I once asked my mum (a nurse) about that stat and she said it sounds more hopeless than it is because the vast majority of patients that undergo CPR are geriatric or had been in treatment for a terminal condition.

I usually think people are just perceiving a year as particularly good or bad, but 2016 really has been brought to us by misery and hopelessness.

I also immediately distrust somebody if my dog dislikes them.

I just feel sad for them.

You can do it big guy. My whippets “chase” my cats occasionally but they’ve learned there will be consequences for overzealousness. The cats are the bosses.

Every episode of the OA feels like it goes for ten hours. I gave up after three.

My senior blue whippet is actually going “grey” around the muzzle but whenever I say that people look at me like I’m demented.

I’m so happy Winston found you in time for the holidays

You’re making a distinction that a lot of victims reading your words won’t make. Experts think rich successful women experience family violence at much higher rates than we’re aware of but are less likely to do anything about it in part because they fear attitudes like yours.

I’m not saying you have to believe her, but I really wish people would stop using the fact that she petitioned for financial support as evidence against her, because seeing that is damaging to other people who are considering fleeing their abuser. It is very very common for abusers to ensure that their partner is…

You’ve touched on one of the reasons the militantly casual approach some pro-choice people take really concerns me, as someone whose lady hormones periodically try to kill me. They’ve overcorrected from the pro-lifers who act like an abortion is the worst thing that can happen. Abortions should be safe and freely…

I was talked into a Clinique moisturiser when I told the assistant I had sensitive skin and I swear it cost $80 but I could only use it once because it literally burned upon application. I’m fairly sure it was just acid masquerading as moisturiser.

You can do it!! Just avoid Queensland.

Don’t worry, I’ve lived in Melbourne most of my life and never seen a snake in the wild here. I have no idea how this happened.

Maybe the Florida of Victoria, which is the least Florida state in the country.

God I hate snow. As an Australian it always seemed wondrous and romantic to me until I lived in a place where it actually snows in winter and I realised that it is basically just very cold slippery rain.

1.5 foot!!!!! I generally think of Huntsmen as my friends because they kill cockroaches, but I think that would test me.

There are still loads of them but theyre more of a conservation problem than a threat to our lives.

I’m most horrified by this because I’m from Melbourne and we’re usually mostly quarantined from the worst of this stuff because it is relatively cold here. Why are there suddenly tiger snakes in suburban Melbourne??? I thought I was safe!!!

I’ve got a bit more hope for Graham, I think. I remember the look on his face during primary season. It pushed him so close to the edge.