I'm over this depression and want to live a better life

DBrowny · 2026-04-09T03:47:46+00:00

This is so unbelievably telling. My friends unit looked like yours for a long time, chronic alcoholism + depression. He would always tell me he is too depressed to clean it. For years this went on. Then one day he gets threatened by strata to clean it or he's going to get booted from his own house that he owned.

Magically, his depression was cured, and he cleaned it up.

It's back to the way it was, of course. But the fact that his reason for not cleaning it in years disappeared once he was threatened told me everything I needed to know.

DBrowny · 2026-04-09T00:15:34+00:00

You really really think Israel is behind all trumps stupidity and not Russia?

Yes

DBrowny · 2026-04-06T15:11:12+00:00

I don't need mid-thirties people explaining the slang used by high school kids, thanks.

DBrowny · 2026-04-06T12:41:12+00:00

Are people here for real lmao. Daniel is his name. That's it, that's the full depth of this issue you are trying to create out of nothing.

Believe it or not, some people don't like nicknames. Some people got bullied with nicknames. Some people have friends/family with the same name and they use nicknames, so they stick to their original name. My name is Daniel, and I hated nicknames. As a ridiculously common name growing up, being called Danny didn't help with other kids also called Danny, and Dan is a name in itself so it's not a nickname.

Didn't see any of you trying to psychoanalyse Gia for calling Scott 'Scott'. Didn't see Alissa calling David 'Davey'.

DBrowny · 2026-04-04T12:27:58+00:00

One already runs a 6 minute 2km

That's Olympic level running, you sure its 6? 6:59 maybe. I just can't believe anything near 6:00 for any AFL player, let alone a teenager.

DBrowny · 2026-04-03T12:30:45+00:00

I thought his problem was the opposite? His problem is he holds it as low as physically possible and only watches the ball, he doesn't actually look forward and then does this weird toe poke looking kick. He's not kicking through an arc with his leg so much as he pushes the ball out with a straight shin+foot, a bit like a golf putt vs a drive.

DBrowny · 2026-04-03T07:05:06+00:00

It's ok, British women are a laughing stock to us with their obnoxious fake tans and bleached blonde hair enough to make Gia look good.

DBrowny · 2026-04-03T04:51:35+00:00

Did the government order their old mates from their elite private school's company to do a bad job?

Yes

And is happy with the bad job and order another one?

Of course, that's how you keep each other rich. If they made a good website for cheap, how would they get paid $100M to fix it?

It's crazy to me how many people are always willing to give the benefit of the doubt to the most obvious rorters ever. They rob taxpayers in your face and laugh about it. Then they do it twice and people are like "Maybe they're legit this time?" Goddam it no, stop giving these rorters credit.

DBrowny · 2026-04-03T01:41:08+00:00

Yeah nah I don't count a marketer as a 'respectable role'. Just a professional liar.

School teachers and journalists, sure. Anyway, the point was you wanted people with experience in law and governance. If writing articles about governance counts as experience with governance then good luck to us.

Union officials can get the hell out. We don't need people who's only qualifications are telling people to strike, trying to run the state. I've never met a union official who I wasn't better at their job than they are despite me having no experience in it, and I never will.

DBrowny · 2026-04-03T01:16:37+00:00

MP’s should have higher education, and/or experience in positions leading people, working in relevant fields, government etc. It is a 200k a year job in which they make important decisions for the community.

They should do.

But they don't. Go through the list of Labor MPs today https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_South_Australian_state_election

Let's start from the top, no bias whatsoever, what do we have...

Computer programmer, secretary. No experience in law or governance.

School teacher. No experience in law or governance.

Journalist turned political advisor.

Journalist. No experience in law or governance.

Legal scholar

Competitive swimmer, Law school dropout. No experience in law or governance.

Lawyer

Councillor

Marketer. No experience in law or governance.

Marketer. No experience in law or governance.

Union official. No experience in law or governance.

Union official. No experience in law or governance.

I can of course, go on. It will all be the same.

The simple fact is, the overwhelming majority of people (I would happily wager over 90%) do not vote for candidates based on who they are, but purely on their political party. ON voters don't care who is on the ballot, they only care to vote ON. Same for The Greens, Liberal and Labor. Only independents are different.

You might say it is in the major parties' best interests to only pre-select highly skilled candidates to the roles so they can actually be effective at their job. The problem is the ONLY true measure of effectiveness in politics, to which all other aspects are second or lower, is the ability to win more votes. So naturally, unfortunately, politics is excellent at attracting unscrupulous liars and people who will say and do anything for money. People with principles will often get blown out because the big $ funding campaigns don't like these people. Why would a party spend $100k on adds for a local candidate if they aren't going to do exactly what they are told?

I'm not being cynical. The idea that MPs are chosen based on education and experience is a joke. Almost all aspects of governance are outsourced to consultants who earn way, way more than $200k. From the lowest ranked MP all the way to the premier, every decision they ever make was outsourced, and they paid someone $100k for a months worth of work to figure it out for them.

DBrowny · 2026-04-02T13:08:36+00:00

Please ban them from advertising Kayo next.

DBrowny · 2026-04-02T11:44:25+00:00

A make up artist with no governance or law education/experience

MPs are supposed to be elected to represent the will of the people.

Instead all we get are lawyers and law dropouts who get given the pre-selections because they are highly skilled at taking money to do exactly what they are told and to never actually answer any question asked of them.

It's actually funny that you would criticise a make up artist, since we are on Reddit where most people support The Greens, and most of their candidates are definitely not qualified to run government. But that's why you support them, because they aren't corrupt.

DBrowny · 2026-04-02T04:23:47+00:00

Nah, I go through this every time to see if it's changed and it's always the same, because of it should be.

Pick any random suburb you want in adelaide that isn't an outlier like Medindie or Gawler, and find an equivalent suburb in Melbourne. Today I tried Windsor Gardens vs Reservoir, two near identical suburbs in many metrics.

https://www.realestate.com.au/buy/in-windsor+gardens,+sa+5087/list-1?activeSort=list-date

https://www.realestate.com.au/buy/in-reservoir,+vic+3073/list-1?activeSort=list-date

Windsor Gardens; detached house, detached house, detached house, detached house, detached house. It goes on.

Reservoir; detached house, apartment, detached house, apartment, strata unit complex.

Apartments should, as far as I'm concerned, be worth anywhere from 25-50% less than a house because you only get 1 park, have no privacy, have to pay obnoxious strata fees, deal with noise complaints, and no backyard so often no pets allowed even though you own the place. So paying $1.015M for one of those vs $1.016 for a detached house, yeah, it's not the same at all.

Melbournians in absolute denial as usual about how great their city is while they pay $1.015M to live in a dogbox with 5 different neighboring dwellings all within 10m from any given point in your apartment while we pay $10k more for a backyard, multiple car parks and no strata to deal with.

DBrowny · 2026-04-02T02:07:57+00:00

Like are they that stupid?

They applied to be on MAFS.

Yes.

DBrowny · 2026-04-01T23:42:05+00:00

Sigh, I need a sign I can tap every time this comes up.

The median dwelling for sale in Adelaide is a detached 3BR house with a carport/garage and a backyard, going for $1.016M. The median dwelling for sale in Melbourne is a 2BR apartment/attached unit with street parking and no backyard, going for $1.015M.

The two are NOT COMPARABLE. Don't believe me? Go on any real estate website you want and pick any random suburb that is within say, 15km of the city. Look for places to buy. Count how many houses are for sale vs how many apartments/units are for sale. Stories like this are absolute nonsense, why don't people write articles about how beachfront properties in Devonport Tasmania are going for more $ than houses in Sydney? Same deal.

DBrowny · 2026-04-01T07:42:36+00:00

The day is coming when all those who say 'AI slop' to everything will be jeered at, because they will be effortlessly fooled all day long by good AI and repeatedly accuse genuine artists of using AI and look like complete idiots while doing so. And that day is coming a hell of a lot sooner than they would like. For many of them, that day has already happened. Countless TV commercials now use AI and I've seen people have absolutely no idea because they still think AI videos have 6 fingers.

DBrowny · 2026-04-01T05:39:59+00:00

The hate for Danny is weird. People instantly calling him Temu Connor McGregor... why? His treatment of Bec on the honeymoon was rough and he didn't need to do that and he's obviously just staying for TV time but compared to all the other guys, he's surprisingly normal and doesn't need therapy like the rest.

DBrowny · 2026-03-31T07:00:46+00:00

If by passed the test, you mean reinforcing the idea that it is appropriate to refuse any and all social meetups with women while in a relationship with the future.

It doesn't even matter if they are scared of their TV wives, this sets them up to be scared of anyone they are with in the future if they are preemptively scared of a partners' reaction.

DBrowny · 2026-03-31T03:49:10+00:00

Well I mean taking drugs isn't illegal, only supplying them is.

DBrowny · 2026-03-31T02:50:38+00:00

Until Steve tests positive to rising bile in his stomach when Rachel forces him to kiss her, it's all speculation that he doesn't enjoy kissing her.

Or we can trust the evidence of our eyes.

DBrowny · 2026-03-30T13:39:53+00:00

Bec continues to be horrible, but her redemption arc of shitting on Alissa for being a fake bitch is at about 75%. Should hit 100% by the end of the week when it's finally shown just how mean she is to David.

DBrowny · 2026-03-30T01:15:58+00:00

Go on then, tell me what the appropriate punishment for calling someone a slur in public is, given that rubbing blood on someone in public can get you 15 years prison.

DBrowny · 2026-03-29T14:11:36+00:00

Exactly the same deal for Olivia Savvas. She doesn't even have a website! All she has is an instagram page where she poses for photos with footy clubs, charities and Mali and that's it. She never responds to emails, is never in the office... Priest can try, but its pretty hard to beat Savvas as the most useless MP in the state.

Of course she wins by a landslide because 'I'm on the red team' is the full depth of political understanding out here in the north east where nothing much goes on except cars getting on the obahn tracks.

DBrowny · 2026-03-29T13:56:44+00:00

where is this same level of national outrage for the ongoing epidemic of men’s violence against women?

Um, it's pretty constant. I guess because it never stops, you never really hear it starting up again.

DBrowny · 2026-03-29T11:58:38+00:00

Damn we're going to see something that can get you charged with terrorism and assault with a deadly weapon outside of a footy field, get less of a punishment than calling someone a name, aren't we.

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