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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • Both companies question if the 2002 law applies. Saying they think the gov is wrong.

    Neither give a shit if they morally should be advertising a dangerous product. Let alone in front of children.

    Ain’t capitalism great.

    I mean I grew up with tobacco advertising. And below 10 my father sending me to the shop to buy him fags. The 70s were a very different time.

    But for all the evil tobacco companies did. They were trying to stay afloat. With a model that started before the health disadvantages were understood. Shitty greed was clearly a motive. But at least some element of survival instinct can be applied. To their desperation to fight the science.

    Sainsbury’s knew the harm from day one. Had no business to protect by trying to skirt the law. A law clearly intended to stop exactly what they planned to do. And openly supported by the waste majority of modern British citizens. Heck even my father’s age group tends to agree with the law.

    But openly decided to do harm purely to increase profits…


  • according to my neighbours, you can buy kittens, not do any of that and then just let them be feral around your neighbourhood

    Ignoreing the not having to care for them. And legally cats must be chipped now. But that is a very very recent rule change.

    This is very much a majority opinion in the UK that cats kept inside is cruelty to the cat. Your opinion that all cats are required to be inside creatures is the rare one. More common in the younger generation. But not one backed up by evidence.

    Bird deaths are the most common sighted evidence. But cats are not proven to be the cause of a change in total population. Cats have been in the UK at least since the Romans first arrival. So 2000+ years. And have been used as pest control on farms extensively since at least that period. Most UK bird species have come here via Europe where cats were for much longer. Urbanisation may mean more cats. But the expansion of humanity and removal of habitate is the real issue.


  • Well it’s sky so I’m not going to disagree with the intent.

    But it’s very open to interpretation. Many right wing readers may interpret it that way. But the tittle just questions the cost. Reading the article it seems more like a warning.

    “For elderly females that dogs may be a bad pet for them and the NHS.”

    I worry more that it makes no effort to compare the huge cost saving regular walking of dogs has on elderly heart and muscle health. And companionship has on mental health.

    But that’s less click baity. And really clicks is all they care about.










  • He may know it. But it is pretty unlikely the gov has one given its trump uncertainty at play. Not to mention the news released on legal opinion.

    But no cabinet member is authorised to declare war or not or future attacks on another nation. Without approval of the whole cabinet. So even if he knows it and one exists.

    He is in no way authorised to declare it independent of official channels.

    And absolutely any journalist in a position to ask that. Knows full well he cannot answer it.

    It is absolutely not reasonable. Unless you are intentionally looking for refusal to answer. Because cabinet policy on attacking a 3rd nation is not and has never been released in such an interview. Such things would be officially announced to parliament first. And be an illegal act of treason for any minister to announce in such a way.



  • Since the 80s all public pool and games areas have become for profit orgs. Often with very questionable business practices.

    This has left low income families in urban areas with very limited options to encourage kids to exercise. On a time per pound basis. Games consoles are much cheaper.

    Returning to government funded gyms, pitches and courts etc. Added to an effort in schools to introduce children to a wide variety of sports or exercise based on them finding enjoyment rather than meeting some specific gov goal.

    Is an infer structure cost that will pay back in multiple way. Not just saving the NHS.

    Nothing against video games. But regular exercise should be cheaper or free.




  • At the very least, CYA. It was well over a decade ago, but.

    I vaguely remember comments about the force’s post investigation not wanting to be racist in suspecting gangs. Being little more than ignoring the fact the teen girls had no option to consent. While ignoring the threat or fear as the motive when they refused to testify. Just assuming the girls were involved in underage prostitution willingly. This attitude as I remember increased the fear in these victims as the police became a threat that just returned the girls, rather than a potential solution.

    While actually ignoring teen girls and parents reporting approaches by some cultures as assumed racism from the harassment victims. Rather than dealing with very complex investigations, they lacked the labour to manage effectively. So basically using the excuse to remove reports from the accounting.