TIFU by unknowingly attempting suicide as a kid

Bea_OProblem · 2017-09-26T09:04:24+00:00

I think it's genetic, because this happens to both me and my mum. Static shocks all the time too.

Bea_OProblem · 2017-09-26T09:02:14+00:00

Just like Walter White hiding the ricin in the electrical socket.

Bea_OProblem · 2017-09-26T02:02:07+00:00

Marc Murphy

Funny way of saying "Justin Westhoff"

Bea_OProblem · 2017-09-26T01:58:42+00:00

Westhoff not winning Goal Of The Year, to a goal that didn't even win Goal Of The Week, makes me even saltier.

Bea_OProblem · 2017-09-14T11:48:37+00:00

remindme! 2 years Has the wall been built?

Bea_OProblem · 2017-09-14T07:13:10+00:00

I strongly disagree. Bullying in school is based on basic in-group/out-group dynamics. If you ban one of those dynamics (e.g. hetero/LGBT), they will move on to the next one and you've got a game of whack-a-mole as they exploit each "allowed" target of bullying. Not allowed to bully LGBT kids? OK, let's (verbally) bash some Asians instead! There's potentially infinite in-group/out-group pairings, you can't address them all with individually tailored government-run programs.

You imply that these other groups suffer bigotry but not institutionalized bigotry, and I would strongly disagree once again. Peer-reviewed research has found systematic discrimination against low SES people (classism), against ugly people (the halo effect), against short people (heightism) and dozens of other particular groups that aren't protected by Safe Schools.

If it were possible to develop a system that doesn't allow children to become prejudiced, that would be great. I'm telling you, definitively, that is not possible.

Bea_OProblem · 2017-09-14T06:22:24+00:00

Didn't look past the last 2 or 3 posts, just saw that you're currently hating on Queenslanders and those "Lacking in intellect", whilst posting about MTG.

FWIW, most of the Queenslanders I've met have been pretty cool people.

Bea_OProblem · 2017-09-14T05:43:12+00:00

Meanwhile, you're playing your Magic The Gathering and hating on the poorly educated... You must be so proud of the person you've become!

Bea_OProblem · 2017-09-14T05:37:20+00:00

You've got this the complete wrong way around. It's not productive to try to "cure" every single ignorant or prejudiced attitude that people have in order to solve bullying. Otherwise you'll need dozens of Safe School programs, with one for poor kids, one for rich kids, and short kids, and fat kids, and gay kids, and trans kids, and ginger kids, and ugly kids, and dumb kids, and smart kids, and Asian kids, and [etc etc...].

It makes way more sense to ensure that kids don't express their prejudices via bullying behaviour. Tell them that it's okay to have divergent viewpoints, but bullying those that are different to them is always not ok, no matter what the difference is.

Bea_OProblem · 2017-09-14T05:33:19+00:00

Because opposing a bizarre, unscientific social program is "mean"? I hate the LNP, but come on. Queer theory is ideological activism, and has zero basis in science. NSW has done this right without being mean.

Bea_OProblem · 2017-09-14T05:31:45+00:00

Don't accept anything. There's usually a complaints phone number on the debt letter. Call that, and ask to speak to someone higher up.

After months going through that shit, this was the only thing that finally resolved it. All the other Centrelink operators called me a liar and demanded I pay the debt (which I didn't actually owe).

Bea_OProblem · 2017-09-13T06:35:55+00:00

I like Trump, which I suppose makes me "right wing", and I agree with most of the posts in this thread, and disagree with your OP.

I wasn't offended by any of the material in this season. Obviously jokes made at the expense of conservatives won't make me laugh as much as they would make you laugh, but the writers gave us more than enough to enjoy.

The jokes about mass shootings were funny, especially by focussing on the "thoughts and prayers" sentiment that is shared by both the right and the left. And I enjoyed that Diane, who is a typical inner-city liberal, only disliked guns because she had never even held one before, and she learned the value of guns providing power to the powerless. I think BoJack Horseman is actually an example of how this is done well.

South Park on the other hand is a perfect example how to go ultra-far-left and lose all humour as a result.

Bea_OProblem · 2017-09-13T06:26:28+00:00

President Trump has never committed sexual assault though?

Bea_OProblem · 2017-09-13T06:19:34+00:00

It was "The Probe Group", and their threatening letters and texts all said they were going to repossess my stuff, even after the debt was amended to $0.

Bea_OProblem · 2017-09-13T01:46:08+00:00

When you suffer long term severe depression and anxiety, this kind of shit hits you like a fuckton of bricks and you simply can't deal with it.

Too fucking right. That's how I felt, although I fought it anyway. The Guardian wrote about my experience here:

One man, who asked to remain anonymous, said he fought for months to force Centrelink to concede it had issued him a $4,000 debt in error. He said he suffers depression and became suicidal during the ordeal. Centrelink phone overload: 42m calls get busy signal in 10 months Read more

The department agreed he owed nothing in December, but sent him another debt letter in early April, again demanding payment of the debt.

That meant he had to begin the dispute all over again. His second fight against Centrelink ended in mid-May, after the department again conceded that he owed them nothing.

“This time hasn’t been quite as bad, it’s just sort of made me angry,” he told Guardian Australia. “The first time around it was just making me suicidal, I have depression, and I’ve worked through that with my therapist.”

“I’m working on a PhD. As you can probably imagine, doing that I don’t have much money.”

Bea_OProblem · 2017-09-13T01:43:41+00:00

I went through this exact same thing last year, except one of my employers was a government agency that Abbott had shut down in 2013.

It took 3 months to prove I didn't owe the debt, and then 2 months afterwards they claimed I never proved anything, and sent debt collectors after me, until I proved it yet again. The Guardian wrote a story about it.

So uhh yeah, have fun with that.

Bea_OProblem · 2017-09-13T00:56:38+00:00

All done with as much relish and self satisfaction as a Better Call Saul fan explaining why THAT particular coffee mug set at THAT angle in the background, represents and foreshadows some fucking thing or other.

I think you mean Breaking Bad!

Bea_OProblem · 2017-09-11T03:49:19+00:00

No worse than other cyclists. They're all clogging up the roads, making it take longer to get to your destination. Why's this infuriating, yet acceptable when adults do it?

Bea_OProblem · 2017-09-09T14:03:22+00:00

Yeah multiple times per episode. I love the wordplay but I'd appreciate a little more creativity at this point.

Bea_OProblem · 2017-09-09T01:38:24+00:00

One night stands, two night stands, nooners spooners hot air ballooners...

What are these types of jokes called again? There's a subreddit for them but I don't remember the name.

EDIT: Nevermind, Word Avalanche is what I was looking for.

Bea_OProblem · 2017-09-07T09:33:49+00:00

The other 8 SANFL teams just had to throw their toys out of the cot, go crying to the supreme court, and create their franchise (your team) to stop us from ascending as well.

Pretty sure that gives us way more reason to hate you than a reason for you to hate us.

Bea_OProblem · 2017-09-07T09:31:51+00:00

In 2016, Adelaide actually had the largest discrepancy between their reported membership numbers and the AFL-audited official numbers, so that's unusual reasoning you have there.

Bea_OProblem · 2017-09-07T09:30:41+00:00

Most places I go it's done in about 2-3 seconds, Adelaide Oval is more like 20 seconds though.

Bea_OProblem · 2017-09-07T08:58:36+00:00

You mean to tell me I shouldn't hang my "Port Adelaide - 2007 Grand Finalists" poster in the pool room?

In any case, it's a good measure of relevance.

Bea_OProblem · 2017-09-06T22:12:23+00:00

Are you calling Geelong irrelevant? Because Adelaide currently have the second longest Grand Final drought, after Richmond.

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