The Block DJ is 
and always has been.
I…have the pleasure of being near a lot of mental health patients.
There’s dementia…and that’s just…kinda sad.
There’s really nothing quite as sad as listening to an octegenarian calling out for their father.
And then there’s delusions of grandeur, but there are levels.
The ones that think they’re Jesus…are annoying but on some level unconfronting. Because, y’know…they’re just that far gone and it’s obviously not their fault.
And here we get to the hot take.
The lower levels of delusions of grandeur…are completely indistinguishable from regular right-wing fwits.
The toxic masculinity, the China owns the government paranoia, the anti-vax, the left are all pedos…the…left bringing us to the end-times…
Major, major themes of the obsessions of the chronically mentally ill.
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Dare say there’s a few ‘…but Dan Andrews…’ comments thrown in there
Oh, I absolutely hear that.
Hopefully musk and trump build them a space ship and take them to mars. Or a cult inside the pyramid tunnels of Antarctica.
my hot take
brains of a certain age are in no way equipped to handle an sudden and exponential increase of external information
(the “hot” is that i’m not referring to children)
I’m going to be even hotter.
This is literally the language of the mentally ill.
And full disclosure, there was a young guy that got to me last night.
And the only caveat I’ll give him is that I know he’s been raised on a diet of Shapiro/Peterson/Trump/Tate/Musk…
But even so…
Stand by my last hot take, but moving on…
Adolescence: spoiler.
Summary
Dad kissing the teddy bear deserves to stand up with the finest moments in cinema.
My hot take. Possibly not a hot take. But ticket inspectors on Melbourne Public Transport are deliberately both racist and sexist.
The number of times they walk past me (I’d like to say middle aged but that’s perhaps pushing it, male) to ask for tickets from the smallest, most clearly not local, female. Literally every time. They don’t even go through the theatre of asking to see my ticket. If there isn’t an international person to target they will still ignore me and target the youngest female in the tram.
And in every case they will surround them in a group of 10, speak to them aggressively and even if they end up having a ticket, just be general ####s.
Watching the behaviour you can see how all the sht that has gone down in the world over the years can happen when you give people a uniform and a badge.
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They target overseas students who will offer little resistance and have no understanding of what they’ve done.
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That’s not a hot take at all. Ticket inspectors on public transport can GAGF.
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coldest take in the entire thread
actually its not even a take, its a statement of fact
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Chicken ribs > chicken wings
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As in specifically Nandos chicken ribs?
If so, agreed.
The nandos one’s are good but no just in general from the butcher. Much prefer ribs over wings/lil drums.
Sorry @frosty going to have to pull you up on this one as this has not been my experience at all and I catch PT seven days a week. They have always asked to check my ticket and move on from there in order of passenger. Although I will grant that it is inevitably the overseas student who doesnt have their ticket validated but clearly dont understand what theyve done wrong.
Not a hot take. But it should be a secret, so prices don’t go up.
Easier to eat. Easier to cook. Skin on or off if you want.
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Interesting, because they walked straight past me this morning. They did exactly the same the last 3 times. And yes I catch PT most days
Clearly you fit their “profile”.
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You must look like a cop
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Well my experience is just like @frosty, and I always have a crack at them when they clearly target foreign looking students and young women.
And the tramline that is clogged with inspectors is from Flinders street up to the Uni.
When I travel on tram from Port Melb to City, I am about the only one who uses Myki, and have never seen any Inspectors.
Reckon all public transport should be free.
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