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  1. Callistemon

    The Friend in the Basement

    We discuss dating a fair bit on here. Today I'm going to share an honest account of what looking for a partner was like for a good female friend and myself when we were in our 30s. I can't tell you who in the story is NT and who is ND, and I don't really think it's that crucial - our common...
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    Spoof: "How to be a real man!"

    In case anyone hasn't seen this delicious spoof about male stereotypes, I wanted to post it here. Any reactions to that, from the males present especially? Anything that tickles you? Anything you want to relate about this general topic?
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    Requiem for a Friend

    I just wanted to share a (multi-post) story about a person who was a fantastic friend to me and many other people. This is some journalling I did when she died at age 88 last year. Even people who didn't know Alice will be able to get an idea of the sort of person she was and why she was such a...
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    Julian & Friends

    Where to begin. In 2010, we were both working in professional positions and were in the process of making offers on houses in a small coastal town nearby when we had a curveball thrown at us. There was a 62 hectare rural lot in the hinterland in our price range: 50 hectares of beautifully...
  5. Callistemon

    Dunning-Kruger Effect / Cognitive Biases

    This is for anyone who's not heard of this interesting phenomenon, and related cognitive biases. Here's an introductory clip: It's interesting that politics often favours the most confident over the most competent, who will not typically go making big pronouncements, or posture about how good...
  6. Callistemon

    Excellent idea for Employers!

    Something that really made us smile, from Hacker News this morning: "Decades ago, in the days before uber, my employer would fly in candidates from college campuses as part of an onsite interview. The candidate would fly in the night before and we relied on a taxi service to bring the candidate...
  7. Callistemon

    Cooking with an iron

    Years ago, when pocket books on positivity and light were all the rage and around every bookshop counter, Kaz Cooke published a delightful little thing called something like The Pocket Book Of Negatives (out of print now and I can't find it anywhere). It was a negative thought for every...
  8. Callistemon

    Your worst faux pas

    It's usually funny to talk about it afterwards! Here's a memorable faux pas from my life. In 2002 I was living in a rural town in Victoria for a while. I was single and didn't like being in huge houses designed for families, but also didn't like those apartment complexes that remind me of horse...
  9. Callistemon

    Thoughts on Daylight Savings

    Not sure where best to post this, but yesterday I read a fun persuasive piece in The Guardian from an Aspie who doesn't like daylight saving - and why he doesn't! Tonight in Britain the clocks will go forward – all except mine | Stefano Pavone
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  10. Callistemon

    Two potatoes, cubed

    I laugh every time I see that in a recipe book. :smile: And think, "How many potatoes?" :tonguewink: Continued ongoing teaching of basic mathematical stuff to kids as part of the science curriculum did that to me. Kids think this is funny too when they first learn about to-the-power-of. Just...
  11. Callistemon

    Modern Fairytales

    (Story removed - feel free to use as general book/story discussion thread.)
  12. Callistemon

    Whale vertebra?

    Dear all-you-sciency-marine-type-people :cool: Here's something we found on a remote local beach. It's as tall as a person. It's definitely bone, and old. Here's a close-up of the bottom bit... I'm guessing this is the vertebra of a large whale - possibly a blue whale. So is that the size...
  13. Callistemon

    Design a terrible piece of merchandise

    We tried running something like this on an alternative music forum I used to be part of, and got ZERO people joining in because, it seemed, nobody had Photoshop skills or wanted to draw/post pictures etc. I think that skill set is well represented here, so I'll see how it goes on this forum...
  14. Callistemon

    Name jokes

    My apologies if this has a category it's actually supposed to go into - I'm new here... We just established, in another off-topic discussion, that a man floating in the ocean is called Bob. Given that logic, what do you call... 1) A girl with one leg shorter than the other 2) A man with a...
  15. Callistemon

    Hiya, Callistemon from Australia

    Hi all. I'm here to learn a few things. While I don't fit cleanly into Aspie I am definitely not neurotypical and definitely share some characteristics with Aspies - like sensory hypersensitivities, ability to dive deeply into areas of interest (of which I have too many to apparently be an...
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