ah yes, that bloody merkan mangling yet again

I had seen a couple whales in the area

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/01/windsurfer-hits-gray-whale-san-francisco

#FuckMerkanMangling #WriteGooder #talkgooder #grammar

Unsuspecting windsurfer collides with gray whale in the San Francisco Bay

Footage shows a man windsurfing being forcefully thrown from his board as a whale breaches off the California coast

The Guardian

strayans who say

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#talkgooder #fuckmerkanmangling #grammar #idiom

others have already posted & discussed this several hours ago https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-12/precautionary-dam-inspections-after-boorowa-earthquake/106444684, but my take here is on a different track altogether.

'Freight train' earthquakesounding like a "bomb" or "freight train".It was like a freight train coming through the housein strayan state govt railways, certainly nsw's nswgr / ptc / sra, & i believe most if not all other states, we had mainline & branchline passenger services, & goods services, ie, the latter's trains were... goods trains. that was so for over a hundred years, & was still true until at least 1989. over that whole period, it was merely merkans who had freight trains, not us.

sometime over the intervening decades, no doubt as part of the toxic global spread of merkan cultural imperialism since the 90s, & pathetically lazy media, strayans went merkan with our raily lingo just as we also gave up the fight in so many other cultural areas.

these days, i expect, if any old timers were to talk of goods trains, most strayan peeps would not know what was meant.

farque me dead, jfc
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#railways #goodstrains #lingo #dialect #culture #fuckmerkanmangling #fuckmerkanculturalimperialism

'Freight train' earthquake triggers precautionary checks at major dams

Two major regional NSW water storages will be inspected today following a magnitude-4.4 earthquake north of Canberra overnight.

late last night finally got around to ordering a new USB stick [256 GB]. just now received thank you email from vendor, which assaulted my sensibilities with the repugnant merkanism

Hey Droppieinstead of the properG'day Droppieor even, at a pinchHi Droppieipso facto this vendor is now #D2M, & will receive no further orders for me, in this & most future existence-times

#WriteGooder #fuckmerkanmangling #fuckmerkanculturalimperialism