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OwlFancier posted:Constant rolling thunder here, nice to have a break from the heat. I was celebrating the cloudburst this afternoon and the 10 degree drop in weather, only for the humidity to skyrocket and the temperature return to 25°C with maximum humidity
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smellmycheese posted:https://twitter.com/dinosofos/status/1700899106799927540?s=46&t=m_nNbkNoHG4lLitcpyHReg Had hoped this was a TBEU bit
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thebardyspoon posted:Anyone familiar with the court system/jury system able to assuage my worry here? So, yes you should tell them. This exact scenario ("I have a holiday booked that might clash with the trial dates") is the type of things courts want to avoid. It means putting you in, hearing the trial and then possibly losing you before deliberations. Any judge will likely excuse your attendance for a long trial on that basis. Also, if you say it publicly instead of saying it peivately to the judge, the Prosecution and Defence will know about it. And they will definitely want to exclude you, as both aides will assume you will probably hobble their case in an attempt to get a speedy verdict.
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# ? Sep 10, 2023 23:50 |
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The Question IRL posted:So, yes you should tell them. Cheers, that makes it a lot easier. I definitely wasn't going to not tell them but this makes me feel better that telling them will at least likely result in the outcome I'd prefer. Pretty annoying tbh cause I am relatively interested and usually 2 or 4 weeks wouldn't make a difference, this is just the first proper holiday I've had booked where I'm going somewhere else,for longer than a weekend in 15 years.
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# ? Sep 11, 2023 00:15 |
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Tesseraction posted:I was celebrating the cloudburst this afternoon and the 10 degree drop in weather, only for the humidity to skyrocket and the temperature return to 25°C with maximum humidity
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# ? Sep 11, 2023 06:39 |
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Weird, that arsehole Nick Timothy has written a column that I... mostly... agree with: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/09/10/worry-if-the-grown-ups-take-back-control/ quote:If the grown-ups take back control, it really will be time to get worried
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# ? Sep 11, 2023 06:51 |
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He seems to be writing a love letter to western liberal individualism while vigorously shaking his fist and shouting "liberals!"
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thebardyspoon posted:Cheers, that makes it a lot easier. I definitely wasn't going to not tell them but this makes me feel better that telling them will at least likely result in the outcome I'd prefer. Pretty annoying tbh cause I am relatively interested and usually 2 or 4 weeks wouldn't make a difference, this is just the first proper holiday I've had booked where I'm going somewhere else,for longer than a weekend in 15 years. If you want to, you can make it clear to the court that you'd be happy to sit on a jury trial, just that you'd have to be finished by X date. They might just kick you off the long trial, but still have shorter trials that need jurors for. If that's what you want.
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never forgetti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSyrFuAydD4
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# ? Sep 11, 2023 07:30 |
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Suella Braverman pushes for ban of ‘lethal’ American bully XL dogs I think it’s the first thing I’ve ever heard from her that doesn’t immediately make me recoil in disgust. I suggest she releases two dozen of said dogs into Conservative HQ to prove how dangerous they are. Edit: and for once I am very not on side with the charities. Dogs Trust says the focus should be on “early intervention” to prevent dog bites, so as long as your insane and aggressive hound hasn’t bitten anyone before, go ahead and release it into a field of children. Sanford fucked around with this message at 08:16 on Sep 11, 2023 |
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Sanford posted:Suella Braverman pushes for ban of ‘lethal’ American bully XL dogs She means ban in the same way as banning migrants by taking them from their owners and sticking them on the barges with the asylum seekers.
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Kin posted:banning migrants by taking them from their owners How surprisingly abolishonist of her
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I say ban the cunts who own them as a status symbol. They'll just find another breed.
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It's interesting what breeds get painted as "bred to kill". During WWI and the 1920s it was German Shepherds, post WW2 it was Rottweilers and Dobermann Pinschers. Now it seems to always be poorly defined American dog breeds.
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look the problem is a lax system of checks and balances on the types of people who own dogs and not the dogs themselves, I say as I struggle to restrain my Child Eviscerator XL on his leash
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Sanford posted:Suella Braverman pushes for ban of ‘lethal’ American bully XL dogs Should just ban dogs tbh you wouldn't own a wolf
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forkboy84 posted:Should just ban dogs tbh you wouldn't own a wolf you don't know me
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forkboy84 posted:Should just ban dogs tbh you wouldn't own a wolf council won't let me not even an ocelot or a lynx
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kecske posted:look the problem is a lax system of checks and balances on the types of people who own dogs and not the dogs themselves, I say as I struggle to restrain my Child Eviscerator XL on his leash Maybe they should bring back the Victorian era panic where it was scent hounds that were bred by malefactors to mercilessly stalk the innocent across forest and fell. forkboy84 posted:Should just ban dogs tbh you wouldn't own a wolf
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# ? Sep 11, 2023 09:04 |
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Fun and not totally predictable story from The Guardian Voter ID in England lead to racial and disability discrimination, report finds The authors found that “polling clerks are more likely to fail to compare a photo ID to the person presenting that document if the person is of a different ethnicity”. They also highlighted the case of Andrea Barratt, who is immunocompromised and was blocked from entering a polling booth after refusing to remove her mask for an identification check. The report says: “Their decision in that instance was … clearly discriminatory (and potentially unlawful) because they denied Andrea Barratt the right to cast a ballot purely on the basis of circumstances which arose as a direct result of a disability.”
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# ? Sep 11, 2023 09:08 |
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They should make it the law that if you pull out an uno reverse card then the polling official has to show you their photo ID instead. Any complaints that this is "stupid as all poo poo" should be judged against the stupidity of the original law, by way of precedent.
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Guavanaut posted:He seems to be writing a love letter to western liberal individualism while vigorously shaking his fist and shouting "liberals!" * a miserable pile of compromises **
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Guavanaut posted:It's interesting what breeds get painted as "bred to kill". People were screaming for the Staffordshire bull terrier to be banned a couple years ago. Now the number of incidents linked to them has fallen despite their ownership numbers barely moving. Its now the Bully XL that has caught the Daily Mails eye. It was Rottweilers and dobermans when I was growing up that was the evil dog breed. There are certain types of owners who want strong powerful breeds and want them to act aggressive. You can't solve that problem with a banned breed list. I don't know what the answer is but I agree with the RSPCA that the banned list is ineffective. I'm biased though, I own this child gobler https://i.imgur.com/arb2Glt.mp4 Mega Comrade fucked around with this message at 09:58 on Sep 11, 2023 |
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Ban all dogs that aren't goofy labrador retrievers IMHO.
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A day when this poignant and moving video should be watched by all https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4difPEQ8wA4
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Mega Comrade posted:People were screaming for the Staffordshire bull terrier to be banned a couple years ago. Now the number of incidents linked to them has fallen despite their ownership numbers barely moving. Its now the Bully XL that has caught the Daily Mails eye. I've been bitten more by annoying little yappy dogs that were bred to chase hares and foxes for toffs than by pitbull and similar dogs. Honestly, a lot of people shouldn't be allowed to own dogs, because they are too lazy or cruel or stupid or whatever. The breed is less the problem than the people. Although I'm all in favour of banning the musician Pitbull
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# ? Sep 11, 2023 09:58 |
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I live on a street where there aren’t any front gardens and for some reason the Royal Mail insisted that my next door neighbour have an external letterbox thing put in otherwise they wouldn’t deliver to them anymore, due to them owning a staffie. I could understand it if they had a front garden where they let the dog roam and it could freely maul posties to death (even though they’re more likely to just get dribbled on to death because she’s a massive soft lump), but this was apparently just out of nowhere one day. I didn’t even know they could do that in the first place tbh. So now they have all their letters delivered into a postbox about 2 feet to the left and in line with their actual letterbox.
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# ? Sep 11, 2023 10:06 |
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The Well Trained Dogs Act. You have to be either able to show your dog is well trained (eg responds to commands, not excessively aggressive, etc) or you are actively attending dog training. If your dog is reported as an issue and fails an obedience test then you have a defined period to attend classes and pass a retest, or you lose the dog.
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At least German Shepherds and Dobermanns look like they could leap over a fence and take a chunk out of you at any time, they're big and athletic and have long muzzles and a cultural history with prisons and security that might make people scared of them. Every modern dog fear in the Mail looks like a sourdough loaf with little bow legs. Mega Comrade posted:I'm biased though, I own this child gobler
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# ? Sep 11, 2023 10:14 |
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Coincidentally I saw this on the local news just a day or so ago. Content Warning: Dog attack/ Don't click unless you want to be depressed.
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Another point is that, based on my personal experience at Battersea, 90% of the dogs you will see there are bull terriers of one sort or jack Russell’s, having a miserable time before eventually being destroyed - or they will be destroyed immediately upon showing any aggression because you can’t rehome aggressive dogs. Dog shelters are filled with these things - abandoned by lovely owners and unwanted for rehoming
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Jippa posted:Coincidentally I saw this on the local news just a day or so ago. You might click the spoiler and see the photo and think the content warning is a joke (like I did). It isn't. A friend of mine got a Rottweiler recently and she's just a giant softie who wants to lick everyone's face. COVID did make it harder to socalise her properly and she's nipped me occasionally (I've got a scar across the back of my ankle from when I first met her as a puppy) but they've been working hard on training her and she's so much better than she was. I had two terriers when I was younger and saw them both mauled by the neighbour's labrador and retriever (they survived). After that one got incredibly shy and the other would growl and snap at anyone except my Mum. No bad dogs, only bad owners and all that. SpaceCommie fucked around with this message at 10:37 on Sep 11, 2023 |
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smellmycheese posted:or jack Russell’s
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Mega Comrade posted:People were screaming for the Staffordshire bull terrier to be banned a couple years ago. Now the number of incidents linked to them has fallen despite their ownership numbers barely moving. Its now the Bully XL that has caught the Daily Mails eye. The disappointment at expecting a belly-rub and yet being denied one is palpable.
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Indeed, my sister was attacked by her own Jack Russell who bit her face, ended up in hospital.Pablo Bluth posted:The Well Trained Dogs Act. You have to be either able to show your dog is well trained (eg responds to commands, not excessively aggressive, etc) or you are actively attending dog training. If your dog is reported as an issue and fails an obedience test then you have a defined period to attend classes and pass a retest, or you lose the dog. Without a functional enforcement process none of this will ever make a difference though :/
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# ? Sep 11, 2023 10:32 |
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Dog owners 2 most used phrases: "Oh don't worry he's just being friendly, he doesn't bite" and "oh my god He's never done that before!!!"
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# ? Sep 11, 2023 10:47 |
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My dog is such a big soft idiot he managed to be attacked by a sheep last week. We were walking through a sheep field (on lead of course) and one wandered over and gave him a sniff, I was getting ready to take a picture because I thought it was cute but then it butted him over and we had to hustle out through the gate. Roy you are supposed to be a sheep dog, what went wrong? He's also scared of rain despite being from Wales.
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# ? Sep 11, 2023 10:47 |
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Anecdotally in our local area, the people with the least control over their dogs are the ones with cockapoos or similar. Tearing around the place with no control, no recall and jumping up at people and bothering other dogs. But they get away with it because they’re small. My partner is a dog behaviourist and their most common issue currently is with cockapoos and cavapoos with aggression and resource guarding.
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# ? Sep 11, 2023 11:08 |
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Labeling a particular breed a "dangerous dog" just makes them more attractive to the kind of dog owner who treats their dog as a penis extension rather than a pet and family member.
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Can we please not become the US though, where people aren’t allowed to have their dogs off leash anywhere but a ‘dog park’ whatever that is oh no a Labrador came and sniffed me how will I survive
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