Sweet verbiage bro!
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I've literally only been exposed to it via screenshots back on Reddit and now here.
I don't think it was ever a big thing in Australia though
Agree?
Fast asleep in the sun on the floor near my bed. I'm finishing my coffee and then I'll get up and get him breakfast but he's in no hurry so neither am I.
I've got to head out to lunch in an hour so he'll be a bit sad but will likely sleep through the ordeal in the sun in the loungeroom.
Nah, support for mental health and drug addiction is lacking in all our states and territories.
It's really obvious when they're having a go at cisgender white women about makeup or certain clothes or haircuts or body types. You always see the same comments explaining to women that they ackshually prefer 'natural looks' or less revealing clothing or long hair or 'something to hold on to'.
It's all through a lens of 'why do you make choices about yourself that don't improve your appeal to me, someone who wants to fuck you'.
That there are women that completely reject all those notions or don't seek their opinions (women who are trans, women who aren't hetero, women who reject traditional feminine looks, women who excel in their careers or physical sports) simply doesn't compute with these people's view of what women are.
The more malicious parts of that mindset lead to that push you're talking about. We as women are still just something that needs to validate its existence. Any deviation from that is viewed as something that should never have existed at all.
My partner leaves his drink bottle near the sink, empty or mostly empty.
I accidentally knock that fucker over at least twice a day. I move it to a different part of the kitchen where it's very unlikely to get accidentally knocked, he knows the spot so it's not like I've hidden it or inconvenienced him.
But he puts it back next to the fucking sink and I knock it over and it makes so much fucking noise and scares the dog and I have to stop what I'm doing to go pick it up, just in case it does have a bit of water in it and creates a slip hazard, and it's going to be the reason I suffocate him in his sleep.
Imagine not being able to leave your phone in your pocket just for the duration of your friends' wedding ceremony, irrespective of the location. Insufferable behaviour.
Oh cool! My goodness things move well around this place.
My father in law is a sky news devotee (in Australia that's just Fox News). He was getting all up in arms about the 'trans issue' with toilets etc. My partner said something along the lines of 'do you and your mates just sit around talking about where little girls and boys go to the toilet? That's...a bit creepy?'
That shut him down reaaaalll fast
It's so funny how upset it makes the free speech absolutist, 'lol triggering leftist snowflakes, fuck your feelings' types.
It's the online equivalent of going to sit next to someone on the bus and then pausing to look them up and down, grimace and side eye someone else like 'are you seeing this shit?' and sitting somewhere else.
It genuinely seems to hurt their feelings and that makes me happier than it should. I think it's the schadenfreude for those who spend their lives saying horrible, hurtful things about minorities and the vulnerable actually experiencing even 5% of the feeling.
Really warms the cockles.
Yes. They started the rudeness and I was done being the polite one. It was clearly a misunderstanding that led to a mistake on their part but once I made that obvious to them, they doubled down.
I was getting more and more blunt, think 'so what you're telling me...' type tone. And then I heard myself and internally cringed.
Yes the fuck up was theirs alone. But having worked in a similar role 20 years prior, I remembered how one interaction like the one we were having would completely ruin your day.
She was flushed red in the face and neck and I remembered being young and making the (wrong) decision to double down when I'm caught out in a fuck up rather than admitting fault and working on a remedy. It's a lesson only learnt in time and humiliation.
I think she'd learnt it at that point but it was too late. And an angry middle aged woman ranting at her was not going to do anything.
So I stopped and said 'I'm sorry, I shouldn't be speaking to you like this. I've already had a bad day and this has made it so much worse. But that's got nothing to do with you and you don't deserve to be spoken like that by customers. When's the next available appointment?'
She gave me a curt 'that's ok' - and believe me that almost made me snap again, but we sorted it out.
I noted the next time I got a confirmation for my appointment that they'd included my suburb in my surname - I think to differentiate between me and another customer (the reason for the crossed wires). That's a win. But I hope she learnt a lesson about seeking truth rather than victory and I hope she wasn't too upset.