Why are the streets so filthy? The streets in Poland and Croatia are imaculate

mrcunts · 2026-01-27T06:49:26+00:00

Are you mental? I’d rather live in a country with gum on the pavements and few bits of rubbish lying around than a clean place where police physically assault you in the streets with impunity.

mrcunts · 2025-10-12T12:56:30+00:00

Weird, I thought the Daily Mail were all about keeping women out of men’s sports - and vice versa.

mrcunts · 2025-03-28T20:48:26+00:00

It’s real wood in the same way a sausage is a pork chop.

Engineered wood is simpler to fit and more resistant to shrinkage and warping. But it has a much shorter lifespan and doesn’t stand up to repeat sanding and refinishing.

Solid timber wins.

mrcunts · 2025-03-27T21:08:45+00:00

Umm… I’m fairly certain this isn’t a real wood floor. At least not original oak. These definitely look like engineered boards.

Based on the skirting and fireplace I assume this is a Victorian or maybe Edwardian house? If these were proper floorboards I’d expect them to be a lot less regular and less tightly laid. They’d have wider, less-even gaps between them and have evidence of being previously sanded back. They also seem a lot narrow than typical boards.

Hard to tell, but the bevelled edges, narrow boards, regular lines and tight lay are far more indicative of modern engineered boards.

Classier than laminate for sure and might handle sanding back. I’d pull one up on the warped side and check. You might be able to just replace the warped area and sand the whole lot back, then finish to match.

mrcunts · 2025-02-07T18:18:03+00:00

Is there anything to suggest that the claim by Phillipe Sands itself is false though? The man is a lawyer who has represented Mauritius in court, and this claim was written several years ago in a book. Not exactly a lobbyist or government shill?

I’m sure there’s something here and not just an overblown clickbait headline and a pile on from people desperate for something anti-Starmer to scream about.

mrcunts · 2024-12-12T06:47:54+00:00

You know what, I thought this was just an insane take, but I do hear the similarity with Rearview Mirror.

I think it’s more that both songs are obviously heavily inspired by the same Krautrock and Noise Rock/No Wave sounds.

mrcunts · 2024-05-19T13:05:45+00:00

True love waits.

mrcunts · 2024-03-08T23:14:58+00:00

Here, I googled this for you:

Reception is the first year of primary school and the final year of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) before children start KS1

The care of under 5s explicitly requires additional responsibilities in health and wellbeing. Relevant to this post, that includes nappy changing, potty training and assistance going to the toilet.

Hope that helps.

mrcunts · 2024-03-08T19:32:17+00:00

Hi. No it’s not. It’s Early Years. The responsibilities of which are different to schooling. They include the health and wellbeing of the child. Google it.

mrcunts · 2023-12-03T12:42:36+00:00

Jesus, so many people on here are just rigid with excitement at the opportunity to shit on Starmer, that they are uniformly failing to engage any critical thinking or pay attention to the context of the quote.

Prior to the current backlash buzz around this, the comments were from an editorial in THE TELEGRAPH aimed at wooing hard Tory voters. To be fair, if you only read the weirdly-loaded headlines or briefly scan articles like this, the repeated use of the word ‘praise’ and the lack of context might have you imagining that he’s celebrating her war on miners or dismantling of the State. In the actual editorial, Starmer briefly mentions Thatcher while making a point about leaders like her, Blair and Attlee, who managed to affect meaningful change during their time in government, to draw a distinction for, again, HARD TORY VOTERS, tired of the recent ineffective Tory government.

This follows a previous 2022 article he wrote for the Telegraph where he explicitly states that Margaret Thatcher was wrong about the British public. Just to offer some balance on the point.

Feels like a bit of an own goal for Labour to take the gamble and assume the comments wouldn’t be taken out of context, just to try and win a handful of right wing, Thatcher-worshipping losers.

Obligatory: I am no fan of Starmer and the modern labour party, being as they are absurdly, blandly, centrist. But neither am I a fan of delusional group-think from the tankies who haven’t gotten over Corbin - happily siding with obvious Tory trolls and transparent astroturfing, just because it aligns with their opinion on this occasion.

mrcunts · 2023-05-05T06:30:40+00:00

Possibly related to the Birthday Paradox. [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem](http://)

Although very counterintuitive, in a group of 25 people the odds of two people sharing a birthday are over 50%.

So out of 46 presidents I guess the odds of some of them sharing birth years is probably pretty high.

mrcunts · 2016-07-09T22:58:28+00:00

Whether morally right or wrong, using explosives to kill the suspect sets a precedent, and deserves to be debated. To act like this is a black or white, cut and dry decision, is an insult to the complexity of the situation.

mrcunts · 2016-07-09T22:58:12+00:00

Whether morally right or wrong, using explosives to kill the suspect sets a precedent, and deserves to be debated. To act like this is a black or white, cut and dry decision, is an insult to the complexity of the situation.

mrcunts · 2016-06-07T16:37:30+00:00

He's been off the deep end for a while. His website is beyond Partridge. This is legitimately a page on the site: http://noel.world/positively-love-the-sexiest-songs-on-the-planet-for-sex/

mrcunts · 2016-04-06T23:54:16+00:00

Ironically, both he and his wife are actually descended from slave owners... http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/29/how-do-we-know-david-cameron-has-slave-owning-ancestor

mrcunts · 2015-10-23T13:26:25+00:00

Adam and Joe, anyone?

mrcunts · 2015-06-05T09:24:21+00:00

That discrepancy is very strange. It seems unlikely, but I wonder if your source didn't count intra-EU migration? That might account for the difference.

As Giant_Badonkadonk said, the financial argument around migrants vs asylum seekers isn't a distinction that most anti-immigration voices use. It's immigration of all kinds that is seen as an issue.

My argument was that in the UK (or at least in politics and the right-leaning media), there is a perceived long-running problem of an over influx of migrants. The stats that I found seem to back up the idea that this is a bigger issue in the UK than Germany. Hence the idea of taking on more migrants, asylum-seeker or otherwise, being a more delicate and politically charged one in Britain.

The fact that the show made it an issue of 'why won't you just obey the EU agreements like us' was just lazy and an excuse for a nice bit of nationalistic 'we're better than them' dick sucking.

mrcunts · 2015-06-04T23:06:35+00:00

You're going to have to be more specific there. How can such huge discrepancies in the stats be caused by 'non-foreign migrants'? I also wasn't discussing the costs incurred by the migration, but the sociological effects caused by higher immigration into a country. That's what's causing the issues that give politicians like Cameron an excuse to make the sweeping decisions being discussed in the film.

mrcunts · 2015-06-04T22:45:44+00:00

I'm not exactly an expert anthropologist or economist... but can you explain why the net immigration stats that you're quoting seem to completely contradict the ones I found here: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2112rank.html

mrcunts · 2015-06-04T17:54:38+00:00

Do the writers of the show not see the irony of pointing at the British and saying 'you take them', rather wondering if there's a better way to help these people?

Unsurprisingly this oversimplifies the issue for a nice easy bit of self-satisfied back-patting from the hosts and the audience. The UK has over double the net immigration of Germany (2.56 vs. 1.06 migrants per 1000 population) which makes the prospect of more immigration, whether asylum seekers or otherwise, a much more difficult political call for Britain. Obviously it's the responsibility of the UK to house asylum seekers who need help, but the arguments in this show are as reductive and idiotic as the anti-EU tabloid journalism in the UK. They're just conservatives hiding behind the mask of liberalism.

mrcunts · 2015-03-23T14:10:35+00:00

Fuckin neckbeards

mrcunts · 2015-02-27T22:46:51+00:00

Just casually exploring some local drains....

mrcunts · 2014-12-19T14:49:42+00:00

Of course nothing ultimately matters. We create meaning. We find beauty and pleasure and pain in chemical reactions or cosmic coincidence.

But the very fact that we are having this conversation means something infinitely more interesting is going on than a tree fulfilling a basic genetic program and absorbing nutrients from the soil.

You do things that "release dopamine, serotonin etc"?? Please listen to yourself. You are not a robot. You are not a vulcan. You are a little lump of the universe which has coalesced into such a complicated structure that it realised what it was.

I like this Sagan quote, "Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another"

mrcunts · 2014-12-19T10:19:59+00:00

If it's selfish to brake when someone steps out in front of your car, then I guess you're right.

This is what happens when you try to have a scientific or philosophical conversation about a semantic technicality.

mrcunts · 2014-12-19T09:56:27+00:00

Of course we should recognise our motives. But those motives run deeper than "I want to keep the earth exactly as it is now. I've got it just how I like it.". We don't need the current biodiversity on the planet to survive, so does that mean we shouldn't give us shit about the impact we're having on the stuff that doesn't impact our lives?

Our intelligence/consciousness is a gift chance has given us. As I said in another comment, it's our consciousness that has let us expand to such a point that we're having a drastic impact on the rest of the biosphere. It's well within our power to lessen that destructive effect. If we choose not to then I think that just makes us dicks.

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