"I'm not racist! I don't have any problem with foreigners, our milkman was a [racial slur]! I just think...."Originally Posted by Spikey M
"I'm not racist! I don't have any problem with foreigners, our milkman was a [racial slur]! I just think...."
No but you can be aware of them.
Yes and you can choose not to express them for the good of yourself and others. But I'm not sure you can help having them in the first place.
My school had the largest catchment area in England, almost two-thousand kids, and you couldn't have fielded a non-white football team. Every teacher was white as well.
If your feelings on a subject are ridiculous - such as caring what language someone is speaking when they aren't even talking to you - then you should try to change your feelings and I think you absolutely can.
I used to dislike religious people and all their bollocks. My feelings have changed to not giving a fuck.
I meant you can be aware of them and start to internally challenge them not just bite your disgusting racist tongue.
We also didn't have a pregnancy until someone transferred in year eleven from one of the town schools. She was an absolute sort as well, so I wonder whether she's four kids into being a state these days, like a disproportionate amount of the better looking/more popular people are now.
The issue is multiculturalism, insofar as every historical example of it leads to communalism and violence, and language is the visible tip of that particular shiteberg.
it's always better to be a late bloomer. Most of the lookers I went to school with are some form of addict with a face to match. Shame. The ugly ducklings are donning it.
I doubt you arrived at that via a painstaking logical process though. You likely stopped caring, or started caring more about other things instead. That does happen over time with almost everything (I said that colour wasn't much of a thing now - I suspect that in the 50s-80s it was a massive thing), but it does take time, perhaps a generation.
People may instinctively feel a certain way - for example, 'Things were one way when I was a kid, now they're another way and I feel uneasy about it'. If the response from wealthier sections of society when they express that feeling is that they are called a filthy racist, when they genuinely don't believe that they are a filthy racist, then, taken in combination with the general decay of social institutions and public services, they're probably going to end up voting against the status quo in a referendum. Maybe, in 20 years, they'll look back and think hmm, maybe I was a bit racist, I can see things more clearly now. But there's no time for that incubation period in the short run. They'll just think no, fuck you, you don't walk all over me just because you have money and an education.
Supermarkets bringing back purchase limits, here we go. Full lockdown presumably in 2 weeks or we thinking sooner?
October Half Term
When in October is that? The end of October around Halloween? It'll be too late then.
This is so grim. I feel sorry for these poor kids. They were encouraged to go to uni this year and there was no proper planning to deal with this, was there?
Maybe this is when everyone realises that undergrad university is a con and the corporate admins are all on the take, never more so than when it comes to accommodation.
“[The new restrictions] are pretty drastic and it’s all a bit scary,” says Ralph Bennett-Richards, a first-year Glasgow student. “Moving up from London, living away from home for the first time, was scary enough without people now saying that we may not be able to home for Christmas. That’s made me really upset and I did have a little sob last night.”
Proper Boydy is RalphYou expect it from a double-barreller from London tbf.
I haven't looked at the limits supermarkets are imposing. Is it the same as last time where it's only the dickhead shoppers likely to be affected anyway?
The usual stuff, pasta, rice and bog roll.
Students.
Yes.
It also seems that they're doing it before all the mental dickheads have wiped everything out.
It's difficult for the students. On the one hand I think that surely it was obvious that university was going to be an absolute shit show this year, and had "defer" written all over it. On the other, what else do you do for a year? It's probably not the easiest job market to get involved in. Presumably they can only defer a certain number of places without the knock-on effect absolutely fucking the 2021 intake too.
I was surprised they didn't just all (at least the ones who don't need to be in labs etc) do distance learning and Zoom lectures. I know it's not the full ticket but it's an education.
I think the main thing is the unis, the housing providers etc and the subsidiary businesses desperately all need the cash from them being there.
Universities need to be allowed to go to the wall along with other 'unviable' businesses, and I would bail the students out if necessary (i.e. if it interrupts their degree).
"Took them 3 days to get an online shop"
That's probably a shorter turnaround than most students take to figure out where the shop is, or how to do laundry, tbf.
Over here, "food insecurity" is all the rage among idiot faculty. Apparently, our poor students are starving to death (in a uni that costs over $70,000 a year to attend), so they have created a gofundme campaign to buy the kiddos gift cards to the local supermarkets. The fancy ones though, because even under famine, we are too good for Walmart. I checked the application and it asks you how much money you want in your gift card (up to $50) and how frequently (every week, every two weeks, etc.) and it all seems to be done on the honor system. Tempted to go in and get myself a free $50 a week. Unsurprisingly, that is the most popular choice, which is taken as evidence of the MASSIVE problem we are dealing with, of course.
Baby wipes appeared to be wiped out in my local tesco as I conducted a flying visit this evening.
The majority of them are remote Zoom lectures. That's what makes it even more retarded that Universities have encouraged the students to move into halls.
I took this to mean that that was the earliest they could get a Tesco or Sainsbury's or whatever delivery. That seems about right in my experience? You can't get it the same day anyway. And if loads of students are locked down and demand for it in that area has gone up then you definitely won't get it any quicker."Took them 3 days to get an online shop"
Remember at the start of lockdown how hard it was to get one? You had to book them three weeks in advance at midnight when the new slots were released.
I get what it means, it remains horse shit. Nobody there has anybody near(ish) that could drop some food round? And you can get food within half an hour on Uber. Cornershops included.
Correct.
They’re not allowed going to the pub or restaurant for this weekend. Wow. Two whole days. If we tested positive or were in contact, we’d be in the same position. At least they’re in the same boat of hundreds in the same complex.
What are they all even studying to be going back anyway? My girlfriends whole course for this term is on Zoom as well as my brothers and his mates. Twats.
I live next door to the Leeds University halls of residence, and they've been making a bloody racket.
Any sexy slutty ladies on show?
Went to the local today and fucking hell. Selling masks at the door for those who don't have one because you now need one at all times until your first drink is at your table. And of course, wear one as soon as you stand up to go mens. No mixing under any circumstances. This is a Greene King one but clientele are fairly rough round the edges let's say so I imagine this isn't at the top of the percentiles where control and compliance comes into it. If they don't ease up I give it about 2 months before mass rejection of pubs and closures starts surfacing.
On the plus side, the masks do mean upsides of talking to people [illegally] without worrying about their spit particles ifyou were OCD like me even before this shit. Additionally, I'm home by 11, this is the way a civilised society should have been but we've tasted the apple now and there's no going back so open the fucking clubs.
Nightclubs are for 17 year olds and rapists.
Greene King are pretty strict here but then I think most chain pubs will be. Your locals still won’t give a fuck. I was in Edinburgh staying over on Monday and you were having to do get your temperature checked in every single pub I went in. Bit weird.
I dunno, if they've moved away to uni, probably not.
Fair point on uber though.
It's still shit for them. They're just kids. Going to uni is a scary enough time without all this shit.
Thwy were encouraged to go back by greedy bastard universities who want the rent for their shitty accommodation.
This is bang on. COVID hasn't so much been a tool of destruction as it has a glorious push for refinement.
Obese and those who disregarded their health? Fuck off.
Lax hygiene care and controls? Fuck off.
Long commutes and pointless desk-sitting? Fuck off.
£5 coffees and £15 lunches? Fuck off.
£40 return flights and weekend city breaks? Fuck off.
Allah is cleansing us and realigning us on the path to righteousness.
Shut the fuck up.
More fool them then.
On the other hand, high-speed rail is still happening, and we're going to be paying more taxes until forever, so... Swings and roundabouts really isn't it.
Higher taxes are very high in my original list and I'm not just saying that to appease the Boydys. If we can keep the momentum on this 'oh look, turns out there are people who benefit financially from our misfortune' bandwagon, we could even bring in the gamechanger billionaire taxes and at that point I'll establish the church of Covid.
This covid inspector bullshit is probably the busybody highwater mark, putting society on the precipice of descent into a full blown thought police driven dystopia.
Imagine the sort of arsehole you'd need to (volunteer) be to be one.
Traffic Wardens must be feeling popular as fuck right now.
Or you could just be out of work and in need of something to do.
Whatever about any of the rest of it you can ram your allah up your cunt.
You'll be first up against the wall come Yawm ad-Din, you infidel.
That’s the twattery we’re up against.
And then you see this bloke would be filed under 'no pre-existing condition' as if he isn't clearly twenty stone.
It must be tough when your beard mixes with your chest hair.
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