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HopperUK posted:When I think about the sheer amount of poo poo I got for my awful handwriting I get furious. Okay, they didn't know about my raging ADHD and neither did I. So teach me a way to write legibly, don't just force me to use a stupid pencil grip as if that's the issue. Ugh yes. I was so happy when my primary teacher allowed me to use a biro and normal letters (as opposed to joined-up), around age 9 maybe? I think he just gave up on ever being able to read my fountain pen + joined up mess, and I never looked back, Even better when essay-based subjects in secondary would accept printed Word docs. Though that did make exams a shock to the system (wrist)
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https://twitter.com/matt_dathan/status/1586278776539086848 Literal concentration camps in the UK.... more so.... again... as in, we have a long track record of doing stuff like this. And it's amazing how much of the population are quite happy that they are being treated in this way. "They should have stayed on their side of the water" etc etc etc I loving despair at the direction this country has gone 
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I get that overpopulation is a concern (though the extent is up for debate), and I totally understand the anxiety of bringing kids into this world as it falls apart, but ‘don’t have kids’ is just such a grim stance to take on the climate crisis. Just, why bother trying to solve anything if that’s the answer. People will be advocating mass suicide next.
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Oct 29, 2022 18:39
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Because other people exist and helping solve their problems is good? Because I currently exist? You may as well say "well if you're not going to have kids then why don't you murder as many people as possible?" in terms of things that are not like other things. Or "if you're not going to bother having kids why not poo poo on your floor instead of solving the problem of going to the toilet?" Because then I'd have the additional problem of a poo poo on my floor, and I'd like to avoid that.
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I think i get what Answers Me is saying. I think I'd love having a kid. My wife would make an incredible mother. And on an existential level I do stay up late thinking about the generations of DNA that fought to reach this configuration, and just end here. But I'm too broke and exhausted to even think about raising a child. Having that suggested to me as a choice of virtue kind of stings a bit, if I'm honest.
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Oct 29, 2022 19:02
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Having one kid is quite good imo
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I'm fairly agnostic on the issue, but I do think that there's a cultural taboo against discussing the negative global ramifications of having children. So often having children is presented as at worst a neutral act, when in fact the ethics of it are extremely complex. I think the real problem is the thoughtless way in which the concept of having children is propagated culturally. Most people I know who had kids just basically said they did it because their family expected it or because it's just what you do.
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I did expend all this time and effort to get away from my family just to start another one FFS.
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https://twitter.com/mikeysmith/status/1586390885054439426
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It kind of matches up with the reports that Truss kept changing her phone number... so now we know it wasn't just to avoid her cabinet, but also cos she done got hacked. Possibly multiple times.
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Oct 29, 2022 19:49
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Oct 29, 2022 19:55
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An outgoing PM used his powers to suppress the story, so that a compromised candidate could become PM... albeit for 45 days. In days of old, I'm sure stuff like this used to be called treason.
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MeinPanzer posted:I think the real problem is the thoughtless way in which the concept of having children is propagated culturally. Most people I know who had kids just basically said they did it because their family expected it or because it's just what you do. Just like how few discussions on the left have generated quite so much kneejerk reactionary rage as Sophie Lewis' work Abolish the Family (even though it talks mostly about generating alternatives to the default for care and liberation) other than perhaps Sinéad O'Connor ripping up that picture of the Pope over complicity in child abuse and Diane Abbott existing and saying the words 'white people'. It taps into a deep seated and incoherent social self-defense mechanism. Very similar to people who go on social media to say "well I was hit as a kid and it didn't do me any harm which is why I'm on the internet defending hitting kids." (What they actually mean is "well I hit my kids but I am not a child abuser and will not be processing this idea further.") Or people who complain about vegans being insufferable while posting bacon memes.
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Dunno what intelligence the Russians were hoping to uncover by hacking Liz truss.
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Oct 29, 2022 20:11
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Kwasi Kwarteng dick pics.
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spent the last two days at goth weekend and I'm loving knackered. was very nice to see everyone in their fancy duds though.
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EXPAND YOUR PORK MARKETS, CLICK HERE NOW
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Bobstar posted:Ugh yes. I was so happy when my primary teacher allowed me to use a biro and normal letters (as opposed to joined-up), around age 9 maybe? I think he just gave up on ever being able to read my fountain pen + joined up mess, and I never looked back, When I was in primary school they used to make the kids with lovely handwriting write in blue pen only, with black pens reserved for people with legible cursive. I never made it to the black pens, and one year I had a teacher make me re-write some stupid multi-page writing assignment four times because she refused to believe my handwriting was that lovely and that I was instead just being lazy and sloppy. She gave up during the fifth attempt because she decided to sit there and watch me as I slowly tried to get every single letter perfect, finally realising that my handwriting was in fact just that lovely. gently caress you, teacher, wherever you are now. I missed both playtimes that day.
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MeinPanzer posted:I'm fairly agnostic on the issue, but I do think that there's a cultural taboo against discussing the negative global ramifications of having children. So often having children is presented as at worst a neutral act, when in fact the ethics of it are extremely complex. Even if you don't take the global view, as a former child I have a lot of objections to having been created and I certainly would not wish to repeat that mistake on my own hypothetical children.
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Wait a second, so Braverman's stunt resignation was definitely a pop at Truss to get her out, i.e. "I hosed up computer security in a very minor way and am resigning. Look at me resign, because that's what you do when you gently caress up, even in a small way. Boy I sure would hate to have a major fuckup hidden away somewhere and to not have resigned for it. That would be terrible, wouldn't it? That'd bring down the government wouldn't it Liz?"
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Bobby Deluxe posted:EXPAND YOUR PORK MARKETS, CLICK HERE NOW 
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Dunno what intelligence the Russians were hoping to uncover by hacking Liz truss.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Wait a second, so Braverman's stunt resignation was definitely a pop at Truss to get her out, i.e. "I hosed up computer security in a very minor way and am resigning. Look at me resign, because that's what you do when you gently caress up, even in a small way. Boy I sure would hate to have a major fuckup hidden away somewhere and to not have resigned for it. That would be terrible, wouldn't it? That'd bring down the government wouldn't it Liz?" I think it's safer to assume that both of them are just really dumb and Truss is a massive hypocrite than that Braverman has any integrity.
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Nephthys posted:I think it's safer to assume that both of them are just really dumb and Truss is a massive hypocrite than that Braverman has any integrity.
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Nephthys posted:I think it's safer to assume that both of them are just really dumb and Truss is a massive hypocrite than that Braverman has any integrity. Simon Case has announced that there is no need to launch an investigation into this because if there was, he'd be implicated in 10 seconds flat. This is honestly starting to look so convoluted and involved I'm starting to worry Boris might suddenly develop a brittle hyoid bone.
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Mirror has an article about it https://twitter.com/nazirafzal/status/1586431116654755840 e: and Guardian https://twitter.com/guardiannews/status/1586447523744456706 fuctifino fucked around with this message at 21:00 on Oct 29, 2022 |
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I couldnt read a word of Rees Moggs resignation letter but thats not even a pop at his handwriting. I think handwriting legibility is on like a bell curve or a parabola where its garbage poo poo, then reaches perfect legibility then either rises or falls depending on your axis to being complete garbage readable only by you, the author, and even then probably only in that moment.
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Nah Rees-Mogg has garbage pigpen handwriting. He should be mocked for that, because his whole persona is about stylistic arrogance and he brags about banning computers so that people can learn penmanship, so he ought to loving have. Or better yet to admit that his persona is bollocks and typing a letter is fine.
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Handwriting is cryptography by other means.
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Hot drat, yet another scandal. Please keep this poo poo coming. Don't let Rishi get any chance at a honeymoon period or for his premiership to be framed as a 'fresh start'. Hammer them with a constant neverending stream of scandals and crises, so the Papers can't move the public narrative forward away from Tory corruption/incompetence/sleaze like in the late Major years.
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Bring back the death by stranglewank subplot imo. Don't limit yourself to just one either feel free to have a bunch of them sync-croak.
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Michael Gove attempts to asphyxiate himself while also cutting off the circulation to his scrotum but accidentally ends up properly tying his own shoes for the first time.
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W sacked for smallish security breach (well, sackedresignednowbacksomehow) (not too bad guys don't look into it further I said don't look into it) while X (resigned for everything) is actually much more compromised and that in turn had been covered up by Y (resigned for everything and the kitchen sink) in order for X to take power in the first place feels like it ought to be a big deal. Meanwhile X's unelected mandateless replacement Z points fingers at the opposition simply for supporting their predecessor, as if that's somehow a bad thing. Or maybe this is just what strong and stable government looks like. Obligatory CAN YOU IMAGINE IF JERE-- 
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JEMENRIIIAHAH CFROMMBLYYNNN
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Guavanaut posted:Nah Rees-Mogg has garbage pigpen handwriting. I made my own font of my handwriting a while ago. I've no use for it mind.
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Send people fake letters saying they could win a caravan.
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i used to live in a caravan its not a prize
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There's never really a caravan with those contests so I'm sure it all works out.
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