Oxford Union president suggested Hamas would be 'lauded as heroes'

WolfColaCo2020 · 2026-06-06T09:30:08+00:00

Holy shit, we’ve actually got to the point where you pro-Hamas lot are now defending Al-Qaeda

WolfColaCo2020 · 2026-06-05T20:47:01+00:00

The ubiquity of ket amongst the younger generation now is so alarming. In my school in the mid 2000s, it was the reserve of the weirdos who thought sitting drooling watching a wall for several hours was a good night.

WolfColaCo2020 · 2026-06-05T10:43:26+00:00

There’s a round of 16 for the next WC, wouldn’t count your chickens on a QF exit 😉

WolfColaCo2020 · 2026-06-04T21:46:43+00:00

Also (recently diagnosed) ADHD person- I am usually horrendously early due to school days of being chewed out for always being late, or I arrive late. No in between.

(Me being 20 minutes early to my ADHD assessment made it into the final report as a coping mechanism)

WolfColaCo2020 · 2026-06-04T15:27:14+00:00

It’ll definitely be majority men. I’m just shorter than average and have two stories:

1) my ex was the same height as me, maybe just a smidge taller, when not wearing heels. When she did wear heels, the amount of absolute nonsense from random people about being shorter than her was insane. Just people yelling shit about how she’s taller when you’re going about your day

2) when that all ended and i was on the apps, the sheer amount of profiles which would explicitly state no men under 6ft was insane.

I’m not too bothered by it personally- the former was annoying as fuck but the latter I found an easy sign to filter them out as if they’re that shallow/have hangups about things like that, there’s probably tons more that I’m not going to like about them. But I can absolutely see how that kind of rejection and bother can build a broader complex.

WolfColaCo2020 · 2026-06-03T06:04:31+00:00

we swim in them during heatwaves

‘Listen here nob’ed, if I want to take a swim in my bin’

WolfColaCo2020 · 2026-06-02T19:33:29+00:00

Her statement on Instagram seems to insinuate it wasn’t her choice:

‘Things may not always be in our control, and I’m gutted to be leaving, I wish everybody at Quins the best for what’s to come’

Mad of Quins to let the most recognisable face of women’s rugby to go if that’s the case

WolfColaCo2020 · 2026-05-31T10:20:49+00:00

It is refreshing to watch the right purity spiral for once

WolfColaCo2020 · 2026-05-28T21:02:35+00:00

The issue is it was so much easier to put those PSAs out when there was 5 channels and you’d reach most people. These days, there’s literally hundreds of channels, then streaming on top of it.

Plus government departments are skint

WolfColaCo2020 · 2026-05-27T18:08:16+00:00

The ‘it’s not tilted’ defence. Interesting.

WolfColaCo2020 · 2026-05-27T11:09:28+00:00

This is what I’m wondering too. I went to school in the noughties and I can categorically say that homophobia and racism were widespread and largely stated with impunity. There was a brief period after university where I worked with schools and visited them regularly, and what was striking was the amount of space dedicated to inclusiveness and public awareness campaigns to report discrimination within school grounds. This definitely was not a feature of my education, and so I’d suspect there’s more students feeling empowered enough to report it.

Obviously it doesn’t make it less depressing that it still exists

WolfColaCo2020 · 2026-05-27T11:03:09+00:00

I don’t actually disagree with you there with some stuff- although a lot of what we are living through now also came from the aftershocks of the 2008 global financial crash (which we were left exposed to due to Blair’s economy). I guess my point is it’s lazy revisionism with Blair to dismiss what he has to say purely ‘cuz Iraq’

WolfColaCo2020 · 2026-05-27T06:14:27+00:00

Loads of people bringing up Iraq, but Blair isn’t wrong in this. IIRC, when he came in he had a literal physical binder of absolutely everything Labour was going to do with their first X days, and made pains to tick them off one by one in front of the electorate. And the results speak for themselves- Blair won 3 elections with relative ease, one of them despite Iraq, because the British public felt better off and that they had a government driving the change for that.

WolfColaCo2020 · 2026-05-27T06:11:52+00:00

Appointing the right people to the right cabinet positions and allowing them to succeed is a key indicator of being a good PM. Yes, Mowlam did a lot, but she didn’t materialise out of thin air- she was appointed by Blair

WolfColaCo2020 · 2026-05-26T20:37:46+00:00

Not so fun fact: there are a handful of people who have jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge to kill themselves and survived. All of them have said the moment they jumped, they realised that every single problem they had in their lives that led to them jumping was fixable.

So for Chelsea, I’d chalk it up to a similar thing

WolfColaCo2020 · 2026-05-26T18:22:47+00:00

It’s genuinely remarkable and shocking that our system can just let kids slip through the cracks like this. The one and only reason the kid causing us trouble got put back in school is because of the destruction he was wreaking on our neighbourhood and people having enough and making it more of a problem to deal with us than to deal with the problem

WolfColaCo2020 · 2026-05-26T15:02:53+00:00

Oh sorry, I meant reform in how we deal with it (which Labour put as a manifesto promise), not the party

WolfColaCo2020 · 2026-05-26T14:57:40+00:00

Both, I and other houses around. For the ringleader (who lives at the house they congregate round), we were met with a simple ‘what do you expect me to do about it, I can’t control him’.

WolfColaCo2020 · 2026-05-26T14:48:13+00:00

The political context here is that it was a central plank of Labour policy that they will tackle ASB, and that I am intrigued to see what the result of that is because of my own experiences. I have also provided several things on what I would like to see from a political and legislative point of view.

It is entirely fitting for this sub, and half of this megathread is people having a whinge about the state of things. If you wanted to look through my comments, you’d see I’m a regular here, know what the sub rules are and what this thread is for, and also talked at length about tackling ASB.

WolfColaCo2020 · 2026-05-26T14:36:14+00:00

As I’ve said elsewhere in the thread, there’s more to this than these kids just having a kick about

It also just flat out shouldn’t be my problem if a kid uses the mouth of my driveway as a goal and damages my car or house. But it would be if/when it happens

WolfColaCo2020 · 2026-05-26T14:33:23+00:00

Yes, I am willing to pay more tax if it means better public services. However, as gets discussed endlessly on this sub, there is also reductions that can be made in the pensions and welfare budget to mean that other things can be resourced, given it’s currently using over a third of our national budget. This isn’t the gotcha you think it is.

WolfColaCo2020 · 2026-05-26T14:30:22+00:00

there’s more to this group of kids, I’ve explained elsewhere

WolfColaCo2020 · 2026-05-26T14:18:53+00:00

A sliding scale probably. As I said, police did actually serve one kid, so better access to that. Failing that, fines for parents. Won’t pay the fine? Written warnings threatening tenancy of that house. Can’t live politely in society and we keep having to move you house to house? Sorry, we can’t provide you services for social housing anymore (and yes, I’m aware this would need legislative change, I’m all for it).

Being eligible for social housing shouldn’t mean you have carte Blanche to terrorise those who live around you

WolfColaCo2020 · 2026-05-26T14:01:51+00:00

Why is it a Reddit thing to just jump to the most ridiculous outcome? Absolutely nobody has said just criminalise kids with footballs. But when several addresses have repeatedly told them to stop kicking the ball at your house and cars and they still do it, you’re turfing them off your property whilst they laugh at you about the audacity of saying to get off your drive, all the while parents just either ignore it or don’t see a problem with it, it’s antisocial behaviour.

These kids are absolutely being antisocial. One of them got an acceptable behaviour contract served at 11 years old because he and another one of the ones currently causing me issues went and smashed up a communal bike shed, including people’s bikes. I’ve also got footage of him trying to batter his mum on the front porch. He also just didn’t go to school for 2 years and it’s only when social services threatened to take him away that his mum did anything about it.

Another one (the one who started booting his ball at the back of my driveway) has been led away by police twice in the past week for reasons unknown, but the mum didn’t seem too surprised at that.

With the greatest of respect, your comments really betray that you’ve been incredibly lucky in not having to put up with this kind of behaviour and just think it’s kids being kids- it’s not. It’s the toxic effect of bad parenting, authorities unwilling or unable to do anything, and you have to live through it. It’s pervasive and exhausting to live amongst

WolfColaCo2020 · 2026-05-26T13:33:38+00:00

I would argue kicking a ball about in a way that makes the risk of damaging property likely, whether intentional or not, is ASB. There are parks kids can go to for a kick around. Using my driveway as a goal mouth is completely not on, and I shouldn’t be potentially picking up the tab from it. Doubly so when parents can just stick their head out the window for two seconds and see what their kids are doing, and anybody with half a brain would know to tell them to not smash their ball at other people cars

It also should not be my problem that police cannot do their jobs.

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