PS thanks for heads up on The Terror - I live in Hobart, so the Erebus and the Terror are part of our history - Franklin was governor and has a statue in town. I didn’t know about the series or the book - but Dan Simmons can blend supernatural and sci-fi and true history seamlessly, so I’m guessing the monster is just…

I watched the Dawn of the Dead remake on Netflix last night, and I kept yelling at the screen - why is there only one fence? Why is there no airlock on the base door? Why is the zombie chained up in the lab instead of in a separate cell, while the dr works on the crucial medical macguffin, alone and with her back to…

Dude, I legit just fell in love with you. All these questions are awesome and why I have a love/hate relationship with zombie/invasion/doomsday films in general.

I didn’t take it personally, I just thought it was a poor choice of a word that has connotations that a blog like the Root is usually very quick to point out, since there are other words which would serve equally well. Given the ‘Caucasian native’ comment from sTalkinggoat, I was wary of your intentions.

I’m commenting on word choice in a blog, and replying to those who replied to me. The only hill is the molehill you seem to desire to turn into a mountain. I’m going to bed now. Have fun, alone on your hill.

Is that an honest question, or are you trying to fish for an opening to make this about me and my birthplace?

‘Native’ as an adjective, is borderline. ‘Native’ as a noun, is problematic. Besides, no human being is native to Australia. It’s one of our distinguishing features - even the Aboriginals emigrated here, they just did it 50,000 - 200,000 years ago.

Thank you, that’s a much more nuanced view of what I was trying to say. The word native is problematic. It’s not like The Root at all.

Then they could have used the word expat. There’s really no need to highlight that Damond was Australian anyway, it doesn’t add anything to the understanding of the story. And if the usage is so correct, why isn’t Noor described as a “Somalia native”?

“Australia native”, really? That’s unusually tone-deaf, for The Root.

Ding ding ding! White male aged 18 to 39! I win the pool! Now, do I take my prize or go double or nothing on ‘just a line mentally ill weirdo with no links to neonazis or extreme right wing groups or white identity extremists’?

Came for this. Did not disappoint.

There are plenty of avenues for immigration into Australia, esp if you are educated, skilled and have money. There are less if you are poor, undocumented, unskilled etc, especially if that’s because you are fleeing shitty circumstances in your own country. Without getting into an oppression Olympics, there are plenty…

Accurate - JarJar failed upwards until he was perfectly placed to give Palpatine the last push he needed to become Emperor...

‘Peaked in high school’ is the exact perfect description of people who attend Trump rallies.

You know, since the article on how Trump’s Obamaphobia directly caused people to die in Chad, I’ve had this image in my head, of a statue of Trump, perhaps on a plinth with the names of his complicit abettors on it, facing a wall, on which is engraved every name of those who died because of his stupidity, greed and…

Seconding copies of work product and contacts, stored somewhere off company property. I am usually all about no personal emails etc at work, but got caught when I was saving a list of grievances against a bullying manager in my drafts - I never got a chance to send it to my manager who could have used the info to…

Yeah, but that would never work. The ability to be violent is a survival trait. It’s the decision to be violent that’s the kicker - given breaking the Purge rules is an auto death sentence, what they are winnowing is stupid violence. Berserkers, indiscrImitate douchebags, people who get swept up in mob mentality,…

From now on I rate all animations on a scale of Garfield to Wall-E.

Yeah, most of my mum’s recipes were copied from the Women’s Weekly, except a few which were my nan’s. I suspect some of nan’s may be original, but she baked like a demon so she may have just memorised the recipes from years of use. I have a few ‘specialty’ recipes of my own, and they all started in a recipe book.