Ellen Van Dijk tweeted her prize for winning the Friesland Tour
o_O
(, Wed 9 Mar 2022, 17:05, Reply)
Trust the Brits and the 'Muricans to clutch their pearls over it!
Edit: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloeizone_Frysl%C3%A2n_Tour
(, Wed 9 Mar 2022, 17:57, Reply)
Say members of public who seem to think that touring a concrete prison complex populated by animals displaced from their natural environments to be exploited for entertainment by gawping humans is otherwise totally fine and not fucked up at all.
(, Wed 9 Mar 2022, 18:22, Reply)
And their costly care requires selling tickets to gawping humans, the only solution is to stop breeding those animals and sell them to Findus
(, Wed 9 Mar 2022, 18:42, Reply)
But let's be real, zoos are exploitation first, conservation a very distant second.
As you rightly state, the majority of the inmates are born into captivity and would stand about as much chance of surviving in the wild as Christopher McCandless should they ever be released. So, it just turns into an endless loop of breeding generation after generation of increasingly less authentic examples of each breed so that generation after generation of increasingly less authentic examples of our breed can walk around tormenting them.
We should absolutely stop breeding them if the primary objective is for financial gain. No need to turn them into dinners, though. We can just try to give them as comfortable and as dignified a life as we can until they die naturally and then build something useful on the site, like a treatment centre for addicts or an animal rescue centre.
(, Wed 9 Mar 2022, 19:05, Reply)
butterscotch used it. great minds eh?
(, Wed 9 Mar 2022, 20:56, Reply)
Small world, indeed ;)
(, Wed 9 Mar 2022, 21:03, Reply)
indeed :D I used to be on here all the time a few years ago.
(, Fri 11 Mar 2022, 0:02, Reply)
Luckily you naturally wandered off into eugenics territory so I can still feel morally superior and the natural balance is maintained.
(, Wed 9 Mar 2022, 22:22, Reply)
But keep in mind many do participate in and raise funds for conservation work in the field. The reality is that people are much less generous when it comes to supporting animal causes so not sure who will fund dead end zoos. Also regarding "authenticity",
captive breeding among ethical zoos is designed to optimise genetic diversity. There's actually a lot of effort going into that. Another point to consider is the shrinking areas available for wildlife. Many parks now require management at a level that blurs the line between captive and wild populations.
Still, it can never justify Chinese zoos importing wild elephants from Zimbabwe and Namibia.
(, Thu 10 Mar 2022, 8:22, Reply)
Who among us hasn't dreamed of fucking a penguin? Or an ocelot. Or a threeway with a tapir and a capybara? At 20 quid a pop there'd be queues around the block
(, Fri 11 Mar 2022, 0:56, Reply)
into seaside towns with a seagull problem.
(, Thu 10 Mar 2022, 8:41, Reply)
then we'll need to start releasing elephants to kill the monkeys
then sharks with lasers to kill the elephants
(, Thu 10 Mar 2022, 20:56, Reply)
full clip here: twitter.com/HIGH_TIMES_Mag/status/1500207158461353994
(, Wed 9 Mar 2022, 6:45, Reply)
That turns out to be essentially wrong - the emailed guidelines weren't official policy and have since been clarified to allow the words "war" and "invasion".
(, Wed 9 Mar 2022, 6:33, Reply)
Still, what's wrong with "border malfunction" or "irregular recoupling"?
(, Wed 9 Mar 2022, 6:43, Reply)
It may not be official policy, but it’s very revealing about existing mindsets and attitudes at that organisation. What is essentially wrong is that this email was written and sent at all. It won’t have been some nutter acting alone gone rouge. I realise the UN needs to be highly inclusive, but when they start lying in order to achieve that, frankly I wonder if there’s any point to it at all.
(, Wed 9 Mar 2022, 9:03, Reply)
When in fact the whole campaign and the Tory party had been paid for by Putin and you were stupid enough to fall for it all. Convinced, you were
(, Wed 9 Mar 2022, 14:37, Reply)
That’s why your hero Corbyn wanted us to bend over backwards to placate Putin.
And your heroine Carole Cadwalladr keeps losing libel cases because, you know, Putin.
(, Wed 9 Mar 2022, 17:18, Reply)
Crazy two-stage giant space-plane concept from the 1970s, lovingly animated by Hazegrayart.
(, Tue 8 Mar 2022, 22:36, Reply)
Good cover, too
(, Tue 8 Mar 2022, 19:31, Reply)
was a long time coming but the story arc is quite something.
Nice job Rick!
(, Wed 9 Mar 2022, 13:10, Reply)
Do you have unusually saggy balls..?
Well have we got the perfect product for you
(, Tue 8 Mar 2022, 15:55, Reply)
Surely, that is another answer to a question that no one was asking.
(, Tue 8 Mar 2022, 17:38, Reply)
The dragons loved the slick pitch and lively demo but when asked about net profits the entrepreneurs couldn't even provide a ballpark figure
(, Tue 8 Mar 2022, 18:51, Reply)
"You what?"
"My balls. Can I stick my balls up you?"
"Ewww. No. How is that even possible anyway?"
"Well I shave them, stuff them into this device, then put some other bits on to make it fit properly, then put that up you."
"Fuck. Right. off."
"No, see it'll be great..."
"What, screwing me with a strap-on when you have a functioning cock already? What did you think would be the answer to that?"
"Err, yes?"
"You fucking weirdo. You're not getting anywhere near me for A MONTH!"
(, Wed 9 Mar 2022, 12:34, Reply)
Told you he was a wrong'un
(, Tue 8 Mar 2022, 11:24, Reply)
enjoyed that, good to get an accurate account of history and events.
(, Wed 9 Mar 2022, 1:16, Reply)
Scans corporate accounts for Women's Day support tweets and then goes and finds the gender pay gap for that company and tweets that.
Egg on lots of faces
(, Tue 8 Mar 2022, 11:20, Reply)
"In this organisation, women's median hourly pay is 16.5% higher than men's." - South & East Lincolnshire Councils Partnership
@SELincsCP
(, Tue 8 Mar 2022, 12:42, Reply)
but I bet they still struggle to get lids off jars.
(, Tue 8 Mar 2022, 17:39, Reply)
Although the Young's Pubs figure of 73% dates from the middle of first lockdown when they only had about 38 people. Still...
(, Tue 8 Mar 2022, 14:17, Reply)
And not just taking a cheap shot to rile people up and be cool?
(, Tue 8 Mar 2022, 14:34, Reply)
Dave might be in Procurement making £40K a year, while Janet might be a Buyer and on £26K a year.
Or maybe Dave and Janet are both in Procurement, and Dave has been with the company for 10 years, while Janet only started at the end of last year.
I'm not suggesting for one second that sexual/gender discrimination doesn't exist in the workplace, but this bot is making the problem seem far more severe than it actually is.
There's research to suggest that women are generally less likely to negotiate a wage rise than men. Maybe that's down to perceived/actual discrimination in that workplace, or perhaps women are just less likely to be as proactive/assertive as their male counterparts.
I'm sure that when it comes to stay-at-home parenting, it's still overwhelmingly the mother that decides to cut back on their hours/take an extended sabbatical from their chosen career. Not saying they should be penalised for that, but you certainly aren't going to make much in the way of progression, either.
I can only speak for myself, but I'm in no doubt that I'd be on a significantly smaller salary than I am now if I hadn't negotiated for raises during my annual reviews. I'm still to meet a Boss that has offered an employee more money without any kind of prompting.
I'm sure somebody will trot along on their high-horse at any moment to berate for for being a massive sexist, though. Oh well,
(, Tue 8 Mar 2022, 16:07, Reply)
Where do you stand on abortion?
I'm curious because being anti-abortion seems to be one of the pillars of American right wing radicalisation, but it's a hard sell to those socialised with British values.
(, Tue 8 Mar 2022, 21:33, Reply)
that if men take an extended time off work, when they return they are penalized more than women for a similar gap, as far as wages and promotion opportunities are concerned.
It's also true that, up to the age of 30, the median wages of women are greater than that of men.
It's only after a significant portion of them leave work for an extended amount of time to have children that the wage gap appears.
All of these are true statements. Read into them what you will. My apologies if any of these facts cause dissonance with anyone's chosen world-view.
(, Wed 9 Mar 2022, 12:18, Reply)
largely due to childbearing being an exclusively female role. However. if men take an extended time off work it could be because they went to jail, or took an extended holiday (sorry "went travelling": I am a traveller, you are a tourist, they are trippers).
(, Wed 9 Mar 2022, 13:11, Reply)
which means they are being overvalued by approx 37x
(, Wed 9 Mar 2022, 12:25, Reply)
you seem to be applauding the same witless spin it seems to think it counters
(, Wed 9 Mar 2022, 21:26, Reply)
for the same job, you can report that to the police because it is illegal.
My wife recently wanted to reduce her hours working, so she could do more 'quality of life' activities.
I reminded her she was an agent of the patriarchy and contributing to the problem of women having a lower median wage.
She laughed and then got on with her day. I love her.
(, Wed 9 Mar 2022, 11:17, Reply)
Some of us gave up years ago.
(, Wed 9 Mar 2022, 18:00, Reply)
We need more of this sort of thing every time that some fuckwitted PR person wants to hijack a social justice campaign for cheap publicity.
(, Wed 9 Mar 2022, 13:07, Reply)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG0MOPmofMs
(, Tue 8 Mar 2022, 2:01, Reply)
(, Wed 9 Mar 2022, 10:58, Reply)
Remember folks, never start a land war in Asia.
(, Mon 7 Mar 2022, 22:57, Reply)
edition.cnn.com/2022/03/07/politics/donald-trump-ukraine-china-russia/index.html
(, Mon 7 Mar 2022, 23:22, Reply)
but that was clearly standup material rather than foreign policy.
(, Mon 7 Mar 2022, 23:58, Reply)
Someone's off their meds.
UNRELATED malapropisms on mumsnet (gasp), a few good ones.
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4497734-To-have-used-a-MALAPROPISM
(, Mon 7 Mar 2022, 22:49, Reply)
Just avoid the 'Look what I shat out of my fanny today' threads.
(, Tue 8 Mar 2022, 14:37, Reply)
IIRC it included such delights as the poo knife.
(, Tue 8 Mar 2022, 15:52, Reply)
'The musician told the court he quit social media in 2015, adding that for "the whole of 2016" he was "off" social media and was using a "flip phone from Tesco".'
Could be worse ways to earn a living I suppose
(, Mon 7 Mar 2022, 14:09, Reply)
(, Mon 7 Mar 2022, 19:06, Reply)
...what chance is 'you used two similar words in a similar rhythmic fashion'?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnA1QmZvSNs
(, Mon 7 Mar 2022, 21:23, Reply)
maybe they could donate their profit to a suitable charity or something
maybe a charity set up to help those who have been involuntarily exposed to the moosick of ed sheeran and still suffer the ptsd perhaps?
(, Mon 7 Mar 2022, 21:36, Reply)
let the lawyers sue each other for any harm they feel has been caused in the process once i have received my just rewards. cunts.
(, Mon 7 Mar 2022, 22:03, Reply)
Lawyers shouldn't sue each other it just ties up more lawyers that could be working on other cases
(, Mon 7 Mar 2022, 22:09, Reply)
that's the cunning plan my man
(, Mon 7 Mar 2022, 22:11, Reply)
Just tell people you don't want to punch him because he's ginger, just that you want to wipe that shit-eating grin off his face.
(, Tue 8 Mar 2022, 2:12, Reply)
There are many legal cases that have hinged on just a single word or whether there is a comma present in a law or contract.
Words mean things, especially in laws, and if the law is being complied with to the letter, even if not in the spirit, then you'll have to change the law to remove the loophole.
That's like giving someone a ticket for doing 1mph less than the speed limit, because they whilst they are obeying the letter of the law, you have decided they are gaming the system to avoid getting a speeding fine.
(, Mon 7 Mar 2022, 11:45, Reply)
*some onward connections will be required
(, Mon 7 Mar 2022, 13:46, Reply)
They’ll have to rewrite the exemption. You can get a telling off in the headmaster’s office for not respecting the spirit of the rules, but you can’t be done for not respecting the spirit of the law. The law has neither spirit nor soul.
(, Mon 7 Mar 2022, 15:06, Reply)
Gremlins was a fine children's movie, a solid 6 or 7 out of 10. Gremlins 2 was a cynical cash grab. Gremlins 3 would suck like new Ghostbusters, Tron, Star Wars, etc.
Maybe a streaming service could turn it into an award winning series that nobody watches, like Karate Kid.
(, Mon 7 Mar 2022, 15:17, Reply)
But it’s mostly very funny.
Your viewing experience may vary.
(, Mon 7 Mar 2022, 23:00, Reply)
You need to watch Gremlins 2 again. There's a lot more going on than you remember.
(, Tue 8 Mar 2022, 0:14, Reply)
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