Back when this happened I ended up in ONE OF THE MOST AWKWARD AND GROSS CONVERSATIONS EVER with someone who was cautiously taking the stance that fingering “isn’t as bad as real rape”, by which of course they meant penis-in-vagina/anus. We slowly parsed this out, and I eventually got them to acknowledge that if a…

I cannot believe how many people I’ve encountered who considered the violation merited a lighter punishment because it was “just fingering”. Including one person who was all for throwing the book at him when they assumed the rape involved a penis, but changed their tune once they got the full details. 

No, Brock and/or Brock’s Lawyer. It’s been established that digital penetration occurred, and with enough force the victim got penetrative injuries and pine needles and “debris” ended up inside her. That’s rape. I’m sorry (hahaha not really) if you feel that fingering shouldn’t really count as real rape and your…

She’s the child who’s best at handling dad when he’s sundowning. I have always been convinced this is it. 

I just googled Orange Julius and that sounds DELICIOUS! Will definitely try making it at home (don’t think there are stores in Australia). 

The Negroni is my second favourite cocktail. Putting Aperol in a glass of Prozacco* is fucking stupid though.

Or assassin/spy. You can decide. 

To be fair I’ve never done this in a busy bar-bar when there’s been crowds of people, mostly in hotel bars where things have been fairly quiet, as because of my job I do a fair bit of hanging around in hotel bars on week nights. 

I could have sworn there was a “minimalist/modern-ish” WSS on Broadway a few years ago. The one where Lin-Manuel Miranda did Hispanic lyrics for all the Latinx characters so they weren’t singing/talking in English in their scenes with each other? Karen Olivo (now Satine in the Moulin Rouge musical OMG) was Anita? 

Re leaving a drink when you don’t have a companion to watch it, I’ve never had a problem when I ask the bartender if I can leave it behind the bar while I go to the bathroom. Is this an Australian thing that wouldn’t fly at a bar in the US? 

An oldie but a goodie! (Pitchshifter’s “Everything’s Fucked Again”). 

Several times when it’s come up in conversation and I’ve said “I don’t want children”, people have actually responded “Oh don’t say that, you could meet someone wonderful, there’s still time.”

Society STILL views single childless people, especially women, in their 30s or older as annoying holdouts against the system at best, chronically and permanently dysfunctional aberrations at worst. So pat yourself on the damn back I say, because if you waited around for society to do it.... well you’d be waiting a…

Some days my plan is to quietly commit suicide once I am too elderly and frail to live moderately comfortably as a single childless woman. Life is hard, I am under no obligation to suffer it any longer than I’m willing to.

Here’s one of my favourite Green Day related pop culture moments. There was a contestant on one of the very early seasons of Australian Idol (which was pretty much identical to the US and UK versions of the show) who was kind of cast as “the punk rock one”, I can’t remember his name now, I think he got kicked out…

A cake recipe I copied off the internet, that had been originally written using US measurements (imperial weights and Fahrenheit temperatures) and totally incorrectly converted into Australian (metric weights and Celsius temperatures). So this wasn’t technically my fault but the fault of whoever did the conversions…

OH MY GOD. FUCK YOU, YOU HYPOCRITICAL GREEDY GRASPING CYNICAL NO-HEARTED FUCKS. HYPOCRITES. HYPOCRITES!! I HOPE YOU FUCKING BURN!!!

If we must have Little Women based movies, why are we having the eleventieth Little Women adaptation when there hasn’t been one single March movie, you know, the Pulitzer-Prize winning fanfic about what Mr March gets up to during the Civil War where none of the March sisters appear but March has lots to do with…

A while back I made the mistake of starting to watch the Handmaid’s Tale TV series on Hulu. There’s an episode in season 1 where June is reflecting on how everyone came to be in the situation of the story. Her voiceover talks about how people grumbled a bit as the government enacted shitty law after shitty law but…

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