I think with Penny Wong that was a straight up diss, and a well deserved one. Joe was trying to be all friendly because he straight up wanted to appear as the nice guy/not a homophobe while his party does/says really homophobic things, but (as a lesbian mother of two) Penny isn’t going to give him or anyone else in…

It was certaintly used prominantly amongst a sub-set of people - a fuckboy is a rentboy you don’t pay because he’s so desperate (aka pathetic) for it. Usually a twink, he’s (usually) gay (aka a fag) and always a bottom and using him doesn’t make you gay - he’s just a hole, little fuckboy for use/abuse.

I both love you and hate you because that is so accurate it’s painful. Painful, I tell you.

I hope she snaps - but even worse, she might just always put up with it and think that’s just the way her life should be.

Oh god. This is my partner’s little sister and I don’t know what to do.

Yeah, it might be interesting - my lesbian sister and her partner tell me that you might still see some weird hetronormative ideas of masculinity there, because apparently people tell my sister that OF COURSE she’ll take her partner’s name, in the same way people assume I will take my partner’s, because she and I are…

My surname is Smith :P So taking my partner’s awesome Italian surname makes me happy for that reason too :D Honestly, I have no issue with people who do/don’t take their married partner’s name, but I do think it’s wrong and sexist for people to simply assume the ‘woman’ should take the ‘husband’s’ name and that’s it’s…

Completely agree!!! Mine is a gold band with three tiny sapphires and two tiny diamonds in between them - it belonged to my partner’s grandmother and means a lot to him and me, and I hate flashy big diamond rings (and it makes me uncomfortable having something so identifiably an engagement ring when we’re the same…

My mum kept her surname through two husbands and people were pretty shocked and appalled, which I don’t understand. People also get weird because all three of her children have her surname, as if we all must be bastards or something terrible (not that it matters if we were, I was because the shot gun wedding didn’t…

I’m aware, and I agree - plus you’d have to make out a duty of care and you’d have the issue of contrib, seeing as the person injured arguable took on the risk... I’m not saying it would succeed, fyi, just commenting on people’s disbelief that someone was hurt so badly.

Sigh. Proved.

Lots of places here don’t put chips with the burger - you order them separately. I’d say its about 50/50 with chips automatically added and have to add them, even at fast food places.

Omg you paid AU$17.62 for that “sandwich” thing. Oh. My. Gawd. Sorry, just need to put my head between my knees and hyperventilate...

The retail shop I worked at last was divided into two mostly disconnected section - upstairs where the clothing was, and downstairs where there was more clothes and the cash registars. You accessed upstairs via a narrow stair and we couldn’t see downstairs. The downstairs staff would let people in 5 minutes before…

Urgh, yes -.- My last retail boss never had a clue how to scheduale so we were ALWAYS under or over staffed. The hilarious thing was he semi-fired me/I semi-quit when I woudn’t work my fifth summer in a row (I wanted a holiday before I started law school after finishing my thesis rather than working through the summer…

One of my managers was a complete bully, and he often made the staff cry, but the first time he tried to haul me over the coals I stood up to him (my default response to being jackarses is anger, so I was completely ready to be fired) - he was being completely unreasonable, and he knew it, and to my surprise I wasn’t…

I’m far too proud of the fact that in about 10 years of various service work jobs I only cried once, and I still attribute that mostly to sheer exhaustion because I was on the 12th hour of back to back shifts from two jobs and hadn’t slept for a few days due to a younger sister with a broken limb. And then a customer…

I don’t trust this species one inch when it comes to impulse control and long term planning.

Well, I work for the Greens, so guess my opinion of the TPP :P

I think that’s a great issue you raise - meat farming in Australia is MUCH more humane and safe, but with a smaller population and a large amount of land, we have the privilege of being able to raise animals free range without huge amounts of chemical intervention, so you don’t get the “corn fed beef wallowing in shit…