Activity from Fiasco da Gama

It’s been a very long time since I saw a phone number and details for a gay hookup on a toilet door. They used to absolutely cover the walls, dozens and dozens. [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 8 months ago

This reminds me of one of my other favourite pulp writers, Alistair MacLean (of Ice Station Zebra, The Guns Of Navarone, Where Eagles Dare, etc.) He wrote a lot of very very formulaic thrillers, and knew perfectly well what kind of books they were,… [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

Hymen? Hell it damn near killed 'im [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

I once had the experience of explaining my [Australian, Anglo] grandparents’ diet to a Japanese man. ‘Dripping’ is the accumulated fats from grilled meat, collected and reused both as cooking fat and as a substitute for butter. In the early 20thC… [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

[the ghost of the Suzuki Brumby appears, about to give you some harsh lessons of utes past, utes present, and utes future] [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

Apart from anything else, you don't, and can't, know how all the people you're describing feel about their relationships---it's a natural fallacy to see other people partnered and equate that with their happiness. What you're seeing is their… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 8 months ago

Yes, Flava Flavicon is the hype image for the band. [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 9 months ago

Sideshow Bob rake stepping. Or just a lot of rakes [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 9 months ago

How are things like this funded in places that have a better track record on race? I won't say my country has a better track record on race, quite the opposite IMO in a lot of ways, but Australia does have a different one that… [more]
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MeFi comment - 9 months ago

I mean: I am not an American, and I look at this from the perspective of an outsider, but it still astounds me how lenient was the armed response. The rioters had said, repeatedly, what they were going to do, then they did that! They credibly… [more]
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MeFi comment - 9 months ago

W/r/t the grappling with anti-carceral leanings. There's many hundreds of years of context here. Despite the American notion that arms are there to resist one's Government in extremis, there is no State in the world with a more consistent history of… [more]
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MeFi comment - 9 months ago

Of yeast spreads there is vegemite; marmites and other competitors are for sickos, perverts and the morally compromised. [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 9 months ago

Yes that's a normal reaction to risk and emotional shock, and it's precisely why people who are expected to encounter these situations of danger and respond to them (e.g. firefighters, paramedics, and most of all, soldiers and members of the… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 9 months ago

These dudes should really pay attention to what happened to Yevgeniy Prigozhin, an actual private warlord. [more]
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MeFi comment - 9 months ago

Bill Bryson's A Walk In The Woods. Two men go for a long walk. [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 9 months ago

BILBIES [more]
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MeFi comment - 9 months ago

Nice day, riding a motorbike. I’m a very shallow person but that does it for me. [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 9 months ago

For my money the most chilling depiction of a nuclear exchange (spoiler: Birmingham, then Minsk) is in Sir John Hackett's The Third World War, a very odd quasi-technothriller set in the then-near future 1985, that happened to be written by a… [more]
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MeFi comment - 9 months ago

Yes, I am also short sighted and in my 40s, and find myself using my glasses less and less for reading and screens. The optometrist said, yes, that’s ageing working. [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 9 months ago

🎶 well since my baby left me / I found a new place to dwell / it’s out halfway between Coffs and Grafton / a wood cod hotel 🎶 [more]
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MeFi comment - 9 months ago

"They're sometimes called the 'police of the bush,'" Professor Kaplan says. This absolutely tracks. ACAB includes magpies 100% [more]
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MeFi comment - 9 months ago

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… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 9 months ago

Spain. That is all [more]
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FanFare comment - 9 months ago

🦦 [more]
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MeFi comment - 9 months ago

If games have pretence to be treated as pieces of art or literature—and by now it’s clear they do—then an editorial process is part of that artistic production. You’d be disappointed as a critic, and a reader, if you bought a novel full of typos,… [more]
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MeFi comment - 9 months ago

Lack of a dark room shouldn't be a deal breaker here—lots of people use a film changing bag (a light-proof bag with arm holes) to transfer rolls of film to developing tanks, and then process films in the bath or the laundry sink. But! If chemistry… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 9 months ago

The Australian situation of land ‘ownership’ is in fact more complex than this article makes out. Many of those cattle farms are in the form of pastoral leases, long term arrangements with the Crown rather than private holdings. That includes those… [more]
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MeFi comment - 9 months ago

🎶 don't be taken in by his welcome grin / he's thinking just how well you'd fit inside his skin 🎶 [more]
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MeFi comment - 9 months ago

Mrzz, the previous post on High frequency trading on shortwave radio. Really great comments thread. [more]
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MeFi comment - 9 months ago

The whole country is rooting for Australia. You heard me. And I am certain that some of the children that result will have have their names spelled ‘Cortnee’ [more]
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FanFare comment - 9 months ago

QUOLL MISCHIEF is the name of my new metal band [more]
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MeFi comment - 9 months ago

This is serious. And don’t call it Shirley. [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 months ago

In my group chat all my friends' children are going to school wearing green and gold for the Matildas. It's incredibly wholesome. (Australia to beat France, you heard it here first). I will say this: Do not underestimate Colombia. [more]
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FanFare comment - 10 months ago

The appeal of well-known plot structures e.g. that of a love triangle or romantic dilemma is that they introduce artificial conflict to a narrative, and that is a good deal of the point of traditionally structured literature, which is great if you… [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 months ago

The World’s Last Internet Cafes
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MeFi post - 10 months ago

Black and white photography hell yeah. It's the best. [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 10 months ago

W/r/t Team USA it’s worth observing how few of them play anywhere but the US domestic competition. Which was for years the only serious professional women’s league, but that’s altered now that the Euro major clubs have got on board. Nothing in North… [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 months ago

I have just been to the match, it was glorious, most of the crowd was up way past their bedtime and are likely to be late for school tomorrow. Pretty great all round [more]
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FanFare comment - 10 months ago

I am at the South Africa vs Netherlands match, where a good fraction of the crowd seem to be Americans disconsolate that they counted on USA topping their group and being in this match [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 months ago

As someone else observed that photo of the batter hitting in front of the Buddha is the hardest-going baseball photo ever. W/r/t cricket, the Bhutanese live just north of the largest and most important cricket playing country on the planet, if… [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 months ago

USA! Your anthem is musically one of the better bits of music going and easily top 4 of the countries in this tournament (sorry, but the French and New Zealanders, and IMO South Africa, beat you). Yet your athletes seem to mumble it like they… [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 months ago

In Sydney, boarding houses (our name for single occupancy units) both private and supported by social housing providers, are a long standing dwelling type, some of the older ones existing since the post-WWII housing shortage. Yes, they are completely… [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 months ago

I am on team It Is Good And Desirable That No Single Central Social Network Should Again Exist, And We Should All Go Separate Ways. My second team (who I support when my team isn't playing) is Get A Website With RSS [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 months ago

[extremely youth pastor voice] yes, after a long despairing period of grief and shock, Sam Kerr is coming back after three matches to save Australian chances. But do you know who else [more]
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FanFare comment - 10 months ago

IMO one’s Bulgarian Bearded Axe is a journey not a destination. You never really complete. [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 months ago

OH MY GOD THE FOOTBALL [more]
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FanFare comment - 10 months ago

RASO [more]
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FanFare comment - 10 months ago

I WAS AT THE GERMANY-COLOMBIA MATCH AND IT WAS ONE OF THE LOUDEST SPORTS MATCHES I’VE EVER BEEN TO WHAT SORRY I DIDN’T HEAR THAT. I SAID I WAS AT THE GERMANY-COLOMBIA MATCH AND IT [more]
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FanFare comment - 10 months ago

[Ginuwine intensifies] [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 months ago

This is incredibly cool and wholesome though. And this man knows how to eat. [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 months ago

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