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Post by HalcyonDaze on Oct 15, 2023 0:33:58 GMT -5
Apparently Gina Rinehart was at a No campaign celebration in WA last night. Talking mining.
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Post by Phar Lap on Oct 23, 2023 21:54:44 GMT -5
Just one of those days where I feel a bit blue and depressed. Today is my dad’s birthday, today is granddaughter’s First birthday. She has a temperature of 39.9° her mum’s taking her to the doctor it is not twelve bells and all is not well with the world.
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Oct 23, 2023 22:35:43 GMT -5
Hope granddaughter is OK.
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Post by groo on Oct 24, 2023 4:34:35 GMT -5
Thinking of you, Phar and hope that all turns out for the best. It's my gradddaughter's 18th today, and she's in the middle of her HSC (final high school) exams.
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Post by tzarine on Oct 24, 2023 16:54:31 GMT -5
phar hope your granddaughter is better
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Post by tzarine on Oct 25, 2023 16:22:39 GMT -5
our friend's mom died met her. she was lovely he was one of tzarevich's uncles & for a while we lived in the same faculty housing
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Post by Liiisa on Oct 25, 2023 17:16:25 GMT -5
So sorry, tzarine.
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Post by tzarine on Oct 25, 2023 20:13:43 GMT -5
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Oct 26, 2023 4:19:23 GMT -5
That’s sad for your friends, tzarine.
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Post by sprite on Oct 26, 2023 7:30:12 GMT -5
Today I learned the Lewiston is the second largest city in Maine, USA--it's as big as you'd expect a Maine city to be. I spent years living across the border and did not know that.
So it was sad and shocking to hear about it suffering a shooting, in the news, and then to read more sad information on gun violence in Maine.
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Post by Liiisa on Oct 26, 2023 8:07:02 GMT -5
Yeah, Lewiston. What a terrible month this has been.
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Oct 26, 2023 18:32:29 GMT -5
A 21-year-old uni student and sports coach killed at a big private school in the centre of Sydney’s CBD. Police have just located a body, possibly that of her boyfriend, a former student and current sports coach at the school, at the base of a cliff. I feel for the staff and students.
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Post by sprite on Oct 27, 2023 7:52:38 GMT -5
That is awful.
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Post by wombatrois on Oct 27, 2023 9:46:49 GMT -5
Ozzie - EX boyfriend. This is an important detail. There are so.many.men.who.feel.entitled.to.take.an.exes.life!!!!!!!
They were in a relationship for five weeks.
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Oct 27, 2023 17:59:19 GMT -5
One of the things that bothers me about him is that he was a former student at the school. It’s not unusual for schools to employ their former students is support roles.
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Post by jimm on Oct 28, 2023 15:15:04 GMT -5
Maybe not her student - they were both in their early 20s I thought?
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Oct 28, 2023 21:43:09 GMT -5
Not her student, he was older than her. But a sports captain in about 2017.
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Nov 14, 2023 7:31:03 GMT -5
A friend posted on Facebook that her son died from inhaling nitrous oxide from a cream whipper. She is an experienced senior nurse, and wanted others to know this is actually something that can cause death.
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Nov 17, 2023 21:43:35 GMT -5
Oh, that is very sad and such a pointless death.
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Post by Liiisa on Nov 18, 2023 10:35:45 GMT -5
That is incredibly sad. I didn’t know that someone could die from huffing nitrous but then it’s been a very long time since I was in contact with anything like that.
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Post by sophie on Nov 18, 2023 10:58:38 GMT -5
Sad on so many levels. But especially when one thinks how many people think this is harmless.
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Post by riverhorse on Nov 18, 2023 14:29:16 GMT -5
OK, after the above posts I really don't feel like I should be posting this, or at best posting on First World Problems, but I'm down to the last 4 rows of the beautiful knitting project I've been working on for the last few months and I kinda don't want it to end.
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Post by kneazle on Nov 18, 2023 22:35:19 GMT -5
Not so much sad but worried. My cousin who's a recovering drug addiction and nearly 2 years clean has had her engagement fall apart. He's 21 and she's a 44yr old grandmother so no one expected it to last but just worried about her sobriety.
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Post by Phar Lap on Nov 20, 2023 6:10:07 GMT -5
The feelings I get when the television series I have been watching has finished, I am happy with the happy ending but bereft at the close of what could have been until I find a new series to watch.
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Post by tinaja on Nov 20, 2023 9:10:58 GMT -5
I drove to my hometown yesterday. In town is looking better. A bad intersection finally fixed. Some new businesses. But in the country where I grew up, it is looking sadly like Appalachia. Houses left to rot. Junk cars. No pride in appearance.
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Nov 26, 2023 2:04:45 GMT -5
Husband of a friend, who was also in Clipper's football team, has died. While I knew he had been diagnosed with cancer a few years ago, not many knew the prognosis had changed. I'd seen him a few times this year at games (more just a nod or saying hi) and haven't actually seen his wife for quite a while. They had kept things private, which is totally their right and what he wanted, but that does mean it. has come as a shock for many in the local community.
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Nov 26, 2023 4:57:36 GMT -5
That is sad for all of you, Hal.
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Post by psw on Nov 29, 2023 10:17:35 GMT -5
Little things hit you sideways.
Mr.W is now gone 4.5 years, hard to believe. We both had the same battery-operated toothbrush in different colors. After he died I cleaned his up, took out the battery, tossed the brush-head and put the shell in a drawer of tooth-stuff in the bathroom. Recently mine started acting wonky - I think the switch is wearing out. So I wondered if his still worked. I found it, tried out the battery from mine and it worked just fine, so I transferred the brush-head and tossed my old one.
Suddenly it feels really spooky to be using something that personal and I really miss him, especially at the holiday season. Life goes on. His ozzie hat is still out on the dresser in the room where he spent his final months. Somehow he still lives here. I'm gonna cry.
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Post by sophie on Nov 29, 2023 11:39:13 GMT -5
Hugs, psw. You are right.. you never know when and what will hit you with grief.
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Post by Liiisa on Nov 29, 2023 12:37:56 GMT -5
Oh psw. Hugs for you.
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