I keep seeing this idea online but in my experience (as an Australian) that’s really not true. I’m from Melbourne and swear like a sailor but never use that and never hear people say it. Is this a qld thing or something?

Exactly! Also, white parents still get to worry about their kids. They’re privileged yes, but no parent can just sit back for every situation and think ‘eh, he’s white, it’ll be FINE”.

Same. I’ve been immunised against everything but am not immune to hep b or rubella (which I was only informed of literally minutes after my baby was born- eek!). The solution was to have some booster shots in the hopebit takes and rely on others to get vaccinated. These assholes should not use people like us to…

As a kid in the mid nineties, we used to rent wetsuits when we went to the beach ( I live in a warm area but the water comes straight from Antarctica and is cold as fuck).

Hope you’re doing okish- though it’s ok if you’re not. Have been there myself though in my case I used to just have YouTube on.

It’s only my first mother’s day but my gift to myself is that I do not have to see my mother in law (who is a pain in the ass and always makes people drive an hr to have brunch at 10am).

After reading this article a whole bunch of my mum’s behaviour when I was a teen now makes sense.

See, I know I’m the minority but I feel that Liam is 100x better than Chris. Yes, Chris is muscly but goddamn, Liam is so good looking. 

Same

Same with vigo Mortensen- hot as Aragorn but never again

Exactly. My cousin growing up was always pranked by my aunt and uncle- they also put up a joke countdown to him turning 18 and moving out. Guess what? He did exactly that and it’s been 10 years and he basically shows up if someone gets married.

Sure, you do you. If you’re a guy, trans or cis, use the men’s bathroom/change room. My comment was just about why you might see genitalia in a change room versus a bathroom.

But she says changing room- which in the uk and Australia st least are big rooms that women use to change clothes after swimming or other sports. I have absolutely seen naked women in those- you can get changed in the showers but they usually don’t have many cubicles and there’s always at least a couple of older ladies…

I used to do this but then when I was ready to get found, I would hunt down a man in uniform to bring me back to my parents. One time a beefeater (the English guards with big hats, one time a pilot, etc)

In my first year at my job, I won several ‘awards’ at the end of year Christmas ‘party’ (ie. warm beer in the staffroom). When each award was announced, I had to get up and walk to the front of the room and be kissed on the cheek by my boss- even though he shook all the men’s hands. On the fourth go, I stuck out my…

Where I live, you get assigned to a mother’s group which consists of about 5 other mums and babies all born about the same time yours was. I’m struggling with mine. The women seem fine but there’s such an expectation we have no interests other than mothering (maaaybe work too but only if reluctant to go back).

Yeah, when I was pregnant with my daughter, I had an ultrasound at 6 weeks, 6 days. You could see to equally sized boobs- the yolk sac and the embryo. At later parts of my pregnancy, I would gush  over the ultrasounds but not that one. 

I miscarried a much wanted pregnancy at six weeks. It was sad because of the potential I had lost but there was nothing to see- if I hadn’t known I would’ve just thought it was a slightly heavier period.

I did that with my daughter. Apart from avoiding an avalanche of pink it was also fun to inwardly mock people who would insist it was a boy because of how I was carrying 

I wish I could star this more than once