Honestly, I back the hustle. Even catch me outside chick. If that gets you ahead, fair does. Men have been espousing far more damaging rhetoric and making a buck. Go for it. Disclaimer: I’ve not listened to her podcast so she could be a Nazi for all I know. But young people, cost of living - if it works and it’s not hurting you or the community, then go for it.

I would ask my mum what a word meant and she’d ask me the context I’d read/heard it in, and then ask me what I thought it meant. She taught me to break the word up into syllables to see if there were other words I did know the definition of that shared those syllables and whether I could work it out from there.

If I couldn’t then I had to look it up in the dictionary - we had a big, heavy Collins one from memory. Big blue hardback.

I remember being annoyed and just whining that she should just tell me the definition. But it was clearly better for me to learn that way.

Edit: I just re read and you said bad words. Mum would usually give me a clipped, child friendly definition and advice not to repeat it in polite company.

That’s the fun part of far side.

When you don’t immediately get it you have to wonder:

1. Is it a reference to something at the time that’s not within my lifetime/country’s zeitgeist?

2. Is it a play on an idiom or common cliche?

3. Is it literally nonsense and absurdity for the sake of it?

4. Am I just a big dummy?

I think it might be just 3, i.e. the absurdity of this happening at all, that he’s concerned about the coconuts without realising/or being concerned that his head is sprouting a palm tree, and that Margaret seems irritated that he’s woken her for what her expression suggests is either an incident of his own making, or one that’s trivial.

But his body looks weird so it could be 2, ‘no man is an island’ or something.

I’m in my late 30s and Australian so it could be 1.

It’s never 4.

So many people I know through the workplace have done the Myers Briggs nonsense and hold onto their persona like a badge of pride. They’re well meaning, intelligent people who don’t know the background of MB and how it’s as scientifically rigorous as those paper chatterboxes we made in school to help you find out which boy you were going to marry by picking a colour.

I don’t say anything when people bring it up. I also have a few star sign friends. Sigh.

The damaged tree likely could still have been a home for animals. This, not so much.

I don’t understand the need so many feel to make sure that human fingerprints are visible on everything. Like carving initials in trees, spray painting on boulders, stacking stones at the beach.

Can’t we look out at the natural world and see that it’s the absence of us, or absence of any signs we were there that makes it beautiful?

When he logs out the NPCs around him only then realise they might be NPCs and start freaking out, hoping that they too can log out. Because if they can’t then they’re not real…