I'm all for highlighting the effects of climate change, but you've got to realise that Australia has had bushfires for longer than wee had people. Koalas need eucalyptus trees to survive, as eucalyptus is of course one of the driest types of vegetation. bushfires are the way our may of our native plats reproduce; wipe…

I always have to get up at least two hours before I go anywhere, to e presentable (awake and alert), so gladly took a couple of graveyard shifts at work. Figured I'm usually awake for half the night anyway so since I sleep during the day, might as well make it useful! Except now I can't sleep during the day at all…

I know people hate him, and he is a ass, still, if a girl was treated like that By older men in the industry and turned out like him I'd cut her a little slack, so now I find myself sympathizing with him. Oh no.

Not defending ol' Igloo, but the Aussie accent (as a holder of one) is bloody difficult to perform with for some of us. We don't enunciate as much with our speech, and we have longer vowel sounds, and those of us who got singing instructors who favoured American songs have found that to get the rhymes to match…

I have tried so hard as a foreigner to understand the gun culture of Americans, and I acknowledge the argument for freedom and protection. In saying that, there are many things countries curtail because freedom to do those things increases deaths or negative outcomes; such as drink driving, many white collar crimes,…

If I'd seen the Jeremy split announcement two weeks ago my 'golddigger' (I don't really like that term but nothing better comes to mind) alert would start going off, because I've dated guys for longer than 10 months and never got past the dating stage. It just doesn't seem long enough for anyone to have made a proper…

That's what I came down to say! Her eyeshadow/liner shapes are two different shapes. One is winged, the other rounded. One extends to the corner, the other is more blended.

Mark, I love you. I mean, neither of us is the others type, so to speak, yet I still feel an almost stalkerish love for your posts.

Australia suffers from really bad overt and casual racism, it's awful. For large parts of the country, White people are considered the default and in all the major cities you can ask a local and they'll tell you where 'not' to go; the part where indigenous, or immigrants live. As an Australian it is frankly awful and…

If any of my close friends reads this, I'll be sorta outing myself, but there's this scene where a bollywood movie is playing and the lyrics are "I'm in love with lovely Johnny". However, as foreign teenagers, my friends and I misheard 'lovely johnny' as "Claude Vanyatty". For years we were trying to figure out who…

This is completely off topic, and just so you know (because many bell hooks supporters are quite unnecessarily mean about pointing it out) bell hooks is a feminist author who chooses to spell her name without capitals. While she says it's so people focus on what she says rather than her as a person, many critics…

This is completely off topic, and just so you know (because many bell hooks supporters are quite unnecessarily mean about pointing it out) bell hooks is a feminist author who chooses to spell her name without capitals. While she says it's so people focus on what she says rather than her as a person, many critics (and…

Yes! Their character arc is the complete opposite of what one would expect from the 'southern parents'. While normally southern characters appear sweet and loving, they often turn out to be sinister (see; X-files). Whereas her parents are at first suspect because of Freds reaction, they are instead quite smart, loving…

I do love that even though his is a scientist and astronaut, when he gets to Moya he doesn't magically know how to do things, and he is so inept that the rest of the crew just assume all humans must be stupid. Most sci-fi books/movies seem to think knowledge gets downloaded with whatever translator device they come up…

I liked that while there wasn't an overt explanation, this series went a long way in explaining the way the federation interacted with cultures that still used currency. I always rolled my eyes at the 'no money' thing. I prefer to think that while no one goes hungry or homeless due to replicators, to gain 'credits'…

Part of the reason these films are so great is because they weren't written with a specific colour or gender in mind. They were written for a 'person'. Because lets be honest, to too many authors and especially screen-writers, a white male protagonist is the default person. More writers need to realise that their own…

This is something I've considered writing a short story about actually. In every apocalypse now movie the surviving humans who were totally normal before, magically have all these skills, can repair radios, farm, shoot straight and perform life saving surgeries. I want to write about what would happen if *we* had to…

As others have said, start from the start. Even the seemingly stand alone episodes have tie in parts to earlier and/or later episodes. It's the sort of world you need to get immersed in or later on you'll get confused (I say this from experience. I skipped episodes because I was getting bored, then half a season later…

I'm re watching now and absolutely loving the puzzled look she gets on her face every time someone gets emotional and she's expected to deal with them. I love that Daniel is the emotionally connected one of the group, and as the series goes on he becomes more competent and confident, and Sam gets less defensive and is…

Where are you from if you don't mind me asking? We've just phased out signatures completely but still have some magnetic strips as the older generations have been quite vocally opposed to tapping and the chips.