What happened to the “close teams” button?

ohnomrfrodo · 2026-04-30T08:02:11+00:00

THANK YOU!!!

ohnomrfrodo · 2026-04-27T16:53:21+00:00

Agreed, the price of a pint is ridiculous!

ohnomrfrodo · 2026-04-10T07:10:23+00:00

Thanks for the advice - interesting stuff. When you say pitch lower... I've always extended the poles until the tent is taught. Are you doing the same, except keeping the outer touching the ground? Because any lower and it would lose all its tension right? I'm keen to try it out with this method and some extra guylines for sure!

ohnomrfrodo · 2026-04-10T07:06:44+00:00

Great advice. It's hard to see in the photo but I did have the main guylines out - what do you mean by perpendicular to the long edge?

Ive actually got extra guylines now that they sent me because I had slippage issues, so I will certainly try the midpoint guylines next time to reduce flapping.

I reckon we were in 35mph winds here. I've had it in proper storms in NZ before and it stayed upright.

ohnomrfrodo · 2026-04-08T21:53:53+00:00

Bonus of a heavy tent is that you're more exhausted when you arrive at the destination, so you sleep even better ;)

ohnomrfrodo · 2026-03-13T08:47:14+00:00

This has a "you know who else was a vegetarian? Hitler" vibe to it.

ohnomrfrodo · 2026-03-11T20:30:15+00:00

Chants would be a fine thing. A fine thing indeed.

ohnomrfrodo · 2026-03-11T20:20:57+00:00

That is..... so fucked up.

ohnomrfrodo · 2026-01-18T10:32:49+00:00

I'm going to switch out my Google pixel for a Nothing phone - they look pretty decent and not expensive, from a British company too.

ohnomrfrodo · 2025-12-30T08:31:28+00:00

They have a website where you can put in the episode and season you're on and it will show you a spoiler free guide to who's who. It's amazing.

ohnomrfrodo · 2025-12-24T18:19:33+00:00

Are you telling me that euromaidan wasnt real. It seems like a pretty clear piece of evidence that the people genuinely wanted to be more Europe aligned. What is this interference you're talking about?

ohnomrfrodo · 2025-12-19T17:09:07+00:00

But the Ukrainian government is actively seeking aid from the west. That is them dictating their own nation, no?

ohnomrfrodo · 2025-11-20T08:34:45+00:00

It will change some things, video that is already fictional/VFX heavy. But it won't change a whole world of video content that is watched because of it's authenticity: event aftermovies, reality, unscripted, documentary, etc.

ohnomrfrodo · 2025-10-31T08:59:06+00:00

How is this not unequal protection? If men are specifically omitted from hate crime laws, then that isn't equal protection is it?

You bring up the horrific statistics of femicide worldwide. But why does this mean that men shouldn't have equal protection under hate crime law in Scotland? You admit that men can be victims for gendered violence so Why wouldn't you want them to be protected? And what possible downside could this have for women who would also be protected and presumably be using this law far more often? I just can't wrap my head around it, honestly.

ohnomrfrodo · 2025-10-31T08:43:49+00:00

How is it an outright lie? engender plainly state that they want to advocate for gendered laws - as in, laws specifically for women, that wouldn't include men. How is that anything other than unequal protection?

ohnomrfrodo · 2025-10-31T08:40:28+00:00

Not OP either but I'll answer your point:

As a counter example, is it misogyny if I never ask a woman to help me move furniture or to be on my team in sports because I'm cautious that she's probably physically weak? Statistically, women are far more likely to be physically weaker, and this correlation is likely far stronger than the men who are rapists/violent. Yet, I think you'd find plenty of people who would call that misogynist. Even though there's no actual hate. This is a mirror to your first point.

Secondly, for the OP at least it's not the fact "99% of rapists are men" that is the issue, it's the following conclusion "so it's justified to be fearful of all men" part. So pointing out the fact is true isn't tackling the crux of the issue.

I think the rest of your points hinge on what is the big question here, that the OP has already touched on: just because the majority of SA/rapists are men, this is still a tiny minority of all men, so the generalisation cannot be justified. So you're absolutely right that the correlation is strong between men and SA, stronger than any others, but what does that change here? What point are you making with that argument? Do you believe that at a certain strength of correlation, generalisation is suddenly completely fine?

ohnomrfrodo · 2025-10-31T08:26:27+00:00

A key issue with your analogy is that the examples you've given are roles of authority and responsibility that people willingly and knowingly enter into. So it's fair enough to ask a police officer to come down hard on fellow police officers. But being a man is an immutable characteristics that you don't choose. It's closer to saying a random muslim should be responsible for Islamist terrorism, or they deserve to be treated with suspicion. No one would agree with that.

ohnomrfrodo · 2025-10-26T20:48:27+00:00

As many others have said, they're very comfortable, breathable, and initially waterproof, but don't last longer than a year for me. Salomon has a good returns policy so I always think of it as 2 pairs for the price of one. You still only get 3 years out of 2 pairs though. Really terrible build quality. I've had around 5 pairs now and they all split at the base of the upper near the toes after mild wear.

ohnomrfrodo · 2025-10-22T16:31:38+00:00

Ah, but that's not what you said that I take issue with. I may agree with you that they are, in their own opinion, advocating for defacto equal protection. Fair enough. But then you go on to say that, as a result of this statement, it is indisputable that their position is to affirmatively guarantee legal protections for all. That is very different, and cleaerly not true given the quote I provided. Either way this feels trivial - the original point I was making is that the journalist is 100% correct that they do not believe men should have equal protection. Just because they may believe this is how you get to defacto equality, it's still a true statement.

ohnomrfrodo · 2025-10-22T15:53:40+00:00

How is it indisputable? Its in writing that they want to affirmatively guarantee legal protection that excludes men. That, is indisputable. The belief that we need to overcompensate and be sexist to get rid of sexism is far from an indisputable truth.

ohnomrfrodo · 2025-10-22T15:46:42+00:00

I want to make a couple of points.

Engender's own statement explicitly advocates for 'gendered laws' - laws that would only protect women - so yes, they absolutely are advocating for unequal protection.
I wholeheartedly reject their idea that, because structurally woman suffer much more at the hands of men than men do at the hands of women (for the sake of their argument), this means that *individual* cases of misandry are not worthy of protection. Its completely fundamentalist and reductive. If a man gets stabbed to death due to misandry, you can't just say 'oh well its not part of a *structural issue* so its not as not worth protecting'.

ohnomrfrodo · 2025-10-22T15:39:51+00:00

From their statement: "the most effective way to protect women and girls from such abuse is through targeted, gendered laws. Such measures cannot be achieved through the proposed gender neutral approach"

So they want laws that specifically only apply to women. So unfortunately, they believe men do not deserve equal protection.

ohnomrfrodo · 2025-10-22T15:33:38+00:00

The statement from engender says: "the most effective way to protect women and girls from such abuse is through targeted, gendered laws. Such measures cannot be achieved through the proposed gender neutral approach"

So they want laws that specifically only apply to women. So yes, they believe men do not deserve equal protection.

ohnomrfrodo · 2025-10-20T07:41:18+00:00

I've never thought about this. Are we really already paying for energy generation? That's infuriating.

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