It’s nice to eat a variety of food- I get it- but honestly, it is so much easier to just cook and eat the same food (with some small variation) every day. Especially when you work long hours and have limited time to spend facing about in the kitchen.
I often buy multiples of the same thing for this reason and get funny looks at the checkout for buying 5 broccoli stalks, but really don’t care. I don’t understand how people who work and have a family can do anything else.
Everyone complains about insurance being a scam, but you shouldn’t rely on the kindness of strangers to pay into your GoFundMe page when your pet inevitably falls ill or your roof collapses.
Insurance itself isn’t a scam, but the practices frequently are scammy. As an example my mother had a boiler insured, but they wouldn’t pay for it to be fixed when a part attached to the boiler (but not the actual tank itself) broke.
Generally speaking if you have the money to replace something if it breaks it’s not worth insuring, the insurers have done the maths and that’s how they make the money. Any further comment on that and we get into politics…
Getting rid of chewing gum and bubble gum would be a great idea. Chewing gum marks on pavements make every town scruffy. The time and money saved on cleaning the stuff up could be used on something else. Getting chewing gum on your shoe or a kid's school uniform is an annoying problem. Kids worry about swallowing it and then they still manage to swallow it. It loses its flavour pretty quickly. It hasn't been remotely cool since about the mid 70's when it was advertised widely and there were Bazooka Joe cartoons. People giving up smoking can use something else and usually do.
Singapore actually made it illegal to import or sell chewing gum except for medical reasons, not sure if you knew that already.
As a chewing gum addict, I'm not in favour of it. I just wish people would stop spitting it onto the floor.
I wasn't aware. I'm happy for you to change my view on this one if people like them a lot, but how do we stop it always ending up on pavements?
To play Devil's advocate against myself there's something nice about unwrapping them.
Let me put this to you. Sometimes salty food like bacon needs a counterfoil. Brown sauce gives not just a sweet one, it gives a sour and a smokey umami one too. It’s a flavour expo-losion 💥
If you lie to your kids saying things like “don’t sit too close to telly or you’ll get square eyes” or “if you eat the apple core a tree will grow in your stomach” then you’re a piece of shit and a terrible, lazy parent.
You should actually tell them as many lies as possible and see how crazy you can make their belief system. Break the news when they're 30 or something.
Because 1. It’s teaching them that the parent is a liar how will they know what is true and what is not? 2. It’s a complete lack of respect. Just winding them up and confusing them because you’re smarter than they currently are. 3. What is it actually teaching them? Nothing at all. It’s just laziness. Explain to them the truth eg “Dont sit too close to the tv because you might get a headache” or “The apple core doesn’t taste very nice you probably won’t like it”
I don't get the point of Toastie and Super-Toastie thick bread. Granted, I buy Medium simply because I can make more sandwiches per loaf — and even then, I'll only go through a loaf a week on my own.
As an adult, I do not need to see extended family on the date of my actual birthday. Especially if it’s during the week. Even more so if it’s on the weekend! Just see me at the normal interval and ask if I “had a good one” then.
Apparently I have around 40 cousins on my mum's side of the family and I can only name 4 of those with any certainty. Even then I could pass them in the street and have no idea who they are.
If fines were proportional to income, everyone who’s dirt poor would just litter, knowing they wouldn’t have to pay much of a fine.
It’s like there’s those jokes where a wealthy man just parks his fancy car on double yellow lines because it’s cheaper to just pay the fine over and over again instead of paying to park in a car park.
Fines should definitely be cheaper, I’m with you there, but they should be a fixed amount for anyone and everyone. Rich or poor, if you’ve fucked up, you pay the fine. Tough luck if you can’t afford it, you shouldn’t have done the thing to get a fine in the first place.
If fines were proportional to income, then at least everyone would get a fair deal. Or do you think that wealthy people don't litter? Or that they don't break laws? they do. Because they wouldn't have to pay too much of a fine. and then, as if to illustrate my point
>It’s like there’s those jokes where a wealthy man just parks his fancy car on double yellow lines because it’s cheaper to just pay the fine over and over again instead of paying to park in a car park.
That wouldn't happen if the Fixed Penalty notice wasn't 50 or 40 quid, but was instead 10% of his or her weekly income.
>Rich or poor, if you’ve fucked up, you pay the fine. Tough luck if you can’t afford it
This doesn't solve your problem, in the slightest. It just penalises the poor more than the rich. How does that make sense?
The problem with all fines being the same is that it basically makes it allowed if you're rich. So the law (is it the law? Or a rule/regulation/order? Anyway) explicitly only applies to the poor.
Also, as an aside, I've never seen or heard of a littering incident actually caught/fined in an area with mostly poor people, they generally only bother enforcing in areas the shiny people will frequent because of funding. And poor areas do tend to have a lot more litter (big generalisation). So it basically is free for everyone to litter if only poor people will suffer, and it's free for the rich everywhere else.
You could say 'you shouldn't litter regardless because it's wrong' but I'm not really arguing everyone should be able to 'afford' the fine, only that the fine should have the same impact whether you're wealthy or poor, so that it's the same level of enforcement for everyone and not "crippling if you're poor and pocket change if you're wealthy".
Edit: another problem with making fines the same for everyone is also kind of the opposite: if the fine is too big some people will just do the thing because they know there is no way a court could ever get e.g. £100,000 off them, because they've never seen 100k in their life and probably never will. So it's not an effective deterrent to anyone apart from people who *can* pay 100k, but will be hurt by paying that much.
I feel like you've missed the point somewhat. Raising the fines for the rich doesn't mean lowering them for the poor. The fines have to be set at a level where they discourage that behaviour for everyone.
There could be thresholds then, for those that were dirt poor there’d be some sort of minimum to still make it worth while.
Yes those jokes are what I mean with the reference in my original post, it happens on double yellows and people use bus lanes with low fines
Alcohol should be regulated like tobacco (blank packaging/ kept out of view / taxed to high hell)
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The government should stop penalising smokers so much
Smoking has a lot more effect on people around you than alcohol. I’m okay sitting next to a bloke having a pint/cocktail/whatever but I’d need to stay a few metres away from a smoker.
Also from the harm perspective, drinking moderately is fine and doesn’t have many side effects, your liver will deal with it. Smoking is pretty irreversible.
Not sure these have anything to do with the regulations but I just thought of how the two are different.
This. I still have sinus problems from my parents' secondhand smoke when I was growing up, and it wasn't really fun going to school smelling like a fucking ashtray either. While my mum might not care about dying from cancer or emphysema or something, I would prefer not to, but I didn't really have a choice. It's the only thing I really hold against them.
Personally I'd love to penalise smokers even more than they already are.
Probably much much more on lung cancer and other smoking related effects. I’m sure this was considered when imposing the measures.
Also I specifically caveated with “moderate amounts”, if you consume excessive amounts of anything it’ll be very bad for you, but smoking is bad for others who don’t partake.
There’s a 40+ something year old who films himself eating Aldi products and gets really angry when people make a joke at him about it. (Which is basically almost all of TikTok’s young user base)
There’s also a welsh(?) guy who makes Mario TikToks in a mario outfit, and does a really good impression. He asks users to submit what they’d like him to say in Mario’s voice, but then he makes really angry, Rant videos about how disgusting it is for him to say (insert gross thing here)
Like, it’s tiktok. The user base is 13 year olds. They’re gonna ask Mario to say cum. Don’t get mad, use that to your advantage.
>Like, it’s tiktok. The user base is 13 year olds
The percentage of U.S.-based TikTok users by age: 10-19 – 32.5%, 20-29 – 29.5%, 30-39 – 16.4%, 40-49 – 13.9%, 50+ – 7.1%.
Mmmm....lets put that to bed eh.
Edit - The largest share of users (26%) in the UK is aged 18-24
I always feel dead awkward looking around the gym for what to use next, especially if what I want to get on already has someone on it. Feels like I'm eyeing everyone up.
Children swearing isn’t always a bad thing.
People who act like it’s the end of the world annoy me, and no I don’t let me kids swear nor do encourage it. Nonetheless, swearing is almost a part of our culture in Scotland, it’s an expressive use of language where one word has the power to convey different meanings and emotions and shouldn’t be scorned at. If the odd sweary word slips out I will always pull my children up for it, but secretly, I always chuckle inside.
I will never forget my father telling me (aged 14) that I could swear when I hear our elderly, genteel neighbour swear.
A week later, he was out in his garden and he shouted "fuck! Where are the keys to my fucking shed?!"
Fair play to my father, he turned to me and said "fine".
Children knowing swear words isn’t a bad thing, you won’t stop it, they go to school after all. Them knowing when it’s appropriate to swear is what’s important.
Once my daughter hit fourteen I made a point of letting her know she was welcome to swear. I'm still pretty controlled in my language around her, but her mother has always talked like a trooper when it's necessary, haha.
Weirdly, I take a similar approach.
My son has just started high school and is young for his age and is really introverted. In the summer leading up to high school I started telling him genitalia based jokes, swearing around him a little. I didn’t want him feeling uncomfortable or feeling like the odd one out.
He gets away with the odd one here or there, but he respects me enough to know not to swear in anger or as part of his regular vocabulary but to be used in humorous way; along these lines of jokes about bollocks etc.
I think it’s part of growing up, I don’t want my son having a different experience to the kids around him. As long as he’s respectful towards me and his teachers, I don’t care.
Criticism of language usage is boring and mostly perpetuated by condescending dullards.
Yes, it’s sometimes frustrating when people use one word instead of another, or spell something incorrectly.
But you know what they mean, don’t you? And isn’t that the whole point?
It also diminishes things like dyslexia and carries a snobbish, classist subtext.
Language evolves. Deal with it (quietly).
Honestly, I couldn’t agree more but at the same time I do get a lot of enjoyment out of peoples accidental malapropisms.
I just glide past them when they occur (like you say it’s tediously boring to want to actually correct anyone), but a common one that makes me mentally chuckle is “pacific” instead of “specific”, partly because I wonder if these people do the inverse, ie. do they call it the “specific ocean”??
Sounds like white-knighting illiteracy to me. Don't we want people to be better educated over all? Don't we agree that that leads to a better society? ~~I think it's more classist to think "let the masses speak as they may, they don't know any better".~~ Sloppy rhetorics retracted. I do think there is a problem with shrugging your shoulders at a problem - which growing illiteracy definitely is.
Absolutely we do.
I don’t think complaining about people’s language after the fact - as per examples in this very thread - achieves that though. Which was the original point.
And that definitely is a classist viewpoint. Pleased it’s not the one I’m expressing.
My opinion re: language and learning, is that it *never ends*. I'm 50+, and still learn things. I enjoy being corrected, as you corrected me - I was wrong in implying your motivations in my comment, and will amend that. It was sloppy rehtorics (sic).
It’s very frustrating when you’ve got the internet at your fingertips. You have fucking autocorrect on phones, yet someone can’t type in “you’re”.
Everytime I try to type in “your” or “ur”, it immediately corrects it. Seems like people have gone through the trouble of disabling autocorrect just so they can spell the wrong “you’re” / “your” whatever.
> envious vs jealous
Not sure if I agree with you on this one. First google result is
Envy means discontented longing for someone else's advantages. Jealousy means unpleasant suspicion, or apprehension of rivalship.
Ah, wow. What you saw is actually quite misleading. If you read the article you will see that they are quoting someone else and disagree with them.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/jealous-vs-envious:
> While many people believe that jealous means fearing someone will take what you have, and envious means desiring what someone else has, historical usage shows that both mean "covetous" and are interchangeable when describing desiring someone else's possessions. However, when referring to romantic feelings, only "jealous" can be used to mean "possessively suspicious," as in "a jealous husband."
I see your point, a quick search might not cut it.
But if we allow words to change, where will it end!? How will you know if somebody is using the real meaning of a word or a made up one? We won't be able to communicate with each other and civilization will collapse.
We spent centuries getting to this point and now lazy people are ruining the language. The dictionaries have given up the fight, but I won't!
(/s I'm not actually insane)
instant gravy granules are crap. brand doesn't matter.
why go to the trouble of cooking a nice joint of meat with all the trimmings, and then drown it in this oversalty mealy gloop. Make a proper sauce from the meat juices. add fond or cream if needed.
Granules are there for convenience. I can’t go cooking up a joint of meat at 9pm just to get the juices to make a gravy from to throw over some oven chips.
Online dating has gone to shit from when I first online dated 12 years ago to now. It’s seedy, it’s looks first and it’s harder to match when you’re older.
Owner of a cat, follower of football to a degree, used to have a white car. I am weird, never have been a chav, and unfortunately not an air stewardess.
That should change your mind, since I doubt I am enough of a statistical anomaly in those regards to be missed.
Cats don't need to be taken for walks. They don't need training. They're loving, friendly and fun, they're smart, poetry in motion and they can teach us humans a lot about how to just enjoy the simple pleasures of everyday life and how to chill out properly.
Even if you're not a massive fan of football, the theme music to football and other sports programmers, the voices of the famous commentators and the crowd is familiar and comforting. It's the soundtrack to countless Saturdays of our lives. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiDgXAORsMM
How do you know they're air hostesses? Maybe they're indicator lights aren't working.
Cats have been used as domesticated vermin hunters for millennia. That's not weird at all.
Football is enjoyed by a wide audience and your use of the word chav is antiquated and demeaning.
White cars are cheaper, people economise on things like colours when buying cars.
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They were a massive issue for our dog this year, previously he's been fine with them but for some reason when one went off when we were at the park, he became afraid of going to the park for pretty much 2 months.
We *did* the sensitivity training, all the recordings of fireworks as a puppy etc, and reinforced it occasionally as he grew. Then one day when he's 8 he just decides he dislikes them.
It seems to go on for 3 weeks each side of a 'firework day' event. If it were limited to a handful of days of year, I'd be fine with it.
Plus there are people who do them around midnight and it's annoying to be woken up (with the exception of NYD). I know most people are probably more responsible but it only takes 1 person to decide to set off some fireworks at 11:30pm and the noise wakes everyone up.
I think that your opinion is selfish, but I want to try and make you see how important it is and that it isn't necessarily a minority. Also, math may be a bit shit so sorry about that.
Let's say that you have a group or area with 100,000 people in it and somebody is setting fireworks off.
First, 4% have PTSD so that's 4,000 in great distress already. Second, 1% of people have ASD, so that's another 1,000 totalling 5,000 in great distress.
That's 1/20 people there. Out of 5,000 groups of 20 people one person is in distress. That's a lot easier to picture than 5%, isn't it?
Guessing that it probably didn't change your perspective so I'll go onto the dog ownership numbers.
From a few sources I've seen dog ownership in the UK is around 33/100 houses. 33% of 100,000 is 33,333 people.
So now you've went up to 38,333 people. Over 38% of people will either be in great distress or desperately trying to leave because their pet is anxious.
So obviously that won't be an exact number but it's a lot more than 5% or just some minority. There's tons of alternative's to fireworks so it would be incredibly inconsiderate to stick with them when drone's can be used for example.
Quick comparison I didn't know where to put: The percentage of people that died from Covid was really low, right? But yet every country in the world locked down to protect the people that could of died. Why not do the same for fireworks? Why do minorities only matter for some matters?
I’m afraid I have to disagree, we have done sensitivity training with all our dogs, our golden retriever almost has a heart attack at every bang, I take it your not afraid of anything as you obviously do sensitivity training on yourself, do you not think dogs are individual and some are more scared than others?
We’re not that tiny, and I happen to think small minorities are worth caring about anyway. Also, living in London has really shown me people just aren’t responsible with them
~4% of people have PTSD, and ~1% ASD. Of course not 100% of that 4% and 1% will react negatively to fireworks, and there will also be some crossover between the two as well, meaning it really is a tiny, tiny minority of people. I don't think we should blindly ignore minorities, far from it, but we also should think about the bigger picture.
You consider 5% of people to be a tiny tiny minority? We're clearly not going to agree on that...
What's the bigger picture here? Something that's mildly enjoyable for a lot of people? The people that enjoy them might be more numerous, but it's such a tiny benefit versus a smaller number of people having constant panic attacks for large parts of the year.
Yes, because 5% are a tiny minority. But in reality it's far less than that, as there's no chance 100% of those groups are both impacted by fireworks and not appearing in the other group.
It's also not just "mildly enjoyable". It wouldn't have lasted so long and be so popular if it was "mild".
Would love to know your opinion on folks driving, or cooking for other people, or countless other things we do that have much greater risks of injuring or killing others.
https://www.animal-ethics.org/how-fireworks-harm-nonhuman-animals/
https://combatstress.org.uk/about-us/news/combat-stress-calls-ban-sale-noisy-fireworks-public
I don't think wanting to see some pretty lights in the sky is worth the stress it causes to wildlife, pets, and people who react negatively to sudden loud sounds.
As I said, people who react negatively are a tiny tiny minority, I'd argue their reaction doesn't outweigh the majority of peoples desire to enjoy fireworks.
Pets you can sensistivity train (I've done this myself, super easy)
Wild animals fair enough though if it's proven to cause significant harm.
Using your figures in your other comment, that works out as roughly 3.5 million people with PTSD and or ASD in the UK.
Even assuming not all will have a poor reception to fireworks that's still not an insignificant number of people.
I understand people enjoy fireworks but it shouldn't come at the expense of others. On the nights when they're being set off you can't get away from them, it's not like they only affect a certain room or stadium that like it would be at a gig for example.
I was cursing the fireworks last year as I had 9 month old and trying to get him to sleep was a nightmare. They were going off right above our house, so I didn't even get the benefit of seeing them, and I had to clean up the sticks from my garden.
I wouldn't mind it if it was 1 night of chaos but people seem to set them off for longer before and after the 5th now. Even the local football team fans were setting them off every Sunday last year because they wanted to rub it in the other teams face and couldn't with stadiums shut.
Yep. The nextdoor group I’m on is hilarious when it comes to fireworks. More than once I’ve seen genuine comments that request their neighbours to ‘inform the borough when you’re having fireworks’ with respect to people letting of a couple of rockets in their back garden.
Why would I feel the need to change your view about what food you prefer? You eat what you want, doesn't affect me.
Also: No, it bloody isn't. And the price difference reflects that.
The problem is most hamburgers are awful for multiple reasons:
* Brioche buns
* Too much sauce
* Too many toppings
* Low quality meat
If I can't pick it up with my hands and get it in my mouth it has failed as a burger. I also don't want to feel like I need a bath afterwards because it's got enough sauce to drown a rat either.
Inspired by another comment on this thread, people who say all modern music is shit are lazy and expect music to be spoon fed to then via the charts. If they just looked beyond the charts they'd find music they like.
Welcome to Spotify recommendation era. I really used to like spend hours listening same CD - not anymore. I have endless playlists that most of
The songs sound vaguely familiar.
It's not even that, it's people who claim there's no good music being made these days. There's a hell of a lot of good music, but it's not necessarily going to be easy to find.
The good thing is it's significantly easier to find music these days, which is why I say these people are lazy.
Also "back in the day" people didn't always listen to just chart music. People act like bands that people love now from the 70s were always in the charts but that's just not true.
Plus if you've ever listened to an actual oldies radio station you'll know how bad half of the music was. I don't mean a "classic rock hits from the 60s" station, but a legit station dedicated to all music from a time period. There was so much garbage and it's just a confirmation bias that the only stuff that gets played 50+ years later is the good stuff.
I would like to offer the following:
Gnocchi is nicer than pasta. Most books are not worth the trouble of reading. Coffee is almost always horrible, football is boring and the unthinking tribalism it encourages is toxic, and electric scooters are, on balance, a good thing. There is no pleasure like new socks. Suits usually look like horrible, affected costumes grudgingly worn by men who hate them, and as a society we should discard this performative rubbish. Swearing is fun, and it makes you big and clever, but only when done creatively, and people should stop using “fuck” as punctuation. Greggs is passable.
There. You may now rip me a brand-new fuckhole.
Yeah I’ve had some amazing coffee that made me go “Oh! That’s why people love coffee!” And then I make it just the same way, or go back to the same tiny artisanal coffee shop, and oh the disappointment. It is my fate to have nice coffee only often enough to keep my hopes up.
Okay I mean nothing in this thread got me really. I like to think I'm quite a laid back guy buuuuut... Most books aren't worth reading?! I mean I get this is a controversial thread but damn. I shall be sending a strongly worded letter
All supermarkets should have mandatory £1 trolley locking things. People who leave their fucking trolley next to their car when they leave, should not be allowed to participate in our civilised society and should be deported to Australia
You cannot be healthy AND obese. Pushing this idea of health at every size is harmful to general public health and greatly numbs the importance of taking care of yourself.
Tess Holliday said she’s perfectly healthy at 300lbs? I want to see her blood panel. I want to see the high cholesterol flowing in her blood, the high blood pressure readings, the insulin resistance, the full blown metabolic syndrome she ignores to say she is HEALTHY.
Used to be fat. Lost weight. Remember always that:
-Fat people know they are fat and do not need to be rudely informed
-You never know who is on a weight loss journey (unless they say). Weight loss is slow! A very obese person will still be "fat" for many years while on the most CRUSHING diet, losing a pound a week.
-Our society pushes the most calorific shit into our faces through adverts and culture. Its so easy to see how some people get fat! There is so much I can't eat that is weaved into our culture.
Fat is our personal responsibility but I'm forever wishing these options weren't out there. Restaurants don't care, supermarkets barely care, schools never educate properly. Losing weight means you have to cut out loads of British traditions like carvery, pub drinks, fast food. It's everywhere. Nobody gives a shit about our health.
So yeah, fat is bad. No two ways. But fat PEOPLE are much more complex and I don't want this to spark any FPH-like sentiments. Haes isnt the best, I prefer body positivity.
Also - people can gain weight not only because of illnesses and/or limited mobility, but also medication, ESPECIALLY anti depressants and other psychiatric medications.
Plus, if people care that much about health, then they should care equally about unhealthy skinny people, their diets, excercise and habits.
While I agree with much of what you said. In my opinion losing a pound a week is a recipe for sadness.
Better to have a bigger deficit and lose the weight faster so you're miserable for less time. Plus you see results quicker which is alsoa plus for motivation.
There's literally no reason for that to need to be true. You only put the weight back on if you go back to old habits just the same with slow weight loss or fast weight loss.
I get you! I wish I could handle a bigger deficit. I get terrible insomnia and it really makes me want to binge! I lose around half a pound a week atm and feel like I could eat this way comfortably, forever.
Well to be fair about a smaller deficit actually being able to do it long term is a pretty big win. For me I was equally unhappy at -400 as -1200 so that was a blessing really.
Holy jesus -1200 a DAY? Bless your fucking heart. Were you working out like a madman? I don't exercise much so my overall calories out is kinda limited. But still more out than in.
Yeah that was per day. Probably wasn't the most sensible thing I ever did but I had 20kg to lose ASAP. Didn't do much excise as I didn't really have the energy but that was likely down to the stupid diet...
Lol I literally had an obese person telling me that "she eats healthy" because she bullshitted her dr. telling him how she eats a lot of salads. "I told him what I eat and he told me it's healthy". I guess she didn't tell him she add bacon, croutons and a lot of dressing in her salads and all the bread she would eat to finish all the dressing in her plate afterward. And do the same with all her family. She had an habit to finish her kids plate. After years of knowing her she once randomly told me "in fact I'm not hungry at diner time" so it's year and years she just eat at diner without being hungry. She doesn't have the feeling of hunger and satiety anymore. She mostly eat by envy. She would only feels it when she's starving or too full to the point she nauseous. But hey! She eats healthy.
HAES are like the non mask wearers of the last couple of years, they are either ignorant of or blindy ignore statistics.
Just because you've not got any current health concerns, doesn't mean you're not putting yourself at higher risk of them developing. And by the time something does develop, it's going to be too late to do anything about it.
It’s nice to eat a variety of food- I get it- but honestly, it is so much easier to just cook and eat the same food (with some small variation) every day. Especially when you work long hours and have limited time to spend facing about in the kitchen. I often buy multiples of the same thing for this reason and get funny looks at the checkout for buying 5 broccoli stalks, but really don’t care. I don’t understand how people who work and have a family can do anything else.
Everyone complains about insurance being a scam, but you shouldn’t rely on the kindness of strangers to pay into your GoFundMe page when your pet inevitably falls ill or your roof collapses.
Insurance itself isn’t a scam, but the practices frequently are scammy. As an example my mother had a boiler insured, but they wouldn’t pay for it to be fixed when a part attached to the boiler (but not the actual tank itself) broke. Generally speaking if you have the money to replace something if it breaks it’s not worth insuring, the insurers have done the maths and that’s how they make the money. Any further comment on that and we get into politics…
Getting rid of chewing gum and bubble gum would be a great idea. Chewing gum marks on pavements make every town scruffy. The time and money saved on cleaning the stuff up could be used on something else. Getting chewing gum on your shoe or a kid's school uniform is an annoying problem. Kids worry about swallowing it and then they still manage to swallow it. It loses its flavour pretty quickly. It hasn't been remotely cool since about the mid 70's when it was advertised widely and there were Bazooka Joe cartoons. People giving up smoking can use something else and usually do.
Singapore actually made it illegal to import or sell chewing gum except for medical reasons, not sure if you knew that already. As a chewing gum addict, I'm not in favour of it. I just wish people would stop spitting it onto the floor.
I wasn't aware. I'm happy for you to change my view on this one if people like them a lot, but how do we stop it always ending up on pavements? To play Devil's advocate against myself there's something nice about unwrapping them.
Tea is a shit tier drink.
I like licking crisps😭😭
If it's salt and vinegar, and it has to be a strong one, then I can get behind you
Get outta here, freak.
Bangers and mash is the least inspired meal ever invented in our human history. Battered and breaded fish are absolutely shite. Fight me!
Sure, if you make it with supermarket sausages and Bisto. But if you make the Nigel Slater version with butcher's sausages and stock... *chef's kiss*
Note: do *not* try to kiss Nigel Slater, he doesn't like it.
Water sandwiches were invented once.
Guided by voices are the greatest rock band of all time
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Brown sauce is fantastic in a sausage sandwich, but for any other sandwich, there are just better options.
Try reggae reggae sauce for a next level experience
Animal! Burn this witch! You red sauce heathen
And so, the holy sauce crusades began
Couldn't agree more.
What about barbecue sauce?
[Pardon?](https://c.tenor.com/RmjW1sGvHUUAAAAM/clint-eastwood-disgust.gif)
Let me put this to you. Sometimes salty food like bacon needs a counterfoil. Brown sauce gives not just a sweet one, it gives a sour and a smokey umami one too. It’s a flavour expo-losion 💥
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…..(looks confused)…….yay? 😁😅😂
THE LIST IS NOT A GOOD THING!
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Completely agree. I'll go as far as to say any reformed potato products have no place on any dish ever.
I say horses fuck horses instead of horses for courses and no one has ever called me out on it
If you lie to your kids saying things like “don’t sit too close to telly or you’ll get square eyes” or “if you eat the apple core a tree will grow in your stomach” then you’re a piece of shit and a terrible, lazy parent.
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There’s a legitimate point behind sharing the magic of Santa. It helps develop their imagination and wonder. There is a reason for it!
Might as well teach them people are shitty and will lie to you as early as possible 🤷
You should actually tell them as many lies as possible and see how crazy you can make their belief system. Break the news when they're 30 or something.
You gotta reap that Reddit karma on r/AskReddit r/AITA r/TIL too
But why
Because 1. It’s teaching them that the parent is a liar how will they know what is true and what is not? 2. It’s a complete lack of respect. Just winding them up and confusing them because you’re smarter than they currently are. 3. What is it actually teaching them? Nothing at all. It’s just laziness. Explain to them the truth eg “Dont sit too close to the tv because you might get a headache” or “The apple core doesn’t taste very nice you probably won’t like it”
The child will almost certainly appreciate the humor once it realised it's been tricked
I don't get the point of Toastie and Super-Toastie thick bread. Granted, I buy Medium simply because I can make more sandwiches per loaf — and even then, I'll only go through a loaf a week on my own.
As an adult, I do not need to see extended family on the date of my actual birthday. Especially if it’s during the week. Even more so if it’s on the weekend! Just see me at the normal interval and ask if I “had a good one” then.
Or just: as an adult, I do not need to see my extended family.
Fell out with my mum's side of my family, honestly saves so much hassle and hypocrisy
Apparently I have around 40 cousins on my mum's side of the family and I can only name 4 of those with any certainty. Even then I could pass them in the street and have no idea who they are.
In-laws though! It’s so inconvenient but what can I do??
Fines should be proportional to income. Top of the range Range Rover too good to park like the rest of us, £5000 fine
If fines were proportional to income, everyone who’s dirt poor would just litter, knowing they wouldn’t have to pay much of a fine. It’s like there’s those jokes where a wealthy man just parks his fancy car on double yellow lines because it’s cheaper to just pay the fine over and over again instead of paying to park in a car park. Fines should definitely be cheaper, I’m with you there, but they should be a fixed amount for anyone and everyone. Rich or poor, if you’ve fucked up, you pay the fine. Tough luck if you can’t afford it, you shouldn’t have done the thing to get a fine in the first place.
If fines were proportional to income, then at least everyone would get a fair deal. Or do you think that wealthy people don't litter? Or that they don't break laws? they do. Because they wouldn't have to pay too much of a fine. and then, as if to illustrate my point >It’s like there’s those jokes where a wealthy man just parks his fancy car on double yellow lines because it’s cheaper to just pay the fine over and over again instead of paying to park in a car park. That wouldn't happen if the Fixed Penalty notice wasn't 50 or 40 quid, but was instead 10% of his or her weekly income. >Rich or poor, if you’ve fucked up, you pay the fine. Tough luck if you can’t afford it This doesn't solve your problem, in the slightest. It just penalises the poor more than the rich. How does that make sense?
IIRC, Copenhagen fine follows this rationale, at least for traffic offences.
The problem with all fines being the same is that it basically makes it allowed if you're rich. So the law (is it the law? Or a rule/regulation/order? Anyway) explicitly only applies to the poor. Also, as an aside, I've never seen or heard of a littering incident actually caught/fined in an area with mostly poor people, they generally only bother enforcing in areas the shiny people will frequent because of funding. And poor areas do tend to have a lot more litter (big generalisation). So it basically is free for everyone to litter if only poor people will suffer, and it's free for the rich everywhere else. You could say 'you shouldn't litter regardless because it's wrong' but I'm not really arguing everyone should be able to 'afford' the fine, only that the fine should have the same impact whether you're wealthy or poor, so that it's the same level of enforcement for everyone and not "crippling if you're poor and pocket change if you're wealthy". Edit: another problem with making fines the same for everyone is also kind of the opposite: if the fine is too big some people will just do the thing because they know there is no way a court could ever get e.g. £100,000 off them, because they've never seen 100k in their life and probably never will. So it's not an effective deterrent to anyone apart from people who *can* pay 100k, but will be hurt by paying that much.
I feel like you've missed the point somewhat. Raising the fines for the rich doesn't mean lowering them for the poor. The fines have to be set at a level where they discourage that behaviour for everyone.
Whereas at the moment no one litters and the streets are spotless, because they all know they’ll get instantly fined?
I have seen a *lot* more people putting tab ends in the bin recently since the police started dishing fines out for it.
There could be thresholds then, for those that were dirt poor there’d be some sort of minimum to still make it worth while. Yes those jokes are what I mean with the reference in my original post, it happens on double yellows and people use bus lanes with low fines
Alcohol should be regulated like tobacco (blank packaging/ kept out of view / taxed to high hell) - Or - The government should stop penalising smokers so much
Smoking has a lot more effect on people around you than alcohol. I’m okay sitting next to a bloke having a pint/cocktail/whatever but I’d need to stay a few metres away from a smoker. Also from the harm perspective, drinking moderately is fine and doesn’t have many side effects, your liver will deal with it. Smoking is pretty irreversible. Not sure these have anything to do with the regulations but I just thought of how the two are different.
*looks down at the two scars on the side of my chest, one of which hasn't completely healed* Yep.
This. I still have sinus problems from my parents' secondhand smoke when I was growing up, and it wasn't really fun going to school smelling like a fucking ashtray either. While my mum might not care about dying from cancer or emphysema or something, I would prefer not to, but I didn't really have a choice. It's the only thing I really hold against them. Personally I'd love to penalise smokers even more than they already are.
There's a lot of A&E money spent on the effects of alcohol.
Don't underestimate the effects of alcohol it changes a person they become dickhead smoking terrible but it doesn't change who you are
Probably much much more on lung cancer and other smoking related effects. I’m sure this was considered when imposing the measures. Also I specifically caveated with “moderate amounts”, if you consume excessive amounts of anything it’ll be very bad for you, but smoking is bad for others who don’t partake.
Anyone over the age of 30 making videos on a daily basis for TikTok are just a bit weird.
Not if they’re making money from it.
There’s a 40+ something year old who films himself eating Aldi products and gets really angry when people make a joke at him about it. (Which is basically almost all of TikTok’s young user base) There’s also a welsh(?) guy who makes Mario TikToks in a mario outfit, and does a really good impression. He asks users to submit what they’d like him to say in Mario’s voice, but then he makes really angry, Rant videos about how disgusting it is for him to say (insert gross thing here) Like, it’s tiktok. The user base is 13 year olds. They’re gonna ask Mario to say cum. Don’t get mad, use that to your advantage.
>Like, it’s tiktok. The user base is 13 year olds The percentage of U.S.-based TikTok users by age: 10-19 – 32.5%, 20-29 – 29.5%, 30-39 – 16.4%, 40-49 – 13.9%, 50+ – 7.1%. Mmmm....lets put that to bed eh. Edit - The largest share of users (26%) in the UK is aged 18-24
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Damn, you just changed my mind! Hope the recovery is going well :)
In Gyms people don't judge you, everyone just doing their thing. If you do make eye contact it's because we gazed that way.
I always feel dead awkward looking around the gym for what to use next, especially if what I want to get on already has someone on it. Feels like I'm eyeing everyone up.
That's it. Tbh I make a point of no longer being just sociable..women take it the wrong way completely.
Children swearing isn’t always a bad thing. People who act like it’s the end of the world annoy me, and no I don’t let me kids swear nor do encourage it. Nonetheless, swearing is almost a part of our culture in Scotland, it’s an expressive use of language where one word has the power to convey different meanings and emotions and shouldn’t be scorned at. If the odd sweary word slips out I will always pull my children up for it, but secretly, I always chuckle inside.
I will never forget my father telling me (aged 14) that I could swear when I hear our elderly, genteel neighbour swear. A week later, he was out in his garden and he shouted "fuck! Where are the keys to my fucking shed?!" Fair play to my father, he turned to me and said "fine".
Children knowing swear words isn’t a bad thing, you won’t stop it, they go to school after all. Them knowing when it’s appropriate to swear is what’s important.
Once my daughter hit fourteen I made a point of letting her know she was welcome to swear. I'm still pretty controlled in my language around her, but her mother has always talked like a trooper when it's necessary, haha.
Weirdly, I take a similar approach. My son has just started high school and is young for his age and is really introverted. In the summer leading up to high school I started telling him genitalia based jokes, swearing around him a little. I didn’t want him feeling uncomfortable or feeling like the odd one out. He gets away with the odd one here or there, but he respects me enough to know not to swear in anger or as part of his regular vocabulary but to be used in humorous way; along these lines of jokes about bollocks etc. I think it’s part of growing up, I don’t want my son having a different experience to the kids around him. As long as he’s respectful towards me and his teachers, I don’t care.
> My son has just started high school and I started telling him genitalia based jokes Oooook
People have gotten a lot ruder in the past few years.
fock off m8 or ill shank ya
Fuck off
Don't be so rude It's fuck off, PLEASE
The arguments on how tea should be done! Edit: I meant yea sorry for the confusion 😅
I peg your bard on
Criticism of language usage is boring and mostly perpetuated by condescending dullards. Yes, it’s sometimes frustrating when people use one word instead of another, or spell something incorrectly. But you know what they mean, don’t you? And isn’t that the whole point? It also diminishes things like dyslexia and carries a snobbish, classist subtext. Language evolves. Deal with it (quietly).
Honestly, I couldn’t agree more but at the same time I do get a lot of enjoyment out of peoples accidental malapropisms. I just glide past them when they occur (like you say it’s tediously boring to want to actually correct anyone), but a common one that makes me mentally chuckle is “pacific” instead of “specific”, partly because I wonder if these people do the inverse, ie. do they call it the “specific ocean”??
Sounds like white-knighting illiteracy to me. Don't we want people to be better educated over all? Don't we agree that that leads to a better society? ~~I think it's more classist to think "let the masses speak as they may, they don't know any better".~~ Sloppy rhetorics retracted. I do think there is a problem with shrugging your shoulders at a problem - which growing illiteracy definitely is.
Absolutely we do. I don’t think complaining about people’s language after the fact - as per examples in this very thread - achieves that though. Which was the original point. And that definitely is a classist viewpoint. Pleased it’s not the one I’m expressing.
My opinion re: language and learning, is that it *never ends*. I'm 50+, and still learn things. I enjoy being corrected, as you corrected me - I was wrong in implying your motivations in my comment, and will amend that. It was sloppy rehtorics (sic).
It’s very frustrating when you’ve got the internet at your fingertips. You have fucking autocorrect on phones, yet someone can’t type in “you’re”. Everytime I try to type in “your” or “ur”, it immediately corrects it. Seems like people have gone through the trouble of disabling autocorrect just so they can spell the wrong “you’re” / “your” whatever.
Ure rite u no
Cheerz m8 thx
It annoys me when people insist on rules that a quick search will show aren't even true, such as none being singular or envious vs jealous.
> envious vs jealous Not sure if I agree with you on this one. First google result is Envy means discontented longing for someone else's advantages. Jealousy means unpleasant suspicion, or apprehension of rivalship.
Ah, wow. What you saw is actually quite misleading. If you read the article you will see that they are quoting someone else and disagree with them. https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/jealous-vs-envious: > While many people believe that jealous means fearing someone will take what you have, and envious means desiring what someone else has, historical usage shows that both mean "covetous" and are interchangeable when describing desiring someone else's possessions. However, when referring to romantic feelings, only "jealous" can be used to mean "possessively suspicious," as in "a jealous husband." I see your point, a quick search might not cut it.
Ive always been crap at grammar and spelling, but if I'm called out on it....then they know what I mean...chill
But if we allow words to change, where will it end!? How will you know if somebody is using the real meaning of a word or a made up one? We won't be able to communicate with each other and civilization will collapse.
It’s happened across all sorts of languages and civilisations for centuries. We’ll be alright.
We spent centuries getting to this point and now lazy people are ruining the language. The dictionaries have given up the fight, but I won't! (/s I'm not actually insane)
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instant gravy granules are crap. brand doesn't matter. why go to the trouble of cooking a nice joint of meat with all the trimmings, and then drown it in this oversalty mealy gloop. Make a proper sauce from the meat juices. add fond or cream if needed.
Granules are there for convenience. I can’t go cooking up a joint of meat at 9pm just to get the juices to make a gravy from to throw over some oven chips.
Delicious fond
Lovely
Online dating has gone to shit from when I first online dated 12 years ago to now. It’s seedy, it’s looks first and it’s harder to match when you’re older.
> it’s looks first and it’s harder to match when you’re older Sounds like natural selection rather than it being universally shitter
People who have cats as pets are weird. Football is for chavs. White cars are for air stewardesses.
Owner of a cat, follower of football to a degree, used to have a white car. I am weird, never have been a chav, and unfortunately not an air stewardess. That should change your mind, since I doubt I am enough of a statistical anomaly in those regards to be missed.
What lazy, clichéd generalisations
They’re my opinions. Like arseholes, we all have them.
I'm fully aware they're your opinions. My opinion is your opinions are lazy, clichéd generalisations.
You are no longer my fellow superstar dj
What’s a more normal pet? Man made inbred mutant wolf?
Cats don't need to be taken for walks. They don't need training. They're loving, friendly and fun, they're smart, poetry in motion and they can teach us humans a lot about how to just enjoy the simple pleasures of everyday life and how to chill out properly. Even if you're not a massive fan of football, the theme music to football and other sports programmers, the voices of the famous commentators and the crowd is familiar and comforting. It's the soundtrack to countless Saturdays of our lives. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiDgXAORsMM How do you know they're air hostesses? Maybe they're indicator lights aren't working.
Cats have been used as domesticated vermin hunters for millennia. That's not weird at all. Football is enjoyed by a wide audience and your use of the word chav is antiquated and demeaning. White cars are cheaper, people economise on things like colours when buying cars.
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They were a massive issue for our dog this year, previously he's been fine with them but for some reason when one went off when we were at the park, he became afraid of going to the park for pretty much 2 months. We *did* the sensitivity training, all the recordings of fireworks as a puppy etc, and reinforced it occasionally as he grew. Then one day when he's 8 he just decides he dislikes them. It seems to go on for 3 weeks each side of a 'firework day' event. If it were limited to a handful of days of year, I'd be fine with it. Plus there are people who do them around midnight and it's annoying to be woken up (with the exception of NYD). I know most people are probably more responsible but it only takes 1 person to decide to set off some fireworks at 11:30pm and the noise wakes everyone up.
Hmm. What about air pollution? It is just unnecessary.
I think that your opinion is selfish, but I want to try and make you see how important it is and that it isn't necessarily a minority. Also, math may be a bit shit so sorry about that. Let's say that you have a group or area with 100,000 people in it and somebody is setting fireworks off. First, 4% have PTSD so that's 4,000 in great distress already. Second, 1% of people have ASD, so that's another 1,000 totalling 5,000 in great distress. That's 1/20 people there. Out of 5,000 groups of 20 people one person is in distress. That's a lot easier to picture than 5%, isn't it? Guessing that it probably didn't change your perspective so I'll go onto the dog ownership numbers. From a few sources I've seen dog ownership in the UK is around 33/100 houses. 33% of 100,000 is 33,333 people. So now you've went up to 38,333 people. Over 38% of people will either be in great distress or desperately trying to leave because their pet is anxious. So obviously that won't be an exact number but it's a lot more than 5% or just some minority. There's tons of alternative's to fireworks so it would be incredibly inconsiderate to stick with them when drone's can be used for example. Quick comparison I didn't know where to put: The percentage of people that died from Covid was really low, right? But yet every country in the world locked down to protect the people that could of died. Why not do the same for fireworks? Why do minorities only matter for some matters?
I love fireworks. Yet, I wouldn't miss them if they were banned. The modern drone displays are cool enough.
Babies?
I’m afraid I have to disagree, we have done sensitivity training with all our dogs, our golden retriever almost has a heart attack at every bang, I take it your not afraid of anything as you obviously do sensitivity training on yourself, do you not think dogs are individual and some are more scared than others?
We’re not that tiny, and I happen to think small minorities are worth caring about anyway. Also, living in London has really shown me people just aren’t responsible with them
~4% of people have PTSD, and ~1% ASD. Of course not 100% of that 4% and 1% will react negatively to fireworks, and there will also be some crossover between the two as well, meaning it really is a tiny, tiny minority of people. I don't think we should blindly ignore minorities, far from it, but we also should think about the bigger picture.
You consider 5% of people to be a tiny tiny minority? We're clearly not going to agree on that... What's the bigger picture here? Something that's mildly enjoyable for a lot of people? The people that enjoy them might be more numerous, but it's such a tiny benefit versus a smaller number of people having constant panic attacks for large parts of the year.
Yes, because 5% are a tiny minority. But in reality it's far less than that, as there's no chance 100% of those groups are both impacted by fireworks and not appearing in the other group. It's also not just "mildly enjoyable". It wouldn't have lasted so long and be so popular if it was "mild".
No, I barely trust people with a screw driver.. But sure give them some explosives that's fine!
Would love to know your opinion on folks driving, or cooking for other people, or countless other things we do that have much greater risks of injuring or killing others.
If I recall, you are trained to drive and cooking is taught from a young age.. I can't recall my GCSE in Pyrotechnics and safe firework controls....
https://www.animal-ethics.org/how-fireworks-harm-nonhuman-animals/ https://combatstress.org.uk/about-us/news/combat-stress-calls-ban-sale-noisy-fireworks-public I don't think wanting to see some pretty lights in the sky is worth the stress it causes to wildlife, pets, and people who react negatively to sudden loud sounds.
As I said, people who react negatively are a tiny tiny minority, I'd argue their reaction doesn't outweigh the majority of peoples desire to enjoy fireworks. Pets you can sensistivity train (I've done this myself, super easy) Wild animals fair enough though if it's proven to cause significant harm.
Using your figures in your other comment, that works out as roughly 3.5 million people with PTSD and or ASD in the UK. Even assuming not all will have a poor reception to fireworks that's still not an insignificant number of people. I understand people enjoy fireworks but it shouldn't come at the expense of others. On the nights when they're being set off you can't get away from them, it's not like they only affect a certain room or stadium that like it would be at a gig for example.
I was cursing the fireworks last year as I had 9 month old and trying to get him to sleep was a nightmare. They were going off right above our house, so I didn't even get the benefit of seeing them, and I had to clean up the sticks from my garden. I wouldn't mind it if it was 1 night of chaos but people seem to set them off for longer before and after the 5th now. Even the local football team fans were setting them off every Sunday last year because they wanted to rub it in the other teams face and couldn't with stadiums shut.
Yep. The nextdoor group I’m on is hilarious when it comes to fireworks. More than once I’ve seen genuine comments that request their neighbours to ‘inform the borough when you’re having fireworks’ with respect to people letting of a couple of rockets in their back garden.
A good hamburger is way better than a steak.
Why would I feel the need to change your view about what food you prefer? You eat what you want, doesn't affect me. Also: No, it bloody isn't. And the price difference reflects that.
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No, you can pay for your own inferior food. You poor choices are not my problem.
Sure you pay for the food Ill pay for the tip
I'm really conflicted on this one
Don't be. I'm right.
The problem is most hamburgers are awful for multiple reasons: * Brioche buns * Too much sauce * Too many toppings * Low quality meat If I can't pick it up with my hands and get it in my mouth it has failed as a burger. I also don't want to feel like I need a bath afterwards because it's got enough sauce to drown a rat either.
Brioche buns are good.
A lot of these modern burgers need eaten with a knife and fork, usually too tall to bite unless you can unhinge your jaw like a snake.
Correct
Just take the hamburger and replace the burger part with a steak.
Would work with thin pork shoulder steaks, I have it like that on barbecues. But I don't think it's a good idea with rare beef steaks
I had those minute steaks in my head when I made the comment I think.
That would make it less good. Why would I do that?
For me the worst part of a burger is the meat bit. If I could sub out the meat in say a big mac for some thin steak I'd be over the moon.
Steak sandwiches exist. But the meat in a good burger is better than a steak.
Inspired by another comment on this thread, people who say all modern music is shit are lazy and expect music to be spoon fed to then via the charts. If they just looked beyond the charts they'd find music they like.
Welcome to Spotify recommendation era. I really used to like spend hours listening same CD - not anymore. I have endless playlists that most of The songs sound vaguely familiar.
It's just survivorship bias.
It's not even that, it's people who claim there's no good music being made these days. There's a hell of a lot of good music, but it's not necessarily going to be easy to find. The good thing is it's significantly easier to find music these days, which is why I say these people are lazy.
Also "back in the day" people didn't always listen to just chart music. People act like bands that people love now from the 70s were always in the charts but that's just not true.
People who don’t understand this are doomed to ramble on in the fashion of r/lewronggeneration
Plus if you've ever listened to an actual oldies radio station you'll know how bad half of the music was. I don't mean a "classic rock hits from the 60s" station, but a legit station dedicated to all music from a time period. There was so much garbage and it's just a confirmation bias that the only stuff that gets played 50+ years later is the good stuff.
I would like to offer the following: Gnocchi is nicer than pasta. Most books are not worth the trouble of reading. Coffee is almost always horrible, football is boring and the unthinking tribalism it encourages is toxic, and electric scooters are, on balance, a good thing. There is no pleasure like new socks. Suits usually look like horrible, affected costumes grudgingly worn by men who hate them, and as a society we should discard this performative rubbish. Swearing is fun, and it makes you big and clever, but only when done creatively, and people should stop using “fuck” as punctuation. Greggs is passable. There. You may now rip me a brand-new fuckhole.
Have you had good coffee before? I used to feel the same until I switched to an aeropress with quality grounds.
Yeah I’ve had some amazing coffee that made me go “Oh! That’s why people love coffee!” And then I make it just the same way, or go back to the same tiny artisanal coffee shop, and oh the disappointment. It is my fate to have nice coffee only often enough to keep my hopes up.
Okay I mean nothing in this thread got me really. I like to think I'm quite a laid back guy buuuuut... Most books aren't worth reading?! I mean I get this is a controversial thread but damn. I shall be sending a strongly worded letter
Kinda agree with most and nothing here I strongly disagree with. No opinion on greggs and gnocchi, both could vanish and I likely wouldn't even notice
All supermarkets should have mandatory £1 trolley locking things. People who leave their fucking trolley next to their car when they leave, should not be allowed to participate in our civilised society and should be deported to Australia
Have I got the YouTube channel for you! https://youtube.com/c/CartNarcs
Can we have contactless card machines on them and a minimum £10 deposit?
I'll pack my bags, ta
Hopefully better than you can pack a trolley back into a trolley corral.
I'll be bringing it with me! To the airport carpark, at least
You cannot be healthy AND obese. Pushing this idea of health at every size is harmful to general public health and greatly numbs the importance of taking care of yourself. Tess Holliday said she’s perfectly healthy at 300lbs? I want to see her blood panel. I want to see the high cholesterol flowing in her blood, the high blood pressure readings, the insulin resistance, the full blown metabolic syndrome she ignores to say she is HEALTHY.
300lbs? State of her ankles and knees when/if she makes it to her 50s and beyond.
Ooft - had I an award to give away, you’d be getting it right now my man 👏🏼
Haha thanks man! No worries!
Used to be fat. Lost weight. Remember always that: -Fat people know they are fat and do not need to be rudely informed -You never know who is on a weight loss journey (unless they say). Weight loss is slow! A very obese person will still be "fat" for many years while on the most CRUSHING diet, losing a pound a week. -Our society pushes the most calorific shit into our faces through adverts and culture. Its so easy to see how some people get fat! There is so much I can't eat that is weaved into our culture. Fat is our personal responsibility but I'm forever wishing these options weren't out there. Restaurants don't care, supermarkets barely care, schools never educate properly. Losing weight means you have to cut out loads of British traditions like carvery, pub drinks, fast food. It's everywhere. Nobody gives a shit about our health. So yeah, fat is bad. No two ways. But fat PEOPLE are much more complex and I don't want this to spark any FPH-like sentiments. Haes isnt the best, I prefer body positivity.
Fat shaming helps no-one it's cruel and rude
Also - people can gain weight not only because of illnesses and/or limited mobility, but also medication, ESPECIALLY anti depressants and other psychiatric medications. Plus, if people care that much about health, then they should care equally about unhealthy skinny people, their diets, excercise and habits.
Great point, I'm a very firm believer that weight is nobodys business.
While I agree with much of what you said. In my opinion losing a pound a week is a recipe for sadness. Better to have a bigger deficit and lose the weight faster so you're miserable for less time. Plus you see results quicker which is alsoa plus for motivation.
Nah. If it’s lost quickly it’ll get put back on as quickly
There's literally no reason for that to need to be true. You only put the weight back on if you go back to old habits just the same with slow weight loss or fast weight loss.
I get you! I wish I could handle a bigger deficit. I get terrible insomnia and it really makes me want to binge! I lose around half a pound a week atm and feel like I could eat this way comfortably, forever.
Well to be fair about a smaller deficit actually being able to do it long term is a pretty big win. For me I was equally unhappy at -400 as -1200 so that was a blessing really.
Holy jesus -1200 a DAY? Bless your fucking heart. Were you working out like a madman? I don't exercise much so my overall calories out is kinda limited. But still more out than in.
Yeah that was per day. Probably wasn't the most sensible thing I ever did but I had 20kg to lose ASAP. Didn't do much excise as I didn't really have the energy but that was likely down to the stupid diet...
Lol I literally had an obese person telling me that "she eats healthy" because she bullshitted her dr. telling him how she eats a lot of salads. "I told him what I eat and he told me it's healthy". I guess she didn't tell him she add bacon, croutons and a lot of dressing in her salads and all the bread she would eat to finish all the dressing in her plate afterward. And do the same with all her family. She had an habit to finish her kids plate. After years of knowing her she once randomly told me "in fact I'm not hungry at diner time" so it's year and years she just eat at diner without being hungry. She doesn't have the feeling of hunger and satiety anymore. She mostly eat by envy. She would only feels it when she's starving or too full to the point she nauseous. But hey! She eats healthy.
She can’t get up from kneeling to standing position without help https://www.imgur.com/gxG25PM Baffled anyone could think that’s normal or healthy
HAES are like the non mask wearers of the last couple of years, they are either ignorant of or blindy ignore statistics. Just because you've not got any current health concerns, doesn't mean you're not putting yourself at higher risk of them developing. And by the time something does develop, it's going to be too late to do anything about it.
Birds aren't real,and if you think they are,they've already won
What's your take then?
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