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Car is in for service today, I'm supposed to get a call about it before 4pm. Got 5 minutes, guys...
Been fixing a work issue with the Big Thing That Started Monday (it has largely worked, this is just a cosmetic thing). Spent most of the day doing so.
I posted a thread which was basically about certain types of Americans talking about moving countries the way most people talk about which coat they'll put on to go outside. There were...quite a few Americans who got huffy about it. Also a few Australians saying "ignore the OP! We'd love to have you!"
The point wasn't that we don't want them (if they'd bothered reading down the thread they'd have seen that). The point was that moving countries - getting a residential visa to live in another country for, oh, some four years or possibly forever - is difficult. It's expensive. It's time-consuming. It's not like choosing a coat: "Oh, I'll have that one."
It's more like choosing a car, but the cars you want to buy only make around 20-30,000 models in a year, and they're really popular cars. You can get one if you pay a lot of money, otherwise you go on a waiting list, and you have to give a reason for why you as a driver would add value to the reputation of this specific car...
And then there's limitations on disability and family members with disability, anyone who needs healthcare, and a whole raft of other issues.
And then, if people are trying to escape fascism, there's the slight problem that the damn stuff spreads. That the issues the USA is facing right now regarding authoritarianism and conservatism have already infected most western democracies, and for much the same reasons. It's small-town thinking, which Americans are awfully good at, because most of them are accustomed to thinking only about themselves, their folks, their country, and not what it means on a bigger, larger, global scale.
It doesn't have to be a global conspiracy to be significant, either.
*sigh*
But trying to explain nuance to people on Threads is pointless, so I'm just ignoring that thread. If people have valuable things to say, I'll like their comment and maybe reply, but otherwise I'm mentally blocking out the blockheads.
I did get a number of people who chimed in agreeing with me. Both Australians and Americans who had emigrated elsewhere.
--
Anyway, back to the Memes For Old People...
Any groceries you've been getting into lately?
...different flavours and brands of instant noodle (ramen)? That's the only one I've really been umming and ahhing over. Most other things I regularly buy, I know exactly what I'm reaching for, brand, type, the whole deal.
Youtube,cable TV PayTV, or streaming?
Which do I watch? Or which do I prefer? YouTube. I watch Beau of the 5th Column (pragmatic US politics), Li Ziqi (Chinese influencer with a perfectly produced back-to-nature kind of life), Sydney Backyard Veggies (a guy doing major growing in his backyard), The Holy Post (Christian podcast), some fashion/design/fabric/making, some Bridgerton, some house cleans, some yard cleans, some movie commentaries...
I have streaming (Netflix), but I don't watch it. Not really. For Bridgerton is about it, and I still haven't watched the damn thing.
And my sister and I watch free-to-air (broadcast) for comedic 'this week's news' shows - specifically, 'Have You Been Paying Attention' which we really enjoy. It's five comedians playing a game show where they have to answer questions about what's been going on this week, and it's freaking HILARIOUS. I think the motto might unofficially be something like "if you can't cry at it all, at least you should get a shocked laugh out of it".
What's something you saved up for and then regretted buying?
Oh, man. So many things. SO MANY THINGS. I just can't think of them all. Dresses and clothes, gadgets and technology, hobbies I thought I would get into and simply didn't...
How many cups can you see from where you're sitting?
None, somewhat surprisingly. Usually there's at least today's and maybe yesterday's as well. But it is after lunch and the cleaners came earlier today, so I put stuff in the dishwasher and that included my morning coffee cup.
Which filter are you most likely to go "eh, it's probably fine" when you find out you need to change it?
Oh this one is kind of difficult to decide... We, uh, took down the smoke detector alarm when it kept chirping at us. And we haven't replaced it. That was before I went overseas... EEK. Okay, that should get replaced.
What other filters are there? Oil? Air Conditioner? Vacuum?
Been fixing a work issue with the Big Thing That Started Monday (it has largely worked, this is just a cosmetic thing). Spent most of the day doing so.
I posted a thread which was basically about certain types of Americans talking about moving countries the way most people talk about which coat they'll put on to go outside. There were...quite a few Americans who got huffy about it. Also a few Australians saying "ignore the OP! We'd love to have you!"
The point wasn't that we don't want them (if they'd bothered reading down the thread they'd have seen that). The point was that moving countries - getting a residential visa to live in another country for, oh, some four years or possibly forever - is difficult. It's expensive. It's time-consuming. It's not like choosing a coat: "Oh, I'll have that one."
It's more like choosing a car, but the cars you want to buy only make around 20-30,000 models in a year, and they're really popular cars. You can get one if you pay a lot of money, otherwise you go on a waiting list, and you have to give a reason for why you as a driver would add value to the reputation of this specific car...
And then there's limitations on disability and family members with disability, anyone who needs healthcare, and a whole raft of other issues.
And then, if people are trying to escape fascism, there's the slight problem that the damn stuff spreads. That the issues the USA is facing right now regarding authoritarianism and conservatism have already infected most western democracies, and for much the same reasons. It's small-town thinking, which Americans are awfully good at, because most of them are accustomed to thinking only about themselves, their folks, their country, and not what it means on a bigger, larger, global scale.
It doesn't have to be a global conspiracy to be significant, either.
*sigh*
But trying to explain nuance to people on Threads is pointless, so I'm just ignoring that thread. If people have valuable things to say, I'll like their comment and maybe reply, but otherwise I'm mentally blocking out the blockheads.
I did get a number of people who chimed in agreeing with me. Both Australians and Americans who had emigrated elsewhere.
--
Anyway, back to the Memes For Old People...
Any groceries you've been getting into lately?
...different flavours and brands of instant noodle (ramen)? That's the only one I've really been umming and ahhing over. Most other things I regularly buy, I know exactly what I'm reaching for, brand, type, the whole deal.
Youtube,
Which do I watch? Or which do I prefer? YouTube. I watch Beau of the 5th Column (pragmatic US politics), Li Ziqi (Chinese influencer with a perfectly produced back-to-nature kind of life), Sydney Backyard Veggies (a guy doing major growing in his backyard), The Holy Post (Christian podcast), some fashion/design/fabric/making, some Bridgerton, some house cleans, some yard cleans, some movie commentaries...
I have streaming (Netflix), but I don't watch it. Not really. For Bridgerton is about it, and I still haven't watched the damn thing.
And my sister and I watch free-to-air (broadcast) for comedic 'this week's news' shows - specifically, 'Have You Been Paying Attention' which we really enjoy. It's five comedians playing a game show where they have to answer questions about what's been going on this week, and it's freaking HILARIOUS. I think the motto might unofficially be something like "if you can't cry at it all, at least you should get a shocked laugh out of it".
What's something you saved up for and then regretted buying?
Oh, man. So many things. SO MANY THINGS. I just can't think of them all. Dresses and clothes, gadgets and technology, hobbies I thought I would get into and simply didn't...
How many cups can you see from where you're sitting?
None, somewhat surprisingly. Usually there's at least today's and maybe yesterday's as well. But it is after lunch and the cleaners came earlier today, so I put stuff in the dishwasher and that included my morning coffee cup.
Which filter are you most likely to go "eh, it's probably fine" when you find out you need to change it?
Oh this one is kind of difficult to decide... We, uh, took down the smoke detector alarm when it kept chirping at us. And we haven't replaced it. That was before I went overseas... EEK. Okay, that should get replaced.
What other filters are there? Oil? Air Conditioner? Vacuum?
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My family is among the ones who can't move - certainly the older child would have great difficulty proving that he wouldn't be dependent on social services.
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