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There's a provision of the Children Act 1989 which requires the court to have the child's welfare as its paramount consideration.
I am finding it very hard not to call this the prime directive.
UK new builds: the builders will tell you that the toilet flushes are โEuropean styleโ to save water.
This is a lie. I live in two new build flats. One in Portugal and one in England. The toilets they put in in UK new builds are just shit at flushing. The ones in Portugal flush properly.
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I think Iโve put my finger on what coming back to the UK feels like. If an actual nation state could be suffering from clinical depression, this is what it would look like: Everything is slowly going to shit; the country seems to see no future for itself; itโs making decision after decision that is self neglect bordering on self harm; quite possibly the most unpopular government to be removed by democratic vote rather than bloodshed is about to lose an election by a cataclysmic margin, and when the opposition, who are set to clean up, are asked what theyโre going to do differently, the answer is a shrug followed by, โnothingโ.
And people here more or less accept it, because boiling frogs and suchlike, but then you go elsewhere (no, America, not you, sit back down), and itโs like the colour returns to the world and you didnโt even realise it was missing.
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So, Ukraine, right.
They gave their nuclear weapons to Russia. Bit of an error perhaps.
But they have nuclear power stations, so presumably have access to plutonium.
You see what Iโm saying, right? Theyโve got to be trying. If it were me, I would โฆ
Also it's hard & expensive & they have more immediate things to do with their resources.
Famous American murderer from the telly, O J Simpson, has been in the news recently for dying. Here are some lesser known facts about him:
O J was known by his fans as "The Juice". This is because his full name was Orangejuice Jorangejuice Simpson.
King Edward VIII of England was forced to resign because he wanted to marry him.
In addition to being good at rugby and murder, O J was also the first man on mars.
He was acquitted after his lawyer, who was one of the Cardasians from Star Trek, convinced the jury that there were five lights.
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Covid booster means Iโve been vaccinated against seven things in less than a week (measles, mumps, rubella, tetanus, polio, diphtheria, Covid).
Done now. Feeling a bit sorry for myself b
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โTraffic is heavy, best set off for your appointment nowโ, says my phone, for the second time in a week.
Thanks, Californian tech device. Iโll get right on that.
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Readers of a certain age may remember a fun but flawed vertically scrolling progressive shoot โem up game from the mid 80s called Slap Fight. I played it loads on the C64.
I today found out it was called something entirely different in the US, and I feel like part of my childhood was a lie.
Also instructor: โIโll be five minutesโ
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Now the UK has used โno medical care for trans people before 25 because brains not developedโ, theyโre gonna push for 40, โbecause fertilityโ.
I would actually put money on them doing that.
That's pop psychology at its worst.
Yes, there is still some development in "the brain" up to the age of 25, but it's mostly to do with the areas of the brain that deal with impulse decision making. The areas of the brain that deal with considered decision making are more or less fully developed at 15.
And despite how things look in transphobic fantasy-land, nobody is transitioning on a whim.
Just had vaccines for measles, mumps, rubella, tetanus, diphtheria and polio.
On Friday itโs Covid.
My immune system is gonna have fun.
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Dear UK residents. Iโm sorry to be tedious, but Iโm going to do the trans Cassandra thing again.
The government is now moving towards regarding trans people as effective children until the age of 25.
This will be established as precedent and then used to screw over any and all young adults who canโt escape from abusive parents, especially young women.
If you want to do anything about this, you need to fight for trans people. Yes, you. Now.
We all know that isnโt going to happen to any significant extent though.
As you were.
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I think it's easy to underestimate how far most people have moved on this already. (Not that *most* makes it safe). There seem to be two groups pushing this:
1. boring folk who moan about the metric system, car parks, youth of today, ULEZ, "they're all as bad as each other", immigrants, etc.
2. Westminster-y policy type people, both left and right, professional dinner-party attenders, columnists, writers, wonks, essayists, student union types.
The (dangerous) difference now is that these groups -- our society's loudest, most boring, dull, dim, and reactionary, who only differ in social class -- are united on one subject.
The public don''t need to "come round".
People think Guardianista idealists lay out liberation's groundwork -- surveyors going ahead. But they're just apologists hanging on the coat-tails of emperors, minting excuses for comfortable lives at court. The powerful, their "clients", are moving right, so they're representing them, coining theories and writing reports.
Sweet pepper is the most disappointing vegetable (yes, I know itโs a fruit).
Itโs like someone was, โwhat if chilli, but shit?โ
@Adam probably the best use for it tbh.
Itโs marginally less dismal than carrot for dipping in hummus, so thereโs that too.
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After about the first night or so itโs amazing how you get used to sleeping on a boat. The rocking motion and creaking sounds of the lines just become the comforting background rather than the thing that keeps waking you up.
Reminds me of a holiday where the B&B was right above the platforms of Lancaster station. The noise of trains quickly became the background. So much so that when there was engineering works in the last night it was eerily quiet and hard to sleep.
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2nd MMR dose on Wednesday, Covid booster on Friday.
This week is going to be ... fun
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Trans women, 6 months on HRT: โMy breasts must have stopped growing now and Iโm only an AA cup! WOE!โ
Trans women 18 years after transition (e.g. me, now): โAw fuck, I gained a cup size last week.โ
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After watching Oppenheimer the other week, I just rewatched Dr Strangelove.
For the love of god, will one of the nuclear powers announce itโs destroying its hydrogen bombs? These things are psychotically evil. Just get rid of them. Now, before the kill us all.
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Apropos of a conversation elsewhere c, Iโve always been given the creeps by โJonathan Pieโ. Itโs always struck me as โmanufactured outrage click bait culture for left wing people who think theyโre too clever to fall for that.โ
The sceptics in the pub crowd had the same sort of attitude and it made them really really easy marks for the alt right to use as useful idiots in their culture war.
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Do Americans realise just how much it looks like theyโre trying to speedrun โimperial power collapsing into failed stateโ to the rest of the world right now?
Guys, sort your shit out FFS.
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@Ghost of Hope I think thatโs a stress timed/syllable timed distinction more than anything else (stress timed languages tend to swallow syllables to make them fit, so if you donโt know to listen for the tonic syllables itโs really hard to get the words).
Curiously Brazilian Portuguese is syllable timed, which is the biggest difference. That I wouldnโt mind. What made my ears bleed was rendering all the consonants as โtchโ.
A few years ago I was on Scarlet (the yacht of @Sarah Brown and @Zoรซ O'Connell ) and noticed mid morning that I didn't have the bloating sensation I was used to having some time after breakfast. The reason for this, of course, is that Scarlet runs on lactose-free milk. Evidently I was slightly lactose intolerant, started buying lactose-free milk at home, and everything was better.
It shouldn't have been only today that I extrapolated this experience to cover a large takeaway banana milkshake.
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Observant viewers will note the presence of hydrofoils. Each one of those is an INTERPLANETARY SEAPLANE!
Also, not a single expendable launch in this game.
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(Teeth themselves are good, no fillings ever, but that doesn't really help.)
The remaining ones seem more secure though, gums have improved a lot.
@Alan Braggins there are things they can do about the bone. I needed bone regeneration because it was 4 years since the tooth was pulled. My surgeon specialises in it, and the X-rays when he put the implant in (covered over with gum) and then 4 months later, were quite different. The first showed an implant protruding into the soft tissue between the jaw and sinus, barely held in place. The second showed the same implant utterly surrounded by brand new bone.
It might be worth talking to someone who specialises in it. We get a lot of dental tourism here in the Algarve because itโs cheaper but youโre still getting top notch EU trained doctors and surgeons (mine studied in London and spent the start of his career doing surgery for the NHS before returning home to Portugal and a decent climate).
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"The word โtransitionโ was used in the report to mean a transition between NHS services and not in reference to gender transition"
THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN IMPORTANT TO CLARIFY. Who proofread the thing??
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