yorkie1999

8 hours ago, leicsmac said:

Certainly it's still valid, just making the point that without evidence, no one who reads this has the slightest reason to believe anything you said on the matter beyond confirmation bias.

 

Hierarchical Social Darwinism was always the better way, wasn't it?

Dunno, maybe, seems to work where discipline is required, like the forces or in prison.

2 minutes ago, String fellow said:

Turkey is in NATO. Why would Putin's best mate go there?

Probably because an nato country isn’t going to lynch him.

7 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

Oh, there's no doubt some kids are being...well, teenage kids.

 

But the schools are not facilitating or enabling it, which is the crux of the matter.

 

Yep. And there lies the whole difficulty being faced in the age of social mass media now.

 

The very idea of the truth is decaying because it is now so easy to simply feed people different "truths" that they simply want to hear, rather than what really is. Finding actually reliable sources of information and being able to parse them has become really difficult and a lot of people simply don't have the time - and I don't blame them for that, I blame the ones feeding "truth" to them for profit.

It's not just now though, do you believe in UFO's? there's enough evidence to suggest they exist, but no-one believes they exist, same as ghosts, how does anyone know they exist if they've never seen one? Take Russia at the moment, is an army of 50000 men really marching on Moscow to find one man who promised 40000 of them that if they join Wagner they'd be pardoned from their crimes after 6 months of service in Ukraine, which is round about now isn't it. 

Lukashenka's done a runner with his family to Turkey

1 hour ago, Captain... said:

The guardians take on this child identifying as a cat nonsense:

 

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/jun/23/child-identifying-as-cat-controversy-from-a-tiktok-video-to-media-frenzy

 

Just goes to show it is all just culture war bull shit and anyone who genuinely believes that there is a school where a child is allowed to identify as a cat needs to actual provide some evidence and not repeat all this bollocks that has been spread by those with a very thinly veiled agenda.

Apart from going into a school with a video camera, which would be rather dubious, how can anyone provide evidence? And even if you did, the school would just deny it and call it fake because of how ridiculous it makes them look.  In fact, you could say that about anything if you've not physically witnessed it. "i don't believe that car goes 200mph just because jeremy clarkson say so"

On 16/06/2023 at 14:05, ozleicester said:

40 years of the rich exploiting the poor more than at any time in the modern era.

it is time to burn shit down and take back some level of equality

Or, everyone only buy essentials and bring the selling market to it's knees for luxury items. It's a bit like selling a footballer, if we sell Maddison for 50 million, every club we try and buy a player from is going to shove up their prices because they know we've got 50 million to spend. I don't know about anywhere else, but i've not seen a sudden increase in people being kicked out of their homes and the shops are all full which says that people can still afford it. If a loaf of bread doubles in price, we moan about it, and still buy it.

Mental! What’s even more mental is that, didn’t Putin say that nuclear weapons would be used if a direct attack was made on Russia! What’s he going to do? Use them in russia!

49 minutes ago, Bellend Sebastian said:

I'm fascinated by the whole thing.

 

Schools are having to accommodate this.

 

Who's making them? What happens if they don't? What does it involve? What's being accommodated? Is it a blind eye being turned to someone pissing up desks, burying their tods in a neighbour's garden, and leaving weirdly dissected rodents and small birds for the teacher as little presents, or is it a pupil just saying that they identify as a cat now, the teacher saying "fair enough then" and everyone carrying on as normal?

 

I mean, I think there's something to be said for our classrooms suddenly looking like an item on Eurotrash but I find it hard to believe that anybody - let alone a young person - could be bothered to pursue this with any vigour 

Kids rule in the class now days, teachers are powerless and heads hide behind doors. We all know that kids will push to the limits to find the boundaries and I think it’s more of a case of seeing how far they can take the piss than genuinely identifying with an animal, it’s a trend. I blame the ban on bullying where everyone knows their place, we’ve ended up with a society where anyone can say anything they want to anyone and can get away with it, that and the everyone’s a winner rubbish.

Guess this guys job is gonna be a little easier.

https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-war-the-kakhovka-reservoir-was-once-the-second-biggest-in-europe-now-its-nearly-empty-and-threatening-the-worlds-food-supply-12908437

2 hours ago, leicsmac said:

... yeah, and then you get different truths being fed to different people and discourse is dead and everyone is fvcked.

 

Oh dear.

 

Is there more to this than anecdotes or is Hitchens Razor going to apply again?

The problem with Hitchens razor is that even without evidence, the subject is still up for debate, which means the subject is still valid.

I hate cats. Once, I had a pile of sand on the drive, a cat came along, dug a hole in it, had a shit in the hole then buried it, watched it from the bedroom window, couldn’t believe it!

7 minutes ago, ClaphamFox said:

The more details that emerge about Stockton Rush, the more arrogant and dangerous he sounds...

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65998914

There seems to be a few things coming out now. This was added to OceanGates wiki a couple of days ago. 

"After the tests were completed in January 2020, the hull of Titan began showing signs of cyclic fatigue and the craft was de-rated to 3,000 m (9,800 ft). The Spencer-built composite cylindrical hull either was repaired or replaced by Electroimpact and Janicki Industries in 2020 or 2021, prior to the first trips to Titanic. According to Rush, the carbon fiber materials had belonged to Boeing, but OceanGate had purchased them at a significant discount because they were past their shelf-life."

With a reference to this article.

https://www.travelweekly.com/North-America-Travel/Mission-Titanic-Part-2

13 minutes ago, The Doctor said:

Might have started that way but the media cycle I saw was Starmer saying kids identifying as cats should be told to identify as kids, Birbalsingh saying parents are pushing for their kids to be treated as cats, and that kids are identifying as holograms, nothing about the teacher 

How can you identify as a hologram?

Just now, ClaphamFox said:

I don't think yorkie's claim was specifically about Rye College. 

Considering it's not in Leicestershire, you're right.

12 minutes ago, The Doctor said:

And schools are not accomodating that like the outrage machine claims. They're not sticking cat litter in classrooms for the furry student or anything else. It is simply not happening. 

Honestly, it is happening, no joke , no tongue in cheek! and schools are having to accomodate it.

53 minutes ago, The Doctor said:

I mean, I hate saying it because it sounds like a conspiracy theory, but the press these days prioritise clicks and viewing metrics over journalistic integrity. Take the current bollocks about "kids in schools identifying as cats" which makes its way up to Starmer and Badenoch commenting on it. It's obviously bollocks, there was never so much as a hint otherwise (it's literally an american talking point where fox news level talking heads have talked about "schools having litter boxes for kids in classrooms" which is technically true in at least one case in the most depressing way possible - it's an emergency toilet so the kids aren't pissing themselves in extended active shooter situations). The slighest bit of research would have seen that it was all made up, but the press ran with it, got the views, got comments out of Birbalsingh, Starmer and Badenoch and then continued to run with those. So an obvious lie spreads around the country because reporting the lie was more valuable to the british press than fact checking their stories.

You may well think it's bollocks, but it's not. I know for a fact that one of the local leicester schools has a pupil that identifies as a cat and has to be given a saucer of milk at break time, another Leicester school has a pupil that identifies as a fox and walks round with a bushy tail hanging out the back of their trousers.

I'm so worried about this now, i've heard that the majority of our players have requested a transfer away from the club and, as i write this, first team contracts are being drawn up to ensure we have enough academy players to start next season with. How has it come to this? 

2 minutes ago, leicesterlad1989 said:

Shit source. 

Having looked up The72, It's not even a source.

2 hours ago, ozleicester said:

Just a reminder
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-17/greek-boat-reunion-syrian-refugees-500-dead/102492320

A reminder of what?

38 minutes ago, Dahnsouff said:

Can I ask why? It does not sound sensible, but perhaps there is a valid reason? 

We need players like nacho to get us back up and it'd probably cost us more to replace him. As a relegated team, you get one chance to get back into the prem without the financial hit, after that you're fvcked.

2 hours ago, UniFox21 said:

Exactly.

As well as the amount of ocean traffic (boats, subs etc) probably in tandem with animal life noises too. 

 

 

And icebergs cracking.

9 minutes ago, bovril said:

Very sad but irony levels off the chart that this group of rich guys probably got killed by corner cutting and their own arrogance while looking for... The Titanic

I think you’ll find that everything we do regarding any form of transport has always been done by corner cutting and then learning from what went wrong and then putting regulations in place to stop it happening again. In a hundred years, people will be diving to the deepest parts of the oceans seeking thrills in complete safety. We only learn through failures and then eliminating them.

8 minutes ago, Leeds Fox said:

I know sonar is a form of communication, but it doesn’t offer much more than aiding navigation or potentially being able to send a ping or distress signal (similar to an aircraft transponder/SSR).

 

When I read that there had been a comms failure, I assumed it meant a duplex system to transfer data or voice comms.

I think the comms failure was due to the sub imploding. It also sounds like it didn’t work very well in the past. This reminds me of book I once read once a guy called Donald crowhurst who built a boat for the round the world boat race which was full of things that either didn’t work or were just made up, like a navigation computer that didn’t have any electronics in it, basically a dreamer who convinced people that he knew what he was doing.

1 hour ago, Leeds Fox said:

I wonder what comms system they used. I’m sure radios wouldn’t work underwater, especially not at the intended depth. 

Sonar.

Jennifer Lawance, megan fox, Scarlett Johansson, Emily Ratajkowski

Jennifer Lawance, megan fox, Scarlett Johansson, Emily Ratajkowski, because i'd be dead from a heart attack within 24 hours.