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  1. FoxEye

    You know you're getting old when...

    I genuinely have no idea what this means.
  2. FoxEye

    You know you're getting old when...

    Oi! Garden centres are freaking ace. (mid-40s) Well, the ones that actually have plants and haven't "diversified" into being glorified coffee shops and gift centres.
  3. FoxEye

    Do you have family members you just don't understand? Or even like?

    :eek: Reported you for micro-privilege non-binary aggressive non-crime hate thinking. How very dare you.
  4. FoxEye

    National insurance cut

    Potholes are becoming a literal epidemic round our way. They are left for months and even years sometimes, until you could just about fit a small child in one. Then they'll come and draw a line around it, and it'll sit like that for another few months, before being hastily patched up. Then the...
  5. FoxEye

    The simulation hypothesis.

    But you (and others) have said, "Time is a human construct." You didn't say, "Our units of time are a human construct." Nobody says, "Distance is a human construct", yet our units of distance are likely to very different to units of distance used by aliens (should they exist). It just seems to...
  6. FoxEye

    The simulation hypothesis.

    Why do people say this? Time is very likely to be universally understood by all intelligent life. You don't need to be human to observe the passage of time. Even machines can do it :p
  7. FoxEye

    BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

    Some will never get it at all, from the discussions I've had with various people inc BTOR. If by the time the low-hanging fruit have all got FTTP, the govt decides that Starlink is "good enough", then the remaining addresses will simply have their wired services withdrawn and not replaced. So...
  8. FoxEye

    Are you a top revenue earner?

    "Market forces" doesn't work. Honestly, there are so many areas of live where "market forces" alone would destroy the country. Literally, no hyperbole, if you let market forces alone dictate thing you would destroy society. You'd only have electricity and gas and broadband and sewerage in big...
  9. FoxEye

    How modern dog rescue centres operate nowadays

    It was widely reported (and it's not hard to find various articles about it) that the RSPCA has put down thousands of healthy animals, for reasons other than those listed in your link. Including just not having space for them. I'm not sure I would just believe their statement about not having...
  10. FoxEye

    How modern dog rescue centres operate nowadays

    The same RSPCA that became notorious for putting down approx 50% of the animals that came into their care? Including scores of perfectly healthy animals? And there was a huge outcry about it? And many of us will never donate a single penny to them again? An organisation that also spends a huge...
  11. FoxEye

    How modern dog rescue centres operate nowadays

    So the guys at the rescue centres are tasked with psychological profiling and building a comprehensive picture of the prospective owner's thought processes. That sounds like it would be really hard to do for people whose primary responsibility is to care for dogs. I hope they don't just end up...
  12. FoxEye

    Obesity

    We're already there, for sure. As well as genuine land whales being celebrated as "healthy", we have the flip side of that same coin, where people look at healthy weight women and call them "anorexic". I only ever feel bad when I'm overweight. I don't look at myself and dream of a world where...
  13. FoxEye

    Do you navigate away from webpages that have tedious ‘cookie’ pop-ups?

    I have twice as many clicks. Customize -> Reject Non-Essential (or Preferences -> Save and Exit) Choosing "Accept all" will AFAICT turn on all optional and marketing cookies, if you take the time to click the 'Choose' button, they present you a list with most of the non-essential stuff already...
  14. FoxEye

    How modern dog rescue centres operate nowadays

    What if they have no contingencies and the dog won't get walked for, let's say, 4 weeks. The person doesn't get sick very often, but they get unexpectedly sick for 4 weeks and the dog can't get walked for those 4 weeks. You'd have to think twice about whether the dog was better off in kennels...
  15. FoxEye

    Are you a top revenue earner?

    I'm not sure why that's a problem. Jobs that pay NMW are still jobs that need doing. In a lot of cases people would still prefer to do other work, even if it were not paying massively more than NMW. Because a lot of NMW work is mind-numbing stuff. But those people still need to make enough...
  16. FoxEye

    How modern dog rescue centres operate nowadays

    @ttaskmaster You say they aren't looking for the ideal home, but then go on to say they won't rehome with a person who doesn't have contingencies in place for every unforeseen situation that could befall them... So is a dog better off in a kennel/pen than with a single person, because that...
  17. FoxEye

    Obesity

    I guarantee you wouldn't be very healthy on a diet of me :p
  18. FoxEye

    Obesity

    We would end up clearing so much land (e.g. Brazilian rainforest) to produce all the extra cattle, it would be a complete ecological tragedy.
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