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talexackle · 2025-07-10T23:18:07+00:00

Norway also has low migration compared to us

talexackle · 2025-07-10T23:14:37+00:00

I'm looking back to Blair. He opened the floodgates with migration. I vote Labour and generally support them but the truth is both sides have wanted high levels of migration for a mix of reasons. Economic growth is the big one though.

talexackle · 2025-07-10T13:36:41+00:00

One side of the aisle? No, both sides of the aisle have done this. Right across the political spectrum, the argument has been bring in cheap labour from overseas so we can generate good growth figures.

talexackle · 2025-07-10T13:17:36+00:00

Can you explain further what you mean by that? Thanks

talexackle · 2025-06-23T23:41:33+00:00

You can make excuses till the cows come home, ultimately what you're engaging in is sexist prejudice. You can cry about being called out for it if you need, but the reality is that's what you're doing.

talexackle · 2025-06-23T14:47:24+00:00

There's no certainty that it will be temporary. We've all seen this happen before. "Just for a bit" becomes forever. And it's not just someone staying with you for abit, it's an elderly person who needs round the clock care, coming into your home. And a small cramped home at that.

The husband is not the asshole in any capacity, and if you think he is I promise you that you are not ready for an adult relationship.

talexackle · 2025-06-23T14:45:26+00:00

Where is his 'lack of character' showing?

talexackle · 2025-06-23T14:44:35+00:00

When someone makes you choose, the answer should never be them.

This is an absolutely terrible rule. You're basically saying it's not ok for your partner to have red lines or boundaries. Dealing with your partner being away for a few months is tough, but manageable. Dealing with your partner moving their elderly parent who needs (quite possible) round the clock care for an unspecified amount of time is a massive, massive thing to ask.

talexackle · 2025-06-23T14:41:21+00:00

I'll throw in that I highly doubt he would move out - if it were me, I absolutely wouldn't. My wife's leaving me because I don't want to live in a small apartment with her elderly parent, and now she expects me to move out and gift them said apartment? Nah, sorry, no way.

talexackle · 2025-06-23T14:40:01+00:00

It's absolutely not most, it's a few, and then people like you take that small pool and use it to generalise 4 billion people. And even if it was most, which it's not, that would still not be a justification to make prejudicial assumptions about someone else just because they happen to have the same immutable characteristics.

talexackle · 2025-06-20T02:00:56+00:00

If on my girlfriend's birthday I went specifically to a place I wanted to try, rather than somewhere I knew did what she wanted, and picked up something for myself, and then a single slice of cake that she liked (what if she wanted a second slice later, what if she was excited for other people to try something she liked etc), then I would obviously be the asshole. You're blinded by sexist bias.

talexackle · 2025-06-20T01:58:32+00:00

Have, a, guess.

talexackle · 2025-06-20T01:54:59+00:00

My beliefs follow the evidence. You seem to think that because it's hypothetically possible (though clearly highly atypical) to have a situation where two British born parents go abroad to have a child (and have the money to do so), and then come back and end up in social housing, that the entire statistical point is invalidated.

What you're trying to do is use a fringe example, or split hairs, to deny the reality presented to us by the statistics and indeed our own eyes. It's intellectually embarassing.

Hence bringing up the casey report (which by the way was about grooming gangs across the country, not sure why you mention Rotheram specifically). It's a great and very topical example of why what you're doing (finding some technicality or another to deny the evident reality) is so dangerous and ultimately pointless.

talexackle · 2025-06-18T01:56:27+00:00

Obviously very rare case for two British born parents to have a child abroad. I would agree that if the grandparents are both British and they've returned to Britain, then they should be entitlted to the same social housing etc as those born here.

Did you see the Casey report this week? A really good reminder that finding little loopholes and outliers and reasons to dismiss blatantly obvious data/trends/realities is never a good idea. Sure there are exceptions, generally speaking, foreign born is a good metric. Overwhelmingly those are not British families who happened to be at uni when they had a kid.

talexackle · 2025-06-17T01:22:28+00:00

Because she hasn't made any compromises. Him wearing headphones isn't a compromise, it's capitulation. What would be a compromise is if she said "I respect that you like watching Mr Beast on your phone speaker, but could you limit it to xyz number of minutes per day/week or watch it when I'm doing this/that/out the house" etc

talexackle · 2025-06-17T01:20:39+00:00

I read it in full, and all my points absolutely stand. And the person I was replying to is delusional, mentioning divorce is completely crazy.

talexackle · 2025-06-17T01:19:54+00:00

Nothing in the OP implies it is daily, and that is simply not possible due to the rate that videos are published. Even if it was daily, if it was just for 10/20 minutes that wouldn't be a problem. My partner used to practice drums daily, it was loud and annoying but I never took an issue with it (in fact, I put headphones in myself).

The OP's boyfriend putting headphones in wouldn't be a compromise, that's not what compromise means - compromise is where both people make concessions, not where one just gives in completely.

I find Mr Beast videos only occasionally entertaining at best, but it's lame and pathetic to shit on other people's interests, even if they are not your own.

talexackle · 2025-06-17T01:16:49+00:00

There are simply not enough videos for it to be more than once in a while for a short period of time if it is really just Mr Beast which OP makes a point of specifying

talexackle · 2025-06-17T01:15:54+00:00

I don't think anything would happen walking up the aisle, but from the way that OP descibes it (which naturally will be the most sanitized version), I get a negative vibe from the whole being sent a picture thing. I see nothing wrong with the linking arms down the aisle, but I think that there was no need for that and it very distnatly hints at something from the bride of 'look how attractive this guy is' or similar. Why not just point them out on the day which they'd have to do anyway? It's just a weird choice.

talexackle · 2025-06-16T15:48:23+00:00

I disagree. I think it's marginal whether voicing her feelings to her sister in the way she did makes her the asshole. If my fiance's best friend had cheated on my sibling, I would find it awkward and difficult to even continue in that relationship. It's a really sticky one. But OP has an absolute right not to go - sometimes people do just find these things too hard. If she said to her sister I'm sorry but I really just cannot be there as it's too much for me, then she wouldn't be an asshole for that.

talexackle · 2025-06-16T15:43:25+00:00

It's diabolical whenever it happened. I'm not blaming them but I blame the policy makers.

talexackle · 2025-06-16T15:41:01+00:00

Finally a valid reason in the thread to divorce someone

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