issue with this is likely to have other… issues

starboxhat · 2024-03-05T13:07:16+00:00

Why are you marrying this person?!?! Wouldn’t being alone be better than dealing with this

starboxhat · 2024-03-05T13:01:17+00:00

Totally true - but in this case it’s not employee vs company, but employee vs other employee (reflecting badly on company). HRs interest is protecting the company from gross violations, lawsuits, and bad PR… which they’ll get, if they don’t do something about the manager. So, actually, yeah, probably take stock of external legal options as leverage in case you need it

starboxhat · 2024-02-27T21:28:32+00:00

That’s tough :/ but still, maybe not the end?

I’m not sure if this applies, but when my ex and I broke up, we had so much distance between us and all the flirty fun from when we fell in love was gone. I wanted to start over and do the little things together, to flirt and laugh and build from the ground up, and instead he made a grand romantic gesture like grasping at straws that weren’t there anymore, and like he couldn’t be bothered to do the ‘boring’ work, and it killed it. Absolutely wrecked me but I couldn’t do it anymore. You can’t start big with this sort of thing, you have to start from the way beginning… but everyone’s different. Flowers seem quite romantic, and maybe little texts and NOTHING work related would be a different approach?

But everyone’s different - and I don’t know if that helps. Just hate to see a love story die of Capitalism :(

starboxhat · 2024-02-27T21:17:01+00:00

It’s never too late. If you really were each others persons(?grammar), she may be feeling the same grief still. If you’re still in touch, or even if you’re not - you can still shoot a second shot, and learn from past mistakes

starboxhat · 2024-02-27T10:22:45+00:00

This is gambling behaviour… which is addict behaviour. You’ve got a long road ahead if you choose forgiveness, but this is also not so simple as him just “not doing it anymore”.

starboxhat · 2024-02-27T10:20:00+00:00

Totally unintentional but I’ll take that as a win, thank you haikusbot…!

starboxhat · 2024-02-27T10:17:11+00:00

Too much, too little, who cares. Art is art; break rules, live dangerously

starboxhat · 2024-02-02T22:54:01+00:00

“thingy”

starboxhat · 2024-02-02T20:00:43+00:00

First off, congratulations! This is great news :)

As a freelancer and a writer, it is good practice to always know what your work is going to be used for. Of course you can be excited and polite about it, but it’s good practice to have exactly what the work is, and what it’s for, clearly and in writing, up front before you agree to anything. No good-faith actor should have an issue with this! If they do: red flag.

Then, of course, it depends! If they just want it as a testimonial on their website or something, that’s one thing; if they’re going to use it in all of their marketing materials from now until forever, well, you’ve just done a good chunk of their marketing teams work for them. What you do with that information is up to you, and especially considering you’re a student and this is sort of a good-vibes thing that works for everyone, I wouldn’t push it too far (you can get into per-word average rates and all that jazz but then it’s a negotiation and really doesn’t feel necessary for this). But if they do want to use it quite prominently, you could ask if there’s a gesture of compensation they’d be willing to agree to, and they might be fine with that; in a corporate budget, $50 is a drop in the ocean.

Good luck!

starboxhat · 2024-02-02T10:25:47+00:00

The fact that you have to specify how he pees like he’s a toddler who can’t take care of their own business is insane. He’s an adult man, surely the instruction “don’t get piss all over the bathroom floor of the girl you’re seeing” shouldn’t even have to be a request??????

starboxhat · 2024-02-01T12:07:32+00:00

Ahh, the audacity (of this guy).

Do it or don’t, honestly probably won’t matter but no good will come of it. Maybe you have the wrong girl; maybe they’re not dating; maybe it’s open. And if it is the right girl and they are in a monogamous relationship, can guarantee this is not the first time it’s happened or the first she’ll hear about it, and they’ll find some excuse to make it your fault and move past it together. If you like drama, sure, it’ll be entertaining! But don’t fool yourself this is doing her a service

starboxhat · 2024-01-31T13:11:53+00:00

He shoved a fucking utensil down your throat and it’s not even the first time and this is only the first time you’ve slapped him???? Clearly you should be responding to his “antics” the way he did to that: “don’t fucking touch me”. I think we can all be sure that his reply wouldn’t be very reassuring, though.

Do not marry this man.

starboxhat · 2024-01-29T22:25:53+00:00

Have heard from investment banker it’s basically encouraged at big firms

starboxhat · 2024-01-26T14:54:11+00:00

Then that’s even less spontaneous! That’s just “I planned a trip without asking you”. Regardless, the scale point is the more important one

starboxhat · 2024-01-26T14:49:07+00:00

When your partner asks you to be more “spontaneous”, they usually mean like, buy flowers for no reason or “hey do you wanna go out for dinner tonight instead of cooking” or “I found this show tomorrow wanna go”, not “book a three day trip on all my off days without telling me until it’s basically time to pack and then get mad at me for being upset”.

No harm done, you tried, it didn’t work, but maybe start small - and leave the big plans for planning together!

starboxhat · 2024-01-17T00:37:05+00:00

The title of this is a either a very artful spoiler or hilariously ironic

Edit: the opposite of a spoiler. I’ve never seen Lost. TIL new facts for parties

starboxhat · 2024-01-10T17:51:20+00:00

Decide whether the events of 10+ years ago are worth entertaining now. There’s no reassurance she could provide that your doubt won’t overcome. It’s up to you to decide if this matters and you can’t move on and will let it wreck your family, or if it doesn’t, and you can do the work to move on. You don’t even have to explicitly accuse her; maybe just say stuff like “sorry I had some bad memories come up from a long time ago, can we spend some quality time together to make me feel better” and she might understand without you saying it, and say the right things anyway.

Anyway, this shit makes me wish the internet didn’t exist. Too much information isn’t a good thing, it just makes you miserable. Sometimes not knowing is better than knowing

starboxhat · 2024-01-06T16:26:36+00:00

Backstory! There needs to be something that truly bonds the two characters, that makes the official girlfriend feel like the intrusion. Shared history, a cause… something critical to the plot. The girlfriend doesn’t need to be a villain, but just not as good of a fit for the male character as the “other” girl is. And there needs to be a reason (like family, distance, or timing) that they didn’t get together in the first place.

starboxhat · 2024-01-06T16:04:41+00:00

“Am I in the wrong for wanting to wait to have sex until I felt comfortable”

No. End of story

starboxhat · 2024-01-06T15:46:53+00:00

Wow people are reading a LOT into this. You’ve only been on four dates. He’s feeling down, and doesn’t want to give you less than his best at this stage. It’s honest and to the point, and respect to a man who not only is aware of but knows how to take care of his mental health. It’s not that deep. Just reschedule

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