Look, things have changed. COVID-19 made sure of that. The way we are living now is vastly different to the way things were a couple of months ago, but one thing is for sure. We’re all in this together, and there’s a number of things that are emerging as common ground…
- Shoes are now optional
- Active wear is acceptable for lower half work wear
- Beards
- Zoom etiquette is King
- It’s time to grow your own food
- Binge watching everything online is fine
- Sliding down stairs on mattresses is exercise
- Chalk exercise courses for kids is a thing
- Quarantine dress up fashion is worth paying attention to
- Bin night is a national pastime
- Paying tribute to your pets in video and photos has taken on new significance
- Photos of home cooking are the new smashed avo insta post
- Having a huge number of charging devices in your home is key
- Ordering online has become an extreme sport
- Knowing your supermarket and Dan Murphy’s limits is basic education now
- If your favourite cafe isn’t a green grocer now, what even are they?
- 10,000 steps a day seems like a fucking lot
- We all ride bikes now
- If you own a business, you’re now working 10 times harder for 1/10th of the money
- Houseparty or die
- Saturday nights are for live streaming DJs and virtual dinner parties
- What day is it?
- Caterpillar kits are the new family bonding activity (and you’ll love it more than your kids)
- If your kids were ever gonna be YouTube/Roblox/Minecraft/Tik Tok stars, now is the time.
- We all love ‘Nat’s What I Recon’ cooking classes.
- Buying direct from our favourite restaurants and producers is now a thing, and it’s amazing
- You have a new level of disdain for those who break social distancing rules. STOP IT KAREN. Stay home.
- Now might be a great time to learn how to make pasta. Or beer. Or anything.
- We’re all pissed at the irony of having the cheapest petrol ever and nowhere to go
- Every hour seems to be happy hour
- Yes, I’ll be home to accept that delivery. Always.
- You thought we could wear pyjamas all day every day & forget about make up, until Microsoft teams, Zoom & Houseparty ruined everything
- Speaking of which, every person you’ve ever known wants to catch up on video chat now and it’s exhausting (but also pretty lovely).
- Knowing where to get toilet paper, hand sanitiser, face masks, plastic gloves and baby chickens puts you top of the food chain.
- Your vocabulary needs to expand to use key words like pivot, Covidiot, and Quarantini.
- Reading conspiracist theories on Bill Gates and 5G are part of book club.
- Everyone’s new common ground is Tiger King
- Facebook life hack videos are actually useful
- Let me check my calendar to see if I’m available…. not wait… I’m always available.
- Fake eyelashes and manicures are a thing of the past, and regrowth is to be embraced. Who knows. You may even save some money here…
- People with fringes have a difficult decision to make. To grow or to cut it themselves. If they attempt the chop, they’ll join a growing legion of DIY haircuts that will give us endless memes and tragic Insta stories.
- Indoor plant parenting has skyrocketed, and if you haven’t bought 30 pot plants from Bunnings, do you even love plants?
- There’s 1 million ‘at-home’ workouts, and you’re not doing any of them.
Stay safe everyone.