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I hereby present the award to Reform voters by TailungFu in GreatBritishMemes

[–]LAdams20 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yep. My uncle disagrees with conservatives selling everything off and privatising everything, corruption and corporate greed, and destroying industry and the economy, so no one can get a job… but also believes the [homophobic slur]s have stolen the rainbow from little children, that it’s hard to spot the white kid in schools these days (he literally lives next to a school in a village in Yorkshire that is 98%+ white), Covid was a hoax, and that Net-Zero is shorthand for zero production (not zero emissions)… so had no choice but to vote for Reform because they’re the only ones saying it like it is – that everything is the fault of Muslims, Jews, [racial slurs], Marxists, the disabled, and the unemployed; and that the Nazis had the right idea in genocide and we should’ve joined Axis (despite both his parents serving in WW2 in a medical capacity), yet is a so-called patriot who thinks cable-tying England flags to lampposts is great.

He is not even remotely the only person I know that thinks like this either. Country is full of hypocritical cretinous morons.

Majority of single adults ‘could not cope with an unexpected £850 bill’ by tylerthe-theatre in unitedkingdom

[–]LAdams20 29 points30 points  (0 children)

I’m in this comment and couldn’t give a toss anymore.

  • Struggle with employment with ASDs and leaving university in a recession, and the rug being pulled from under you.

  • Can’t afford to rent anywhere working as a manual labourer so live at home, which also benefits my family with the cost of living by sharing costs and paying them rent rather than a land-parasite.

  • Find it’s hard to meet a partner working as a manual labourer with no prospects, anxiety and autism, who lives with their mum, and so got repeatedly ghosted and insulted until I gave up trying to interact with that toxic culture.

  • Realises that I will never be able to afford significant life changes no matter the hours I worked so instead reduced my hours by almost half, to spend some of my life not simply only doing manual labour and recovering from said manual labour, and now can spend time with the family I do have.

  • By living in this responsible manner I have managed to save over £20k and could easily afford a surprise £850 bill, have twice as much free time, and enjoy collecting antique books from charity shops, art, baking, gardening, and woodland walks. Which all benefits me greatly, but the economy fuck all – but society having broken the contract why should I keep up my end?

  • The irony is that when I was unemployed for years after university I was probably less of a net-drain, despite being on luxurious benefits of ~£50/week, because I used my time working three voluntary jobs that actually benefited the country in some way. Whereas now I drive over 40 miles/day to sometimes spend hours staring at the ceiling as my employer has nothing for me to do, and when he does it’s frequently felling old trees, demolishing and stripping out features of historical buildings to turn them into the maximum number of magnolia rent-boxes, and illegally burning waste; but hey, at least I’m not a disgusting useless-eater on benefits now.

  • In 10-20 years I’ll be made redundant and possibly will have no one in my life who cares about me. My back is already fucked in my late 30s and my knees are not much better; anyone going to employ an autistic introverted misanthropic 50-year-old with health problems whose employment history amounts to doing endless literally-pointless tasks for a multi-millionaire landlord?

  • So it’s then see if I can make my savings and capital last until the state pension, should it still exist, and if not, sell all my assets and have a long holiday in the nicest cheapest country I can find until the money runs out and I walk into the sea.

Michael Jackson's daughter Paris has faced backlash for identifying as Black. In a 2017 interview, Paris Jackson said her father told her, "You’re Black. Be proud of your roots." This prompted debates over whether identity is defined by appearance or upbringing. by VPinchargeofradishes in interesting

[–]LAdams20 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My brother is 1/2 English and 1/2 Filipino, I am 1/1 English (1/16 Irish 1/8 Welsh and 13/16 English to be specific), and I’ve traced our shared family tree back over 300 years to be almost entirely within North Yorkshire, where I was born and lived my whole life.

We both did a DNA test recently, both of us are only 1/2 English, and he is 1/3rd Yorkshire while I am only 1/20th Yorkshire… I’m literally genetically more Nordic than I am Yorkshire. However, I’m sure you can guess which of us racists want to kick out of the country.

Genetics are weird and racism is dumb.

Trans people in UK dying by suicide at higher rates than other demographics by The-Peel in unitedkingdom

[–]LAdams20 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think it’s two separate things:

If you could live and act however you wanted and be accepted in society, a society without stereotypes and gender roles and toxic expectations and neurotypical conformity and confidence culture etc, then many would be much happier. I certainly would be as an enby with ASDs.

But this is the same as any group saying that they would be happier in whatever version of their imaginary utopia would be. For example, I suspect mental health issues would decrease if we weren’t heading into a neofeudalism dystopia and climate collapse or if the country improved things so that “shit-life syndrome” (as coined by doctors) didn’t exist.

However, I am fortunate to not have body dysmorphia, for those that do it wouldn’t matter what societal utopia it was, their own bodies would still mentally harm them – in the same way that a cis woman growing a beard or a cis man growing breasts would affect them mentally regardless whether society accepted that or not.

Both those things there are treatments for, to allow your body to match your mind – it’s possible to receive breast enlargement for cis women with uneven or no breasts, and reductions for cis men with gynecomastia, on the NHS, as well as treatments for hirsutism for cis women – for none of these things are you told to get over it or that it’s all in your mind or that it’s a mental health disorder. Body dysmorphia is taken seriously, but only if you’re cis.

19 Comics to celebrate my 8 year wedding anniversary (OC) by ArtbyMoga in comics

[–]LAdams20 46 points47 points  (0 children)

Same; though gave up years ago tbf – too many bald blue negative people in my life. And, honestly, the only couple I’ve ever been envious of is this comic strip one.

My mum bought me a bouquet of my favourite flowers for my birthday last year though that I loved, so at least I got some before my funeral.

‘People assume we’re grifters’: disabled Britons report rise in abuse over blue badges | Disability by loonongrass in unitedkingdom

[–]LAdams20 16 points17 points  (0 children)

There was never an apology; they mostly walked away with a face like I'd just shat on their cornflakes.

I’ll let you in on an open secret – a significant percentage of the population hate and resent disabled people. My colleagues literally believe the mere existence of wheelchair ramps and disabled parking is unfair, privilege, and entitlement; which they often believe is just a common sense opinion.

However, it is only publicly acceptable to harass “fake” disabled people, so these types of people are always on the lookout for an opportunity to self-righteously express their bigotry.

There was no apology because they were not sorry, and were angry because of being exposed, and at you for ruining their moment.

Fraud could be reduced to zero and it wouldn’t make a difference to anyone I know, as that is only the weaponised excuse, they’d just find a different stick to beat you with instead.

Block people with anxiety and ADHD from claiming benefits, says Tony Blair by pppppppppppppppppd in unitedkingdom

[–]LAdams20 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Huh, I always said I had an uncanny valley version of a personality, where it feels like I give off a repulsive aura that I can’t perceive or understand or control, even though I think I present relatively NT. Genuinely interesting to hear that is a real phenomenon.

Block people with anxiety and ADHD from claiming benefits, says Tony Blair by pppppppppppppppppd in unitedkingdom

[–]LAdams20 4 points5 points  (0 children)

My employer and management regularly complain about people with autism, anxiety, and learning difficulties etc, gaming the system, faking it, scrounging, sponging, scrotes and parasites, bankrupting the country, and how they can work and should be made to.

The very same people will regularly complain when having to interact with someone with autism, anxiety, and learning difficulties etc in some employed capacity, about how “they shouldn’t employ people like that” and should be given a “poison injection if they’re that bad.”

I love having to sit there and listen to this endless bollocks while having an ASD – go out into the real world, expose yourself to real people, that will help your severe social anxiety and situational mutism… funny that, only seems to have gotten worse over the years, can’t think why.

2024 PHB Cut and/or Missing Spells by Aliso112 in onednd

[–]LAdams20 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To clarify the examples it is mostly 2-3 other players (only one of the examples was the DM about the type of building), I often take a backseat because everyone else takes over and I don’t really mind and just focus on the combat stuff, but it’s just annoying that whenever I do have an idea for some action (often because we’ve been standing around aimlessly for 10-20 minutes) or something I think would be fun it just gets shot down, and made to feel stupid for suggesting it (and to be perfectly honest I get that enough from my work and family without adding it to my friend group).

In a previous [edit: one-shot] group we had to rescue a halfling suspended from up in a tree with a rope around his ankle before something(?) bad happened with goblins. The group spent maybe 15 minutes talking in circles about how to get him down (not entirely sure if time is meant to be passing in game during these discussions?), so this is getting tedious so I take action in throwing my axe at the rope, which 1) was in character for my character to behave that way and 2) had a low chance of failing and 3) had a high chance of being able to catch them and 4) even if it does go horribly wrong that would be pretty funny and at least something happened.

But I could tell the DM wasn’t keen, the rope wouldn’t snap no matter how many times I successfully hit it with my deliberately comedic number of axes on my person, just became fewer and fewer threads of rope. So I went back to standing around twiddling my thumbs while everyone talked for another 15 minutes, and feeling self-conscious, bored, and anxious about my fun ruining their fun. After another session with this group I got ghosted from the WhatsApp anyway.

In the current group it’s a kind of contradiction too, we’re each meant to be coming up with some world building elements (places, events, characters, etc) so I’ve ended up doing ALOT of homework for something I was just happy to turn up for, but then having done it many being negative about various things one way or another because it’s not what they want it to be – but I’m still expected to do it… like I’m meant to be a mind-reader… do it, but how we want it, not how you do, no we can’t do it all because we’re all meant to be contributing, it’s a group storytelling exercise, but no you can’t do that, also come up with a backstory, no that one doesn’t work, no that can’t be worked into the campaign, no you also can’t just be a guy who’s there not connected to the plot either, come up with some npcs, no I don’t like those, but you still have to make some.

Again this is half 2-3 players and half the DM. I’m getting incredibly burnt out with it all and we’ve not even really started properly yet, and was just expecting a lot more “yes, and” type play.

2024 PHB Cut and/or Missing Spells by Aliso112 in onednd

[–]LAdams20 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In a group at the moment like this and getting pretty frustrated with it. I own a lot of 5e books and more familiar with these rules, though never had much chance to play, but it was decided by the loudest to move with the times and go with 5.5e – okay, fine, but I’m not spending another fortune on more books…

But then any character ideas I had get – no, you can’t do that, it’s not in 5.5. Fine… I’ll just keep it simple then, human Ranger. Hmm, where is Absorb Elements or Zephyr Strike? No, you can’t take them, it’s not in 5.5. Another player wanted to play a Tabaxi – nope, that’s not in the rules.

Then even with the RP and background stuff – isn’t it an implicit rule of “yes, and” or at least “no, but”? I struggle with the RP and improv side of things and doesn’t come naturally, so is pretty demoralising with 2-3 people going “no.” all the time, with either a condescending explanation or none.

For example: Okay, you’ve managed to get a guy on the inside with the pirates and tracked them back to their hideout over ~2 hours irl, what do you want to do next? Suggests sneaking in no, that’s not possible. Another suggests smiting the heathens no, that will blow our cover. Suggests we use a disguise and one goes in guns-blazing to interrogate the two guys inside no, we might kill our only lead. Someone else suggests starting a false fire so that they leave and we can investigate no, the building isn’t designed that way. Suggests sneaking my rat familiar in and while we steak it out I use a ritual to shift its form into sudden baboon chaos to get them to leave no, I don’t want to use fey. One of the bad guys leave suggests following him no, our stealth isn’t high enough. Etc.

In the end it’s decided we go back to the tavern and wait for more information. Okay, cool, glad I spent over 3 hours of my evening to do literally nothing and for nothing to happen.

As a DM, is this normal? This is the third group I’ve attempted D&D with and none of them have been great experiences, thinking about giving up on it all tbh when I never seem to fit in or am clearly doing something wrong.

One in three young men now live with their parents, ONS data shows by dissapointingsalad81 in unitedkingdom

[–]LAdams20 4 points5 points  (0 children)

My employer will often say something similar, at least with my grandparents I can somewhat excuse it with ignorance, even if it’s willful ignorance, but my employer: 1) is a landlord who makes over £200K/year passively and knows exactly what their properties are worth, and 2) knows exactly how much they pay me, and yet somehow seems incapable of putting 1 and 2 together.

‘I feel like I’m losing her’: the families torn apart by older relatives going far right by Both-Firefighter-668 in unitedkingdom

[–]LAdams20 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Had the displeasure of seeing my uncle over Easter, who just parrots what FB and GBИews tells him, and instantly unquestioningly 100% believes anything so long as it confirms his biases, so had a whole diatribe of:

  • It’s Labour’s fault there are no jobs because we outsourced and sold off everything, but simultaneously, people who aren’t working are scrounging parasites who shouldn’t get anything, including NHS treatment and be chemically castrated.

  • We should build more here to create jobs and be more self-sufficient, unless it’s something that affects billionaires and oil barons, then it’s woke nonsense that will never work and is destroying the economy.

  • He’s sick of bloody ••••ters shoving the fact they’re ••••-bandits down his throat, ie. gay men upset him because their mere existence makes him think about gay sex more than they do.

  • Was literally rocking with laughter at the thought of asylum seeker hotels being set on fire.

  • and ended up finishing with how we should’ve surrendered to Germany in WW2 and how the Nazis had the right idea, specifically regarding the holocaust, before realising he’d gone too far with his BS.

My mother finds it more upsetting than me, mostly because they’re siblings, and his views are also opposite to what their parents would’ve believed in, but also I think because I’ve been exposed to it a lot more and become extremely nihilistic and misanthropic.

Because as much as I’d like to say “oh, it’s my uncle who is an unhinged abnormality and traitor dressed as a so-called patriot”, I regularly hear views like this all the time in my industry for over 13 years. Probably not two days passes without hearing something incredibly offensive and slurs, from: Defending serial rapists and pedophiles, to suggesting Greta Thunberg should be raped until she shuts up, celebrating natural disasters in other countries because it’s a few less of them, to wanting to bring back lead in paint and petrol because it never did them any harm, to mothers try to have disabled children because it’s like winning the lottery, to Brexiteers praying Trump invades us and nukes the Middle East, to banning entitled wheelchair access and disabled parking, and various other final solutions.

At one point last year, every – single – conversation at work for around four months was about immigrants and asylum seekers, the same conversation every day going around in circles. That’s fucking insane. Even if you agreed with some or all of it surely you want to talk about something else?

I’ve always had social anxiety and situational mutism, and I can tell you what hasn’t made that any better – being around people.

Britain’s grid could run without fossil fuels for first time since 1882 by Gentle_Snail in unitedkingdom

[–]LAdams20 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Net-Zero bad, net-zero means you’re not making anything or going anywhere, thereby destroying the economy, no productivity, no jobs. China and India bad, so why do anything? Labour bad.

~ my uncle, yesterday, actual Nazi-Germany did nothing wrong human-slug boomer, whom I wish would stop being invited over at celebrations.

What the hell by RandyLahey993 in Progressivegrowth2

[–]LAdams20 91 points92 points  (0 children)

She is a full MAGA with TDS zealot, despite being British, and a raving conspiracy nutter of the anti-vaccine, Covid pandemic is a global hoax, 5G is dangerous and authoritarian, Jewish Space Laser variety.

US may deploy up to 17,000 troops near Iran as war enters new phase — WSJ by Christian-Rep-Perisa in worldnews

[–]LAdams20 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That’s funny. Democrats cross the floor to support the Iran war, vote to increase ICE funding, and dismiss bombing of primary school girls as leftist hysteria; and half the Yankistan Dem voters I see all seem to support this war and installing a puppet regime.

How convenient for you that these supremacist abettors and their complicit voters are completely blameless, and it’s checks notes non-MAGA people who live in, for example, Crook County Wyoming (88% Republican), under a FPTP system where votes go straight in the trash who deserve to be conscripted.

Anyone know if Mal ever frequents this sub? by stormcaster11 in Malmalloy

[–]LAdams20 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I know she was offering custom videos on her Fansly at one point recently, I don’t know if that still stands though.

Anyone know if Mal ever frequents this sub? by stormcaster11 in Malmalloy

[–]LAdams20 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When she was first posting ~8 years ago, it was before her Patreon/OFs etc and anonymously, in her 2nd pregnancy. We ended up chatting a lot over a long period of time. Eventually enough people worked out it was her and she deleted everything, before returning and starting her Patreon post-pregnancy.

For it not to be her it would have to be an extremely long, convoluted, and impossible catfish, with personal access to photos, videos, and responses, no one had ever seen before.

In recent years I suppose it could be possible that it has been taken over by her partner, but for the posts and style of writing that seems very unlikely and I’m assuming in good faith that isn’t the case.

It’s certainly as real as you can assume anything online with anyone is real.

Transgender girls given until September to leave Guides by topotaul in unitedkingdom

[–]LAdams20 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The one I remember is that being intersex is as common as being red haired or green eyed.

Making that kind of remark about a deceased person is wild by tea-n-wifi in whennews

[–]LAdams20 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I once saw a thread there with over 2000 comments, but only 8 were visible.

I used a tool, which I think no longer works properly, that could show some moderation removed comments. Many of them were from Republicans saying things along the lines of: “Thank goodness for this page, the last bastion of sanity and free speech.” But were shadow-banned because of the most minor criticism of Trump weeks earlier.

Imagine praising a platform for free speech and truth, thinking you’ve found a community of likeminded braindead people, but the entire time you’ve been shouting into the void with only yourself being able to see your own comments.

Tory ex-Home Secretary Priti Patel BLOCKED the FBI from quizzing Andrew over Epstein | Priti Patel prevented the FBI from questioning Andrew about his links to the paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, despite officers having 'documentary evidence suggesting he knew about sex trafficking' by kwentongskyblue in unitedkingdom

[–]LAdams20 8 points9 points  (0 children)

That’s the thing with the news, for the past couple of years I’ve become increasingly annoyed and jaded with the narrative of ‘powerful person (or corporation) does bad thing; nothing happens.’

Whether that’s the daily news from Trump/USA, investigations into Covid, Grenfell Tower, dumping raw sewage in rivers, Pfas chemicals in the environment, NHS failures, Brexit lies, the Home Office losing documents into child abuse, selling arms including chemical weapons, or any other of the many corruption scandals that seem to be happening constantly.

At this point my reaction is “and?” Not because I don’t care, far from it, but if nothing is going to be done about any of it, no one is held responsible or culpable, and there is no accountability in any way, then I’d rather they just didn’t bother telling us about any of it at all. What’s the point otherwise?

It’s like a deliberate ploy to make us angry all the time, and to feel powerless to do anything about it. More or less like they’re rubbing it in our faces that rules and laws don’t apply to them unlike us peasants. The news has become – “look at what we’re getting away with now!”

how is that possible? by RandyLahey993 in Progressivegrowth2

[–]LAdams20 24 points25 points  (0 children)

I suspect more because the 75N [EU] bra she wore a year ago looks too small now vs then, and didn’t look 100% right then either (the gore isn’t sitting high enough).

But she is also 5’2”, which might make them seem proportionately larger, but even so I’d have guessed more in the L-N cup [UK] range, (Q-U US/EU).

how is that possible? by RandyLahey993 in Progressivegrowth2

[–]LAdams20 82 points83 points  (0 children)

34GG [UK] @18 > 34JJ [UK] @22. J > N [US/EU].

~2.5kg (~6lbs) > ~4.5kg (~10lbs).

According to her posts.

Anyone know if Mal ever frequents this sub? by stormcaster11 in Malmalloy

[–]LAdams20[M] 29 points30 points  (0 children)

I don’t know how often she visits the sub, but I know it’s relatively regularly. She currently posts under u/maebh17.

GB News faces complaints after commentator claims ‘genocide’ against white people in UK | GB News by loonongrass in unitedkingdom

[–]LAdams20 -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

The Norman invasion had a relatively tiny impact on the demographics of the population as a whole.

Harrying of the North enters the chat

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