Spiritual athiest. Firm believer in a fair and just society with true equality, regardless of race, gender, sexuality, religion, etc.
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To confront racism he would have to locate the spine he discarded when he took office. At the same time he would need to get rid of the homophobia and transphobia he has either instilled in his party of actively promoted into his cabinet. Sorry to say but I cannot see any of those things happening.
Yup no comment required. Far too many like him (Linham springs to mind).
And in doing so they created the concept of the alphabet, which in some form almost all languages use today.
Those workers wanted to write their own stories, so they copied and simplified the glyphs into something that only required the knowledge of a few symbols which strug together could express anything they needed. So instead of having to learn over 700 symbols they only needed 20 to 30.
A quick thought for those who are so anti migrants,l. If it weren't for a bunch of migrant workers in ancient Egypt, we may not be writing about migrants at all. This is because at that time only the elite were taught how to read and write hieroglyphs.
I thought I had turned the blipping thing off, it bloody well is off now. If there is ever a real need for that thing to go off we will all know about it well in advance.
Perhaps he should have a look at what is going on in the Hague with ex-president Duterte at the moment because if he acts on his words, that is his future.
Why buy a nazicar, when there are so many better alternatives available.
That's what us lot are for, amplifying (reposting).
June 30, 26. Surely that should be New Year.
Congrats Bear, those of us in the void appreciate your screaming, it helps us know we are not alone and to find each other.
Unfortunately the latter is probably more accurate, both now and to a degree historically as well. Historically the USA has always been relatively impenetrable simply due to geography.
1930's Germany springs to mind. The very thing ECHR was set up to prevent happening again. Thankfully we still have access to it for the time being, and oh boy do we need to use it.
* it is a pointless scheme, because everyone permitted to work can already prove it, either with a UK passport of a share code to show that their visa permits them to work. So this supposed id scheme is an expensive waste of time.
Of course they will. Fortunately in doing so they will place the entirely pointless scheme* on very shaky grounds, as the biological sex thing is based on an incorrect interpretation of UK law, which will be overturned at some point.
I guess that makes me a bit sad, as i have a Scottish royal standard pinned to my hall wall - hopefully I can use the excuse that I am (still) proudly of Scottish decent - though it is mostly because I actually like the flag and it fits perfectly where it is (plus hardly anyone notices it).
Easy, for about a decade the water companies were fined heavily for any water polution they allowed onto our waters, rivers and sea, by the EU, resulting in them cleaning up their act and our waters becoming some of the cleanest in the EU. It took 5 years for them to reverse that after leaving EU.
Unfortunately these who have a vested interest in maintaining the 'illegal immigrant' idea appear to be a lot louder than those who just want a fair immigration system. So very few people do actually know that there are only two forms of immigration, regular (via visas) and irregular.
Irregular migrants and irregular migration are close enough to the correct terms anyway (the correct terms being irregular immigrants and irregular immigration respectively).
Hmm, of there is a judgment gate, and specified like him got to go the the supposed heaven, then I will be chosing to go to hell. Heck they have already made earth hell, so the supposed hell can only be better, and especially if their ilk are not there.
They are not rockets, but so long as the screen size is OK, may do the job.
Couple of questions, are you bothered if it is limited to windos 10, or does it need to be win 11 capable. Also would a 15" screen do? Reason for asking is that we are replacing our 15" laptops at work because they cannot run win 11. Some are still reasonable devices.
Thought that might be the case. If i get a chance this week, I'll have a look and see what i can find. There used to be a handy shop near St Pan.. station, that might have been a good starting place, but it closed a few years ago when the base price of new laptops dropped.
If used in one location the best bet might be to get a cheapish large monitor, about 24" to 27" and plug that into the laptop. If it needs to be portable then anything above 17" tends to get expensive.
Who wants to live forever and Show must go on both always bring tears. I want to break free, whilst a relatively simple song, compared to these two or love of my life, also brings tears, but more for personal reasons. Freddie wrote so many great soul hitting songs. He is sorely missed.
Omg, that's tantamount to encouraging genocidal 'cleansing' 1930's Germany style. All it would take is rebounding of ice for it to become reality. Where possible trans folks need to plan to gtf out ASAP, and allies need to be screaming about this from the rooftops.
Fair point. I guess that art is supposed to inspire an emotional response,which this does - visceral hatred for the 'creators'.
Art?
Travel up the M6, and every other bridge has a couple of flags representing a sainted Palestinian roman solder until you get to Carlisle.
Was tempted to find out last night as there are two near me. However that was at end of a 4 hour drive, and I couldn't be bothered wasting my tyres on these scumbags.
I was a teenager in the 80's, frack the nostalgic bs about that time. Only good thing I think of from the 80's, was some of the music, the rest can stay in history. Unfortunately we are living with the consequences today, especially politically.
Little late, sorry Happy LGBT+ Christmas (Manchester Pride) - UK of course
Thank you, that put a smile on my otherwise gloomy face.
So the idea is that of i we're to visit the USA, (not that I am going to, as I regard it as off limits for the forseable future, and possibly the remainder of my existance) Trumpette would investigate me. I am a british passport holder, and therefore am entitled to a 30 day visit visa on arrival.
Processing their applications would be a good step and allowing them to work whilst tge application is being processed.
To be a tory but wearing a red tie?
Likewise, in fact with that decision I would br pulling the trigger on myself. Labour are bad enough, Reform would be an unmitigated disaster.
In other words, on the 7th day, God just renamed Earth as Hell.
Great that, means that there is little chance of encountering them in Halfords or Wagamama (particularly the St. Peters square branch of Wagamama in Manchester, as there is a very large pride progress flag over the front of that branch every day of the year).
I always use double space, ot helps proof reading for a dyslexic like me.
Sorry to say that both our cars had a union flag and philippine flag stickers on them, they are there to represent or british and filipino marriage. Someone knocked the union one of one of the cars and I have no plans to put it back.
He would, however, be happy that other people have carried on his work and that such progress is being made.
valid interim solution. He spend the rest of his career as Professor of Tropical Medicine searching for a more appropriate solution to the parasite. The man was a genius in his field, but couldn't get to the palace without clear instructions for each step of the way to collect his award, lol.
The USA would not have known what to look for or a method to stop it. I cannot say that I agree with my grandfather's proposal, both in terms of the chemical or the elimination of the vector, as I tend to favor solution which deal with the parasite itself, but at the time it appeared to be a ...
Dear @billgates.bsky.social, if it hadn't been for my grandfather and his research, which identified both the paracite behind Malaria and the transmission vector (the misquito), followed by his proposal to use DDT to try to eliminate that vector ... www.gatesnotes.com/when-malaria...
Can't say I know exactly other than they are dolls originally from Hong Kong, but my wife does and definitely wants one. She is over 40 so sort of mucks up the over 40 bit. The mitigating bit is she is also originally from 🇵🇭 and they have been all the rage over there for a couple of years.
Philippines
Ah, happy to be corrected. We will stick with 🇵🇭 They are not legal trans friendly, which creates an issue for me, but generally the people are very accepting
I am not a lawyer, bso this is more a question than opinion, ut don't places like New Zeeland and Canada already offer asylum to Trans Brits and the incorrect decision by the SC will only have strengthened that (thought the CJEU, assuming a case makes it there, could overrule that decision)?
My wife would be one of those, but she is a professional make-up artist, and of course often ends up travelling with a goblin - me, as i prefer my extra 30 minutes in bed.
Who in their right mind would buy anything associated with NAZI musk. Not to mention most of the Chinese EVs are simply better than NaziCars, and quite a few are well known European brands (Volvo, Lotus, smart...), they are also better equipped and cheaper.
Sounds like a win to me. All 25(ish) very vocal nutjobs boycott M&S, and whichever other company they are shouting about for being humans and treating their customers as humans, and the rest of us can then have a better shopping experience.
Oops nearly forgot, both my wife and myself are white, so leaving will also help decrease their apparently oh so important white % They want to treat people like gullable dumb suckers, well the not so gullable will, given the chance, naff off and leave them to it.
By getting the frack out of blighty (along with mine, my wife and our company tax, of course), and going somewhere hot, welcoming and that treats its citizens (and immigrants) with respect.
Please keep fighting Zoe, it may not feel like it you are doing an amazing job and obviously have the patience of a saint. I keep hoping that one day we will manage to get a gov that actually treats people with respect, but until I will continue making plans to assist net migration...
...actually processing asylum applications and their mates would not have been able to cash in on fiv accommodation contracts. Then there is the little matter that a number would die on the crossing, which to the gov is also a win. ...
Didn't the French offer to provide housing and offices classed as british soil, so that asylum claims could be processed in France. Those successful could then travel on a visa to the UK, those unsuccessful the French would process. But the UK refused the offer, afterall it would have meant...
Pity the sound system was so week, only a few in the audience could hear her.
Hmm, is it worth trying to ask Burnham to apply pressure to GMP to record this and pass it on Police Scotland?
First thing, define 'biological sex'. Of course they cannot. So if it must be specified then it should be phrased as ,the gender they were observed to be at birth, whether correct or not'. Better still just put it as people should use the bog they feel comfortable using.
For goodness sake, it's been police officer, fire fighter for at least two decades, both terms are far more accurate titles regardless of the gender/sexuality of the person doing the job. She who should not be named should know better, she has become yet another rich lucky for the Christoright.
But that doesn't create the emotive bs these two like to sell.
Given that a miscarriage is an abortion, just one the body has initiated unaided, under the current law it is possible for a woman to be prosecuted as a result of a miscarriage, and yes that has happened. The proposed bill is intended to prevent such prosecutions. ...
I dont miss the winter, and am glad for a bit of warmth, but my sense of time is a bit knackered.
As yet computer systems cannot do that. So for that reason alone they would fail the Turing Test.
For the computer to pass the test tge instigator must not be able to distinguish the computer from the other human. Sounds simple, and today's AI tool could give almost indistinguishable answers. But humans tend to fly off topic when a question prompts a memory of something else. ...
Good question, but I suspect the answer is no. The Turing Test is very simple, it has three entities, two humans and a computer non cn see each other. One human is the instigator / interrogator the other and the computer are respondents. ...
Two unnecessary letters at the end of that.
Of course, they are not as parochial as the USA.
Perhaps it is becais3 he suffers from c u next Tuesday syndrome and is unable to focus.
Labour were too non commital on two criterion, trans rights and immigration, for me to be able to get past my distrust. They have confirmed my view since then and secured a never vote from me for whatever length of life I may have remaining.
Would say they could add another one, except I didn't vote for them anyway. Typically I vote Green, but voted LibDem tactically, this last time. Back to Green next time.
Also ignoring the fact that migrants have to have a visa to be here, which cost thousands (spouse visa £1258 + IHC £2559 every 2.5 years and no recourse to public funds, all before any tax, ni or vat). Migrants are a big economic bonus to the UK.
But, but furball raised a ticket
He is already there, he likes it so much he is trying to bring it to everyone.
Hope you have a good day.
Cpmpletely agree but would say that the crazy part applies to those who cannot comprehend the concept of equal human rights for all.
Have both the more recent series and 78 classic on dvd. Then again I am old enough to have grown up watching the classic when it was first shown. The clasic looks and feels a bit dated but is still fun.
Prety good series, love the way they dodged the 9pm watershed by replacing the common 4 letter f word with frack, especially as it is said so often in each episode. I have used that ever since watching.
Whilst there may be an argument for privatisation, it relies on competition, which doesn't exist for public services. Those services should always be publicly owned.
29 years ago, it was part of British Rail, which developed the APT. On privatisation, the APT was sold cheap to Fiat, only to then be bought by some private rail companies as the Pendelino at far higher price. The British public paid twice for that train. It could have made a tidy return for BR.
I always do my best to pick her back up, it doesn't always work as she can be hyper-focused, but that will never stop me trying. Like you, she deserves (and has the right) to enjoy a night out without someone pissing on her and it pisses me off that people try to.
Nice outfit, similar to what my wife wears. Glad you had a good evening up to that incident, not happy the incident happened and more so the impact it had on you. I can understand your reaction as my wife would have reacted in the same way, for very similar reasons. ...
Guess a tiny little thin straw that wilts if left in warm water, reminds them too much of the part of themselves they are compensating for with their rigid stereotype. Sorry but I'll keep using my washable metal straws regardless of what such fragile fools think.
Hope it calms down quickly.
Ah bugger, forget the bit about stretching then and the deep heat might be a bit tricky as well, though does give you an excuse to get someone else (partner?) to do it for you. BTW I didn't say it before but you have my sympathy.
Which mine always is, then stretching can help. By that I mean suspending yourself on your arms and relaxing your back so you are almost hanging from your shoulders can help realise your back. (But be careful with this.)
... with immaculate posture. Ibru.. (cannot spell the stuff) is ok but often needs double dosage - 4 tablets instead of 2. Lying down can appear to help but relaxes the muscles around the spine too much and is only temporary, so best to stay upright -hence the posture. If it is lower back ...
I have mild spina bifida, so can put my back out a little too easily. If you don't have a bath the a hot shower aimed at the worst part often helps, ideally gently flexing (bending your back at the same time) can give a bit of releaf for a while. After that deep heat and pain killers together ...
So a reduction in net migration with no reduction in boats could simply mean more people are getting pissed off enough to opt to leave.
The other problem is that less people being able to come via regular (and safe) routes means more are likely to use unsafe (i.e. boats) routes instead. ...
Couple of problems with net migration that tends to be forgotten is, that it is the the number of people coming into the country less the number leaving the country. So reducing net migration does not necessarily indicate less people arriving, it could easily mean more are leaving. ...
IMHO sex as stated on a birth certificate should be provisional until the child can communicate it validity (or othewise). At the end of the day we cannot change our brains (but we can change our bodies, and plenty of cis people do via cosmetic surgury).
As someone who has a relative who is a member of at least two minorities; migrants and lgbT, your description is spot on, and yes the posts / bar does keep moving. Frack tolerance, we should be better than that, a lot better.
Yikes, something tells me I need to look up Turkiye LGBT issues as we have a holiday coming up there soon. Will have to listen to you show tomorrow.
That statement could be shortened to just 'the pm is sickening.
Thanks Russ, you put that all so much more eloquently than I could dream of. When I read the PM preface to the white paper, I failed to find a single sentence for which BS wasn't the correct response.
Labour are going about the key issue the wrong way. They have become the Conservatives, with a different name, and in doing so, are alienating more people from politics, leaving a progressively smaller number of people prepared to vote.
I have a monthly get together with friends I used to work with. Every month the same think comes up, they are not concerned about migration in itself, but are very bothered about irregular immigration - or boat crossings. Tighter regulated migration means more irregular migration. ...
Our methodological critique of The Cass Review has been peer-reviewed published & is therefore way more authoritative than Cass which is un-peer-reviewed. Streeting/Starmer can no longer claim Cass is “gold standard” or “landmark”. Cass is just junk science. link.springer.com/article/10.1...