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We've spent the last few months in a neverending peak which I didn't even know was possible, I'm not sure I'm down for an even bigger neverending peak. Looks like we're getting that 100k by Christmas, just like SAGE foretold.
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ThomasPaine posted:I genuinely feel kinda bad because my mum and dad obviously really want the experience of being grandparents but neither me or my brother are remotely interested in having kids. OP its like Toxoplasmosis. Once you get one, you'll never look at kids the same way again.
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well done that woman keep punching joe posted:Lol Sturgeon just shredded some Daily Mail reporter on TV. why the scottish parliament has gaelic but not scots translation
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Dec 17, 2021 17:25
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Because Scots isn't a real language lol
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the NI assembly has ulster scots alongside irish so you get a translation in a different language and comical looking stuff like weemins bogs or whey oot or w/e as well
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ThomasPaine posted:I can't imagine something more stressful than having to live with a fragile creature that I am fully responsible for and which also uses up all my money and free time and sleep while apparently on an endless mission to find new and exciting ways to put itself in mortal danger I feel like a cat is a good alternative to this.
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crispix posted:comical looking stuff like weemins bogs 
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crispix posted:well done that woman Gaelic language act 2005 gives Gaelic the same status as English in the Scottish public sector, there has been no equivalent language act to cover Scots/Doric etc. The SNP could try and legislate for it but it would just cause more unhinged wailing from unionists.
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Dec 17, 2021 17:36
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ThomasPaine posted:Huh, Omicron must be decent at getting by vaccines then I don't mean to be rude or nothing, but how is this news to you? It was pretty much the first thing we knew about the variant.
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What would Scottish Government be in Scots? Scottish Government sounds what it'd be. Found this which is funny, Scots dictionary entry for the meaning of Gove To stare vacantly or stupidly
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keep punching joe posted:more unhinged wailing from unionists.
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Barry Foster posted:I don't mean to be rude or nothing, but how is this news to you? It was pretty much the first thing we knew about the variant. We always knew it was better at getting past the vaccines than the other variants but there's a big difference between 'vaccines are 50% effective' and 'omicron laughs at your completely useless injections'. It's pretty impressive that the numbers suggest it's closer to the latter when it comes to preventing infection. That said it's what happens once you're infected that matters. If vaccines still largely prevent serious illness with omicron, things may not be as dire as the raw figures imply. I guess we'll know in a couple of weeks.
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forkboy84 posted:What would Scottish Government be in Scots? Scottish Government sounds what it'd be. Ask that American guy who made up about 75% of all Scots on the internet by writing most of Scots Wikipedia.
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ThomasPaine posted:Congrats to all the child havers but honestly I personally can't imagine a worse hell and I don't understand at all how parents do it much less seem to enjoy it Let's be honest here - if all parents of one week old babies were asked the following question: Have you made an enormous mistake? a) yes b) yes I suspect the answer would be yes.
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keep punching joe posted:Gaelic language act 2005 gives Gaelic the same status as English in the Scottish public sector, there has been no equivalent language act to cover Scots/Doric etc. The SNP could try and legislate for it but it would just cause more unhinged wailing from unionists. ulster scots is seen very much as a unionist thing here, my thinking was why aren't the scottish unionists complaining there's no scots behind nucula 
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crispix posted:ulster scots is seen very much as a unionist thing here, my thinking was why aren't the scottish unionists complaining there's no scots behind nucula Scottish unionists are people who think Scots is a dialect and a dialect that needs to be stamped out at that.
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Scots is v fake and I blame Irvine Welsh
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ThomasPaine posted:Because Scots isn't a real language lol Be careful, you might set off the DUP again. Who am i kidding, just breathing sets those gobshites off. 
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Really though you can't just write English phonetically with a heavy accent and a bunch of dialect words then get indignant when people suggest it might not be a distinct language in its own right. Even wildly different dialects of Chinese that aren't even mutually intelligible are considered dialects in China not independent languages.
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crispix posted:ulster scots is seen very much as a unionist thing here, my thinking was why aren't the scottish unionists complaining there's no scots behind nucula Ah because Scottish unionism since 2014 is becoming more about the total eradication of all differences between Scotland/England. Devolution is attacked, language is attacked, basically any divergence from England is seen as an existential threat. NI unionism at least seems to have some confidence in itself and is comfortable with its own cultural identity.
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ThomasPaine posted:Really though you can't just write English phonetically with a heavy accent and a bunch of dialect words then get indignant when people suggest it might not be a distinct language in its own right. China Is a pretty iffy example as far as treatment of minority groups
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keep punching joe posted:NI unionism at least seems to have some confidence in itself and is comfortable with its own cultural identity. They have: - hitting the Big Drum - sash and bowler - bonfire - hating the Taigs Why would you ever need anything else
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You forgot
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forkboy84 posted:China Is a pretty iffy example as far as treatment of minority groups I'm talking purely about the way dialects of Chinese are understood, not the different languages spoken by minority non-Han ethnic groups.
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keep punching joe posted:Number go up That's not my department Says Boris Van Braun.
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https://twitter.com/ThirteenXTwelve/status/1471882551723765771?s=19 14 years for protesting
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Guavanaut posted:You forgot treayactur lool i went back to the post and Failed Imagineer posted:- hitting the Big Drum  interesting to see the saltire still used as a unionist symbol in NI too  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAa4xPkk2Pw&t=12s crispix fucked around with this message at 19:19 on Dec 17, 2021 |
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This seems fine https://twitter.com/MartinSLewis/status/1471869787169083408?t=mRE02eyyqQOzj_r6I605vg&s=19
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crispix posted:interesting to see the saltire still used as a unionist symbol in NI too You can't just point at everything you don't like and claim you won't surrender to it. When you die you can try pointing at the reaper and he's not gonna listen mate.
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i can't get my head around all those people carrying lib dem placards, like what are they excited about what are they for :/
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sebzilla posted:This seems fine Time to invest in a new jumper I think
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ThomasPaine posted:Really though you can't just write English phonetically with a heavy accent and a bunch of dialect words then get indignant when people suggest it might not be a distinct language in its own right. "A language is a dialect with an army and a navy", as they say. There are plenty of supposedly distinct languages that are really no less similar to one another than Geordie and Janner are, but for historical and political reasons they are not treated as dialects. Danish and Norwegian spring to mind, although I hope no Norwegians read me saying that. And there are other examples of dialects that might as well be separate languages. A person speaking Schweizerdeutsch will get subtitles on German TV because it is so unintelligible, while someone speaking Bayerisch often won't even though it can be just as hard to understand for other German speakers. There is some disagreement as to whether either of the two are languages or dialects.
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There's plenty of parts of the UK where you can't loving understand a word they say, certainly sounds like another language to me. If you need points for originality then english isn't a loving language either cos it's just a katamari of loanwords and bad spelling.
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Gonzo McFee posted:https://twitter.com/ThirteenXTwelve/status/1471882551723765771?s=19 Sounds like an utter prick. Rioting under coke is not a protected right anywhere, fyi.
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Simon Case has just resigned from heading the investigation into the illegal parties on account of attending an illegal party himself.
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big scary monsters posted:"A language is a dialect with an army and a navy", as they say. There are plenty of supposedly distinct languages that are really no less similar to one another than Geordie and Janner are, but for historical and political reasons they are not treated as dialects. Danish and Norwegian spring to mind, although I hope no Norwegians read me saying that. And there are other examples of dialects that might as well be separate languages. A person speaking Schweizerdeutsch will get subtitles on German TV because it is so unintelligible, while someone speaking Bayerisch often won't even though it can be just as hard to understand for other German speakers. There is some disagreement as to whether either of the two are languages or dialects. I remember trying to explain to Arab friends (that have never travelled to UK) that Welsh is not simply a dialect of English. You have to basically show them Urdu (which uses Arabic script) and point out that just because the same set of letters is used doesn't mean it's basically the same language with a funny accent. (Mind you, most of them even if they have heard of Wales think it's a small town in England.)
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Nenonen posted:Rioting under coke is not a protected right anywhere, fyi. I think the world would be better if it was, personally.
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Nenonen posted:Sounds like an utter prick. Rioting under coke is not a protected right anywhere, fyi. Oh give over if you think protesting - even violent drug fuelled protesting - deserves 14 years inside. It's insane overkill.
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Gonzo McFee posted:https://twitter.com/ThirteenXTwelve/status/1471882551723765771?s=19 gently caress this noise
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