Joined: 16 Jun 2014 Age: 23 Gender: Female Posts: 31
22 Jun 2014, 7:52 am
eucalyptus wrote:
'm going to ignore the symptoms and struggle back to work tomorrow
Hope everything went okay at work.
Yea, I'm with you on most of what you said. Just mentioned sport 'coz everyone at school's talking about it. Personally, I lean more towards Labor (or even Greens *gasp*). I'm in the West, so we've never had daylight saving. I've got a boring, run of the mill cold. Mode.
I read something interesting last night. As predicted by the ASD Clinic, I have this repetitive mundane streak - I make paper flowers and I was researching the origin of this tradition. I learned that women used to take make them for American war graves for Memorial Day (sometimes known as Decoration Day, their equivalent of Anzac Day). Then I came across the origin of Memorial Day. Although officially it is attributed to the white US military, dating back to 1868, the first Decoration Day was in fact held on 1st May 1865 in Charleston South Carolina, a massive march of 10,000 freed Black slaves and their supporters, after they buried dead soldiers who had fought for their freedom. I thought that was a good piece of the history of the equality struggle, but then this might just be one of my "special interests" that bores everybody.
Joined: 24 Sep 2014 Age: 37 Gender: Male Posts: 247
04 Nov 2014, 5:10 am
Melbourne represent
_________________ How did I get here tonight? What am I doing here? How did I reach this state? How did I lose my sight? I'm lost! I'm freaking! And everybody knows! Everyone's watching! So here... Are my hopes and aspirations Nothing but puke God, I'm so loooooonelaaaaaaayyyy *power stance, air guitar*
Joined: 21 Jul 2009 Age: 44 Gender: Male Posts: 174 Location: Brisvegas, Australia
24 Nov 2014, 6:23 am
Hi,
Mid thirties, male from Brissy.
Anyone else from 'Vegas here?
_________________ ?We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness; it is always urgent, 'here and now,' without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank.?
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Joined: 1 Mar 2014 Age: 62 Gender: Male Posts: 25 Location: Townsville
04 Dec 2014, 4:07 pm
OK I am an Aussie.. I am born in Canberra (1961), I moved to the Netherlands (1963, have Dutch parents, so genetically Dutch) came back to Australia in 1982..
So: 1 I am an Australian with a funny accent, 2 I am a Dutchman, that happened to be born in Australia ! And yes I have a dual citizenship
_________________ I like to have a numberplate with ASP-135.
Only Aspies will get this.
Joined: 15 May 2010 Age: 71 Gender: Male Posts: 704 Location: Western Australia
09 Dec 2014, 9:20 am
G'day, g'day, g'day! I am a strange thing that happened on the way to the forum.
I registered here some years ago when I was completely new to all this computer/internet stuff, just before our new (secondhand) computer blew up. Fair dinkum! Sparks, smoke and noise!
Anyhow, we went without a computer that I didn't know how to work until I had forgotten where I'd tried to find some similarly strange friends.
Just yesterday I got an email saying that Wrongplanet had been updated. It twigged something in the dark recesses of decaying memory so I came to look at what had once been interesting.
Anyhow*, I live in (was born in, as were a couple of generations of forbears) the wheat belt of "Worstraya" (take Western Australia, leave out a few syllables, and run the remainder together with a lazy tongue and get "Worstraya").
Since then I have had some experience at internet forums. I look forward to some interesting disagreements with some that seem to imply that fashionable opinions are always right.
Joined: 24 Sep 2014 Age: 37 Gender: Male Posts: 247
09 Dec 2014, 4:34 pm
Strewth mate! Welcome
_________________ How did I get here tonight? What am I doing here? How did I reach this state? How did I lose my sight? I'm lost! I'm freaking! And everybody knows! Everyone's watching! So here... Are my hopes and aspirations Nothing but puke God, I'm so loooooonelaaaaaaayyyy *power stance, air guitar*
Nice t' meecha, Rev. Mo. I think I'll pass on the afternoon tea invite... even if I shave I think someone will guess that I'm not really on the guest list.
Yair... support groups... I'm not a big fan. I don't even want to be a denatured odd bod cum pretend neurotypical. I don't mind being a bit weird according to the commonplace.
Joined: 15 May 2010 Age: 71 Gender: Male Posts: 704 Location: Western Australia
19 Dec 2014, 10:38 am
alisoncc wrote:
And here's me thinking WA stood for West Africa.
But the Kiwis always get their vowels mixed up (one practically indistinguishable from another). Worstraya to them is translated as farthest Western parts of the West Island of New Zealand but the word and pronunciation has no equivalent in Kiwi.