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.

Pique vs peak. Discrete vs discreet. Pallet vs palette vs palate. The list is endless, and I’ve been seeing it more and more frequently, even from “journalists” published in major newspapers.

The other day I saw someone put a comma after “dear” in the salutation “Dear [name],”.

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 🤦‍♀️

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.)

I rate Italo Disco, but the rest of their roasts are very much meh. Plus they’re pricey af - I only buy from them during Black Friday sales, and three of the last four years they’ve got my order wrong (missing or incorrect items) and I’ve had to contact them to fix it. Sometimes more than once.

All good! There’s probably far more people in your boat than mine; it was a pretty natural conclusion to draw 🙂

This interpretation is solid. I’ve lived in various regions over about a 2000km span of the east coast, and noticed usage varies a bit depending on where you are.

(Kind of jarring when you find yourself talking cross purposes with someone of the same nationality and almost identical accent - like when I moved to Qld and discovered some people up there have a very different interpretation of the word “toey” from what we do down south… 😅 )

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.

Yeah, I think “dinged” and “bingle” are pretty interchangeable. And a hospital trip from a prang is probably more for whiplash or a sprain - not broken bones in traction or being admitted to ICU… You can definitely have an injury-free prang, though, I agree.

Feel like a bingle is more like when you reverse into a pole or scratch the bumper, or maybe rear end/reverse into another vehicle at <10km/h. Prangs require panel beating and maybe a trip to the hospital.

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…?

Who, Jeff? He made a whole video a while back about how he doesn’t rely on YouTube, and is also on Floatplane. However, he acknowledges that a lot of viewers can’t afford a subscription service, and YT has a massive reach, so he still uploads there, too.

Did I speedrun a midlife crisis in my 20s? 🤔 Never did pickleball, but that’s pretty synonymous with retirees over 60 in my corner of the world.

Huh, I’ve not heard of this, though it doesn’t surprise me.

In the area where I grew up (waaay out in the sticks, with no easy public transport access to the closest AEC office), the AEC tended to send people out to your home on your 18th birthday (or soon after it) and enrol you on the spot. This was decades ago, though, before you could do any of it online.