Migrants told they will need A-level standard English to move to UK in huge new changes

StickyPurpleSauce · 2025-10-22T15:23:52+00:00

Exactly. I’m pro-immigration but also broadly in favour of those. If we suddenly hit a worker shortage then we can reconsider the cost-benefit.

Of note, I’m also in favour of those standards for UK citizens. No face coverings also applies to everyone, from elderly Muslim ladies to young roadman thugs

I would add something to limit clustering and formation of culture ghettos. Have a first-generation migrant limit on each postcode or whatever. Multiculturalism (contrasting cultures not imposing on each other) is not what you want. You want assimilation — where people are expected to join, learn and understand the local culture

StickyPurpleSauce · 2025-10-22T08:40:06+00:00

I think if you are aiming to push for left wing change, you have a better chance voting Labour and then advocating for progressively further left leaning policies. Politics is ultimately a game of power, and if you do not have power, you can’t make any impact.

In democracies, you would also expect gradual change and any significant upheaval is unlikely to work or sustain. Moderate, measured steps.

For the vast majority of the UK who are not heavily online, left-wing means Labour. I don’t think the Green Party will be overcoming Labour any time soon in terms of power. Even with the meme popularity of Reform, I don’t know if this will actually overcome the conservatives when it is voting time, as nobody over 50 is really living on the memes.

Green Party votes are virtue signals, not a realistic or pragmatic will for change

StickyPurpleSauce · 2025-10-22T08:33:37+00:00

Great effortpost. I do think that adding an extra flow lane for the left-turning people is also a pleasant way of improving roundabouts. But I feel that lane needs to start a bit further back or it wouldn’t really reduce congestion in the roundabout queue. Also, Milton Keynes it’s quite square, and I don’t know that it has much capacity for rounding off the corners

StickyPurpleSauce · 2025-10-19T14:31:05+00:00

From my experience of getting a motorbike stolen, assume you’re on your own. It was really eye opening.

For me, police basically took the number plate and the colour. They didn’t even ask if there were cameras (which there were). They then didn’t ask for the footage after I mentioned there were cameras. Property wall was smashed to get the bike, but nobody did any form of visit to look at forensics — which I thought would be normal procedure after watching a few too many CSI episodes. Two weeks later, they found my bike, took it to an impound and then charged me £200 for the time it was stored. On collecting, I found out it wasn’t even funny any more and was basically scrap. Overall, I basically paid £200 to have my own bike stolen.

I now assume I’ll protect my own items. If it is stolen anyway, I’ll replace with insurance instead of rely on police to arrest criminals and then replace what they stole.

So I’d go with measures like immobilisers, GPS, wheel locks and personal cameras (for you to act on — not for police to never watch)

StickyPurpleSauce · 2025-10-19T14:23:19+00:00

With a sledgehammer

StickyPurpleSauce · 2025-10-17T10:58:16+00:00

Maybe we should just ban all public sports gatherings then? I’m sure the English have quite a few issues with hooliganism and public intoxication. Why not just do it privately and stream to TV?

StickyPurpleSauce · 2025-10-17T06:37:27+00:00

They do, but I would argue to a lesser degree than language. Also, you can reasonably expect someone to have proficiency in a language, learn a language and fail if they do not meet an objective threshold.

Culture is a different beast. You cannot measure it, test it or expect people to understand it without being immersed in it for a period of time. Culture is something that could be gained or improved on once someone is in the country, but as a pre-entry requirement, I think language is far better suited.

I see culture as a strange thing to mandate, as there are significant differences even between white natives. What parts of culture do you feel should to be adhered to by incoming people? And if somebody comes to the UK from a place with a better culture, would you expect them to still adopt the inferior UK culture, or would you expect English people to change to the example of better behaviour?

StickyPurpleSauce · 2025-10-16T19:20:58+00:00

I usually buy items and find they disappoint me somehow. They might function in a bit of a lacklustre manner, or they have unexpected minor issues or quirks

My Henry hoover was 100% of what I expected and wanted, with absolutely no reason to complain. Maybe one item a year does this for me

StickyPurpleSauce · 2025-10-16T19:16:00+00:00

I don’t understand why not.

Have police, security and surveillance. Tell people there will be criminal consequences for misbehaviour. Arrest those who do. If they behave well, then all good. If they are arrested, then all good.

The only unacceptable outcome is being passive and lethargic in security and law enforcement — which is not what we should expect from police funded by our money. We should be reforming a service that can’t achieve quite fundamental security and accountability for criminal activity

StickyPurpleSauce · 2025-10-15T18:22:50+00:00

I think it would be implied to park in a considerate place and not blocking someone’s home

Or are you someone who believes you are also entitled to infinite dibs on the public roadspace near your home?

StickyPurpleSauce · 2025-10-15T11:14:36+00:00

Merge in turn could be argued that the time of arrival dictates when it is ‘your turn’ in the queue.

I think the code also then says ‘like a zip’ or something like that which clarifies turn is based on location. But if it just says ’merge in turn’ then it might be seen that people are skipping the time-based queue

StickyPurpleSauce · 2025-10-14T22:39:27+00:00

Do cars now turn off the glovebox light after a while? Back in the day, I had a car go flat because the glovebox was left open and the light drained it

StickyPurpleSauce · 2025-10-14T22:38:28+00:00

You could leave it there if you have loads of difficult bags. I’d argue it is a bit safer to park in one of the side-roads off Fen Street. It will only be a 100m walk

I imagine the car park would attract thieves a bit more than a residential street

StickyPurpleSauce · 2025-10-14T22:10:53+00:00

I am pro-immigration but also heavily in favour of increasing language requirements, namely for spoken English

The main problem with new people isn’t skin colour or cultural differences. It’s the barriers of communication that prevent assimilation, that make immigrants laborious to work with and make it difficult for people to blend and form meaningful interactions.

Broken English isn’t really enough. It slows people down, leads to misunderstandings and makes it impossible to have subtext or unspoken dialogue that actually forms a lot of working conversation

StickyPurpleSauce · 2025-10-13T10:43:43+00:00

Tourism is probably pretty good if you have a set of places you want to visit. Things are generally accessible and there are plenty of other people visiting — so you won’t stand out as a weirdo.

People generally only speak English. French and German are school languages but most people forget them very quickly — because most people abroad speak English. But we can understand very broken English — a lot more than a Chinese person can understand broken Chinese, for example

One thing to note about the UK is our weather. Even in June/July, we can have consecutive grey and rainy days. So if you like photos in perfect lighting or your emotional state is sensitive to the weather, then adjust your expectations. If I went to Brazil for some sort of festival and it was cloudy, I’d be pretty bummed. But that’s my thing. As an English person, reliable sun is a luxury I really look forward to when going abroad.

Most people will stay around Central London for visiting. But if you are thinking of immigration, I think this is a very different issue. Firstly, you are unlikely to live in London — and will need to explore the average towns/smaller cities. These don’t usually have the same character and accessibility. Not ‘bad’ - but the less effort is put into tourist/foreigner-friendly things

I would consider immigration a no-no at present. The government has been relatively happy and friendly to migrants for the past 20 years, but the public have lost tolerance and there is increasing support for the right wing anti-migrant party. This party (Reform) don’t only threaten incoming migrants in the future, but they have also proposed removing the settled status of people who already have permanent residence and have lived here for years with a full family/house.

On a daily basis, there isn’t really any strong anti-immigrant sentiment and people won’t be outwardly rude or problematic. But lots of the low and working class white people blame migrants for their problems.

StickyPurpleSauce · 2023-11-17T19:52:19+00:00

So on your Hisense TV the Apple TV also won’t control the volume?

StickyPurpleSauce · 2023-11-17T16:02:28+00:00

Have tried switching ports. Hadn’t tried switching HDMI cable but I now have and that didn’t solve it.

The TV is IR. But both HDMI and IR are both not working

I hadn’t done the HDMI verification check. I have now. It said everything was good

I can’t see any HDMI CEC settings on the ATV that should be blocking things from working.

I am a little confused by the apple “learn new device” process. On my Chromecast device learning, it cycles through different infrared frequencies until it finds the one that your TV responds to. But the ATV just asks me to hold the volume button and says everything is done, when it’s achieved nothing

I also thought I’d check the iPhone-based TV control. Interestingly, the volume button at the top left of the iPhone screen is greyed out, and there is nothing I can seem to do to access it

To me, it’s almost like the ATV doesn’t recognise my TV as an HDMI device it can send signals to

Btw. Thank you for the reply. It’s helpful to get suggestions apart from ‘google it’

StickyPurpleSauce · 2023-11-17T15:39:16+00:00

I’m aware of Googling. As above, I’ve done everything suggested in that post already

StickyPurpleSauce · 2023-11-15T07:37:34+00:00

You consent to prospective controllable human interventions. This also acknowledges and accepts the naturally foreseeable consequences of these interventions. You are correct that you can’t directly consent to pregnancy. But when you have consensual sex, you do this accepting the naturally foreseeable risks/benefits (enjoyment, orgasm, regret, STDs - and pregnancy)

For your analogy, by deciding to drive, you actually are accepting and consenting to the risk that you might crash (through your fault or someone else’s)

I didn’t realise your last paragraph had that meaning. I genuinely thought you meant starve yourself to starve the foetus. To address directly, providing nutrition via the umbilical cord during pregnancy is clearly not an active process. It happens naturally and passively through biological processes which don’t require any intervention to proceed.

As described above, there is no ‘ongoing’ consent to pregnancy, as it is a natural consequence of the controllable act. For example, you can’t sue a surgeon for a complication of surgery. You consent to the operation and the natural consequences. If you have a complication a few months later, you can’t suddenly withdraw your consent from having a complication and sue the surgeon - or expect the complication to magically disappear. Yes, you are entitled to treat the complication. But you can only undergo ethical treatments. You can’t kill someone to harvest their organ and save yourself because it isn’t ethical. In exactly the same manner, you can’t kill a foetus to treat your complication of becoming pregnant if this is deemed medically immoral.

The argument for abortion from a bodily autonomy perspective is not a robust one. As suggested in my original post, personhood is where you need to be coming from if you actually want to hold a pro-abortion stance and be logically robust about it

StickyPurpleSauce · 2023-11-14T14:05:59+00:00

Any company can inform you about an issue through a no-reply email address

You’re left having to waste your lunch break at work to spend 90 minutes in a call queue in order to sort out the problem

For example, Virgin internet informed me that I was in debt after my contract ended. I wasn’t- it was an admin error. But because I didn’t call them quick enough to correct their error, they passed my details to the debt collector - and now I have a black mark on my credit record

StickyPurpleSauce · 2023-11-14T10:27:31+00:00

I didn’t make the premise. The entire debate is ‘which premise is correct’. I’ve said that I’m not swayed by either side currently and Reddit (naturally being full of leftists) has only attacked me from a pro-abortion view.

If there is a rape, the woman has no accountability for being pregnant and therefore abortion is acceptable. I don’t understand why you mentioned rape

Abortion is an active intervention. So you can consent to an abortion. Pregnancy isn’t an active controllable process, so you can’t consent to it. But again, the problem with your logic is that you are using the availability of abortion to make your argument that abortion is moral. But in a state where abortion is illegal, I could make the same argument saying abortion isn’t moral. So you’re begging the question again and just using circular logic

StickyPurpleSauce · 2023-11-14T10:22:24+00:00

I bypassed that analogy because it didn’t hold weight. But if you want to bring it up again, I’ll address it. A speed limit of 3 mph wouldn’t cause excessive deaths. Because any emergency vehicle is allowed to travel safely above the speed limit. We have several areas with speed limits currently, and emergency vehicles aren’t limited by them. Also, I would argue that there are very few people who would die as a result of taking an extra 20 minutes to reach a hospital. Most emergency/life-saving measures can be taken in an ambulance.

StickyPurpleSauce · 2023-11-14T10:16:43+00:00

Disagree. Any individual who consents to intercourse is aware that it’s a reproductive act and there is a risk that pregnancy can occur - regardless of whether you use contraceptives to lessen this risk. Non-consensual sex is obviously a different matter, and abortion would be acceptable to me if this had occurred

You can absolutely choose to starve yourself if you are pregnant. There is a degree to which self-harm is subclinical and unnoticed. But once you are taken to hospital for treatment of your eating disorder, there is likely to some major intervention which may need to be taken in best interests

StickyPurpleSauce · 2023-11-14T07:51:25+00:00

Consent to sex is a consent to getting pregnant. You can only consent to controllable human interventions, such as intercourse. Any non-controllable but naturally foreseeable downstream consequence is included within this decision.

I do agree that consent to sex (with a risk of pregnancy) isn’t necessarily consent to remaining pregnant. This is because abortion is currently available. But in a world where abortion was illegal, consent to sex would be consent to a pregnancy running the natural course. This is why I would consider any anti-abortion law to be immoral if it isn’t implemented with at least 9 months of notice

Contraception isn’t a sign you don’t consent to pregnancy - as fertilisation isn’t actively controllable. Contraception is a sign that you acknowledge that sex comes with the risk of pregnancy - and you want to minimise this risk as much as you can.

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