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Hi all,
More of a question here and some advice needed.
46 year old guy attempting to learn maths.
I was a high school drop out at the age of 15, I never really attended my last year of high school (year 10).
I went on to have an amazing, highly paid career as a tradesman welder.
Throughout my final years as a welder at 41 years, a few years earlier I started doing a tonne of extra studies in welding and metallurgy, which required hours, hours and hours worth of study, something I had never done.
I have nearly reached the very top of where I can go in my career, the final hurdle - Welding Engineer.
I started the Welding engineer course last January 2025.
I have just reached module 3, which is design and stresses. For the lectures I’ve watched so far 4/12, they’re 2.5-3hrs long of calculating force over area. Rearranging numbers which I assume is algebra and working out angles, which is trigonometry.
I’m already in panic mode. 1 because I never saw it in high school and 2 I’m wondering how easy an adult can actually pick it all up.
I have found a tutor and will start with them in the coming weeks.
I guess my question is; how hard will it be for a middle aged guy to go back and try learn the basics/ fundamentals of algebra and trigonometry.
Any advice or feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you

Hi all, 
As the title says, I’ve had ongoing penis issues since 2023
I had a sexual encounter with a female friend, one that I’ve  known for 20 years.
I received unprotected oral from her which lasted less than 2 mins, Due to the excitement.
After that encounter, same day I would be at home and masturbated 5-6 times. It was a pretty crazy situation what happened with the encounter, hence the reasoning why I masturbated that many times. 
Anyways, a few days after I would start noticing my foreskin was quite inflamed and reddish. I should also mention that my testicles became sore, no particular side, just a sore dull feeling, more so when I sat down, my anal region was also sore, I’d later find out through a colonoscopy that I had hemorrhoids internally.
I automatically thought, this must be a std. 
I went for a urine test, which came back positive
As I was waiting the week for the results, I started self medicating and applied Mupirocin cream and kenacomb ointment to the glans ,This was under suggestion from the girl who I had an encounter with. She also gave me a particular antibiotic (she works in health and medical so she has access to all that stuff)
I was in day 5 of applying both cream and ointment at the same time and seem to of had an allergic or just terrible reaction to it.
My glans would then look like a bomb had hit it.
It borderline looked like it was the result of my glans being severely burnt.
Back to the doctor, he advised that the 2 creams I applied led wouldn’t have done that.
I got a referral to go get an ultrasound in the testicles. Results from testicles turned up as normal.
I continued to go for more testing;
PSA
2 x PCR
4 x urine tests
22 week mark after encounter a blood test to pick up any real nasties
Semen culture
Stool sample
Prick test
Everything has come back as negative.
The girl, she also went for 4 different rounds of testing, bloods, urine and swabs (she to came back negative) I requested she keep going for testing to prove it, it was stuck in my mind she just must have had something.
Although my glans have gone back to semi normal, I still experience redness at the urethra, it looks like a faint pink strip coming straight from the opening. There’s still at times lite redness of the glans. My testicles still have some discomfort, mainly when sitting down .
I’m unsure what to do anymore at this stage.
Has anyone with similar problems, more so the redness/ faint pink coming from urethra been able to work out what it is? I am stuck on options and the slight burning of it does my head in and makes me think I must have a hidden std of some sort

Hi all,
I know it’s ages away, but my partner and I coming to the states in 2028 for the Olympic Games.
Due to it being the Olympics and recommended, we need to book out flights a minimum a year in advance and accomodating as early as possible.
It will be my third time to the states (I love it there 😊).
I’ve already done Vegas 2, Los angles 2, New York 2, Orlando 2 and Miami once.
For our trip in 28, we plan on coming over for 1 month , doing LA 1 week, New York undecided and Orlando for 4 days .
Where’s some other places of must see.
Coming from boring Australia, there is so much to do in the states i just have no idea.
If anyone could give me any ideas and possibly why it’d be greatly appreciated
Thanks 🤩
Just to give an update why we’re visiting some of the same places, apart
The fact I love the states.
LA is a given considering we’re doing the states.
Florida - the last time we were there as our day at Orlando universal studio was kind of ruined by the rain, they gave us a kick ass voucher to use with EVERYTHING, plus a heap of extras that we could use anytime we ever return, I kind of feel obligated to use it.
New York - we were only there for 5 days last time, not sure if that was long enough.
No kids
The last time we were there we did 11 different theme parks.
My partners not a fan of roller coasters so we’ve agreed we’ll only do magic mountain 6 flags this time (it’ll be my third time 😊) and probably last.
Apart from that, we like anything really.
And for anyone disputing about Australia’s boredom factor, apart from our beaches; we’re so slow over here, we don’t have a 1/4 I’d what the states have.
We’re also planning on doing a one day trip from LA to san deiago zoo.
Chicago
Detroit
Boston
Texas
Are these places worth going to?
I have to pick carefully this time because my partner was very upset at going to to 11 different theme parks

Hi all,

I need opinions from anyone and everyone. Ultimately I’ll decide what I’m going to do, but I’d love to hear other people’s feed back.

I’m 46. Growing up, teens, twenties and into my early 30’s I was fortunate enough to have had tonnes of women, not that many relationships, but many many encounters with women.

I’m also fortunate enough that I got to experience everything sex has offer, from threesomes, absolutely crazy kinky women etc who would do anything or would also want it all.

One of my all time favourites with a woman was giving them anal and also eating that part, before the anal of course.

Fast forward to now. I’ve been in a relationship for the last 9 years. She’s a complete gem of a woman, she’s not and never was a party girl, she’s kind, sweet and very caring. She’s small and petite.

My issue; the sex is ok, she doesn’t swallow when giving me head, which I’ve learned to accept, I feel she sees it more if as a chour if anything. I love giving oral also, and on occasions, she’ll spin around to receive oral, but rarely, ive also, sadly learned to accept that.
Threesomes and anal are out of the question, I don’t need to ask her for them because I know she’d be like wtf if I ever suggested that, and I know she’s just not into anal, and for anyone saying ‘just speak to her about it’, I don’t need to as I already know the answer.

So here’s where my dilemma starts.
An old fling who i used to go crazy town with, who gave me plenty of threesomes with other women, who would do anything and everything with, as her and I talk on the rare occasion and she knows my situation, she’s offered it to me before, anal that is, to get it out of my system - she loves anal.

I’m not getting younger and I was always a believer of not neglecting one’s self.
I’m now contemplating the offer.
There’d be no kissing or holding each-other involved. There’d be completely no emotion involved.

Is it that wrong of me to consider it.
As mentioned, I’m getting older and I’m starting to line up all the dots of things I want to before I get to an age where things become less appealing, possible ED, loss of memory, who knows.

Anyone’s opinion is appreciated

Thanks

Howdy
I’ve just signed up for a commonwealth ultimate award card, which is like to start using straight away.
Do I need to contact the bank to activate the awards points program, or is it automatic?
I already have the award credit card so am not eligible for bonus 60,000 sign on.
As my purchase is an international transaction totalling about 12,000AUD, as the max is 10,000 awards points per month, what happens to the rest? From what I’ve read it’s 3 points per dollar, my calculations would technically see it as 36,000 but I know I’m not getting that
Thanks

Hi all,
I’m about to bite the bullet and purchase 2 tickets to the swimming under the hospitality package - tickets only.
The event I’m after has about 5-6 medal events and 2 heats, it also has the 1500m men’s freestyle final (my favourite event)
The LA28 hospitality package says they’re having a sale, current price is $2500 per ticket.
Did anyone see what the prices were before this ‘sale’ or were they in drop 1?
I’ve already purchased 4 tickets in drop one which came to around $8000 AUD, these winning tickets will come to around $6000 AUD- our budget is 12-14. I’ve already assumed cheap tickets are a myth and if I want to see the events I want, I’m going to have to pay an arm and leg
Is it true hospitality package tickets cannot not be sold in the resell platform?
And why’s everyone’s predictions, will drop 2 be better than drop 1 and did they just get rid of all the crap ok drop 1.

Hiya,

Apologies in advance if anything I ask has already been asked.

My wife and I plan on coming to the states in July 2028, it wasn’t specifically for the Olympics when we planned it last year, but now, it seems we’ve both become consumed in being a part of the LA28.

We registered from her email and mine in January, both of us were unsuccessful, mind you, we did register on the last day which we think must have had an impact.

We’re now both hanging out for that August drop, but we wanted some feedback on other people who have been to an Olympic game before, is it really worth the hype, is it really that much of an experience.

I’ve seen some of the ticket prices from a colleague of mine who was successful in the drop, he paid through the roof (We live in Australia and our dollar is weak at the moment). He said he didn’t expect it to be that much, but the way he justified it was, him and his partner have 2 years to save for the event, Los Angeles will be amazing (as an Aussie I’ve been there, and I LOVED it) and apart from the Brisbane games we have in 2032, he’ll probably never attend an Olympic game again.

So, it is really worth it? I’ve been looking through the hospitality Packages, an event my partner and I would love to see is the 1500m men’s final freestyle event, it has about 6 or 7 other swim events associated with it, but only goes for about 2.5hrs. It would roughly cost us about $6000 AUD.

My concern at the moment is, and after reading a few of the posts on here, we may not get selected for drop 2, we may get selected but only get a later date on that drop 2, tickets might sell out OR, the pricing starts getting higher. I’m sure organizers have seen the hype it’s caused already 2 years out, will they raise prices, will people be willing to pay more in drop 2 if they’re not getting the events they want or their desperate to secure some seats.

We’ve ruled out gymnastics and basketball. I’d love the cycling track but they’re rather short so it leaves us with Athletics or swimming,

Sorry for the long post