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People stealing for bread (or food to eat) make up a pretty small minority of thefts. Items to sell for drugs make up the largest chunk by quite a lot. Better public funding drug rehabilitation would help a lot.
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Jan 19, 2024 15:01
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Move back to the old British System for that imo. You'd think that the Brexiteers would be all in favour of that because it's from the blitz spirit era and has 'British' in the name but instead they're like "hang all the drugs!"
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Jan 19, 2024 15:07
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Congrats on the new wheels fuctifino, just watch out for the hairy hands when you're cruising around Dartmoor. A mate of mine and his missus just had their first kid, and I want to send them a parcel for its 0th birthday. Couple things for the baby but I imagine they'll have a tonne of people getting them baby things, any good ideas for presents for new parents? I know we have a few in the thread.
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Jan 19, 2024 15:08
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Although to be completely fair 00s era UKIP did have at one point a similar drug policy that was like the only thing about them that I agreed with.
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Jan 19, 2024 15:09
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Guavanaut posted:Move back to the old British System for that imo. Ship them to australia?
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Jan 19, 2024 15:11
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https://twitter.com/tamcohen/status/1748336239059542376 He really is completely crap. The Tories would do better having the Lettuce run them than this.
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Jan 19, 2024 15:15
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His Divine Shadow posted:Ship them to australia? Heroin Addiction Care and Control: the British System 1916 to 1984 (another thing to add to the list of "things ruined by Thatcher") quote:The medical prescription of opioid drugs to addicts had been officially sanctioned on the recommendation of the 1926 Rolleston Report which defined drug addiction as an illness and therefore the responsibility of doctors quote:While this may have not constituted a ‘system’ in terms of a centralized policy or set of rules, the clinical freedom it allowed doctors and the underlying spirit of compassion towards addicts certainly existed in the minds of many of those in policy and treatment.
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Jan 19, 2024 15:17
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I can't quickly find an English source, but Finland got told off by the UN for handing out heroin like candy I only mention this as Divine is Finnish
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Jan 19, 2024 15:24
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I've never intentionally shoplifted but lately I've had a few incidences of shops accidentally not charging me for everything and I haven't realised until days later when it's been too inconvenient to make a trip back and try to explain why I would want to return something.
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Jan 19, 2024 15:27
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big scary monsters posted:Congrats on the new wheels fuctifino, just watch out for the hairy hands when you're cruising around Dartmoor. Giant muslins (not giant Muslims). People usually get fancy clothes for the baby and whatnot, but we found with our kids that you could never have enough giant pieces of cloth for them to lie on. We always get them now for when people have babies, and they're always grateful.
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Jan 19, 2024 15:27
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Pablo Bluth posted:I've never intentionally shoplifted but lately I've had a few incidences of shops accidentally not charging me for everything and I haven't realised until days later when it's been too inconvenient to make a trip back and try to explain why I would want to return something. Scan item. Place in bag. Attempt to scan second item. "Please place your item in the bag first." Attempt to scan second item again. "Please place your item in the bag." Shove second item in the bag. "Thank you." Repeat. Some kind of 2-for-1 offer. The Perfect Element posted:giant Muslims  A power stance greater than David Cameron could even dream of.
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Jan 19, 2024 15:32
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It depends a bit on what they might already have, but we received a little bath time kit with a little rubber duck / digital thermometer which was something we wouldn’t have got ourselves and is now a daily staple. The other thing that sounds ridiculously bougie but I can’t stop recommending is a weighted wet wipe dispenser. Being able to pick a single wipe, single handed, is an incredible force multiplier when you’re wrangling a poo filled nappy and squirmy baby, on barely any sleep.
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Jan 19, 2024 15:33
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big scary monsters posted:A mate of mine and his missus just had their first kid, and I want to send them a parcel for its 0th birthday. Couple things for the baby but I imagine they'll have a tonne of people getting them baby things, any good ideas for presents for new parents? I know we have a few in the thread. nice tea/coffee/biscuits xanax think someone already mentioned muslin puke rags, never enough of them takeaway vouchers
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Jan 19, 2024 15:38
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Rappaport posted:I can't quickly find an English source, but Finland got told off by the UN for handing out heroin like candy
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Jan 19, 2024 15:40
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I'm so glad I don't plan on ever having a kid and have a partner who feels the same way. No shade to anyone who's had them and is enjoying it, but it's a no from me. I've never seen a new parent who doesn't look lobotomised from stress and lack of sleep, and I like free time and spending money on myself and doing spontaneous things. And even when they're older you've got all the teenage drama to go through and knowing what I was like as a 15 year old I absolutely do not want that inflicted on anyone, myself least of all.
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Jan 19, 2024 15:44
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DesperateDan posted:takeaway vouchers it's this, being able to make meals appear is akin to a superpower when your brain is permanently at the 'putting milk in the cupboard and cereal in the fridge' level.
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Jan 19, 2024 15:48
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ukle posted:https://twitter.com/tamcohen/status/1748336239059542376 Will be easy for he and Starmer to agree not to have debates
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Jan 19, 2024 15:50
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Guavanaut posted:There was similar pressure put on the UK at the same time for the same reasons but the result of that increasing pressure seemed to have made things worse, not better. Ignore the UN on drugs policy: broke Ignore the UN on basic subsistence of the population: bespoke
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Jan 19, 2024 15:55
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big scary monsters posted:Congrats on the new wheels fuctifino, just watch out for the hairy hands when you're cruising around Dartmoor. A bottle of wine with the message 'for emergency use only' on it. A cousin got sent this for their kid last year and loved it.
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Jan 19, 2024 15:56
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Don’t think I’ve ever seen someone shoplifting TBH And not in a comradely “wink” way, I think I’m just enormously unobservant and oblivious.
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Jan 19, 2024 15:58
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big scary monsters posted:Congrats on the new wheels fuctifino I'm a long way from getting any money. The house hasn't even been put on the market yet.
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Jan 19, 2024 16:01
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If I was PM i'd laugh in constituents faces too
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Jan 19, 2024 16:02
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ThomasPaine posted:I'm so glad I don't plan on ever having a kid and have a partner who feels the same way. No shade to anyone who's had them and is enjoying it, but it's a no from me. I've never seen a new parent who doesn't look lobotomised from stress and lack of sleep, and I like free time and spending money on myself and doing spontaneous things. And even when they're older you've got all the teenage drama to go through and knowing what I was like as a 15 year old I absolutely do not want that inflicted on anyone, myself least of all. My friend is constantly trying to convince me to have children. Sometimes it feels like he's trying to convince himself it wasn't a mistake more than anything else. I'm still undecided if i want kids, but I have a dog and feel I get all the good parts of parenthood from her.
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Jan 19, 2024 16:07
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OwlFancier posted:Ignore the UN on drugs policy: broke And the CIA desk jockeys, being government dorks rather than organized criminals, basically documented everything about how much they indirectly made off of the 'French Connection' heroin-smuggling syndicate and used for their side operations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBdGOrcUEg8 It's getting into conspiratorial thinking, but it does seem very convenient that the US administration basically said "hey we have a huge heroin problem, and now we want you guys to repeat the exact same steps that gave us a huge heroin problem" at the exact same time that this was going on.
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Jan 19, 2024 16:09
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big scary monsters posted:A mate of mine and his missus just had their first kid, and I want to send them a parcel for its 0th birthday. Couple things for the baby but I imagine they'll have a tonne of people getting them baby things, any good ideas for presents for new parents? I know we have a few in the thread. Some kind of vacuum travel mug or other solution to endlessly making hot drinks and then not managing to drink them before they go cold.
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Jan 19, 2024 16:18
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fuctifino posted:I'm a long way from getting any money. The house hasn't even been put on the market yet. Ah right. Well, I hope it's not too long before you get the chilldozer of your dreams. And thanks for all the present suggestions, folks. A lot of good stuff I would not have thought of.
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Jan 19, 2024 16:22
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Mega Comrade posted:Often it's customers who get involved. "I'm going to temporarily cure the poo poo out of your diabetes."
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Jan 19, 2024 16:24
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Tesseraction posted:"I'm going to temporarily cure the poo poo out of your diabetes." Lol its sometimes a little strange to think I carry around insulin pens at all times, even on planes and in restricted areas, and they are legitimately deadly. If I whacked up a max dose and injected some poor fucker with it it could very well kill them. I wonder if I was ever attacked and did that whether I'd get away with a self defence plea.
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Jan 19, 2024 16:27
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Getting attacked, giving them a max dose but it actually does solve their high blood sugar and they beat you up more efficiently.
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Jan 19, 2024 16:31
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sebzilla posted:Some kind of vacuum travel mug or other solution to endlessly making hot drinks and then not managing to drink them before they go cold. They could even jump on current trends and get them a Stanley cup. But... Flux Wildly posted:The other thing that sounds ridiculously bougie but I can’t stop recommending is a weighted wet wipe dispenser. Being able to pick a single wipe, single handed, is an incredible force multiplier when you’re wrangling a poo filled nappy and squirmy baby, on barely any sleep. The correct answer is this. Little quality of life things are great for new parents and I can attest to how useful a weighted wet wipe dispenser is.
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Jan 19, 2024 16:33
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Tesseraction posted:Getting attacked, giving them a max dose but it actually does solve their high blood sugar and they beat you up more efficiently. Cue twilight zone music
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Jan 19, 2024 16:33
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happyhippy posted:A bottle of wine with the message 'for emergency use only' on it. Handy for when you run out of formula or they won't sleep I guess
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Jan 19, 2024 16:34
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ThomasPaine posted:I'm so glad I don't plan on ever having a kid and have a partner who feels the same way. No shade to anyone who's had them and is enjoying it, but it's a no from me. I've never seen a new parent who doesn't look lobotomised from stress and lack of sleep, and I like free time and spending money on myself and doing spontaneous things. And even when they're older you've got all the teenage drama to go through and knowing what I was like as a 15 year old I absolutely do not want that inflicted on anyone, myself least of all. Same boat, I’ll stick to sleeping in and being able to pretty much do what I want whenever I want thanks.
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Jan 19, 2024 16:37
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From the maps thread: lol the UK PriorMarcus posted:They could even jump on current trends and get them a Stanley cup.
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Jan 19, 2024 16:38
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ukle posted:https://twitter.com/tamcohen/status/1748336239059542376 I'm old enough to remember the last time this happened the media found and attacked the man who dared to do this to a Conservative PM.
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Jan 19, 2024 16:40
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Lee Anderson has turned off replies to his tweets, the poor sensitive soul that he is....
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Jan 19, 2024 16:41
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TBH 3c doesn't seem terrible and doesn't seem to match up to me waking up with my tootsies in blocks of ice if I don't use a heated blanket.
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Jan 19, 2024 16:41
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Guavanaut posted:From the maps thread: I was in Sweden recently and it's night and day the way they are able to deal with the cold. Even seeing the trains operating in heavy snow with big snow plows on the front boggled my mind because in the UK everything would have been cancelled if things were half as bad.
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Jan 19, 2024 16:42
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Gonzo McFee posted:I'm old enough to remember the last time this happened the media found and attacked the man who dared to do this to a Conservative PM. Has Laura Kuennsberg posted their twitter handle yet?
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Jan 19, 2024 16:45
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In our defence, we don't have enough true winter to invest in an the infrastructure to deal with snow That said, have they given up gritting roads because we're broke? It's been down to -4 or more the last few days and there's been way more black ice. I got caught out on a roundabout a few days ago and had a short slide which I managed to recover from. A passed bunch cars who had issues, and a blocked motorway with a car facing the wrong way. Last night driving home the car in front of me did a 180 which I fortunately managed to avoid. I seen nothing that suggests any roads have been gritted
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Jan 19, 2024 16:51
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