Old&Cranky. Republican,long term glimp (that's a gimp with a limp) and getting glimpier by the day. I miss working for people with Autism.
Melbourne, Victoria
Joined January 2011
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GladBags has just stated that vaccination stats in the remote NSW indigenous communities is very low, due to hesitancy, so she's sending in the army & some, to recify this problem. Can anyone verify if there is any truth in this hesitancy, or if it yet another oversight?
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This Australian's reply to Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect.
"Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban in Afghanistan thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth."
Credit to: Jim Keller
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Pauline Hanson now says the cartoon mocking Jacqui Lambie's prolapse "wasn't as tastefully done as it could have been".
Taste is about execution. There is no tasteful way to mock a veteran's service injury.
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Feminism isn't needed"
Being raped by your husband wasn't illegal until 1993.
Women couldn't initiate divorce until 1969.
Women couldn't get birth control without a man until 1972.
Women couldn't buy a house or get a credit card without a man until 1974.
Women couldn't own their own business without a man until 1988.
WE ARE STILL FIGHTING FOR OUR RIGHTS.
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My male coworker complained that my bra straps were showing, he called it “distracting” and said the male equivalent would be a woman seeing a man walking around with his penis out. I just looked at him and asked if he genuinely understood what a bra is. A bra is underwear. Genitals are not. The actual equivalent would be a guy wearing his pants low enough that his boxers are showing….which plenty of men do without anyone acting like it’s obscene. The fact that some men can’t tell the difference between underwear and genitalia says everything. And somehow, they’re still trusted to legislate women’s reproductive rights.
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The shooter in the Bend, Oregon elementary school shooting is identified as John C Griffin.
The gun used was purchased by his mother, Shauntai May Nickerson for his birthday next month. Griffin had previously been enrolled in specialized program at the school for students experiencing intensive behavioral and social skills challenges…and his mother bought him a double-barrel pump action shotgun for his birthday.
She needs to be in prison.
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I just went to get an IUD consultation at a gynecologist and she goes, we can do it here, but just so you know, we don't numb. We won't numb your cervix here. And I go, why? And she goes, because the doctor at this clinic doesn't allow it. And I said who is that doctor? She pointed towards a male gynaecologist & said “dear even if I request it, he won't allow it”. And then i asked that male gynaecologist why he won't allow it, he told me because apparently, according to him, that's actually not even where the pain's coming from. So it doesn't even make sense to numb the cervix. i said its painful and he replied “its a part of being a woman”
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Dear Shire of Ashburton.
I think you should know Ben Cousins threatened to bury his wife in her car and to bring her children by so she could hear them playing as she suffocated to death.
He also told her: 'I am going to kill you. I'm going to take your life and freedom and the things you love the most'.
He was convicted on a charge of aggravated stalking and he breached a domestic violence order more than 20 times.
I can only surmise that you have no idea of Cousins' history of domestic violence given you've booked him to be the guest speaker at a community awards night.
This includes having him present an award to young people - that's a really shit decision given the children of abusers are also victims. Would you like the boys and young men in your community to aspire to be Ben Cousins or would you like them to respect women?
I notice the council provides support for local anti-violence campaigns and for organisations working with domestic violence victim-survivors.
All of this good work disappears when you platform domestic violence perps.
You may not have noticed, but Australia has lost 55 women to violence this year and all but three were killed by men. Male violence against women is increasing but you are sending a message to young men and boys that hurting women is no impediment to glorification.
If Cousins take the stage on your big night, you will be telling women that our concerns about male violence are nothing compared to this man's public standing.
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Apart from bankrolling racist One Nation out ugliest oligarch Reinhardt now sends troops into an Ecuadorian village she wants to start digging up. Brings more shame to Australia
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Hey Cornell, because of your shit decisions my 14-year old daughter had the absolute joy of listening to two boys on her bus talk about the situation at your university and then say “if (teenage girl) doesn’t give consent, I’ll just get her drunk and rape her”.
Nice fucking work
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How in the mind-blowing fuck do we live on a planet where women are diagnosed with depression at least two times more than men are but it’s only men who get to use depression as a defence when they’ve just strangled, bashed or murdered one or more other people?
#NewsCorpse
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Telling an eighty-year-old woman to "check the portal" for serious biopsy results is cruelty disguised as digital efficiency.
My 82-year-old aunt had a lung biopsy done two weeks ago.
The doctor told her they’d have the pathology report ready within five business days.
Friday afternoon rolled around. No call.
She dialed the clinic’s main desk, her voice shaking with anxiety.
The receptionist cut her off before she could finish explaining:
“Doctor doesn’t give results over the phone anymore. All lab findings are automatically released to your MyChart patient portal.”
My aunt said, “Sweetheart, I don’t have a computer. I have a landline on my kitchen wall. Can the doctor just tell me if I have cancer?”
The receptionist sighed into the receiver:
“It’s hospital network policy. We can’t bypass the portal. You’ll have to have a family member create an account and view the file.”
My aunt spent an entire seventy-two-hour weekend sitting in her recliner, gripping her reading glasses, convinced she was dying.
I drove out to her house on Monday morning, set up a profile on my laptop, and pulled up the records.
The result was benign.
The pathology report had been uploaded four days earlier.
A doctor spent three minutes clicking an upload button, and an elderly woman endured four days of sheer psychological terror because the hospital decided a phone call was too expensive.
Since when did delivering medical news become a self-service task?