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Jedit
Dec 10, 2011

Proudly supporting vanilla legends 1994-2014

https://twitter.com/LondonLassBlog/status/1639950729061212161?s=20

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Failed Imagineer
Sep 22, 2018
New government manifesto - What The gently caress Are Ye Laughing At?

smellmycheese
Feb 1, 2016

Nox Populai

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Perhaps we could have a deposit scheme on nitrous canisters.

ItohRespectArmy
Sep 11, 2019

Cutest In The World, Six Time DDT Ironheavymetalweight champion, Two Time International Princess champion, winner of two tournaments, a Princess Tag Team champion, And a pretty good singer too!
"When I was an idol, I felt nothing every day but now that I'm a pro wrestler I'm in pain constantly!"

if only the youths had skills wallets then they wouldnt need to be taking laughing gas

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal
Collect 12 cannisters and win one moral panic.

Sir Sidney Poitier
Aug 14, 2006

My favourite actor


I guess it's a sign of what an old oval office I am that I don't have any issues with a ban. That's based on the balance between the loving litter it causes (a lot, and it's really annoying where I used to walk my dog) and how good it is (it's really just not that good). Better to supply the yobs with spliffs, they're at least biodegradable and presumably carbon neutral.

Whether the law is a good idea or whether it'll achieve anything is another matter. Seems like it's a waste of time.

I only tried nitrous oxide a few times - on its own it was poo poo, but after weed it was lovely and after salvia I went to the triangle dimension. Oh and I put the cannisters in the bin like a good boy.

fuctifino
Jun 11, 2001

The laughing gas ban has nothing to do with evidence based drugs policy and everything to do with a country that is goose stepping into fascism. It gives the police more excuses for stop and searches with the chance of the CPS criminalising more of the population. There's a lot of money to be made in private prison and probation services. It also cruelly takes away a relatively safe form of escapism compared to what young people could be using, and the Tories love being cruel and increasing the risk of harm.

The cannisters themselves just create a litter problem, which isn't really much of a problem when compared to <points at everything else>. The main issue is that old people are seeing groups of young people enjoying themselves and being loud in public, and for some reason, some old people take offence at that. Kids shouldn't be heard or seen these days, so it seems....

I hope the youth rebel like they did in 2011

fuctifino fucked around with this message at 15:00 on Mar 26, 2023

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

Die Satan!
Disposable vapes are a bigger litter problem round my neighbourhood, those fuckers are everywhere.

Fumble
Sep 4, 2006
Probation
Can't post for 16 days!
So effectivly for as little as 8? grand you could lure an mp to stand on a big X on the ground for upto a day?

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

Fumble posted:

So effectivly for as little as 8? grand you could lure an mp to stand on a big X on the ground for upto a day?

Well depending on what happens on the X you might not need to actually pony up.

fuctifino
Jun 11, 2001

On the subject of young people, my mate's son's band did good the other night:
https://twitter.com/endof_thetrail/status/1638993926903287854

The video is worth watching, and gives me hope for the yoof

Direct link to vid - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjb5KiNLwzs

quote:

Protest anger
Can’t help but smile as the girl in handcuffs stands up
“Respect my rights or you’ll regret it later”
Policeman says there’s no one to save her
Protest anger
Fall out of line as the boys with fat cuts demand us
Flares rise as we search for an answer
This countries in doomsday danger

Talk to me
Fight with me

Government cancer
Look in my eyes and swear that the tories play fair
We’ll never need your commander
Nor will we search for a dumbfounded martyr
Government cancer
You’re all talking bollocks while you feast on lobster and scallops
There’s people dying on the streets
While you screw up and repeat and repeat and repeat

Talk to me
Fight with me

Talk to me
Fight with me

Protest anger
We all sigh as the girl in handcuffs stands up
“Respect my rights or you’ll regret it later”
Policeman says there’s no one to save her

:allears:

Diet Crack
Jan 15, 2001



*immolates self*

If you're tough on crime Rishi throw yourself into solitary.

crispix
Mar 28, 2015

Grand-Maman m'a raconté
(Les éditions des amitiés franco-québécoises)

Hello, dear

fuctifino posted:

It's going to be a race to see who can out-authoritarian the other

https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1639770656765014016

utterly clueless about real life as usual

the side of the public toilets in my town may be graffitied every few months or so (a cert to be so at Christmas/new year) with "X HOME RECKING SCUM" or "Y CHEETING BASTURD", and while it may technically be vandalism, it does a tremendous amount of public good by giving that person an outlet for their anger that doesn't involve grievous bodily harm or worse

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

Die Satan!
Thanks to graffiti I know who the local grass is.

Sir Sidney Poitier
Aug 14, 2006

My favourite actor


Thanks to graffiti that was famous where I last lived, I now know Louie Stretton has a tiny dick.

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal

Diet Crack posted:



*immolates self*
We all must kill the fascist inside our head.

crispix
Mar 28, 2015

Grand-Maman m'a raconté
(Les éditions des amitiés franco-québécoises)

Hello, dear
i wonder if it's paying the two quid that makes its readers cling so violently to the opinions they adopt from it

Kill All Cops
Apr 11, 2007


Pacheco de Chocobo



Hell Gem
why pay 2 quid for the mail when you can pay half that for the opinions of piers morgan and jeremy clarkson

crispix
Mar 28, 2015

Grand-Maman m'a raconté
(Les éditions des amitiés franco-québécoises)

Hello, dear
CHEREMY CLOHKSHON

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

I could put the money up my nose and have more fun and less brain damage.

fuctifino
Jun 11, 2001

Talking of money going up noses.... the full Kwasi interview is up

https://twitter.com/ByDonkeys/status/1639982033681149962

Clyde Radcliffe
Oct 19, 2014

fuctifino posted:

On the subject of young people, my mate's son's band did good the other night:
https://twitter.com/endof_thetrail/status/1638993926903287854

The video is worth watching, and gives me hope for the yoof

Direct link to vid - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjb5KiNLwzs

:allears:

I enjoyed that song a lot.

DesperateDan
Dec 10, 2005

Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.


there were 60+ large canisters dumped last night by the nice little woodland patch I look after

dgaf about people getting high on nitrous, but I do want fly-tippers to get mussolini'd be compelled to spend months picking up rubbish

also people who send up those loving candle powered lanterns are to be thrown into bins for an as yet to be determined amount of time

WhatEvil
Jun 6, 2004

Can't get no luck.

crispix posted:

CHEREMY CLOHKSHON

Speaking of:

https://twitter.com/TabitaSurge/status/1639904156168093697?s=20

He's still a oval office, obviously, but maybe this is a sign of the tide turning on the "trans debate".

kingturnip
Apr 18, 2008

fuctifino posted:

The laughing gas ban has nothing to do with evidence based drugs policy and everything to do with a country that is goose stepping into fascism. It gives the police more excuses for stop and searches with the chance of the CPS criminalising more of the population. There's a lot of money to be made in private prison and probation services. It also cruelly takes away a relatively safe form of escapism compared to what young people could be using, and the Tories love being cruel and increasing the risk of harm.

The cannisters themselves just create a litter problem, which isn't really much of a problem when compared to <points at everything else>. The main issue is that old people are seeing groups of young people enjoying themselves and being loud in public, and for some reason, some old people take offence at that. Kids shouldn't be heard or seen these days, so it seems....

I hope the youth rebel like they did in 2011

I'm not going to argue that there's a fair amount of 'moral panic' about this, but there are serious long-term effects to laughing gas use.
It can cause a functional neurological disorder that can have a huge impact on someone's physical wellbeing. Formerly-healthy teenagers who can't climb stairs or need a walking stick to go down the road.
Dismissing it as "a relatively safe form of escapism" isn't helpful or accurate.

Kill All Cops
Apr 11, 2007


Pacheco de Chocobo



Hell Gem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zljDDcTnTG0

Doctor_Fruitbat
Jun 2, 2013


WhatEvil posted:

He's still a oval office, obviously, but maybe this is a sign of the tide turning on the "trans debate".

Allowing themselves to be associated with literal sieg heiling Nazis might not have been the winning move that the terfs thought it was. That might genuinely have been the last straw that gave some people pause for thought.

fuctifino
Jun 11, 2001

kingturnip posted:

Dismissing it as "a relatively safe form of escapism" isn't helpful or accurate.

The full quote is:

quote:

It also cruelly takes away a relatively safe form of escapism compared to what young people could be using,

I'm talking about young people being pushed into taking class A's and weird dark web research chemicals. In comparison to those, laughing gas is relatively safe. No recreational drug is truly safe.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Doctor_Fruitbat posted:

Allowing themselves to be associated with literal sieg heiling Nazis might not have been the winning move that the terfs thought it was. That might genuinely have been the last straw that gave some people pause for thought.

I really do hope so, it was good to see the sheer turnout in NZ to protest them.

Jakabite
Jul 31, 2010

kingturnip posted:

I'm not going to argue that there's a fair amount of 'moral panic' about this, but there are serious long-term effects to laughing gas use.
It can cause a functional neurological disorder that can have a huge impact on someone's physical wellbeing. Formerly-healthy teenagers who can't climb stairs or need a walking stick to go down the road.
Dismissing it as "a relatively safe form of escapism" isn't helpful or accurate.

You have do a loving serious amount of balloons to have any negative effects though.

bessantj
Jul 27, 2004


DesperateDan posted:



there were 60+ large canisters dumped last night by the nice little woodland patch I look after

dgaf about people getting high on nitrous, but I do want fly-tippers to get mussolini'd be compelled to spend months picking up rubbish

also people who send up those loving candle powered lanterns are to be thrown into bins for an as yet to be determined amount of time

I really hate fly tipping. I once had to spend ten hours clearing up some loving poo poo heads fly tipping because it was in front of a set of access gates. If there had been an accident the emergency services would never have been to get through the gates. How people can do that to any part of the country confounds me.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup
Pillbug
Who the gently caress sells laughing gas?

ItohRespectArmy
Sep 11, 2019

Cutest In The World, Six Time DDT Ironheavymetalweight champion, Two Time International Princess champion, winner of two tournaments, a Princess Tag Team champion, And a pretty good singer too!
"When I was an idol, I felt nothing every day but now that I'm a pro wrestler I'm in pain constantly!"

happyhippy posted:

Who the gently caress sells laughing gas?

wanting to stock up before the ban comes in? very wise.

Nilbop
Jun 5, 2004

Looks like someone forgot his hardhat...

Mebh posted:

I hear this argument so loving often. I can't deny its seductive. As someone who was an idiot liberal child the last time labour came to power, you go down the rabbit hole thinking what an actual competent left wing govt that plays the game to get into power then goes turbo socialism might look like.

If you squint really hard, I can see how a lot think that might be Starmer. It's certainly a lot more palatable fantasy than the actual reality.

Then it just devolves into looking at policy, and not being drawn into a "cult of personality" because that would be bad you see. Corbyn was a cult you see.

If you then point out how poo poo the policies are, so far its just been a "lalala" fingers in ears "labour are less poo poo what else you going to do" endless loop and I'm just tired of it.

Three things are going to "transform" Britain with your lifetime (not mine; they'll have caught me by then);

1. Northern Ireland leaving

2. Scotland leaving

3. Re-entry to the EU on bended knee.

External factors acting on England only. Each of these will end up pushing England to the right. Even rejoining the EU. Somehow, you'll manage it. For whatever reason the English people have decided that ever rightward is the direction they want to go, that things like kings are cool and good, that an overwhelmingly powerful press that uses words that nobody in real life does, like "hols" and "luvvies," is for them and that things like hospitals and railways are only for the aristos.

Which is fine for me because all I want is to sack Tandragee castle and suffocate myself in Cheese & Onion flavour Tayto crisps under a free Irish sky.

Nilbop fucked around with this message at 16:52 on Mar 26, 2023

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

happyhippy posted:

Who the gently caress sells laughing gas?

It's used as propellant for some cooking appliances and also people like to huff it and I don't imagine the sellers much care which it's used for.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup
Pillbug

ItohRespectArmy posted:

wanting to stock up before the ban comes in? very wise.

Back in my day it was a 2 liter bottle of cider and a bag of glue.

Nenonen
Oct 22, 2009

Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

happyhippy posted:

Back in my day it was a 2 liter bottle of cider and a bag of glue.

Clever to glue the bottle to your hand so no one will steal it from you when you pass out :hmmyes:

Aphex-
Jan 29, 2006

Dinosaur Gum
I remember back in the heady days of 2006 when I was coming of age filling circus balloons with 3 canisters at a time and laying on my mates trampoline at night while high af.

Also doing a canister while on mushrooms and seeing the universe collapse into a single point over and over fractally and realising that everything in the universe is everything else.

And also doing hit after hit at the black swan in Bristol at breakcore nights while off my tits on mdma and having the greatest time of my life.

All that and we never once loving littered the empty canisters anywhere!

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smellmycheese
Feb 1, 2016

Nilbop posted:

Three things are going to "transform" Britain with your lifetime (not mine; they'll have caught me by then);

1. Northern Ireland leaving

2. Scotland leaving

3. Re-entry to the EU on bended knee.

External factors acting on England only. Each of these will end up pushing England to the right. Even rejoining the EU. Somehow, you'll manage it. For whatever reason the English people have decided that ever rightward is the direction they want to go, that things like kings are cool and good, that an overwhelmingly powerful press that uses words that nobody in real life does, like "hols" and "luvvies," is for them and that things like hospitals and railways are only for the aristos.

Which is fine for me because all I want is to sack Tandragee castle and suffocate myself in Cheese & Onion flavour Tayto crisps under a free Irish sky.

Is it me or does this thread have a high percentage of NI posters? (Of which I am one)

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