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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:I'm a basic bitch who likes bourbon or rum with sweet artificial flavours, like Red Stag or Tennessee Apple. Yes it's just JD with fake apple flavouring, but it tastes great with a bit of ice and that's good enough for me. Kraken and Coke, can't beat it. I was told once that folk can have very different reactions to whiskeys based on the blend or whatever. I'm not sure how true that is but I tried a whiskey once and just one sip of it was enough to put me off it. I see other folk in real life and TV necking the stuff and just can't grasp how they're taking mouthfuls of it without gagging. I used to drink a lot of shots including absinth (the weak off the shelf poo poo) when I was younger and I swear those were easier to drink than the whiskey I had.
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Guavanaut posted:Actually I think you'll find it's the fault of the EU, Sinn Féin, the Irish Republic of Southern Ireland, the SNP, and Jeremies in general and Jeremy Corbyn in specific for not doing what the Tories want all the time. From my limited understanding of the situation. Is the whole thing basically a desperate attempt from a unionist party to hold onto power using technical loopholes because they actually lost the last popular election won by nationalists?
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I'm wondering if I can get a bit of advice in how to deal with my GP clinic. So, back on about Oct 14th I developed a cough that turned into flu symptoms until the 2nd week of Nov. At that point i just had an occasional wheezing cough so I went to the doctor. I was prescribed antibiotics but by the following week I had full on cold and flu symptoms again so went back to the doctor. A different one saw me this time (my GP uses an online form and you get the doctor that's available) and told me I have a post nasal drip and should start taking Beaconase nasal spray and ibuprofen. I've been on that for over a week now and there's no difference, I'm coughing up stuff almost all day and holding a conversation is pretty difficult which is beginning to impact my work (I'm in a client facing role). Anyway, it occurred to me that my 1 year old headbutted me square on the nose the night before I started coughing. It was so hard my wife heard whatever sound it made but, while it was sore, there wasn't any blood or bruising. When I wiggle/move my nose now it still hurts in a way internally as if I'd been popped on the nose a few days ago or something. Anyway, I look it up and Google suggests there could be a link, so I go back to the GP online on Friday and the doctor who replied said: "He didn't think it was related, but he's not sure" and I should just stick with the Beaconase for the next 6 weeks and get back in touch then if I'm still not better (note I don't actually have enough prescribed to me to last 6 weeks). Sorry for the long winded tale, but should I just persist in getting checked again? I'm not a medical expert and don't want to waste their time, but I figured any nose pain I'm still feeling almost 7 weeks after the original injury should warrant some concern. Never mind, if it is related, it'll maybe be another 5 weeks of coughing stuff up on top of the 6 or so weeks I've already been ill. It feels like I'm just being put through the deductive process of try x for a while before investigating anything else it could be.
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Thanks for that. My wife had a quick look for private specialists nearby and found costs of about £100 to £200 for a consultation (though she mentioned the pricing on the sites was confusing so I need to have a look myself when I get over this current cough related headache. Frustratingly, my work provides me with some private medical cover but it doesn't kick in until Jan 1st. The second doctor who saw we was actually pretty nice (mentioned he was there from the hospital and was a nose/throat/lung specialist) I just forgot to tell him about the baby headbutt or what his name was so I could try getting back in touch with him.
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Z the IVth posted:Coughs can be very hard to treat, even for a specialist (cough clinics exist as specialists for the specialists). You're presumably young enough that the GP hasn't decided your prolonged cough is a potential sign of lung cancer and shipped you off to be scanned because the threshold for that is pretty low. Oh, forgot that the second doctor sent me to get a chest xray just to be sure. Should have the results back for those this week. I'm 39 so dunno if that puts me in the sort of at risk age, but he couldn't hear any blockages in my lungs and my heart sounded fine too so I'm not that worried. I can sort of tell its the nasal drip that's constantly triggering my coughing, so I'm sure that's spot on (and it's occasionally giving me flu like infections). The bit that I'm wondering about is whether it's being caused by something bacterial, or something physical. If it's physical then I'd rather know sooner so I can take whatever steps might be necessary such as another xray or even surgery if it's particularity bad. Google says deviated septums are a thing that cause drips, but I'm going down rabbit holes at this point and that's why I'd hoped someone with more knowledge would look at it.
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Z the IVth posted:It's unlikely to be infectious this far in unless you have some predisposing risk for infection or you've somehow contracted TB - a chest X-ray would be a standard (ableit not the greatest) screen for the latter. It's hard to say for sure about greater infection risk. It's anecdotal, but in pretty sure I've always caught what's gone around the office. Back in my 20s I had bronchitis and tonsillitis and for at least the last decade whenever I laugh a lot I get severe coughing fits (doctor said that's nothing to worry about though). So I've always thought my lungs were a bit rubbish. I was worried about urgency and waiting months before treatment or whatever. I just don't know how anyone could cope with daily coughing like this for months. poo poo there's some fits that make me feel like I can't breathe and I can't even do poo poo like climb the stairs without getting breathless. I think I'm gonna wait for the decent doctor to get back to me about the xrays and then tell him about what happened to my nose. If he doesn't send me for a second xray or whatever I'll need to go private and hope my works cover is more than just a few private GP sessions. The other thing I need to consider is that my wife has a pretty bad cough now too, as does my son. They must have caught it from me. I'm worried now that if my nasal drip basically turns me into a walking bacterial flu machine, then they're just gonna both keep catching what I develop.
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So, heating chat. I've got central heating with the thermostat in the upstairs hall. Is it better to heat the house with all the doors closed, open, or it won't make a bit of difference? I figured with the doors closed, each room would individually heat up quicker and then the hall would be surrounded by warmth like an insulation, so it in turn would heat up quicker, not to mention the heat would stay built up in each room too. I've noticed that if I open the living room door the heat built up "escapes" into the hall so figured closed doors are best.
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Thanks for the pointers regarding heating the house. I tried to google it and got some stuff about airflow and poo poo.Microplastics posted:Starting to feel to egg shortage here. I need me some drat eggs I forgot this was going to be a thing. I picked up a pack of eggs for the wife at the weekend but the expiration date is next week. I was planning on picking up a big box to last through Christmas this weekend but I'm guessing that might be a struggle. Also cough chat. It turns out the x-ray showed a little fluid in the upper something or other in my chest, so the better doctor put me on some stronger antibiotics for the next week. There's a slight bubbling/creaking sound from my upper chest when I lie down so the fluid is what's causing that apparently. Instructions were to take a double dose immediately and googling "fluid in lungs" brings back some scary-sounding poo poo about Pulmonary edema (which the doctor definitely didn't mention on the phone), so I dunno how serious it actually is. I'm on his watch list, but I think that's more because he's going above and beyond compared to the other doctors in the practice rather than it being life-threatening or anything. I was gonna say I'm feeling better but just had a massive coughing fit as I typed this :/ Fingers crossed these different antibiotics do something cos I'm sick of feeling like this.
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I was lucky enough to beat her before the Devs nerfed all of the fun stuff in the game. Was still hard as hell and I only just did it by the skin of my teeth. To be honest this boss was fun but I wouldn't say the hardest. That's reserved for the cheap final bosses of Elden Ring. Those made me quit and uninstall the game twice and I only beat them due to trying to exploit bugs for about the hundredth time. Such an absolute craptastic end to an amazing game.
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OwlFancier posted:I had someone the other day tell me that whenever they go to london they don't feel safe. I've had to go to London for work-related stuff several times over the last couple of years. Mainly the city center near Kings cross station or Shoreditch (if that's actually the center). During the day it felt like one of the safest places i'd ever been due to how many folk were about, but when it got to being really late and night when the streets were pretty empty, it started to feel a little bit sketchier. I'm sure it was completely fine and it was just a combination of being alone in a big new place in the dark. Though in every town/city there are places you go and places you don't go, so with the size of London and the unfamiliarity I have with it, that was something always on my mind as I just followed Google map's quickest way from A>B.
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Is anyone (in Scotland, if that matters) able to point me in the right direction on what you do to get childcare benefits? The government sites just give me calculators telling me we're eligible but don't actually explain what happens. Is it something a nursery just does automatically when you register with them?
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I think it's the latter (I've got a 1 year old). The calculator said we get £2k a year to childcare costs, but that's separate to the child benefit we get I think.
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When it comes to how long heating is on for, what's the average? It's probably dependent on a lot of factors (like house size/insulation, etc), but it looks like mine is on for about 2.5 hours across the day keeping the house at about 20.5 to 21 degrees. I'm in a new build so the insulation should be good, but I wasn't sure if 2.5 hours was considered a long time or not. This is the first year I've got usage data to this degree so I'm not sure how it compares with my own use last year. Kin fucked around with this message at 09:41 on Dec 17, 2022 |
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Lady Demelza posted:My hearing is on for 2 hours total but split across the day and evening. The downstairs is anywhere from 12 to 16 degrees, upstairs is warmer. The thermostat is set to 21C but it doesn't reach that high before the timer switches the heating off. Two hours doesn't seem a long time especially if your house is maintaining a good temperature. Yeah, I got a figure from Google saying British gas customers had the heating on for about 5 hours on average and couldn't tell if that was way off given its twice as much as mine. I've got a Nest system (and might not be using it right) but have sort of min maxed the schedule based on when we're in the living room or the general house. So it'll be things like get the house up to 20 degrees by 8am for when we wake up (I think it's supposed to know how long it takes and kick in at the right time to get to this) , but then I tell the system to set it to 13 or something at half 8 so that it doesn't keep trying to heat it at 20. Then it's back up to 20 at lunchtime and down again just after. I've no idea if I have to actually set the lower temperatures to stop it heating but the house feels warm enough (with a jumper). I just wasn't sure if 2.5 hours was normal or if I've actually managed to be efficient.
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History Comes Inside! posted:Amazon guy round here now just leaves everything on the doorstep without even knocking, so I don’t know I’ve got a parcel until I get the email that says it’s been delivered (and always marked as “handed to resident” Amazon have been doing that since day 1 around my area. It's been about a year or so since they started delivering and I think it's just a monopoly policy rather than anything else. I wouldn't be surprised if Amazon have run the numbers and it's more cost effective for them to have their delivery drivers dump and run than refund/replace the occasional parcel. I mean, where else are most people gonna go to get their stuff.
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Diet Crack posted:If you needed more reasons to hate this talentless hack of a country Eh, I'm convinced this kinda stuff is fixed. Even if something like gently caress the Tories was more popular, an exec with the final call on things would just push the button for "feel good pleb win" to push out whatever they felt was politically appropriate for the number 1. I mean, who's gonna verify the numbers aren't made up. Speaking of potentialities fixed. Watching these Christmas episodes of Bargain hunt (and that both teams actually won) have just made me realise how they're edited. The contestants, the auctioneer, the actual products being auctioned, the audience and the online bidding system never seem to be shown in the same shot together. They could (and maybe are) just makong it up as they go along. There's not even a post catchup with the bidder who bought any of the tat they're trying to flog.
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I was planning on giving my kid a sort of hyper accelerated intro to computer games to try and teach him the appreciation of the evolution of them (if he cares about them instead of shite like sports and football and books). I had my first Atari at 5 and I think I turned out OK. I have all these old games on the switch (including classic controllers) , so was planning on giving him access to the NES for 6 months, then the mega drive, SNES etc until he made his way up to the PS5. Stuff like Roblox though, and other social norms that kids play are gonna get in the way aren't they? He's gonna get the piss taken out of him at School for not being allowed to play any of that modern poo poo until he's 8 or something is he? Plus, he's gonna be so bombarded by ads for modern poo poo that he'll probably hate playing super mario bros.
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Tesseraction posted:Those old games had a lot of care put into making them fun and look as good as possible with the limited palettes they had back then. There was something to be said that for a period after the turn of the millennium as graphics got better there was a focus on style over substance, specifically about having kicking rad graphics even if the gameplay is dogshit. That's also one of the other reasons I'd my kid to get introduced to them chronologically. I swear that my hand eye coordination is as good as it is just now because of all the gaming I did as a kid on games that, well, didn't really hold your hand at all. Like you said, there was a lot of thought put into gameplay on the old stuff because cinematics weren't really a thing. It might sound snobbish, and I know there's plenty of hard games out now, but I just think there's a lot to be said about an old game having 0 save states and limited lives. It kinda drove you to be better at the game than give up and move onto another one. But other than that I was born in 83 and I've been fortunate enough to see a lot change over the years tech wise. These days things kinda seem more iterative than innovative, so I hoped that by staggering the introduction of old games to new, my son would be able to have his mind blown going from NES to SNES, then to 3D in N64 and PSX, before graphics go mental from the PS2 era. Same with the portables (I've got a version of every mainline game boy). If it wasn't for the switch being so handy to play the old stuff on I'd love to see his face light up each time he boots up a new console for the first time.
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Mega Comrade posted:Souls games really aren't that hard, they are just different enough from most other games it takes a little bit to get into their groove and requires a style of play some people just don't get on with. What made them click for me was when someone said to think of their game structure as something like classic 2D games. In most cases you need to get from a to b and reach a checkpoint (bonfires/shortcuts). You have to avoid or kill enemies in a certain way between you and the checkpoint or you get killed (often in one or two hits) that send you back to the last checkpoint. It's just that the enemies and combat are more complex than just jumping on something and the levels are 3D. I used to bounce off the games because I was going in expecting a hack and slash that I could just bash through. After the above comparison, I viewed each part of a map like levels to complete and it, weirdly, became a lot easier to learn enemy timings and behaviour. It also got a lot less frustrating when I died. Tldr, it's not about gitting gud, but explaining that they're games about learning the patterns of the different little sections and trying to avoid getting hit while you make your way through them.
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Huh, I got a link on my discovery feed saying I could claim up to 30% of my bills if I've been working from home. It seemed too good to be true, then I discovered that it's for Ireland. https://www.revenue.ie/en/jobs-and-pensions/eworking/calculate-allowable-remote-working-costs.aspx Is there something equivalent in the UK? The only thing I could find was the covid relief, and you could only claim that if you had to work from home not if you had the option of going into an office.
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Microplastics posted:For the past two weeks I've had this sickly illness, possibly the worst thing I've ever experienced and that's including flus and covid. I had a cough since early October and still have a bit of it now. It became a nasal drip which basically meant the cough stuck around. I had all the same symptoms you've described, but also fluid in my upper lungs. I had two separate rounds of antibiotics, an xray (which revealed the fluid) and I've been on some nasal spray called beaconase since late November. My advice, go to the doctor now that it's been 2 weeks to get you on the radar and explain the symptoms in detail. In not 100% if the beaconase is working or if I'm just getting better naturally (I was to take it for 6 weeks) but better you get something for it now so it doesn't last almost 3 months like it has been for me
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NoneMoreNegative posted:yeah microplastics get that looked at, there's a line where 'froggy chest' stops being something you wait out and when you want to get on antibiotics, and the 'bad smell' is usually on the far side of the line. I've had what seems to be mild dose of this bug (cough, drippy nose, night sweats, coughing up a whole frog in texture and colour) and its still been a fortnight since I picked it up with it still sticking around and refusing to 100% clear up. I know when I'm ill as I go into 'sleep at least 14 hours a day' mode and that's been ongoing since the start of Christmas week, went to bed (sober) 1am today and got up at 6pm. Also, the thing for everyone to note with these long coughs (and that I didn't realise could happen) is that you can temporarily damage your lungs or throat or something. Like all the coughing can damage the capillaries I think. All I know is that I don't cough much more than once or twice a day now, there's only a little bit of normal looking phlegm, but I can taste copper/metal every time. I mentioned that to the doctor but he didn't seem phased by it so I'm guessing it's just a side effect of coughing so much and it's going to be one of the last things to eventually heal. Doesn't help that I've picked up some kind of bloody Noravirus type thing since Friday. The coughing wasn't so bad until it brings on waves of nausea and feelings like I'm gonna puke my guts out. Happy loving new year.
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Microplastics posted:I can't wait for my kid to go back to nursery on Thursday and collect the latest round of diseases from Christmas family mixings Mine went into nursery for the first half day session today. No bugs (I hope), but he didn't eat or sleep at all for the 4 odd hours he was there. Meanwhile wife also had to go to hospital for a drip as her morning sickness went extreme yesterday afternoon and she's not been able to keep anything down. The freedom to take her to the hospital that the nursery provided was pretty nice, but not when I found out he hadn't eaten or slept. He even sobbed himself to sleep when I got him home/fed which was about 7 hours after his breakfast. Please tell me nursery gets easier! We're both back at work tomorrow, but today has felt like a complete car crash. Tomorrow is a longer session and now I'm worried he won't eat anything all day (he's only 13 months).
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Vetitum posted:Oh don't worry I was mostly trying to reassure Kin, I'm sure he much prefers being at home even with a sickly dad! Also not sure if you've found the same but since hitting about 14 months mine has just been so loving hilarious. Thanks. I think there were maybe a few things that specifically exacerbated today. My wife can't remember if she's detailed what our sons specific diet's been so far (he really doesn't like hard food yet and is pretty fussy about what he eats). It's mostly been those baby pouches as we've progressed through the months. I know there's more "bits" in the 12 month+ stuff, but they're still pretty soft. I think the hardest/chewiest thing he's eaten is toast or pear. Meat or stringer veg is more or less a no go. Other than that he's still getting formula before he goes to sleep and that's what they didn't give him today. I fed him his porridge at half 8; Dropped him off at 10; he probably started to get sleepy/cranky as usual at 11, they tried to feed him their nice sounding menu. He refused it, then hit a combo of tired and hungry. Apparently they tried a few more things from their menu while trying to get him to sleep but he refused it all and only slept for maybe 15 minutes at about 12:45. I wasnt able to pick him up until half 2 and when I got him home he guzzled a full bottle and slept for about 2 hours. If they'd tried giving him the formula we provided I dunno if they'd have had more luck getting him to sleep, but I think his hunger definitely wasn't helping. We're hoping that they can help gradually introduce more food types for him on a way we've not been able to. But yeah, I've read that it just takes time. He's gonna be in there 4 days a week so hopefully he gets used to it quickly.
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Maugrim posted:Has anyone ever had their smart meter give their supplier an incorrect automatic reading? Weirdly, I'm in the same situation (with octopus). Up until Feb last year I was manually punching in meter readings. Then octopus told me that my house had built in 1st generation smart meters so I stopped. The electricity usage kept ticking over at the normal rate, but it looks like the gas usage dropped considerably. I chalked it up I to a change in circumstances (coming out of winter), but this month the numbers for December said we'd used half the gas we used in Jan. It was higher than Novembers use, so followed the seasonal trend but it just seemed really low compared to the month prior to me switching from manual readings. It's just annoying that Octopus doesn't have more than 12 months of data online for me to compare. The gas data also seems broken as gently caress and doesn't seem to report individual daily use. Edit: they recalculated my direct debit last Feb too (based on 2021 usage) so I've currently got a £300+ credit with them. I've been more economical with the heating this winter but still would have assumed the gas used to heat up the cylinder each day would be the same (unless that's electricity). Kin fucked around with this message at 09:59 on Jan 9, 2023 |
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Guavanaut posted:https://twitter.com/TheMeetingPodCo/status/1617813585555763200 To be honest, after spending the last 3 or so years working from home, i'd be happy climbing into one of these every time I have to go into the office now. I'm completely over open-plan offices and being in a room full of people with banal chat distracting me from my work or a call I'm on where I'm struggling to hear the other person through the lovely headset I've been provided.
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OwlFancier posted:Not that I've ever worked in an office but it feels a lot of the time like working retail gives you less of a sense of exposure than most of the open plan spaces I've seen, because you're usually working on an area of the store by yourself and left to get on with it, and everyone's too busy to pay much attention to you. I've worked in a few offices as they've grown and shrunk with staff volumes and there's a weird set of dynamics at play. When small (say about 20 people or less) the office was silent, everyone had headphones on and got on with stuff. Whenever the bosses left the room, chat would begin like it was all bottled up, almost as if the teacher was away. When it got to about 50, the background chatter was almost always there irrespective of the bosses presence or not. In 1500 or more, it was like being out on the street, but at that point the place is so large I think most people wouldn't know who's senior or not. I got the most work done in that first environment, despite the (often) days of silence being a bit soul crushing.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:These MDs, CEOs etc have obviously never frequented social media (including SA here). I've speculated to my colleagues that it's due to what stage in life the CEOs and MDs are at. Young folk with fewer commitments might like going into the office a bit more because if you're new, it's nice to meet other new folk. Folk a bit older, experienced and settled (like me) find the commute in a ballache and prefer the company of just a few folk from the office (who we speak to online) or our families who we're seeing more of WFH. The CEOs, though, are probably workaholics and at the age where their kids are out of the house etc. The office is maybe the only means of social engagement they personally have, so they're forcing everyone in to fulfill that. It might also be a visual ego thing. Nothing ticks off "success" like looking out at a building full of people working for you. They're definitely not gonna get that same feeling from only speaking to their other handful of execs over teams from their conservatory.
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Mega Comrade posted:As I've said in other threads, chatGPT is very good at appearing intelligent. It can string very convincing sentences together, but it doesn't actually understand anything it spits out. When I gave it a go last week I got bored and tried to spark some kind of sentience in it by asking it to speculate or derive an approximate output for something it didn't have the info for. All I got back were fancy worded messages that ultimately said "I am just a database'.
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Tesseraction posted:Honestly part of the problem was that the world collectively failed to contain this, but there was a definitely an element in many countries where the powers in charge were weighing up public safety vs. protecting The Line That Must Always Go Up but that had Stopped Going Up For A While. It's just frustrating that 100 years after the devastation of the I do wonder if it was something more visibly serious that there would have been more done to lock things down? Like plague levels, with bleeding from the eyes, etc. Or is society entitled and complacent to the point that even deadly outbreaks would just get normalised so that pockets of people could get their Starbucks?
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Bobby Deluxe posted:https://twitter.com/IndyVoices/status/1620732149115527173?t=LrTzPnI0hVNgkr0o-pzLow&s=19 Humans (especially children) are more important than dogs. Doesn't matter how well trained someone thinks a dog is, as a species they can be unpredictable. You're relying on a dog owner to control them and guess what people are also irresponsible. Given the amount of dog poo poo caking the pavements around my way like we're still living in the 80s, I wouldn't trust any dog owner around here to have their dog trained or keep it under control if it came near my kid. Kids are also unpredictable but less so because you can, generally, communicate with them better. Toddlers might unknowingly annoy a dog in some way but the difference is that a toddler might tug on some hair or poke something or generally do something weak to the dog, a dog can bite.
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Only Kindness posted:Doing what's right for the country == doing things that are unpopular, such as underpaying people, because underpaying people is good for the country. Underpaying people is only good for the corrupt, rich people (in the government) funneling the money into their own pockets or their friends, rather than giving it to the public to keep the economic cycle running. It's loving mental more people aren't publicly calling them out for this or burning down the buildings in rage. It's like blatantly obvious at this point.
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sebzilla posted:Here's an elevenses question for all the thing-knowers on this place Price elasticity of demand. They're poo poo biscuits. Get yourself a packet of Ginger Nuts instead mate.
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Diet Crack posted:lol put a name to it you loving cowards Eh, with our dystopian governments I wouldn't put it past it being morphed into another inheritance loophole. Pay to die with dignity, get 100% inheritance tax relief. Meanwhile a similar state funded assisted death will be rolled out for the plebs. The later will then transform to mandatory assisted death for [insert quantifiable metric that isolates non tory voters], and then further extended to the unemployed, homeless, asylum seekers and whatever other nebulous poo poo they'll gradually introduce. Death of society literally by a thousand jabs. Note, I'm for assisted death. I'm not for a country run by selfish idiots voted in by selfish idiots.
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Out of curiosity, in an ideal world what mechanisms can actually be done to get back or address the money that's blatantly been siphoned out of the money into the hands of the rich? Like asset seizure, bank account seizure. writing off what they stole as valueless?
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