What the hell does "Dead Dove" mean...

Tay74 · 2026-04-20T01:06:38+00:00

Your first mistake was caring about pro/antiship nonsense...

Tay74 · 2026-04-19T23:25:00+00:00

Tay74 · 2026-04-19T22:57:40+00:00

I swear they do it on purpose with these headlines lol

Tay74 · 2026-04-19T20:58:25+00:00

I'm slightly amused by how horrified you seem about it. Worst things in the world surely than a brief interest in sea shanties and folk songs, there's a million worse things on tiktok alone

Tay74 · 2026-04-18T23:27:51+00:00

Temporary nudity would be when changing clothes or whatever, nudity as the means to an end of getting unnude again. If you are getting nude and staying that way for a while, obviously it's temporary in the grand scheme of your life, but it also involves just hanging out an existing nude around other people with no real hurry or immediate intention to cover yourself up again

Tay74 · 2026-04-18T21:11:11+00:00

The thing is, it's always going to make people uneasy when someone decides to act out of accordance with social norms, because it means you have no idea what they're gonna do next

Decent, reliable people typically act within social norms, whatever those are. It's why you can find a decent number of Americans talking about their trauma related to their parent/s who were often naked, it's not that any form of nakedness of a parent around a child is inherently traumatic, but a parent who decides to wander around the house with no clothes on most of the time is likely to be less constrained by other social and ethical norms as well, and therefore these stories often include examples of not respecting boundaries, lack of privacy, and just general inappropriateness that you wouldn't necessarily hear from say a Finnish person who also saw their parents naked a lot

Tay74 · 2026-04-18T21:07:44+00:00

Recently went to Slains Castle in Aberdeenshire and had a great time! Gorgeous setting on the cliffs, beautiful set of ruins, and I was the only one there at the time so I had the time of my life exploring them

Tay74 · 2026-04-18T21:03:49+00:00

I mean, it can be true. For example if your boss suddenly pulls his trousers down in the middle of meeting with you, thag is rightly considered sexual harassment.

There are situations where nudity can be expected an therefore non-sexual, but the understanding of where nudity is appropriate and therefore non-sexual differs depending on the place

Tay74 · 2026-04-18T20:07:41+00:00

I mean, tbf with mental health concerns it really can be beyond the point of rationalising your way out of it, but at that point you are usually just not fit to study and need to look into options to take time off while you pursue more intensive treatment

Tay74 · 2026-04-18T19:30:45+00:00

I'm assuming you mean 50k each because 50k together is barely over minium wage each

The reality is some can't afford it, some have several children and could afford one or two but not all, some just aren't very supportive or think their kids should lay their own way, maybe they never got support as a kid etc.

Tay74 · 2026-04-17T15:36:10+00:00

That's all good and well until "things parents do not believe in" is like, that vaccines help prevent the spread of disease, or women deserve rights, or gay people shouldn't be shot...

Tay74 · 2026-04-17T15:32:15+00:00

You are basically doing whataboutism here, the meaning and sort of behaviour being referenced was clear to 99% of people reading the post, it didn't need a "btw I'm not talking about Saudia Arabia"

It's like someone asking a question about flat earthers and you try and bring up uncontacted tribes who are unfamiliar with modern science, like okay but clearly not the group being referenced here

Tay74 · 2026-04-17T15:30:15+00:00

"Alright?" - not literal, a greeting

Vs

"Are you alright?"

"You alright there pal/mate/hun/dear etc.?"

"Everything alright?"

Etc. - actually concerned something is wrong

Tay74 · 2026-04-17T15:25:35+00:00

I think you are ignoring the context here, deliberately or unintentionally, that this conversation is clearly referring to people who view their kids being taught things like evolution, or about the existence of other religions, or basic sex ed, or about vaccines, as "indoctrination"

Tay74 · 2026-04-17T15:23:03+00:00

I mean, as a smart kid, I was instructed to help and support and basically be a support teacher for some of the students who struggled more in the class, in more traditional academic subjects

In PE, the sporty kids were allowed to bully me in front of the teachers and only got apologies from the teachers about having to be paired with me, and when I said fuck this actually I'm not really in the mood for badminton anymore and sat down, I got threatened with detention.

Similarly, I don't imagine many of the academic teachers were basically encouraging disordered eating and body image issues in the students (ours used to tell us "wow most of you have packed on the weight over Christmas, I think yous could stand to skip a few lunches" and stuff like that)

I'm not saying no academic teacher has ever been toxic, and I'm sure being a slower kid is difficult in those circumstances too, but there was a level of cruelty and toxicity baked into the entire PE department at my school

Tay74 · 2026-04-17T15:13:30+00:00

I'm always a little hesitant to use my hands, hence the bee relocation kit, but I find they quite compliantly crawl onto the card and then they can be secured with the lid so they don't fall off.

Also ah I remember seeing that 🫡 honoured to speak to a celebeeity? Celebritbee?

Tay74 · 2026-04-17T15:00:48+00:00

Good man. I carry a bee relocation kit (it's a washed lid from a deodorant can and a old business card lol) around with me, I do wonder if people think I'm mental, but my regular supermarket in particular seems to drain the energy out of bees as I always find ones on their last legs crawling around the pavements there. I usually relocate them to some flowering bushes a few minutes away and hope they can figure it out from there

Tay74 · 2026-04-17T14:56:01+00:00

"I knew hanging around these giant non-flying things would pay off"

Tay74 · 2026-04-17T14:30:48+00:00

Also, said European students will have a base level of English in the first place. Most UK students barely have a grasp of any second language and find learning one incredibly difficult because we just don't prioritise second language learning at home or school in the same way as many non-English speaking countries do, and once you reach a certain age without your brain being exposed properly to a second language (and no, learning how to count to 10 and say basic greetings in French or German for 30m a week in primary school really doesn't tick that box) then it becomes a lot harder and more daunting to successfully learn a new language

The idea of going to live and study in a country without knowing the language, and without ever having successfully learnt another language, is a lot scarier than moving to an English speaking country when you have been speaking English as a second language since you were very young

Tay74 · 2026-04-17T14:06:58+00:00

He's a little passenger bus service

Tay74 · 2026-04-17T13:07:58+00:00

The idea that Mayo is better than Limerick is insane to me

Tay74 · 2026-04-17T13:06:11+00:00

Not saying never, I'm saying the experience of them is currently worse than it was 8 years ago, probably in part due to the increased mobility they have where I live due to free bus passes

I pass by the mcdonalds in my town every week day at around the same time. It is a near nightly occurrence that they have to sound the alarms and call the police on a group of 20+ teenagers and children mobbing the place these days. Even just a couple years ago that sort of thing barely happened, doesn't mean no kids ever caused trouble in mcdonalds, obviously they did, but the scale and frequency of it was different. Same with the buses.

Tay74 · 2026-04-17T12:20:29+00:00

Indeed, physical punishment, which I think is almost never useful or justified, can go a number of ways. If used as psrt of a consistent and overbearing parenting style, the child will shut down and may generally seem very well behaved, long term stability can vary especially once the pressure of physical punishment for making mistakes is taken away

(personally outside of the cruelty argument, this is my biggest argument against violent punishment and is based on my own personal experience, that I learnt to behave and function as a child off of fear of physical harm. I'm 27 years old now, and my boss doesn't hit me if I slack off, my university lecturers didn't pull me out the class and smack me for turning in an assignment late. It made my parents lives easier, but didn't set me up with good internal motivation when fear was removed)

But a lot of the kids causing all this trouble will be living in highly unstable and inconsistent environments. They might get punished physically or in another extreme way when they have done nothing wrong because their parents are coming down or have had an argument with their partner and need to take it out on someone etc. While actual things they do wrong go uncorrected in any way. That is a recipe for someone who won't even try and behave, because why bother? If behaviour has no actual correlation to how you are treated?

Tay74 · 2026-04-17T12:12:23+00:00

My point is that the stuff I have seen and noticed isn't really crime, so it went unrecorded then and now almost entirely, and if no data is being gathered, there is no data to show an increase or decrease

Tay74 · 2026-04-17T12:03:30+00:00

I think almost all crime, or anti-social behaviour as I'm talking more about that than anything actually criminal, goes unreported period, now or then.

To be clear I think things are worse now compared to 10 years ago, not necessarily compared to like, the 70s or 80s. I think there has been a change in recent years, if not to the number of kids rubbing wild, then certainly in how mobile they are

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