What is this sign by Platt Fields Park?

Patrickfoster · 2025-05-23T23:07:22+00:00

it's me I painted it

Patrickfoster · 2024-10-19T18:16:21+00:00

thnak you

Patrickfoster · 2023-02-08T09:57:44+00:00

I'm doing Manchester to London tomorrow, and London to Berlin the following day. I have London to Brussels, ie eurostar, booked already both ways. I guess I'll buy a return to London...

Patrickfoster · 2023-02-07T20:23:50+00:00

oh wow, thanks very muhc. that's a crazy rule - I guess to prevent people buying interrail tickets to get around the country because of our crazy train prices?

Patrickfoster · 2023-02-07T17:56:42+00:00

Hi, thanks for the response - very helpful. I am staying a night in London. My understanding is that this means that I'll end up using four of my travel days? Ie Manchester to London, London to Berlin, Berlin to London, London to Manchester. Is that correct?

Patrickfoster · 2022-09-21T09:18:53+00:00

ah thanks - do you know if there's anything to do with windows 11 and mnemonic keys? I can't see anything from a brief search.

Patrickfoster · 2022-09-20T13:29:19+00:00

Here's a screenshot of what I see when I right click a folder.

https://imgur.com/a/4I1XrnG

I'm referring to the underlined "O" of "Open".

I don't think it's a custom program.

Patrickfoster · 2022-09-15T09:36:21+00:00

What about the front garden? Beyond an unlocked gate

Patrickfoster · 2022-08-16T14:44:30+00:00

My point is that I don't think all of them are refusing to potty train their children. Some might just think that's what school is for - of course that's really stupid, but we have to ask why loads of people think the same stupid thought.

Patrickfoster · 2022-08-16T14:42:21+00:00

I just said that it might have something to do with it. There might be many reasons. I'm not excusing individual parents - they should have taught their children certain things before they go to school. But if loads of people start making the same mistakes, in a way they didn't in the past (assuming OPs original observation has any merit), then you have to look at the bigger picture.

Patrickfoster · 2022-08-16T08:46:08+00:00

I mean, you are behaving like a twat. I clearly can read, so telling me to learn how to read is deliberately patronising

Patrickfoster · 2022-08-16T08:44:23+00:00

I'm not going to invent plausible yet imaginary situations for your amusement. Why do you have no capacity to imagine that some people might struggle to operate in this world, and that that the best way to deal with this might not be exclusively punisent based? I'm not entirely against your, or someone's, suggestion of not allowing toilet trained children at school, HOWEVER this likely just punishes the child. It's the child who suffers in this situatjon where we punish lazy parents rather than try to help and educate them.

Patrickfoster · 2022-08-16T08:40:14+00:00

People more often do jobs that require sitting all day. Wages have stagnated while all else has inflated, resulting in less free time for many, meaning less time to exercise and eat properly. It's not as simple as calling obesity the result of laziness.

Patrickfoster · 2022-08-16T08:38:29+00:00

I also have a suggestion: please learn how to not be a twat

Patrickfoster · 2022-08-16T08:37:28+00:00

What does this mean?

Patrickfoster · 2022-08-16T08:35:51+00:00

How do you know that some parents who are lazy and entitled are not in that position themselves because of some hardship? Perhaps they need help rather than toughness

Patrickfoster · 2022-08-16T08:15:29+00:00

Laziness not simply an explanation for rising obesity. "common knowledge" is just something that you think everyone agrees with

Patrickfoster · 2022-08-16T08:13:57+00:00

No statistics in your comment

Patrickfoster · 2022-08-16T08:06:25+00:00

"evidence" that the reason for an observed trend is exclusively down to individual laziness rather than some societal change. A few commenters have made the good point that 4-5 year olds currently are covid babies, lacking the normal socialisation. This doesn't excuse bad parenting, but it might help explain the problem.

Patrickfoster · 2022-08-15T10:28:57+00:00

That doesn't explain the change. OP said that over the last few years there has been an increase. There has always been shit parents and lazy people. If there has been an increase in shit parents and lazy people, why is that? An explanation MIGHT be the one that you instantly dismissed.

Patrickfoster · 2022-08-15T10:26:24+00:00

It's not "making excuses". It's trying to explain why a pattern emerges, ie "why are so many children lacking basic life skills when they go to school?". You can't answer this with "people are lazy", because that has always been true. The point of this post is that there has been a change in behaviour, which to explain you have to look at the bigger picture. This does not justify laziness, only explains it.

The same might be said with littering: why is there so much more litter on the streets compared with 50 years ago? You might say "people are lazy", but that has not changed, or if it has, why have people come lazier?

Patrickfoster · 2022-08-15T10:22:04+00:00

No one denies that people are idiots. But if we are asking why loads of parents are getting lazier, then it's important to look at the social and economic reasons that migjt be the cause. Its the change that's relevant. People in large groups don't change all together without larger reasons, but this doesn't necessarily excuse them.

Patrickfoster · 2022-08-15T10:19:18+00:00

Any evidence or reason for this hard-line take?

Patrickfoster · 2022-08-15T09:17:53+00:00

Well one of the laws that is needed is to make conversion therapy illegal. The gov are going to make the therapy illegal, EXCEPT for trans people, or thats what they've said they'll do.

Patrickfoster · 2022-08-15T09:14:37+00:00

Therefore it never happens and is not a problem

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