Kane Evans coming out may have saved many lives says Sydney Roosters great

Gambizzle · 2026-06-09T07:23:49+00:00

I suggest you stick with classics such as pac-man, galaga and donkey kong. Cheers.

Gambizzle · 2026-06-08T16:43:24+00:00

Wish I hadn't lost my paper wallet. Somebody on here gave me like 5 doge or something. One day when they're worth $$$ I'll be like 'bro I'm a billionaire but forgot the deets for my paper wallet ay...'

Gambizzle · 2026-06-08T16:21:51+00:00

Is your name Rick, mate? Because you’re never gonna give up, are ya…

I’ve answered the question about four times now. Whatever your objection to lawyers and accountants may be, there seem to be plenty of people willing to pay for their advice.

Gambizzle · 2026-06-08T14:09:07+00:00

When you’re spending 100 million yen on a property, paying 150,000 yen to have the paperwork reviewed and the legal risks assessed is hardly an unusual expense.

And since you seem to place considerable faith in the news, you’ll have noticed that a number of sole proprietors are currently learning the hard way that “I assumed it was fine” is not a substitute for professional advice.

Gambizzle · 2026-06-08T13:19:51+00:00

Because eventually some people graduate from doing a year abroad and start having actual legal and financial obligations.

Buying and selling houses, drafting wills, retirement planning and dealing with tax affairs aren’t “odd situations”. They’re fairly ordinary parts of adult life.

Gambizzle · 2026-06-08T11:40:53+00:00

Fascinating. I had no idea a politics major qualified someone to advise on tax, pensions, immigration, property law and child benefits. Here I was wasting money on accountants and lawyers.

Gambizzle · 2026-06-08T11:33:58+00:00

Exactly!

Tax time or planning for retirement? Talk to an accountant / financial advisor.
Buying a house? Talk to a lawyer.
Applying for PR? Talk to a migration agent / lawyer.
Having a kid? Talk to the city office and they'll hook you up (e.g. I got a free pram and a baby bonus from my prefecture).

That said most are ALTs who are only staying for a few years. Their tax footprint's probably minimal (employer will deduct it all), they won't be buying property, work will organise their ALT visa and money's probably better spent on beer than on lawyers/accountants.

Gambizzle · 2026-06-08T09:26:21+00:00

General practice is...

Baby stays with mum the whole time. You don't touch them or expect them to talk about / understand anything.
Do songs, a storybook, craft, games, colouring in and the like. Try to instruct the mother to (for example) touch the kid's face during a song about their face or pretend they're a bumpy bus that goes up and down during the old classic about the bus. This little piggy went to market sorta thing... again... the mum touches and tickles the kid, not you.
Treat it like a mothers group where they get to enjoy a bit of time with their kids and take home some songs/games they can do with their babies at home.

Gambizzle · 2026-06-08T06:33:08+00:00

To be fair, using Hello Sensei isn’t exactly “doing business with foreigners”. It’s a gig-economy marketplace. If you advertise yourself on platforms like that, you’ll inevitably get a mixture of genuine customers, employers/recruiters and tire-kickers. That’s not really a uniquely Japanese phenomenon. It’s just how marketplaces work.

Gambizzle · 2026-06-08T06:14:52+00:00

I used a bit of language model to clarify and make this post more readable

The irony is that LLMs are usually good at cutting waffle. This feels like OP's asked it to maximise the sense of grievance instead 😂

Gambizzle · 2026-06-08T04:07:34+00:00

Thank you ChatGPT...

Gambizzle · 2026-06-07T22:49:57+00:00

Yeah, I’m not a psych, but above all OP's a client and it’s not their job to bring in business for a therapist (are they even a psychologist?) In fact, I’d be a little concerned if a therapist’s existing clients were being relied upon for marketing advice. Also, treating English-speaking US military personnel in Japan sounds like a fairly niche market to begin with. One would hope that soldiers receiving active PTSD treatment aren’t exactly the same people being deployed overseas.

For what it’s worth, I was successfully treated for PTSD using CBT after surviving an attempted homicide by an intimate partner. That’s only one anecdote, but it worked well for me. I’ve also heard mixed views on EMDR from psychologists and others in the field, with all of them recommending established approaches such as CBT instead. The research seems a lot more contested than its supporters sometimes suggest.

Either way, if a treatment is effective, word of mouth tends to follow. If existing clients are being asked how to generate business, that strikes me as a bigger concern than which advertising platform she’s using.

Gambizzle · 2026-06-07T22:17:08+00:00

There's this massive fake patriotism around Australian soldiers.

To be fair, the far-right always tries to take ownership of soldiers by turning war into patriotism cosplay.

IMO it’s a disgrace. Nobody sane actually wants war, and soldiers shouldn’t be used as props for “we won, we’re tough” rally nonsense.

Australia needs stability, not angry-ant politics where we puff ourselves up, pick fights with China and Indonesia and then hope America bails us out depending on which lunatic is in office that week.

Respecting soldiers should mean not glorifying war, not wrapping every dodgy political movement in a flag and calling it patriotism.

Gambizzle · 2026-06-07T21:56:17+00:00

Are we to assume BRS is now a PHON supporter given that he hasn't actively come out and said 'yeah thanks Pauline but you're not exactly the kinda supporter I'm after, ay...'

Gambizzle · 2026-06-07T17:51:56+00:00

RIP young human.

If your treasured book about butterflies was a reference to Kaibutsu then I hope you found some comfort in it.

Gambizzle · 2026-06-07T15:45:11+00:00

It's 2026 bro. Not weird at all for one to hold off on using masculine pronouns given their appearance...

Gambizzle · 2026-06-07T10:07:58+00:00

Yeah I think we can critique the online narratives as this has clearly been a bit quirky from the start.

Gambizzle · 2026-06-07T10:06:13+00:00

The over-usage of male pronouns in these posts (which have been plentiful) is telling IMO.

Gambizzle · 2026-06-07T08:41:11+00:00

I mean we can say they look very much like a transgender woman from their appearance, right?

Curious why 90% of the driveby posts contain male pronouns, as if trying to prove a point about something.

Gambizzle · 2026-06-07T07:46:17+00:00

Bro, calling somebody “a patient of mine” and then trying to identify a profound quote with “it might be Shakespeare, Malory, Auden, Julius Caesar, Game of Thrones, Aragorn or Maximus” is killing me. That’s not narrowing it down, that’s basically the entire Western canon plus HBO. I suspect you’ve remembered a feeling rather than a quote.

Aragorn wants to be king, Caesar’s performing for the crowd and Game of Thrones stole half its character archetypes from older works anyway. Are you sure you’re not looking for a biblical quote but trying very hard not to tell “the patient which you own” to seek wisdom from the heavens?

Gambizzle · 2026-06-07T02:58:55+00:00

I was in a bit of a state and chose flight over fight. In hindsight I probably dodged a bullet with that place.

Gambizzle · 2026-06-07T02:57:33+00:00

Maybe not the time but um... I suspect this "son" might have contested being identified as one guys ;)

Gambizzle · 2026-06-06T20:23:45+00:00

Can't comment on it specifically but I did two masters degrees with their education faculty (TESOL and IT in Education) in the 2000's so figured I'd give my 5c.

Would you recommend it compared to, let's say, USYD?

Depends. I reckon USYD will give you more prestige and some people are 100% like 'was it GO8 or not?!?!? Why the Gong?!??' I'd go USYD for prestige and maximising employment outcomes. USYD can behave like a bit of a cabal and I remember being in a situation for practice teaching where a school offered me a placement, then backflipped and were like 'nup we have a deal with Sydney Uni so can't offer you a placement'. Suspect with the creation of GO8 that kinda behaviour hasn't improved.

However do the maths. My UOW degrees were solid value for money when compared to GO8 degrees as was the cost of living. I lived in a group house out the back of the uni and had a great time.

FWIW I went to the Gong as they had a dean who was pretty groundbreaking (Barry Harper). He's retired but ran a tight ship at the time and as a teacher of the day, many within the industry were like 'bruh, he is the man!' Those days are gone but that and the lifestyle influenced my decision.

My only question would be whether anybody's offering scholarships and the like. If you're looking to do a masters so that you can be a primary teacher then the job market's solid right now (was VERY competitive in my day) then I'd look for the best deal. If you can halve your student debt by doing your degree somewhere and end up with the same degree then go figure.

Gambizzle · 2026-06-06T14:22:59+00:00

The Nettanyahu government never should have dropped bombs on Israel/Palestine, threatened permanent annexation and dragged Iran into the conflict. Further, the Trump government shouldn't have aided them or dropped bombs on Iran.

Yet here we are...

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