There weren’t any in Australia at least that I was aware of at this time. We only got a couple of big Mexican style franchises relatively recently. Although funnily enough a few TGI Friday restaurants have since opened in Australia.

I’m dating how long I’ve been reading these sites for by this, but when I went to America (NYC specifically) there was one day I ate mozzarella sticks at TGI Fridays specifically because of that piece Caity Weaver did for Gawker.

I hope any scepticism about this story isn’t anything to do with people considering elderly women unlikely targets for sexual assault… 

Two cairn puzzles are all that remain between me and finally clearing two last areas at fucking last. I haven’t played in a while but will get round to Ragnarok soonish. I’ve also decided I’ll be seeing if they’ve patched out the “carry an oil jar to the cairn and use it to cheat the height” hack someone discovered a…

I like to get a choc top ice cream (what we call them here in Australia, not sure if they’re called different elsewhere) when I go to the movies. The perfect point to open and eat it when the ice cream is at optimum consistency is after the slide show commercials for local businesses and moving commercials for the big…

One of the (many) things that always gets me about the “decriminalising sex work enables trafficking” thing is that across the board significantly more human trafficking victims end up picking fruit, digging ditches, cleaning toilets, constructing buildings, etc, but the sex work abolitionists never seem to give a…

Always been a bit intrigued at how antifreeze is apparently delicious hence its use as a poison.

I’ve made a roast goose once and that was enough. I used the recipe in Nigella Lawson’s How To Eat that has a mashed potato stuffing. It tasted good but I’ve had better roast duck, the amount of fat you have to siphon off throughout is stressful, it’s annoying to carve and doesn’t serve as many people as it looks like…

Fellow weirdo here. I hope they never drop the modern day stuff entirely. The in-game encyclopaedias where the modern day person compiling all the info for whoever’s in the Animus adds their own little annotations and comments are always delightful.

I think I’ve mentioned it before but in my family it’s my mum’s old school Aussie ice cream Christmas pudding. (Christmas Day is typically around 35 degrees C where I live.) You mix good quality ice cream (she mostly uses vanilla or toffee almond) with a bit of thick whipped cream to get a slightly softer consistency…

I witnessed an armed robbery at a petrol station and my statement was so devoid of useful detail it was grimly hilarious. We don’t usually go around thinking “Something could happen, I’d better take note of all details, events and people around me just in case!” 

Baby Grinch nothing, those of us old enough to remember (and a 30 year old isn’t to be fair) know Baby Yoda owes everything to Gizmo the Mogwai from the Gremlins movies. 

And what’s the bet that even if it had been brought to light, the finger fucking would have been treated as “just” that and not a big deal, when by many legal definitions it qualifies as rape as much as penetration with a penis would. See also Brock Turner’s crime, which way too many people for my taste suddenly…

I knew the Sara Bareilles musical was an adaptation of the film by a writer-director-actor who died shortly before its release but I thought it was suicide by hanging, I did NOT know the suicide was actually murder. So thank you for this, I didn’t know. 

Also Anthony Broadwater who surprise surprise has turned out not to be the man who violently beat and raped Alice Sebold in a stranger attack back in 1981, but got misidentified as such because he was a black man who said hello to Sebold on the street some time later. He served 16 years. Sebold later wrote her…

Also how fucked up is it that this only got set in motion because a producer of the upcoming film that was/is going to star Victoria Pedretti as Alice began noticing major differences between the trial as presented in the screenplay vs the memoir, began realising how sketchy the trial in the memoir was and hired a…

I really liked how the park in Jurassic World looked exactly like you know a dinosaur based theme park would in this day and age. 

I’ve loved her since Heavenly Creatures and it took her FOREVER to get her break after, while Winslet pretty much soared straight to stardom. I’m convinced that part of it was Lynskey was so bloody good at playing such an unsettling character and because she wasn’t a conventional Sexy Young Starlet* and so unknown,…

I did like the first one but Jesus H Roosevelt Christ nothing gets my video game motion sickness going like jumping around in first person. I could only play Dying Light for about half an hour at a time if I hadn’t taken an anti nausea tablet first. Some are worse than others for me - the other Far Crys have been ok…