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I hadn't signed into nextdoor for almost 2 years, so I just did and one of the first things I saw was someone with a neighbour watch avatar telling someone else they should report to the police a person swearing at them. Snipe, have a dog 
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Please do not leave Unison, at least not until the NEC elections are over. There’s a real chance of the left taking it over and making it not poo poo: https://timeforrealchange.uk/
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In other news, the British media being very, very normal today. https://twitter.com/HKesvani/status/1647190148063412224?t=t-yiOyQFn1eSqTGC7gja7A&s=19
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The Question IRL posted:In other news, the British media being very, very normal today. The tears are so good https://twitter.com/AdamBienkov/status/1647224706288742400
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The Question IRL posted:In other news, the British media being very, very normal today. This is a Brendan Forehead production
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https://twitter.com/2013_Sylvius/status/1647213029874888705
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It’s all kicking off at the Grand National if anyone wants a laugh. Hundreds of protesters invading and glueing themselves to things
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For any particular reason or is that just how people enjoy the horse racing?
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Both Biden doing the classic American on holiday bit and the papers losing their minds over it are funny, you don't have to pick a side imo.
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It's a good way to pay respects to the dead horses.
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Such oiks, ruining the day of their betters at the races. Melanie spent over 5 grand for her hat, and they are off taking pics of pink t-shirted poors.
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Apr 15, 2023 17:19
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The racehorses being turned into glue into that glue being used to mess with the living racehorses life cycle.
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Apr 15, 2023 17:30
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Tesseraction posted:The racehorses being turned into glue into that glue being used to mess with the living racehorses life cycle. "200 PRITT STICKS" was trending on Twitter this morning.
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OwlFancier posted:For any particular reason or is that just how people enjoy the horse racing? Probably the death toll of horses at the race
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Jedit posted:"200 PRITT STICKS" was trending on Twitter this morning. Bit of a cruel name for a racehorse.
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Mad respect to anyone who is willing to subject themselves to horse people that long
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Gort posted:Probably the death toll of horses at the race https://www.bbc.com/sport/horse-racing/65285510.amp quote:Animal Rising spokesperson Nathan McGovern said: "Police are wasting time chasing protesters rather than addressing the climate and ecological emergency, and our broken relationship to animals.
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love that "put them to sleep" like they tucked them in with a little pillow and some horlicks rather than drag a tarp around so the cameras can't see and shoot them in the head
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DesperateDan posted:love that "put them to sleep" like they tucked them in with a little pillow and some horlicks rather than drag a tarp around so the cameras can't see and shoot them in the head TBH, we say we're putting them to sleep with our little animals too. You can put a horse down with sedation instead of the gun, but if you don't use enough the horse can start panicing. The gun is quick and the horse has no clue what's happening. CW animal death I watched one of the old riding school horses get put down after she got very sick. One moment the horse was standing, and the next she was down. The fallen stock guy was kind to her when leading her away to do the deed, and treated her body with as much dignity as possible when you're getting a few hundred kilos of animal into a trailer. She got sent of with some willow leaves as she absolutely loved eating them. RIP Nellie you were a good horse.
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It does make me wonder how many of the deaths are actually "this is kinder for the animal," and how many are "I can't be arsed to pay for this animal if it's not going to win me shitloads of money." I'm guessing that it's a weird financial glitch where it's easier to shoot the horse and claim the insurance money or something? Or that donating / selling it for a pittance to someone who would look after it is such an inconsequential amount compared to the paperwork involved.
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tbh I'd prefer a firing squad to horlicks
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Bobby Deluxe posted:It does make me wonder how many of the deaths are actually "this is kinder for the animal," and how many are "I can't be arsed to pay for this animal if it's not going to win me shitloads of money." Horses can't really survive broken legs - there's something about the structure of the bone that makes it a mess, and if you did manage to fix the leg the months of box rest (maybe in a sling to help support the weight as they often rest one foot at a time) would wreck the animal's physical condition and probably send it even more doolally than race horses usually are. A lot of unsuccessful racehorses do just get sent on to rehoming places - if you're experienced with horses an OTTB (Off the track throughbred) is a cheap way to get one.
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Yeah we bred an animal that runs around on its middle fingers to have really long middle fingers. About as hosed up as pugs. Somewhere some aristo bloodline obsessive is probably trying to crossbreed them.
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In the sense they are probably shagging both of them.
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Guavanaut posted:tbh I'd prefer a firing squad to horlicks Snoo-snoo beats all.
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Guavanaut posted:About as hosed up as pugs. Somewhere some aristo bloodline obsessive is probably trying to crossbreed them. Crossbreeding aristos makes them less idiotic though. Do we really want competent aristocrats?
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Operation Pug Nonce only created Stanley Johnson
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Angrymog posted:Horses can't really survive broken legs - there's something about the structure of the bone that makes it a mess, and if you did manage to fix the leg the months of box rest (maybe in a sling to help support the weight as they often rest one foot at a time) would wreck the animal's physical condition and probably send it even more doolally than race horses usually are. Just sort of annoys me, sort of like the difference between "my cat was in pain so we ended its painful existence" and "my dog was old and started making GBS threads itself, so we killed it because we didn't want poo in the house." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeWnPue2XU0 Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 19:59 on Apr 15, 2023 |
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capitalism makes glue of us all, horses and humans alike
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I guess I'm just looking at it from the capitalism perspective - I suspect there are probably a lot of horses that could be nursed back to being able to do normal horse stuff if the owners put in a tenth of the money the horse made for them, but the owners don't want to spend that when they can just collect the insurance and get a new, uninjured one. How this is relevant in a thread about Marxism, I can't really say. If it cheers you up you are just sort of making it up in order to annoy yourself.
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Epic High Five posted:You probably won't be surprised to discover that the metrics around these things are curated specifically to ensure nobody in store-level management ever qualifies for a bonus as well It's insane that this sort of thing is allowed to go unchallenged, the person who thought it up should be in prison.
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Epic High Five posted:You probably won't be surprised to discover that the metrics around these things are curated specifically to ensure nobody in store-level management ever qualifies for a bonus as well About a million years ago, I was temping via Manpower. They used to send a review form to whoever you were temping for now & then (can't remember the frequency, I was with them over 2 years almost entirely with one booking). You got an award of some sort if you got 5/5. I got several. Anyway one of the people in the Manpower office said there was a temp who kept getting 4/5 so they phoned the manager & asked what the temp could do better "Nothing, she's excellent" "So why don't you give her 5/5" "Company policy never to give anyone full marks as there is always something they could improve" "like what?" = anyway, they finally gave the temp a 5/5 so she could get her nice silver necklace.
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someone explained it to me with the following analogy (presumably because I am an idiot) - horse legs are like christmas tree lights, as soon as one goes the increased burden on the remaining ones causes more knock-on problems e: Bobby Deluxe posted:I guess I'm just looking at it from the capitalism perspective - I suspect there are probably a lot of horses that could be nursed back to being able to do normal horse stuff if the owners put in a tenth of the money the horse made for them, but the owners don't want to spend that when they can just collect the insurance and get a new, uninjured one. How this is relevant in a thread about Marxism, I can't really say. the famous case is Barbaro. Won the kentucky derby, had an insanely valuable pedigree, the owners poured an incredible pile of money in for the kinds of surgeries and treatments that most people could only dream of, and he up and died anyway because of the multitude of complications brought on from the broken leg. Its effectively a death sentence for a horse kecske fucked around with this message at 21:16 on Apr 15, 2023 |
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The Question IRL posted:In other news, the British media being very, very normal today. gurning about them not flying a british flag on the limo  they just completely don't get it
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Ice Cream Joe and Gerry Alan finally did it.
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