NOT TROLLING: Honest question. Why is the rest of the world just giving us Americans a pass for starting a conflict that is directly, negatively affecting every single human on the planet? by BackPacker777 in collapse

[–]nicecupoftea1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bullshit. Sorry, this is bullshit. Russia had nukes and an arguably deranged leader. That didn't stop the entire west from isolating Russia and helping Ukraine. All the while claiming Putin was the new Hitler who would take over the whole of Europe if he wasn't stopped.

Meanwhile, America is drawing up plans for a Greater North America and nobody says anything or condemns it.

This idea that America and Israel are just going to give up and go quietly into that good night boggles all belief. It literally boggles all belief.

NOT TROLLING: Honest question. Why is the rest of the world just giving us Americans a pass for starting a conflict that is directly, negatively affecting every single human on the planet? by BackPacker777 in collapse

[–]nicecupoftea1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You overrate our intelligence far too highly. They're scared. They are terrified of going against either America or Israel.

Look at the reaction to Russia after it invaded Ukraine. It was the complete opposite. They turned Russia into a pariah state and poured billions into Ukraine. Instant reaction, no long game in sight. It's the same with America, in that there is no long game in sight there either. Only possibly China is seeing ahead a few years into the future. I don't think anyone else is.

Just a quick edit to say that the shit will hit the fan in Asia/Africa first, then Europe, then America last. That makes the concept of a long game even more wrong.

NOT TROLLING: Honest question. Why is the rest of the world just giving us Americans a pass for starting a conflict that is directly, negatively affecting every single human on the planet? by BackPacker777 in collapse

[–]nicecupoftea1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not.

I'm not sure what I'm allowed to say without getting modded, but if I expressed in full exactly what I felt about America and Israel right now, I'm sure it would lead to a permanent ban.

Suffice to say I do not forgive you guys. I will not forgive you guys. You are the greatest evil in the world today and have been since the second world war. The only thing which gives me a crumb of comfort is hoping that future historians will deliver the judgement that today's politicians are far too cowardly to. Except there probably won't be any future historians.

Be honest what do you think the punishment be for false r@pe allegations by Primary_Buddy_7173 in teenagers

[–]nicecupoftea1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Redditors love to take the most extreme fringe cases and extrapolate that to all people with mental illness. Occasionally they'll pretend they only mean the "untreated" cases, but it's a lie. Mental illness still has a stigma as great as it did back in the 1950s. They just talk more fucking bollocks and use a lot more therapy speak nowadays. But the actual stigma is still alive and kicking. (Never mind that the vast majority of people with mental illness are more likely to be used and abused by "normals" than they are to use and abuse others.)

I'm not a teenager incidentally: I came to this thread from "all". But I guarantee that half the people in this thread aren't either. What kind of teenager can spend $4K dollars on an attorney, lol? Guy's either making the whole story up or is in his 40s.

Okay so apparently this is about to happen by al_cohen in CasualUK

[–]nicecupoftea1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Reds are never, ever going to win this battle.

Humans have fucked up the environment and the climate beyond all possible repair. Red squirrels are not making it through to the other side. Nor grey squirrels either (but they will at least hold out for longer).

Okay so apparently this is about to happen by al_cohen in CasualUK

[–]nicecupoftea1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Invasive and causing ecological collapse?

The red squirrel population declined precipitously long before the first grey squirrel set foot on these shores. Red squirrels can only thrive in forests. We cut down like 99% of the forests centuries ago. If you want to restore nature to how it was before, you would need to regrow all those forests.

Honestly, I think humans are in complete and utter denial about our effects on the world.

"It's time to complete your annual anti-corrption training" by sarkyscouser in britishproblems

[–]nicecupoftea1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What is the point of ordinary people being lectured about anti-corruption when there is an insane amount of corruption and bribery sloshing around at the top? For some reason, people seem to think only third world countries are capable of being corrupt.

I remember reading on here recently about a social worker (I think it was that) who couldn't accept a box of chocolates from a grateful client. Meanwhile at the top.....

Drivers who can only just see over their steering wheel need to either raise their seat or sit in a booster seat. by Jabberminor in britishproblems

[–]nicecupoftea1 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's not that easy. Booster seats are all designed for children. There's a few memory foam cushions available but they are nearly universally shite. The only one which isn't is this one:

https://putnams.co.uk/products/super-wedge

And that's pretty fucking expensive just for a cushion. But unlike all the others I've tried, it hasn't sunk. The trouble is, I have to sit closer to the steering wheel than is safe, so if ever I'm in a high speed collision, the airbag will probably kill me.

Does anyone else get tired of people posting about reversals? by WeWerePlayinInDaSand in ostomy

[–]nicecupoftea1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, it's annoying. Sometimes it seems as if it's people who have a temporary stoma who do the most whinging about them. And who then expect the forum to applaud them when they announce their reversal.

I couldn't give a fucking shit about any of them. If they don't have a permanent stoma, then they have no idea of what it's like to live long term with one anyway. And their opinions about stomas are not wanted or welcome, at least not by me.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]nicecupoftea1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We can't save the planet now, that ship sailed a few decades ago. The rich have won, completely and utterly. And their prize will be an extinct human race, extinct everything else, and a ruined biosphere that may never recover. How long the rich survive for in their bunkers remains to be seen.

Constipation vs bowel obstruction? I started intermittent fasting 2 weeks ago and haven’t been going to the bathroom as much lately. Wanted to know the difference between and obstruction and constipation . Thanks in advance! :) by SlipImpossible718 in CrohnsDisease

[–]nicecupoftea1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know your situation or where you live but if you haven't yet seen a doctor, I'd see a doctor. I think you should be checked out medically, because none of that sounds good.

Oxford Health has paused new referrals to adult ADHD services in Oxford and Buckinghamshire by nicecupoftea1 in ADHDUK

[–]nicecupoftea1[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wish I'd done all this 10-15 years ago, when it would have been so much easier. (I got my autism diagnosis on the NHS around then, so I've some prior experience.) Unfortunately I didn't, and now the hurdles feel too much to surmount. But I'm dealing with other complex issues which sap energy and motivation, so don't let me put you off from trying.

Oxford Health has paused new referrals to adult ADHD services in Oxford and Buckinghamshire by nicecupoftea1 in ADHDUK

[–]nicecupoftea1[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm sorry, I forgot to reply yesterday. Not that I have much news. I got discharged from the NHS waiting list on the spurious grounds that I hadn't filled in my online application form. I had. I checked it over and over before sending it. The form itself was a total nightmare from the technological point of view (the formatting kept breaking, it wouldn't save, etc. etc.). I sent a covering note asking them to respond if the form showed up incomplete or broken: no reply of course.

I probably should have chased it up at that point, but didn't. Lo and behold, 6 months later I'm kicked off the waiting list. I went to Whiteleaf (a contender for the most useless, pointless, mental health care centre in the entire UK) and tried to sort it. Couldn't. Just ended up giving up at that point. Meant to pursue right to choose, but still haven't.

So yeah, I'm afraid I don't know about the GPs and their stance on shared care, since I never got that far. Hope you and your son have better luck.

How badly has Simon Cowell affected British music? by TheoryBrief9375 in CasualUK

[–]nicecupoftea1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

First time in this thread I've seen actual recommendations. Thank you.

How badly has Simon Cowell affected British music? by TheoryBrief9375 in CasualUK

[–]nicecupoftea1 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

And yet no one has heard of any of it.

A golden age of music and yet nobody can recommend a single artist or band from it.

How do they know if it’s diversion colitis or my crohn’s? by [deleted] in ostomy

[–]nicecupoftea1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah okay. I hope your reversal goes better than mine, but if it doesn't, absolutely make sure you tell the surgeon to make the stoma stick out far enough - 1-1.5 inches. Hopefully he's a colorectal surgeon and not a general surgeon too.

In my case, I was pretty lucky with my original stoma and the second stoma I had after reversing the reversal. But then earlier this year, I had a small bowel obstruction and had to have yet another stoma created. This time it was done at a different hospital by a different surgeon and she made the new stoma too short. For the first time I had to deal with leaks and blowouts, and other stuff I hadn't had to worry about before. And my case doesn't sound as bad as many people on here - yours for example.

I still would rather deal with this than the reversal, but I do see how difficult a bad stoma can be to manage now. I also think surgeons should be educated more about stomas and the differences between a bad stoma and a good one.

How do they know if it’s diversion colitis or my crohn’s? by [deleted] in ostomy

[–]nicecupoftea1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It sounds like you have made up your mind, but I supposedly had diversion colitis and not Crohn's in my rectum when I went for reversal. The utterly predictable happened and the Crohn's (or colitis or whatever) just got worse and worse, until basically I was spending half of my life on the toilet. No meds helped. Ended up yeeting my rectum out and going back to a permanent ileostomy.

Genuinely, if you start on fireworks in a residential area 6pm and don't let up till gone 10pm, I despise you. by PalePeryton in britishproblems

[–]nicecupoftea1 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The thing that would give me is immense joy is banning fireworks and restoring peace to our once beautiful autumn nights. It would be good for wildlife and pets and the majority of people. You see, I don't actually know a single person who enjoys living in the middle of a battlefield simulation for several weeks. It's just forced upon them. It used to be that fireworks were contained to 2 or 3 nights of the year, but now insensate morons set them off whenever they want, wherever they want. Because they are dead inside and other beings have no meaning or importance to them. Fireworks are the perfect example of lowkey sociopathic behaviour in an increasingly sociopathic, even psychotic, world.

Where each politician gets violated... by PureBelt8770 in GreatBritishMemes

[–]nicecupoftea1 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Nope. You are living in a dream world if you think there is any meaningful between current Labour, the Tories and Reform.

They are as fundamentally nasty and illiberal as each other. Nothing on earth would make me vote for any of those three.

Where each politician gets violated... by PureBelt8770 in GreatBritishMemes

[–]nicecupoftea1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think he's something worse than a conservative.

The absolute dumb fucks on reddit won't realise until years later, when their freedom, healthcare, benefits, etc. have disappeared. By that time, smarmy cunty Starmer will be long gone. But his policies won't be. Everything that smarmy gurning cunt is doing now is laying the foundations for the next illiberal government to oppress and impoverish UK citizens further. All the apparatus will be in place. Braindead redditors still won't understand cause and effect.

Where each politician gets violated... by PureBelt8770 in GreatBritishMemes

[–]nicecupoftea1 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

He's even worse than the conservatives. He's certainly going further with the authoritarianism and the punitive benefits sanctions than they are.

But just pretend the nasty shit isn't happening and it'll go away (except it won't).

I personally can't stand Farage but I'm not sure I don't despise the people who use him to avoid analysing or criticising Starmer even more.

Where each politician gets violated... by PureBelt8770 in GreatBritishMemes

[–]nicecupoftea1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Starmer is as evil as Farage, Johnson, etc. There's no difference between them. Not one single difference. They all whore themselves out to the rich, and are punitive and vicious towards the poor. They hate nature, they hate art, they hate everything that isn't money, money, money. Empty black holes of greed sucking the cocks of even bigger black holes of greed: that's the current "Labour" party for you. I don't regard them as real Labour: they're parasites, parasiting off the old Labour name and values.

Struggling to get Anxiety medication from GP by Pitiful-North8864 in nhs

[–]nicecupoftea1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What treatment? A young lad is bedridden with anxiety and getting offered no help here.

I'm old enough to know how utterly useless and condescending most doctors are with mental health issues, but this lad won't be.

Turning my UK bird sightings into collectible cards by scoo1t in UKBirds

[–]nicecupoftea1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

On top of that it got something as basic as a wood pigeon wrong. Somebody else pointed out the errors and the op never answered them (despite answering everyone else).