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6 years ago @ Mark Reads - Mark Reads 'Thud!': Pa... · 7 replies · +20 points
6 years ago @ Mark Reads - Mark Reads 'A Hat Full... · 0 replies · +24 points
7 years ago @ Mark Reads - Mark Reads 'The Amazin... · 0 replies · +4 points
7 years ago @ Mark Reads - Mark Reads 'The Scienc... · 1 reply · +16 points
It's like... trying vegetables again as an adult that you hated as a kid, you know? Your palate has changed, your understanding of why we eat them has changed, your knowledge of how to cook them better than your parents ever did has grown, and now dang but they're tasty. I like math now! I'm acing my math classes! That was unthinkable when I was a teenager!
I'm just not looking forward to my own 8am classes. :(
8 years ago @ Mark Reads - Mark Reads 'The Last C... · 0 replies · +8 points

The specific town I grew up in, Gympie (named after a native stinging plant, because why not) had another big pineapple of its own, located outside of a servo along the main road. Trying to steal Woombye's thunder, perhaps? The floods at the end of this book are pretty reminiscent of all the times the Mary River burst its banks while I was living there.
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8 years ago @ Mark Reads - Mark Reads 'Soul Music... · 0 replies · +29 points
I can see the connotations of questioning masculinity (and sexuality/gender) now that I'm older, but back then it seemed like a fairly mild insult that no adult I knew would bat an eye at.