*mr crocker voice* fairies!!!!

me a few months ago: ugh it’s gonna be so annoying when they queerbait hermann and newt in pacrim 2

Marius: had you seen her today you might know how it feels

me, studying grammar: I love learning new rules and exceptions!! I could do this all day!

new favorite brand of humor:

Australia’s reverse-formality respect culture is fascinating. We don’t even really think about it until we try to communicate or learn about another culture and the rules that are pretty standard for most of the world just feel so wrong. I went to America this one time and I kept automatically thinking that strangers using ‘sir’ and ‘ma’am’ were sassing me. 

100% true.

See also: the Australian habit of insulting people by way of showing affection, which other English-speakers also do, but not in a context where deescalating the spoken invective actively increases the degree of offence intended, particularly if you’ve just been affectionately-insulting with someone else.

case in point: the ‘Howard DJs like a mad cunt’ meme.

@armoured-escort

It’s all true, believe me. I reckon it has something to do with being geographically isolated and having a massive convict background during colonisation. Then you have huge immigration influxes from all over the world, and the fact that we like to shorten names into things like “Dazza”, “Maccas”, and “Shaz.”