Getting on the cans

An Australian expression for drinking beer. It usually refers to consuming packaged beer away from licensed premises, typically at home or a barbecue. Other types of alcohol are not usually consumed when one is “getting on the cans”.

Well mate, I knock off at 4pm and it’s a quick drive home, so I’ll be getting on the cans by 5pm at the very latest!

Tone Crime

Otherwise gender compliant utterances delivered with irony or insufficient gravitas

" He used my preferred pronoun but I know he didn’t mean it. It was just his tone, you know? I feel so invalidated. The new official "Campus Gender Inclusivity - Safe Space for All. Your truth is our truth" guidelines clearly prohibit him from committing a "Tone Crime" against me"

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