ah yes, that bloody merkan mangling yet again

I had seen a couple whales in the area

🙄🤦‍♀️

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

peeps who use "shutter" as a verb...

have you always been monsters?

🤷‍♀️🙄🤦‍♀️

#grammar #whatdowordsmean #WriteGooder #talkgooder

strayans who say

de-fence, de-fensiveno-ffence, o-ffensive🙄🤦‍♀️

#talkgooder #fuckmerkanmangling #grammar #idiom

omz

https://shows.acast.com/democracy-sausage/episodes/war

Donald Rothwell has said "artic" 3x so far, ergo three more fairies have died
😱🙄🤦‍♀️

#auspol #talkgooder
The scales of war | Democracy Sausage with Mark Kenny

abc.net.au/news/2026-02-23/ice…

pilot has been flying there for 21 years, yet still calls it

antartica


jfc 🙄🤦‍♀️

#TalkGooder #Antarctica

What it's like to land a plane on an ice runway in Antarctica

The ice runway at Wilkins Aerodrome is a critical asset in the Australian Antarctic Program, but getting it ready for flights is nothing short of extreme.

it ain't

flow - tillatisflot - illanot difficult!

#talkgooder #thesundayshot

Listening to various podcasts. Some Merkan, some Strayan, some Pommy... & lots of

off ofhas been happening.

I am tearing my ears off & slicing them up into pieces.

#TalkGooder

When i hear peeps say "eye-raan" instead of the soft initial vowel, i just feel like eating my own duodenum. 🙄🤦‍♀️

Tony Barry -- manifesting common RWNJ mispronunciations. Sheesh!!!
🤬

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/audio/2025/aug/28/back-to-back-barries-can-the-coalition-find-a-circuit-breaker

#AusPol #TalkGooder
Back to Back Barries: can the Coalition find a circuit breaker?

Barrie Cassidy and Tony Barry discuss the expulsion of Australia’s Iranian ambassador and Anthony Albanese’s plan to help first home buyers. They also examine what the Coalition could do to get out of its post-election slump

The Guardian
https://aeon.co/essays/the-word-cancer-leads-to-overtreatment-and-fear-should-we-drop-it

When i inevitably get my
#cancer/s, i will unambiguously call it cancer, not some pathetic euphemism. As i already know that i will not bother fighting it, i will characterise my remaining time as a period in which i am dying, not some other stupid euphemism like "passing", ffs.

I simply do not understand humans being afraid of words.
🤯🙄🤦‍♀️

#TalkGooder
The word ‘cancer’ leads to overtreatment and fear. Should we drop it? | Aeon Essays

Saying the word ‘cancer’ changes a person’s life and can lead to overtreatment and fear. Is the word too hot to use at all?

Aeon

https://www.smh.com.au/culture/books/young-men-have-stopped-reading-books-and-these-are-the-reasons-why-20250717-p5mfsx.html

Young men have stopped reading books – and these are the reasons whyNo, Brandon, no no no. 🤬reasonsis sufficient, & correctreasons whyis tautologous, incorrect... & gauche 🙄🤦‍♀️

#grammar #WriteGooder #TalkGooder #ReasonAndWhyDoNotGoTogether

Young men have stopped reading books – and these are the reasons why

New data shows just 10 per cent of young men read books these days. And an industry that likes to play it safe isn’t helping matters.

The Sydney Morning Herald