I don’t know the name but probably. I drive past the posters all the time and always wonder why and who and also why?

I also work in the sector and you’re right. You can support people, guide them, make appointments, book them into detox or rehab, speak to them every day, but you can’t make them change.

I’ve been seeing big posters advertising ‘a night with Charlie Sheen’ at the Melbourne CEC. Can someone tell me why this is happening and who would be buying tickets? 

I read ‘People in Glass Houses’ by Tanya Levin about 10 years ago and yes, it really does seem like a cult.

Accurate.

Exactly. 

It’s ironic now. Lucky for who? Those who’ve come across the seas? The ones who get turned back? I’m disgusted by our country at the moment. 

I think everyone has different reasons. Mine was to sort of make a reminder/link to family that I lost. My best friend has severe mental health and issues and has a long history of abuse and self harm, so to her tattoos have been a way to turn cuts and cigarette burn scars into something she’s not embarrassed of if…

Good news for my 5 year old who would like to live off yogurt and cheese alone. Normal yogurt, frozen yogurt, yogurt in a squeezy pack, yogurt with fruit, yogurt with cereal, cheese stick dipped in yogurt, cheese slices, soft cheeses, cheese rounds...

Very much the case here as well (Australia). We even call ourselves ‘the lucky country’.

I have heard that ‘you’ll regret it when you’re older’ line so many times. Or ‘imagine what it’ll look like when you’re 80'. Um, it’ll look like the rest of me, wrinkled and lived-in. I hardly think what I look like will be at the top of my list of things to worry about in old age. I’m already going to be worrying…

Gross. I’ve just finished work for the day, seeing homeless clients who can’t even afford medicine. This is just truly gross.

I was going to say the same thing. It has forever tainted my feelings about him.

Who wants to read? Me!

Also my preferred letterbox checking shoe of choice.

Can I just say how fucking over I am of Australian politics? I know most of you guys probably don’t follow it by jeez I’m so disappointed and angry about it. Obviously Dutton is a right wing dick but all this stuff about new prime minister ScoMo being a moderate is just...argh. Fuck them all. 

Stuck to my professional boundaries and didn’t engage with a creepy over-familiar client. 

We do this here (Australia). It feels exactly the same as a Pap smear, is done by your GP (and free if you go to a bulk billing doctor), and results are back in a couple of weeks. I do think it’s worth mentioning that one of the reasons for the change to HPV screening is due to the positive effect that the vaccination…

Accurate 

Ah thank you!