Pesky Splinter posted:

I went looking on wikipedia, but got lost and ended up with the category of Individual cats in politics. The Ultimate Cat Tax.

forkboy84 posted:

The ethical thing to do is to use it when you need it, but also to keep yourself healthy so you don't have to use it very often.

Guavanaut posted:

Yeah one of those two is getting stopped at the border and sent to Jamaica.

forkboy84 posted:

The ethical thing to do is to use it when you need it, but also to keep yourself healthy so you don't have to use it very often.

CoolCab posted:

to play devil's advocate, this leads to considerably more drain on the NHS then if you take terrible care of yourself - taking care of the very elderly is incredibly expensive. with that said i can't really ethically recommend anyone eg taking up smoking, fried mars bars and black tar heroin in order to protect the nhs

CoolCab posted:

to play devil's advocate, this leads to considerably more drain on the NHS then if you take terrible care of yourself - taking care of the very elderly is incredibly expensive. with that said i can't really ethically recommend anyone eg taking up smoking, fried mars bars and black tar heroin in order to protect the nhs

Guavanaut posted:

Yeah one of those two is getting stopped at the border and sent to Jamaica.

Guavanaut posted:

Yeah one of those two is getting stopped at the border and sent to Jamaica.

Junior G-man posted:

Having watched all seasons of Scrubs because I was really into self-harm for a while there, I can honestly say that the Border Force shooting JD into the cold void of space would be a good idea for any medical system, public or private.

Ratjaculation posted:

Woah

I'll unironically watch scrubs if I'm channel flicking and bored. It's not up there with classic Simpsons or Frasier though.

The joys of being put up in hotels due to work

CoolCab posted:

to play devil's advocate, this leads to considerably more drain on the NHS then if you take terrible care of yourself - taking care of the very elderly is incredibly expensive. with that said i can't really ethically recommend anyone eg taking up smoking, fried mars bars and black tar heroin in order to protect the nhs

Comrade Fakename posted:

Turk would obviously be sent back to his namesake Turkey.

CoolCab posted:

to play devil's advocate, this leads to considerably more drain on the NHS then if you take terrible care of yourself - taking care of the very elderly is incredibly expensive. with that said i can't really ethically recommend anyone eg taking up smoking, fried mars bars and black tar heroin in order to protect the nhs

CoolCab posted:

to play devil's advocate, this leads to considerably more drain on the NHS then if you take terrible care of yourself - taking care of the very elderly is incredibly expensive. with that said i can't really ethically recommend anyone eg taking up smoking, fried mars bars and black tar heroin in order to protect the nhs

Junior G-man posted:

Don't get me wrong, Scrubs itself is a fine, often funny, show. It's just that I really did think that JD's flight-of-fancy thing was taken past the point of funny and into the aggressively irritating in the later seasons.

Also, 'sup hotels-for-work buddy. Next week I'm in Oxford again.

forkboy84 posted:

Yeah, I was meant to say kill yourself before you get too old.

Ratjaculation posted:

Hello fellow gigolo 👋

I'm in the midlands atm 😪

forkboy84 posted:

Yeah, I was meant to say kill yourself before you get too old. Don't do it too young, enjoy a couple of years retirement but go before poo poo goes downhill.

Tesseraction posted:

Because this apparently needs spelling out these days, yes that's fake.

Comrade Fakename posted:

Turk would obviously be sent back to his namesake Turkey.

Margaret Atwood - Handmaid's Tale 1985 posted:

That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even any rioting in the streets.
People stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some direction. There wasn't even an enemy you could put your finger on.

quote:

He also conceded it was unclear how parliament could stop a no-deal and but he appeared to rule out backing a no confidence motion in the government.

I’ve consistently said that I don’t want to see Jeremy Corbyn as prime minister. I also have to say, I think that a vote of no confidence in these circumstances is not the correct way forward. What would then happen is that we would run into a general election.

Unless another form of government was able to be created, which I very much doubt, then the existing government would be able run down the clock and take us beyond the 31st of October. So I don’t believe that that is the right approach.

Parliament may need to act to stop a no deal. It does look like next week is essentially the only opportunity parliament will have to maintain some control over this process and ensure that it has a say before we leave without a deal.

I don’t think one can rule out the possibility of Parliament being able to find a way through this.

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

I read this book back then, seemed far-fetched at the time.


source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trump-us-troops-children-birthright-citizenship-overseas-a9083036.html

Update to this: I've read the twitter thread linked to where some people have attempted to clarify the situation re this. So I've deleted it because it's very confusing.

Angrymog posted:

Does anyone have a good list of things to put in a one person Brexit-box?

DesperateDan posted:

Toilet paper, disinfectant, cooking oil, salt and pepper.

Then look at the poo poo you normally eat that has long dates on it and buy that in too- for me it's lots of pasta and rice and then tinned stuff/spices to add to it. Tinned fruit for desserts. Multivitamins. Paracetamol/Ibuprofen.

And as you put everything in, note down on paper- or even better excel- what you have, how many and when the best before date is. I'm glad I did, because at a glance I can see I don't need to rotate much from the stocks built up earlier this year.

Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

we could stop medicinal research since new treatment that works is more expensive than old which doesn't

Z the IVth posted:

Clean water, sanitation, mass vaccinations and public health interventions have done more for improving quality of life and life expectancy than any number of hideously expensive new therapies. By nature of their cost they are only available to the few, and even in the NHS only those in the direst of straits.

Their effect on the health of a population is marginal at best - see various life expectancy charts from the industrial revolution onwards. There were big improvements with sanitation (cholera), vaccinations (smallpox) but by the time antibiotics rolled around even their effect wasn't as big. All the new designer drugs appearing which may extend the lives of some individuals is being balanced by the effect of idiot vaxxers and breakdown in social care and deprivation (cf the original public health interventions).

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

What are the next 2-3 most important items?

Pablo Bluth posted:

struggling to twerk/existing

Pablo Bluth posted:

struggling to twerk existing

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

Yes, apparently.

10,11,12 all interconnect.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11_Downing_Street

xtothez posted:

Angrymog posted:

Does anyone have a good list of things to put in a one person Brexit-box?

Can we get this (and any other advice) in the September OP? I have a feeling it will be a recurring question in this thread.

Guavanaut posted:

Pablo Bluth posted:

We're heading to a post antibiotic era (we're completely failing to find any new novel classes and struggling to twerk existing)...