Absolutely lame, but age 12 I remember the worst most intense pain I ever felt was sitting on my own thumb after pulling a wooden stool towards me - crushed it right on the edge corner and it was so intense.
Way more painful than the time I got a drawing pin (thumbtack) half embedded in my heel, impaled my wrist on a set square, or winded myself falling chest-first off a skateboard.
Carp. Had it in poland. The toughest fish meat I've ever had, riddled with tiny annoying bones. Tastes a bit like discount supermarket proscuitto... not exactly horrible, but it was so much effort to eat the damn thing to boot
Most of my print jobs... maybe one a month, are for either artistic reasons or for making labels to stick on things.
I do still print tickets out of habit though, just in case I lose/forget my phone or drain the battery that day, though this has literally never happened.
There are some peculiar branches of libertarian thinkers (Stephen Molyneux being a prime example) that think nothing should be government/tax funded, up to and including e.g. roads. He reasons private companies should build them, and make them all toll roads, or find some other way to recoup the costs.
Disagree - someone has to deal with emergencies and investigate crimes, and I'd rather it was someone trained to do so.
But I would like to see them split up into different agencies with different responsibilities, so it's not armed meatheads dealing with every social disturbance
Most conservatives aren't really economically conservative. They too want police, schools, fire dept, infrastructure etc. to be well funded. There's just also a nebulous idea that "government wastes money" and they don't want their taxes taken.
One of the saddest things was a blog by a nanny to a little girl who was born without a face. She had eyes and a mouth, but that was about it other than random folds of skin.
The nanny was so sweet, talking about all the operations the girl had had to slowly, over time, build her something resembling a face. The girl herself was apparently really sweet and loving too, but everyone who saw her would react as you might expect.
It just struck me how cruel nature can be sometimes. At least she was born to very wealthy parents, but that was the only perk.
I wonder how she's getting on now. Must be 18 or so I imagine.
Odd thing is I don't remember him being awful on camera, I think most of it must've been offscreen. I don't think they've talked about the reasons yet, other than that he cheated on a few rolls
Life IS an experiment, via evolution, to propagate our DNA. We're doing pretty great! Colonised loads of land, even at extremes of temperature. Sure, we haven't made it to living underwater just yet, and the poles, mountainous regions and deserts are logistically tricky, and there's only a handfulbof us in space at any one time, but we're getting there!
I kind disagree. I admit that e.g. growing your own veg will never be cheaper than buying it at a supermarket - it would make financial sense to spend a few more hours working instead, and just buy the veg, but that kind of misses the point.
Gardening, cooking, DIY... they all have a certain satisfaction and self-sufficient pride to them that money can't buy
It's nothing. 1.2m divided by 50 councils is 24000 each, i.e. will buy one high pressure hose and 1 near minimum-wage job per council.
Comparably, I think the NHS costs £25m per day or something
I swear, the amount of government swindles over the last decade are at a level we haven't seen since the 18th century. So many billions lost to dodgy covid kit, nhs contracts, school and prison services...
I don't mind vagina talk, but I do always feel like I'm hearing something I'm not meant to hear, becoming automatically shameful like I'm some kind of eavesdropping creepy perv.
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Absolutely lame, but age 12 I remember the worst most intense pain I ever felt was sitting on my own thumb after pulling a wooden stool towards me - crushed it right on the edge corner and it was so intense.
Way more painful than the time I got a drawing pin (thumbtack) half embedded in my heel, impaled my wrist on a set square, or winded myself falling chest-first off a skateboard.
I've been pretty lucky/sensible