drdrehistorian.bsky.social
Historians wanna talk like they got something to say | NZ and Australian history, politics, trains, music, sport, higher ed | he/him | Melburnian Kiwi in Perth
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As a Victorian but not an Australian, I really thought I'd need to find a new yoghurt brand moving west and was delighted to find Gippsland Dairy is readily available here
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Oh yeah I love milkshakes, although the thinner and milkier they are, the less I like it—there used to be a cafe on campus where I would go there only if I saw one particular barista was on because she was the only one there whose choc milkshake was more than just lightly chocolatey milk
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See, to me, cereal floating in plain milk might is no different to plain milk by itself. The thought of tipping up that bowl and drinking the leftover milk prompts the same instinctive repulsion as the thought of drinking straight from a bottle of milk
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Stuart Macintyre's intro chapter of Australia's Boldest Experiment, relatedly, does an excellent job of showcasing how the perspectives in Australian historiography contrast with how international literature presents the Australian contribution!
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Oh for sure; I use Peter Stanley's chapter on the purported-but-not-real "Battle for Australia" (from the book Zombie Myths of Australian Military History) in one week of my undergrad subject Australians at War
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These days I much more sensibly put yoghurt on cornflakes or other cereal as my usual breakfast
(Gippsland Dairy boysenberry yoghurt is fucking LEGIT)
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Oh there is no defending it, I don't think I've ever explained it to a single person without receiving some sort of look of revulsion in response. But I just can't stand milk by itself (despite my love of things containing milk!), so this was my workaround to make breakfast less dry
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Oh, my other disgusting late teens/young 20s meal was this (it emerged because I *hate* milk in cereal):
1) crush as many Weetbix as desired
2) carefully dribble boiling water so that the crushed Weetbix bind and NOT A DROP MORE, you don't want liquid
3) sprinkle sugar and pineapple chunks
4) enjoy!
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I'd get out as many Weetbix as I wanted, spread Marmite on them all, then honey, and enjoy. I have not eaten this in 20 years. Maybe I should buy some Weetbix next time I do the groceries to find out just how disgusting it is now that I'm not 17
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My disgusting teenage breakfast for at least some of year 11–12, which I considered a delicacy, was to spread honey AND Marmite on the same slice of Weetbix. I discovered this from spreading them on separate slices and realising the cross-contamination on the knife was delicious
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My best mate was basically the definition of the stereotypical teenage male who will eat you out of house and home. Mum learnt that if he was staying over, buy a couple of big bunches of bananas because he'd just sit there and chomp through them
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Less than two years later, Mum would give me and my best friend the cash to buy the two large pizzas special from the pizzeria around the corner from our place and then sigh when we'd wolf them down and complain we were still hungry
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I think I first managed the full 8 slices at a Pizza Hut night for, appropriately enough, my year 8 cohort. I was a bit of a latecomer to being a total guts compared to my friends
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Ahh I remember when bragging rights came from going to Pizza Hut and being able to fit in a whole adult pizza—or even more from the buffet
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Evergreen post tbh
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How about a 90s skate-punk band called Axis of Evel Knievel
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Yeah as soon as I see “wellness” I assume some flavour of crackpot or another
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Expect to walk in the door and see a poster of Josef Mengele doing some “biohacking” at the original “Axis health clinic”
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Almost enough for a couple of blocks of butter
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Main character of our hearts amirite @historyaotearoa.bsky.social
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🫡🫡🫡 Bob Semple 🫡🫡🫡
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And to return to the shitposting, the British thought they were the main character and then Hong Kong and Singapore fell, woops
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If I may resist my shitposting instincts: Japan wanted to knock Australia out of the war, not invade—no serious plan to do so was made. Might one have been if the war had progressed more in Japan's favour? Maybe. But it wasn't! Nonetheless people think the state capitals were under threat
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Both the Japanese and the Americans have a much better claim for main character than Australia, which has a fever dream that there was a "Battle for Australia" that literally never happened
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Sorry, shops open after 6pm?
/resident-of-wa
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I support brumby culls, both in the national parks and on the rugby field
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His WA birthday public holiday is less than two months off...!
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What a terrible day of rugby. Aucklanders and Australians (virtually the same thing) are happy while the good and pure Wellingtonians must wait another year for glory
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I stand by my view formed as a small child in the early nineties that nowhere is more loathsome than the upper half of the North Island
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4 for me, although I had rotary phones as toys as a kid, and I can’t be sure I never listened to music on a boombox outside (definitely inside)
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I reckon @rustie.bsky.social or @tiaremp.bsky.social might be able to help
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Also, we already have a Hampton of New Zealand: Hampton Downs near Te Kauwhata: maps.app.goo.gl/oXxBqxbkARxu...
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One of my best friends with the finest taste
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About to spend 80 minutes being as fervent a Waikato nationalist as you
(a Chiefs win means the Hurricanes make the semis even if we lose to the Brumbies)
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I definitely think a lot of the use of "impact" is exactly because people struggle with "affect" vs "effect" (I fear some undergrads are even more confused thanks to how some disciplines use "affect" after the affective turn)
"Impact upon" irks me most because it's two words when one will do!
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The demand for academic research to have "impact" grates on me for this very reason. None of my work will ever impact anyone, unless I drop one of my books on their head!
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"Impact" (as noun or verb) describes a forcible contact, blow, or collision. I think its adoption as a metaphor in place of "affect" (to change or influence) or "effect" (the result of a change) muddies the waters, so I resist it. You might make a decision that affects me, but it cannot impact me
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Trains and locomotives of Ferrymead Heritage Park.
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I'd suggest that paper is not going to be the one capable of getting the interesting story in the first place
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Oh wow, now that's definitely an acquisition worth getting excited about!
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Even level crossings hate rail replacement buses
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Yeah, as far as Australia and NZ are concerned, D-Day wouldn't even be close to sitting in the top ten for wartime events that are most suitable for a national holiday
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I’ve (reluctantly) got to hand it to Keating, who declined an AC on the basis that being PM was quite recognition enough and that such awards should honour those in the community who haven’t received sufficient recognition
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I don’t think being PM automatically qualifies someone for an AC though. Indeed I think politicians should face the highest bar for an AC and must demonstrably have made a contribution that sticks out among their peers (whether peers is “other PMs” or “other cabinet ministers”, etc)
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"Traditional Irish champ"?!
This is possibly the most insulting thing I could say about someone from the Emerald Isle
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The Poms are genuinely out of their minds. One reason I'm glad to stay in this country is that Australia seems less deranged on this than even NZ, never mind the sicknesses in the US and UK
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EXACTLY. I had some guy up in my mentions over Easter. I was all "I like sleeping in" and he kept bellowing about how bad religion was no matter how much I replied that I also like sleeping in on Eid and Diwali