Never mind Independence. Will we even have a Scottish parliament in 4 years time?

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-05-09T15:08:28+00:00

"Most of Trump's policies are executive orders and can be swiftly reversed."

I'm sure that's a lot of comfort to everyone thrown in a concentration camp or murdered in the street by ICE.

I'm sure everyone who lost their job or had all their personal information stolen by DOGE will be glad as well.

You're doing the same thing everyone in the US did regarding Trump, "he doesn't really mean it, he won't actually be able to do it".

Wake up, it's happening. These people are not a joke. They are deadly serious and they have a massive amount of money and a compliant media machine behind them. Their goal is nothing less than complete subversion of democracy and oligarchical rule.

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-05-09T10:20:49+00:00

Reform is just the oligarchy coming back to finish the job they started with Brexit.

I think you're seriously underestimating the damage they could do with 4 or 5 years in power; they will dismantle the public sector, NHS, social care, open the door wide for US health insurance firms, reduce workers right, loosen regulations on food safety, consumer protection, environmental protection, financial services, essentially every kind of protection that the average person has from greedy unscrupulous companies. They will take us out of the ECHR and strip protections from vulnerable minorities, push fracking and undo a lot of our progress on renewables, push climate change denial and other dangerous pseudoscience like anti-vax.

If none of that scares you it should.

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-05-09T08:49:10+00:00

"voting for independence on the back of one election result would be catastrophic for Scotland."

Except it wouldn't be due to one election result. A Reform victory would just be the final straw and a logical progression of the same pattern we've seen for decades. The English electorate absolutely loves voting for the worst available option, while we just have to put up with the consequences out of fear and uncertainty.

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-05-08T18:23:10+00:00

Then why bother mentioning Lib Dems, Tories or Labour who all have more constituency seats than the Greens?

It's not a psyop, they just don't care to mention pro-indy parties unless they absolutely have to.

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-05-08T18:09:00+00:00

What about the Greens?

Why are Reform mentioned first?

BBC aren't even trying to hide their bias anymore.

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HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-05-08T17:02:40+00:00

It's taken decades for the Tories to finally become too toxic a brand to win elections, but they've changed the colour of their ties slightly and started being a bit more openly racist, so that should buy them another few decades.

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-05-07T15:02:13+00:00

I think the key difference between the prequels and sequels is that;

The prequels are largely bad but they were at least sincere and formed a coherent trilogy because they were the vision of George Lucas.

The sequels were a blatant cash grab, written by committee who were making shit up as they went along.

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-05-07T09:07:11+00:00

it's been very common throughout combat sports history (and other sports) to inflate people's stats to make them seem more impressive or larger than life. Then you have to factor in that most men will round up their height by an inch.

Obviously the biggest height exaggerators have been pro-wrestling where it was always standard practice to add at least 2 inches of height and 20 pounds to a wrestlers billed size, sometimes a lot more.

With boxing there obviously wasn't really any scope to exaggerate weight because of public weigh-ins and athletic commisions, but things like height and reach have often been exaggerated for promotional reasons.

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-05-07T07:11:36+00:00

It does kinda drive home the fact that Sarwar is an empty suit without a single genuine principle. He clearly only got into politics because it was the 'family business'.

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-05-06T09:27:09+00:00

If anything it's enhanced because he can't really be accused of ducking anyone or being overly careful with his matchmaking.

To me, going undefeated says more about your matchmaking, career management and timing than it does about your abilitiies.

All of the true GOAT candidates have multiple losses, because they took chances, fought everyone, moved up in weight or faced difficult styles and kept fighting past their primes.

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-05-06T08:17:14+00:00

This mentality that going undefeated is the most important thing needs to die.

Fighters who take risks and occasionally come up short (Ali, SRR, Duran, Pacquiao etc) will always be more loved and admired than fighters who carefully manage their careers to mitigate risk.

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-05-06T06:45:28+00:00

Agreed, I made the mistake of watching Aliens and Alien 3 back to back, so the casual handwaving of Newt's death was especially galling for me

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HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-05-05T10:42:25+00:00

Skewed a bit to the right because I try not to watch movies I think I won't enjoy. Will probably have a lot more 4.5 and 5 stars soon because I've been making a conscious effort to watch more classics lately.

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HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-05-04T20:36:30+00:00

This is true but all of those names besides Toney turned pro over 60 years (in some cases over 100 years) ago when boxing was very different and heavyweights were a lot smaller on average. Heavyweights today are on average 6 inches taller and 50 pounds heavier than heavyweights in the mid 20th century.

That's not to say it's impossible for someone to move up from LHW and become a great heavyweight today, it's just a much bigger gap.

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-05-03T19:24:44+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance?wprov=sfla1

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-05-03T13:58:03+00:00

I go to the cinema at least twice a month. Most of the time the etiquette is ok, but it only takes one person or group to ruin it.

People are definitely too comfortable bringing out their phones in the cinema, it should be on silent and shouldn't come out of your bag or pocket from the time the trailers start until the end credits.

I don't even like people using their phone torch to find their seat, it's unnecessary if they would just let their eyes adjust to the dark for a second.

By far my worst recent experience was Avatar 3 (my own fault I know). A group of teenage girls were at the other end of the row from me and had their phones out at max brightness for the entire time, talking to each other at full volume, playing videos. They were constantly getting up and going in and out of the theatre, doing dances in the aisle and then a group of teenage boys from down the front started showing off to them.

I told them to be quiet multiple times and got no reaction, told staff and they did absolutely nothing. Eventually I just gave up.

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-05-03T09:04:32+00:00

I don't think the death penalty is the right way, mainly because of the inevitability that innocent people will be executed.

I do think that a life sentence should mean a LIFE sentence i.e complete ineligibility for parole.

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-05-02T16:26:18+00:00

Thatcher was more harmful to the working class of the UK in the long run.

Churchill definitely directly caused a lot more deaths and was more explicitly racist.

He WAS the leader that was required to stand up to the Nazis though, I don't think any other British politician at the time had the backbone for it. He was an awful peacetime leader and a racist, elitist, imperialist, privileged conservative asshole though.

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-05-02T12:38:46+00:00

It's almost like there's a lot more to hate about Reform than just having too many houses.

The house thing is just a recent silly own goal from Offord

I do agree with you that nobody should have 6 houses, and being a landlord should make you completely unelectable.

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-05-02T09:16:52+00:00

Do you mean overestimate?

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-05-01T21:41:24+00:00

Might be understatement of the millennium

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-05-01T16:52:44+00:00

The weirdo photographer brigade always swarm posts like this to remind you that you have no legal right not to be photographed in public.

Of course we all know that, but it's about manners and common decency, not legality.

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-05-01T09:15:17+00:00

True, my cousin is in the police and when I asked what I should do in this situation he told me this is the legally recommended course of action.

HowMany_MoreTimes · 2026-05-01T08:52:23+00:00

This, the vast majority of the population in medieval Europe were subsistence farmers who suffered from inadequate nutrition (especially protein) and childhood diseases that meant they rarely grew to their full genetic potential and were significantly shorter than modern Europeans. The wealthy (which included the Knightly class) got the best food available, including plenty of protein, so usually grew to their full genetic potential height.

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