Instead of going to bed, I just had a twenty-minute, one-sided conversation with Hugh Jackman about the musical theatre roles I saw him perform back when he was starting out in Australia...

(With Imaginary Hugh Jackman.)

Came here to say something. Something in particular, not just something for the sake of it. I wonder what it was.

Oh well, I should just say something at all since I'm here. This will do.

/irony

So like, I know I'm ace-spec, so I prefer reading about feelings, but I so sometimes wonder how anybody at all is enjoying the physical details in romance stories instead of just writhing from cringe...
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I wish all the channels I subscribe to on YT that make original shorts (i.e
not cropped from longer videos) would periodically make long-form compilation videos of them so I that I actually see them...

Sport commentary of the week: "[He] has come here to PLAY - he's not just here to compete!"
😂

@Agatha Aussies tend to follow traditional UK tea habits, not surprisingly, but in recent decades we've been getting more adventurous with the Asian-influenced teas in cafes or self-brewing, including the flavoured bottled iced teas being common in supermarkets etc. I don't think I personally would have seen it as an American cheapening of tea therefore, so the thread was kind of amusing. I guess iced teas just don't make as much sense in colder climates anyway. 🤔🙃

Just read through the most geo-blinkered legacy tumblr thread about iced tea (in a bottle) being a thing in the US but not so much in the UK. E.g. Brit: AMERICAN MADNESS; American: HAHA BRITS SO STUFFY AMERICA IS FUTURE.

What nonsense did I just waste my time reading?? 😅

Meanwhile Asians were rightly ignoring this whole non-issue between the tea newbies.

Well, so long as the Brits and Americans had fun playing together. 😁👍

I always find these extremes interesting:
Chinese zodiac - NO SIMILARITY
Western zodiac - SPOT ON
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(Rooster source: chinesezodiac.org)
(Pisces source: zodiacsign.com)

@amarand Hmm..."ice cream float" I think Americans call them?

I have a sudden craving for a fanta spider, but I have neither ice cream nor fanta, and it's after midnight. Of course! 🙃

I just realised why the song "Bad Cinderella" from ALW's Cinderella has always bothered me somehow. It reminds me of "In My Own Little Corner" from R&H's Cinderella...😬

If you need some cheer in your day, here's the Cheerful Little Snowman that was hanging out at my home in Life Makeover! ☺️

If a political party is a core part of my identity, I have to defend it and support it no matter what stupid things it does or what actions and policies it adopts. If I don't, I'm undermining a core part of myself. I prefer not to be trapped into that.

And that's not just political parties. It's fandoms and brands and numerous other things. I can engage or enjoy, and these things will reflect aspects of my identity, but I don't want to be locked into those categories as my identity.

I couldn't really say I identify with a political party. Unless it's your career/volunteer interest, I don't think it really makes sense to. I have values. I vote for whichever party has the best balance of policies near my values and no policies terribly far from my values, and are vaguely sincere/believable. Yes, that means I find some parties unpalatable and consistently lean towards the others, but I can't really feel the sense in making a political party a core part of my identity.

Happy Lunar New Year CoSo, hope it's a lucky one for you! 🎆🧧💜

Judging by my symptoms, if you cut my head open right now a goddess would jump out of it. 🫠

I very like that CoSo let's me write more than BlueSky. Brevity is not my strong suit...

I guess this just proves that my year was the best and nobody could top it! 😏 haha...

Once Good Riddance/Time of Your Life came on the radio and I commented nostalgically that this was the graduation song for my year. My decade-younger cousin gave me a disdainful look and replied that it's the graduation song for EVERY year.

Appalled! Get a hit song from your own graduating year! This is part of the soundtrack of my whole final year, not just a single farewell event at the end of it!

(Not really angry at people using it, just feels less of-my-era if it's used for EVERY era.)