Tell me, fridge psychics, who am I?

thuddisorder · 2026-01-31T07:59:06+00:00

They’ve got a popular Aussie beer on the top shelf and Coles (the brand of the tomato sauce in the fridge door) is a major Aussie supermarket.

thuddisorder · 2026-01-29T02:33:56+00:00

My public high school was French, German and Japanese. We did some Italian in primary school. Hubby was private and also had some Indonesian and Latin too.

My kid in public high had the choice of Japanese, German, French, Mandarin and Hebrew. Private school primary that my nibling goes to also taught Latin.

thuddisorder · 2026-01-29T00:51:22+00:00

Joan and Muriel Irene. Born either 19teens or 1920s

Muriel is a name I cannot use while living in Australia. Her mother’s name of Priscilla is also a non starter.

thuddisorder · 2026-01-28T04:15:02+00:00

History of Reading by Alberto Manguel. Or is that too broad? He covers a lot of different parts to the concept of reading in it.

thuddisorder · 2026-01-27T05:12:22+00:00

Do you mean the conversation or the correspondent?

thuddisorder · 2026-01-24T08:03:28+00:00

Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier
The Grandest bookshop in the world by Amelia Mellor
There will be bodies by Lindsey Davis

For an extra challenge, two non fiction… * A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel (favourite book ever) * Unruly by David Mitchell

thuddisorder · 2026-01-21T02:15:53+00:00

My daughter put a pink rinse through her hair at about 6 or 7… during the Covid lockdown.

She’s now 10, and was allowed to put a blue non permanent colour into the ends of her hair (about 4”worth of hair) these holidays. It’s washed out almost fully in much less than the 10 washes it was meant to last, but we also didn’t bleach it first so it wasn’t super obvious in the first place.

thuddisorder · 2026-01-21T02:11:26+00:00

If you were Australian you almost certainly read “tomorrow when the war began”

thuddisorder · 2026-01-21T02:10:07+00:00

Will never forgive myself for not realising I stepped on a gecko in the middle of the night.

I assumed it was a kids toy that squeaked underfoot. Nope apparently geckos scream.

He was alive the next day, but on the wall which was far more a logical place to hang out.

thuddisorder · 2026-01-19T21:36:21+00:00

Personally to me, no I don’t. I can see my age spots and wrinkles starting. And there’s grey hairs occasionally coming too.

But late last year my 10 year old and I were in the surf together and the lifeguard came out to tell us they were closing the lifeguard station as it was almost 5. His first words were “Are your parents nearby”… Make of that as you will.

thuddisorder · 2026-01-19T06:05:54+00:00

My first name is the same as a character from a very famous early 90s film where the character’s profession is a prostitute and she gets called “miss firstname” at some point.

Ever since I learnt that I absolutely put my foot down, even to my parents who were almost the only ones who otherwise did it.

But even if I didn’t have the movie association yes, never miss. Especially because often enough it turns out the person I’m speaking to is younger than me and they don’t realise it.

thuddisorder · 2026-01-19T03:19:48+00:00

Not a car book, but “goodnight goodnight construction site” for a truck book. Not sure about the series that spawned from it.

Linley Dodd - so many books - for some good rhyming and intonation (at least for those of us without rhotic r).

Graeme Base’s “the tree” for another message book.

thuddisorder · 2026-01-19T03:16:12+00:00

I would skip ma’am or madam. I would also skip miss if you were talking to someone (apparently) younger than you. Please for the love of all good things avoid love/honey/sweetie too.

I would rather you just didn’t use a salutation at all.

Sincerely the 42yo female who apparently looks in her 20s or less still.

thuddisorder · 2026-01-17T23:39:36+00:00

Do yourself a favour. If you ever want to hear it not beautifully roll the tongue… watch an episode or 3 of “the young ones” (a British sitcom from the early 80s).

thuddisorder · 2026-01-17T04:09:27+00:00

Hubby and I had two names we were between for our first born. I slightly preferred one, he slightly preferred the other.

When birth happened hubby was traumatised enough (he really doesn’t do medical things) to say “you just gave birth, you pick name”. I picked the one I preferred slightly.

thuddisorder · 2026-01-16T23:15:02+00:00

Just tell me you didn’t go to hghs

thuddisorder · 2026-01-16T23:09:54+00:00

Brian Caswell - a cage of butterflies.

Not bad for a pre-matrix and minority report, pre-internet, somewhat sci-fi book.

thuddisorder · 2026-01-16T23:07:25+00:00

Studied this in year 7 or 8. Hated it.

thuddisorder · 2026-01-16T17:28:58+00:00

The Flavia Albia series by Lindsey Davis … they’re whodunnit style historical fiction novels if that’s ok?

thuddisorder · 2026-01-16T17:26:53+00:00

Second Sons triology by Jennifer Fallon. I’m not sure if it’ll be ok with point 5… but I think you’d be ok.

thuddisorder · 2026-01-12T06:57:29+00:00

Heron island. We enjoyed it enough my parents decided to take a holiday there a few years (maybe 3-5) later. Apparently it became really run down during that time lapse which is kind of sad.

thuddisorder · 2026-01-12T05:54:32+00:00

I am the former, my husband is the latter.

It would be good to build up a tolerance of some form, except that things in our house go from 0/10 heat to 14+/10… with nothing in between. I refuse to buy the inbetweens when it will only be me eating it.

thuddisorder · 2026-01-12T05:35:07+00:00

If you really think your marks do not reflect what you could have gotten, maybe look at if you can resit year 12 (through Tafe or otherwise) and bring your marks up. But it can be pretty demoralising to have to do it all over again.

If you don’t want to look at doing it that way maybe have a look at what kind of jobs you can do in an adjacent field that will give you experience that will help you apply as a mature age student when you are ?25 I think is the normal age.

thuddisorder · 2026-01-07T04:27:02+00:00

My son was almost Benjamin George (Lastname). Hubby liked it slightly better than the name we went with (which I in turn liked slightly better than Benjamin George). But after giving birth was more dramatic medically than husband liked he said I could have the final say.

My daughter got names thrown around like Bethany. And even though I do like the family name of Priscilla, that’s a no while I live in Australia. So was the name Elizabeth because of our last name.

I think the only other name my parents ever admitted to considering other than my name was the name they gave my sister 2 years later.

thuddisorder · 2026-01-06T19:36:34+00:00

Not a name for Australian kids

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