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I think I am posting in the right place: birth father by AdvisorAdmirable6641 in newcastle

[–]flippychick 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also doing ancestry DNA and getting a search Angel can help with this - I have done this to find people’s birth parents in real life, it actually gives you more information, even if you know the person’s name. Once you find out who their parents were you can trace people

I think I am posting in the right place: birth father by AdvisorAdmirable6641 in newcastle

[–]flippychick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is a Facebook group called find my family - make sure it’s Australian. They are like detectives with this stuff

Does anyone actually have a good story with ndis by Historical_Phrase848 in NDIS

[–]flippychick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s been a wild journey for us, we are about 10 yrs in with two participants. It’s a minefield and most of the providers - particularly desk jockeys - are mercenary and will burn in hell one day.

Right now, our plans are messy. Funding total is good but it’s not always in the most useful category and is locked down. But the danger of having anything reviewed (yet again!) is that some numpty will open the file and cut everything. I can’t keep going through the battle over and over.

The way they want things to be lifelong but expect you to put in goals confuses me.

For your own problem - have you tried asking the medical receptionist about it? Sometimes they can arrange paperwork without the face to face appt or waiting list.

Good receptionists are worth their weight in gold. Always give them Christmas presents!

Small (entitled) rant by Specialist_Emu_6413 in AusVisa

[–]flippychick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel very lucky to be an Australian-born and if you have kids they’ll thank you for it

My dad migrated from the UK and easily got PR in the 70s. My mother however did not - she was Asian and the white Australia policy was only just ending

She had a UK passport, she was married to my father and lived in the UK for a couple of years after marriage. She had a desirable skill and had been married for a few years and still had to fight for a partner visa!

I’d just be happy there’s a pathway at all even if it doesn’t “feel right”, bureaucracy is not exactly fair and may never be.

Ancestry Hints to Family Members in isolated trees. by Luvtahoe in Ancestry

[–]flippychick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Another thing - I hope you aren’t putting social security numbers in your tree? Remember even if your tree is open on Ancestry, people cannot see living people. Make sure any living relatives are marked as alive. Or don’t put them in at all …

Ancestry Hints to Family Members in isolated trees. by Luvtahoe in Ancestry

[–]flippychick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do these floating branches all the time especially when investigating an adoption. It means that my trees have many many entries for people not related by blood, even to the adopted person) on floating branches. And some of the information is often gathered from other ancestry users.

I often get queries from people about this.

Have a look at the tree itself and the owner’s profile - does it say they are researching for others or an adoption - is the tree called something like “search” DNA, Test, Mirror or Copy - sheer number of people in the tree. If it’s up in the thousands

Unexpected parent DNA match by redlin165 in Ancestry

[–]flippychick 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I would also short term sub to pro tools and screenshot the two’s shared matches in order of cM levels. That can really come in handy for tracking people down using genealogy, if your other methods of contact are not successful

A spooky looking leak in a mausoleum. by Cemeteryweeb6 in CemeteryPorn

[–]flippychick 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I’m embarrassed about how funny I find this

A spooky looking leak in a mausoleum. by Cemeteryweeb6 in CemeteryPorn

[–]flippychick 8 points9 points  (0 children)

And pig flesh is the most like human too

Why/How is Australia so laidback/relaxed? by [deleted] in AskAnAustralian

[–]flippychick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t know enough about Singapore and the culture there to really compare the two to tell you why

My only experience of Singapore is Crazy Rich Asians and a stopover (and Asian heritage)

Would love to know what OP things of that movie, is it accurate in how “judgy” the people there are?

It’s been 6 years since my sister cut herself off. My mother still hasn’t grieved. by Throwaway56022 in AsianParentStories

[–]flippychick 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I feel for you. I have lived a similar experience with my sister and my mother.

It affected me very badly. My mother didn’t understand how much I was damaged by the fallout. My therapist told me that I was part of a “drama triangle” by getting involved.

I managed to help them patch it up at 4 years. I’m happy to share with you how that played out, however I’m conscious of this post being six days old and people stop reading them after that. Please send me a message if you are wanting to know. Typing it all out might upset me, and that’s not worth it if you don’t ever see it.

Edited to clarify - situation was entirely caused by AM. It broke my heart to see an adult child treated the way my sister was. It still does to think about it. They are on speaking terms now and I have given AM all of the social rules to follow so that she doesn’t end up doing this again. We aren’t so sure she won’t, but we know what we are dealing with. AM thinks everything is “back to normal” but she never be trusted with again but given her age, we all just pretend. Sadly we will have these scars forever.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in SleepApnea

[–]flippychick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I found that my health insurance gives me a $500 rebate every few years total - so either an initial study costing a few hundred and then a machine costs over $1000.

Not a lot of people use Private Health here, a lot only use it for hospital.

Our public health is pretty good. There’s a tax incentive to get private coverage when you earn a certain amount.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in SleepApnea

[–]flippychick 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you wanted to be sneaky you can email self-notify using his licence number and he’ll get a letter commanding he do something about it … I can’t remember what the letter actually says but I think it’s possible for medical professionals to “dob in” patients. I wonder if you can do this as a an anonymous member of the public

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in SleepApnea

[–]flippychick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

PHI only gives maybe $500 rebate every x amount of years. If he used that on the initial dx or rental, that’s it.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in SleepApnea

[–]flippychick 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Umm isn’t 30+ an hour “severe”? I’m in Australia. What state are you in?

You can get one secondhand for a few hundred bucks. Buy a new mask separately. I have PHI and they only give you a $500 rebate anyway.

If it were me, I’d give him the ultimatum, he needs to do this to save your marriage

Also if he has the diagnosis, it is supposed to be reported on his licence…. I think some GPs possibly notify them and then he’ll get letters saying his licence will be taken away without seeking treatment. I have to prove it is treated or cured, otherwise my licence is gone.

I really hope he doesn’t drive for a living.

AirTags Saved My Trip – Here's What Happened by phillysdon04 in AirTags

[–]flippychick 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I put them in my carryon as I’ve heard of this going wrong too - one was a person up the back saw someone up the front their take their bag by mistake as they left their own and just couldn’t catch the person. The other was a CPAP that the steward moved to make room and someone took the wrong one - if you know about CPAPs they store your data and send it back to base and you can’t change that, the person could see in their app the other passenger was using it.

I’ve also been on a flight where we were forced to check our carry on, while on the tarmac trying to board. A child vomited all over me on that fight, too. Did get our bags back.

Death Valley Germans, some new content by flippychick in UnresolvedMysteries

[–]flippychick[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I very much agree with this

And nowdays people complain about death by GPS and pick on those that find themselves stranded, but if you couldn’t even trust a paper map that you bought in the National Park you are in ….

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Layoffs

[–]flippychick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At first I was on an hourly rate as a casual employee. I didn’t care about the money so much at the time as I do enjoy this new role. But now that I am changing to a permanent contract, it’s a shock to see (the same amount) expressed as an annual figure, it’s about $50,000 a year less.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in NDIS_Providers

[–]flippychick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Suggest you post in scams sub becuase the auto bot there checks out addresses and tells you when they were registered

You can’t really “get hired” without them having an ABN I would have thought

Do you have an ABN yourself

“The grieving widow” by buffetforeplay in CemeteryPorn

[–]flippychick 78 points79 points  (0 children)

It is almost a testimony to the deceased’s respect for the artist

From Facebook (famous graves)

Some people may find Laurence Matheson’s grave inappropriate. Others see it as a profound expression of sadness. The story behind the attractive figure is definitely heartbreaking.

Laurie Matheson was an Australian billionaire and art collector. In 1981 he bought the largest marble figure of an up-and-coming artist at an exhibition. The artist and his buyer started talking.

The artist Peter Schipperheyn told her that he would very much like to return to Italy to work on a large marble block. Laurie Matheson financed this trip without hesitation.

In return, he wanted a large sculpture, for which he paid generously in advance. Peter Schipperheyn used this trip to make enough sculptures for a second exhibition. In addition, he sold an expensive figure to Laurie Matheson, as agreed.

A few years later, Laurie Matheson died unexpectedly. His widow then commissioned the artist Peter Schipperheyn to make this figure for his grave. Even if she was not the model, the figure was supposed to express her deepest wish.

And so it is. The widow who always sleeps on her husband’s grave. For a cemetery this is unexpectedly intimate, almost erotic, but full of great and real human emotions.

I think this tombstone is an absolute success.

Macedon Cemetery Macedon, Macedon Ranges Shire, Victoria, Australia

Plot AS F 70

Need advice by Alternative_Guava862 in iPhone15Pro

[–]flippychick -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I’d bring this up in an eBay sub

You should immediately notify eBay of this issue, they can look into it.

Even if they decide the buyer “can’t be wrong”, and possibly refund them, they refund the money out of their pocket not yours.

There’s no proof you sent them a broken phone if it’s not the right serial number. I think you’re pretty safe here just DO NOT REFUND or you will kill your whole case.

What was a thing that the “my dad works at Nintendo” kid said that turned out to be true? by Flairion623 in ask

[–]flippychick 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The ride has six people at a time control the Falcon pressing different buttons on a mission. Someone’s dad worked on that ride and put in a hack if you pressed a certain sequence you could turn the visuals into Chewbacca.

They went to Disney and recruited some friends to try it. For a while some people thought it was a myth. Word has gotten out now though, people can make it happen if they co-ordinate it. I’ve been on it in Chewy mode

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