Look, even ignoring my personal feelings about this. This is not keeping herself safe, it’s security theatre at the expense of actual security.
Waitresses often have their hands full. Someone can grab that off her way faster than she can react.
This would be massively unfair if it was just the rent going up way more than inflation. But it’s also that most wages are not keeping up with inflation too.
The second a homeless person steps into this place bc they also would benefit from a free public space at night, you know this person is calling the cops. Or at least looking to the nearest library staff to complain to.
Instead of nightclubs I want a 24hr library with hot chocolate stations, a dessert bar, coffee machine, big comfy chairs and beanbags, blankets, dogs welcome, just people who want to spend the evening reading alone, together, peaceful, a cosy fire, plants, an indoor waterfall.
sorry i love luca but we already have a nearly perfect adaptation of an almost unadaptable novel, which works in large part because women who worte and directed it understood how funny it was. why is this happening?
How is Lucy still going on about this? Like, this is embarrassing. Before I just thought she had a skewed typically Aussie view but defending it this much for so long? You have a problem.