Me: I dunno, feeling a bit weird because it looks like that CEO Murderer's been Milkshake Ducked? 11yo Me, backing away from the time machine: No, I mean, are there flying cars? Did we fix the ozone hole? - ThreadSky

scriblit.bsky.social • 79 days ago

Me: I dunno, feeling a bit weird because it looks like that CEO Murderer's been Milkshake Ducked?
11yo Me, backing away from the time machine: No, I mean, are there flying cars? Did we fix the ozone hole?

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scriblit.bsky.social•79 days ago

Jokes! 11yo me wouldn't care about any of that. She's be quite excited that we're married with kids & work as a comedy writer, she'd be all 'wow! That means we're successful!' and I would sit her down and go 'ah ha ha ha ha, no.'

scriblit.bsky.social•79 days ago

11yo me doesn't really understand American politics so you can stop telling her about that!

twoht.bsky.social•79 days ago

11 year old me still had one or two problems tying his own shoe laces, so I doubt he'd be much help.

lizziecharlton.bsky.social•79 days ago

Show her some episodes of Ghosts and Horrible Histories and give her something to obsess over for the next X years before they're released for real.

gkelly1193.bsky.social•79 days ago

Hey at least the Ozone hole is fine 🤷🏻‍♂️

tinyweasel.bsky.social•79 days ago

Was he?

scriblit.bsky.social•79 days ago

I dunno, he did some RWish posts? My confusion over it is part of the joke so it's fine

tinyweasel.bsky.social•79 days ago

I'll add my confusion to the pile then

zeihanshair.bsky.social•79 days ago

Biff won. Again. Nothing else matters.

chris-cunningham.bsky.social•79 days ago

we did fix the ozone hole. on the other hand it turns out that the brushed aluminium cars suck, oh and also biff is going to be president again

kitbrash.bsky.social•78 days ago

Have you tried going outside in Australia without sunscreen?

alkennedy.bsky.social•78 days ago

I was reading recently that it's slightly smaller this year than last (in that it's about three times the size of the contiguous US) and they reckon it could be fully repaired by about 40 years from now, so I guess it falls into the category of "it's not fixed but isn't getting worse"

kitbrash.bsky.social•78 days ago

more pointedly, it's three times the size of the nearest populated continent

I have advised brit/Irish visitors that no, they do not want to "get a burn in for protection on the first day," who have then spent two days in bed with sunstroke...

kitbrash.bsky.social•78 days ago

..and warned obvious "got off the plane and are now lying on a hostel handtowel" random on the beach that they are approaching lobsterianism

chris-cunningham.bsky.social•78 days ago

I do wonder about the state of british tourists who can suffer the cost and grief of holidaying in oz who have somehow never done the same in, e.g. southern europe, where one will also die if one wanders about topless in 40+ degree heat for more than ten minutes

beardynoise.bsky.social•78 days ago

DO NOT DO THIS

chris-cunningham.bsky.social•78 days ago

if I went to australia I could list at least 40 or fifty types of spider alone that I would be afraid of above the ozone hole

also I feel "leave the house without sunscreen in australia" has been a death sentence for like the last 15,000 years

kitbrash.bsky.social•78 days ago

spiders are nice guys that hang out in the corner and eat bugs for you

maqusan.bsky.social•78 days ago

Three things foreigners are scared of in Australia that they shouldn’t be:

* Snakes
* Spiders
* Sharks

Three things foreigners aren’t scared of in Australia that they should be:

* Sun
* Surf
* Getting lost

beardynoise.bsky.social•78 days ago

I've lived here for two years. In the wild I have seen :

three venomous spiders, zero that could kill you (unless you're very frail)

zero snakes :(

zero sharks

wangleberry.bsky.social•78 days ago

the idea of the Australian outback, much like the Appalachians, rightly terrifies me

stuartcb.bsky.social•78 days ago

Because of woke :(

maqusan.bsky.social•78 days ago

25 years growing up in Sydney I never once saw a Sydney Funnel Web. Plenty of redbacks, a few snakes but that was only when I was dumb enough to go bushwalking in snake country. No sharks, plenty of bluebottles. Saw a blue-ringed octopus once—tried to make it angry like the dumb little shits we were

chris-cunningham.bsky.social•78 days ago

I once put my hand into a nest of adders on the Isle of Arran and shat myself if someone so much as used the letter S in a word for two weeks afterwards

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