OwlFancier posted:

I dunno that I would call it enlightened any more than I would being able to use a toilet instead of making GBS threads in your pants.

It's just like, unless all you personally do is talk poo poo about other people why would you assume everyone else is constantly talking poo poo and specifically about you?

Microplastics posted:

Let's all stop for a genocide breather

domhal posted:

Frantically doing Ctrl-F in census.xls

fuctifino posted:

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He still hasn't called for a ceasefire. He still hasn't called Israel's genocidal actions the war crimes that they are, and he supports the failed Apartheid two-state solution. I really hope to see a huge wave of resignations...

sinky posted:

Looks like it's by-election time
Labour may pick up another seat by not being quite as poo poo as the tories

killerwhat posted:

I finally got round to writing a will shortly afterwards so I wrote that Helvegen should be played at my funeral . (Ideally alongside Type O Negative - Everything Dies but I didn’t add that bit)

Apraxin posted:

tackling the important, real issues
https://twitter.com/PinkNews/status/1717216883378683982
dear mr. ONS, there are too many trans nowadays. please eliminate half. p.s. i am not a crackpot.

thebardyspoon posted:

Yeah I didn't really think of it as weird at the time but in the last 10 years or so I've come to realise they really crammed Christianity down our throats at the two primary schools I went to. As you say, Hymns and prayers every morning during assembly and there was a weird disconnect where I didn't really think "huh that was really, really religious isn't it?" until much later in life.

fuctifino posted:

They are probably going to be the council's responsibility to house now, putting yet more strain on their emergency housing budgets

massive spider posted:

If I recall the number of trans women in the last census was under 50 thousand nation wide. As in not enough to fill out a large stadium. I’ve kept that in mind because it draws into sharp relief how absurd Sunaks remarks about being “bullied” into accepting a man can become a woman etc really are that a group who number such are apparently able to bully the population this way. The motive for trying to establish that it’s even less is very ???

quote:

The numbers showed around 1.5 million people (3.2 per cent) identified as gay, lesbian, bisexual or as another sexual orientation, while 262,000 (0.5 per cent) reported that their gender identity was not the same as the sex they were assigned at birth.

Within the gender-identity figures, there were an equal number of transgender men and women (about 48,000 each), while 30,000 people said they were non-binary and 18,000 reported they identified with a different gender identity.

Answering the question regarding gender identity, was voluntary, leading advocacy groups to wonder if the figures were actually an underreporting, because those who are not out might fear filling in their gender identity on an official document.

ThomasPaine posted:

Speaking of dumb old 90s school poo poo that seemed normal at the time, even my similar-age friends are shocked when I tell them about the standard punishment for naughty kids in my primary. The school, as I said a pretty standard, ostensibly secular state school in an urban area, was an old, since demolished, Victorian building, one of those ones that still had separate (unobserved) 'girls' and 'boys' entrances on either side. The classrooms were all along the sides and fed into a central assembly/PE hall, so all the kids had to go through the hall to get out to the yard at break and lunch.

Anyway, 'naughty' children would often be punished by being forced to sit silent and cross legged in the middle of the hall in one of those hula hoop things you sometimes used in PE over break or lunch for X amount of time depending on the severity of the crime, sometimes split over multiple days. This meant they missed their free time, but also introduced an element of public humiliation, as those who 'got the hoop' were routinely mocked by all of the other children on their way in and out of the building - literally the whole student body. The teachers didn't prevent this, but if the kid in the hoop left or stood or even spoke, they would be yelled at, and if they didn't relent would be threatened with an extension to the sentence. I don't even think we had a separate detention, sometimes there would be like four or five kids just sitting in hoops in the hall, while other kids danced between them ripping the piss out of them until they got moved on by whatever staff member was supervising.

This punishment was not always used sensitively. My brother was given it in like his first week starting in reception because he was being disruptive by being scared and crying. So yeah, not great. I assumed this was a normal kind of thing that 90s schools did for ages, but I've told friends about it, some of whom work with kids, and they've all responded with some variation of

Then again this was also the school where the PE teacher forced a girl who forgot her kit to stand outside next to the door facing the wall in her underwear while the rest of the class did their lesson running laps or whatever round the yard, so who knows, maybe it was just an extremely hosed up establishment. I do think he did get in a lot of trouble for that one, at least, iirc, once it got back to the parents.

Angepain posted:

Interestingly the Scottish census question was much clearer: "Do you consider yourself to be trans, or have a trans history?" so will be interesting to see how the numbers compare for that whenever it comes out

fuctifino posted:

https://twitter.com/lisanandy/status/1717245656421544044



They are probably going to be the council's responsibility to house now, putting yet more strain on their emergency housing budgets

quote:

She comes from a family with strong political pedigree: her father is the renowned Marxist academic and anti-racism campaigner Dipak Nandy, and her maternal grandfather is Frank Byers, a Liberal MP who later served as the party’s leader in the House of Lords. Nandy grew up in Manchester and Bury after her parents moved north so her father could become deputy director of the new Equal Opportunities Commission. She talks politics a lot with her father, although slightly regrets revealing that he thinks she is rightwing.

Bobby Deluxe posted:

I've got my big 3 planned:

Videotape by Radiohead as everyone's going in / being seated,
Dogs and Horses by the Divine Comedy as the coffin is being loaded into the cannon,
On the Nature of Daylight by Max Richter at the end.

Tesseraction posted:

ThomasPaine posted:

Speaking of dumb old 90s school poo poo that seemed normal at the time, even my similar-age friends are shocked when I tell them about the standard punishment for naughty kids in my primary. The school, as I said a pretty standard, ostensibly secular state school in an urban area, was an old, since demolished, Victorian building, one of those ones that still had separate (unobserved) 'girls' and 'boys' entrances on either side. The classrooms were all along the sides and fed into a central assembly/PE hall, so all the kids had to go through the hall to get out to the yard at break and lunch.

Anyway, 'naughty' children would often be punished by being forced to sit silent and cross legged in the middle of the hall in one of those hula hoop things you sometimes used in PE over break or lunch for X amount of time depending on the severity of the crime, sometimes split over multiple days. This meant they missed their free time, but also introduced an element of public humiliation, as those who 'got the hoop' were routinely mocked by all of the other children on their way in and out of the building - literally the whole student body. The teachers didn't prevent this, but if the kid in the hoop left or stood or even spoke, they would be yelled at, and if they didn't relent would be threatened with an extension to the sentence. I don't even think we had a separate detention, sometimes there would be like four or five kids just sitting in hoops in the hall, while other kids danced between them ripping the piss out of them until they got moved on by whatever staff member was supervising.

This punishment was not always used sensitively. My brother was given it in like his first week starting in reception because he was being disruptive by being scared and crying. So yeah, not great. I assumed this was a normal kind of thing that 90s schools did for ages, but I've told friends about it, some of whom work with kids, and they've all responded with some variation of

fuctifino posted:

It was still legal for teachers to assault children when I was at primary school, and I remember one teacher who had a literal family of different sized wooden spoons on display behind his desk, all with drawn on happy faces and wool hair. The spoons were decorated by pupils of old as punishment and they all had names.

The harsher the punishment, the bigger the spoon and the number of strikes, and he made you bend over his knee while he inflicted the punishment [TW: bad stuff] which I was told fairly recently was so that he could judge which pupils had the reaction he was looking for

I tried looking him up to see what happened to him, but the trail went cold sometime after the millenium when he suddenly resigned all his various community positions "for personal reasons" and vanished off the face of the planet.