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Failed Imagineer posted:You can just say "the pub ' It was the Irish Club actually how dare you
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I think those are called shillelaghs.
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Nov 29, 2022 13:45
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I always call them knobkerries.
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Nov 29, 2022 13:47
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It's like Berghain but you have to be wearing the right kind of flat -cap to get in
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Mega Comrade posted:https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/nov/29/leicester-and-birmingham-are-uk-first-minority-majority-cities-census-reveals That's a massive upswing in people stating they don't have a religion from 15% to 37% and a shocking increase of Islam from 5% of the population.... to 6.5%. Weird how figures are presented in the way most likely to get folk mad at minorities.
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Guavanaut posted:I always call them knobkerries. tired: Derry/Londonderry Inspired: Kerry/Knobkerry
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Fair enough that the Brits have forsaken God, when God has long ago forsaken Britain.
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Time to give Brutus and the fishmen another go.Gonzo McFee posted:That's a massive upswing in people stating they don't have a religion from 15% to 37% and a shocking increase of Islam from 5% of the population.... to 6.5%. Failed Imagineer posted:tired: Derry/Londonderry 
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keep punching joe posted:You're allowed to be English, it's not illegal yet. These days etc. I always go with British because my granny's from Norn Iron and my partner's Welsh and my brother and sister grew up in Scotland and it just feels better.
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I go with British because https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRIP0vBtcBg
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Still better than god saves the king
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Good lad, FridgeFancier.
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Nice one Owl, that was a very chill thing of you to do.
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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:I go with British because https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRIP0vBtcBg Ah, the English tribute to Ireland's Call.
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Churches like the one my mother in-law goes to- there is essentially no-one under 60-70 years old regularly attending and not only are finances already stretched, there's fewer and fewer congregants capable of the background running of the church and its gradually winding down towards nothing- the only new congregants in years have been from other churches that stopped existing It's in contrast to some of the catholic and non-denominational places which are often looking busy come a sunday morning
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Mega Comrade posted:https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/nov/29/leicester-and-birmingham-are-uk-first-minority-majority-cities-census-reveals Note the use of a numbered amount for one, and a percentage for the other. That should be enough to tell you that the Muslim number is probably small, and they just don't want to reveal that because it doesn't fit the narrative..
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Kokoro Wish posted:Note the use of a numbered amount for one, and a percentage for the other. That should be enough to tell you that the Muslim number is probably small, and they just don't want to reveal that because it doesn't fit the narrative.. I think it tells you both, doesn't it? quote:The census revealed a 5.5 million drop in the number of Christians and a 1.2 million rise in the number of people following Islam, bringing the Muslim population to 3.9 million. The changes equate to a 17% fall in the number of Christians and a 44% increase in the number of Muslims. It is the first time in a census of England and Wales that fewer than half of the population have described themselves as Christian. Corollary: I am very tired.
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I've got COVID. I should just spend as much time as possible lying down under a blanket, right? Minimum exertion? I've been training my entire life for this e: plus lots of fluids and take paracetamol for fever, usual cold and flu management stuff
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I feel like in this day and age the combination of scandals in the church, the increasing marriage of the most vocal parts of christianity with the political far right, and the dragging of feet trying to get the nominally less poo poo varieties to catch up with changing social mores, it's hard to see why anyone would want a church. Like even if I felt the need, my choice is between institutions who hate me and institutions which are transparently only attempting to seem like they don't because pf social pressure, which itself undermines the claim to divine moral authority if you are obviously subject to the same social pressure as everybody else and will go so far as to change doctrine because of that. That's fine for a temporal ethical system but it makes very little sense for an organization claiming to speak for god and to know what he wants us to do. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 15:00 on Nov 29, 2022 |
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Tarnop posted:I've got COVID. I should just spend as much time as possible lying down under a blanket, right? Minimum exertion? I've been training my entire life for this You could see if you're eligible for treatments like Paxlovid, yanks love that stuff. NHS guidance on who can get it is here.
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Tarnop posted:I've got COVID. I should just spend as much time as possible lying down under a blanket, right? Minimum exertion? I've been training my entire life for this Yes. The more you rest, the less time it will take to get over, and the less chance of ongoing complications. I'm being extremely serious. Don't try to work through it. Rest, rest, rest. Then more rest.
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Tarnop posted:I've got COVID. I should just spend as much time as possible lying down under a blanket, right? Minimum exertion? I've been training my entire life for this I recently got over COVID, first time. Caught it on my wedding and spent my honeymoon with it  For me it was very similar to a bad cold, paracetamol and ibuprofen helped immensely. It just lasted longer than a cold normally would for me. Day 2 and 3 were the worst, the rest were just annoying. One important thing is just because you feel cold, doesn't mean you are. I kept trying to wrap myself up when I was 38.4c, with my new wife repeatedly ripping blankets off me despite my pleas. I was negative after 5 days but maintained mild symptoms for a further week.
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Mega Comrade posted:https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/nov/29/leicester-and-birmingham-are-uk-first-minority-majority-cities-census-reveals It also hugely misrepresents the diversity in places like Brum & Leicester when it also quotes country wide stats like "81.7% of the population is now white, including non-British, down from 86% in 2011, 9.3% is Asian British, up from 7.5%, 2.5% is Black, Black British, Black Welsh, Caribbean-African and African, up from 1.8%, and 1.6% are other ethnicities." That's hardly white people being overrun, but the opening paragraphs are pretty carefully written that way, especially the bits about the 44% increase in muslims and 17% fall of Christians. Twats are going to take that stat and Birmingham & Luton being over 50% minority ethnic (sir, you're going to need a new dogwhistle for that), and run with it. I can almost feel the Farage speech being written off the back of this. Key point seems to be: "Meanwhile, 37.2% of people – 22.2 million – declared they had “no religion”, the second most common response after Christian. It means that over the past 20 years the proportion of people reporting no religion has soared from 14.8%. [...] And places with a higher proportion of white population also have a bigger proportion of people with no religion." So this is not the country being taken over by Islam, this is the country being taken over by atheists and guardian writers not understanding graphs again. The graphic then goes on to clarify that Islam represents less than 10% of the population but the preceeding paragraphs are very carefully tailored to make it seem like Islam is taking over. It's the writer showing their arse bias-wise bringing up race and religion stats in this way and misrepresenting both. "Ushering in a new age of city-wide “super diversity”, the ONS data showed 59.1% of the people of Leicester are now from ethnic minority groups, a big change since 1991, when black and minority ethnic people made up just over a quarter of the city’s residents [...] Minority ethnic people also make up more than half the population in Luton (54.8%) and Birmingham (51.4%), the UK’s second largest city where 20 years ago seven out of 10 people were white." I would be looking at this and wondering why we seem to have siloed all of the non-white population into 2 or 3 cities. DesperateDan posted:Churches like the one my mother in-law goes to- there is essentially no-one under 60-70 years old regularly attending and not only are finances already stretched, there's fewer and fewer congregants capable of the background running of the church and its gradually winding down towards nothing- the only new congregants in years have been from other churches that stopped existing
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Gort posted:You could see if you're eligible for treatments like Paxlovid, yanks love that stuff. NHS guidance on who can get it is here. Cheers, I'd forgotten that you're meant to report the test result which is a prerequisite for treatment so I've done that. I don't think I'm eligible but I did get invited for a fourth vaccination (which I had 10 days ago thankfully) so who knows
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I think before a certain point (not sure when exactly) I had never even thought about british vs english. Most of my (english) friends would say have said similar. I would have probably answered "both" and thought it was a weird question.
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Barry Foster posted:Yes. The more you rest, the less time it will take to get over, and the less chance of ongoing complications. Mega Comrade posted:I recently got over COVID, first time. Caught it on my wedding and spent my honeymoon with it Thanks for the advice friends! I've never been so happy to be unemployed, I can limit my exertions to washing up and feeding the cat. I've got a thermometer so I can keep track of my temperature since there's no one here to take my blankets away
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Maugrim posted:
Quoting the relevant part of this post for the benefit of Darth Walrus
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UKMT Solidarity Fund Monthly Report, October 2022
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keep punching joe posted:When is OBON day 2022? Isn't Obon already a thing in Japan
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Bobby Deluxe posted:this is the country being taken over by atheists and guardian writers  Bobby Deluxe posted:"Ushering in a new age of city-wide “super diversity”, the ONS data showed 59.1% of the people of Leicester are now from ethnic minority groups, a big change since 1991, when black and minority ethnic people made up just over a quarter of the city’s residents [...] Minority ethnic people also make up more than half the population in Luton (54.8%) and Birmingham (51.4%), the UK’s second largest city where 20 years ago seven out of 10 people were white." Because of course it is well known that Black British, African-Caribbean, African, British Indian, British Pakistani, British Bangladeshi, British East Asian, British Arab/North African etc. all turn into BAMEtron to oppress whitey with their massive whip hand the second that there's less than 49.9% rather than being people with widely differing communities and personal lives. OwlFancier posted:That's fine for a temporal ethical system but it makes very little sense for an organization claiming to speak for god and to know what he wants us to do.
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The wobblies nicked plenty of church hymns and improved the words if you just like the songs 
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Not many statues though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UMhh7myVDQ
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Guavanaut posted:Because of course it is well known that Black British, African-Caribbean, African, British Indian, British Pakistani, British Bangladeshi, British East Asian, British Arab/North African etc. all turn into BAMEtron to oppress whitey with their massive whip hand the second that there's less than 49.9% rather than being people with widely differing communities and personal lives. It just feels like there's something massively racist about starting with a headline about christians being in the minority, and then slipping seamlessly into fudged stats about race that lump all of the brown people into one monoculture.
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Nilbop posted:I think it tells you both, doesn't it? I think the main thing missing here is the number of Christians. If it said: "bringing the Muslim population to 3.9 million and the Christian population to 27.5 million" (or the percentages: 6.5% Muslim, 46.2% Christian) it would make it a lot clearer that Christians were still a much larger group. Honestly putting Muslims in the same paragraph is probably a bad idea anyway, you want to think about the people whose eyes glaze over when they see a number and just see "fall in Christians" and "rise in Muslims" and their prejudicial gland goes from there More bad reporting: https://twitter.com/Independent/status/1597529213657120768  The white population increased! The white race is doing just fine! (sadly.) Their proportion declined! Very slightly!
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Astrologers proclaim week of the terrible articles, white population increased!
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/29/labour-leadership-internal-candidates-democracy-prospective-mpsquote:This week, the former shadow chancellor John McDonnell wrote to Starmer about what he described as “mounting allegations about abuse and malpractice” during candidate selections – allegations that he said had already been raised with Starmer by multiple MPs. The allegations, he wrote, “are that selection procedures are being manipulated to prevent candidates being selected who are on the left, centre left or who may prevent a favoured candidate from having a clear run for a seat”. They include allegations that members did not receive the link to join online nomination meetings or were held in waiting rooms on Zoom until votes had been cast, and that some candidates were given privileged access to lists of members’ contact details in advance of others. He also claims that some candidates on the left were ruled out for “bizarre reasons”. 
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BREAKING: Non-white people exist
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Guavanaut posted:I always call them knobkerries. Pretty sure that's an Afrikaans word and nowt to do with us Paddys.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I mean Indian & Pakistani get lumped together under 'south asian' all the time, when they are two hugely different cultures that remain passionately unaligned on a wide range of issues. Well they were the same multi-faceted region and culture until the British came along, ransacked them and then separated them on its way out. The region we now call Pakistan had a population that was 24% Hindu before partition. Today it is 1.6%. I generally do wonder what that whole region would be like today if we had never set foot in it. Mega Comrade fucked around with this message at 16:14 on Nov 29, 2022 |
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Just Another Lurker posted:Pretty sure that's an Afrikaans word and nowt to do with us Paddys.
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