What pisses you off?

[think positive]

/\ have you switched to an nbn provider yet? apparently we now have it! is it optional or am i already on their lines and havent noticed? i have a stack of pamphlets and letters to sort through, and really cant be bothered, as i really dont trust any of them! can anyone recommend a company? does it matter?




just switched the A/C to heat, i cant get warm today! yesterday i was between two bits of scaffolding sealing gaps, laying down on my crook shoulder, which feels like its gone back 6 months in rehab today, and it was belting down. Thank god anything i can do on scaffolding is now done! Hubby sure as hell wont let me near the paint gun!!

roll on spring!

[stui magpie]

Nah, haven't switched, I'm staying on the cable til I have to change.

Tech came out Monday while I was at work and replaced some connector or something in the box on the outside wall. Spoke to him on the phone and he reckons that should stop it and so far so good. May have had something to do with when they installed the second foxtel box a while back and had to run a second coax from the box.

[Morrigu]

THIS!

Cancer patients at Peter Mac harassed by anti-euthanasia protesters

Distressed cancer patients and staff have been harassed by anti-assisted dying protesters who handed them pamphlets describing voluntary euthanasia as "patient killing by doctors".

A group of protesters lobbied outside the hospital's Grattan Street entrance last week and distributed flyers describing voluntary euthanasia as "state sanctioned killing" purporting to be from the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre.

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/cancer-patients-at-peter-mac-harassed-by-anti-euthanasia-protesters-20190410-p51cps.html

[stui magpie]

^

Fkn numbats. The people dying of cancer and the staff trying to support them through it really need that shit.

So many sanctimonious self righteous tossers wanting to tell people how to think these days.

[ronrat]

There is a fire station near there. Use the trucks and hose those tosspots down the drown. The staff and patients (and families) have a enough stress without those pricks. Probably the same mob who are not allowed to vilify people outside abortion clinics.

[Bruce Gonsalves]

Sitting at home spaced out on Endone after slicing a couple of tendons on the back of my right hand. Installing a space heater when my hand slipped and whacked into a sharp metal edge.

Had surgery on Saturday, likely to be off work for at least two weeks. Sort of lucky Easter and Anzac day reduces days lost.

[think positive]

Ow, days lost would be the last thing I’d worry about

Get healed soon!

[stui magpie]

[think positive]

How the **** didthe prick who killed his wife only get 6-9?
He should have got that for lying to his daughter, and another lot for lying to the police.
He should have got that for the bit where he won’t disclose what happened.

This is not manslaughter it’s murder every day of the week, what a $£$%^%%$ joke our justice system is. What a $£$%^%%$ travesty

[Pies4shaw]

Well, because he wasn't sentenced for murder - he was sentenced for manslaughter. I've pointed this out many times before but I will say it again: it doesn't matter what the judge actually thinks, they can only sentence a person for the particular crime of which they've been found guilty.

Here are the sentencing reasons: http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/cases/vic/VSC//2019/253.html

At sentencing, the only significant disagreement between the prosecution and the defence seems to have been about how serious an instance of manslaughter this was. The Judge concluded it was serious - but not as serious as some.

Here, for comparison, is a statistical analysis the sentencing council did of manslaughter sentences over a five-year period a few years back: https://www.sentencingcouncil.vic.gov.au/publications/sentencing-snapshots/141-manslaughter-higher-courts. If one looks at the "imprisonment length" table, it looks like manslaughter sentences in Victoria typically ranged from 6 to 11 years, so 9 is not unusual.

We might or might not agree with the Court's reasons but it's no surprise that this was the outcome.

[K]

It helps the prosecution if they have the victim's body.

[think positive]

They have the body.

See that’s what i don’t like P4S the max is 20 the judge should be able to give that, does anyone really believe this was an accident? If so why would he not say what happened?

[luvdids]

It doesn't matter what anyone believes, it's what can be proven.

[Pies4shaw]

[Pies4shaw]

Here's some updated data: https://www.sentencingcouncil.vic.gov.au/publications/sentencing-snapshots/224-manslaughter-higher-courts-victoria

This covers the 5 years to 2017-18. No-one got more than 13 years. Of 68 people sentenced, 60 got less than 11 years and the most common sentence was - wait for it - "8 to less than 9 years".