They turned out to be perfectly fine. It was still several hundred dollars to be told, keep doing what you are doing independently to deal with issue, cone back in a year. Iβll take that, expected medication, happy to not.
05.03.2026 03:21 β
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Tim Minchin called me a genius. In front of hundreds of witnesses, mid-show.
05.03.2026 02:36 β
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Pro tip: donβt read the reviews while youβre in the waiting room for a first appointment with a specialist.
05.03.2026 02:34 β
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[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.]
From off-screen a newsreaderβs commentary comes:
NEWSREADER:
Extraordinary images here
of an expat in Dubai
[The influencerβs eybrows raise slightly]
β¦Having their first ever geopolitical thought.
[CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencerβs face. The intervieweeβs name is David Jones].
CLIVE MYRIE:
To explain the significance of this moment weβre joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent
DAVID JONES:
Clive, this is momentous
It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: βDubai Is Brilliantβ.
[Pointing at the screen, the influencerβs expression still the same]
You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self.
It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expatβs previous thoughts.
CLIVE MYRIE:
Which are�
DAVID JONES:
You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes,
I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa.
CLIVE MYRIE:
And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days?
DAVID JONES:
I think we can expect to see:
βI Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax Toβ
CLIVE MYRIE:
Mmm.
[Ends]
04.03.2026 11:14 β
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good 5:47 am to all the other parents-who-are-somehow-the-family-admin-person who are online before dawn, cutting and pasting the relevant bits, and only the relevant bits, from the school newsletter into emails to their co-parent.
04.03.2026 18:48 β
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Please follow the link to preorder my forthcoming how-to book: Using Power Tools On Ladders, with a convenient index of emergency departments across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand.
youtu.be/Aq5WXmQQooo?...
04.03.2026 01:11 β
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My phone camera is rubbish
03.03.2026 21:08 β
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Lunar eclipse starting now Melbourne folks, if you can see it
03.03.2026 10:00 β
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Since Prince went that is.
02.03.2026 04:06 β
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is this a legal condition of entry to a show? the babes in arms bit.
"Minors, including accompanied children and babes in arms, will not be permitted."
01.03.2026 23:22 β
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Imagine telling someone in 1926 that in 100 years, every person halfway educated in world affairs would keep a mental list of every country possessing bombs that could kill a million people at a time. :(
01.03.2026 06:39 β
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But they were good art!
28.02.2026 00:56 β
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David Shrigley thumb sculpture ruining the view of the NGVβs classic brutalist/modernist facade.
IMHO anyone who starts their visit to the NGV by posing thumbs up next to this horror should be banned from entering.
27.02.2026 23:12 β
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βResidiualβ for residual.
New Yorker typos getting worse. This one isnβt even a word.
27.02.2026 19:08 β
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In your job with your impressive qualifications you must get a bit of mansplainingβ¦
27.02.2026 01:29 β
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We ruled out an entire brand based on a patronizing male salesperson. Husband was fully on board with EV idea, I was the one with reasonable questions that were brushed off. Husband fully agreed: go elsewhere.
26.02.2026 22:00 β
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PSA. There goes my Monday nap.
26.02.2026 21:57 β
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Wind is shifting on these kids stuck in Syria I think. If the mums are willing to go to jail to come home, isnβt that what we have a justice system for?
26.02.2026 21:53 β
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Poor darling.
26.02.2026 21:50 β
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Ah fond memories!
25.02.2026 23:08 β
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Bluesky: whatβs wrong with America like we didnβt know.
FB: friendsβ kids and small but amazing achievements.
Instagram: puppies and magnificent horses wading through rivers and/or correspondingly tiny and cute mini horses. Plus the odd amusing movie clip. Am I doing it right?
25.02.2026 22:12 β
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Oh yeah. Forgot that. Bob Katter could only dream of that.
25.02.2026 22:09 β
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Coffee shop plays loud modern cowboy music and I still come here. Thatβs how good the coffee is.
25.02.2026 22:08 β
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Disturbing trend in those AITA FB clips is not so subtle antisemitism. Last one had a text laying out scenario where bf was mean with money. βOh and btw he wants me to convertβ. Ffs.
25.02.2026 22:04 β
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I had the honour of being snubbed by him because I worked for the Age. Exact quote was βwe donβt talk to the Ageβ.
25.02.2026 22:02 β
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I don't need to read this, I was a reporter on local papers in the 90s...
25.02.2026 03:58 β
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