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It's hard to give advice with out knowing you personally or how things work where you are so take everything I say with a grain of salt.

On the legal issues my advice is just don't do it. It'll break things irreversibly. What she did was wrong, but books/comics can be replaced. Money spent on stuff can be recovered. Taking family to court is something you only do if you're prepared to risk breaking that relationship for life.

As to moving out, do you have a part-time job? If you have any reasonable amount of money coming in at all I'd suggest moving. If you can't afford it, look a little harder. I couldn't afford to move when I first did, but I still did it. When I 1st moved I lived somewhere that was super-cheap because the building was being knocked down in a few months. When I 1st moved state, I lived with a friend for free. I'm about to move for situational stuff & had nowhere to go, till I swallowed my pride & asked a friend for somewhere temporary. There are solutions, sometimes they aren't good, but it sounds like your home situation isn't either.

I suspect you're situation with your mum is more likely to improve if she has to deal with you as another adult. At the moment she has control of some stuff & can play games. Don't live the way she wants? Throw out your stuff, play with your bank account etc. etc. That's harder to do, if you're out of there. I mean whatever you do, do as i2amroy & others says above & fix your bank account. Then move if possible. Wouldn't quit my degree over it, I never graduated (for different reasons), I don't really regret that, but I don't think financial or home stress are good reasons to do it.

Anyways that just my advice & at the end of the day you've gotta work out what'll work out best for you.

~Michael

Quote from: BlackHeartKabal on February 18, 2016, 06:00:52 pm

Well, what if I want to change? To change the world? Break the cycle of entropy?

Go buy an explosive vest.

I'm half serious with that: 'Purpose' and 'meaning' pretty much imply the existence of something much more important than your own life. You haven't found a purpose if you're not willing to sacrifice yourself for it: Ask any devoted parent how far they'd go to for their children.

Is this 'sposed to be a good thing? Ask that same "devoted parent" how many other parents children they'd sacrifice for their own. (Also only half serious)

Quote from: SirQuiamus on February 18, 2016, 09:05:34 am

As you can see, UK's foreign aid has amounted to a whopping ~14% of the total from all DAC countries in recent years, but you're claiming that your country is single-handedly supporting the world?

No, where did I claim that?

Claiming it as in literally claiming it? no. But seeing as you've decided to play dumb even though he quoted you inches above your response. Even though neither me or you think your dumb & you actually know what he's refering to, I decided to quote it again.

Quote from: Loud Whispers on February 17, 2016, 08:45:08 pm

currently the UK are all that's keeping millions on Europe's doorstep from either dying or desperately trying to make it to Germany, and hundreds of millions all across the world including in some of the most popular origins for European illegal migrants, Pakistan just being one example. No British aid = no home future = off to Germany in numbers that would be culturally enriching on a scale never before seen.

P.S. You raise so many interesting points. You back your opinion with your sources. Why the need or desire for BS games?

From a "speech" point of view I'd say the language as spoken certainly stands in favor of the oxford comma's use, even in cases where it wouldn't be necessary, as pointed out by SirQuiamus. If I am saying "Go buy the groceries, eggs, and cheese" where they are three separate things then I physically say "Go buy groceries *pause* eggs *pause* and cheese", as opposed to when the eggs and cheese are describing the groceries where I say "Go buy the groceries *pause* eggs and cheese".

Except how I'd say it would be more like:

1. Buy groceries "pause" eggs "no pause" and cheese.
2. Buy groceries "no pause" eggs "no pause" and cheese.

Same with the stripper line. If bush & Kennedy are strippers there should be a colon there.

I doubt they'd take them. The opposition tried to strike a deal with Malaysia. Apparently the Liberals are terrible for sending them to Nauru or PNG & Labor is better for wanting to send them to Malaysia instead. I don't really care where they're sent or whether they're processed here or overseas, more sick of the pretense by the government that the conditions aren't horrible. 'Cause I don't know where we'd pull the money from to fix the problems either.

Quote from: Neonivek on February 05, 2016, 01:18:15 am

Ok... So looked up how tough a human bite is.

Uhhh do NOT let someone seriously bite you. While the scientific "theory" is that human beings lack a strong bite the proven scientific "fact" is that humans have a pretty strong bite for our size.

Also what the heck is with well documented science with making these assertions that could easily be disproven or proven? When Aristotle did it, it was ironic...

Quote from: Descan on February 05, 2016, 01:21:29 am

Well at least with humans, it's kind of ethically on the edge to say to a person "okay so like, bite down on this REALLY REALLY HARD!" since it could be damaging, and... well, mouths and teeth are pretty vital

Yeah...
The hearsay explanation I got when talking about humans biting humans was that we generally lack the capability to get through the epidermis(skin layer) through direct force and the build to do so without teeth getting ripped out.

Probably true if a person is pulling away. I do know my teeth are capable of cracking bone that's been cooked. Not sure if cooking weakens the bone.

Whoops, double post

Had some weird dream where I couldn't figure out whether I was drowning in sand or drinking iced tonic water. When I awoke I was very thirsty, quite feverish, and had developed food poisoning from eating some poisoned lychees.

I tend to go easy on the poisoned lychees these days. Yeah they taste great & give you psychedelic dreams but the after effects ruin it.