Tory, or not Tory? That is the quest.
I made this!
Next week 0.3% of the electorate will probably choose Liz "Thatcher without the humour" Truss to continue the arduous task of ruining Britain. I always thought that you could spot a Tory a mile off, so I microwaved up a stupid game to test this theory.
In "Tory, or not Tory", you'll see official portraits of 10 Members of Parliament. You decide if each photo is of a Conservative MP, or from one of the other political parties that you'd be better off voting for.
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6/10
Very good - the sound effects alone get a click!
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tarka_dall Like normal dall, only a bit more spicy, Thu 1 Sep 2022, 9:46,
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Woo!
7/10
Might be interesting (if you are not already doing so) to gather the data and see which people get right/wrong the most. I'd read a blog post on who is the most and least Tory-looking, anyway.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Thu 1 Sep 2022, 10:00,
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I am indeed collecting stats. I do think of feeding the portraits into some sort of AI thing to try and find 'Tory-traits'.
To be honest I would have liked the game to have a bit more 'meat', like maybe a mini-bio per MP with whatever controversy they may have caused. But there's 619 in there, and apart from Wikipedia there is no easy API to tap into to get a list of terrible things that they have said or done.
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You might want to make the photos B&W, otherwise the ties are a dead giveaway.
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Stats
I put a few stats on Twitter: twitter.com/Bagpuss_org/status/1567155316239863814
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First one I got was Christopher Pincher
Thought it was a bit unfair as he's only not a Tory cos he's a sex pest, but he is a Tory really so I gave up then and there.
(, Thu 1 Sep 2022, 10:27, Reply)
Yes, I have been caught out with this too. I was thinking of just allowing both answers to be correct when a Tory has been ousted.
(, Thu 1 Sep 2022, 10:30, Reply)
You should add a 'known pervert' option, for extra points.
Details are available online (the whips keep spreadsheets on that sort of thing for blackmail purposes and one got released accidentally on purpose not so long ago).
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Thu 1 Sep 2022, 14:26,
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7/10 would have been higher but I thought the tie choice was non-Tory
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9/10
There is a certain mental look in the eyes I was looking for.
Before I played, I thought I was prejudiced. Now I know I am just judging them correctly and they are mental.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Thu 1 Sep 2022, 13:38,
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They just all look like cunts or virgins
Just like everyone who votes for them
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RIP that guy from the Pizza Hut commercial
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buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Wed 31 Aug 2022, 15:08,
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Well, he was never offered to do a Vanish stain remover ad
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Wed 31 Aug 2022, 15:44,
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It’s in portrait, and should only be watched muted.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Wed 31 Aug 2022, 11:54,
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Captain Disillusion did an explanation a couple of years ago:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuM1IXl66B8
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Varmint, Wed 31 Aug 2022, 16:26,
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indeed
and older than even the glassiest of cocks
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TBL I posted this on, Wed 31 Aug 2022, 23:02,
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The actual non cgi version of the ride is bad enough
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPh4uSv1dpA&t=56s
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slartifartfast When all around are losing their heads, duck., Wed 31 Aug 2022, 23:18,
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No more heroes
At least it wasn't an ice pick for old Gorbachev.
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Invisible Wizard - 13th Level Scrote, Wed 31 Aug 2022, 6:52,
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Hey hey he wants access, and he's not monkeying around.
www.billboard.com/music/music-news/micky-dolenz-monkees-sues-fbi-1235133063/
...and then i sued the feds - cos i'm a believer, a daydream believer waiting to be tried...
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artifus is doing it all wrong, Wed 31 Aug 2022, 1:31,
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Tin Can Modular Synth
And a walkthrough of its modules. youtu.be/YcunNcIj-KE
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It's not actually that impressive if he has just taken modules and put them in a new case. If he has built them it is but I'm not so sure he has. I'd also like to see what was behind him a a pad appeared when he was twiddling a knob.
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Agreed. Other vids of the set-up suggest it is all DIY gear built on perf board from schematics with the cans used as a handy and cheap host for each. But either way it makes a change from the eurorack in a briefcase or Ikea unit.
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This has to be some sort of cultural re-appropriation
And will probably be shite. If I wanted anime (which I seldom do) I’ve got some GiTS box sets on the shelf. If I wanted brightly coloured slow motion fight scenes I can re-watch The Suicide Squad.
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jonbob loves you, Tue 30 Aug 2022, 20:52,
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what's the ingredients of that soap?
i made it through..
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claptonista ,the idiot boy..........🫥, Tue 30 Aug 2022, 18:00,
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If you want to make your own .STL files to 3D print...
github.com/SoftwareImpacts/SIMPAC-2020-40
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Tue 30 Aug 2022, 18:03,
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holy fucking shit he's bad at explaining things
from about 8.15 he completely loses the ability to link the ideas he's trying to discuss
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look at me i have a 3d printer and an internet connection
look at me look at me look at me - please like and subscribe
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artifus is doing it all wrong, Tue 30 Aug 2022, 22:20,
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I think the problem there is he doesn't understand it. He gets the concepts up to the cube, but the egg is a total mystery.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Wed 31 Aug 2022, 11:31,
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I often get the feeling from his videos
that he is trying to explain something he doesn't fully understand.
I regard him as the anti-electroboom
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Wed 31 Aug 2022, 14:30,
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What a stupid annoying cunt
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Thu 1 Sep 2022, 7:17,
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I've watched a few vids of his
He's kind of awkward but there have been a few really good ones. This one didn't quite work but the whole using soap bubbles to find minimum energy states is pretty mindblowing
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simbosan nuck nuck nuck, Thu 1 Sep 2022, 13:08,
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Are YOU Ready for the INTERNET?
Imagine being able to write an email to Bill Clinton and look at a picture of Howard Stableford from your own home.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Tue 30 Aug 2022, 12:35,
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Clinton must have attached a dick pic but it got stuck in those copper wires of the information superhighway
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Tue 30 Aug 2022, 17:23,
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Well it was pre-Goatse.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Tue 30 Aug 2022, 22:19,
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This is a new definition of PG…
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Wed 31 Aug 2022, 19:49,
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Even definitions get stretched.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Thu 1 Sep 2022, 20:39,
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Thatcher fucked that up for us
BT were building factories to turn out fibre in a partnership with S Korea and Japan, but she pulled the plug on them because she didn't want them having a monopoly. Cunt.
www.techradar.com/news/world-of-tech/how-the-uk-lost-the-broadband-race-in-1990-1224784
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Why
are they still pushing this? Everyone knows it's just a fad and will be gone by 1998.
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id10ts WTF happened, Wed 31 Aug 2022, 15:02,
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Can somebody please Deepfake Liz's face onto Toyah's body for the next Sunday Lunch, please?
Asking for a mate.
(, Tue 30 Aug 2022, 12:30, Reply)
Is your mate alright? That sounds more like a cry for help than an actual request.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Tue 30 Aug 2022, 12:52,
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If your mate is as depraved as that they should get the whole Liz Truss package
and not some sort of Frankenstein fantasy. Truss dresses like that because she's got something to hide; spaniel's ears that look like flat ziplock bags of blue stilton.
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Varmint, Tue 30 Aug 2022, 15:20,
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still at 30% in the polls though
Tory voters really are a bunch of thick inadequate weirdos.
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She's a reactionary authoritarian (lite), they love that shit.
As stated before, approx. 30% of the population like to be told what to do.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Tue 30 Aug 2022, 17:24,
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Sex appeal aside, I do genuinely think she's the better candidate.
I don't think she's a good candidate. But fucking hell, she's bound to be better than Sunak.
Rishi might have the better credentials, but he's always come across as that snivelling, ratty cunt that every classroom had who would drop everything to make sure the teacher knew that you were up to something you shouldn't be up to.
Truss by no means personifies charisma, but Sunak is a charismatic black hole. We're unlikely to be taken seriously on an international level either Truss at the helm, but we definitely won't with Rishi there.
Plus, she told Sturgeon to get fucked.
It's like choosing between drinking a pint of cat piss or a pint of tramp's piss. Neither is particularly appetising, but I'll take my chances with the tramp's piss if there's no option three.
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Plenty of people value personality higher than competence.
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Turtle Power & Knuckles, Tue 30 Aug 2022, 18:26,
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That's a suspiciously specific characterisation of Sunak.
Truss is the least credible political leader I think I've ever seen in the UK. She beats Russel Brand, Nick Griffin, George Galloway, Robert Kilroy-Silk, Jeremy Corbyn, Nigel Farage, Geoffrey Clements, everybody.
You can't believe a word she says, and neither can she.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Tue 30 Aug 2022, 19:34,
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I admit I haven't given uk politics much headspace.
It's not as though I get to vote for either. However, she seems mean minded and avoids scrutiny, he at least gives the appearance of understanding more about the technical details.
He's better looking and I'm saying that as a 100% straight man, definitely..
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Tue 30 Aug 2022, 23:04,
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"Plus, she told Sturgeon to get fucked."
Can you explain a bit more about why this is a plus?
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come on mate, a nation's self-determination and democratic mandate is obviously a bad thing.
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Well, I suppose it isn't much of a plus if you're a Nationalist.
As a Unionist, I thought it was lovely.
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as a Unionist, do you agree that the Union should be a voluntary arrangement, or should it be at the sole whim of one nation?
Especially when the governing party of that nation does not have a majority of votes or seats north of the border?
Just asking for a mate.
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If you're really keen on maintaining the Union, why would you think Truss's response was a good thing?
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why do Unionists always seem so keen on sneering at the smaller nations and treating them like shit? Shouldn't they view them as equals?
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I'm not interested in having another pro/anti-independence debate.
However, I'm Scottish. I currently reside in Scotland and I want what's best for the country I live in. Independence is not it.
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You seem to have the view that the independence question shouldn't be asked, lest an outcome occur that you don't agree with.
There's a pro-independence majority in the Scottish parliament, that alone shows that there is a case for a referendum to be held. Whether or not Scotland 'should' secede is a separate matter entirely.
I'd be interested to hear any positive reasons for Scotland remaining in the UK, I can't think of any.
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1) An incalculable amount of money wasted to change the UK flag on absolutely everything it appears on.
Looks a bit shit really
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Turtle Power & Knuckles, Wed 31 Aug 2022, 14:31,
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racist against the imperial English; surrendering to the imperial English
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You'd have to ditch the red St Patrick's saltire in favour of something else for Northern Ireland
Maybe a blue/green saltire instead
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Isn't Sturgeon's whole push for a second referendum based entirely on the fact that she is unwilling to accept the outcome of the first?
Anyway. As I said, uninterested in getting into a pro/anti independence debate. You're not going to change my mind as a unionist. I'm not going to change your mind as a nationalist. It's irrelevant, anyway. There isn't going to be a second referendum any time in the near future. Not an official one, at least. Perhaps Sturgeon might piss away some of our tax money on a mock referendum in the hope of some kind of self-validation - assuming she 'wins', of course...
(, Wed 31 Aug 2022, 15:12, Reply)
isn't her whole push for civic nationalism in an independent Scotland because, WAIT FOR IT, as the leader of the SNP that is in fact HER JOB?
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So you haven't got any good, fact based reasons to leave?
(national populism doesn't count).
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Nothing snappy you could put on a bus
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Thu 1 Sep 2022, 14:39,
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Let's invent a complete lie, then
see who falls for it
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Turtle Power & Knuckles, Thu 1 Sep 2022, 16:32,
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you know when they get some 12 year old schoolgirl on telly to talk about something like climate change?
And now we have Sue from St Cashingtons Girls, who is going to tell us why we should be recycling..."
that's what she generally reminds me of. She seems to have that enthusiasm that she's getting to be asked, coupled with that sort of rehearsed delivery and determination to smile, but when confronted with questions it becomes clear she's only got a superficial understanding of the issues and is actually a bit thick.
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 31 Aug 2022, 3:28,
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Easily manipulated by underlings then, so a short term gain for them, but being shit at her job will cost the Tories the next GE.
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Turtle Power & Knuckles, Wed 31 Aug 2022, 11:42,
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about fucking time
Labour will need to arrange a coalition, or a confidence & supply deal, depending on how close the election is though.
If only those awful Labour tossers hadn't prioritised ideological purity over electability there wouldn't be such a massive mountain to climb.
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This Tuesday I’m Off to Scatter Some Ashes
So a video starring everyone’s favourite unintelligible arsonist seems appropriate.
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jonbob loves you, Tue 30 Aug 2022, 10:45,
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Thanks unclepills.
As it turned out we all took some time to enjoy the same view that Jenny loved, I dropped my expensive phone but it thankfully landed in some soft sheep shit and as we were leaving the wind turned, giving me the strongest feeling of ambivalence I've ever known, because I realised that this was the last time she would ever get up my nose.
She lived a good life, and I know that having spent so many years as a nurse she wouldn't begrudge me a little gallows humour.
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jonbob loves you, Thu 1 Sep 2022, 7:26,
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Meghan Markle 'is a TOSSER!' TV Host SLAMS Duchess live on air
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Boris Johnson's Press Secretary, Tue 30 Aug 2022, 10:00,
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I accidentally watched 1:56 of this vacuum of news and entertainment.
Why do people give a shit? Why do we still have a royal family in 2022?
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Tue 30 Aug 2022, 13:44,
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How to make skatole artificially
useful
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Tue 30 Aug 2022, 9:08,
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As opposed to the non-artificial way
by just having a shit
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Tue 30 Aug 2022, 15:55,
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Trying to obtain most of those organics will get you on a list, not a good one.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Tue 30 Aug 2022, 16:12,
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number one in a series of more than one
youtu.be/urFOI4_sEQE?t=697
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artifus is doing it all wrong, Tue 30 Aug 2022, 0:51,
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How to make a fire with your Grandad's Elderberry tree
Slightly erotic for those that understand.
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P-MONKE We're all fucked, Tue 30 Aug 2022, 0:39,
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The flagon with the dragon has the potion with the poison, the vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true
"When compared with those who do not have tea, people who consumed two or more cups each day had between a 9% and 13% lower risk of mortality, researchers said, concluding, "drink enough tea and you become effectively immortal""
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 30 Aug 2022, 0:14,
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WTF does this actually mean?
"When compared with those who do not have tea, people who consumed two or more cups each day had between a 9% and 13% lower risk of mortality, researchers said."
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P-MONKE We're all fucked, Tue 30 Aug 2022, 0:48,
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overall mortality is where you compare two groups of people, tea drinkers and non tea drinkers, and see how many die in the period of interest
It's correlation, not causation, as they say in the article. so there might be some other factor other than the actual tea itself that accounts for the difference. Perhaps the kind of people who drink tea are also the kind of people who go to the doctor when they feel a funny lump on their nuts or tits instead of ignoring it.
Or it could be it has a calm destressing moment in the day that has health benefits. But 10% less dead is not an insignificant finding. there's plenty of health interventions that are a lot more trouble and expensive that have far smaller effects. Some, like taking antioxidant vitamins, actually increase your overall mortality risk when they've done meta-analysis
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 30 Aug 2022, 0:59,
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NIce overview. ta.
Sorry for being a little bit thick lol
Edit: I re-read your post. lol
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P-MONKE We're all fucked, Tue 30 Aug 2022, 1:04,
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they usually do it by your chance of dying in any given year
in this case they were only looking at the 40 -69 year old demographic as their cohort, so it might be different for younger or older people.
So after determining their tea drinking status, they'd monitor them for 1 or more years to see how many died.
or to put it another way. if 210 people died of any cause of the group studied in a year, 100 would be tea drinkers and 110 would be non-tea drinkers for them to arrive at that figure.
These are comparative mortality rates, rather than absolute rates. So at age 50 it's going to be the difference between 0.005 and 0.0052 as I think the normal chance of dying in any one year is about half a percent at that age, but I could be wrong
Edit: no worries, p-monke. those are exactly the kind on questions you should be asking when confronted with some study. I wish more journos would do the same when covering science stories. it's a bugbear of mine
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 30 Aug 2022, 1:12,
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No single dietary item is likely to extend life significantly if your diet is fairly balanced
There's also the problem of relying on people self reporting what they stuff their faces with. These observational studies mainly generate good clickbait headlines and support the BS superfood industry .
Speaking of life expectancy and scientific attempts to postpone decrepitude and death - this is an informative read: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/605002/ageless-by-andrew-steele
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Tue 30 Aug 2022, 9:25,
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I'd go even further and say we have little idea what a balanced diet is
apart from the obvious damaging shitty foods
We seem to all have highly varied gut biomes from individual to individual, and we're really in the infancy of our understanding. The majority of gut bacteria have not been identified, and those that have we have little idea if they're good or bad or what ratio is healthy. It may be what is healthy food for you is not as healthy for me, and vice versa,
As to the tea study, it was from spain's second best uni, and published in the globe's highest ranked internal medicine journal, so I wouldnt dismiss it out of hand as big tea propaganda. The study and the article had the appropriate caveats about drawing conclusions, but it's an interesting finding and worth further investigation
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 30 Aug 2022, 12:38,
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I think Michael Pollan's general advice "eat food, not too much, mostly plants" currently makes sense
I'd like to see the study repeated in a population which consumes more fruit and veg to see if tea consumption still makes a difference
An alternative explanation for the results reported in the Annals of Internal Medicine is that people ticked the tea box instead of the alcohol one and we all should drink more of the latter
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Tue 30 Aug 2022, 13:02,
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not sure why you've bolded that, are you making an anal joke?
it is the highest ranked internal medicine journal, not Men's Health, so we should have some confidence the study was configured decently. If there was an issue in false self-reporting, I'd expect people to falsely claim they drank tea when they were pissheads, so it may be that tea-effect is even more pronounced than they found
If I had to speculate without reading the study to see if they adjusted for confounding factors, I'd say the effect of tea was limited and more of the effect was from correlation between tea-drinking and socio-economic status. Wealthy people have better health outcomes, especially with NHS becoming fucked. Tea used to be working class, but costa coffee, starbucks and lad culture is changing that.
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 30 Aug 2022, 23:21,
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It's bolded to indicate I'm aware of the potential anal joke
Isn't that in the b3ta style guide?
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Wed 31 Aug 2022, 1:11,
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ha, I thought our back and forth was becoming a bit dry
and you dont want that with anal
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 31 Aug 2022, 1:19,
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Interestingly, taking high doses of B12, has an association with lung cancer. Normal doses found in food/multivitamins don't. Another case of more not necessarily being better.
theconversation.com/vitamin-b-supplements-linked-to-lung-cancer-heres-why-you-probably-dont
I drink lots of tea to help lower my iron (haemochromatosis), no bad effects yet.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Tue 30 Aug 2022, 16:29,
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Well that ought to cancel out all the biscuits then
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Tue 30 Aug 2022, 9:32,
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Jamie Oliver's Magic Beer & Pizza Recipe
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