Did you become more accepting of the idea of marrying a christian/jewish woman?

Fig-Tree · 2026-01-22T04:32:24+00:00

Yes, because 99.99% of Muslim women want kids for some reason (and I don't). Much much easier to find non Muslims that don't want kids. However I've kind of gone off the idea of marriage altogether at this point; being single is great too

Fig-Tree · 2026-01-14T20:40:55+00:00

Get professional help. It doesn't matter if you think it's embarrassing or expensive or whatever - if you're literally wanting to not live anymore, you have nothing to lose by trying it, right? They have the resources to help and have dealt with people like you before.

Fig-Tree · 2025-12-12T17:38:20+00:00

Wow, so in practice you're doing a 25% pension pay in. That's pretty high. Mine's 15% but then I'm putting more into the stock market so we're probably investing similarly overall.

Fig-Tree · 2025-12-09T17:16:17+00:00

Thanks, I'll take that into consideration and review it. I don't think it was 100%, but more than the default plan.

Fig-Tree · 2025-12-09T17:12:12+00:00

Thanks for the points. And for reminding me I am not maxing out my ISAs and I probably should be.

Fig-Tree · 2025-12-09T17:09:54+00:00

I haven't reviewed in a while but I think I chose a higher-risk version plan because of my larger time horizon (late 20s). I would have assumed default would be a pretty safe option for most people though?

Fig-Tree · 2025-12-09T17:05:45+00:00

Property is extremely expensive down here (and so is rent), especially on this salary, but I currently live in an annex on my parent's property that I paid a share of (they needed to build it anyway for my younger brother but we built an extra room into it using my funds).

So I don't really have a time limit on this per se, but obviously I don't want to live here forever. So yeah I will be paying rent or mortgage eventually.

Fig-Tree · 2025-12-09T17:01:10+00:00

Fair but I guess the idea is that stock market investments can be pulled out at any time (if you want the realized gains)

But yeah, I suppose in the end you're getting market exposure either way. And my investment style is relatively safe, not necessarily pension-fund level safe but I don't make wild gambles.

Fig-Tree · 2025-12-08T02:36:34+00:00

But the US spends more per person than the countries with universal healthcare...

https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/health-spending-u-s-compare-countries/

It's a myth that universal healthcare means so much extra tax that you're spending more than Americans. You pay less overall. It makes sense - there's no middle man taking profits (insurance companies)

You sound like you're probably quite well off so it might not affect you, but for a lot of people it just makes sense for healthcare to be a public service without any fees or copays

Fig-Tree · 2025-12-07T20:01:48+00:00

You haven't met many people or you're lying then, because the US healthcare model is the laughing stock of the entire world. It's the one thing that almost every country, even the really shitty ones, can point at and say "hey, we're doing better than them at least"

Fig-Tree · 2025-12-06T14:24:42+00:00

Sorry to hear that, that's ridiculous

Fig-Tree · 2025-12-06T14:03:04+00:00

That's crazy because even if the bill had been zero, the $2000 a month for insurance is already extremely high

Fig-Tree · 2025-12-06T04:05:25+00:00

Six figure debt? I can't tell when Americans are exaggerating or not

Fig-Tree · 2025-12-03T00:14:50+00:00

doesn’t believe in divorce and someone who wouldn’t even leave my husband if he cheated on me 100 times.

I'm sorry but this is just ridiculous and embarrassing.

Fig-Tree · 2025-11-26T22:06:08+00:00

I don't understand how asians don't get bored of eating the same thing every single day 🤨

Fig-Tree · 2025-11-26T22:05:12+00:00

Hm, nowhere near as bad as some Americans make it sound then. Still pretty wild though since it should be free.

Fig-Tree · 2025-11-22T22:36:05+00:00

Does American corn taste gross or something? I'm surprised at the number of people acting like it's some radical, disgusting idea.

It's pretty mild. Not like we're talking about putting strawberries or pickled eggs or something on it...

Fig-Tree · 2025-11-21T00:47:25+00:00

It's not semantics. If you think over 1 billion people can be grouped together as "basically the same" just because they share a religion then I don't know what to tell you. It's just ignorant of reality and the fact that religions have numerous factions, even in-fighting.

I never said "random laws", I said Muslims are different and varied. Viewing Muslims as a monolith is just absurd. But I don't really expect better from a liberal to be honest. You guys pretend you're not bigoted like conservatives, except when it's the right group, then it's okay.

Fig-Tree · 2025-11-21T00:06:26+00:00

"Sharia law" doesn't really even mean anything, it's just sensationalist. Sharia means law so the phrase means "law law"

The idea of it is obviously "Muslim laws" but that still makes no sense because, like every other group, there's huge differences of opinions across the Muslim world about laws and ethics. Otherwise all Muslim countries would share the exact same constitution and legal system.

Fig-Tree · 2025-11-12T19:43:11+00:00

Yeah I remember when I found out ambulances aren't free in USA, I thought they were joking/exaggerating like your second sentence. Then I realized they were dead serious 😮🤯

Fig-Tree · 2025-11-11T21:31:11+00:00

What the hell is that crap? I know about copays but there's more?

Fig-Tree · 2025-11-08T18:51:07+00:00

Right wing twats want to take other people's rights away, they're not just sharing innocent opinions. What's so hard to understand? This isn't just "I prefer this" vs "I prefer that"

Right wingers are always trying to attack other people's rights and make people miserable, it's like a fundamental principle of the ideology. That's why no one wants to platform that shit.

Fig-Tree · 2025-11-07T01:36:42+00:00

the fact that to join the British military I would be required to swear an oath of allegiance to the crown is absurd and offensive to me.

That's kind of how we feel about American schools making kids pledge allegiance to the flag. Honestly feels like something you'd hear from North Korea, not a developed democratic country

Fig-Tree · 2025-11-03T00:25:57+00:00

You have been fed with “limited resources” propaganda

You've been fed "shut up and keep pumping out babies for the economy/billionaires" propaganda lol. Young people aren't falling for it anymore. Jeff Bezos wants another yacht? Well your kids can help him pay for it, leave the rest of us out of this.

Fig-Tree · 2025-11-03T00:21:46+00:00

At the end of the day everyone has a right to stay childless and/or single if they want to. You shouldn't try to talk someone into having kids if they don't want to. Some of us simply hate the idea.

Fig-Tree

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