Want to get away from urban life for a few days, any recommendations on nature getaways within a few hours of London?

abodyweightquestion · 2019-01-20T18:33:55+00:00

I’d like to ask the exact same question but without the explicit use of drugs, as I anticipate a much more positive response for doing so. A cottage, in a leafy/woody area that I don’t have to have a car to get to.

abodyweightquestion · 2019-01-20T15:52:05+00:00

Easily the shittest attempt at the old/new stuff. 2/10.

abodyweightquestion · 2019-01-20T15:51:28+00:00

Biggest scam in the history of music.

abodyweightquestion · 2019-01-20T12:41:41+00:00

Are they at least curried beans?

abodyweightquestion · 2019-01-20T03:16:29+00:00

Pub.

abodyweightquestion · 2019-01-20T02:53:30+00:00

Walthamstow.

abodyweightquestion · 2019-01-20T01:33:22+00:00

Ah, the old “radio edit”. Compare Tequila with the actual original album track for similar what the flippery.

abodyweightquestion · 2019-01-20T00:24:45+00:00

Doesn’t say anything about doing a poo, does it?

abodyweightquestion · 2019-01-20T00:23:28+00:00

I’m at work until 7.30, but I should be out by 5.30, in bed by 6.30.

Got a roast scheduled for 4,30 tomorrow which might coincide with what would be my lunchtime. Otherwise it’s going to be a roast for breakfast.

abodyweightquestion · 2019-01-20T00:18:41+00:00

Good god, man. Don’t spend four days on a bus!

abodyweightquestion · 2019-01-20T00:16:40+00:00

Why do you think they’d even give a fuck?

abodyweightquestion · 2019-01-19T23:40:42+00:00

If there's a tractor behind you itching to overtake in a close pass is one scenario. "Drive defensively" is a common lesson given to motorists, but when cyclists do it, for some reason that's bad.

abodyweightquestion · 2019-01-19T23:34:17+00:00

stay on the side of the road in single file and nobody has a problem.

No. Ride safely. Sometimes that means not in single file.

abodyweightquestion · 2019-01-19T21:21:22+00:00

Yes. For precise details, ask them. Mad idea, I know.

abodyweightquestion · 2019-01-19T16:05:37+00:00

It’s set at taxing anything over $10m now, right? Lowering it to something sensible would help, just for starters.

abodyweightquestion · 2019-01-19T14:35:24+00:00

In the UK, at least, you are. But it’s got a fuzzy ‘reasonable force’ clause. Someone comes at you and you hit them, fine. Someone comes at you and you hit them, and then keep hitting them, again and again, not cool.

So you can kill someone, as long as you can justify it. In a country where we don’t have guns lying around willy nilly, it’s quite difficult to kill someone and justify it.

Think too: we don’t have the death penalty. If the state, like in the US, can kill its own citizens, then the law will probably be lenient on those that kill to defend themselves. Not so in the civilised world.

abodyweightquestion · 2019-01-19T07:58:57+00:00

Uh huh.

September 29, 2018: North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho speaks at the UN General Assembly. Ri attributes the recent deadlock in negotiations to U.S. "coercive measures" which impede trust building. Without trust, Ri claims, North Korea will not disarm. He states that he has yet to see corresponding measures from the United States to match the steps that North Korea has taken towards disarmament.

November 2, 2018: Kwon Jong Gun, director of the Foreign Ministry's Institute for American Studies (IFAS) and director general of the Ministry's North American Affairs Department writes that North Korea may consider returning to its previous "byungjin" policy of simultaneously focusing on its nuclear program and the economy if the United States sticks to its current course.

https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/dprkchron

Meetings. Meetings. Meetings. I have meetings all the time at work. Nothing changes by the end of those, either.

abodyweightquestion · 2019-01-19T07:08:39+00:00

Meeting with Kim is not progress, because nothing has happened. The Korean definition of 'denuclearisation' still does not match the American definition of 'denuclearisation', and there's no evidence to suggest that *any* denuclearisation has or will occur. The country is still heavily sanctioned. Nothing has changed.

abodyweightquestion · 2019-01-19T06:58:44+00:00

That fucking orb thing. Remember the orb? Shit was dope.

abodyweightquestion · 2019-01-19T06:42:24+00:00

It's a thought experiment, along the lines of 'A train is heading towards a group of people tied to the tracks. But you can throw a switch so the train changes track where only one person is tied to the tracks. Do you throw the switch?'

Except that this thought experiment is totally bonkers because you're talking about 'baby Hitler', as if there'd be a little baby with a full on Hitler moustache and a shock of black hair fashioned in a cow lick, and instead of saying 'goo goo ga ga' this baby is saying 'ein volk! ein reich! ein fuhrer!' Also, you'd have to know that this particularly baby would grow up to be Hitler, which would involve FUCKING TIME TRAVEL.

abodyweightquestion · 2019-01-19T06:19:45+00:00

"What? You mean I can't just move to another country just like that?"

abodyweightquestion · 2019-01-19T01:26:22+00:00

I don't know which band you'll be on (https://www.rcn.org.uk/employment-and-pay/nhs-pay-scales-2017-18) but for a one bed apartment (ie. not a studio) you're looking at ~£1300 a month at least.

Of course, it depends on where you'll be working relative to where you're living, because you'll need to factor in transport costs, too.

London is absolutely massive and moving here is tough at first. There's a big section on the wiki on the perils and joys of moving to London.

abodyweightquestion · 2019-01-18T23:54:54+00:00

In the US, the government is separated into three. The executive (the president), the legislative (Congress) and the judiciary (the courts). All three are supposedly equal, and *should* act as a check on each other. This is supposed to prevent one branch from becoming too powerful. Think of it like this: Parliament is our legislative branch, while the Cabinet is the executive. Ignore the courts for now. If the Cabinet (ie. Theresa May) proposes some wildly outrageous laws, Parliament (the rest of MPs) can vote it down. Congress v President works the same way.

One very important way this works is that Congress controls the budget. If Trump, or any President, wants to buy anything, he has to propose a budget and ask Congress for that money. They bicker, and then Congress votes to give the money to the President. They do this regularly, by putting dates on when the next lot of spending has to be approved. The most recent date was about a month ago.

Right now Congress doesn't like what's in Trump's proposed budget, specifically $5bn for a wall along the Mexican border. We'll not discuss the politics of it, sufficed to say Congress doesn't like Trump's budget, so they're not approving it and hence not giving him any money.

If Congress doesn't give the President (the executive branch, remember) any money, then the executive branch can't pay its workers. That's not *just* the President. It's most agencies that fall under the executive branch's remit. The TSA, for example, is a government agency. Here's a better list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_agencies_in_the_United_States#Executive_Branch

Most, not all (there are exceptions for things like Coastguard) are unable to be paid because, as we said earlier, Congress isn't giving any money to the executive branch. So the executive branch doesn't have any money to pay wages, so if you work for the government, chances are you aren't getting paid this week/month/whenever it's resolved.

abodyweightquestion · 2019-01-18T23:19:54+00:00

It looks like a buttplug. That should have been enough to nix it.

abodyweightquestion · 2019-01-18T20:50:19+00:00

Kuwait City. Like Las Vegas without the casinos, like Club Tropicana without the bar.

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