MrPoletki
@MrPoletki@feddit.uk
- Comment on Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document 10 hours ago:
I remember seeing a TED talk about this which very much pointed to FGM being a central african problem, yes the majority of people doing it Muslim nations, but there are christian nations doing it too like Etheopia and in places like nigeria that have diverse religious backgrounds, christians practice it too. for example, google tells me 25% of nigerian catholic women have been circumcised.
When you go outside africa, yuou find the majority of cases are eithert from a country right next door in the middle east. or from somewhere further away, but by people who have emigrated from said central african or middle eastern country.
There is Indonesia, with its high fgm rates exclusively among muslims there, efforts have been made to regulate/ban/mitigate (making the act symbolic, rather than actually physical) over there and some other nations would do well to nose over their efforts.
Thing is, fgm predates both islam and christianity. And its a mistake for anyone to attatch a specific culture to a specific religion. Thats as accurate as attaching a specific proffession to a religion. Oh my car mechanic is Jewish, therefore all Jews are car mechanics, crikey, Israeli cars must run forever. No it means the manufactures get lazy because they assume everyone can fix even complex faults, ah but they won’t be able to get away with that, they are all trained mechanics so they could spot lazy design a mile off and vote with their wallet.
What a ridiculous discussion eh? well its no less ridiculous than when somebody invokes ‘muslim culture’ as a thing in their argument. Anyway, FGM is a cultural thing, not a religious thing.
- Comment on Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document 11 hours ago:
Well, if you consider his overall physical form, from a purely mathematicalratio point of view. He is now less of a dick.
- Comment on UK economy showing signs of 'zombie apocalypse,' says think tank 4 days ago:
No, O’s
- Comment on Learner driver fails theory test for 128th time despite spending nearly £3k on fees 1 month ago:
not sure, I only took it once. Highly doubt its the same each time tho
- Comment on Paperwork blunder by UK bookmaker reveals possible illegal offshore operation 1 month ago:
I feel like somebody should run a book on who it is.
- Comment on Learner driver fails theory test for 128th time despite spending nearly £3k on fees 1 month ago:
just mandate x hours more lessons after a failed test, like you must have had (I think it’s) 30 or something hours of actual lessons before you can take it in the first place.
- Comment on Learner driver fails theory test for 128th time despite spending nearly £3k on fees 1 month ago:
…in theory
- Comment on Learner driver fails theory test for 128th time despite spending nearly £3k on fees 1 month ago:
remember this is just the theory test, not the practical test. You cant take that before you pass your theory iirc.
I can’t see how you could fail that so many times. I wonder if its the hazard perception test each time.
- Comment on UK economy ‘doomed’ under Labour, says Ryanair chief 2 months ago:
you’ll probably get there on time too.
- Comment on Hundreds of thousands of Brits to have energy bill debt written off 2 months ago:
yeah, nobody likes being pumped in the local river.
- Comment on Chinese firm a leading contender to buy Thames Water, reports say 4 months ago:
Only interested if the gov takes on all the debt.
And forgive the outstanding fines.
So we’re paying a private company to buy our water utility, so that they can ‘have another go’ and ‘promise to do better than the last lot’.
Great…
- Comment on Chinese firm a leading contender to buy Thames Water, reports say 4 months ago:
Yes, you get thrown into the pit they threw Nicolas III into. Death by Tzar Chasm.
- Comment on Cyclist injuries dropped by half after “hated” cycle lane installed, but mayor still claims scrapped lane largely used as “bike run” for drug dealers to “get through traffic" 4 months ago:
or is some kind of schizoid aesthetic rejection where they just want bike-riding sissies to stop being a thing?
I am slightly depressed at how much it looks exactly like this.
Only thing I’d say is shopkeeps have a point about their footfall being affected by the lack of parking outside their shops now. Literally every other way to address that, besides nuking the site from orbit (the only way to be sure), is a better way to address that than just tearing up the bike lane.
- Comment on Cyclist injuries dropped by half after “hated” cycle lane installed, but mayor still claims scrapped lane largely used as “bike run” for drug dealers to “get through traffic" 4 months ago:
They can’t now, they’ll get a ticket.
- Comment on Cyclist injuries dropped by half after “hated” cycle lane installed, but mayor still claims scrapped lane largely used as “bike run” for drug dealers to “get through traffic" 4 months ago:
I mean, there are loads of other solutions to a lack of parking ffs. Look at all that green field, I wonder how many parking spaces they need. A car park would spoil their view would it? if that’s the issue, they could block their view of the car park by parking cars along the roadside in front of it. Oh no wait, they’d get a ticket for that.
But no no no, lets just jump at the opportunity to hate on cyclists because that’s the fun popular thing to do amongst meatheads, pick a group that’s already getting picked on and pick on them harder. Sounds like we have our own Alabama.
- Comment on Cyclist injuries dropped by half after “hated” cycle lane installed, but mayor still claims scrapped lane largely used as “bike run” for drug dealers to “get through traffic" 4 months ago:
looks at cycle lane the fuck is wrong with that?
- Comment on Jeremy Corbyn attacks Angela Rayner for selling off allotments 5 months ago:
Oh shit, did she sell of his allotment?
- Comment on Revealed: Oligarchs spied on UK lawyers who ran Serious Fraud Office cases 5 months ago:
This should be it’s own criminal offence, a special form of perverting the course of justice that gets applied to the individuals concerned, not the company.
- Comment on Third of UK teenagers who vape will go on to start smoking, research shows 5 months ago:
a quick google tells me 9% of school goers vape, and about 3% smoke. That’s down from 0 vapers in the 90’s and 50% of them having had a smoke (not necessarily smokers).
also, amongst the whole of the UK, vapers have just met smokers at 11% each.
- Comment on Third of UK teenagers who vape will go on to start smoking, research shows 5 months ago:
Well at least that’s down from the 100% of teenasgers who smoked cigarettes that go on to start smoking.
- Comment on Man carrying home his gardening tools arrested by armed police in Manchester 5 months ago:
The Guardian’s photographer had an absolute whale of a time with this article.
Look at those dreamy vegetable garden scenes.
- Comment on Woman, 74, tells of pain and fear after arrest at Liverpool pro-Palestine rally 5 months ago:
this is only going to get solved by mass lawsuits for wrongful arrests and not a single guilty plea.
- Comment on Thames Water refuses to claw back executive bonuses paid using £3bn emergency loan 5 months ago:
Stop bailing out Thames Water!
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 6 months ago:
Fuck that law. Isn’t that the law Putin used against Navalgny?
- Comment on The Telegraph has deleted this sob story 7 months ago:
actually, while it doesn’t change the conclusion hardly, we have all forgotten that 395k wage is a combined income.
I mean these are still silly high wages… Having said that though, both the combined income, and that it’s very conceivable a good portion of that income is from capital gains, not work… they probably get more take home out of that 395k income than we’d expect too…
- Comment on The Telegraph has deleted this sob story 7 months ago:
hey shoutout to fark.com I used to love that place hung out there from about 1999 onwards,
- Comment on The Telegraph has deleted this sob story 7 months ago:
I’m not sure there is actually a proper definition of ‘rich’ that would allow you to accurately classify a group of incomes into rich and not rich.
But if you were to think of it in terms of the ‘feeling’ I’d say I’d feel rich if I never had to choose a cheaper option for anything at all, ever, could eat out and check into a hotel for the night any time I liked, all whilst currently putting away a handsome investment of some kind - but still have more disposable income than I could possible waste between income periods with nothing but my own debauchery (barring expensive drug habits).
That’s what I call rich, thing is, some people can achieve this on much less than others due to their tastes and circumstances. I’d feel rich if I worked 9-5 and took home upwards of £300k for sure. Others might not though.
- Comment on The Telegraph has deleted this sob story 7 months ago:
one day I might earn that much in a year.
- Comment on How I discovered my partner was an undercover police officer sent to spy on me 7 months ago:
and some goddam alimony, not from the state either, from the cop.
- Comment on 'Criminal' : Elton John condemns AI copyright plans. The UK is considering a bill allowing AI Companies to use copyrighted work without permission 7 months ago:
Yanno I had to double take the headline, at first it read like 'The criminal named elton john condemns…"