#an australian thing apparently

[weirdly-specific-but-ok]

Pt I australia but i've never been there

A lot of my lovely maggots are Australian, it appears, judging by the number of Australian families I was just randomly adopted by. So this one goes out to you all, but very especially to Arthur (@howmanyholesinswisscheese) and to his grandmother's boyfriend Brian, who reminds him occasionally of me. I'm truly honoured.

Disclaimer: I did my research on tumblr, pinterest, and the first result of a couple of Google searches, because I'm thorough like that. I say part I because there is a lot.

I'm not sure what Australia is, because the education system failed me. They said it was a continent. But then a country. I figured it was both.

Unfortunately, then I learned about Oceania. Which I had thought was a made up undersea kingdom in that Barbie a Mermaid's Tale series, where people surf. But the continent is Australia and Oceania. Or not.

They have Prime Ministers. I know this, because one ate a raw onion which became instrumental in his later sacking, and another demanded to know what the odds were of a Prime Minister drowning.

He then drowned. Or maybe vanished into the Barbie kingdom of Oceania and became a merman. We will never know, because his body was never recovered, so my money's on the merman theory. Australians proceeded to name everything to do with water after him, from swimming pools to ships, because Irony.

H2O Just Add Water was set here, I think. I am not sure what that is, aside from a show where contact with liquid dihydrogen monoxide causes bodily transformation into a mermaid. Do the Australian mermaids not drink water? Not knowing any personally, I can't ask.

Aside from the concerning number of merpeople, there are also a concerning number of spiders. I love spiders, but apparently the ones in Australia will eat your flesh. After I watch Good Omens S2, I suspect I will welcome this fate.

For morons like me who see a spider and go AWW, Peppa Pig's episode on teaching kids not to be afraid of spiders was banned in Australia for endangering children and not being appropriate for Australian audiences.

Sydney is a place and it has an opera house. Melbourne is a place and it has a stadium (of what sport, I am unsure). Queensland is a place and it has Arthur's grandmum's boyfriend Brian.

There is a thing called Milo, and it is a brown powder that I assume is edible. Mums say to add a teaspoon (hence why I assumed edibility) and the children add a truckful. I infer it is nice.

There is marmite. I have known this for a while. Tourists spread a lot of it on their bread. This is a mistake. Do not. The original ad involved someone eating marmite happily, and their partner kissing them on the mouth and proceeding to gag violently. It is fermented beer waste. You either hate it or love it.

There is fairy bread. If you have sticks on it you are a monster. If you have balls on it you are smart.

I'm already writing part II. humans bewilder me.

[toomuchbloodinmyalcoholsystem]

The absolute whine Pickles lets out when he realizes he is indeed going to pay Seth so he can get back into his own band kills me every time.

[fauna-and-floraa]

Fav skz moments // Do you know what else is big?

[fictionadventurer]

One day, I will wake up and the Wiggles version of "The Rattlin' Bog" will not be in my head.

[mousemannation]

this is on my tennis blog so only in the context of tennis, also if u wanna include what country ur from in the tags id be interested!

[carionto]

Meanwhile, in the background - 1

Ambassador Graham Atrasov had finally settled in to his new duties aboard the Coalition Governing Station and was on his way from a daily briefing which had dragged on quite a lot longer. Apparently some of our idiots had gone and stolen a moon of all things from a nearby star system's gas giant. A system we had no claim over and was officially considered neutral space for now, but nestled firmly within Coalition territory so that was more of a formality.

In a way, the fallout has not escalated much simply due to the fact that there is no law about stealing celestial bodies, since nobody had ever thought of that being possible. So, a new Human innovation has been introduced to the galaxy. Yay. Go us.

Jimothy's Law is what they're gonna call it, despite our protests. He only identified himself as that when arrested and by the time we found out his last name was McCallahan his first name was already all over the news and the aliens refused to change the name of the new bill. First intergalactic law named after one of our own, and it's a because of a guy named Jimothy for theft...

Still, could be worse. At least this time Abigail "Abby" Hostaz submitted a form for her new Oort cloud race track. It was blank, but still - progress. We at the very least know where she is this time.

As Graham got out of the shower, his tablet was abuzz. One of the experimental "we don't ask, you don't tell us, here's money, make science" science stations had set an entire planet on fire. Apparently it's supposed to be only partly on fire, so... okay.

Ambassador Atrasov swapped one shot of tequila for an espresso and busied himself putting on his suit again while letting the text-to-speech read out the report to him.

Several sighs and under the breaths "of course they did" later, he was back on his way to the General Assembly building. Just another day at the office.

[dragons-hoard-of-fandoms]

Posting one Murder Drones meme a day until Episode 5 drops, Day Eight.

[selfcarecap]

Not Hinge making me question whether I actually like men

[steakout-05]

i was so brave a couple days ago. there was a baby huntsman spider in my room and i totally didn't fumble trying to catch it 3 entire times while trying to lure it in and out of a box all while screaming and going "whAT THE FUCJ WHAT" whenever it moved even a little bit. in which the reason i was trying to catch it was because it randomly appeared on a box right next to my bed and i knew if i didn't catch it i wouldn't be able to sleep. nope. totally wasn't genuinely frightened by a tiny itty bitty little guy that could literally fit in the palm of my hand 15 times. whaaaat me? scared by a tiny little spider??? psh no wayyyyy man no way

(after i did this i was slightly shaken up and extremely worried there was another much bigger one in my bed and i felt like there were bugs crawling on me until i fell asleep)

[darkclouud9]

not the debate of gas vs petrol between Pearl and Endless.

[goofyguppy]

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[autogeneity]

nando's has really just quietly pulled off a shockingly good vegan chick'n product eh

[saint--claire]

Thanks to Ran being one of history’s greatest mates of all time, the Easter egg hunt continues ❤️🏎

[wisteria-rainfall]

Hey anyone living in Queensland Australia the government's got a survey out asking LGBTQIA+ communities what things we think should be prioritised to strengthen outcomes for LGBTQIA+ people in Queensland.

It should be noted that just last week they passed the Births Deaths and Marriages Registration Bill that recognises same-sex and gender diverse parents on a child's birth certificate and repeals the requirement to undergo sexual reassignment surgery to change the gender on your birth certificate (+ lets you change your name and gender at the same time in a two for one deal) just last week (14/07/23) so there's a decent bet that they will actually listen to what you tell them.

Also apparently QLD is trying to pass new hate crime legislation too so this is pretty important.

The survey closes 5pm, 19 August 2023.

[what-the-fuck-khr]

oh yeah so for like the last week or two we’d been hearing some noises outside and we’ve been like. the fuck is that. always at night and crap and it’s a new animal noise we’ve not heard before. to tell you how boring our suburb is, I’d never heard a frog croak at night until this year LMFAO so! we’ve been getting many kookaburras this month (I assume bc of the heat…?) and now this so we’re like. huh.

anyways we’ve got bats