Unrelated to PAX unless people want it to be, but does anyone have recommendations for karaoke places in Melbourne?
Marche Board Game Cafe is pretty good, they’ve got Karaoke booths and also nice bubble tea and good food.
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AwkoAbout to poison the waterhole.Registered Userregular
edited August 2019
Pretty much every time I've been dragged out to karaoke it's been at Kbox. They have a fairly hefty room hire rate, but most of the price is credit to be spent on food and drinks.
I've also walked past FM when I've been finishing work and that place seems to have a fairly festive open karaoke section as well as private rooms.
lmao I've been delving into gender marker changes on official documents in Australia and WA and god damn it's all wildly inconsistent.
Federal government actually has really progressive guidelines on it, including a bigass document with very good information and definitions.
- You can get your gender market on your passport changed to M/F as well as X (indeterminate, undisclosed, intersex) and it only requires a letter from a psychologist or medical practitioner. Excellent!
- Centrelink also only needs the letter, but if you want an X they won't actually change your gender to that, just 'make a note on your record'. Okay that's a bit weird.
- Medicare is part of the same department as Centrelink, so it's the same there. Actually a bit shit because it's healtcare related
As for WA itself...
- Driver's license is the same as federal passport stuff! They don't actually have gender on your card here, but they record it on your record and will update it.
- Birth certificate is where stuff gets kinda shit. There's no X marker, and you have to put in an application to a board who will then have a meeting with you and approve or reject it. You need to have proof of a 'gender reassignment procedure', which thankfully can mean just hormone therapy... They just don't really give a clear definition of what or for how long etc. So yeah super duper shit, but it turns out this is better than most other states who require actual surgery to have occurred to change it.
There were some attempts in the WA parliament to stop recording gender on birth certificates and to make the process easier (and adding X markers) but it got torpedoed.... motherfuckers
Pretty much every time I've been dragged out to karaoke it's been at Kbox. They have a fairly hefty room hire rate, but most of the price is credit to be spent on food and drinks.
I've also walked past FM when I've been finishing work and that place seems to have a fairly festive open karaoke section as well as private rooms.
Thanks, I'll look into these.
KBox is the one that kept coming up but they're missing three or four of my go to songs.
and the last time i looked outside, it was not raining.
but that was 5 minutes ago and it might change soon into a squall with hail. Who knows. It's like a magic 8 ball out there today
Yeah we were getting some decent hail in Penrose today. I was outside for lost of it today I actually prefer being right down south in Winter. You know it's going to be freezing all day long. Here I'm forever putting layers on and then taking then off again!!
lmao I've been delving into gender marker changes on official documents in Australia and WA and god damn it's all wildly inconsistent.
Federal government actually has really progressive guidelines on it, including a bigass document with very good information and definitions.
- You can get your gender market on your passport changed to M/F as well as X (indeterminate, undisclosed, intersex) and it only requires a letter from a psychologist or medical practitioner. Excellent!
- Centrelink also only needs the letter, but if you want an X they won't actually change your gender to that, just 'make a note on your record'. Okay that's a bit weird.
- Medicare is part of the same department as Centrelink, so it's the same there. Actually a bit shit because it's healtcare related
The Federal agencies should have X as a standard option, unless it's medically necessary.
I thought there was legislation passed requiring sex be switched to X on request...
lmao I've been delving into gender marker changes on official documents in Australia and WA and god damn it's all wildly inconsistent.
Federal government actually has really progressive guidelines on it, including a bigass document with very good information and definitions.
- You can get your gender market on your passport changed to M/F as well as X (indeterminate, undisclosed, intersex) and it only requires a letter from a psychologist or medical practitioner. Excellent!
- Centrelink also only needs the letter, but if you want an X they won't actually change your gender to that, just 'make a note on your record'. Okay that's a bit weird.
- Medicare is part of the same department as Centrelink, so it's the same there. Actually a bit shit because it's healtcare related
The Federal agencies should have X as a standard option, unless it's medically necessary.
I thought there was legislation passed requiring sex be switched to X on request...
Yes, for some federal agencies you can get it switched to X on request (with a supporting document). The Department of Human Resources is a weird exception for some reason
state stuff just seems completely inconsistent
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I feel I need a bit of a break on dinosaur tattoos.
Not Sandra though.
You should get a huge "1970s panelvan airbrushed valkyrie riding a unicorn"-style graphic backpiece.
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Lost Salientblink twiceif you'd like me to mercy kill youRegistered Userregular
edited August 2019
Wait me, or Blake
Because I sent a message just now to my friend proposing that I ditch the massive side piece I'm getting in January in favour of the entire album cover for Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell as a backpiece, and those two concepts aren't THAT different
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Marche Board Game Cafe is pretty good, they’ve got Karaoke booths and also nice bubble tea and good food.
I've also walked past FM when I've been finishing work and that place seems to have a fairly festive open karaoke section as well as private rooms.
Federal government actually has really progressive guidelines on it, including a bigass document with very good information and definitions.
- You can get your gender market on your passport changed to M/F as well as X (indeterminate, undisclosed, intersex) and it only requires a letter from a psychologist or medical practitioner. Excellent!
- Centrelink also only needs the letter, but if you want an X they won't actually change your gender to that, just 'make a note on your record'. Okay that's a bit weird.
- Medicare is part of the same department as Centrelink, so it's the same there. Actually a bit shit because it's healtcare related
As for WA itself...
- Driver's license is the same as federal passport stuff! They don't actually have gender on your card here, but they record it on your record and will update it.
- Birth certificate is where stuff gets kinda shit. There's no X marker, and you have to put in an application to a board who will then have a meeting with you and approve or reject it. You need to have proof of a 'gender reassignment procedure', which thankfully can mean just hormone therapy... They just don't really give a clear definition of what or for how long etc. So yeah super duper shit, but it turns out this is better than most other states who require actual surgery to have occurred to change it.
There were some attempts in the WA parliament to stop recording gender on birth certificates and to make the process easier (and adding X markers) but it got torpedoed.... motherfuckers
it's just not my thing, sorry!
Mostly
I would like to play games and drink great coffee and moderately-more-affordable alcohol with y'all
Also for the love of god don't let me email this Melbourne tattoo artist tyia
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Thanks, I'll look into these.
KBox is the one that kept coming up but they're missing three or four of my go to songs.
ooh which one
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and then I go and get myself this fauxhawk hair cut and it's BLOODY COLD and I do not like it, no sirree.
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like every 10 minutes or so. And windy.
I've got a merino silk shawl wrapped around my head like a headscarf right now and I'm not even bothered. It's cold.
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Last Friday it was sunny and 24 though. Ohh curse this winter.
and the last time i looked outside, it was not raining.
but that was 5 minutes ago and it might change soon into a squall with hail. Who knows. It's like a magic 8 ball out there today
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Yeah we were getting some decent hail in Penrose today. I was outside for lost of it today
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The Federal agencies should have X as a standard option, unless it's medically necessary.
I thought there was legislation passed requiring sex be switched to X on request...
Yes, for some federal agencies you can get it switched to X on request (with a supporting document). The Department of Human Resources is a weird exception for some reason
state stuff just seems completely inconsistent
Two new tattoos in a year and a massive one coming up in January seems like a lot already though...
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But I can't get one so you should!
Or something.
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I feel I need a bit of a break on dinosaur tattoos.
Not Sandra though.
Satans..... hints.....
You should get a huge "1970s panelvan airbrushed valkyrie riding a unicorn"-style graphic backpiece.
Because I sent a message just now to my friend proposing that I ditch the massive side piece I'm getting in January in favour of the entire album cover for Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell as a backpiece, and those two concepts aren't THAT different
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN