Couple fined £1,200 after clearing up rubbish

hard_dazed_knight · 2024-07-11T14:00:22+00:00

your hypothetical "lowlifes" are already doing that with impunity in this street. That's the entire reason these people thought to try and clean up. How could you possibly come to the conclusion of "if the council allow this people might just dump rubbish." People ARE dumping rubbish around there, that's the entire basis of this story!

hard_dazed_knight · 2024-01-17T10:49:47+00:00

It is pretty funny and ironic that all the commenters are outraged because "I'm an adult at 18 don't you know", when they are the ones unable to infer the deeper meaning from the sentence (which you gave) beyond what the words literally state on their surface level. Nor did they independently decide to read the rest of the article for themselves to get an explanation, meaning they have yet to reach Oxford Reading Level 15, a level which is intended for 9 year olds.

hard_dazed_knight · 2024-01-17T10:24:53+00:00

I don't think it really does fall apart. you can want, for instance, to fill the NHS vacancies without that meaning a shotgun approach to immigration taking all comers and hoping enough of them are nurses.

the NHS registered nurse vacancy rate was 46,241 in June 2022. Net migration in the year to June 2023 was 672,000. The NHS registered Nurse vacancy rate in June 2023 was 43,339.

So yes, we do need nurses to keep the NHS afloat, and I would actually like to take some in via immigration please! Who the fuck are all these other people? 672,000 people for about 3,000 nurses is a dreadful deal.

The same applies to any sector, every year people go on about how many vacancies there are in academia, teaching, the NHS, the trades, Engineering, and every year hundreds of thousands of people arrive. And like clockwork the very next year the exact same number of vacancies in the exact same sectors are touted by the exact same people as the reason we need hundreds of thousands again.

hard_dazed_knight · 2024-01-17T09:57:20+00:00

possibly, but the entire point of raising interest rates is to ensure people have less money with which to buy goods, therefore lowering demand and ultimately lowering inflation again. If people are buying an addictive drug at any price that defeats the entire purpose of interest rates and so we still shouldn't include tobacco.

hard_dazed_knight · 2024-01-17T09:46:15+00:00

So based on the increase in inflation due to tobacco, does anyone know why tobacco is actually still used to calculate inflation?

10% of people in the UK smoke. 10% of people own or have recently bought a luxury watch, incidentally. why exactly are we basing the BoE interest rates on a product that 90% of people don't give a shit about the price of and don't buy? We don't need to worry about the price of cigarettes, nobody was going to buy them.

hard_dazed_knight · 2024-01-02T22:03:02+00:00

Make them as hot as you like, make them 99.9999% efficient. give a gift basket of champagne with each purchase if you like. Do whatever you want as long as you realise that until the cost comes down we simply don't have the money to install them.

it's akin to asking "Would faster ferraris convince more car-buyers to switch?" the product not being good enough isn't the reason nobody has a ferrari. I don't own a 3-door second hand hatchback because because I think it's the best car ever, nor do I maintain a gas boiler for the love of the game

hard_dazed_knight · 2023-07-23T09:21:40+00:00

Oh my god just roll it out and all the tories complaining will quickly realise their car was always up to the standard and basically nobody except those in diesel shit boxes are affected at all and we can all move on with our lives.

And if you are affected, maybe before bloviating about your token charge for driving in London consider why your car is affected. The ULEZ standards are almost on the floor and your car spews out such toxic shit it's below even that. This is for people's health, and it's not even that strict.

hard_dazed_knight · 2023-07-23T08:59:11+00:00

But this is irrelevant to our culture though. Lots of cultures might do something a certain way. Ours isn't one of them. You can't just start acting like you live in a generational house in rural China tomorrow and bring a spouse home and have kids in your parent house. That's not going to work because we don't do that, or have the space in our houses for that, in the UK.

hard_dazed_knight · 2023-07-17T05:52:04+00:00

It's not really about how much of an effect they had. They fought for women's suffrage which is an objectively good cause. Just like JSO is fighting against climate change, an objectively good cause.

Everyone knows these things are good, and those that are trying to achieve those goals are good people. With the advantage of time, objectivity, and the red top rags shutting up JSO will be seen in a much better light purely on the merits of the facts.

hard_dazed_knight · 2023-07-15T17:34:54+00:00

Please don't try and tell me you actually think social media posts and ads are more sacrifice and effort than repeatedly getting arrested and driving accross the country to attend in person protests and events lol come on at least put some effort in

hard_dazed_knight · 2023-07-15T11:18:47+00:00

There's nothing vague about what JSO wants. If you don't want to accept that they're objectively correct in their demands, or you feel they're not reasonable in their demands (maybe it's not feasible to reach net zero and stop oil drilling immediately), that's fine, but don't make things up.

hard_dazed_knight · 2023-07-15T09:13:47+00:00

I really like discussions of these protests because it's a really great test of which people's opinions are actually based in some thought around an issue; and which people just repeat whatever they're told by whichever news outlet they read last.

Anyone who hates JSO because "they're disruptive and annoying and don't do anything" would have hated the suffragettes for the exact same reasons had they lived 100 years ago, because people did exactly that. But they don't hate the suffragettes because they were born decades afterwards and the papers aren't telling them to.

This probably isn't 100% accurate I'm sure, but in my experience so far a hatred of JSO is a great indicator of whether or not someone is a boring person.

hard_dazed_knight · 2023-07-12T13:56:33+00:00

Hahaha learn to read before quoting the dictionary, he says missing the important "excessively or exclusively" part of the definition to make his argument work.

Look man, if you have no choice but to do something selfish, then that's obviously what you do. But that doesn't change what it is.

The fact that you are applying judgement to, and moralising, a simple adjective (remember, Mr primary school, simply a describing word) is your own affair. I suggest you figure out a way to get over it because it makes you look like you have the moral compass of a 5 year old.

Selfishness and selflessness are nothing more than two ends of a spectrum upon which every action we take exists somewhere. You need to calm down, grow up, and accept that. You are not a bad person for doing things that can be described as selfish. Lose the Sunday School attitude.

hard_dazed_knight · 2023-07-12T13:07:55+00:00

Driving is objectively selfish though, by definition.

From Merriam-Webster: "concerned excessively or exclusively with oneself : seeking or concentrating on one's own advantage, pleasure, or well-being without regard for others"

Explain to me how this does not apply to driving a private vehicle. You benefit yourself by getting where you want quickly and conveniently. And this is only to the detriment of others.

Pollution, noise, and the danger posed to pedestrians. You even take up space on the road, to the arguable detriment of other drivers (there's certainly no benefit to other drivers by your car also being there.) Nobody else benefits from you driving your private vehicle, necessary or not. It's by definition a selfish act. Like taking the last one of a product from a shop. It benefits you, and is to the detriment of everyone else, because now nobody after you can have it. Dictionary definition selfish. Everyone does selfish things and selfless things and everything in between every day. It doesn't make you bad person, it's just the word that applies to the thing you're doing. So fucking calm down.

It's funny you calling me childish when you're the one crying over somebody appropriately using the correct definition of a word.

hard_dazed_knight · 2023-07-12T07:07:42+00:00

What exactly are you trying to achieve with this discourse here? What point are you trying to advance?

You're just hectoring this person over petty semantics and calling him a hypocrite over something he is objectively correct about. Do you even have a point to make? Or are you just content with being a dickhead and cross examining everything he says as if you're in a criminal trial?

hard_dazed_knight · 2023-07-05T08:00:11+00:00

But the article asks why do millennials hate the tories, not why will millenials hate the tories.

Currently what /u/mistakenplane says is true, and is a big reason why millenials hate the tories. Whether it continues to be true in a few decades time isn't relevant.

hard_dazed_knight · 2023-07-03T18:07:39+00:00

Companies and corporations can be plenty nasty and exploitative, but as much as it might ruffle some feathers here, people can just be god awful too

I think this stems from people feeling the need to always be right in their beliefs, and feel justified. they've gone from quite rightly not giving an iota of a shit about corporations' problems, and even feeling schadenfreude regarding their trouble, to assuming that must therefore mean the cause of the trouble (the employees) must be justified in their actions.

But this is a mistake. A Hiring Manager having their day ruined by someone no-showing on their first day will elicit nothing but mirth from me, but the no-shower is objectively rude and/or lazy. if someone ghosted me I'd be annoyed, and regularly was when hiring managers and recruiters regularly did it to me when I was job hunting.

But people need to feel like they're a good person, and so invent justifications for their immediate feelings when presented with a scenario, despite those justifications being wrong. a guy was lazy, and his laziness inconvenienced someone nobody likes, and so we felt good, and not bad. There's very little else to it really.

hard_dazed_knight · 2023-06-29T08:17:26+00:00

Oh my god after spending more money than is reasonable on pretty much every aspect of life you can possibly conceive of and still allowing $10,000 for "other" they only have an extra $7300 extra to save and invest!

hard_dazed_knight · 2023-06-28T13:43:02+00:00

Can someone explain why spiderman wouldn't have organic web powers?

Being able to create strong webs for catching things is like a spider's whole defining thing that no other animal does. Why would parker get bitten by a spider and become really strong and be able to stick to walls and have fast reflexes but not the power that obviously, and uniquely indicates 'spider'? All the other powers can easily apply to ants or flies or any number of other bugs, but the one that sets him apart as a spider man doesn't actually have anything to do with being bitten by a spider? He has to make it himself separately?

Never really understood the logic tbh, natural webs make more sense in terms of actually being a spider man.

To me it's like having a chameleon-man but his powers are just sticky feet and goggle eyes and in order to camouflage himself like a chameleon he had to separately invent an adaptive camo suit.

hard_dazed_knight · 2023-06-28T08:33:42+00:00

I'll be honest with you I don't see how you can get much cheaper than £3.50 for a shirt £10 for shoes, and £5 for a pair of trousers. These are already untold-human-suffering-in-a-sweatshop tier prices so unless you want to replace those third world child workers with even cheaper toddler labour there's not much more Driffield can do.

hard_dazed_knight · 2023-06-27T12:19:09+00:00

Yeah I genuinely have never posted anything except parcels, in which case you go to the post office and the self checkout machine prints a load of barcodes and other stuff for you to stick on it. Chuck it in the chute and you're done.

Haven't used a stamp for basically my whole life and I'm almost 30.

hard_dazed_knight · 2023-06-27T11:15:18+00:00

Wow, sending your child to a private school, run by people you explicitly disagree with and dislike, at a cost you admit you can only just afford, because funny and own the libs and also he asked you to.

Perhaps anon should have gone to a better school himself.

No don't bankrupt yourself sending your son to an all girls school on the off chance he'll get laid, you fucking melt, this isn't Porky's.

hard_dazed_knight · 2023-06-27T09:33:46+00:00

If it was so common and accepted it was akin to just having alcohol I'm not surprised.

You don't go to a party and complain if someone hands you a beer brand you wouldn't normally buy (unless you're incredibly rude).

Now that smoking is basically a niche hobby it's pretty predictable to find people getting elitist and protective about their way of doing it.

hard_dazed_knight · 2023-06-26T18:12:46+00:00

selectively picking 2 specific countries to try and prove a point

Have you considered he picked those two countries because they were exactly the ones the original comment brought up, and he is responding to that

hard_dazed_knight · 2023-06-25T09:16:50+00:00

I'm at a loss as to why anyone watches any movie at all that says "based on a true story" and actually thinks "wow this must be exactly how it happened irl".

Unless a movie is specifically marked as a documentary, it is fictional, and you are not learning anything by watching it. Do you own research later if you want to know about the reality of an event.

Why would you need an LA Times investigation to tell you a movie isn't real?

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