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haakman posted:Just watched BJ in the Commons. I'm very sorry about the events surrounding your father death. I do think Johnson and co lying about the party is very consequential in the grand scheme of things because if they'll lie about something so apparently inconsequential can we trust them on anything? On the really big things that matter to everyone? No we can't and if we let them get away with this then they can get away with anything. 1+3=4 I'm sure that's important to numerologists somehow.
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The thing about the party that is often overlooked, and I will express this badly but bear with me, is this: That was back when we didn't really know how bad corona could get, vaccines weren't widespread, any fucker could end up on a ventilator etc etc...and these twats decided to cluster together and potentially leave the country without a government. If someone there DID have covid and it got everyone at once, suddenly you have a huge chunk of the country's leadership isolating for an unknown length of time and you've just left the country without leadership during a globe-spanning pandemic, purely for the sake of a few nibbles and drinkies. When Joe Voxpop goes "oh well everyone was having a sneaky wee lockdown party" well that's not such a biggie if you work in a call centre or a shop or something and you're out of commission for a while, your workmates can probably make do, but it's a whole bigger deal if you're ostensibly the most important people in the entire country. Double loving stupid because Joe Voxpop probably doesn't have so many outlets for entertainment during lockdown, whereas a shower of rich cunts can easily get whatever depraved indulgences they want delivered to their doors. Which means they're either so loving stupid that this kind of thing didn't occur to them OR they care so little about their responsibilities to the country that they just didn't give a poo poo. Either way, gently caress them.
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bessantj posted:I'm very sorry about the events surrounding your father death. It's one of those things. The parties aren't really in the top 20 reasons why every single member of the Conservative government should be REDACTED but it does cut through because so many people during those times were following the rules and weren't able to see their family, even/especially if they were dying.
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Skulker posted:Which means they're either so loving stupid that this kind of thing didn't occur to them OR they care so little about their responsibilities to the country that they just didn't give a poo poo. Either way, gently caress them. I mean, it's defo both Edit although I do genuinely think that the country would've been better off 'rudderless' than with those loving clowns in charge. Couldn't have been any worse, at least
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Skulker posted:Which means they're either so loving stupid that this kind of thing didn't occur to them OR they care so little about their responsibilities to the country that they just didn't give a poo poo. Either way, gently caress them. It's a bit of all four.
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Guavanaut posted:Other options are that they're so sheltered that they think that consequences (social, legal, or biological) happen to other people, they know that the civil service is doing most of the work and they're just there to wedge as much of their clientelism and personal ambitions and grievances into the machine as possible without it breaking. https://twitter.com/Joannechocolat/status/1515301192716402693?t=sMXptbKN2jiMI86h9o7AjA&s=19
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Apr 19, 2022 19:32
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Skulker posted:The thing about the party that is often overlooked, and I will express this badly but bear with me, is this: It's also utter inconceivable that they weren't doing this poo poo all the time. The only ones the police investigate were the ones were there was overwhelming evidence (photos, videos) that it happened.
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Apr 19, 2022 19:39
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ThomasPaine posted:I could not even remotely be assed with having a kid. Why would you do that to yourself. I'm not even being edgy, I completely earnestly cannot think of any positives bar the warm fuzzy 'can't quite describe it' unconditional love thing people describe, which I'm doing just fine without and kinda sounds more stressful than anything else tbh, like a cigarette addiction. I genuinely do not really understand people who want children, they're tamagotchis but you go to jail if they die. I wish I did, but eh. Admittedly this is probably up there as one of my goonier opinions but I've been struck by how little it has changed throughout my life despite every busybody going pulling the 'you'll understand when you're a bit older' line for as long as I can remember. (Prepares to talk about all the emotional connection you get with a kid. Decides to put that aside and go with a Goony answer.) It's a robot that you can (eventually) train to bring you things when you feel lazy.
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It's the lack of remorse that gets me. They can't even muster up a proper pretend apology, just "I'm sorry if the plebs insist on being upset about my innocent little mistake UwU" over and over again. They just cannot comprehend how disrespectful and insulting it actually was to people.
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peanut- posted:I've never opened my bedroom window since the time I found a pigeon sitting on top of my wardrobe. Took nearly an hour to get the brainless gently caress out the same way it came in rather than flying directly into the ceiling. You are Lee Adama and I claim my five credits or whatever currency they used in BSG I can't remember
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:*I spent all my life thinking "upshot" meant "benefit" and learned last week that it just means "result". If the person who invented that word is reading this: why did you put "up" in it, you idiot, you complete moron 
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stev posted:It's the lack of remorse that gets me. They can't even muster up a proper pretend apology, just "I'm sorry if the plebs insist on being upset about my innocent little mistake UwU" over and over again. They just cannot comprehend how disrespectful and insulting it actually was to people. It's because they've worked
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TACD posted:Also 'transpired' does not mean 'occurred', it means 'became known' 
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Apr 19, 2022 21:06
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TACD posted:Also 'transpired' does not mean 'occurred', it means 'became known' Perhaps it once did, but the main definition is now "happened"
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TACD posted:Also 'transpired' does not mean 'occurred', it means 'became known' For all intensive purposes all these are already well known. Devor posted:Perhaps it once did, but the main definition is now "happened" no it means someone lied but it turns out that... blah blah
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Like noone (a word) would say "oh I though it was a dog but it occurred that it was a cat"
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Apr 19, 2022 21:14
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When glinner self-immolated his career he transpired.
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Devor posted:Perhaps it once did, but the main definition is now "happened" I am nonplussed by this revelation.
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I'm disinterested in either definition.
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They Don't Give A gently caress What You Think
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keep punching joe posted:They Are we talking about cats, kids, or HRH's Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland?
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or this thread
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Umbra Dubium posted:Are we talking about cats, kids, or HRH's Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland? 
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On council vote chat, I feel like I might be the only person who can vote labour and feel good about it. Because a labour left candidate got selected and boiled a lot of blairite piss  She seems generally sound and frankly getting a decent councillor elected would be the only political victory I've ever seen since I was eligible to vote.
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haakman posted:Just watched BJ in the Commons. I’m really sorry about your dad. I this stuff does matter too, I think it’s important that the people who make the laws feel bound by them - and obviously they break laws all the time, but to break a law that you have just passed, that at the time is the main news, in such a direct and blatant way is so obviously emblematic of their hideous morals. In terms of amount of objective harm it obviously doesn’t rank, but I still think it matters, and it says a lot about people who will blithely excuse it.
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Lungboy posted:So a coin flip between happy and upset? Argh. Might want to notice the "happy" is far more likely when they're never let outside after a move. They want to go back to familiar places in their territory.
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I had a friend who did a similar thing with their old cat after a move and she adapted fine apart from a slight tendency to try to escape. If you start out from the move with them being indoors they should hopefully adapt to live in the house.
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OwlFancier posted:If you start out from the move with them being indoors they should hopefully adapt to live in the house. My cat became an indoor cat for about 9 months when I moved before I got the cat flap installed. He adapted fine. Cats are resilient and adaptable parasites.
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Cats live longer, healthier, less stressful lives if they're indoor cats. Outside they have territorial spats, get more disease and injury, get run over by cars, abused by humans and eat garbage. They also absolutely murder wildlife indiscriminately. Keep your cat in. I've rescued and rehomed cats my entire life of all ages. Yes you'll have cats that pine for the outside. They also pine for access to the other side of the bathroom door because they are very dumb and we prescribe way more motivation and anthropomorphism to them than we should.
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Lungboy posted:Has anyone got experience of rehoming a cat that's used to being able to go outside into an indoor only cat? Yeah I did this. Just stick to it. They get used to it eventually. Make sure you keep the litter box clean and maybe have more than one if possible. My cat isn't allowed out since the time she got stuck on the garage roof and cried for three hours instead of just jumping back in through the window. She is 19 now.
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The article actually seems very good. The Saville doc is awful. Like she says; the thesis that we are all culpable just let's those who really knew what was happening off the hook. It is only true in the broadest and most asinine sense. And 90% of the documentary is just explaining what a big deal Saville was. There is very little really in there about what happened and why. Despite the fact that we now know loads of people concretely were aware of allegations and didn't act not one of them is interviewed or even named.
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I have indoor cats now as I'm in Canada and there are bears and wolves and coyotes and stuff that can eat cats, plus just roads... but I think I'm gonna be building them a Catio soon. Gonna put a catflap through my wall and then have a run for them leading out to a cage-like thing where they can be "outside" but not actually get "out out".
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OrthoTrot posted:The article actually seems very good. The Saville doc is awful. Like she says; the thesis that we are all culpable just let's those who really knew what was happening off the hook. It is only true in the broadest and most asinine sense. Yes but the author literally took photos with him laughing along. This is pure arse covering. The documentary was poor but probably because even approaching why Saville got away with it for so long opens you up to British Libel law. For example the author here laughing along while knowing the rumours at least would not hesitate.
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I believe this is the first time in my life I've ever seen profanity on an ad. I thought the advertising standards agency banned this kind of thing E: it's gotta be a spoof right? I can't even tell what it's advertising. I guess it'll probably be taken down when the council notices
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Googling, it looks like a self-published self help book (the same book as in the photo). Unfortunately the author is out of stock, but you can buy the NFT! NFT listing says "seen all over London bus stops thanks to sub-vertising", which I guess means they're just plastering ads up without paying (specifically ads to sell a commercial product, with a QR code presumably pointing to the page where they say that that's what they're doing, which sounds to me like the author does indeed have some authority on poo poo ideas?) e: on reflection there's a good chance that the book doesn't exist & it's just an NFT scam, in which case more power to them if they pull it off but they might have missed the grift train on that one Borrovan fucked around with this message at 08:56 on Apr 20, 2022 |
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Since the thread is talking about cats I'd just like to chip in that my cat is very dumb. Like really profoundly stupid. Brain is a little bead rattling around a tin can.
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