"Are gay people people? y/n": The Australian Marriage Equality Voluntary Postal Survey Thread

what are your most missed local foodstuffs, vg?

never in my wildest dreams did I think my home state (Queensland) would nearly match Victoria/Tasmania - and this from the only state where more people live outside the capital than in it!

I grew up in what's now in the electorate of Brisbane itself and so stoked that it nearly had as high a yes vote as Sydney and Melbourne!

i know, i’m surprised at how well the gold coast has supported it, it’s very heartening.

"Number of dickheads in Australia slumps below 5 million" http://www.chaser.com.au/national/abs/

my electorate was fifth highest Yes vote in the country, whoo

we’re at the melbourne street party and we’ve seen one person we know

I remain a bit baffled how the outer suburban Adelaide electorate that I grew up in got more of a Yes vote than the inner suburban Sydney electorate that I live in now.

forever lol at the 75% Yes vote in Warringah, suck on that onion boy

melbourne ports, third biggest yes in the country 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

emojis on ilx, i know, i don’t care today

🌈❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

b-b-b-b-but no campaign's fee fees

many xxposts to estela

missed foodstuffs:
burger rings
chicken twisties
plain old pork sausages
chips & gravy
sausage rolls
souvlaki/greek food*
indian*

* i can get them here but they’re not as good nor as ubiquitous

i also really miss salad rolls - sandwiches here have ridic amounts of meat & beetroot is not a common filling ;_;

also this is kinda embarrassing but god i miss cabana
... and strasbourg + tomato sauce sandwiches

LAMB

i miss lamb. it’s SO expensive here

sorry for sidetrack

back to ballot talk

beyond deflating hearing the barrage of calls to sbs mandarin radio claiming same-sex attraction is “sick” and “abnormal”

i’m in no way a “fuck off we’re full” type, but seriously why the fuck did you move here

xp to vg: i am impressed that your list is not a compendium of sugar forms like my australian list would be, like my nz list is

i was trying to cloak my sugar cravings by listing savory items

sugar:
jelly babies
snakes alive
fruit tingles
freckles
etc etc

i also really miss those small-town homemade baked goodies sold at sunday markets, like yo-yos made by a little old lady etc

for that reason i am making my family jelly slice for Thansgiving dessert this year (may or may not be served glad-wrapped on a styrofoam tray lol)

rank a packet of Assorted Creams veg

kingston
monte carlo
orange
shortbread
chocolate

in order of best to decent

all gr8 obv

<3 i’ve been having a fling with arnott’s venetian biscuits but monte carlos are my true love

also jelly slice glad-wrapped in a polystyrene tray is a huge winner

VG what is this “chocolate”, hast thou forsaken the DELTA CREAM?

I FORGOT WOT THEY WERE CALLED

monte carlos with that weird stretchy cream mmmm so good

Like raspberry tile adhesive

what’s the one like that one but with the chocolate filling

kensingtons?

oh you mentioned, kingstons

klassik

yknow what i miss too

chocolate mfing royals

indonesia had cheese flavoured tim tams a few years ago

cheese flavoured

cheese

the proof that i am not making that up is that you could not make that up

barf

Ween have a lot to answer for imo

bahahahahahahaha yes

my friend brought me a ton of flavored ones

pina colada tasted like a scented candle, it was horrifying

i really liked the white choc ones tho, which surprised me

i am dead against the salted caramel infiltration of tim tams, it’s the noxious weed of dessert ingredients

i love regular caramel though

salted caramel ice cream is very good. hope that it doesn't become the new pumpkin spice, however

it’s not by accident that “salted caramel” is an anagram of “serrated tussock” xp

lol

the problem i find with most salted caramel things (especially the supermarket-brand bandwagonners) is that they're not nearly salty enough

also many xps: hi autumn almanac, we're neighbours! (although partner & i are considering moving back northside or even over to trendy yarrville sometime next year)

we are the 82.0%ers

which suburb?

(we’re deep in st k)

I've started reading this, its very good:

https://www.quarterlyessay.com.au/essay/2017/09/moral-panic-101