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you can only read on the beach for so long

fucking try me

Controp: health-related charities are for shit and their ads/fundraisers are horrible

you could argue (and I would) that they shouldn't be necessary because health should be adequately funded from taxes, but we'd be in even more shit without them. some are better than others admittedly. IME local charities are better than the big national ones

I just hate adverts me. And I got door-stepped by some chugger from the British Heart Foundation at 9 o'clock the other night.

A recent example of the shittiness of charities was NAS congratulating the Conservative Government on the u-turn on Blue Badges for people with autism, when they did fuck all to support the family who won the test case against them, forcing them into the u-turn. it makes my blood boil!

door-stepping chuggers are the worst. had a few of those.

tbf I agree on the adverts, they are hard to deal with sometimes, constant ads for cancer charities feels like rubbing it in your face. glad we got netflix tbh

all these health charities that should have been a strong voice against the creeping privatisation of the NHS, but they are spineless. Disabled charities that have done next to nothing to protect vulnerable ppl during austerity. Wouldn't give them the steam off my hiss when they turn up on my doorstep!

I realise that cancer charities especially are a painful fact of life for a lot of people, hence the controp

The best I can say about the NAS and their ilk is they're better than nowt, sometimes. Too many disability charities are underrepresented by actual disabled people at board and policy-making level. "Nothing about us without us" etc.

NAS got arsey with me in a photo competition once, because it featured a young autistic kid at an anti-austerity demo, which was too political for them. The photo got thousands of online votes, but they hid it in a dark corner at their event. But I suppose I should cut them some slack seeing as Alex has 16-19 place in one of their schools. But fuck 'em!

don't get me wrong I'd consider working for them but they are The Man

I did nothing but move every goddamn five minutes for the first half of my life so I'm mostly content to be as immobile as possible at this point. I see the value in travel, from a distance, and understand that this is my problem (my sibs love trottin' all over the globe so they were clearly differently affected by our upbringing).

"I don't travel; it narrows the mind." - Raymond Briggs

politicizing tragedies is a good thing

tragedies are political

it isn't a big deal if someone opts not to vote in a closed primary where none of the intra-party candidates excite them.

and it is everyone's right to not vote at all

^ I mean not in Australia actually

god I'm so tired today

Nah i will scream at anybody who don't vote in Nov

Its compulsory to turn up to vote in Aus but you dont have to vote for anyone. You can spoil the paper or just leave it blank, no one cares, as long as you et signed off as showing up.

Most of us do participate though, for good or bad.

Nah i will scream at anybody who don't vote in Nov

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oh for sure I'll give my friends a hard time, but it is their right. I know several people that have thought out, principled reasons for not voting, which I respect a lot more than the much more common lazy/apathetic/don't care/didn't know. which again, it's their right to be ignorant.

It's everyone's right to be selfish, oafish louts, but that is not the same as it being right.

I know

Yeah so this isn’t controversial then

"I know several people that have thought out, principled reasons for not voting,"

really, fuck them. I don't think there's any excuse for not voting

No effect will give an electric guitar the emotional power of a banjo

you are king of this thread lol

Thanks!

Im so ready to poll “which has more emotional power, the harp or the banjo?”

do it

ultimately for me it comes down to dueling banjos scene in deliverance vs the electric harp lick in that daft punk song (from discovery) and that’s a tough call

it would be far from the silliest POLL on these boards

Truth

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K6qtr85Q8ho

Even the piccolo is more expressive than the banjo.

I love Brian Piccolo

The 'controversial musical opinion' thread is basically the same as a couple of others I've already read, and I've only been here a few years, fuck knows how often this has come around since the site opened.
There are lots of interesting things on there, but it's just a matter of time until it turns into one of those threads where two or three people are getting furious at each-other and everyone else has lost track of what they are arguing about.

not controversial

People who use umbrellas when it's not raining hard--->trash.

A tragedy like the limousine accident in NY killing 20 people can only happen in the US because the US is the only country in the world dumb enough to allow and perversely enjoy having huuuge limousines - cars stretched way out of proportion to fit in way more people than is possible otherwise - as big as carrying 20 people on board driving around. No other country I have ever visited (most EU, Asia, Africa) would allow for such a vehicle to ever hit the streets, y bcz common sense. It's the supersize big mac version of a fucking car. What the fuck are you thinking America.

In the UK those things are booked for Asian weddings and school proms all the time.

"double-decker bus accident" might get some hits on google

Not just the categories you named suzy but yes

terry gross sounds generally dispassionate.

if I had to guess I would guess that huge unwieldy cars like those limousines get in fewer than average fatal accidents because people tend to be more careful when they're driving awkward cars

but I am not a stretch limo statistics expert

Plenty of ludicrously huge limos full of drunk people running round Sauchiehall St on a Fri night.

Stretch Humvees are pretty hilarious, even with the gun turret.

https://media.giphy.com/media/5ZDFkaQkJjOqQ/giphy.gif

What the fuck are you thinking America.

― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre)

we're thinking that you need to shut the fuck up about America

ok sleeve. very insightful sleeve. thank you sleeve.

I am seriously weirded out that a thousand people went to the limo crash vigil.