Dude, I’ve got ten years on you and I still feel this way. But you acknowledge your errors and learnt from them, that’s more than a lot of people manage by their mid-twenties. Go be awesome this year.

Oh, I agree with you, I meant that even in countries who have traditions (legal and otherwise) that are directly related to England, and could accurately be referred to as Anglo-something, ‘Anglo’ means ‘white’.

It’s the lips. All these repressed, repressive republicans have those thin, tightly pressed, disapproving lips.

Cause Anglo is code for white.

I knew about him, but only cause he’s included as an option in Sid Meiers Civ games.

(I love every post in this thread so much!)

Yeah, no. Hair stuff at home is fine when it’s putting in a cheap rinse or dyeing my mums hair some ridiculous colour for fun, but for everything else? I’m not really into makeup and styling, but I love the experience of going to the salon, getting fussed over, picking colours and discussing cuts, having a coffee and…

Dude, what the everliving f***? Tarantino and Star Trek? Holy crap, Gene would be spinning in his grave.

Yup, in Aus it’s called HECS or HELP (higher education contribution scheme or loan program). No interest, indexed to CPI, don’t have to pay it back till you earn over $55k and it’s just a small addon to your tax bill, you really don’t notice it. And so long as its work related, you can just keep going - my brother is…

Mum has fibro, and a bunch of related stuff. Aquatherapy and aquarobics, minimal pain meds (because they take their own toll on your body, diminish effectiveness over time, and it saves them for when you really need it), really working on diet, exercise, mental health etc to remove things that make you worse (like…

Oh godz that scene! He’s so ‘the FBI is srs bizness’ the whole series (that ‘lee-ah-SOHN’ smack down in the first ep!) then to see that smile and the eyes... ded.

‘Did you have pet lions growing up?’

I like to think of it as encouraging you to advocate for single-payer yourselves, but yeah, very aware how fortunate we are. ;) 

Thirded as a Australian. I hate taxtime, being on the line between two brackets, but I never begrudge the levy for Medicare, which is a universal single-payer system, cause I know it’s paying for vulnerable people to get vital care (which lately has included me - I’d be screwed without it and the PBS.)

kay, I gotta ask, does fruitcake mean fruitcake or is it one of those weird British slang words, it’s gonna bug me all day.

Dude, what? I’m 35, and she looks like my mums older sister who smokes.

It’s not like it’s hard, people. You wash your hands BEFORE handling food and AFTER handling anything that could harbour germs, like bodily secretions or raw meat or children (kids are the worst). And wash means you SCRUB like a surgeon (palms, backs, between fingers, under nails) and DRY your hands - not vaguely…

Purple potatoes make awesome next-day salads (ie roast a pan with dinner to turn into tomorrow’s lunch). Mix with other brights like corn, radish, capsicum, yum.

That’s my shopping list, dammit.

Just FYI, in Aus, where we have single-payer, a ventolin inhaler is about $7. Serotide is $40 retail, about $34 PBS (govt pharmaceutical scheme price) and concession price is $6.30 ($5.30 at some discount places). And there’s safety net schemes if your pharmacy expenses go over a certain amount each year.