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Esb is slow between Hoth and Vader’s Bespin reveal

Infell asleep at some point during thr battle. I may fast forward to roughly where Inthink I got to and finish it. May.

I’m assuming this is a joke…

Not a suprise. At Orange Walks, there’s always at least one die hard in a Celtic top who just happens to want to cross the road at that particular time. Or if it’s a republican march, someone in a Rangers top.

Did you even think before you typed that?? A tiny minority of kids cone out as trans. I believe something like 7 kids a year in Scotland are prescribed puberty blockers. But this is somehow a bigger childcare issue than all of the stuff I mentioned?? Of course it isn’t. It’s an excuse for people to voice their transphobia while pretending to be motivated by child welfare.

Oh please! It’s a bit suspect that many of the people screaming about protecting the children from puberty blockers are silent about child poverty, malnutrition, cold mouldy homes, no homes at all, rundown schools, lack of teachers etc But mention kids being trans, and all of a sudden we need to protect the children

Apparently they raped him first and kicked him to death? Accoeding to twitter so grain of salt.

Another term of Tory rule, and children working in factories in terrible conditions *will* be contemporary. Anyway … my take on the Menzies fiasco is he got lured back to a flat by a supposed make prostitute where a gang waited, and was told to pay up. He has form.

he’s also wanting to strip GPs of the ability to issue sicknites and instead have “specialist work and health professionals” do it. Ie people untrained in health basically told to not issue any. Contract probably given to some Tory’s mate. And ignoring the reason there sre so many prople off longterm is because thry’ve broken thr NHS so big waiting lists, massive waits for services, and long covid.

The question was how did much of the world’s wealth wind up in Britain, paying for infrastructure that we still enjoy today.

Britain’s success is down to stealing other people’s lands and exploiting the shit out of them.

Where did the raw materials used in the factories come from, such as cotton? Also many of our universities were funded by legacies left by the rich who made money through colonialism and slavery. Glasgow has a lot of areas and streets named after such things and people

It’s illegal in Scotland.

Today’s my 8th wedding anniversary, and July will be the 10 year anniversary of our first date! When we first started going out, she made a good bit more than me (nurse) but as she’s been at the top of her band for years, it only increases due to cost of living pay rises. But I’ve switched jobs a couple times (same organisation, been there 20 years), and I’ve more or less caught up with her ‘basic’ pay - she does get shift allowances. Never been a problrm but I’m hally to be making more of a contribution

In fairness to the jury, when the leaddetective’s response to ‘did you plant evjdence?’ Is basically ‘no comment’, that would make me acquit on the basis of reasonable doubt

After a day of racism and islamaphobia in the wake of the horroble stabbings in Sydney, it’s revealed that the culprit is in fact … white. So now it’s mental health rether than terrorism https://news.sky.com/story/sydney-stabbings-police-name-attacker-who-killed-six-people-as-joel-cauchi-13114960

Yeah. I got ID’d in a pub when I was 38. I was taken aback but pretty pleased. Of course, that was a year before my daughter was born, and age has been catching up with me since then

I doubt cctv would be good enough to sctually show what happened in your car.

Yeah. It would be like saying there’s been a massive jump in gay people since 30 years ago. No, people no longer feel they have to hide it or be in denial about it.

Yeah it’s kind of hard to declare something the best OF ALL TIME when one is unfamiliar with most of the relevant competition.

Ultima IV in the 80’s was pretty cool. You had to be good, so stealing, lying and killing was frowned on. you also end up with thr Skull of Mondain which was basically god mode - onky thing it coukdnt kill was Lord British. But using it wiped out your virtue progress

I think identities should be secret, at least until the trial (if any). I’m guessing once a trial has started, the identities of famous people will come out anyway.

Rebel Moon was pretty dull and derivative. It was … ok. At best. All of the recent SW films except maybe RoS and maybe including Solo beat it

If it’s an emergency, people will phone 999. Otherwose, the trend is to phone thr non-emergency no (101) or send an email. That’s the justification anyway, though stations were being visited by the public less. A lot of the stations were old and falling apart/leaking etc. It’s not just thr cost of keeping and running the station; if it’s open it needs to be staffed by at least a non-cop staff member. If it holds prisoners then it needs cops and turnkeys, food facilities etc. so it’s cheaper to keep custodies in larger offices. There’s more likely to be an outcry in rural areas, where a shift change means the cops could be ina different town/village

The Martian is one of my favourite films.