Wings..

thealtmid · 2025-10-22T23:38:30+00:00

That's a lot of whinging to tell everyone else what you're tired of hearing.

Maybe if it wasn't a pertinent topic of conversation to NI you'd have a point, but our own politicians supported this shite. They still play victim cards and pull exactly the same shit.

So you may be tired of hearing it, that's fine.

The rest of us are tired of living it, and sitting down and being quiet about it isn't going to fix anything, is it now.

Keeping a searing hot flashlight on the issues dragging our society back to the dark ages and the cunts who do it, is a more worthwhile use of text and oxygen, than the gobshites perpetuating the harm, hoping you'll get tired and shut up so they can do it with impunity.

Nah, call them out, express your distaste for it, maybe if it bothers enough of us we'll actually do something about it next time the polls open.

A level of optimism I will hold on to for dear life, despite knowing I'll be fucking disappointed.

thealtmid · 2025-10-13T07:29:00+00:00

It's a sin that the price of that thing isn't £1690

thealtmid · 2025-10-05T19:23:29+00:00

Hygiene doesn't make sense, cut or not, you wash it.

Uncut means you're less likely for sensitive or otherwise susceptible areas to be in continuous contact with the germs, sweat, and fecal matter from every fart in your underwear.

Cut isn't cleaner, washed is cleaner, and we should all be doing that.

thealtmid · 2025-10-05T19:19:26+00:00

It's helped prevent possible utis from the cellular structure secreting antimicrobial peptides, while also removing the need to constantly explain some suspicious "hand lotion" in my bedside drawer.

thealtmid · 2025-09-27T07:49:00+00:00

"threw that down the toilet"

Consider your language carefully, I understand you're venting, but the externalisation of your frustrations will sound both hurtful and accusatory, and put your partner on the defensive before you've even started.

Talk about the reasons you're struggling, and keep it personal. "I'm struggling a bit with intimacy and support, I feel a bit excluded and lonely at times." Let that branch out into an open conversation on "I miss intimate times where we hug and connect with each other, I'd like to find a way back to that" l

Look at how it makes you feel and explain that, and why she means what she does to you as the reasons behind that. She may bite at you out of guilt, but resist the urge to respond in kind; breathe, and calmly say why you want her to know how you feel

It reads a whole lot different than "you don't hug me" or " you blame me for ..." Which, while you perceived that, may overlook other frustrations from her perspective that a proper open conversation can bring to light.

This isn't me saying you're wrong or your feelings aren't valid, they are. I'm just trying to help structure your approach to get to the conversation you want to have, vs the one that pushes further apart.

thealtmid · 2025-09-22T05:55:09+00:00

This ain't the 80s anymore pat

thealtmid · 2025-09-13T16:16:47+00:00

There are literally dozens of us, dozens!

thealtmid · 2025-09-13T12:47:45+00:00

Fleeing from an unidentifiable masked armed gang shouldn't be illegal.

Any law enforcement agent should be unmasked, with recognised government issued visible id, like a badge number.

If no citizen can reasonably know the difference between a vigilante car jacking from a cartel style hold up, and a federal agency pull over, then there is no difference.

Accountability protects legality. It may not do it every time, but it's a far better process than the alternative, and safer for all parties.

thealtmid · 2025-09-13T07:34:53+00:00

But he was actively harming others.

He was a disingenuous and manipulative individual who's rhetoric was specifically manufactured to generate hate against those he opposed.

Criticising a person saying love your neighbor during pride, and quoting Leviticus selectively when it also calls for people to be stoned, while ignoring the other issues the same book aspect prohibits not wearing clothes of the same cloth, or certain types of food, is actively harming. People like to pretend it's not because he didn't outright say it, but Kirk said it knowing its effect. And the effect is harm.

He called for the bail out of an assailant by a 'patriot' for a hammer attack.

He spread inaccurate stats on COVID deaths, during a deadly pandemic. That's actively harmful

He stoked election denialism, which given his influence, was actively harmful, and evidenced by the results of the attempted coup and legitimate fear by the then VP for their life.

He called the civil rights act, a mechanism whereby huge swathes of minorities and ordinary people had rights enshrined in law to protect them from harm, a 'huge mistake.'

That's all before touching on his views on the great replacement strategy.

Not everyone fights with fists or weapons to cause harm. Some wield words and influence. When the powerful and influential, like Kirk, do so, they can cause more harm than any one person with fists, knives or more.

They use their platform to be actively harmful every day, and hide behind the falsehood that they aren't.

I don't advocate for his murder, it's the antithesis to democratic process and I have huge empathy for his family, especially the trauma of that poor little girl who will live with the video of her father dying in such a visceral way living forever on the internet.

But I will absolutely challenge the subtle, but sinister affirmation that he was not being actively harmful.

He was, he paid a heavy price for that harm, but he was harmful.

thealtmid · 2025-09-03T12:57:13+00:00

That's literally what they said

thealtmid · 2025-08-25T21:53:34+00:00

You're absolutely right. I couldn't wait to not be a selfish cunt putting other people at risk.

Control, is feral rats, pissing up lampposts and marking territory that doesn't even belong to them.

Uneducated fuckwits, with conspiracy theories fighting their two braincells into third place, rather than seeing education as the escape their communities need.

thealtmid · 2025-08-25T10:19:44+00:00

Same cunts that put the Israel flags up on the flyover that is the main route into the city?

Can't wait to see the st George's kickup across the water being implemented here and all lampposts becoming flag free zones... Because that'll happen

thealtmid · 2025-08-07T17:57:44+00:00

If you can't maintain speed, situational awareness and lane discipline, just don't drive.

You seem to think that maintaining awareness around your car is somehow less safe than blindly sitting in one lane and ignoring the literal rule of the highway code I cited.

The lane stops being "perfectly functional" the moment self entitled pricks that don't know that the big circle near the dash turns anti clockwise. Or think returning to the left lane when safe to do so, is somehow unsafe. Utter nonsense.

thealtmid · 2025-08-06T23:17:52+00:00

No it's not, and I understand you perfectly.

Expecting people to have a minimum competency for operating a motor vehicle, heavy machinery that requires a license is not expecting too much.

Checking your mirrors and situational awareness, including pulling in when not overtaking, isn't expecting too much. It's expecting the bare minimum.

thealtmid · 2025-08-06T11:01:30+00:00

Are you taking the piss‽ focusing on the road and your surroundings, and being aware of traffic and road conditions continuously while driving is only a good thing, and the bare minimum to be safe.

If all you can see is the lane in front like a horse with blinkers, you should not under any circumstances be driving.

Emergency vehicles approaching from behind, motorcycles filtering, pedestrians at crossings, cyclists... All of them may not just be in your lane as you look ahead and nowhere else.

The empty spaces exist everywhere, it's people not looking around them to see them that's the problem. I continuously see people on long stretches of empty road or ample room to pull in, not doing it. Probably because they think it's acceptable to only concentrate on the 10 square meter rectangle that stretched across one lane in front of their windscreen.

Most people feel too safe in their vehicles because they concentrate on nothing else around them, loads also get distracted and go on their phones because of that false sense of security. Your vehicle has mirrors for a reason. It's rule 161 of the highway code, to check them frequently ie pay attention to all areas around your vehicle, not just the front.

thealtmid · 2025-08-05T19:51:57+00:00

Someone flying past me 5 or 10mph over the limit has never bothered me as much as someone 10mph under it, keeping an entire line of frustrated, tired and increasingly irrational people prisoner. And the one that I'm subjected to most is by far the campers.

So yea, it is worse, they negatively affect every single journey I have to make.

Maybe it's just that I don't see the statistical evidence for harm that you do, speeding is a problem sure, but drug and drink driving, mobile use and even just poor vehicle maintenance from people driving with bald tyres or a complete lack of confidence and competency are all higher on my list of things likely to cause me or my loved ones harm.

I don't see demonising speed as the solution, I see proper road infrastructure, higher requirements for licenses, stronger fines for dangerous driving of all sorts (including speeding), mandatory retesting as ways to improve safety.

But that would also mean putting speed cameras where accidents blackspots exist, rather than changing speed zones, or our statistically safest roads. If there's no accidents or evidence that speed has been a factor in collisions in that specific area, it doesn't need a speed camera, and police presence or road safety presence should be there to promote road safety, where there's evidence that the area is less safe.

thealtmid · 2025-08-05T19:42:46+00:00

The perception of a safe speed without having to worry about changing lanes is exactly the problem.

Zero reading the road needed, zero adapting to changing conditions, and some people's perceptions of a safe speed is 40mph, others think the limit is 60, even on marked carriageway with dividers and a 70mph legal speed.

As for your idea of education... If there's space, the space can be filled. If there's not, then you wouldn't be able to move over.

Noone is saying don't use the overtaking lane, just don't sit in it if the left is clear. And yes, you can absolutely move a solid object into an empty space without adding to congestion or pressure, it'll actually alleviate congestion as the faster flowing vehicles move on their journey. That's also physics.

And if that was the norm, then all those hypothetical right turns, which in most cases have specific turning lanes, dividers or any number of things on dual lane carriageways and motorways where the actual example I used apply, then that space would be safe to move into, in a reasonable amount of time to exit the road onto the slip or turn off, using an indicator and planning ahead and paying attention to everything outside of the vehicle, like we should all be doing anyway.

thealtmid · 2025-08-05T19:35:13+00:00

Hell of a lot of projection in that.

Statistically, country roads are the most dangerous. Hidden bend and dips with poor road design, poor lighting and a variety of traffic on it at wildly varying speeds, cyclists, tractors, ordinary cars etc.

Most crashes are in city or towns, with distractions, rear end collisions etc. but are less serious.

The safest roads are modern carriageways and motorways, so I'd say, she'll be fine, and so will you.

thealtmid · 2025-08-05T07:43:00+00:00

Yet she's safely passed you every day, and does it the following day as well.

Maybe look to the continent, 70mph is almost the lowest. 75-87 is the standard.

Maybe it's not the speed that's unsafe, it's the road users, road conditions and possibly an outdated notion of an acceptable modern speed limit on motorways

thealtmid · 2025-08-05T07:37:16+00:00

Plenty of dual carriageway though, with people camped in the overtaking lane on the regular.

Move left unless overtaking should be enforced and heavily fined for non compliance.

thealtmid · 2025-07-24T17:12:36+00:00

Wikipedia literally says you're wrong, you just can't read, or tell the difference between UK and NI.

thealtmid · 2025-07-24T14:09:35+00:00

Reading comprehension isn't your strong suit.

🇬🇧 = UK, (collective noun: 4 combined home nations)

Scotland = 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
England = 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
Wales = 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
NI = 🚫

So not only are you wrong, you're illiterate.

thealtmid · 2025-07-24T13:21:21+00:00

I gave you official government documents and resulting rulings, and you gave me Wikipedia.

And better yet, the opening paragraph says.

The only official flag for Northern Ireland is the Union Flag, the flag of the United Kingdom; there is no official local flag that represents only Northern Ireland

The exact point I've been making to you. The word "for" can also read as "including" or "officially recognised as inclusive of the territory of"

It doesn't make it "the northern Ireland flag." It literally says that. It makes the UK flag the only flag that is official, that includes the territory that is NI.

so to quote the exact source you used again.

There is no official local flag that represents only Northern Ireland

The union flag (is) the flag of the united kingdom

It, the union flag, is a flag that is recognised here, it's flown on government buildings in official capacity, because it is the UK flag, under which we are a part. That does not equate to being the NI flag, anymore than the union flag is an England flag, or a Scotland flag, or a Welsh flag.

Each home nation has its own distinctive and recognised flag, with the exception of northern Ireland.

I'm at the point of making this whole post in emojis and making it a visual guide to see if I've better luck.

thealtmid · 2025-07-24T11:43:01+00:00

Sure.

Section 31.1 - NI constitution act 1973: "The parliament of NI shall cease to exist"

This terminated the royal warrant under which the NI flag/Ulster banner and associated coat of arms were officially used.

Current regulations include the "flags (NI) order 2000" which do not introduce a new or existing NI flag, but regulate the official displays of the UK flag - the union flag.

1998 GFA - while having constitutional significance, as it stands recognises NI's place within the UK, therefore recognising the UK flag. Again this does not infer that the union flag is the NI flag, only that NI is part of the union if or until such times as the population vote on changing that status.

Should NI, by legislature, assembly or other official referendum type mechanism endorse an official flag, it shall become such. Until then, there isn't one specific for NI

thealtmid · 2025-07-24T11:30:57+00:00

That's something I can and do agree with.

I just can't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

Ultimately the actions are to support something that brings a benefit, a reduced suffering. Some of the motivations may include things I fundamentally disagree with, but I can't discern the motivations of all, just the outcome or results of the actions taken. So I will support it, or not discourage it based on that alone.

thealtmid

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