Edit: DO NOT message me a simple hi or hello, with no information about you, Put some effort in to your message like i have, come on. Day+Attempt#189
Hello everyone, Thank you for taking the time to read, I know its long, I know - I know. But its worth the read, Trust me. I appreciate you immensely.
Here's a bit about me,
My name is Jay, I live on the East coast of the US. I'm looking for love - like everyone else on here.., but you may not believe or even be doubtful that I've never had a GF before with me being 26, but its true. I'm simply just not willing to "be with" just anyone and I'm very picky. I want us to be a match, more than just have similar things in common.
One thing I have always been told is that I'm a "Real Catch, I'd be extremely lucky to have someone like you" - WELL THEN TAKE ME. I'M FREE. LOL.
About me:
Physically -
~I'm a semi-tall guy, around 5'10.
~I'm thin but muscular.
~I have dirty blonde/ brown hair.
~Changing colored eyes.
~A voice nice enough to melt all your safeguards and get right into your heart and weak spots.
~I do not have any tattoos or piercings. Though I would like to get some eventually.
If you'd like to see a picture of me just ask and I'll show you - IF I may see you as well, I simply just don't want a picture of me out there for anyone to see.
-If there's anything else you'd like to know just ask.
Otherwise -
~I do have 3 pet bunnies I would be more than happy to show you, they are extremely cute.
~I'm a very honest and down to earth guy.
~I'm very patient and easy going.
~I'm very curious and inquisitive. I will try to ask everything I can to learn all about you haha.
~I'm Very VERY Kind & Caring, I will probably ask how you are feeling a bajillion times a day, simply out of care for you.
~I can get pretty clingy, and will always want your attention and to be talking with you. If i have someone im interested in i wont want to talk to anyone else🤷‍♂️
~I'm very trustworthy - you can confide in me, and entrust your deepest secrets and I wont tell a soul.
~I'm a HUGE hopeless romantic, im old fashioned and will always try to impress you.
- I'm, a BIG softie even though I may look a smol bit intimidating, but I'd do just about anything to see you smile or laugh. And yes.., I do mean anything.
~I'm a big goof - I will get up to some silly shenanigans ALL the time, I will crack dumb jokes and send you memes and tik toks just to make you happy, even if its from across the room I'd wait to see your reaction lol.
~I'm extremely loyal, and would never even think of cheating.
~I will cook for you, and clean up too, even around the house, I'm very self productive and don't ask for much. Just don't forget to kiss the cook.
~I'd also love to just cuddle up and watch a movie or read a book together, anything to get us closer. Id try to take you out on dates whenever possible haha. I have a million SUPER romantic date ideas I have but have never had anyone interested enough in me to take out. Here's your chance ;)
~I will always want to share stuff I find interesting with you, and try to share every moment of every day with you. I'm not looking for someone who can only talk for a small amount of time, I want someone who's willing to put in all the effort I put into them back into me, it goes both ways. If I'm "with" someone you are my TOP priority nobody and nothing else would be. You would be the only person I'd truly want to talk to, so rest assured I would NEVER cheat, even more so because no one is interested in me - Hence why I'm here hahaha.
I'm sure there is more to me than this snippet but I cant think of more at the moment haha, so get to know me and find out more about me.
Some of my interests are: Engineering- I'm a nerd. I admit it. I love being technical and hands on, I love building things. All kinds of things, from furniture, machinery, and reverse engineering anything I find. I love learning how things work and trying to improve things.
Music - I prefer music with a very fast pace, or with some very meaningful lyrics I can relate to. I love to sing along to music and songs that have a deep meaning behind it I can sympathize with makes it all the better. Some bands I like are: Bad Omens, Beartooth, Demon Hunter, MIW, I9K - The list goes on. I'm a bit of a metalhead unfortunately.
TV Shows & Movies - I love watching shows, and I'd love to stream some shows and have some E-dates with you, to get to know you, or if you are close to me, maybe we could do it in person. Some shows I like or more of the Fantasy/Sci-Fi, Comedy, Action, stuff like: National Treasure, Halo, BattleBots, Rick and Morty, AHS, Anything Marvel or DC, The Witcher, Wednesday, The Sandman, The Magicians, The Umbrella Academy, ETC.
Gaming - Yes yes I know, Basic guy likes basic stuff. But gaming has been a thing for me since forever. I know most of you wont care or want to hear that, but I'll leave out the specifics on this part unless you are interested in that, MEGA Bonus points if you are.
Here's a lists of Cons to dating me-
~I'm not Ryan Reynolds. Disappointing, I know.
~I will fight you on what goes on pizza lol.
~I'm not rich.., Yet.
~I can't pronounce Worcestershire.
~I'm slightly forgetful, but with good reasoning.
~(Not really a con but- some might disagree) I still have ALL of my firsts, Do with that what you will c:
~I've got an endless pile of love and affection and no one to give it to! What a dilemma! Help me fix it?
Other than that I'll save the rest for a bit more of getting to know each other.
Here's a bit of what I'm looking in you:
~Preferably someone with lots of free time, and loves to chit chat. I'm seriously not interested in getting 1 message a day. Though I understand people get busy, I personally am not willing to try to learn about you and form something with 7 responses a week. Effort gets reciprocated and I appreciate the time you put in me.
~Physically: -I’m not personally attracted to anyone who’s “curvy/ chubby”, I apologize. Not a shallow thing, I just dont have the attraction chemical in my brain for that, I’m sorry. -If you’re shorter than me, thats a plus to me. -I love dimples, if you have those when you smile, bonus points 😊 - I’m not sure what else to put.., but as for nsfw wise find out😂
~I'm a sucker for a different accent other than American, and if you have an Posh English accent you have already won my heart.
~I'm also only really looking for someone within the ages of 18-35. I don't want anyone old enough to be my mom lol.
~I'd prefer (But not a must) people NOT on the other side of the world, as other time zones SUCK. I don't expect to find anyone who also has never had a boyfriend either, but that would be a real plus. I also don't mind a LDR, but I don't want that forever. But it gives us time to get to know each other.
But as for attributes I'm looking for in you:
~Someone who is above all else very very Loyal and would never cheat.
~Someone who is Honest, and will tell me the truth over a little white lie.
~Someone who is Kind & Caring, who'd constantly check on me, and accept me for who I am & help me improve day to day.
~Someone who is trustworthy, and I can count on to keep my secrets safe, or even just help me remember things.., I do tend to be somewhat forgetful.
~Someone who is very Patient and wants to see me succeed and will help me do so, just like I would help you. Even if its small day to day things, I would appreciate your company ANY time.
~I want a partner who is Affectionate, can reciprocate, and loves to snuggle and talk about their day, and what their interests are, and what makes them happy.
~Someone who can admit they get clingy or overprotective is a bonus.
~A partner with good communication is key, if something wrong we have to be able to talk about it.
~A partner who likes to game with me or at least watch me play would be a plus but not a requirement.
~Someone with a good sense of humor and like to joke around, I am a big goof after all and I love to joke around. Sending memes is always appreciated and good to cheer people up too!
~I'd prefer someone with the same music taste, but not a requirement, Plus if you wouldn't mind if I send you love songs occasionally that's a bonus, or sending me some back haha.
~Being willing to voice call is a must, Texting forever is not the way to go. I have to know what your voice is like haha, later on we can video call if you are comfortable with that. I prefer chatting on Discord because Reddit messages of any kind I'm sure you know are unreliable and sucky in general. So please send me your discord if you have one :)
~I would LOVE to see picture of your pets if you have any. Bonus points if it includes your beautiful self haha.
I'm sure there is more I'm looking for but I cant think of it right now haha, I will have to edit this when I think of it.
Please tell me about you as an opener! I told you a good bit about me, now its your turn haha.
Tell me some things like -
~What's your name?
~Where are you from?
~How old are you?
~What are your hobbies / interests?
~What about my post interested you?
~Where is my TV Remote?!
~Selfie? Pet pics?
~Hit me with your best joke or meme :)
~What's your favorite candy?
I'd LOVE to get to know you, and see where things go.
But yeah, I know it was long I'm sorry haha. Send me a message and lets get to know each other! :)

The internet is a strange place, inadvertently designed to bring out the best and worst in people. People can be whoever or whatever they want to be. For predators and malignant narcissists and who live in their own delusions to begin with, it's like a hunting ground. They can create whatever persona they wish, fill their victims' heads with lies and half-truths that paint them out to be someone they are not, and by the time their victim actually meets them, it's too late - they've already created an image in their mind of this perfect person the narcissist has convinced them they are, and it usually takes time before the curtain comes down, the lies fall apart, and the mask breaks away.
I'm no saint, and I've learned my own tough lessons from the internet. I grew up under not-so-great circumstances, only getting 5 years of education before I turned 18 and was largely raised by a computer screen. Along the way, I catfished a woman in her mid-20's when I was 14-16 years old. It wasn't intentional at first, I told everyone that I was in my mid-20's and I worked as a bouncer at a bar in NYC. I never meant any harm, I was just raised by a computer and spent all my time alone playing MMOs and learned quickly that if I told people how old I was, they'd stop playing with me. So a bouncer seemed like a job I could bullshit about easily enough, and I was a big dude at 6'1 260lbs so I figured I could maybe pass it off as legit if it ever got hectic.
I started playing with this woman in her 20's and her husband frequently. We became friends fast, and soon we were virtually inseparable on the game. Her marriage ended up not working out, and after they separated she told me she had feelings for me. I should've admitted I wasn't who I said I was then, but I was young and dumb and she was the only real friend I had, so I kept up the ruse. Eventually I did come clean, and she broke it off with me not long after. We stayed friends, albeit with my heart hurting pretty bad, for a few months afterwards - until she met Jack.
When she first told me about Jack, he sounded like a great catch. He had his own IT business in Canada, was a couple years older but not by much, and she was infatuated with him. Obviously I was crushed and didn't handle it well, being a practically feral teenager at the time, so not long after they started getting serious she ghosted me altogether. I was around 17 at the time, and shit started going off the rails for me. After I got out of juvie, I started drinking heavily on a near-daily basis and selling and doing drugs. This led to a lot of pathetic, inebriated, desperate attempts to contact her and apologize for how I acted.
After months of being ignored, eventually grief and regret turned to anger, and finally acceptance. When the pain passed and I came to my senses a bit, I had an epiphany and realized that if I loved her as much as I thought I did, the best thing for both of us would be to let her go. I was a high school dropout with no job, selling drugs to get by. She had 2 kids, and what kind of life could I provide for them? She made the right choice, my age and the fact I made a grown woman fall in love with a teenager not withstanding, and as bad as it hurt I realized it was selfish of me not to accept the way things were and leave her alone, so I did.
10 years or so later, I had gotten my shit together. Worked my way up from cleaning dead shit out of swimming pools, to an entry level position at an environmental consulting firm, to a Project Manager at one of the largest firms in the field in the DC area. I'd met someone, got her pregnant, and for some reason I felt a pull to contact her again. Not to rekindle an old flame, but because she had been a tremendously positive influence on my life in a time where I had few. She was the first good thing I had in my life at a time when I was sleeping on old blankets on a hard floor in an abusive home, and what I'd held onto from our time together wasn't our romantic relationship, it was the best friend I'd ever had. And something made me want to tell her that all that work she put into getting my head right wasn't in vain, and I'd finally made it out of the gutter.
So I messaged her on Facebook, and to my surprise she actually responded. We started talking again, and soon it was back to every day. When my baby mama got back on drugs and turned abusive and was putting my daughter's life in jeopardy on a near-daily basis, she was the one who convinced me I could fight for custody - that I had to fight for custody. So I did, and I won, and I've had full custody of of my daughter since she was 6 months old and for the 10 years since.
But eventually we parted ways again. I'd started seeing someone, and part of me knew I couldn't commit to another woman while I was still carrying on with her. Our relationship had started turning romantic again, and she had dropped some hints about old Jack that would come to the forefront later, but she wasn't ready to leave him and I didn't want to be that guy, so I sent her a message explaining why we had to stop talking, apologized, and ghosted her.
7 more years went by after that night. The relationship I abandoned her for soured quickly when I found out that chick was a carbon copy of my baby mama, and I quit dating to focus on my career and raising my daughter. But on the long, 2+ hour commutes each way from work, I often found myself stuck pondering the "what ifs". What if I hadn't ghosted her? What if our age gap wasn't there, and we'd never had to split up to begin with? I knew in my soul I was never going to find someone like her again, but I made peace with it. I imagined her happy life, her kids with Jack, and convinced myself I made the right choice.
Then COVID hit, and near the start of it, I stumbled on a post on reddit about this dude who sent his high school sweetheart a message many years later apologizing for how he treated her and telling her how her presence impacted him, and I thought to myself, "Hey, I did that!". So I started writing a reply, and for the first time told the story of this girl and I. I'd never told a soul about what happened with us, not even my family or closest friends. Maybe it was the stigma of having an online relationship back in those days that carried over, or maybe it was just too personal to share with my friends or family. It got long, so eventually I just decided to start a new thread. When I was done, it was so long I figured no one would ever read it, but I hit submit anyway and put my phone down and got back to work.
Well, I was wrong. People did read it - a lot of people. Soon my phone started blowing up. Thousands of comments, hundreds of DMs, people offering me book deals and asking if they could have the rights for a screenplay or have me on their podcasts. It was fucking surreal, and being generally a private person who tries to fly under the rader, it got overwhelming fast. Eventually I reached out to her again on Facebook, warned her about what happened, and apologized for putting her business out there.
She didn't respond for a couple weeks, and when she did we started talking again almost immediately. And then in mid-April 2020, she told me that she needed to talk to me. She spilled everything, and told me exactly who Jack was. How he would hack into her devices to spy on her, threaten to kill her and her partner if she ever left him, say vile things to her and her daughters, calling the young girls cunts and bitches. How he alienated all her friends and family, and kept them all isolated in the house her parents bought them that he would rarely leave.
And I felt deceived too. All those years I'd convinced myself that she was happy, that she got together with Jack and was living the life she deserved. In reality, Jack intentionally got her pregnant not long after he flew out to her state the first time. He quickly moved into her house, and refused to work or provide not only for her kids or their kids, but for the other 3 children he abandoned in Australia and Canada who he had no relationship with, with 3 different women he victimized in the same manner. When she was 8 months pregnant with their first kid, she was working nights doing hospice care while he sat on his ass playing videogames all night and talking to his ex. In 17 years, this fucking loser with 7 kids by 4 women worked a grand total of 5 weeks, quit his job, claimed he got PTSD from the experience, and somehow manipulated his way into getting SSDI for it. They survived off SSDI and her parents' charity for years.
But Jack was reading all of this, because like I mentioned earlier, he was hacking her devices and watching us talk remotely. Jack knew the jig was up, and slowly started to unravel. She told him she wanted a divorce, and that she was not going to sever her friendship with me again. And he pretended to take that well, going as far as to try to befriend and manipulate me. He tried every trick to keep her he'd done for years - telling her he was going to get help and would change first, then when that failed he made suicide threats and somehow got his therapist to call her and tell her as long as she didn't leave him he wouldn't kill himself, and then he tried to intimidate her. Eventually he went off the rails completely and sexually assaulted her when he thought she was sleeping.
She called me from her parents' house crying the night it happened, and I convinced her to file a police report. She did, and a couple weeks later Jack got removed from the home, served with a protective order, and charged for sexual abuse. This of course did nothing to stop Jack - he broke into their house a couple days later when she and the kids were out to upload a folder of revenge porn to his Google Drive under the guise of wanting to drop off a cake for her birthday.
Then the stalking started. Jack would relentlessly message her all day and night on Facebook, switching between rage, trying to garner sympathy, convince her he would change, and threatening self-harm. We later found out via a cyber forensics report that he was hacking into the laptop she had taken with her while she hid at her parents' and had been so bold as to steal her Victim Impact Statement and send it to all his World of Warcraft buddies as a joke.
And he didn't just stalk her, he came for me too. Constant unauthorized attempts to access my accounts for everything from Windows to my bank, spam calls and emails - shit, the wormy little fuck even got his friends to stalk my social media and pretend to be strangers to gaslight me. I ignored all of it, and he got desperate enough to send me a lovely message attempting to extort and blackmail she and I, claiming he had "all my posts" but wouldn't do anything with them if I called him. The tipping point for me is when he subscribed to my small YouTube channel - which had nothing on it but 3 videos of my daughter. That veiled threat wasn't lost on me.
But Jack fucked up. I don't know if he thought his insane nonsense would scare me off, or if in his delusions he really thought he was the bad mother fucker he convinced himself he was, but Jack didn't know jack about me. I'm a crazy fuck too, and while he was sitting on his fat ass playing World of Warcraft all day every day for the past couple decades, I was selling drugs and hanging with some of the grimiest mother fuckers Baltimore had to offer. I've seen and experienced a lot of real violence outside a computer monitor, and the prospect of a violent resolution to this saga didn't phase me a whole lot. I'd spent years trying to be a better person and avoid conflict, but I sure as shit wasn't afraid of it either. Leading up to this point, I was already trying to calm myself down and talk myself off the ledge and not pack my guns and drive out there to keep watch until the police did their thing and put him away, which took a lot longer than it should have - this fucking guy violated his protective order 80 times in just a couple weeks.
So I called him, and he spent the next 26 minutes crying over the phone like a drunk little bitch, while I tried my best to be kind and to talk him off the ledge. And yes, I did record it, and yes it is hysterical listening to it now in hindsight, and yes I still have the recording. Anyway, I told him he was scaring the shit out of her and the kids, and he promised to leave us alone and I told him if he could chill the fuck out I would try to talk her into giving him more access to the kids. The next day, she got an email from her first ex-husband - Jack had reached out to him with a link to my reddit post trying to get help from him to come after me, which he promptly shut down and sent to her.
The next few weeks were terrifying as Jack descended further into madness and became more scared and desperate. He knew she was gone and not coming back, and he was facing real charges and real jail time, and while Jack is a fucking moron in a lot of ways, I'm sure he knew a fat, greasy computer nerd with a sex offense conviction wasn't going to have a good time in County. Jack was a murder-suicide waiting to happen, the police were doing nothing to stop his stalking, and I felt powerless to help her. Eventually after he sent her $50 over PayPal at 4:00am with what appeared to be a suicide note, I had enough. I called the DA's office, asked them why the fuck this was being allowed to happen, and promised them I'd been taking meticulous notes and if anything happened to her I would be taking it straight to the media. The DA told me if I was going to make threats the conversation was over, but sure enough he was finally arrested not long after.
Ironically we had remained platonic friends through most of this, but the shared experience of dealing with this psycho brought us closer together and things quickly changed. We knew he wasn't going to stop when he got out of jail, I felt responsible for her safety after my stupid reddit post started this chain of events that led to Jack's unraveling, and with the world seemingly coming apart during COVID, decided if we were ever going to meet it felt like it was now or never. So I booked a plane ticket across the country, spent a week with her and her family, and a few days after I came home she flew out to visit me and meet my family.
We went into it with no expectations. I fully accepted we might not click and our relationship would go back to being platonic. For my part, I just wanted the closure of finally meeting this person who had such a profound impact on my life before COVID mutated or something and killed us all.
But we did click, and the next two weeks were life-changing. I met and cooked for her entire extended family the day after I arrived, and it went well. While I was there I got her mom's email address, and after I went home I had an idea. I knew her parents had met in DC, so I emailed her mom and asked her for a list of places that were special to her, and she told me about the church her parents had met in. I asked her to keep our conversation secret so it would be a surprise, and she did.
So when she comes out to the east coast, I take her on a tour through DC and park the car a few blocks down the street from the church. As we're walking by, she notices the church and comments on how beautiful it is.
I keep it cool and respond, "Yeah, that's a pretty important place.".
She looks at me and says, "Oh? Why's that?".
"That's where your parents met.".
She audibly gasps, giddily bounces a bit, starts to cry, and we pulled down our masks (fuckin covid) and kiss. Her reaction is easily one of the greatest memories in my life. What I didn't know at the time, was that her parents had told her about that church since she and her siblings were kids. When the church changed denominations, the church took the angel statue off the top and brought it back to her home state, and her parents had taken them to see it a few times throughout her childhood.
Anyway, getting sidetracked here, the sappy love story stuff is a different story altogether.
A month after we met for the first time, I had quit my job, sold everything I couldn't fit in my sedan, and she flew back out and drove across the country with my daughter and I.
Sounds crazy as hell, and it was, but it worked out better than it should have. I got a good job making more than I did back home right away, her kids loved me, and my daughter loved her and adjusted to her new home fast. And by the time Jack got out of jail for felony cyberstalking, sexual abuse, and Intimidation of a Witness in a Domestic Violence case, we had cameras all over the house, and I had taught my fiancee how to shoot - which she quickly became better than me at.
But Jack's time in jail didn't slow him down, and the 2-10 year suspended sentence didn't deter him at all. As a matter of fact, on his first day out one of the first things he did was start trying to hack her accounts again. He managed to con an elderly couple he knew threw World of Warcraft from a different state into letting him live with them, and from there he spent a lot of time and energy stalking us and hacking our devices to the best of his ability. He also convinced these poor, very stupid elderly people from his videogame to bankroll a lengthy, expensive divorce. Somehow a man who hadn't worked in almost 20 years managed to run us into over $50,000 in legal fees in two years. How a marriage with zero assets turned into a two year battle when both parties were officially in poverty before the divorce, or how the family courts never saw through the bullshit is beyond me.
To Jack's credit, he did a pretty good job remaining a thorn in our side. Largely due to the complete and utter ineptitude and indifference of the police and District Attorney who could and should have put a stop to his bullshit at any point in that time. Old Jack got hit with a permanent criminal stalking injunction and a 10-year protective order along with his probation, and no amount of effort on our part would get the police, DA, or probation to put a stop to it, despite mountains of evidence.
He successfully managed to draw the divorce out right up to the wedding we planned a year and a half prior, with his attorney putting in motion after motion to delay the process. With all our family and friends coming from all over the country and as far away as Japan, we accepted our wedding would just be a celebration and not an official wedding. Until the night before the wedding, she got a call from her attorney - he had made a call to the clerk's office at the court and got her to move the paperwork to finalize the divorce to the top of the pile, and she was officially divorced. Our wedding would be a real wedding after all, and despite Jack's best efforts, he lost again. We had the wedding on a remote ranch that we rented for a week, and foolishly decided to cater and decorate ourselves, which would have been a colossal undertaking without the extra 4 hours to drive into town and get our marriage certificate at the courthouse. But we pulled it off and it was everything we could have hoped for and then some, and we were officially married.
Jack of course didn't stop after the divorce was finalized. The list of shit he tried to do to us before and after that is too long to spell out in an already too long post, but here are some choice bits:
He wrote a demented letter to the oldest of his kids with her who severed her relationship with him, calling my wife and her mother "vipers and cowards" and promising we would "answer for what we've done sooner or later".
He continuously hacked our computers, miscellaneous accounts tied to our emails, and any other devices he could get into - dropping in remotely via Amazon Alexa, phones, etc.
He set up bots to send us thousands of spam emails, sign us up for dozens of international newsletters all at once, and requests for consultations for things like solar panel installations.
He told the kids vile lies about my wife and I, although the most egregious was when he used a court-ordered therapy appointment with his second oldest daughter to accuse me of distributing child porn, told the therapist I am an "evil man", and told him I wasn't safe to be around his daughters. This led to her being forensically interviewed by the police, where she spelled out what happened, but of course they did nothing.
He gave the two youngest children cell phones to sneak into our house, with Google accounts activated and location tracking turned on.
He sent packages to our house 5 times in the space of a few months, one of which was addressed to himself and contained nothing but a bag of Stevia and a pack of gum. These packages generally came to our door the day before his scheduled visitation with the kids.
During this time my bank account was hacked four times in the span of just a few months with nearly identical fraudulent charges. In each of these instances, I had completely changed my bank account information.
He filed false reports with CPS twice, alleging we were beating the children, locking them in the closet, and not feeding or bathing them. This led to a CPS agent coming to our house to investigate.
We brought all this to the police over and over as it happened, and they did nothing. The DA running the case wasted 5 months subpoenaing a fake email address that we told them when we reported it was fake and spoofed. After finding out about that, we went to the DA's office to find out what the fuck was going on. A Victim's Advocate met with us, and was horrified about how the case was handled, looked up the prosecutor assigned to the case, rolled her eyes and said "Oh...it's Stephanie", confirming what we already knew - this prosecutor was completely incompetent, an elect3d politician moonlighting as a prosecutor. She called us the next day to tell us the actual DA called a meeting and a warrant was put out for Jack's arrest. For some inexplicable reason, they pulled the warrant back, and the advocate told us it was because the DA was pursuing more serious charges.
Then, they stonewalled us. The Victim's Advocate we had met with that actually tried to help us was moved off our case, and the new one assigned refused to talk to us or return our calls. The few exchanges we had with her, she made it abundantly clear she had the DA Office's interests in mind and not ours. We decided to just stay quiet and let the process play out and hope for the best, up until we received an email on Friday night before Election Day from the Detective telling us Stephanie had closed the case. I assume she didn't want her incompetence coming to light, and didn't want to shut the case down before Election Day knowing we would be on the warpath.
Eventually, Jack caught wind that he was officially under criminal investigation, but clearly had no idea they were never going to press charges. He got quiet for a bit, until he was ultimately let off probation early. We still get the occasional reminder he's out there watching, but his fear of going back to jail and the belief it might happen cowed him a bit. So instead he harasses us through the family courts, filing constant bullshit motions with no evidence to support them, and for some reason the courts let it continue. Somehow a man who makes ~$800 from SSDI and is only paying $30 a month total to support his 3 kids with my wife is able to fund tens of thousands of dollars worth of legal proceedings every year, and no one in the family courts has ever stopped to ask how he is paying for it or why all this money isn't being spent on supporting these children.
But despite Jack's best efforts, his bullshit hasn't worked. My wife and I have been together for four years soon, and married for two. His kids call me dad and hate his guts, only seeing him because the courts force them to. I continue to advance in my career, landing two major promotions in the past 2 years and now running a division in one of the largest companies in my field in this part of the country. I just enrolled in college to go back to school and get a degree in family law with a focus on domestic violence. The most frustrating part of the whole experience with ol' Jack was having no one to turn to when all the institutions who were supposed to keep this from happening ignored us, and even though I'll be well into my mid 40's before I accomplish my new goals, I plan to advocate for domestic violence victims and do everything I can to lobby for change to these laws to keep as many people as I can from going through what my wife and I did. I learned that the only way to beat these people at their game is to play on the same field right along with them, and that's what I intend to do.
My wife went back to work too once she healed from some of the trauma, making $30 an hour as a personal assistant for a fella who's had two movies made about his life. Our kids struggled a bit with school and dealing with all their biological parents' issues, but they quickly turned it around and have been excelling. We're all happy, healthy, and doing better now than ever.
As for Jack? Well, he's pushing 50 and still spending his days alone, playing World of Warcraft and jerking off in this old couple's basement. Nothing has changed there, and now he's too fat, old, and visibly an enormous fucking loser to victimize women in the same way he did in his youth. I have no doubts he'll find another victim eventually, probably when these old weirdos bankrolling his life now finally wise up, but one thing Jack forgets is that karma is a mother fucker, and I have a giant database of evidence that I can and will send out to whoever I please to help pull that mask down and keep him from doing this to someone else. Nothing is more appealing to a potential love interest than hearing their man cry like a drunk bitch for 26 minutes to the man he claims stole his wife, while simultaneously admitting to sexually assaulting said wife.
As wonderful as it would have been for Jack to go to prison where he can't hurt anyone again, there is some catharsis knowing Jack will forever be in a prison of his own making. His children want nothing to do with him, and he'll never see them graduate or walk them down the aisle. Jack will die miserable and alone, and in his narcissistic delusion will still be blaming everyone else for the colossal failure of his life, while continuing to fail to grasp the one thread that ties all his misery together - himself.
And since he somehow manages to find and stalk most of my social media, I'd wager Jack will end up reading this too. I hope he does in all honesty. And Jack, if you are reading this, I want you to know that you can kick, flail, manipulate and lie, cry and complain until you're red in the face. None of it matters. You don't matter. You'll leave this world alone, as sad and bitter as you are now, and the world will be a better place for it.

I broke up with my boyfriend of 6 months for good today ,and sort of,3 days back. So what do I mean by "sort of" if you might be wondering, I'll give a brief about my relationship. He was my bestie's friend from her old school and we started texting after he found me cute in one of the snaps my bestfriend sent. We had been talking for a year,but he had confessed his feelings from the beginning but I had rejected him cause I never met this guy before and all I knew about him was his online persona. Throughout the year we were good friends I went on a date with another guy and he was interested in a few girls but none of which worked out. My "date" also obviously didn't work out and he kept trying his shot with me even though I rejected him multiple times until finally I agreed to meet up with him once. Well to say the least I liked his personality after we met up and we started going on a few dates and eventually started dating. He said 'I love you' to me since the first date which I kind of found weird but chose to ignore as different people experiencing emotions differently. Fast forward the first month was everything I ever wanted all sunshines and rainbows and things started going south from the next. It started with him being very distracted during calls and not paying attention or moody which I was bothered by and it wasn't a once or twice kind of thing it went on for MONTHS regardless of me expressing my dislike (might i add i dont usually do calls but i wanted to do it with him). It started off with small things like that and gradually our arguments increased to being weekly then daily. He used to do and say shit, apologize, then promise to be better and repeat. It was a LOOP. Recently it was our 6 months, it was supposed to be magical as we had everything planned out a good hotel a fine dining and all. He pulls out a promise ring and promises to be better with a huge ass speech and in the same night he told me that realistically a future between us won't be possible cause his mom won't agree. I was devastated it's not like I didn't know but you didn't have to point it out on a day that was special to us? Right after you gave me a promise ring??. We argued and I wanted to leave and go back home but he wouldn't let me and in the process of stopping me,he was forceful and accidentally ended up shoving me causing me to fall and hurt my back. I started crying cause I was shocked. He apologized but I was traumatized. We sorted (?) Things out that week and in the weekend I opened up to him about my past and family trauma after his constant pestering and we had Intercourse. Might I add this was my first relationship and I was a virgin but he wasn't and it wasn't even his first relationship. The arguing never stopped though, despite him knowing that I was going through shit in life and it got worse to the point I had to beg him to not be insensitive for a day. Last weekend we argued again (obviously) but what he said this time hurt me the most. After we did the deed again and when I told him it was hurting for me, he told me "you didn't even do anything for it to hurt"
For context. I have an undiagnosed illness that I'm still figuring out what it is. It makes my abdomen pain and I often faint at times due to the pain and it has been going on for a year. He knew it but still said those words to me.
More details in the next post.

Any pretty Latina girl (18+) who lives in the west coast of America message me on here if you would like a cute and loving guy (23) to kiss and massage your feet after you get home from work.
I am desperate to kiss and massage a pretty Latina girls feet after she’s been in her socks and shoes for atleast 10 hours.
I don’t work here anymore but I need to date a pretty Latina girl who works here so I can kiss and massage her feet after she gets home from a 10 hour shift.

[This is intended to be humorous]
The Nasuverse isn't real. Tsukihime, Fate/Extra, Mahoyo - they're all lies.
Let me explain.

Tsukihime

Firstly, Tsukihime was never real. People who say otherwise are trying to gaslight you. Don't fall for it. Have you ever seen someone play Tsukihime? I've never heard about it.
Think about what everyone says. It doesn't line up. Shiki Tohno, main character. But why isn't he in FGO? Why isn't he in any other game? Would anyone really write a main character who's a serial killer with a lack of respect for consent? Of course not.
Arcueid? Yeah, of course they tell you she's a great heroine and totally well-written and whatever. She's just Archetype Earth! The FGOminatti are pretending an entire other game exists for her. Don't buy it.
Who the hell even is Ciel? Akiha? Roa? Hisui? Kohaku? They're not in any other stories. What proof does anyone have Tsukihime exists?
Would any REAL visual novel have THREE different characters named Shiki?!
Melty Blood is just an Under Night In Birth spin off. It even has Eltnam from UNIB. It's also a fighting game. Fighting games don't have stories. Tsukihime can't exist. It's a story.
This so called Tsukihime is not even on Steam. It's on Nintendo? Of course, but do we know it's actually there? It's Japanese, both the game and the Nintendo. I don't own a Nintendo, so clearly no one else does either. Who's to say it isn't just a big prank by Japanese people?
Nasu is even an FGOminatti secret agent himself. "Ritsuka Fujimaru is the life I'd like to have led," he says. We can't trust a word out of his lips. He's compromised. Remember, he's the one who wrote this totally unrelated Artoria who's completely in love with the Fujimaru who now has a personality which totally isn't just Nasu writing his own personality into the game, no siree!
THINK ABOUT IT! "Oh man, I sure love Tsukihime's main character Shiki Tohno"- LOOK AT SHIKI'S TRAITS!

• Black hair (just like Fujimaru)
  
• Japanese (just like Fujimaru)
  
• Teenager (just like Fujimaru)
  

Oh and wouldn't you know it, he dates Arcueid. Hoo boy! This guy who's totally not Fujimaru dates totally not Archetype Earth!
It's FGOminatti propaganda! There is NO Tsukihime! They just want to go on a date with Archetype Earth and are making up a fanfiction about it! And tricking YOU, an innocent victim of the FGO agenda into believing it!

Kara no Kyoukai- Garden of Sinners? It doesn't exist either!

Hoo boy! Look! It's Shiki Ryougi - literally just that FGO character they're not even trying to hide it now - and she fell in love with that completely average Japanese teenager who's totally not just Ritsuka with glasses and a different name, and now they have kids together and are married!
Does the FGOminatti agenda ever end???! It's a Guda x Servant child fanfic!!! It isn't real! Of course it isn't!
AND NO ONE WOULD WRITE A FRANCHISE WITH FOUR SHIKIS!

Notes? NOTES?

Yeah, it's literally FGO's Servantverse! It even has Mysterious Heroine X renamed Ado Edem!
No self respecting story would name the character who goes around shooting gods with a gun, GUN GOD! That's so stupid it's not even funny! It can't be real!
FGOminatti of Nasu were so mad that no one took their dumb stupid idiotic moronic blasphemous inhumane failure of an event story seriously that they collectively decided to pretend it was the origin of the Nasuverse! Down with the FGO agenda!
Look on me, GrandOrder! Don't let them brainwash you!

Fate/Extra

Of COURSE, they'd say it exists! The FGOminatti is gaslighting you!
The PSP does not exist! There can't be games for it! And spare just a single brain cell to think about the alleged 'plot'! Some totally normal guy who has no special qualities, is a piss poor mage (but he's brunette so he's totally not Ritsuka) contracts with TOTALLY NOT Artoria, TOTALLY NOT Archer or a new fan-service character who's just Morgan if she was a fox-girl and genki! And wouldn't you know it, all of them fall in love with him!
Oh, and Rin is also in the game and she also falls in love with the protagonist! She also just so happens to look identical to Ereshkigal! They even have an homunculus who falls in love with the totally not Fujimaru! They literally added Indian Sitonai!
The main villain is just Kirschtaria if he was young! That's how unoriginal the FGOminatti is!

Fate/Extra CCC

Firstly, that's a stupid name. What idiotic story would be named the same as the previous entry but with CCC slapped on? Imagine if Nintendo created a sequel to the Nintendo Wii and named it the Wii U.
Secondly, it's literally just the FGOminatti simping for BB in that one SERAPH event! They're gaslighting you into thinking there's an entire game where BB wants to date Totally Not Ritsuka to the point of trapping them in a school! They even added Kiara from FGO into this dumb agenda creation!
Oh, and wouldn't you know it! The true ending of the game has the protagonist and BB kiss as if it wasn't enough that they added FOUR Sakuras all of whom are in love with the Not Fujimaru! They even re-added Rin and Indian Illya/Sitonai to simp for their self-insert!
Young Kirsch even has a clear gay crush on the main character! They couldn't stop with shipping all the girls with their horse shit cardboard cutout, now they're adding Kirschtaria Wodime Lily to their harem under a different name!

Mahoyo

What do you want me to say?! It's Aoko from FGO, Soujuuro from FGO, Alice from FGO and all of them are in a strange polycule.
...
The FGOminatti AGENDA IS BAITING YOU INTO THEIR SHIPS! DON'T BELIEVE IT!

Samurai Remnant

IT NEVER STOPS! "Oh there's a game where Iori from FGO is the main character"-
What proof is there? I don't have money to buy this game, so how can you show it exists?! It's not on my PC then it doesn't exist, PERIOD.
Similarly, Baldur's Gate is not actually real because I don't own it.

Fate/Apocrypha

Astolfo, Mordred, Sieg- all characters from FGO.
The FGOminatti Agenda has invented some dumb fake character who's a homunculus and has super duper powers while having zero personality.
It's so that they can point to this imaginary cardboard to make their own self insert look better by comparison!
DON'T BE BRAINWASHED!

Fate/Stay Night

This is even worse than any of the others! The FGOminatti Agenda has gone too far!
They claim there's TOTALLY a longer than Bible sized visual novel with OH SO GREAT themes! What proof do we have it's real?! None! Have you ever seen Fate/Stay Night on Steam? On the PS4? On the Xbox? On any online retailer?
Even the backstory they make up for their protagonist is bullshit! "He saw everything burn down in Fuyuki and came out of it wanting to save the world-" THAT'S LITERALLY JUST SINGULARITY-F! They're not even trying to be original!
The main character is literally Muramasa but young! Look at his dumb accomplishment list because FGOminatti couldn't stop wanking their husbando!

• Actually he's Archer EMIYA the Counter Guardian (literally just the guy from FGO)
• Raised by totally not Counter Guardian Assassin EMIYA
• Has the super duper ultra Noble Phantasm which just so happens to be the perfect counter to THE STRONGEST HERO to ever EXIST!
• Rapidly grows faster than actual accomplished mages!
  And look at his bullshit romances! "Oh, his soul mate is Artoria-" The FGOminatti couldn't keep their disgusting fetishes to themselves! They're literally shipping MURAMASA AND HIS DAUGHTER NOW! THOSE DAMN AKIHA ROUTE FANS!
  

Then there's Rin- literally Ishtar but nicer! And Sakura who's just Kama! And it's supposedly an ero-novel so he has the say gex with each of them!
It doesn't end there! FGOminatti can't stop with that amount of degeneracy! They added RASPUTIN, and made him their main character's love interest! The FGOminatti WANT TO HAVE MELUSINE'S TIME PARADOX WITH THE MAN WHO MURDERED DA VINCI!
And even that isn't enough for their disgusting selves! They added Fujimaru Ritsuka again but named him Issei, and then implied that he and Muramasa have frequent Persona 5 references by having him quickly strip for Muramasa Lily!
And look! LOOK! Muramasa- Shirou- he's literally just gender swap Gudako!
Can such a stupid, BABOON-BRAINED game or visual novel really exist?! NO! IT CANNOT! THEY'RE LYING TO YOU! IT IS NOT REAL! DON'T LET THE FGOminatti GASLIGHT YOU!
At approximately 7 PM in the US West Coast, the FGOminatti will launch a rocket ship to space. This rocket will contain a neurotoxin that will *trick all people into believing that the Nasuverse is real. *
They have also replaced the President with Fujimaru Ritsuka after developing sufficient technology to teleport him into reality.
Take my hand. We need to stop them.

REJECT THE FGO AGENDA!

MANILA – Japan Ambassador to the Philippines Endo Kazuya on Wednesday assured the support of the Japanese government in the acquisition of five more capital ships by the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG).
The assurance was made during Endo’s courtesy visit to PCG Commandant, Admiral Ronnie Gil Gavan at the PCG Headquarters in Manila.
In an interview after the courtesy visit, Gavan said while the Philippines welcomes all offers from various countries, Japan has been providing the country “with the most opportunities.”
“We are very grateful for their cooperation to make sure the WPS [West Philippine Sea] remains peaceful, stable, and prosperous for our respective people,” he said.
PCG spokesperson, Rear Admiral Armando Balilo said the Philippines and Japan will conduct a note signing for the acquisition of five 97-meter multi-role response vessels (MRRVs) on Friday.
“The contract signing will ensure thereafter. We expect the arrival of the five 97-meter MRRVs to expand the PCG fleet around 2027 to 2028,” Balilo said in a statement.
To date, the PCG has two 97-meter MRRVs–the BRP Teresa Magbanua (MRRV-9701) and BRP Melchora Aquino (MRRV-9702).
Both ships are currently active in maritime security and safety operations in the West Philippine Sea. (PNA)

Hello, I spent some time analyzing the audio and overall song production, and here are some of my conclusions:
Remastered audio for tracking time-stamps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X63YuRSS_AM
Key & Tempo: 110.3 BPM, C / Amin
Origin of recording: Judging by the waveform, overall dynamics, huge compression, static noise, and mid-range distortion, my first guess would be that the snippet comes from a radio recording.
However, since we can hear a splash & water sound effect at 0:13, it could definitely come from a movie or TV show, so it could be a TV or VHS recording. Also, the audio has been cut at 1:05, affecting the transient of the kick-drum and the background synth chords (meaning it’s not natural). This is typically done in video production (movies, tv show, ads, etc) so the track can fit in a specific time range, adding up to the movie/TV show theory. Also, the recording has a DC Offset, which is more common in VHS recordings (due to the presence of the video channel) rather than FM or audio tapes recordings. However the audio dynamics seem pretty strange for a VHS recording.
Audio edits: It’s pretty weird that the audio doesn’t start at the very beginning of the file, if it was actually captured from a tape it wouldn’t be like that. That means the audio has been deliberately edited and cut from a longer recording.
Instruments used: Synthesizers, an Electric guitar can be heard at 0:48 (mostly in the isolated instrumental), a Slap bass probably from a synthesizer heard at 1:11, a Bass guitar that comes in at 0:05, and a drum machine (wouldn’t know which one though). I think the Bass synth comes from a different synthesizer than all the other sounds, perhaps a Moog or a Roland Juno.
Synths used: I must say that I’m not a synth expert, I’m more into sound engineering and music production overall, but I do know a bunch of them. For instance, I know the very first « brass » patch we hear at 0:00, but I can’t remember which synth has it. It’s also used in RAH band’s song « Clouds Across The Moon » (1:47 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3waMGm69gvY)
At 0:06 and 0:50 (and throughout various parts of the song) we can hear a sound preset that sounds very close to WHAM! « A Ray of Sunshine » pluck
It can be heard clearly in the intro of the instrumental remix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiPpoVbjgVI Another live recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYbVqL63j0g
This sound comes from a PPG Wave 2.2 synthesizer (1982–1984), however, it may have been replicated in other synths such as the Yamaha DX7, Roland D-50, or even Korg M1. In this song, I suspect it to be the « MARIMBA » preset from Yamaha DX7 but I’m not 100% sure. After messing around with some DX7 emulations, I can confirm that the MARIMBA from DX7 Rom-3A sounds very close to this pluck.
During the bridges at 0:22 and 1:05, we can hear various sounds, one which could be VIBE 1 from the Yamaha DX7 (10:48 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3rrjQtQe5A), and the other « Rhodes-sounding » one could be E-PIANO 1 from the DX7 aswell (5:11 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3rrjQtQe5A). But these sounds were so common back then, they could come from pretty much any synthesizer.
I still think about the Roland D-50 which was very popular (released in 1987), and had a great sound quality. Most of the synths used in this song are of very good quality too.
Time period: Judging by the sounds used, the drum machine and pretty consistent tempo (that’s pretty rare for tracks of that era), it’s safe to say that the song is from the end of 80s, if not the early 90s. The original poster stated it could be from 87-88, and I think that’s sa good guess. It would also match the Roland D-50 release date.
Lyrics: I think we all figured the lyrics except for one particular line, the first line sang by the girl in the chorus. At first, I thought she was saying "Want you, You're Amazing", but i now realize this might be wrong. After many listens, now I keep hearing "Want You, To (???)" or "Won't You, Do a (???)". I have a feeling that this particular line might be the key to the real title of this song.
Potential Title: I doubt the track name is « Don’t stop what you’re doing » since this line is only said once in a verse. It would make more sense if the track was named after a chorus line, like:

• I think I’m in love
• I’m in love
• You’re Amazing (or whatever the girl's singing)
• You Amaze me (a variation of the girl's line)

Since the track theme revolves around beach, water and summer stuff, it would make sense to look for albums/LP/EPs that are summer-themed, especially on the cover-artwork. Also, I doubt that this would be a single, I could be wrong though. We should definitely look for movies or TV Shows too, even erotic films (maybe not p*rn though, but you never know...) that revolve around beach, swimming pools, hotels & vacations, etc..
Stems: I used an AI to split the Vocals and Instrumental, here are some links:

• Instrumental: https://www.mediafire.com/file/qj8o3ki7m6fqaax/Stop+what+you're+doing_Instrumental.mp3/file
• Vocal: https://www.mediafire.com/file/72jfjyqtjivj832/Stop+what+you're+doing_Vocal.mp3/file
• Vocal (remastered): https://www.mediafire.com/file/d7w73w8k3ys8ppo/Stop+what+you're+doing_Vocal+EQ.wav/file

I hope this will be useful ! Let me know what you think

Are there any snooker tables available to use around the Sunshine Coast? The small club at Buderim isn't taking new members at the minute.

• Drama: Uncle Samsik
  • Korean Title: 삼식이 삼촌
  • Also Known as: Uncle Sam Shik , Uncle Samshik , Samsiki Samchon , Samcheekyi Samcheeok
• Network: Disney+
• Premiere Date: May 15th, 2024
• Airing Schedule: Wednesdays
• Episodes: 16
• Screenwriter & Director: Shin Yeon Shik (Dong Ju: The Portrait of a Poet)
• Genre: Historical, business, drama
• Cast:
  • Song Kang Ho (Parasite) as Park Doo Chil/Uncle Sam Sik
  • Jin Ki Joo (The Secret Life of My Secretary) as Joo Yeo Jin
  • Byun Yo Han (Mr. Sunshine) as Kim San
  • Lee Kyu Hyung (Hi Bye, Mama!) as Kang Sung Min
  • Seo Hyun Woo (Behind Every Star) as Jung Han Min
• Streaming Source: Disney+ Hulu
• Plot Synopsis: Set in 1960s South Korea. The series follows two men through their bromance and the obstacles they face during a turbulent time in the country’s history. It depicts the story of Park Doo Chil, who is known as Uncle Samsik, who always has three meals a day, even during the war, and Kim San, an elite man from the Korean Military Academy, who wants to create a country where everyone lives well.
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Finally life is getting started for me at 22 about to be 23 on Halloween. I won’t lie tho I’m scared a little because I’m so use to my comfort zone over the years but thankfully religion has helped me a bit.
First of all I was about to enlist into the coast guard until out of the blue I got a esports scholarship for school so August I will be moving in and going there.
Another thing is me and a friend of mine dropped 5k to finally create our own game developing company with just me and him and we are working on our first game.
For the first time in my life being a guy I’ve always dated girls throughout my life and now I am umm dating a guy. He makes me very happy and we have the same interests(yes I know gay and religion don’t mix well but idc I pray a lot and go to church and do morning mass)
But at the same time despite all of this I’m scared. Carpel tunnel syndrome caught up with me and now I wear a brace when gaming. My diet is pretty crap despite me being skinny I’m just not healthy. Most of my friends are moving away out of the state now so it feels weird.
But overall I’m a little excited at the same time.

Okay friends and South Australians, here is the beginning of Sir Doug Nicholls Round(s) for 2024, as several clubs get taken over by their First Nations counterparts, mainly Melbourne getting merged out of existence by Narrm, and we also come closer to the 1-year anniversary of Sam Durham sending Damien Hardwick over the edge in the Dreamtime game.
On that note, what a set of games that we can't see on the fixture bar because some people don't bother updating things:

• The Suns and Cats in Darwin, in the random slot of a Thursday night, which marks Geelong's first game in the Northern Territory, the one territory of the Australian mainland they haven't won a game in
  
• The Marn Grook Game has the Swans hosting Carlton for another year, a game that will no doubt be dominated by mentions of umpiring decisions on the Match Thread.
  
• Collingwood host Kuwarna at the MCG, and hopefully Kuwarna can go a bit better in a close game against Collingwood than the Adelaide Crows did in 2022 and 2023
  
• The hated rivals GWS and the Western Bulldogs meet at Giants Stadium, which will probably be wet because it is Sydney
  
• Euro-Yroke and Walyalup go at it on Saturday night, which could feature a controversial moment like many other during St Kilda and Fremantle games
  
• A Bottom 6 borefest as Brisbane host Richmond at The Gabba, with Richmond only 1 injury away from having to bring Relton Roberts out of retirement
  
• Essendon host North Melbourne at Marvel, seeking to knock off North for the umpteenth time in a row in a streak dating back to 2017
  
• A rare sighting of a 2:50/3:20pm game on a Sunday afternoon (Only the second one this year) as Yartapuulti host Hawthorn in Adelaide, and I'd back Port Adelaide to win this by at least 10 goals, but Yartapuulti haven't played for 11 months, so they could be a bit cold to start
  
• The last game into Sunday evening sees Waalitj Marawar taking on Naarm at Optus Stadium, and Naarm haven't won a game since their debut in Round 10 of 2022... which was against North Melbourne so it's validity is up for debate.
  

Odd fact, if the Dees win it'll match their longest winning streak against the Eagles (4 wins, which they achieved from 1988-90)
THURSDAY
Gold Coast vs Geelong - TIO Stadium (Darwin), 7pm ACST
FRIDAY
Sydney Swans vs Carlton - SCG, 7:40pm AEST
SATURDAY
Collingwood vs Kuwarna - MCG, 1:45pm AEST
GWS Giants vs Western Bulldogs - Engie Stadium, 4:35pm AEST
Euro-Yroke vs Walyalup - Marvel Stadium, 7:30pm AEST
Brisbane Lions vs Richmond - Gabba, 7:30pm AEST
SUNDAY
Essendon vs North Melbourne - Marvel Stadium, 1pm AEST
Yartapuulti vs Hawthorn - Adelaide Oval, 2:50pm ACST
Waalitj Marawar vs Narrm - Optus Stadium, 4:20pm AWST
Milestones
200 games for Taylor Duryea (118 with Hawthorn, 82nd game for the Bulldogs)
150 games for Jesse Hogan , Jack Martin , Josh Dunkley
100 games for Matt Guelfi , John Noble , Tom Cole
Sam Collins' 100th game for the Gold Coast

I'm new to reddit so bear with me while I try and figure this all out! Please let me know if I'm doing something wrong here.
I'm from the states and have lived here my whole life, but for the past 3 years I've been in a LDR with a person on the Sunshine Coast in BC. I visited last year and loved it, and after she stayed in the US with me for a few months and returned home. I've tried to look into how I could live (temporarily, 1-2 years) in Canada and work without needing higher education (HS graduate) or any specific certifications.
I haven't been able to find any information that's helpful considering my situation of not being sure about going for permanent residency, but wanting to live in Canada, contribute to a community and work so that I don't just slum it out.
The Canadian government's own website on immigration and foreign workers only goes so far, but from what I gather in my situation I'd need to find an employer with an LMIA as an open work permit is not offered (as per the immigration eligibility requirements) to me as an option.
Any idea on what websites or resources I could use to find jobs with valid LMIA's or help without costing an arm and a leg? I know the job bank website has settings for LMIA approved jobs, but when you find one it is accompanied by 'Do not apply if not authorized to work in Canada'. I end up just going in circles for hours, scratching my head as I try to figure out how the process will look, or where to even start in order to work in Canada without pursuing permanent residency. I'm 21 with no education outside of HS, along with several years of food service, and labor experience so I don't believe I'm what any government would classify as 'Essential' or 'Valued' in the immigration sphere lol.
Any help is appreciated, or if I'm in the wrong place please point me in the right direction! Thanks!

I intent to visit my gf on a B2 visa for a month, I am currently unemployed and was previously employed at a big tech company that I left before I got my VISA approved on ground of business school visitation, and I intent to apply for business schools later this year, and visiting some of my preferred schools will be my secondary objective for this visit, also this is my first travel abroad. I am from a developing nation.
I'll be staying with my gf, moving from West coast to east for 2 weeks each.
Considering I have sufficient funds, 6K USD for my visit.
How do I strengthen my chances of not being send back? I know the whole gf visitation, plus, being unemployed puts me at risk of being denied entry, I intent to bring along my bookings for a return flight
1.Should I make school visitation my answer to purpose of visit, and only mention my gf when asked where I'd stay?
2.will having some English proficiency exam scheduled on return in my home country help to prove my intent of return if asked?
3.would having some small loan on electrical appliances help to show strong ties or does that put things against me. ( I only have phone/cooking gas bills to show)

1. I also would have confirmations for school visits on varied dates through this 1 month period.
   
2. Any other suggestions to strengthen my case.
   

All in all, slightly paranoid of being rejected, we have waited over 3 years through COVID caused visa restrictions, so would like to make this visit happen.

West coast Canadian 🇨🇦🇨🇦
~Heya ~
I'm 23 femme 5'4 from Canada / west coast looking for love the sailor Uranus to my Neptune 💛💚 The Amity to my Luz 🩶💜
I really miss getting a text from that special someone and it making my whole day and Someone who I can text all day and then call and the hours just fly by
I miss the cute pet names and I miss giving cute pet names I miss having someone to love and I have a lot of it for the right person and time and attention.
~Now for my hobbies and interests ~
I'm a huggee weeb I love animes and mangas I'll probably talk your ear off about current animes I'm watching
I'm also always looking for new recommendations trying to get out of my comfort zone ( as long as their not too bloody or gory ✖️✖️)
I love playing video games I'm not very good that them I'm not hardcore but I enjoy having a good time
~Some of my other hobbies are ~
Reading and writing Traveling 🗾 Hiking 🥾 cooking and baking
Crocheting I love gardening Photography
I'm also a cat parent to three cats and a dog Their really my best friends 🐈🐕 so this is a must please do not be allergic And please do not be scared of dogs
I love nature 🌄
My dream is to travel up the west coast seeing all the national parks and trails and national forests Oceans and lakes and rivers If I can do that my dream would be near complete
And eventually I would love see the northern lights and visit Japan to see the cherry blossoms 🌸🌸
While I do believe opposites attract I'd love to get to know someone with at least 4 common interests as me so we aren't too drastically different
I'd like to meet someone who's also preferably in Canada as it makes traveling slightly more easier But I'm okay with the US as long as it's not too far and on the west coast away And please be between the age of 22-28
✨✨✨And please oh please be emotionally mature I'm looking dating and having a relationship I'm also monogamous
I'm not into flings or just hanging out or friends ✨✨
Here are some icebreaker questions
⭐ Top 5 favorite animes ⭐ favorite way to relax ⭐ Favorite color ⭐ Favorite wlw ship ⭐ Top 3 travel destinations
Thanks for reading hope to hear you soon 🧡🩷🤍💛
-xoxo

Hi everyone,
I am currently moving from Canada to Australia in hopes to be a high school teacher there. My dream would be to teach in Gold Coast or Sunshine Coast starting in Term 3. I already have my visa and sent all of my information to the QCT. I am having a hard time finding many postings for my teachable subjects (Humanities and HPE). Thinking realistically I think my best bet would be to move to Brisbane and start from there however, I am trying to stay out of the big city.
I guess I am just asking for any advice or realistic strategies and plans to find employment ASAP. I have a flight to Brisbane on June 20th but have not started looking for a place yet in hopes I can live in Sunshine or Gold. Any feedback or messages are greatly appreciated, thank you!

Hi everyone! I'm currently searching for new writing partners. Roleplaying has been my hobby for over a decade and I love it so much. Finding a new writing buddy can be tricky so I might ask for a writing sample just to make sure we click. I'm happy to provide one as well!
In a roleplay partner, I would like someone who is :
* At least twenty-three years of age. (I'm almost 33 so my comfort zone is with older writers)
*Advanced literate. I prefer to receive/give a few paragraphs per reply but quality > quantity always.
* A fan of brainstorming and collaborating.
* Loves brainstorming and nerding out over characters and plots.
* Comfortable writing in third person, past tense.
I am a fandom girlie and enjoy crafting stories in worlds I already adore. The fandoms I’m currently interested in writing are; A Court of Thorns and Roses, Throne of Glass, Crescent City, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Stranger Things, the Hunger Games, The 100 and Star Wars.
I am also super interested in writing other genres such as; fantasy, mafia/mob, mystery, and historical. I'm not huge on slice of life unless there's a lot of complex dynamics.
Some of my favorite tropes are; enemies/rivals to lovers, forced proximity, fake dating, morally grey male characters, found family, strangers to lovers, the chosen one, slow burn, power couple, opposites attract, grumpy x sunshine, soul mates, hurt/comfort, stranded, and royalty.
I currently play original female characters and am interested in playing against male original or canon characters.
I do my best to post daily (often I can manage multiple posts a day) but I also work and have other responsibilities. I keep my partners updated if it will take me more than a day or two to respond to a post.
Please reach out via chat or message if you'd like to chat about a roleplay.

Hi everyone! I'm currently searching for new writing partners. Roleplaying has been my hobby for over a decade and I love it so much. Finding a new writing buddy can be tricky so I might ask for a writing sample just to make sure we click. I'm happy to provide one as well!
In a roleplay partner, I would like someone who is :
* At least twenty-three years of age. (I'm almost 33 so my comfort zone is with older writers)
*Advanced literate. I prefer to receive/give a few paragraphs per reply but quality > quantity always.
* A fan of brainstorming and collaborating.
* Loves brainstorming and nerding out over characters and plots.
* Comfortable writing in third person, past tense.
I am a fandom girlie and enjoy crafting stories in worlds I already adore. The fandoms I’m currently interested in writing are; A Court of Thorns and Roses, Throne of Glass, Crescent City, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Stranger Things, the Hunger Games, The 100 and Star Wars.
I am also super interested in writing other genres such as; fantasy, mafia/mob, mystery, and historical. I'm not huge on slice of life unless there's a lot of complex dynamics.
Some of my favorite tropes are; enemies/rivals to lovers, forced proximity, fake dating, morally grey male characters, found family, strangers to lovers, the chosen one, slow burn, power couple, opposites attract, grumpy x sunshine, soul mates, hurt/comfort, stranded, and royalty.
I currently play original female characters and am interested in playing against male original or canon characters.
I do my best to post daily (often I can manage multiple posts a day) but I also work and have other responsibilities. I keep my partners updated if it will take me more than a day or two to respond to a post.
Please reach out via chat or message if you'd like to chat about a roleplay.

Nestled on the northern Sword Coast, between Neverwinter Wood and the Sword Mountains, is the town of Phandalin. Centuries ago, Phandalin was a thriving settlement with deep ties to its neighboring communities. But then bandits overran the town, and Phandalin lay abandoned for centuries. Only in the past few years have settlers built a new village on the ruins of the old. These townsfolk hope to grow Phandalin through hard work, camaraderie, and the shared purpose of building a lasting home. Threatening their efforts and their survival are bandits, brigands, and monsters.
"Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk" is a reimagining of the timeless classic "The Lost Mines of Phandelver." In collaboration with the FoundryVTT, a free (for the player) VTT that is much more expansive and customizable than most other VTT's, Wizard's has created an official Foundry Module complete with maps, tokens, and compendiums.
This campaign is open to all player's above the age of 18. No prior experience is necessary. In fact, the campaign is mostly designed for people to get their feet wet with 5e. We will of course be using the Foundry VTT and Discord for voice.
Play time/date is TBD, however we are most likely looking at an evening time block with rotating days depending on everyone's availability, hopefully weekly.
Again this campaign is open to ANYONE 18+, so if you would like to play you will be asked to respect the identity of everyone involved. That being said, despite it being 18+, we will be keeping things SFW, and any romancing and RP of that nature will be a "fade to black" if it begins to go that direction. This does not mean that these elements are prohibited (feel free to play the classic "sleeps with everyone" bard) but it will not be the main focus of any scenes.
I think that's the main stuff covered!
Please fill out this google form if you have an interest in joining us on this adventure through a classic DND campaign. https://forms.gle/CgHpYy81feB4UHxN6

Hi all,
I had a close friend of mine go overseas to a country near the coast. He is staying out there for an extended period of time.
Me and this close friend and another close friend had been talking about joining him once he was out there. Anyways my other friend pulled the trigger and bought tickets and there was pressure to buy tickets. this is for a week long vacation
Now ANOTHER close friend of ours is coming too. This is all very dope. but the catch is he invited his gf.
Am i wrong that the vibes will be all off now that its 4 guys n 1 girl ? 4 of which are very close friends.
Was looking forwards to a boys trip as cliche and lame as that sounds. Nothing bad or anything just time with the boys ya know.
Anyways am I wrong to not be excited anymore about this trip. Its coming up and feel like i dont really wanna go.
More context is I just started dating this girl and i am gonna miss her a lot on the trip. idk the timing just feels all off and feeling like i am being pressured into this but at the same time feels like i am just making excuses bc of my travel anxiety.

Hi Everyone!
I signed a lease signed at Capri Apartments in IV, but recently found that I'm no longer moving to Santa Barbara. When I talked to Capri, they said that the lease can be transferred to another student who needs housing. It's a private room in a 2 BR apartment, with a female in one other room. It is in walking distance to UCSB. The rent is $1545 per month, and the floorpan is the Abrego Sunshine (small slider). To see the floor plan, amenities and more you can look here: https://capriiv.com/floor-plans/ The lease dates are Aug 15 - July 31.
*If you're interested please message me and I'll let them know that you are interested in taking over the lease.*
community features: gated community, parking available with lease, bluetooth operated laundry facilities
room features: high speed internet; furniture included: desk, chair, dining table and chairs, coffee table, sofa, bed with mattress (extra long twin), and dresser, flat-screen TV, multiple storage areas, full kitchen with dishwasher and microwave