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It's just nice. The hot lemon helps more than the paracetemol for me so sometimes I just make squash with hot water and it's not too different.

Might be regional. I work at festivals in the UK and it's called the sound stage here.

ETA - should also add, FOH means something else at UK festivals, it's the non tech parts, so the catering are FOH, the bar is FOH, FOH staff cannot enter the soundstage.

I used skype for this. I sometimes use an American number for work. It's a small monthly fee and works well. I use it on the computer but I gather it works on the phone too.

I have a car clock pencil, it lives in my car sunscreen pocket and it's used twice a year when the clocks go forward or back.

I'm british, so you can see my confusion!

Nonce term?? Does that mean something different where you are?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgF6IvqRibg

This is a video of someone who didn't brush their hair for 4 months. It's not as matted as it can get but you can see it's pretty matted.

A network of slavery spanning dozens of countries is the main thing scientology does.

Look, you seem to have started a debate which you don't have any background knowledge on. Maybe look into it first?

Any natural untouched hair is a matted mess. Even brushing guides how the hair lays and what style it takes. Everyone is styling their hair, including those with afros.

What does history have to do with it? You're asking about the view today.

I'd say at no point in history was christianity as bad as Scientology but today it's fairly innocuous.

Look at percentages, if there's 100,000 scientologists worldwide with 70,000 suffering some kind of abuse directly by the religion that's a massive percentage, whereas christianity there's 2 billion, and the numbers suffering abuse directly by the religion if they're exactly the same number, it's much less of an issue.

Beyond that, a christian can leave whenever they like with no real consequences. It doesn't have the elements of control. Nobody is helping people escape from christianity. You don't have volunteers picking up nuns by the side of the road at 2am wearing only the clothes on their back.

Scientology is really bad. They have absolutely killed people, either through more direct methods or through neglect. They convince cancer patients to not get treatment, and I've recently been watching some stuff about their treatment of the elderly, who are often starved to death. They see them as spirits that need to go onto the next life so make no attempt at caring for them once they can no longer care for themselves.

That's ignoring the false imprisonment, physical abuse, and all round mistreatment of them.

Oh you're deep into Israeli propaganda. Israel bomb schools and refugee centres and defend themselves by claiming that Hamas were there and 'using the children as human shields'. The funny thing is, when they go through the dead, they never find these Hamas fighters. It's almost as if they're murdering children just to punish Palestinians.

Read the article. Hamas have very few rockets, dozens maybe, and even those have short ranges. Bombing Israeli settlements is rare.

You seem confused. No Israeli houses are being stolen. Hamas or representatives of them killed around 200 people at a recent event. In the same period Israel has killed 500 people, including nearly 100 children.

There is a war occurring, and people will be involved in the fighting. However this is an America funded army with bombs and planes against a few groups that are mostly using rocks.

This is a breakdown of the resources available - https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/this-is-the-imbalance-of-power-between-israel-and-palestine-in-real-terms-46651

Israel have decided that they want the gaza strip, and are blanket bombing with the explicit goal of eliminating the population there. It's brutal.

Nobody is trying to find the 'original owners', it's not relevant at all.

Jews are not being displaced from their homes. People currently moving to Israel are moving by choice, and kicking families out of their homes to do so.

You are really missing the point here

Not what I said in the slightest. Current residents were and still are being displaced.

Take my own house as an example, who lived here originally? Probably some celts. Who lived here before me? Fuck knows, but they left and it tranferred to me.

If someone decided to donate my house to someone else would I be mad? Fuck yes.

This is a really patronising take.

Imagine if your country was 'donated' to a whole other group of people, they took over, murdered people, took your home, tortured your grandparents, you're going to be mad. It's not 'childish', it's reality.

They rejected a perfectly adequate solution by the UN in 1947.

I mean... adequate to who?

I mean, something strange can happen and have a reasonable explanation.