As someone called Alex who has had fun flirting with dudes until you find out they are also called Alex - it's one of the weird things that kills it. Like, having the same name is just weird. It sucks too that one of the most popular names where I was born when I was born for several years was Alex so. I meet a lot of…

A lot of what you just said is not the reason young people in your country are voting for him. He speaks to them in a language they understand - aka acknowledges that they are the most educated but least employed, have huge amounts of debt for getting that education, that the healthcare system lets down the poor, that…

For people who hate Bernie bros a lot of you are acting like a hell of a lot like them. Good job American politics: it literally brings our the worst in almost all of you anyway.

I don’t think it just happens in Tasmania - but I know that it’s not the most popular model across Aus. I went to a school like that which is why I assumed, and I know a few of my cousins did too and neither of us are in Tas, but my other cousins/people I know didn't do that system and find it weird that anyone does…

Speaking as someone with some depression stuff - sometimes you literally just go on autopilot. I've had really strong urges sometimes to just leave and when you get it in your 50% working head it's hard to think rationally. I've gotten pretty far out of my way as well before realising I shouldn't and coming back. Like…

me too - in a movie about a woman taking back her power after a traumatic event you'd think they'd have at least given the queen some personality beyond "married, mourning, dead".. It bothered me so much that her entire arc was just be married, have baby, sad yourself to death.

I’d like to apologise for laughing at what was probably a really sad Christmas for your bf.

Oh man I really enjoyed Iron Man 3. Idk why. I liked that they explored PTSD a bit - it grounded it for me. I also liked that the supervillain with the foreign name was being controlled by the white American business owner - I thought that was a good way to handle what was a really racist character. But idk, my taste…

Depending on which state she was in it could also be that 'class of 2007' means her finishing year 10, rather than year 12.which makes sense since in 2007 if she was 16 she would have been finishing year 10 and (depending on her school) going on to do years 11 and 12 at a 'college'. It's weird but it makes sense to…

oh man i’m sorry that’s so aggressive. I wrote it this morning and I wasn’t thinking. I’m sorry - the tone was unnecessary and dumb. It's a good show if you get a chance.

No okay but Elementary is fucking amazing. The other ones suck - but don't you dare bring Elementary into this.

Oh but you see it was /art/ they were making an *artistic* statement so your real life experience should be quiet so we can !art! (no but really fuck them and fuck the person who did that to you, I hope every bed they get into forever is full of biting ants).

So that’s the governments plan in Aus. The cheapest, no brand cigarettes here now cost $22/packet, with it costing more as the brand name comes in. Also pain packages. They’re trying to price people out of smoking and, according to their studies, it’s working a tiny bit? Except really it just means the people selling…

My cousin is a footy player for his uni and let me tell you. He knows so many men in the club who have lost 1-2 testicles because something hit them at the wrong angle and they clotted. Like he knows of AT LEAT 5 meen, while some others may not advertise it. So yeah, they’re at risk by virtue of being there.

The guy who did my first tattoo was COVERED in them - but he had really strict rules. He would tattoo you anywhere non-visible at 18, would do bigger/more visible tattoos at 21, would not do hands/face until 27 and only then if you could be sure you would be able to gain employment/had already gained long…

It’s nice escapism actually since in the tv show most of the cops believe the people reporting the crime and pursue it as something serious.

eh my brother used to suck on ‘wishing stones’ (flat glass little bead stone things that people always gave us???) and more than one had to be taken to the doctor because he swallowed it and it got caught in his throat. one time he vomited it out onto the doctor's reception floor and patients. I think kids just shove…

My first thought when I saw this was when I'm trying to write an essay with the proper amount on references so I desperately shoehorn in a quote that barely matches the subject and hope no one notices. They did that but with people and hair.

that is so shitty and terrible and you and your sister were so brave for doing that! seriously! who the fuck tries to guilt trip 16 and 18 year old girls about putting a guy who attacked them in jail?? I mean, yes, in America black men are overwhelmingly incarcerated on trumped up charges, but if two girls have put…

I have started fights over Hook, I will defend Hook until the day I die.