What grinds my gears...

[The Bear]

51 minutes ago, Free Falling Foxes said:

Talking of prices: passing our local Tesco and I fancied a Turkish Delight. Not had one in ages and didn't even know if they still made them. Well they do, so picked one up. I only had quid on me so checked the price. The lable on the shelf stated:

Club Card price 80p.

Below that, in small print, it stated £1.37/100g.

The bar weighed 51g

No idea if the 100g price was a 'Clubcard' price however

No idea how much I would be charged as I don't have Club Card. So I threw myself at the mercy of the checkout girl, assuming a pound would be more than enough.

It was.

 

It's a labelling way to see if you're getting the most bang for your buck compared to the other products on the shelf. Price per 100g let's you do a direct price comparison. 

 

Though at £1.37 per 100g the 51g bar really should have been around 70p.

[Evington Fosse Fox]

The Palestine protests. This is a middle east issue and these selfish protestors should not be blocking our city centres or university campuses. These protestors were not around when 500k plus were killed in Yeman or Syria (these countries are still getting bombed).

 

They are as irritating as Greta Thumberg 

[ozleicester]

Some people being free to spout any amount of bollocks on this site while others are unable to offer a counterpoint.

[leicsmac]

Ronnie Reagan Red Scare-style speeches about how dangerous the world is today and why.

 

The greatest threat our species faces right now are those that have to be addressed as a species. Looking to divide it Cold War-style is going to be grossly counterproductive there, so the whole premise is ridiculous.

Edited 13 May 2024 by leicsmac

[Daggers]

6 hours ago, ozleicester said:

Some people being free to spout any amount of bollocks on this site while others are unable to offer a counterpoint.

If someone politely asked me to stop, I would.

 

 

*I wouldn’t 

[Jon the Hat]

3 hours ago, leicsmac said:

Ronnie Reagan Red Scare-style speeches about how dangerous the world is today and why.

 

The greatest threat our species faces right now are those that have to be addressed as a species. Looking to divide it Cold War-style is going to be grossly counterproductive there, so the whole premise is ridiculous.

It’s already on that part though, so what is your plan to avoid it so we can get on with saving the planet?

[leicsmac]

1 hour ago, Jon the Hat said:

It’s already on that part though, so what is your plan to avoid it so we can get on with saving the planet?

The divided part, you mean?

 

Well, appeal to the rather obvious fact that there are bigger problems facing our species than each other, and those problems will cause us to be still more divided as they get worse - if they are allowed to get worse. And so they should perhaps be prioritised.

 

Perhaps that doesn't appeal to the ape hindbrain enough, though.

Edited 13 May 2024 by leicsmac

[Jon the Hat]

2 hours ago, leicsmac said:

The divided part, you mean?

 

Well, appeal to the rather obvious fact that there are bigger problems facing our species than each other, and those problems will cause us to be still more divided as they get worse - if they are allowed to get worse. And so they should perhaps be prioritised.

 

Perhaps that doesn't appeal to the ape hindbrain enough, though.

No indeed, so we will have to work around it, and make sure we are not taken advantage of in the meantime.

[leicsmac]

3 hours ago, Jon the Hat said:

No indeed, so we will have to work around it, and make sure we are not taken advantage of in the meantime.

I see the point - even though the whole idea just seems patently ridiculous to me when it's so obvious that while there's all this posturing and policymaking WRT being "better" than the other guy or in the interest of "not being taken advantage of", the odds increase of outside events (human driven or not) sending a not-so-polite reminder that none of us are better.

[jgtuk]

Flight prices during school holidays.

Taking Grandkids to our place in Cyprus as daughter and partner are both working during the summer.

Nearly £3k for the flights for two adults, two teens and a 6yr old... Very annoying that you have all the additions during the booking process

[leicsmac]

Another sporting fundie in the US with a platform:

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-69021543

 

An NFL star has courted controversy by telling female graduates that one of their most important roles in life will be "homemaker".

Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker also criticised abortion and LGBT Pride marches in a speech at Benedictine College, Kansas.

His team has not reacted to the three-time Super Bowl champ's comments. The NFL said it was a "personal" matter.

Nearly 160,000 people have signed a petition for the 28-year-old's firing.

In his 20-minute address last Saturday, he said to women graduates at the Catholic private college that they had been told "the most diabolical lies".

"Some of you may go on to lead successful careers in the world," he said.

"But I would venture to guess that the majority of you are most excited about your marriage and the children you will bring into this world."

Butker added that his wife's life had "truly started" when "she began living her vocation as a wife and as a mother".

He added that Isabelle Butker had embraced "one of the most important titles of all: homemaker". Speaking about his marriage, he appeared to become emotional.

His speech also attacked IVF, surrogacy, "degenerate cultural values", "dangerous gender ideologies" and "the tyranny of diversity, equity and inclusion".

 

Women in the kitchen, ethnic minorities serving the drinks or shining shoes, LGBT people in the closet or not existing at all, right?

[LiberalFox]

What's wrong with IVF? 

Edited 17 May 2024 by LiberalFox

[leicsmac]

3 minutes ago, LiberalFox said:

What's wrong with IVF? 

Against His will, apparently.

[LiberalFox]

1 minute ago, leicsmac said:

Against His will, apparently.

 

 

[bovril]

14 minutes ago, LiberalFox said:

What's wrong with IVF? 

The Catholic Church opposes it partly because it involves disposal of embryos. Most Catholics themselves I imagine don't have an issue with it.

 

Most other Christian denominations accept it. 

[bovril]

1 hour ago, leicsmac said:

Another sporting fundie in the US with a platform:

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-69021543

 

An NFL star has courted controversy by telling female graduates that one of their most important roles in life will be "homemaker".

Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker also criticised abortion and LGBT Pride marches in a speech at Benedictine College, Kansas.

His team has not reacted to the three-time Super Bowl champ's comments. The NFL said it was a "personal" matter.

Nearly 160,000 people have signed a petition for the 28-year-old's firing.

In his 20-minute address last Saturday, he said to women graduates at the Catholic private college that they had been told "the most diabolical lies".

"Some of you may go on to lead successful careers in the world," he said.

"But I would venture to guess that the majority of you are most excited about your marriage and the children you will bring into this world."

Butker added that his wife's life had "truly started" when "she began living her vocation as a wife and as a mother".

He added that Isabelle Butker had embraced "one of the most important titles of all: homemaker". Speaking about his marriage, he appeared to become emotional.

His speech also attacked IVF, surrogacy, "degenerate cultural values", "dangerous gender ideologies" and "the tyranny of diversity, equity and inclusion".

 

Women in the kitchen, ethnic minorities serving the drinks or shining shoes, LGBT people in the closet or not existing at all, right?

A lot of American catholic converts are weird. It's like they've embraced the very worst Anglo-Prot stereotypes about catholics - superstitious and bigoted. I imagine most European catholics would find these people absurd. 

[LiberalFox]

12 minutes ago, bovril said:

The Catholic Church opposes it partly because it involves disposal of embryos. Most Catholics themselves I imagine don't have an issue with it.

 

Most other Christian denominations accept it. 

Yeah I thought it would be something like that. 

[leicsmac]

42 minutes ago, bovril said:

A lot of American catholic converts are weird. It's like they've embraced the very worst Anglo-Prot stereotypes about catholics - superstitious and bigoted. I imagine most European catholics would find these people absurd. 

Yeah, that sounds about right.

 

Another example of something Stateside being pushed to 11 - whether good or bad.

[bovril]

1 hour ago, leicsmac said:

Yeah, that sounds about right.

 

Another example of something Stateside being pushed to 11 - whether good or bad.

There also seems to be this whole subculture now of men obsessed with women hitting "the wall" and regretting their life choices. You see it all over Twitter. I guess it comes from their own insecurity and existential dread. But it's the fiction that binds their whole world view together. I think Butkers comments including the anti IVF stuff is as much about that as religion. Especially as he's a professional athlete whose own career is finite. 

[leicsmac]

33 minutes ago, bovril said:

There also seems to be this whole subculture now of men obsessed with women hitting "the wall" and regretting their life choices. You see it all over Twitter. I guess it comes from their own insecurity and existential dread. But it's the fiction that binds their whole world view together. I think Butkers comments including the anti IVF stuff is as much about that as religion. Especially as he's a professional athlete whose own career is finite. 

I think that's a smaller facet of simply wanting control over women as it was in the past, really. The comments about hitting the "wall" and regretting life choices is just one way of framing it - "here, you're regretting the life choices you made, wouldn't it be so much better to have an "alpha male" make them for you?"

 

Like you say, religion plays into that some too, but again is just one part of the whole idea - control.

[MPH]

3 hours ago, bovril said:

A lot of American catholic converts are weird. It's like they've embraced the very worst Anglo-Prot stereotypes about catholics - superstitious and bigoted. I imagine most European catholics would find these people absurd. 

I work with a Surgeon who converted to Catholicism and he is the absolute poster boy for someone who believes all the conspiracy theories..

[Raj]

Tv License fee is now nearly £170 a year!!!

 

When the feck did that happen!!

[Livid]

Ordered a new phone last night.

 

Waited until an hour after the next day delivery cut off to order, so it would arrive on Saturday, only for them to rapidly pick, pack and dispatch it for delivery today. 
 

I was at work, had to pay £5 to get it delivered tomorrow afternoon as the free redelivery days were all weekdays next week. 
 

 

[Parafox]

4 minutes ago, Livid said:

Ordered a new phone last night.

 

Waited until an hour after the next day delivery cut off to order, so it would arrive on Saturday, only for them to rapidly pick, pack and dispatch it for delivery today. 
 

I was at work, had to pay £5 to get it delivered tomorrow afternoon as the free redelivery days were all weekdays next week. 
 

 

 

Sometimes you have to pay extra for efficiency. 

[Parafox]

9 hours ago, LiberalFox said:

What's wrong with IVF? 

 

9 hours ago, bovril said:

The Catholic Church opposes it partly because it involves disposal of embryos. Most Catholics themselves I imagine don't have an issue with it.

 

Most other Christian denominations accept it. 

 

Our close friends are quite serious Catholics, in that they go to Mass every time, all their beliefs and the basis of their lives are based around Catholicism.

 

They struggled to conceive and eventually they took the IVF course 3 times sadly with no success. They had no issue with the Catholic church's stance and neither did their Priest. 

 

They subsequently adopted 2 babies that were given up by the birth mum.