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goddamnedtwisto posted:https://twitter.com/LozzaFox/status/1368249069727006720 The most silenced rich, straight conservative cis white man in England finally speaks out. thank the gods
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notaspy posted:Please don't doxx me lol I have always said that the older a british bloke gets, the more interested he is in the content of any roadside skip he walks past 
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Yet again it's an 'efficiency savings' thing. Cut the council budget, in order to maintain social services they drop things like kerbside waste disposal collections. This is fine right, why should everybody's council tax go towards collections if not everybody uses them? Make the people who do need collections pay someone to pick it up instead. Of course, any waste disposal business that handles picking up your old fridge can do so a lot more profitably if they just dump it in a layby instead of paying the full fee at the tip, so as long as those dodgy ones aren't being prosecuted that becomes the standard. And of course when fly-tipped fridges show up in playgrounds, it's the council that pays more (out of everybody's council tax) to pick up and dispose them properly anyway in the end. also related, I once shared a flat with a guy who saw a fridge on the kerb when that was still a thing, and just picked it up and carried it back to the flat. Not to use, he was going to disassemble the whole thing in his room to find out how it works. He had never heard of freon or CFCs, or that they have been replaced in fridges with flammable gas nowadays. Scikar fucked around with this message at 21:28 on Mar 6, 2021 |
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MikeCrotch posted:Milo Edwards has a great but in Trashfuture about the particular type of British guy who just *loves* going to the tip, to the point of knowing the names of the guys at the top and coming up with excuses to go. Extremely British Dad energy I helped a friend renovate a house and garden and we had to remove so much rubble that it was at the point of having to apply for a commercial permit. Can confirm that being a tip regular where you're chatting with the workers about how the project is going and they'll recognise your car and just wave you through is a strangely comforting and satisfying feeling of acceptance. e: Also having tradesman's accounts at all the local builders' merchants and being looked in the eye and treated like someone who knows which end of the hammer to hold, rather than with bored contempt, when you show up to buy a trailer full of roof tiles. big scary monsters fucked around with this message at 21:33 on Mar 6, 2021 |
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Tesseraction posted:I was originally going to say "men are terrible" but chose to be more nuanced. Which of my caveats pissed you off? Ignore me, your are probably right with your original thought. Apologies.
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Rumda posted:
Decided that step one is be the change you want to see :P But thank you and Isomermaid and Ash for the support. Perhaps better things are possible?
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kingturnip posted:Most fly-tipping is commercial stuff. My understanding of it goes like this: I wonder if that was the case here, because we found several letters that looked official. Network Rail took them but I'm not sure what they can really do with them.
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Scikar posted:also related, I once shared a flat with a guy who saw a fridge on the kerb when that was still a thing, and just picked it up and carried it back to the flat. Not to use, he was going to disassemble the whole thing in his room to find out how it works. He had never heard of freon or CFCs, or that they have been replaced in fridges with flammable gas nowadays. A lot of people's expectation of technology seems to sort of run out at the clockwork level where you can see spring A pushing against cog B. Without the understanding that it's a different type of technology entirely, taking apart a fridge will teach about as much as cracking the lid off a microchip. Much more likely to give you cold burns though. Guavanaut posted:You can do a lot of fun and useful stuff with fridge compressors. Do tell?
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Endjinneer posted:A lot of people's expectation of technology seems to sort of run out at the clockwork level where you can see spring A pushing against cog B. I do like steam stuff, and I still want to go on The Danny when things are safer (planned to go last year but lol), but there is something about steam technology that attracts a bunch of people who think that things were just ~so much simpler~ 120 years ago and therefore better  Endjinneer posted:Do tell? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0YWyqtqNao or as a kinda lovely compressor for things like airbrushing. But yeah you shouldn't cut the pipes indoors (or at all really but our alleged recycling infrastructure does far worse things in the time it took me to write this post than what one person with one domestic fridge unit can do).
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IllusionistTrixie posted:Decided that step one is be the change you want to see :P But thank you and Isomermaid and Ash for the support. Perhaps better things are possible? I hate to advocate for private health care, but in regards to trans people in britain it's pretty much a must unless you're either going to do it DIY or endure the absurd waiting times. I'm with YourGP, Got a diagnosis and eventually hormones, a bit pricey but they don't have the same issues that GenderGP seem to be having... yet. The main problem right now is getting GP's to actually cooperate... they're okay with doing sharedcare for blood tests but it's always a bit iffy with them, never know when they'll decide to start be arsey about it. Look forward to seeing you in the Byob thread.
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NoneMoreNegative posted:lol I have always said that the older a british bloke gets, the more interested he is in the content of any roadside skip he walks past I found my bike frame in a skip. Simoncini 70s vintage steel frame of just the right size. Built some wheels with sturmey archer gears and drum brakes added a brookes leather saddle and mud guards- the best commuter bike ever. Been going 10 years now.
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Ash Crimson posted:I hate to advocate for private health care, but in regards to trans people in britain it's pretty much a must unless you're either going to do it DIY or endure the absurd waiting times. how well did that work out did you just need two appointments? I'm currently doing DIY but I have had issue with supply I have an appointment next week to talk to my GP next week about how much she'll be willing to do with a private diagnosis
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Guavanaut posted:You can do a lot of fun and useful stuff with fridge compressors. A post that requires no context whatsoever, and indeed may be lessened if such were to be provided.
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Rumda posted:how well did that work out did you just need two appointments? I'm currently doing DIY but I have had issue with supply I have an appointment next week to talk to my GP next week about how much she'll be willing to do with a private diagnosis I needed more than two but i did end up getting a diagnosis of Gender Dysphoria by one of the people from the closest GIC (Chalmers) which i guess will help in the future and at least can't be swept under the rug or discounted. In terms of GPs it really depends on the gp and the practice. I'm lucky, really lucky that my gp is supportive and affirming, with the above probably contributing to that as well. Just becareful with who you go to whilst GenderGP might be cheaper alot of gps don't like to work with them, going by british trans people's experiences. It might end up cheaper in the long run. Again, I don't know how typical my experience is, but at least with Edinburgh's branch of YourGP it was pretty good, not as much gatekeeping as i thought there would be, just make sure to show that you're taking active steps, they understood that i had concerns about my safety, which is why i'm still in boymode (for the most part). Ash Crimson fucked around with this message at 22:48 on Mar 6, 2021 |
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Guavanaut posted:Found Miftan's nemesis Which bit does the Jesus live in?
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Maybe the real Jesus was the cake we made along the way. Also I've been reading some holy-poo poo-the-us-healthcare-industry stuff and it just drums home how loving bad an idea it was to leave dentistry outside being fully NHS.  "Yeah you have to pay for the bits of your skeleton that normally stick out of your body until they kill something else inside" - helthcar.
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Guavanaut posted:Thought this was going to be about steam train Brexit fans for a start. One of my dads hobbies is making miniature stationary steam engines from bits of scrap metal. He just enjoys loving around in his workshop and creating stuff. He was also a member of CND in the 60s, a member of the Young Communist League and will swear to this day he saw American marines hitting demonstrators while they stood on the steps of the embassy in 68. He would also probably agree with you. He met up with a local club of model engineers but didn't get on with them. He described them as middle class right wing cunts.
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Guavanaut posted:Maybe the real Jesus was the cake we made along the way. Funny, I was reading a Twitter thread of "what does the US do better than the UK?" yesterday, with some strange claims (toilets? water pressure? one person even tried to claim internet speeds), but the top two were food (lol) and dentists/ry. Like, yeah I know British teeth haha, but I'd take more people having (imperfect) access to ok dentists than the rich getting everything up to and including Hollywood orthodontics, and screw everyone else. Also, "yes we'll fix your eyeballs if they get diseased or damaged, but cough up if they don't focus light quite right" - healthcare
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Bobstar posted:Like, yeah I know British teeth haha, but I'd take more people having (imperfect) access to ok dentists than the rich getting everything up to and including Hollywood orthodontics, and screw everyone else. Same, having to drop knowledge at times NoneMoreNegative posted:Would you feel better if I pointed out that Americans & English teeth are on the whole equally bad, and if i'd wanted a root canal in the US it would have cost me over a thousand dollars (and the same again for a crown on top) instead of the £100-ish I paid here?
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Bobstar posted:Funny, I was reading a Twitter thread of "what does the US do better than the UK?" yesterday, with some strange claims (toilets? water pressure? one person even tried to claim internet speeds), but the top two were food (lol) and dentists/ry. Like, yeah I know British teeth haha, but I'd take more people having (imperfect) access to ok dentists than the rich getting everything up to and including Hollywood orthodontics, and screw everyone else. I feel like I read somewhere recently that brits on average have more healthy teeth than americans e: ^^ well it might have been that?
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crispix posted:circumcision Love a moist glans, personally
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Bobstar posted:toilets? e: ^^ That's probably the reason.
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Ash Crimson posted:Love a moist glans, personally yeah i'm not saying it's good, just they do a lot more of it
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OwlFancier posted:The dentist I go to keeps negging me every time I turn up to buy some weird hollywood poo poo off her.. I know at least one person who owes a dentist a significant 4 figure sum because they upsold like this while also being very quiet as to the cost of it (or that it wasn't covered by the NHS at all) until the bill came through. And when that came to light, the dentist's reaction was essentially a diplomatic version of "We both know you can't afford to go after me for malpractice either".
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crispix posted:yeah i'm not saying it's good, just they do a lot more of it Appropo of nothing but there's nothing inherently gay about two men sucking each others dicks They could just be good friends
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:I know at least one person who owes a dentist a significant 4 figure sum because they upsold like this while also being very quiet as to the cost of it (or that it wasn't covered by the NHS at all) until the bill came through. Yeah like they don't come out and say "you look like poo poo" but it's subtle stuff like "you know we offer a whitening service that a lot of people say makes them feel better about themselves" like it's literally textbook PUA poo poo where they insult you without technically doing it. Seems real bad honestly for people who are susceptible to that.
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crispix posted:yeah i'm not saying it's good, just they do a lot more of it Yeah they circumcise as a matter of course in the US, although I don't know if it's a state by state thing or everywhere. Non-medical circumcision is some nasty poo poo, very little difference to FGM which is rightly deemed abhorrent yet this ....isn't.
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Lungboy posted:Yeah they circumcise as a matter of course in the US, although I don't know if it's a state by state thing or everywhere. Non-medical circumcision is some nasty poo poo, very little difference to FGM which is rightly deemed abhorrent yet this ....isn't. The yanks are real strange about it too, like "well we've always done it don't be weird about it" Like no stop pruning your babbies for no reason.
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Lungboy posted:Yeah they circumcise as a matter of course in the US, although I don't know if it's a state by state thing or everywhere. Non-medical circumcision is some nasty poo poo, very little difference to FGM which is rightly deemed abhorrent yet this ....isn't. yeah my american ex was circumcised "just because". it's very much the norm in the mid-west from what i've gathered. he's from ohio and he was not exactly chaste in his college days but mine was the first foreskin he'd encountered lol
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crispix posted:yeah my american ex was circumcised "just because". it's very much the norm in the mid-west from what i've gathered. he's from ohio and he was not exactly chaste in his college days but mine was the first foreskin he'd encountered lol It's basically to punish people for jacking it
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