When I had appendicitis, they thought I had a secondary infection with a bacteria called gemella. Normally, it lives in your throat and is harmless. But if it gets into your bloodstream, it can grow on your heart valves and kill you. Turned out to be a false alarm, but the dr’s were kinda freaking out.

My mum has had her funeral planned and paid for since I was 15. There are to be balloons, not flowers, a yellow cardboard coffin, and her playlist includes Entrance of the Queen of Sheba (usually played at weddings).

If we can’t nail him for criminal charges, i’m hoping this constant legal back and forth in the civil courts bankrupts him and destroys his reputation enough that no one will ever go near him again. No money, no celebrity cachet, no power - take away his weapons, and leave him to rot in obscurity.

Absolutely, but those events also happen in other books. Hedwig is the first death in Hallows. And another example of people dying for/because of Harry - and also allows JKR not to kill a human character straight away.

the times I’ve had conflict with bosses I’ve been angry but somehow it manifests as tears when I just want to be articulate and righteous (I was right!) and I just can’t do it. It bugs me so much, man.

I thought that scene was needlessly cruel. But then, we know owls can be tracked and intercepted, and Harry’s owl was known to the Death Eaters, it simplifies the plot to remove Hedwig at that point, and it emphasises that this is real, lives are on the line, and death is possible if not inevitable (just cause this is…

Oh, and when I first read (on Jez, no less) that Sir Terry died, I immediately SOBBED. Zero to sopping snotty mess in half a second, for at least fifteen minutes. Mum and I were watching chronicles of Riddick, and she just did the there, there routine till I calmed down.

In high school, when i was a stone cold psychopath (ie a normal teenager) and I read the end of ‘the Positronic Man’ by Asimov and Silverberg. I lost so much cred that day.

Seconded. Since my bc turned out to be so effective in managing my moods and dysmenorrhea I started taking it month round. Best thing ever.

Ugh, that was so painful to read, she obviously knows very little Australian history either. (We don’t eat turkey to celebrate the slaughter of Aborigines and decimation of their culture. We eat lamb, beef and pork, preferably in the form of sausages.)

Tinted moisturiser, tinted lip balm, and depending on your eyes, a flick of mascara and/or eyeliner. A cute hair clip, so you can twist your hair and pin it, or a comfy headband to keep it off your face. Done.

This is such an interesting question. My mother is/was a nurse, nurse manager, aged care manager, with a reputation in the industry as being totally there for her residents (rarer than you’d think). Even now she cares for friends who are elderly or have mental health issues. As well as her church duties and pastoral…

Are the fitness tests graded by age too? After all, a forty year old can't perform at the same level as a twenty year old. And I know that the requirements for enlisting are less than after basic training, they don't expect you to be super fit without having actually gone thru the regimen they need you to do.

The Reject Shop had Christmas stuff oh, two weeks ago? So, mid October? And we don't have thanksgiving, so it's footy finals, mini-Halloween, then Christmas on our retail cycle.

Okay, obvs this is awful and racist, but i’m curious, what’s the actual law around asking someone to prove they are solvent before serving them? I know taxis are allowed to demand proof that you have money, but not actually take it until the end of the trip.

My ex and I took option D. We had decided not to get married, but to stay a de facto couple, but I have always hated my birth name, and the one upside to getting married was getting rid of my last name. So I asked if I could take his name. He was shocked, as why the hell would you want to burden yourself with that!…

It took me a few weeks to see JW, so I was well aware of the ‘controversy’ but honestly, Claire seemed to be exactly the kind of woman who started wearing nothing but heels in her teens, and would absolutely be able to run in those things (and given your muscles and tendons adapt, probably better than if she kicked…

Mmmmm, avocado blackcurrant burger.... I would probably eat that.

Oh, and another thing, McD’s may have lost jobs, but how many staff did the butchers put on to make the patties? Or if he automated too, how many jobs for the machine manufacturers? And repairers? Tiny incremental changes happen in both directions. And less people doing the same work, and making the same amount of…

I think you have it backwards. It’s not about total man hours, it’s about the efficiency of those hours. McDonalds in Australia now have custom made burgers with ‘gourmet’ ingredients - you ‘create’ your burger at a touchscreen station, you can add all the combo trimmings, it even asks if you want the weekly prize for…