You know, that’s the first time I’ve ever heard someone say they had an actual reaction to fluvax. At the beginning of the season, I’m constantly telling people to get updated shots, because when they complain ‘oh, it always makes me feel sick’ I get to whack them across the back of the head and say ‘THAT’S WHAT’S…

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!)

Our Children’s Children, Clifford D Simak? 1974.

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.

Nope, if you flip it upside down it’s clearly the inside of the hatch.

Can you post a high dpi image of this section?

I love the way Cole and Cassie become extremely close without their relationship becoming sexual or romantic. And how the ‘triangle’ of Cole, Cassie and Ramse, also stays non-sexual, as the three move thru various combos of love, hate, distrust etc.

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),…

WWBWD?

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.