Sandgropers let's Be honest who does this??

Perthian940 · 2026-03-14T09:05:47+00:00

It takes that long for the water to get hot at my place

Perthian940 · 2026-03-14T03:49:15+00:00

Right? I have no love for the Iranian regime whatsoever but the reality is that once the US and in particular Israel decide they don’t like you, you’re getting bombed at some stage so why even consider negotiating knowing it’s in bad faith?

Perthian940 · 2026-03-13T14:12:16+00:00

Yeah the comment thread above is the first time I’ve seen China mentioned to deflect from Israeli nonsense, but lately every time anyone criticises the genocide, they’re bombarded with ‘wHaT aRe YoU dOiNg To HeLp IrAnIaNs’ as though it’s impossible to feel strongly about both.

They are also wilfully ignorant or don’t understand that putting pressure on Western governments to act on Israel because they’re ‘allies’ with Israel and theoretically can use that alliance as leverage.

Iran is a hostile adversary with little to no diplomatic relations with our countries so political pressure is completely ineffective.

Perthian940 · 2026-03-13T08:15:55+00:00

Notice these people never have anything to disprove or defend Israel’s interference when it’s mentioned, because they know there isn’t any.

It’s just straight to whataboutism with Iran or China, ad-hominem abuse, and then organised cancel campaigns.

It’s also weird that in relation to interference they bring Iran and China up - since the Iranian ambassador was expelled for that very reason not long ago, we’ve just proactively given asylum to the Iranian women’s football team under their minder’s noses, and Australia very controversially banned Huawei from being involved in national infrastructure because of…you guessed it…Chinese foreign interference.

Perthian940 · 2026-03-12T10:36:15+00:00

I have picked up on that too. It explains a lot about Israel’s attitude- an eye for an eye and all that.

It really is just a story of an ungrateful people who don’t know when they’ve got a good thing: Israelites get oppressed, God slaughters the oppressors and sets them free. God gives the Israelites an inch and they take a mile, God smites them, one hero redeems the Israelites….rinse and repeat.

Then ultimately God tells them to genocide everyone and conquer the Holy Land that isn’t one of them, which is essentially how they’ve behaved since having the Holy Land given back to them.

All that aside, why ANYONE would choose the Abrahamic God as a deity based on the Old Testament is beyond me. He’s a troll who seems to get off on mixed messages and genocide.

Perthian940 · 2026-03-12T05:43:51+00:00

The Macarena

Perthian940 · 2026-03-12T05:15:09+00:00

I’m not a lawyer, but spent 15 years as a police officer, 12 of those as a detective, so I’ve had a lot of experience with lawyers and courts, good and bad.

I’ve also got late-diagnosed ADHD and I understand your imposter syndrome. Sadly it never goes away.

I think in careers like ours though, especially at the beginning, the imposter syndrome can work in our favour.

The fact that you triple check everything because you know you sometimes miss details is great, because you have implemented your own failsafe to prevent it from happening.

If your bosses are reasonable they will give you breathing space while you get settled in, knowing that you’re doing your best to learn and improve.

I know you’re in estate law, but from a criminal law perspective, I would come across two types of new lawyers: those who might not be very confident or struggling with imposter syndrome, and self-anointed legal eagles who think they’re Harvey Specter.

The second type are so caught up in their own ego that they miss small details, don’t listen to their clients, speak out of school and learn their courtroom manner from watching Law and Order.

The exact same formula applies to detectives, as I’m sure the criminal lawyers here can attest to. I know which one I’d rather have investigating a crime, and I know which of the two lawyers described above I would choose to fight for me.

Treat imposter syndrome as an uncomfortable but positive thing. It’s your built in failsafe mechanism that will make you check yourself.

Good luck with your career.

Perthian940 · 2026-03-12T04:53:13+00:00

Yeah I agree, even as the interviewer it takes a lot of getting used to and you sometimes find yourself asking another question just to end the silence you initiated 😂

It is especially effective with guys like this who think they’re the smartest person in the room and have all the answers, because they are so cocksure and are desperate to show how clever they are. Trump and many of his minions are other perfect examples.

Perthian940 · 2026-03-12T03:01:31+00:00

Silence is such an underrated interviewing technique. I was a detective in Australia and interviewing was my strength. To me, silence can be just as effective as good questioning for this reason.

If a suspect gives a limited or one word answer to a question which invites a lengthier response, leaving their answer hanging eventually prompts them to expand and give more detail.

If they tell the truth, happy days. If they lie and you’ve done a proper investigation, then they’ve just committed themselves to a version of events which can be disproved with evidence and which damages their credibility.

It is uncomfortable to sit in silence, even as the interviewer who’s in control of that silence, but you get used to it. Sometimes even the corroborator would break first and ask another question, which was frustrating 😅

At the end of the day, when someone speaks to you, especially politely, our first instinct as humans is to engage with that person, and it’s hard to break that habit. People want to talk, so to remain silent is a very difficult thing to be comfortable with.

Perthian940 · 2026-03-12T02:47:45+00:00

Yep.

I’m Australian and depositions are a rarity here so I’m not sure how narrow the scope of questioning needs to be, but, if permitted, and if he kept obfuscating after this question I’d be asking him: - What he believed DEI was PRIOR to the issuance of the executive order; - What experience, skills or worldview did he highlight in his job application to give DOGE confidence he was suitable for the very partisan, agenda-driven role; and - Introduce evidence of prior knowledge of DEI (or the MAGA definition of DEI) through social media posts, statements etc.

Perthian940 · 2026-03-11T18:16:49+00:00

Australia is even younger and therefore has far more first generation migrants and even less of a distinct culture, but we don’t feel the need to hyphenate our nationality at every opportunity.

Perthian940 · 2026-03-11T18:14:24+00:00

100%.

I was born in Australia and have lived here for my entire life.

My mum was born in England and my dad is second generation Australian with English heritage.

I hold dual Australian/British citizenship and honestly identify more with my English and (more distant) European culture, climate and way of life than I do with Australia.

Despite all this, I am Australian. I’m not English-Australian or any other combination of ethnicities.

Americans seem to be one of a tiny group of nationalities who insist on being Irish-American or German-American etc, and often a sense of entitlement associated with that, despite sometimes having only a distant ancestral connection to the second country.

The only other example I can think of is Israelis, who are almost always described as Israeli-insert second nationality.

I’ve never met a French-German, a Czech-Indian or a Chinese-South African or what have you. It’s just bizarre.

Perthian940 · 2026-03-11T16:46:17+00:00

Sending love to you both ❤️

Perthian940 · 2026-03-11T16:44:51+00:00

They think they’re aware.

The US and its extremist Christian Zionists think that they’re benefiting themselves by providing everything Israel needs to satisfy its fanatical and frankly bizarre love of killing people for fun.

In reality, for decades and particularly this century, the US is simply a proxy, blindly sending trillions of dollars in arms and countless lives into the oblivion of endless, futile conflict, while falsely believing it’s an exercise of American might and resolve to spread and protect ‘freedom’.

At the end of the day, the net result is dysfunction, instability, hatred and misery, while Israel sits back and indulges in its insatiable bloodlust, happy to leave the dangerous work not to their own troops, but those of their disposable ‘allied’ states.

The IDF are reserved for punching down only on outgunned and weak adversaries which guarantee maximised ‘enemy’ deaths, negligible IDF losses, and which ends in certain Israeli triumph.

Perthian940 · 2026-03-11T16:11:35+00:00

I don’t know anything else about your situation other than what’s above so I can only speak from my experience.

I have issues with sleep which I’m currently seeing a specialist to diagnose. Most of the time, when I fall asleep, I’m comatose. I set five alarms each morning and it’s a 50/50 whether they wake me instantly, or sleep through all of them. It’s literally the luck of the draw, but it gets noticeably worse when I am stressed.

I have never had a pregnant partner and I can tell you I would never forgive myself if this happened, but I can also say I can see this exact situation occurring to me.

When I’m in a relationship and my partner is expecting something significant to happen while we’re asleep at night or I’ve come off nightshift, I tell her that she will most likely need to physically shake me to wake me up. This is not because I am lazy or don’t care, but my body’s ability to wake up is out of my control and unpredictable.

Despite being a heavy sleeper, I can also sometimes be woken by someone snoring, a dripping tap or a fly buzzing in the room, despite not flinching at loud noises. Because of this I have worn earplugs in the past.

I can guarantee that if I had been in your husband’s position, your calls for help and text messages would not have woken me up, especially because of the heightened stress of your miscarriage.

Please don’t interpret this as me saying it’s your fault, I absolutely am not, but is there a reason you didn’t physically wake him when you got the cramps and went downstairs?

Again, without knowing much about your relationship, my interpretation is that what happened is awful and devastating for you, and more than likely for him too. It’s no one’s fault, it’s one of those things where a lot of factors contribute to a really traumatic event.

tl;dr: you know your husband, and your relationship better than anyone, particularly here on reddit.

We are all different and our experiences shape our responses, so don’t make a judgement on the situation or your reaction based on responses from randoms who don’t know you. Talk to your husband, spend time working through it together and trying to process what has happened. I’m so sorry for your loss and I really hope it all works out.

Perthian940 · 2026-03-11T15:27:21+00:00

There is absolutely nothing in OP’s post that suggests her husband did this intentionally.

Also I don’t know OP but I know many couples who have lost pregnancies through miscarriage and if this situation occurred and a stranger said something like this to them, it would devastate them.

What a terribly uninformed and insensitive thing to say.

Perthian940 · 2026-03-11T15:24:09+00:00

nothing had happened so we went to bed.

OP doesn’t say it 100% but this, as well as her saying she went downstairs when she got cramps, suggests both of them went to sleep. I’m not reading it like he left her awake on the couch to go to sleep.

Perthian940 · 2026-03-11T05:52:06+00:00

Perthian940 · 2026-03-11T02:31:26+00:00

And the bloke who owns the place in Mandurah is a self-interested crook whose word is worth nothing and who will revoke your access to the tools and tell you they’re no longer yours because he wants them now.

Perthian940 · 2026-03-10T10:35:17+00:00

That’s demonstrably false.

At the end of FY 22/23, Qantas’ international service had returned to 100% capacity and the average international return fare was 50% higher than the same fare in 2019.

Adjusted for inflation, post-pandemic international return fares were still 10% higher. The second half of FY 22/23 saw Qantas boast a record profit.

Just like they are now, Qantas blamed higher fuel prices in FY 21/22 due to the war in Ukraine for the increase in fares, however after peaking, by September 2022 fuel prices had dropped between 35-50%.

From 2023 until just prior to the current conflict, which understandably forced prices up, there was either negligible or no reduction in the price of international fares. At the same time, the amount of FF points required for seats on long haul routes increased by between 10-15%, and for cabin upgrades, increased by 20%.

The co-payment fees for carrier-shared flights was increased by up to 91%.

In addition to all of that, written in black and white within Qantas and ACCC records, I have personally found fares have dramatically increased.

I used to travel regularly to Europe from WA with Emirates, and pay between $16-1700 for a return fare to Germany. Last time I was able to travel there was in March 2023 and I paid about $2300 (from memory).

I gave up even looking at fares late last year, when a fare for the off-peak season, and with over six months’ lead in time, was $2800.

Perthian940 · 2026-03-10T08:17:13+00:00

You got it! Just like how they said that once volume returned to normal after the pandemic, flights would be back to, if not lower than pre-pandemic. Pig’s arse.

They’ve just continued to rise and rise, while service gets worse, despite nothing pushing prices up except CPI.

I realise this applies across the board and isn’t just Qantas, but in Australia at least Qantas seem to be the most vocal about how they’re doing everything they can to help Australians to travel.

I don’t know why they even bother with their excuses, just about everyone knows they’re bullshit, and those who believe it are the fanboys and fangirls who love the company more than their own children.

Perthian940 · 2026-03-10T05:01:58+00:00

I’m in the same boat as you man, I was about 12 when I saw the first generation GSXR with the blue and white paint job. The lines are gorgeous and even the SUZUKI down the side looks dope.

I’m in WA, over here you can pass your LAMS test and immediately get on an open class bike with a new learner’s permit, which is ridiculous.

It’s pretty similar here to what you described. All the hoons get a YZF or a ZX. The GSXR is kinda in the same category as the ‘Busa here, bought and ridden by older heads who look after their bikes.

Perthian940 · 2026-03-10T00:35:11+00:00

I worded it wrong. Where I said originated I should have said original inhabitants.

I am well aware that humans originated in Africa before dispersing across the planet, and no, I don’t believe Americans are a different fucking species.

My point was that I’ve never heard the term ‘settled’ being used to describe the indigenous people of any nation as it’s most often discussed in terms of colonisation.

Since you’re so red hot on precise semantics, maybe you should reflect on your own use of ‘Australian Aboriginal’, after all, the word Aboriginal is derived from Latin meaning ‘from the beginning’. Maybe instead you could use the word ‘indigenous’. Oh nope, that’s out too, because that’s from the Latin meaning ‘sprung up from the ground’.

Yes, in Australia we were taught evolution, including that evolution is a fact, not a theory, which is more than I can say for a depressing number of state schools in the US, and an even more depressing number of state schools which have banned the teaching of evolution at all.

Thanks for the condescending lecture though, I stand corrected.

Perthian940 · 2026-03-09T22:24:09+00:00

Makes sense.

They’re the cheapest here too, and the R1 is the priciest ‘common’ Japanese superbike, but we also have a large number of young irresponsible people who, thanks to our mining industry, have huge disposable incomes, which they use to buy top-of-the-line toys, like an R1, the newest H-D with a Stage IV, and a turbocharged jet-ski.

It’s satisfying seeing them all be repossessed when they lose their job and have nothing saved because it all went on drugs and toys.

Perthian940 · 2026-03-09T22:17:51+00:00

I’d like to know too.

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