Tag: australia

mercy-misrule:

just a reminder from your local tired Australian that we did not legalise marriage equality today

we just got the results in of a non binding, voluntary country wide opinion poll

that has been preceded by months of open bigotry, as the vote no side ran feral except with a lot of money and conservative clout behind them

the bill to allow for same sex marriage had been put foward in parliament

we are still not there yet

so please

don’t spread posts saying gay marriage is legal in australia now

its super not! there’s still so much more foot dragging and awfulness to look forward to around this topic here

^^^^

kvitoya:

Even if you don’t like Halloween you have to appreciate its position as the sole thing keeping Christmas from advancing even earlier into the year like a cancerous growth

In Australia, Halloween isn’t really much of a thing? It’s kind of this American holiday that you get party stuff for in the shops, but doorknocking just isn’t really done. And we get Christmas stuff in the shops from the first of September. So the fear in this post is real, let me tell you.

It’s yes. It’s not legally binding, but it’s yes. I’m so fucking overwhelmed right now, I keep bursting into tears. I can’t help thinking that this result is cruel – it’s teasing at the idea of equality without actually giving it to us. That’s still down to our parliament, which for decades has been putting off and putting off and putting off what they laid the groundwork for EIGHT YEARS AGO when they started taxing same sex couples the same as straights. They’ll take our money, but won’t give us the rights a straight de facto couple has by default. Inheritance. Medical and hospital decision making. Funerals. Adoption and custody. Fostering. And that’s just a handful of things. The inequality in the law permeates every aspect of my relationship. It’s a sword of Damocles that I can never escape.

Catch the fuck up, Australia.

ruffboijuliaburnsides:

marimopet:

gotitforcheap:

if you’re american and coming to australia, I’m gonna go ahead and say that you should be 100 percent way more worried about being king hit by a dude named “dane” in a bintang singlet than any fucking spiders that exist here

what does this say in english

I am taking this warning to heart, but I DONT KNOW WHAT ITS WARNING ME ABOUT

‘King hit’ is an old term for ‘one punch’ or ‘coward punch’ attack. Basically, it’s something that happens commonly in red light districts where people go to drink a lot, dance at night clubs, take drugs, and/or visit brothels. It generally consists of a single punch delivered to the back of the neck/base of the skull. Often, the victim is unaware of the attack at the time, or is walking away from a confrontation.

This shit kills people. And those who survive it? I knew a woman whose son was completely and totally disabled. Paralysed, and, as far as they knew, catastrophically cognitively impared too (no communication, no voluntary movements, not even blinking on request). In a nursing home, for life, aged twenty-two.

cottoncandydumpass:

iamshadow21
replied to your photo “Feels like 97.”

FUCK

ME”

We had 47C this summer gone, in a heatwave lasting two weeks that didn’t dip below 35C. But that’s Australia for you.

reminds me of growing up in arizona.  it got up to almost 49C (aka it got to 120F) on the regular, and p much only ever dropped below 38 in the middle of the night during the summer.

how humid is it where you live tho? ‘cause that’s the thing, I’d happily take 47-48C with low humidity over 35-36C with HIGH humidity, which is what we’ve got here in satan’s ballsack.

Humid enough to be nasty. I spent six years at a higher altitude, where the heat was dry and it was bearable. Last year I moved back to Sydney. We’re out at the western extremity of the city, which means we’re nowhere near the ocean or any cooling breezes from it, but we are in a river valley next to a mountain range. So, in Summer, all the humidity sits in the valley and won’t leave.

And Australia’s a big place. People thing ‘oh, yeah, mostly desert, dry heat’. Well, our population is way lower, but our dimensions are comparable to the USA, so we cross enough lines of latitude to have a LOT of different zones of climate. Tasmania may be not far off European temps and gets snow in the winter, but up the top? It’s tropical. There’s a wet and a dry season, Darwin is always 32C and raining, and there are occasional outbreaks of malaria.