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Answers Me posted:Oh that’s reassuring. Maybe I’m just infected by doomerism, but aren’t we massively on borrowed time with bird flu becoming a major catastrophe? I’m sure our overlords are on the case about that one, so nothing to worry about… What really, really needs to happen is a significant amount of work being done on an effective avian flu vaccine. I would happily pay for it if it meant I didn’t need to lock up my chickens every winter.
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Guavanaut posted:There's a public list of playgrounds in Dorset if you ever want to. Thanks for the invite but I think I'll pass. Although coincidentally I was looking at a music festival in Dorset earlier today, End of the Road, entirely because it's King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard's only UK show of the year, but there's not enough bands on the lineup that I'm into for me to justify it. Although the new King Giz is real good.
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Last summer redux: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/19/soldiers-to-be-trained-to-check-passports-amid-uk-fears-of-summer-travel-chaos quote:Hundreds of soldiers and sailors are to be trained from Monday to cover striking Border Force guards, as ministers prepare for a potential summer of chaos at ports and airports, the Guardian can reveal. I foresee a time coming when either the squaddies will finally put their feet down (or the generals do) about them being expected to cover: border force, train driving, train signalling, rubbish collection, surgical operations, fire fighters, drive buses, deliver post, drive HGVs, teach the yobbos in year 9, etc etc. instead of going off to fight bad guys in order to boost poll ratings for whichever govt is in trouble. How many only signed up for the skiing? How much does all this cost compared with just giving a decent payrise? Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 18:40 on May 19, 2023 |
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:How much does all this cost compared with just giving a decent payrise?
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Why on earth is there a reddit called r/soccer, the entire world calls it football except for the seppos
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Answers Me posted:Oh that’s reassuring. Maybe I’m just infected by doomerism, but aren’t we massively on borrowed time with bird flu becoming a major catastrophe? I’m sure our overlords are on the case about that one, so nothing to worry about… This is a bit hard to work out. Bird flu probably causes the most deaths in humans out of any animal-based influenza, but that's probably because people are far more likely to have poultry roaming freely around their homes than other animals that have flu. Apologies if your horse is reading this over your shoulder, of course. Alongside this, the vast majority of reported deaths occur in rural areas of countries where good quality medical treatment is hard to access - either because of distance or cost. Therefore, someone accessing medical treatment who is found to have bird flu was probably quite unwell in the first place if they've been taken to a hospital or clinic. So it stands to reason that the death rate in people with confirmed bird flu is higher than with 'human flu'. Human-to-human transmission of bird flu isn't very common, either. I recall that Egypt and China have always been quite proactive at contact tracing when bird flu is identified in a person, and if anyone, it's usually just one other person in the immediate household who's spent a lot of time looking after the infected person and is still largely asymptomatic. Basically, if people have access to running water and soap, it drastically cuts down the likelihood of human-to-human transmission, since the first human host almost always seems to shed the virus through secretions - which makes it a lot easier to manage. So I probably wouldn't worry much about bird flu for now. It seems about as likely to cause a catastrophic viral outbreak as anything else, and there is - after all - a lot else  [edit] It always amuses me that a couple dozen people - at least - each year catch bubonic plague in the USA
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OwlFancier posted:Why on earth is there a reddit called r/soccer, the entire world calls it football except for the seppos
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Last summer redux: considering there is an active war right now in europe you’d think they’d have better things to do with their time
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OwlFancier posted:Why on earth is there a reddit called r/soccer, the entire world calls it football except for the seppos In Ireland it's fluidly either soccer or football depending on the likelihood of GAA entering the chat at that moment
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In my experience it's always football for the one played in the UK and gaelic for the GAA one. I also don't particularly follow sport. Might be a factor.
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OwlFancier posted:Why on earth is there a reddit called r/soccer, the entire world calls it football except for the seppos Every Seppo I know only ever says perkele and saatana.
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Skull Servant posted:In my experience it's always football for the one played in the UK and gaelic for the GAA one. Nah, the more culchie you get, the more likely to hear "soccer" in my experience
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History Comes Inside! posted:And realised oh no me too I’m so loving old Woah dude have you heard of this Liquid Tension Experiment? It's out there. OwlFancier posted:Why on earth is there a reddit called r/soccer, the entire world calls it football except for the seppos Well.. speaking of Seppos... the UK did a thing.
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Jel Shaker posted:considering there is an active war right now in europe you’d think they’d have better things to do with their time Exactly. They should be training for the eventuality of being 'boots on the ground' (rather than Putin nukin' us.)
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smellmycheese posted:So it’s clearly now going to come out that all the big UK businesses and organisations are also hotbeds of groping and nonceing. I run on the assumption they all are at all points. This information is only publicised when the correct people decide it needs to be.
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Guavanaut posted:From those comments I think it's because it's pronounced arse-occer, as in optical equipment where you put the viewfinder end up against a different hole. Reddit was also made by merkins, it makes sense the sub would be called that. E: arse lash, subs, I'm detecting a theme here.
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winegums posted:I run on the assumption they all are at all points. This information is only publicised when the correct people decide it needs to be. I think having that much more money than most of the people in your community, country and world fucks up a person - UK or not.
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A bit of local dystopia: https://twitter.com/OkeyTimes/status/1659524208081223684 quote:Terry Wheeler has been evicted from his home of 20 years in the town —with his political party blaming current law where tenants can be served notice for no reason.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Arse lash soccer Soccer was originally an English abbreviation of Association football, similar to rugger being an abbreviation of rugby football but for unknown reasons the word faded out in the UK in the 1960's and was replaced with football.
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Marmaduke! posted:And where! I'd say this is evidence that he doesn't, at least doctrinally. Anyway: https://twitter.com/ManOnThe100/status/1659286664835919874
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The local council election results in Northern Ireland have been coming in today but there's almost no coverage as all the BBC correspondents are on strike. But it looks like Sinn Féin is well on its way to overtaking the DUP to become the largest party in councils as well as in the Assembly.
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fuctifino posted:A bit of local dystopia: wait so landlords can effectively just end a ton of politicians' careers at-will?
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Dabir posted:wait so landlords can effectively just end a ton of politicians' careers at-will?
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OwlFancier posted:Why on earth is there a reddit called r/soccer, the entire world calls it football except for the seppos Given how one person in the second picture spells "Labour", I think it's a sub for American fans of football.
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it's the largest football subreddit and it's got people from everywhere on it (largely the anglosphere as you might expect). most goals from live games get uploaded there pretty quickly.
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Jedit posted:Given how one person in the second picture spells "Labour", I think it's a sub for American fans of football.  Also while I'm making unnecessary sweeping generalizations likely to start sports arguments Failed Imagineer posted:the likelihood of GAA entering the chat at that moment 
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Guavanaut posted:Or the country with a 'Labor Party' and a form of 'football' Most Likely. Though Aussie rules is also a fantastic sport and I highly recommend understanding and watching it, because it's one of the best things on the planet if you enjoy live sport. When I was at uni we had American and Canadian exchange students come to Australia, and they all ended up leaving die hard footy fans. Diet Crack fucked around with this message at 00:55 on May 20, 2023 |
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The killer whales have had enough of our poo poo and have decided to take over https://twitter.com/willrinehart/status/1659577200478224384?s=46&t=m_nNbkNoHG4lLitcpyHReg
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Guavanaut posted:Also while I'm making unnecessary sweeping generalizations likely to start sports arguments Gaelic is great as long as I'm watching it and never, ever asked to play it again.
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smellmycheese posted:The killer whales have had enough of our poo poo and have decided to take over (My last thought as the boat I'm on sinks.) Christ, I don't want to die at the hands of Brain K. Vaughan's lovely ending to Y: The Last Man.
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smellmycheese posted:The killer whales have had enough of our poo poo and have decided to take over Some buck eejit steered his wee fishing boat into a whale and now we're at war, grand Clyde Radcliffe posted:The local council election results in Northern Ireland have been coming in today but there's almost no coverage as all the BBC correspondents are on strike. The race is on, will the DUP find themselves replaced by a resurgent UUP or a resurgent PUP? 
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DesperateDan posted:where do I sign up to fight the humans 
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