Someone needs to launch an education campaign to get Americans to stop calling the World Cup “FIFA”. It’s like calling the Super Bowl NFL or the Olympics IOC and yet, they all do it

You gotta hand it to the Brits, nonce is a great word.

My deep seated Australian egalitarianism (look its tall poppy) makes me deeply cringe at him walking around with a Quad God singlet on. Like come on mate.

I keep getting the Salesforce agent force ad during the Olympics and I don’t understand it. The whole premise is using Salesforce to plan a dinner party? Including an AI agent “sous chef”? From Salesforce?

Seattle wishes it had that train option. A line.. intersecting!?

Absolutely delighted to be back on Olympian TikTok

Steve and I were talking about that exact thing last night. Poor Jonathan Ross’ of the world

You need to go. For me.

What in seppo bullshit is hungry jacks doing using “sodas”. I think the TV ad also had “creamer” in it too 🙄

Just did my first Australian domestic flight after 5 years of flying in the US and the whole process is a true delight. Super friendly service everywhere, efficient and easy security. What a dream.

The tree was a cheapo Woolworths one but it turns out it was really nice! And hard to find a similar one. The ornaments were just an another box that was full of fragile glass that we felt was a bit annoying to ship. But regret it every year.

We did a massive clean out before we moved to the US 5 years ago. And I only regret donating 3 things: a plastic spoon that came in my very first utensils set when I moved out of home which turned out to be the perfect shape and balance. And my fake Christmas tree and a box of glass bauble ornaments

It’s 10pm pacific time so I can say a connections spoiler now: Scratchies aren’t lottery tickets.

Oh I just saw a 7 day one. That’s even worse. That’s even more a not thing. Come the fuck on

“12 day advent calendars” make no sense. Advent is a defined season, the 4 Sundays before Christmas til Christmas Eve. It makes sense to go to the 1st to start a calendar though. The 12 days of Christmas are after Christmas.
Just say you’re making a shitty countdown calendar.

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Almost got hit twice today by cars right on red-ing without looking for pedestrians. Different intersections but both time the light had just gone green for me and they were racing to beat the oncoming traffic. Any Australian who thinks we should have the equivalent hates pedestrians

Going back to Australia for Christmas means I don’t have to ration Vegemite for the rest of the year.

Wordle 1,603 1/6*

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Now I have to find a new starting word again.

Shout out to both Benji and Joel for both still being married to their very famous partners. Couldn’t believe it when I looked it up a couple of months ago.

I just don’t 💁🏼‍♀️

Coming to one of the three brunch places in Seattle makes me miss Australia. This is diabolical. No one dishing out tables, zero sound proofing, every man for themselves

Melbournes SRL went to an election 2 years after ST3 and will have TBMs for section 1 in the ground by the end of year. Meanwhile Seattle still has no finalised plans and are setting up more advisory groups. FML

“Watching a podcast” do you hear yourself? Everything doesn’t need to be video.
We used to be a society

I didn’t expect it to be more boring than tortured poets, and yet

I depose the modern internet

Why have this as an AI response google? Like what is the fucking pint of framing this as an AI question except to boost your AI traffic numbers?

As soon as he said it on the pod I though “oh here comes trouble”

Not every website/app/service needs stories, DMs and short form vertical video. I do not need stories on the Premier League app. I do not need Reels on LinkedIn. I do not need Spotify DMs.

9 years since it was voted in and only 12% through the design phase. Melbournes suburban rail loop was announced in 2018 and the TBMs for stage 1 are set to be in the ground at the end of the year. At this rate I’ll ride the SRL trains before this design phase is done.