Wasn’t there a version of this posted in last Halloween’s scary stories? A gay man who went on a really creepy Grindr date?

Oh yes. When I got Yonny from the shelter, I was actually thinking of getting his black coated sister. It was a hot day and I had plenty of time, so I just lay on the floor and played with the litter for a while (three hours later...) Miss Black didn’t want a bar of me, but Yonny sniffed me, licked me, played with my…

The M goes with the tabby markings, but sometimes cats that have block coat colours have the tabby underneath, so the stripes aren’t really visible (we had a black cat once where you could just make out the stripes and the M in the right light). Cats without tabby won’t have the M, but often have similar symmetrical…

That’s actually a formal greeting in Australian politics (at least in front of the cameras, they all wanna pretend they’re ocker blokes just like us!)

It's better in summer, the eucalypts release a fine mist of of oil which protects the tree from fire, and causes the deepening blue effect.

I love how every single one of these descriptions is utterly apropos.

My first thought was, OMG ITS AUGUSTUS GLOOP! Then I saw the three little pics and I felt so bad for him. That’s so the expression of a long-suffering stage-mom spawn.

My mum was an aged care manager, and this happened to a new resident - no one could take her dog. So mum did. She took her to work twice a week, and the dog would sit with the resident, and then come home again. Thru that dog, mum got a new friend (a previous roommate, who couldnt take her, would come by to visit),…

IKR? I was half-expecting this to be an Onion-esque click-bait.

Summer night, in Woolloomooloo? She’s lucky it was just one.

Dumbest name change ever. You realise you could have forever ended the Sydney-Melbourne rivalry if you left if the way it was? We would never be able to top that.

I have donkey-voted in almost every election* since i was eighteen. With our preferences system (which I don’t pretend to remotely understand), even a vote AGAINST someone can end up being a vote for them. So I usually draw a Kilroy-was-here and that’s it.

O_o Who is this unsung genius and what is his app called?!?

Pfft, even with compulsory Saturday voting, I wouldn’t show up if it weren’t for the sausage sizzle.

Fresh from my drawer:

Sydney has a pretty big population of active Muslims, esp around the west/southwest regions. Sydney’s very multicultural - there’s discrimination and racism (and it can go both ways) but generally people are tolerant and accepting.

I went to an agricultural high school. I learnt that you have to milk the cows regularly, otherwise the udders overfill, cause the cow a lot of pain, and can lead to mastitis and other infections, literal bursting of the capillaries in the mammary glands, and death. I never put it together with human women until much,…

They are soft padded leather, so probs pretty comfortable. And yes, they all play with their phones these days, although given that a lot of the backbenchers have to be present but never get to say anything, I’m not surprised.

IIRC correctly, that’s exactly what happened - there was some short notice thing that HAD to be attended, the nanny wasn’t available, it was only going to take about 30 mins, so the senator just took her kid in and told her to be quiet (which she was). The males freaked, although it wasn’t just because ew, baby, it…

I hate that attitude. How is it any less courageous or unselfish to abort a pregnancy where the child is likely to suffer and die? Maybe it’s God’s Will to test the mother’s strength and fortitude in the face of such a difficult decision, who knows. I sure as hell think it’s God’s Will for us to take advantage of the…