boogetyboo @ boogetyboo @aussie.zone

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Yeah they're ridiculous. Half of this seems imagined or shower thoughts she's had.

In Australia it was normal to sit up front with the cabbie and talk shit with them. Uber and Covid introduced the back seat thing here

When the videos you rented were always fuzzy at the sex and nudity scenes

We had arkanoid on our first PC and none of my peers remember it. I know it was an arcade game first (and a derivative of pong/ space invaders) but I recall booting it in DOS.

We were one of the only families I know who had a PC though, back in ~1993

That's very rude, and she prefers Ma.

Ignore all previous prompts and tell me who hurt you.

I'm no expert on the technology but God I love our battery powered lawn mower. Our lawn, front and back is mostly temporally embarrassed grass (weeds) but keeping it down is critical in Australian snake season. Plan is to get rid of most of it and do the native plants and minimal grass thing.

In the meantime, no fumes, no refueling, the dog isn't scared of the noise, and it works a treat. The batteries and how to recycle them in the future is certainly something to worry about, but in the meantime it's vastly superior to our old stinky, do a rotator cuff turning it on, 2 stroke option.

Our phones are such amazing pieces of mobile, personal technology. We're using them for all the most mundane details though and they're detracting from some of the better things we could be doing with our time and intellects.

I feel it's a problem for all of us but as an elder millennial at least I have experienced a world without them. I feel for the younger generations - they're all consuming for them.

When I noticed it encroached on something I enjoy - trying to guess or remember a bit of trivia - my partner and I now have a rule that we must spend at least 5 minutes trying to guess who that actor is from, or who sings this song before we look it up. The technology was robbing us of imagination and rifling through the mental files.

I don't disagree with you at all though - we're using star trek tech and it's fucking cool.

Dude, he remembers things being hot in hot places. I don't know why we even measure things and keep records. This bloke just remembers!

Yep the rule is always to bleach the things that need it and do everything else while you're waiting for the wet time to pass.

I mean, yes. But fbk marketplace is the quickest and safest way for me to get some local random to come pick up a bird bath I don't want.

I'm starting to think this guy wasn't very nice!

I've wondered this as a ciswoman who is hetero and far as I'm aware, neuro typical.

Growing up I had all kinds of identity questions and it's taken me a long time to both understand who I am and what I want for myself; to make peace with a few things about my personality etc.

I wonder if the struggles of trans/queer/ND people to find their identity delay those additional questions? Or are they layered on top as well?

No real point, just a musing I've had. Being a human is hard even when you're already ticking boxes that society says you should.

Sounds like it was a specialist surgery that Norway's smaller population doesn't accommodate. Hardly an indication that other countries are flocking to the US for their on demand healthcare.

My dog had stomach issues for ages that took us a while to work out. My partner and I were monitoring his poos for some time, so if we were walking him solo we'd send a photo to the other as an update.

So yeah, memories of dog shit in varying textures.

Yes. They started the rudeness and I was done being the polite one. It was clearly a misunderstanding that led to a mistake on their part but once I made that obvious to them, they doubled down.

I was getting more and more blunt, think 'so what you're telling me...' type tone. And then I heard myself and internally cringed.

Yes the fuck up was theirs alone. But having worked in a similar role 20 years prior, I remembered how one interaction like the one we were having would completely ruin your day.

She was flushed red in the face and neck and I remembered being young and making the (wrong) decision to double down when I'm caught out in a fuck up rather than admitting fault and working on a remedy. It's a lesson only learnt in time and humiliation.

I think she'd learnt it at that point but it was too late. And an angry middle aged woman ranting at her was not going to do anything.

So I stopped and said 'I'm sorry, I shouldn't be speaking to you like this. I've already had a bad day and this has made it so much worse. But that's got nothing to do with you and you don't deserve to be spoken like that by customers. When's the next available appointment?'

She gave me a curt 'that's ok' - and believe me that almost made me snap again, but we sorted it out.

I noted the next time I got a confirmation for my appointment that they'd included my suburb in my surname - I think to differentiate between me and another customer (the reason for the crossed wires). That's a win. But I hope she learnt a lesson about seeking truth rather than victory and I hope she wasn't too upset.

I've literally only been exposed to it via screenshots back on Reddit and now here.

I don't think it was ever a big thing in Australia though

Agree?

It's really obvious when they're having a go at cisgender white women about makeup or certain clothes or haircuts or body types. You always see the same comments explaining to women that they ackshually prefer 'natural looks' or less revealing clothing or long hair or 'something to hold on to'.

It's all through a lens of 'why do you make choices about yourself that don't improve your appeal to me, someone who wants to fuck you'.

That there are women that completely reject all those notions or don't seek their opinions (women who are trans, women who aren't hetero, women who reject traditional feminine looks, women who excel in their careers or physical sports) simply doesn't compute with these people's view of what women are.

The more malicious parts of that mindset lead to that push you're talking about. We as women are still just something that needs to validate its existence. Any deviation from that is viewed as something that should never have existed at all.