This is, in part, why I got back into sewing. I’ve yet to encounter a garment pattern with miserly pockets, and if I ever do, I’d just modify the pattern piece before cutting the fabric.
Bonus: pants/shorts/skirts now fit both my waist and hips at the same time, I can choose the fabric (no more poly blends!) and also the colour and silhouette (so it matches my tastes, body type, and existing wardrobe, rather than just being “on trend”).
Ooh, thanks for the tip re free PT! I used it heavily while it was free over Chrissie, and then avoided it when Myki fares went up in February. Looks like I’ll be doing a lot of daytripping this month!
I also ditched car ownership over a decade ago. Plenty of trains/trams/buses to get me places, my neighbourhood is very walkable (groceries and other retail store, GP, post office, library, laundromat, restaurants and cafes, even a cinema within walking distance), and there’s car share services for the odd occasion where I need it.
Jeez, some alternative facts from Merriam Webster right there 😂 I’ve never heard a British English speaker (or speakers of any other UK English variant, for that matter) use ‘fall’ to denote a season.
A reputable news source, though, or NewsCorpse/Sky/Ch 9?
I checked the ABC News website, and they’re calling him “MAGA Influencer”, which I’ll accept.
TIL I ovulate every Sunday 😂😅
I still think it’s cute, too, I just wish it was better executed 😏
And the bow goes between the bridge and the fingerboard, not the bridge and the tailpiece. This image is the string player’s equivalent of an AI picture of a person with 6+ fingers on each hand 🤦♀️
No flood risk, no bushfire risk and it gets decent rainfall.
As a fellow Australian - where the heck did you find this unicorn of a location?! I’ve been house-hunting (well, land-hunting, really) for over a year, and everything seems to come saddled with a bushfire overlay, flood overlay, or both. I’ve pretty much resigned myself to being stuck in a bushfire zone.
(Note: not asking for you to dox yourself with the actual location, though I am deeply curious.)
Yeah, I tend to use “staff” or sometimes “waitstaff” to describe them, particularly in cafes, where the owner and/or manager might also be waiting tables. “Waiter” or “waitress” I’d mostly use when recounting something that happened while eating out, and I’m trying to specify who’s who in the story.
Hmmm, well, the “wait” in waiter/waitress/waitstaff refers to the act of serving someone, usually in a restaurant or cafe. (https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/wait-on?topic=providing-and-serving-meals.) Like a lot of words in English, “wait” has more than one meaning.
There’s nothing wrong with “server”, per se, other than that we already had an established set of words for that role, and a server was also an existing word for a piece of IT equipment prior to US vernacular shifting (somewhere between the 90s and the 2010s, I think - we’ve always had a lot of US media pumped into Australia, but the vocab used to align on this one when I was a kid, and then at some point it changed).
Not saying Americans should do things the way we do it (vive la difference), just that the linguistic shift still throws me off. It would probably confuse me less if you’d always called them servers.
Of all the American vernacular for job titles, “server” is probably the one that makes my poor Aussie brain glitch most frequently. While you’re wondering why people are bringing you a meal in the office, I’m looking at the same sentence and wondering why diners are being forced to work as sysadmins over dinner.
CommBank winning the Big 4’s race to the bottom yet again? The only thing that surprises me about this is that people still bank with them when credit unions and building societies exist 🙄 (The only exception would be international students, backpackers and working holidaymakers, because I hear CommBank’s probably the easiest institution for foreign nationals to set up an account.)
All good! There’s probably far more people in your boat than mine; it was a pretty natural conclusion to draw 🙂
No one needs the internet outside of work.
As someone with a disability (and no car), the internet has played a massive role in allowing me to live independently, which in turn has a profoundly positive impact on my mental health. There are a wide variety of circumstances in which the internet has enhanced life experience - let’s not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
From Banksy’s 2004 book Cut It Out. Banksy, in turn, ‘got’ it (in its original form) from Sean Tejaratchi’s 1999 essay in his Crap Hound zine. 😅
Ahhh, yeah, that’s a bit cooked. The freedom warriors bit isn’t surprising, though. You’d expect them to be in favour of “the freedom to be as irresponsible as you like”.
Wait, are you saying BAC while driving must be 0.00 in some parts of the States, or am I misunderstanding? It’s 0.05 in most (all?) parts of Australia (except if you’re in a restricted licence category). It’s not encouraged, but it’s legal.
Figured you guys would have more permissive laws than we do.
There’s some truth to that (wonder what percentage of fatalities are hook turn related…?), though most of my “if you can survive” experiences have been with drivers overtaking on the shoulder, overtaking in the right hand turn queue and then making a dangerous turn, losing control of their speeding vehicle in the Burnley Tunnel or on the West Gate Bridge, or deciding that stopping for red lights and/or pedestrians (crossing legally) is optional.
Obviously anecdotal, with a sample size of just one, but these are experiences I’ve had as a driver, passenger, pedestrian, or onlooker from a shop/restaurant/inside a tram. Didn’t happen anywhere near as frequently when I lived in Sydney or Brisbane.
How the heck are Victorians down the bottom? Is it just the sheer size of our population keeping that number in check…?
You’re aware that Jesus features in the Quran as well as the Bible, right…? Highly respected figure in Islam, not at all surprising that Iran would be defending him.