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There’s nothing to stop pests from eating it, indeed with lots of older wall coverings (especially pasted wallpaper and plasters) it’s historically a serious problem. The main barrier is that in all these recipes there’s just not very much of the food ingredient used as the thickener/binder/emulsifier compared to water, so cockroaches and rats usually find something better before they eat the walls.

The edibility problem of these recipes was also the historical appeal… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 1:13 PM on January 8, 2023

An election in a democracy probably looks very strange to outsiders, takes a long time, costs a huge amount of energy and stress, ends up with a lot of hurt feelings and tears, but in the end it will end with a result most people are happy with. (Inefficient but effective).

An election in a non-democracy is much easier. Everyone votes, the Single Party gets 95%, the Leader wins again, but who knows whether most people are satisfied with the result? (Effective, but inefficient).
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 1:22 PM on January 6, 2023

she plans to take a one way flight to the literal other side of the world as a permanent move

A lot depends on which country this actually is, and what passport she has, because many/most countries will greet her at the passport desk, hear this plan, and deport her straight back on a return flight at her own cost, and with a no-entry record (at best)! Presumably she has no in-demand professional skills, or potential to invest. Ask her: is there actually a migration pathway at all?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 9:15 PM on January 4, 2023

There is also the matter of known visual references now being repeatable as shorthand—consider Errol Flynn’s sword fight scene (1938), which a modern viewer yawns at as a set of clichés; oh, jumping off stairs, shadows fencing, how boring, except that: these older films are where the clichés come from.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 4:13 PM on December 30, 2022

Triple J (youth oriented) and Double J (used-to-be-youth oriented) from the Australian national broadcaster.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 3:25 PM on December 20, 2022

Consider the story of Susanna and the Elders, in which she tells the truth and is believed.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 4:19 PM on December 15, 2022

Nick Fuentes and Kanye West having dinner with Donald Trump is, as someone put it, an intersectional recognition of mutual struggles, which brings people with disparate interests and values together in a way that is inclusive of their differences, in a framework respectful of potential conflict, but you know.

The other kind.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 7:19 PM on December 4, 2022

In a previous career I was a tutor and casual lecturer at Australian universities. I studied with, and taught, a lot of international students, so I can tell you that the one thing they all described was that it was incredibly hard. Every one.

Every one described the experience as socially isolating, because between study and work, they had so little time to build relationships. Only the extremely rich students were able to escape working long hours… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 9:11 PM on November 6, 2022

If it's UHT shelf stable milk, sure. They've already been exposed to who knows what temperature variation in storehouses, in distribution centres, on pallets, in trucks, and on shelves.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 8:20 PM on November 2, 2022

'The Prophet' is at least as well-used by both Muslims and non-Muslims, for Muhammad, as his name. And the Quran has many, many names for him, many of them beginning with a definite article.

'The Buddha' for Siddartha Gautama.

'The Preacher' (Kohelet,Quoheleth) is the attributed and self-described author of Ecclesiastes.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 5:58 PM on November 2, 2022 marked best answer

Two shots:
1. the character's fist about to pound the door, then cut
2. the door from the inside, shaking, with big thump noises
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 8:11 PM on October 27, 2022

The Dish.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 4:38 PM on October 27, 2022

It will depend on your class's tolerance for crass sexual humour, but consider Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein in this list. Brooks being incredibly well-read as a film and vaudeville historian hismself, it was an erudite parody of this era of films, right down to reusing 1930s sets.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 11:20 PM on October 25, 2022

Perhaps, as it sounds, your ex-boyfriend's friend was closer in friendship to him than he was to you, they enjoyed (between themselves) a tone of mutual banter that would have lost its meaning, and been read as actual criticism, outside that context. In which case your ex's cut-off was a wise warning.

The difference, for example, between your friends roasting you in the group chat, and someone giving the same treatment to someone they don't know well.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 5:18 PM on October 24, 2022

Of all people I’ll submit David Hasselhoff, singing on the Berlin Wall in 1989.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 11:03 PM on October 21, 2022

Yes superilla has identified the historical problem with definitions, but I'll add some more speaking as a planner/heritagist. What we identify as 'ground area dedicated to retail' is a thing that's been specifically brought into being by regulation in most societies where it exists, as a matter of deliberate zoning, law, and of designed conglomeration of uses. Also, suprisingly recently in urban history, largely in the 19th century. Sprawled malls are a consequence of car culture, true, but the… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 4:24 PM on October 20, 2022 marked best answer

Quit tomorrow. I’ve done this for jobs far better than the one you’re describing.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 2:00 PM on October 19, 2022

I'm confident know a variant of it, if it's what I think it is.
(Gen X, Sydney, NSW)
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 8:15 PM on October 18, 2022

Yes, the variant I know, from being taught to write the numeral, is that the no. 5 looks like a 'fat man wearing a hat'.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 9:45 PM on October 18, 2022

Crumpler started out making specific messenger bags for a specific bike messenger business, but have grown to be a bag company.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 10:09 PM on October 17, 2022

I am in a managerial role in a volunteer organisation, a State based volunteer emergency response service. It's very rewarding. It doesn't sound like that's anything like this.

I would take the role only if what you're interested in is actually the experience of managing and leading, with the understanding that the only reward to voluntarism is voluntarism itself. Otherwise, absolutely not.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 8:45 PM on October 13, 2022 marked best answer

people falling in love with therapists is a cliché among professionals

It's also called transference, the phenomenon where a client/patient attaches positive (or negative) attributes-feelings from elsewhere in life to a therapeutic relationship. Your therapist will certainly be aware of it as identifying it is a foundational part of the job.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 10:31 PM on October 12, 2022

Is there a pool near you to swim laps in?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 4:26 PM on October 11, 2022

Congruent?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 7:53 PM on October 6, 2022

I love learning for the sake of it.

Mate, you want a library card, not a PhD. You don't need a doctorate to learn, a doctorate is a specific qualification for academic research in the unique context of the university (and to a lesser extent, in the sciences, in research institutes and firms).

I began but didn't finish a doctorate in history; it started as an interesting research area but it became a sprawling unfocused research mess that was… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 4:30 PM on October 4, 2022

Further, here's me previously, telling people about my experience.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 4:51 PM on October 4, 2022

The Snowy Mountains Highway off the Hume, that links Gundagai and Cooma through Tumut, is well known as a motorcyclists' route, it goes past the Blowering Reservoir and is supposed to be beautiful. It's on my List.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 6:43 PM on September 19, 2022

W/r/t the specifics of desire—There's On Heteropessimism, and I cannot recommend enough Amia Srinivasan's Does Anyone Have The Right To Sex?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 5:42 PM on September 15, 2022 marked best answer

Das Boot, the culmination of the all-pinging, all depth-charging Submarine Movie genre.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 7:30 PM on September 11, 2022

Elastic-sided workboots. I used to walk around all day in them when I worked in warehouses.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 9:15 PM on August 22, 2022

Yeah you're likely simply dehydrated, apart from anything else. Sports drinks and lots of water.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 5:35 PM on August 3, 2022 marked best answer

Yes, it's to do with the firefighting effort, not the state of the fire (which may be burning fiercely while completely contained, or even 'safe'). Here's an Australian version of the terminology, which has differences but is similar to the North American practice.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 5:07 PM on July 31, 2022

At my place I've got a laptop stand on a spring that lifts the laptop a good 30cm off the desk, which I use with a separate keyboard. Makes a huge difference to the amount of usable desk space, and when I take part in meetings it means the camera isn't looking straight up my nostrils. It's great, get one or improvise one.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 8:06 PM on July 25, 2022

There's heaps in Sydney. Maybe the closest to your spec is the Spit to Manly walk, both ends of which are accessible by public transport and which has harbour views throughout. Get a bus to the Spit Bridge, have an afternoon's walk through national park, there's amazing views of the city, headlands, and harbour throughout, sidetrack to the beach if you want, finish with beers on the Manly pier, go home on the ferry. It's honestly a glorious afternoon out.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 10:33 PM on July 19, 2022

Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest, in which the seasoned, cynical professional arrives in a corrupt town to turn the arrogant competing gangs against each other, from which also came Yojimbo (same, but in Japan) and A Fistful of Dollars (same, but in the West).
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 10:59 PM on July 12, 2022

Bo Diddley had a hit ‘Bo Diddley’ on an album called ‘Bo Diddley’, in which the chorus is ‘hey Bo Diddley’. That’s got to be the most recursive of all of these.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 7:22 PM on July 7, 2022

Bird in the hand = 2*(birds in the bush). Get the one now.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 9:32 PM on July 6, 2022

Many years ago I tried aikido; which involved no hitting or kicking, and where the point is to focus on one's own balance and body position, and use the other person's unbalance against them. It seemed an attractively peaceful kind of thing and it sounds a good fit for your requirements.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 5:34 PM on June 30, 2022

I have a very similar bridge to you, three of my upper front teeth. When I had it put in my dentist was most concerned about getting the bite-contact right. On that ground alone I'd go back, and say look, the bite isn't right, can you please make it good, and I would expect that as a normal part of medical aftercare.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 12:14 AM on June 30, 2022

ABBA, Waterloo. (Even though Napoleon did not, in fact, surrender there).
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 5:16 PM on June 21, 2022

A bit more obscurely; Moreton Bay is an Australian folk song probably written in the 1830s by a former convict who had been held there (and in the other places mentioned in the song) and is a primary source for the killing of the commandant Captain Patrick Logan by Aboriginal people.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 6:23 PM on June 21, 2022

Madeline Kahn sang 'I'm Tired' in Blazing Saddles in parody of Marlene Dietrich, and was rightly nominated for an Oscar for it.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 10:08 PM on June 13, 2022

Is that mentioned anywhere?

Biblically, description of capital-H Heaven—indeed, afterlife at all—is really pretty thin. Christ famously argues that God is the God of the living, not the dead, and that in the resurrection we are as angels, though that's rather more him describing the role of God, and defying bad-faith logic-traps set by his critics. Elsewhere describes it as being easier for camels to pass through the eyes of needles than for the rich to enter the kingdom… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 8:02 PM on June 7, 2022

Australian here: yes, chuck those prawns on the barbie.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 6:23 PM on June 6, 2022

Both of us have tried to talk to her and have been met with profanities and yelling

Well any possible feelings of guilt I had would have finished right at this point.

With respect to the ethics of it; if it's purely a mistake, then ethics don't enter into it, errors are just errors, not ethical breaches. Everyone makes mistakes. To my mind there'd only be an ethical problem of yours if this happened for some reason beyond an error, e.g. because… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 9:37 PM on June 2, 2022

Consider one of the oldest Western progenitors of self-help based on introspection, Ignatius of Loyola.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 5:01 AM on June 1, 2022

I also had to leave a PhD program, for my own wellbeing and because it just wasn't going to happen. There is a huge, diverse, and widespread Freemasonry of us.

The thing about work cultures in which doctorates have meaning—academia, mostly—is that they also have strong cultures of hierarchy, associate 'leaving' with powerful shame and a sense of failure, and take great pains to make people feel as though the single means of success is through its pathway of career and… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 6:05 PM on May 29, 2022

Australian libraries and archives (and more) are centrally searchable through Trove, which was an initiative of the National Library of Australia. It's incredibly powerful, and I use it every single day in my job—indeed its existence really makes my job possible.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 5:14 PM on May 26, 2022

DEVO!
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 5:44 PM on May 18, 2022

An urban planner's answer is that it's decisions about the environment that are passed down to the future, and the world we live in now just reflects those decisions that were made by people in the past; either by small groups of powerful people, or broad societies preferring certain ways of life. And that's an answer that's rather agnostic about economic systems—the former Soviet societies were also very invested in planning their environments, and did much worse in terms… [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 7:22 PM on May 17, 2022