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• Commented on Read an Excerpt from Season of Skulls
  My sister married herself a Geordie. When I first met him if I wasn't listening when he started talking I couldn't pick up the thread of what he was saying. Then we got used to that and could understand him...
• Commented on Read an Excerpt from Season of Skulls
  Reminds me of a story I read, possibly apochryphal, of a gentleman who was found unconscious in the south of England towards the end of last century. He was taken to a hospital and upon regaining consciousness it was discovered...
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  lol...
• Commented on Fuck the Monarchy
  There's a children's picture book, which I saw many many years ago an the Indigenous Art Fair in Darwin, that talks about all the colours "white" people really are -- pink, brown, red etc. Can't find it now....
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  Almost as gobsmacking as the time, 'lo these many years ago, I heard Steven Barnes refer to himself as the "only Black science fiction writer." I was too speechless to ask if he'd ever heard of Samuel Delaney and Octavia...
• Commented on Signed copies of "Season of Skulls" available for pre-order!
  Oh yes. American gentleman to Australian lady, in jest:"I'll spank you on the fanny!" Australian to American:"Hell no you won't!" An American fanny is an Australian bum (see: bum bag). An Australian fanny is what Donny likes to grab....
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  Hmm, maybe because I'm a Trans-Tasman personage but here in Tassie I use Sellotape or sticky tape. The only reference I have for Durex is as American for condoms; as for the Australian for condoms it used to be frangers,...
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  That's great news John -- are you moving far?...
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  Yup -- there's maintenance and then there's work and then there's add petrol and match......
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  Good luck house hunting -- I'm sure you'll find something for you and your dog that will be better for both of you. I think you'll find it much less stressful being in a place that doesn't need constant work...
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  Wow, didn't see that coming! Moving where, one wonders......
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Escape from Yokai Land
  Many Australian pizzas are delivered in sedans......
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Escape from Yokai Land
  A typical interaction with other people. Them: How are you? Me: Crap, thanks. Them: Oh that's good. Usually followed by an odd face where they parse what just actually happened....
• Commented on Place your bets
  That version of Colours of the Wind is awesome, but it appears you can only purchase the album on iTunes sadly...
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  Yup yup yup -- in one of my work places lo these many years ago one of the cleaners was saying she didn't feel well, went and sat down in a quiet room and just died. I'm betting it was...
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  It's worse than that sadly -- it's only in the last 15-20 years that medicine realised that a. almost all research and testing for cardiac issues was done on men, and b. women often have very different symptoms when suffering...
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  It was during my nursing training, back when we trained in hospitals. It just floored me that they knew she was a poor teacher but kept her on AND fronted us to explain why we didn't pass her subject! I...
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  Ahh memories. Way back 40 years ago I failed a subject (as an adult) -- notable because it was the only one I ever failed. I think all of us failed it. The teacher was hopeless, she kept jumping around...
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  Reminds me of a conversation I once had with someone from World Vision, telling them I didn't support them because you couldn't support Australian children in need through them. "It's too political" was her response. And about 10 years ago,...
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  Today, yes, but this has been so for quite some time now. I watched Bowling for Colombine when it came out with a friend of mine who was in Sydney at the time, a well-travelled African American gentleman, who came...
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  "Why do US inhabitants hate each other so much?" I don't know but I do know that no one kills more Americans than Americans....
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  Which factor, when you consider that there are people alive now who had first contact with white fellas, is pretty damning. David Dalaithngu, the famous actor who died last year, was one such, as were the tribe they dispossessed to...
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  My first experience of Indigenous health in Darwin showed me the same suite of chronic diseases I was used to seeing in Sydney -- but a decade earlier. Which is to say I would see a medical history which, in...
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  I have never seen an image of an Indigenous Australia, prior to the arrival of white fellas, wearing hats. Or footwear for that matter. They did, in some places at least, wear headbands to keep their hair off their faces,...
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  Ahh, memories. The look on the face of the Flat Earther who'd run an experiment with a laser to prove the earth was flat and proved the curvature of the earth instead... Sadly I don't believe it made any difference....
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  Well there are plenty of cave paintings and such like that prove Indigenous Australians have been here for well over 40,000 years so all the sciences used for that, for starters....
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  I remember when Die Hard 4.0 came out, and when the bad guys transmitted an image of the White House being destroyed I immediately thought "And anyone not in sight of the White House doesn't know that's not true."...
• Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  OMG -- an undead Bun-Bun??? Doesn't bear thinking about really!...
• Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  They'll keep in your fridge for up to 2 years....
• Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  I can personally recommend a handful of raw almonds as a much nice way of easing heartburn than OTC concoctions such as the ones you tried....