dimsie.bsky.social
I have too many dogs for a sensible person
One of the Aotearoa NZ Twitter exodus
Mother: Invercargill, father: Simmesport La. Ngāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe, Cajun, Pākehā, feminist, parent
MA in history, PhD in dork
Terfs and right-wingers can get in the bin
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Son One: "our family is good at social studies because of Mama. You never stop yapping about politics"
I said it's more likely to have something to do with his father, the media studies and social studies teacher...? 😄
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Do not EVEN
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I am also pretty curious about the shoe colour. I am betting on a chestnut brown
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I always get bemused by people talking about their smart cats. I have had many cats and all them have been as stupid as a box of rocks. They are very pretty and elegant though
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I have a WKRP Thanksgiving Turkey giveaway teeshirt my cousin sent me!
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Why are you depriving that baby of her RIGHTS
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Yus! We still watch it pretty regularly
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From the Herb Tarlick school of textile contrasts
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terfs, terfs are stupid
and transphobes are stupid
and love means nothing
to JK Rowling
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(way fewer people made this joke in response than I was expecting but I suppose I am about 15 years older than the median age on this website)
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I know it's so good! Pure 20th century lunacy
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My fave minor fact about Orson Welles is that he used to have two steaks, an entire pineapple, and a bottle of scotch for lunch
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hooooooly shit
Did he speak? Did you ever hear THAT VOICE?
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OMG it's on YouTube youtu.be/Zr7Qre6L0ME
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You know what lives in my head rent free? The Shortland Street theme 90s dance remix which contains spoken word lines from the show like Nick saying "entropy... the descent into chaos"
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(this was in Houston TX, by the way. So I was the only NZer in the audience who knew any of his songs at all I think. It was quite a small club)
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(we kept them in their "Chris poses" for months if not years)
(also he drew me a cartoon I can't find which said "TO DANIELLE AND HER FUTON!" with a little cheerful guy on it)
(also he got me on stage to sing along with "The Joy of Sex" and Ira from Yo La Tengo said "nice singing" to me afterwards)
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Oh! I slept in his bed (he wasn't in it at the time)
My mum's cousin married his daughter and we spent a weekend at their holiday house near Piha
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See this is the problem with NZ celebrity encounters stories because you KNOW someone will be their BFF or cousin or something
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NZ encounter: I once drunkenly approached the guy who played Lionel on 90s Shorty on Ponsonby Road and asked if his character was going to marry Kirsty. He said he didn't know (the characters broke up)
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IIRC he and @kylermatthews.bsky.social were among the tallest in our year
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Fun fact: Oliver Driver was at school with me and he was even very tall at primary
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I really did fuck her over, three dogs constantly wanting to be her big stinky friend (or in the case of Tiny Dog, her slightly smaller stinky friend)
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She didn't do anything, she's just wandering around the house as usual
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UGH JO WHY DO YOU KNOW ME SO WELL
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Banana spearmint?!?!?
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I mean we are talking drive thru options though. Like if I am rolling up on foot to a place with more flavours I'm going for something like creaming soda or caramel
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Strawberry thickshake in the afternoon; if I am by some horrifying chain of events out of the house in the early morning it's a latte with three shots of coffee and caramel syrup