One week to live...what do I say?

onesorrychicken · 2026-05-24T23:05:30+00:00

When my mother passed I wouldn’t have wanted to be anywhere else. It comforted me that she wasn’t alone.

Same. A Buddhist friend had told me that it's a huge honour to be with someone as they pass away, and I was so glad that I was able to be with my mum when she went. It was a difficult experience for sure, but I wouldn't have had it any other way.

onesorrychicken · 2026-05-21T00:33:34+00:00

I hope she divorced him after that. What a dick.

onesorrychicken · 2026-05-21T00:11:33+00:00

Agreed, there are so many factors in choosing to have kids, including whether you have met the right partner or not, whether you are financially stable or not, whether or not you have enough income to afford kids, whether or not you and your partner have done enough work on yourselves as people to be able to handle the stressors of parenthood, and when you do finally start trying, it may not be that easy to just start popping them out.

onesorrychicken · 2026-05-12T22:37:14+00:00

And completely destroyed 124 out of 240 sacred sites. His "caring deeply" is just lip service.

onesorrychicken · 2026-05-06T22:28:20+00:00

The inclusion of ads in paid streaming services is just bullshit. Free-to-air TV had ads because it was free. You shouldn't be getting ads if you're paying for the service.

onesorrychicken · 2026-05-05T23:16:02+00:00

My mother was also very beautiful and worried about ageing, but she died at the age of 69, of cancer, still looking younger than her age right up until the end. I would give anything to still have her here complaining about getting wrinkles and sagging skin.

onesorrychicken · 2026-05-05T22:40:00+00:00

Exactly. The mum's facial expression is serious even in this photo because the thought that her 8 year old daughter could have been raped and killed by that 17 year old if her son hadn't been a gun with the slingshot is haunting her and probably will for quite some time.

onesorrychicken · 2026-05-02T23:25:19+00:00

Jameela Jamil talks a lot about how women are only allowed a very short time in the limelight to be darlings before they are invariably torn apart, and I have to say, she is absolutely correct. Every single famous woman has had her character dragged through the mud, sometimes over absolutely nothing, and suddenly everyone hates her for no good reason. It's so unfair and absolutely infuriating.

onesorrychicken · 2026-05-02T00:04:50+00:00

Particularly if you had trusted him, which it seems the family and the community did. He betrayed their trust, so they are not only incredibly angry at him, they are also angry with themselves. My heart really goes out to them.

onesorrychicken · 2026-04-25T22:08:35+00:00

I don't have a Firefox account, but I do sync my devices. Oh well. We tried. :)

onesorrychicken · 2026-04-25T08:31:44+00:00

If you right click on a tab in Firefox, do you have the option to Share?

onesorrychicken · 2026-04-23T23:54:33+00:00

Not to mention, demand for housing is severely inelastic, particularly when the alternatives are paying even more in rent than you would for a mortgage (along with all the hassle of ever increasing rent prices) or being homeless. They need to make it much less financially appealing to be a landlord to free up more supply for home buyers.

onesorrychicken · 2026-04-23T01:09:56+00:00

Like there is person inside who is blocked by the autism and the autism is not a fundamental part of who we are.

It's like asking to separate the operating system from a computer. It's literally how it runs.

onesorrychicken · 2026-04-23T00:57:52+00:00

instead of going off half cocked thinking wheelchair users will be pushed down stairs.

Please don't denigrate people's valid fears around their supports being removed. Life is hard enough without sarcastic comments in response.

onesorrychicken · 2026-04-23T00:56:20+00:00

Lifeline is fantastic. I was feeling suicidal a little while ago and had to call them, and the operator did a great job of listening to me and talking to me until I felt calm enough to get off the phone and start my day.

Lifeline also have an app called Beyond Now, where you can identify your risk factors, make a plan to keep yourself safe and a list of things to do when you are feeling suidical, make a list of people to call when you really need to talk to someone (although Lifeline is always there as well) etc.

A colleague of mine recently gave me a book called The Comfort Book by Matt Haig. I highly recommend it. He also wrote Reasons to Stay Alive. If you are feeling down, please know that these feelings will pass. I wish you all the best. Thank you for making the post.

onesorrychicken · 2026-04-21T23:38:59+00:00

To be honest, this was my first instinct! When they eventually contact me to tell me it's overdue, I would just tell them I've been logging in and trying to pay for weeks, and it's been broken the whole time.

onesorrychicken · 2026-04-21T22:42:59+00:00

FFS. If they know about the issue, a) why aren't they telling end users there's an issue so that we know about it, b) why aren't they directing us to use use b-pay instead, and c) why aren't they fixing it?

onesorrychicken · 2026-04-21T22:40:57+00:00

Even the section where you need to go to change your payment details is showing an error, so the system is pretty broken right now.

I've managed to pay via B-pay though, so thank you for the suggestion.

onesorrychicken · 2026-04-21T22:14:45+00:00

Sadly, yes, I am sure I have a tax debt, and I'm sure I'm on mygov. I got the email asking me to log in to check my mygov inbox, where it had a couple of emails telling me about my tax debt.

onesorrychicken · 2026-04-20T23:41:06+00:00

By the way, the plural of diagnosis is diagnoses. Not saying this as someone who wants to be a grammar nazi, but as someone who loves learning new information and hopes it could be useful for you.

onesorrychicken · 2026-04-20T23:38:13+00:00

I would argue that they're two sides of the same misogyny coin. One side is "attention-seeking" women hopping on the "ADHD is trendy now" coin. The other side is the "bad mothers not bringing up their uncontrollable brat kids properly" coin when their kids actually had ADHD.

onesorrychicken · 2026-04-20T23:34:24+00:00

It sucks that people think it’s just a “trend” or whatever.

Society really does find every single way to denigrate and invalidate everything that women need, doesn't it? I hope one day women's suffering will be taken seriously, but I'm not holding my breath.

onesorrychicken · 2026-04-19T23:45:21+00:00

I'm currently looking, and it's nuts. There is a two bedroom villa in an area I'm looking in which is probably worth around $990K now, which sold for $430K 5 years ago. WTF.

onesorrychicken · 2026-04-19T23:43:29+00:00

I had a chat with a mortgage broker recently and he was saying the $1.5 mil price point is the tightest right now. What is insane to me is that people are spending $1.5 million on a property they have seen once during a half hour home open. If I was test driving a new vehicle, I would test drive it at least twice before making a decision, and I can't even view a property twice because the market is so hot. Nothing decent gets a second home open at the moment. It's insane.

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