Dramlin

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• Commented on A fistful of tropes
  That is too funny, although I am sincerely wishing for option A....
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  I spent about 6 months in the UK starting about November 1988, the six months where everything bad happened and now I can no longer donate blood. I tried to find beef sausages in Kent, but the closest I could...
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  Oops, missed the comma after "ever". It's the most successful project on Kickstarter....
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  Brandon Sanderson, a writer who created the most successful Kickstarter ever for BOOKS!...
• Commented on Pass or Fail
  A good friend of mine, a Republican who would have been rolling in his grave when Donny was elected, once said to me that Americans would vote for a woman -- but not THAT woman. It remains to be seen...
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  Huh, hadn't heard the term matristic and it might be a better fit for the Indigenous societies that I'm familiar with. An example: when the Intervention (let's not go there) was happening in the Northern Territory one of the things...
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  Ahh, when I checked to see which comment you were replying to both my comments showed up and it looked as though you'd replied to the second comment, not the first. There are definitely more matriarchal societies than this, and...
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  I was replying to a comment on a comment about Indigenous culture, providing more information abut that culture. I'm pretty sure that other people have developed cultures with similar features (we are all people after all), also pretty sure just...
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  Disclaimers apply: I am not an expert on Indigenous culture and am only really familiar with that in the Top End and Central Australia. This is my 2c worth. There's women's business and there's men's business -- women planted and...
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  From my limited understanding, at least in regard to Arnhem Land, it's more matriarchal -- the elder women make the decisions and their brothers make things happen. One of our Aboriginal Liaison Officers once said to me:"A man without land...
• Commented on Pass or Fail
  TBH they both sound dreadful! I'll stick with clit I reckon....
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  Yes indeed, actually a wall of vulvas. And jetting steam into your vagina could kill you, so no, not a thing. I hope. The only euphemism of which I'm aware for the clitoris is the little man in the canoe...
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  It's sort of fascinating that apparently American women are now talking about their vaginas, without using "cute" words for it, a lot more. Less fascinating is that, as you say, they're actually talking about their vulva. Sort of good news...
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  I once looked at working in the US as a nurse and found two major hurdles. You couldn't just sit the nursing test, you had to be sponsored by an employer first; apparently this cost the would-be employer around $10,000...
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  Much like Australia there are large areas of "too hard to live in", although down here it's more desert than tundra, so to speak. The only continent drier that Australia is Antarctica, we don't have the water for filling the...
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  I don't know about where you are, but I recently saw an article (in Australia) about using AI to use the progress notes from a patient record to generate discharge summaries or specialist letters for example. TBH if it means...
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  One of the advantages of moving so much was not knowing many people and thus not being required to spend time with them which would be better used for reading. As I get older I am much less likely to...
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  I had two things going for me -- my mother liked books and also liked when she didn't have to take responsibility for me so I could read as much as I could. Not as much as I wanted but...
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  Books were how I coped with too much time with too many people; with a good book I could totally block out the environment. In one memorable case I was reading so intently in a room full of people I...
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  I certainly never did but then I was already an outsider everywhere we went. We were from another country and moved frequently. I went to Catholic schools and my mother was, at various times, an apparently single mother (we moved...
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  Which is true, but it wasn't until I read an interview with Martha Wells that I noticed that no gender was ever mentioned....
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  Also see the Murderbot stories -- Murderbot's gender has never been disclosed....
• Commented on Shrinking the world
  "...And they're the only people who might have pulled this off." Probably because they had a much, much longer time to work it out, a serious benefit from being around so very long in the one place....
• 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,...