I’d also be curious about New Zealand. I grew up there and would like to hear a perspective from a Black person who lives there. I know one Black New Zealander and a few from Africa, but most immigration is from Asia.

I used Diet Bet (you bet on yourself to lose 4% bodyweight in 4 weeks) to motivate me and I was 1.5 pounds away from the goal weight in the morning so I fasted the last day and took a laxative the night before weigh in. Money as a motivator is not a good way to build healthy habits...

NZ’s recently retired kicker Dan Carter basically won us the world cup with drop kicks - we won one game 18-16 or similar. But yeah, it’s not that common. It doesn’t make for a good game to watch, or for a popular kicker.

Haha - this is so funny and true. I’m from NZ originally but moved to North America a few years ago and I can’t watch American Football... it just seems so silly and everyone takes it so seriously.

I’m from NZ and moved to North America, and the poor sportsmanship here blows my mind. Not that it’s perfect in rugby, but it’s aspired to. Here it’s just expected that you’ll be rude and disrespectful to the other team. It makes me sad because I think it undermines a lot of the best aspects of team sports.

To be fair, though, I have used my magic wand to relieve muscle knots. Yes, it’s primarily an amazing orgasm machine, but as a “personal massager” it is somewhat multipurpose.

Rice pudding.

Drama club geeks often come late to Stonerville but once we get there we make ourselves at home.

I haven’t seen any of those either.... I confuse Dirty Dancing with that other 80s dancing movie... and that other other 80s dancing movie, only I think in that one she’s a stripper?

#1 reason I can’t work from home - two-thirds of the apartment could be(and would be) “nap rooms”.

I started going to the gym (I know) in the morning (I KNOW) and now I’m in bed at, like, 9.30. My mornings off I stay up “late”... 10.30! I don’t know who I’ve become and I can’t decide if I like it.

Yeah, I get why people would choose the raise. I think that more vacation would make me happier and more money would make me more comfortable. Which one I want more probably varies by mood and priorities.

They’ve proven that people take less leave if it’s unlimited because when you have three weeks you use three weeks, but when you have “unlimited” you take as much as you think you can comfortably, which is usually less.

I picked vacation because right now I would probably rather get two more weeks vacation than a 5% pay increase. Moving to North America sucks in terms of labour laws. Canadians compare themselves so favourably to the USA. If they looked just a tiny bit farther afield they would realize their labour laws are definitely…

I’m trying to talk my partner into combining our names into a pun. If you take parts of each of our names you get something like “loveless”. I think it’s hilarious... he’s not convinced.

I wonder how much this is already affecting states and they don’t know, at least at an individual level. I would never move to a state or country where I couldn’t get an abortion. Lots of people don’t have the options for mobility, but the people who do are the people who have money (I’m not rich, but I could move to…

The accompanying gif is amazing and I can’t believe you apologized for it.

She’s studying for her dogtorate.

No excuse needed.