Guavanaut posted:

It's especially interesting that this seemed to happen at the exact same time as Christian conservatism went full pro-fetus and mass incarceration in the early 80s.

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The plans have been vigorously opposed by 84 residents (as of 1 June), who have cited potential ‘cover for drug dealers’, ‘leaves clogging gutters’ and ‘feeling unsafe around so many trees’ as reasons to prevent the planting on Ringstone Crescent, Nelson from going ahead.

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“Children often play football and other activities on the land and this won't be possible if the plans go ahead."

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In the written objections, one resident wrote: “The safety and welfare of our children and grandchildren is an issue, as at present they can play on the circle in the knowledge that they are visible to all the residents should there be any problems or, God forbid, any accidents.

“If these trees were to be planted it is inevitable that there will be accidents as children will climb them to retrieve fruit.”

A further objection said: “Another major concern is that the density of the trees could provide cover for anyone dealing drugs or partaking in any other criminal activity.”

One stated that the plantation would lead to an increase in footfall, and in turn vehicles, which would be ‘a danger to us all’, while another said that she ‘wouldn’t feel safe around so many trees’.

Azza Bamboo posted:

It's hardly Sherwood forest they're making

ThomasPaine posted:

Seeing the kind of stupid bullshit that middle class resident association weirdos get indignant about is honestly one of the strongest arguments against anarchism, imo. Any kind of localised direct democracy decisionmaking would just be arguing about this dumb nonsense day in and day out. Someone needs to be able to tell these clowns to shut up because the trees are getting planted and the road's getting pedestrianised and if they don't like it they're welcome to submit their objections in writing to the ministry of development, where they will be considered with the utmost urgency.

Nonsense posted:

https://twitter.com/OzKaterji/status/1403020291333410823?s=20

Corbyn destroyed Labour for all time. Recovery is impossible.

Red Oktober posted:

Starting to really wish I had waited a few weeks for Pfizer over AZ now, especially as they're not giving AZ to my age-group anymore. I wasn't concerned about clotting etc, but a 20% gap in effectiveness is not good.

therattle posted:

Unfortunately I don't think that applies to delta variant. The article doesn't specify that it included new variants.

OzyMandrill posted:

Vaccine effectiveness is a tricky subject, and there's no easily graphable way really to judge, especially as you could get Covid a week after the first jab and get reduced symptoms but still count as a vaccine 'fail' for the simple charts. Inactivated virus vaccines (AZ) rely on your body choosing which parts to respond to, and can learn several different gene sequences/proteins that kick off the immune response. It's a lottery whether these are good sequences (i.e. don't vary much and are actually important functional proteins) but you should respond to multiple viral proteins. If you have double the number of infections you will get roughly double the probability of a new 'strain'. Note that most variations tend to decrease virulence, but these will not even be noticable in the data. Its only the ones with similar or better infectivity that can go on to form a new visible strain.

mRNA vaccines are new, but only encode a single protein (and rely on your body turning the rna->protein so it can see it). It is the most important one (the spike protein) so if a vaccine gets a variation in that, then yes it could dodge the vaccine but also it would no longer be viable to infect the human cells so it's still a win. It's a laser-focused vaccine, rather than broad and random. But as with all things biological, this is a guideline not a rule. There could be a change that changes the spike to dodge the vaccine response and increases virulence but the chances are very small. But again, see the point about more infections = more rolls of the dice. May only be a trillion to one, but if you're allowing it to infect millions then it will be getting billions of chances each day.

It's not all doom and gloom tho. Immune response occurring within some hours of exposure as opposed to several days is what really saves you, and that's what all the vaccines will do. That exposure as well will fill in a bunch of missing protein profiles for your immune system too (as long as you weren't really unlucky and your immune system never got a good protein to lock onto in the first place, which is virtually impossible from mRNA). But even then, it still relies on your body having a functional immune system, which not everyone has.

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

Maybe it's his physical size? Every 'humorous' American movie I've seen has a large person as a comedy figure.
In Egypt, it's people with cross-eyes who are apparently inately funny. (Older movies I mean, new movies -not comedies - are much better. Comedy essentially remains 'slapstick').

stev posted:

He makes Professional Bake Off nigh unwatchable for me. You can always tell that Bake Off contestants find the host banter irritating when they're trying to concentrate, but he just comes off as nails on chalkboard. If I were a baker I'd be kicked off the show for screaming in his face after a few hours.

I wonder how Andy Parsons got picked up by Kerb in the first place. Were they just desperate for talent at the time or does he know someone who knows someone?

Comrade Fakename posted:

I've literally never heard of this show until today, but it appears to be American, which suggests that Falafel is a building superintendent, not a landlord. He's an employee, or possibly someone with lower rent, who's job is to fix problems in the building.

Also, seems a bit harsh to tar Ayoade with this anyway. It's just a voiceover job, it's not like he wrote it. I doubt he was enthusiastically signing on to promote landlordism when he agreed to do a voice for a whimsical cartoon.

wiki posted:

Falafel (voiced by Sayed Badreya) – Apple and Onion's Egyptian landlord, who lets them stay in the shack on top of his building. The show's plot often revolves around Falafel overworking, or dealing with financial problems. Has a pet rooster named Ferekh for companionship.

JollyBoyJohn posted:

I went to see that in the cinema and it was awful. Not even in the "I don't like this but I can see why others would" just straight up ridicule from my party of 4.

What a weird movie

JollyBoyJohn posted:

There's always one

Noxville posted:

My missus got me a bottle of my favourite bourbon (Noah’s Mill) for my birthday last week so I’m drinking that right now.

Party Boat posted:

I got introduced to Auchentoshan by my whisky snob former brother in law and it's lovely. He described it as "breakfast whisky" because of how smooth it is.

Noxville posted:

Bourbons are pretty much all sweeter that scotches, it’s a result of the fact that they’re mostly made from corn rather than barley. Same with aged rums but given they’re made from sugar cane that isn’t surprising.

My favourite bourbon is Noah’s Mill but it’s expensive and hard to find, for something good in your local supermarket I’d recommend Woodford Reserve.

Guavanaut posted:

goddamnedtwisto posted:

You're all just going to ignore the possibilities of "pocket loving" there then?

josh04 posted:

Starmer TB Llama destroyed after drama, farmers calmer.

Drone_Fragger posted:

Frankly I’m glad the wretched beast is finally slain, it wasted 4 years of court time for defra to finally kill it as they should of done when It first tested positive for TB. The fact this farce and media circus has been going on for 4 years is frankly a damning inditement on the state of the British legal system.