Gen Z is fucked because they don’t consider actions to be inherently evil but only evil within the context of people they deem “deserving” of punishment, so now everyone’s a psychopathic little busybody with a hero complex thinking they can play judge, jury and executioner.
Remember those two ladies at Disneyworld who somebody said “looked racist”? They weren’t wearing Confederate flags or Neonazi symbols on their clothes, they were just a couple of fat older women dressed in t-shirts and board shorts. So someone on Instagram deemed it perfectly acceptable to mock them for being fat and unattractive, because they were assumed to have been “deserving” of it.
The same mentality is used to mock poor people in the South. Again, because everyone in the South must be a racist redneck. So suddenly it’s fine to sneer at them having poor living conditions, their political needs not being listened to by the Democratic party, for natural disasters to ravage their homes etc. Because they’re obviously all racist, so it’s okay that they’re poor and suffering. They “deserve” it.
Do you understand why this whole “It’s okay if I do this to the right people” mentality is totally fucked up? You’re acting bigoted to people and justifying it by associating them with a negative trait. Which is exactly what racists do. What homophobes do. Literally the actions of the people you think deserve every kind of misery, you are doing that yourselves.
Do your supermarkets assume all shopping is done for a family of six? Why is everything so huge??
There are basically no chip flavours. There are a couple (sea salt, cool ranch, a couple more) and then just ten different kinds of chilli/spicy/hot flavour, most claiming to be spicier than the others. Spicy chips are a weird fringe novelty in Australia but here they seem like the main thing.
There may be no chip flavours but there is a hell of a lot of jerky. And chewing gum. Those two things have whole sections, not just a thin sliver of shelf like in Australia. So many chewing gum brands.
There are donuts and ice cream and cakes EVERYWHERE. Supermarket, more like cake/ice cream shop.
The money?? All looks the same??? And it feels like paper???? I mean I know you guys call it ‘paper money’ but I kind of assumed that was an exaggeration? It’s hard to believe it’s actually linen.
The bulk savings are for things WAY in bulk. These aren’t your Aussie “two little packets of chips for one” deals. There are THREE LITRE SOFT DRINKS here, and the bulk deal is for 3 of them. Who needs 9L of soft drink at once? Is this sort of thing for parties?
Alcohol is cheap; by which I mean alcohol is normally priced for places that aren’t Australia. Our alcohol is absurdly taxed.
Everything is packaged so weirdly. I saw transparent bags of neatly stacked corn cobs. I saw tins of “mixed beans”, HUGE tins of mixed beans.
Snapple and Squirt are real drinks.
There is a brand of hair product called “Aussie” with a kangaroo logo. I have never seen it in Australia.
The plastic shopping bags are great. They’re not the flimsy things you get in Australia; they’re real, actual bags. I highly recommend these bags.
Now I feel like australians are just trying to fck with our minds
There usually is a sperate part of the store devoted to cakes and donuts and other pasterys
I love reading people from other countries than mine interpret America because I just keep reading through this list going yep, yep, oh yea, yep, definitely, yep. Idk why it’s so fun.
Tribute to 8 years ago when I became baffled and disoriented in an American supermarket
Aussie Hair is the brand and I found it in lots of places in Europe, Australian shops are full of hair stuff that is or pretends to be French and Fancy so I guess this is the other end of the equation
Literally nothing about Australia is fancy though. Maybe they’re going for the whole “healthy beach girl hair” vibe? We have nice beaches.
The only thing I don’t get is OP’s confusion with paper money???
I do not live in the USA but our “paper” money definitely feels like paper. Like, what else is it supposed to be…?
In Australia, where OP and I both live, we have plastic money and have had for a long time. I believe other countries are starting to get plastic money now. It’s great, because you can put that $50 note through the wash and still use it on the other side.
It also has a lot less hepatitis B on it than American paper money does!
Fun fact this is in fact the exact reason it has less hepatitis B on it
It sucks for taking cocaine (too stiff with bad texture), and if users do manage it, cocaine (and bloodborn viruses) tends not to adhere to the plastic surface.
Im having a hard time comprehending how your money is plastic. Its probably something simple but my brain goes to hard plastic solid rectangles that sound super inconvenient.
Here’s someone handling and explaining one of our current notes, if that helps:
Jane Austen was the goat. 200+ years later and not only still in print and in demand, but still read for pleasure and comfort by every living generation of readers, still funny af and smart as hell, still full of wisdom about personal character, still making everyone love to hate Mr. Collins. Her legacy as one of the greatest to ever do it in the English language remains unbothered by pejorative genre labels. Moisturized. Happy. In its lane. Focused. Flourishing.
I met Carrie Fisher exactly once at a convention, and when I met her she immediately bought a poster from our booth with the words “Hey Assbutt” on them with the intention of sending it to Harrison Ford for his birthday.
I’d like to think of that as the epitome of how I’d like to have met her and honestly wouldn’t want it any other way.
