@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. π€π
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?? π
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. ππ
@amarand Hmm..."ice cream float" I think Americans call them?
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.
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.)
Just a lil blob floating around the net.
(Introverted & silly. Haphazard & sporadic. Barely surviving; soon to be zombie. She/her...do zombies need genders?)