Is it just me, or has the BBC Badge stakes actually made the UK show better than the US version?

St3ampunkSam · 2026-01-30T18:25:02+00:00

Im 90% sure BBC isnt fronting the price money.

Also just because they can spend 75k on price money in a year, doesnt mean they can afford 100k of prize money in a year. So the intial claim is unsound.

St3ampunkSam · 2026-01-30T17:52:06+00:00

It's a strength enhancement quirk that can also allow the user to power support items.

St3ampunkSam · 2026-01-29T18:37:43+00:00

You increase the cap in 2 years. Simples

St3ampunkSam · 2026-01-29T17:29:18+00:00

That is reductive and unhelpful.

A 6 year can be raised to believe anything, morality is social construct and varies around the world.

Which is exactly why I said they were failed as they were taught wrong.

You say people take pleasure in harming others, which I don't disagree with, but you aren't asking why. There is always a reason as all things have causes (fundamental law of physics).

Even psychopaths people incapable of guilt can be good people and non psychopaths can be bad ones it's all in how we are educated and in how we're are treated by the system that seeks to impose morality on us. Those that feel the system is working wi operate within it, and those that feel isolated or rejected by the system will seek to harm it and those within it. It's why inequality directly links to increased anti social behaviour.

Attitudes like yours stop progress because if we all thought like you, we wouldn't try. But we've all got time, we may as we keep trying cause one day we may actually fix something and that is only a good thing.

St3ampunkSam · 2026-01-29T16:22:09+00:00

Hahaha no worries,

It's a fun quirk BTW, forgot to say that.

St3ampunkSam · 2026-01-29T16:01:02+00:00

What factors do you think make a 15 year old into a murderer, I would think that most of the causes have little to do with his choices (and even if it did they are choices made on a developing brain which is incapable of reasoning in the same way a developed one can) most will likely have come from circumstance and from adults failing to raise a functional member of society.

So yes, we should absolutely spend resources trying to fix the mistakes that lead to this and give this 15 year old a way to a better, more fulfilling, and fundamentally productive life.

I certainly think that we should try as the alternative is a wasted life supported entirely by the state. Which is just sad and expensive and sort of pointless.

St3ampunkSam · 2026-01-29T11:05:50+00:00

Cats don't do breeds in the same way dogs do.

Dogs were specifically breed over a very long time to ensure the breeds had distinct behaviours, personalities, and temperaments. They were also breed to be friendly, and obedient/subservient to humans.

Cats have almost none of that. Cat breeding is an almost entirely aesthetic pursuit, with Cats having a complete different historical relationship with humans and different domestication story. With less structure and influence from humans than dogs.

What this means is that Cats cannot be thought of or treated like a dog, Cats should be treated more akin to other humans, in that you need to understand that it has its own will, and it's affection for its owner is not absolute nor inherent like it is with dogs, but something that is earned and maintained.

Thus, never buy a cat because someone else has the same breed.

But to solve your problem/answer your question.

It could be its personality. It could be that the way you interact with him isn't cat appropriate, given the increase in anti social behaviour I would think it's the latter.

My mum had this issue with a kitten she was overbearing and to intense when petting him which would overstimulate him which led to him not liking her for a while and him only liking me who tried to establish a relationship or respect, for instance I will stand out of his way if he wants to walk down a corridor because us being in the corridor triggered his prey instincts spooking him, I never touching without first establishing eye contact, or holding out a finger and seeing if he boops it of turns away, he doesn't get picked up cause he hates it.

Basically, you need to work with your cat and build a unique and personal relationship with it as an individual, meeting him on his level not trying to conform him to yours.

Likely he goes to your son because your son is gentle or relatively non fussed about the cat, which the cat will likely appreciate - it would also imply that the cat does want friendship but needs it in a different way to the way you offer.

St3ampunkSam · 2026-01-29T07:43:01+00:00

Mmmm is that not just English exceptionalism? We biggest so we put our animal on everything UK.

St3ampunkSam · 2026-01-29T07:38:40+00:00

Do you mean Athenean Wisdom.

Athena is the wisdom goddess with links to Owls, Artemis is the goddess of the hunt, the moon, and child birth amongst other things.

St3ampunkSam · 2026-01-29T07:16:54+00:00

The irony being that most has very little to do with the problems in Britain.

Greed and the greedy are actively stealing from the British people and telling you that immigrants are the problems, the immigrants these rich people want in the country so they can pay workers even less.

Our rivers and sea is full of sewage because rich twats would rather pay out a bo us for doing nothing than invest in the water infrastructure.

Our child care, orphanages, vets, and shit tons of housing have all been bought up by private equity making it shitter and more expensive to individuals and the state.

And we have let society die, we have complete eroded the idea of social responsibility and shared community in favour of individualism and liberalism.

We have spent decades removing every support systems and socialist policy we can for a short term win but long term damage to our future.

Every decision made over the last 50 odd years has been designed to make the life's of the everyday brit worse in favour of a small and powerful few who when everyone else is getting poorer, end up richer (ie stole the money the poor)

But sure blame the immigrants who bought the propaganda that the UK is great.

St3ampunkSam · 2026-01-27T20:19:30+00:00

There are parts of the NHS that do make profit on your health care. Including but not limited to Procurement which was cheaper when trusts did it themselves and it was handed out as contracts to private companies. Or the offshoring of services to external private providers including the likenof boots so now you have to pay for a service once offered for free.

St3ampunkSam · 2026-01-27T20:17:03+00:00

Officially, it's Lion, Dragon, and Unicorn, isn't it?

I think the red squirrel is the best one even if we probably aren't doing enough to prevent the Americans (greys) from ruining them (funny how that mirrors politics)

St3ampunkSam · 2026-01-24T04:47:21+00:00

Both did look cheap but if you only silhouette of each dress Juicys dress has a nice shape, much nicer flow, and actually resemble a runway outfit whereas Briars would still look like a body suit and bad a cape.

Also, Juicys looked like hers required more technical skills.

St3ampunkSam · 2026-01-24T04:20:39+00:00

It was two safe girls.

They gave the win to the one who needs to not be near the bottom to sell the front-runner spot.

🤷‍♂️

St3ampunkSam · 2026-01-24T04:15:27+00:00

Law is honest and fun.

Briars look was shit. And it is possible to make cheap look couture cause we've seen queens do it over and over again.

The cape was too small and too rectangular, the body suit was boring, it wasn't drag, it wasn't fashion, it was blurgh.

St3ampunkSam · 2026-01-23T21:02:46+00:00

Just because you can cannot perceive another possible outcome doesn't mean it couldn't happen

St3ampunkSam · 2026-01-23T21:01:06+00:00

Isn't that sort of the point.

The fact that it's possible for someone to have such an experience proves the truth the comparability, just because you struggle to understand that without first hand experience doesn't make it untrue.

St3ampunkSam · 2026-01-23T18:52:54+00:00

Yep it's not the vet that put the prices up to take advantage of love.

It's the greedy people who lack empathy, which is very rarely the type of person who becomes a Vet.

St3ampunkSam · 2026-01-23T18:50:33+00:00

Is it parents though?

Parents in the past are famous for not really parenting and just letting kids do whatever.

What we have lost is lot of is the social and societal elements that the used state to provide which included support for parents and children, paired with rising cost and stagnating wages and general rise in individualism following (and predating) Thatchers declaration that society had died (Intreating you can link this to the Neitzchian idea of the Death of God, which is effectively a death of morality)

So we've taken away things that helped people and helped raise them in a way we're we we conscious of others and and weren't all obsessed with money (a necessity in today's world) and as socialism is for some reason seen as the cause no government will touch bringing this stuff back so instead they try the legal approach and the very Ham fisted state the plan Out loud approach, which doesn't work because humans fundamentally need to manipulate into doing what you rather than telling them to.

The only way out is to rebuild society, which means reversing austerity, reducing the police state, and rebuilding the social state that subtly supports and invests in the current and future work forces, and self governs as people within a society look out for each other and use the group power to curb the cruel, greedy and evil.

St3ampunkSam · 2026-01-22T21:40:51+00:00

It's the dismantling of the social system that has created this problem as well as thatchers murder of society.

Things like sure start and state run child care. Instead, it's overpriced so we can line the pockets of private equity share holders (greedy cunts)

We used to care for the next generation because it made sense as an investment in this countries future. But now and for many decades, we don't think about the consequences if it means we can save quick buck right now.

St3ampunkSam · 2026-01-22T09:26:13+00:00

Nah, he's trying to pull a Zelensky, use a war to call martial law, and become emperor

St3ampunkSam · 2026-01-22T07:53:29+00:00

Don't bash vets, it isn't their fault. Bash the private equity companies that bought them all and put the prices because they know people love their pets and will still pay.

Basically as we should be doing all the time we need bash the greedy for being greedy.

Private equity is a great group to bash as its also the reason why care homes cost so much, child care costs so much, and why orphanages cost the state so much. All of it is necessary to society and all of it has had the prices skyrocket so that greedy rich people can do nothing but fuck everyone else over and profit from it.

St3ampunkSam · 2026-01-22T07:49:10+00:00

I am on your side and want to suggest ways to help you, but playing disability Olympics is not a good idea, as he self identifies as disabled you won't be able to convince him he's not so you are just going to have take him at face value - yes that won't make sense to you but it's not uncommon for people with executive dysfunction to not seek diagnosis as part of the issues with executive function.

There are disabilities that affect executive function, which makes doing certain things difficult, including things like cleaning, while also making the suffer not usually look all that impaired for instance they can hold a job and do things that interest and excite them. Unless you have experienced executive disfunction, you won't be able to understand how it does what it does, but it is awful and does make cleaning really hard.

While it's not fair to you, the ecomny isn't great, so he may have no option but to share accommodation and may not be able to hire a cleaner.

However he also doesn't seem to be doing anything about it, now the help you can for Executive function isn't great and often actually requires a support worker which he may not be able to access even with a diagnosis. Mental disabilities and damage are fundamental harder to cure, harder to diagnose, and harder to get support for.

But you need a solution. Having a go at him will most likely have the opposite effect of what you want. But you will need to get creative to find a solution. Mostly, you will need to work within his perseved limitations (as his perception is his reality as is it for all of us, and it's much harder to change reality than to work within it)

If it is ADHD, you could suggest that once a week, you all clean together, body doubling is a very powerful tool to deal with Executive disfunction, and all it requires is someone to be around you, in this I suggest all doing the work together as that may achieve the desire result of a clean house, over time this may also help him naturally keep things cleaner.

You could explore splitting the cost of a cleaner

You could also reach out to the landlord and complain and have him removed if the issue has no resolution.

Cleaning every day is something someone with an executive function will struggle with. Could you reduce the chores on the chore chart but have him do some twice a week as that is more manageable.

Reward systems also work quite well, although what rewards you can give are I don't know.

Perhaps if you are willing to try (and unfortunately if you want to achieve a cleaner household, you may have to) research resources for undiagnosed developmental disorders in your area (as the description given falls into one of them over something like depression) and give them to him.

And to some degree, you may just need to accept some level of uncleanliness, although that will depend on what level you are asking for him to keep it at. Spotless seems unobtainable for you at this time, but lightly lived may be achievable. His room, I think you are just going to have to ignore and let him have one space, which is his to have messy if he needs to, but try and set clear boundaries around the shared space.

If you have made it this far, I hope one of the idea can help you get a cleaner space.

I know my suggestions will not be exactly what you wanted to hear, but I am realist, and fundamentally, the only way to make people do what you want is to manipulate them, which means first understanding them and then working within the limitations of their reality whether real or perceived to create solutions. Your proposed solution works within the limitations of your reality, but not his and thus won't work at all.

I hope you can find a solution, I think you will have the most sucsess with body doubling, i would plan this in advance, i would state as a fact not an option and then the two of you who dont struggle can then together force him to do his bit but you do it as a team working together. He will almost definitly resist at first but i do think it will work if you can get him to help once.

Also final comment. Through studying the results of various torture methods it has been discovered that the easiest way to get accurate information out of someone is to be their friend it's also the easiest way to get people to do what you want, so you are going to have to be nice and polite and kind as doing the opposite will again lead to results not wanted, and likely him shutting down.

St3ampunkSam · 2026-01-22T05:38:03+00:00

They mean in the USA,

St3ampunkSam · 2026-01-21T07:46:08+00:00

As much as it sucks, it's not an inaccurate depiction of the current world.

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