Quote:Andy Burnham will announce plans for new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea after he becomes prime minister, the BBC has been told.

The Labour Party's 2024 manifesto - which the new leader said he would follow - had pledged to not issue new licences but to honour existing ones.

Socialism/Communism (same thing) is extremely dumb. The premise is that inequality is wrong. It's not. People aren't equal. Some are lazy, others are not. Those who are industrious and enterprising deserve everything they earn, and those who are not deserve poverty. I would feel sorry for an industrious person who falls on hard time, but I'd be perfectly happy to see a lazy person struggle because it's what they want. 

There's some dipshit called Gary Stevenson who wants successful people to pay more tax. Why? So lazy people can benefit? Successful people already do more for society than the lazy. We provide products/services to people, they create all the jobs, they already pay more tax than everyone else put together, and they are an inspiration for the next generation of successful people to do the same. 

You can't have equality by raising up the lazy. It won't work. The only way to do it is to bring down the successful. 

Losers think that successful people sit around all day doing nothing while "the workers" create all the value. If that's true, maybe they should fuck off into the wilderness and create value there, without the infrastructure, resources, equipment and facilities to do so. Let's see how much value they manage to create then.

Elsewhere in these threads a poster explained their prayers were chats with god in the same manner they would chat with another person.  Chats are more informal than conversation or discussion but serve the same purpose: exchange of information.  What on earth would you be able to tell a god that it doesn't already know?

You might explain that what you're really doing is getting a better grip on your own understanding and feelings rather than trying to tell an omniscient being something it doesn't know.  OK, but you don't need a god for that.

What then is the point of one of these "chats"?

Except in cases of rape or incest or if the mother's life would be at risk, or if there are any other similarly exceptional circumstances, abortion should not be allowed. 

Change my mind.

He/she looks pissed. Probably been reading too much news. I wonder how much of our DNA these groovy folk share...92%? Dunno.

Quote:A monkey that has striking pinkish-orange lips and a black face - and lives in the forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo - has been confirmed as a new species to science.

The black-furred primate was spotted and photographed hidden away in the high tree canopy of dense tropical forests in Lomami National Park, in the central east of the country.

Conservationists working there first reported seeing this unusual-looking animal back in 2008. But they captured just one blurry photograph.
After another sighting 10 years later, an international team set out to find and study the monkey and revealed that it was a previously unknown species.

This is only the fifth African monkey species to be discovered in the last 75 years.

The N word is a word that I'm not allowed to say. You might know what it is, or you might not. But either way, please don't ask me to tell you because I can't. 

However, there is a group of people who are allowed to say the N word. Those are people we call blacks. Some call them negroes but I think that's outdated now so maybe we're not allowed to say it. Perhaps some day it will become another N word, and then no one will know whether someone means that N word or the other N word because no one will be allowed to say either of them. 

After a couple more generations, what will happen to the N word (the original one, the naughty one)? Because no one will have said it for so long, people will start to wonder what it is. They may even start to wonder if they themselves have been saying it without realising it. 

The blacks of course will continue using it and calling one another it, and everyone else will get to hear it. But after some years people might not realise that the N word they're using is the one no one else is allowed to use. And then of course everyone will start using it again, not knowing that it's the naughty N word. 

Just a theory. What do you think will happen with the N word?

There is a lot of concern round these parts that an inflated pig's bladder (ball) might be in the wrong location. That concern is more profound than at any time since 1966. Deserves a thread 

It's funny how transexuals nowadays prefer being called transgenders. It sounds so silly and makes no sense at all. Same with the use of the word gender at all. I was talking to one recently and he said that he's never liked it either. So obviously I'm not saying all of them, but a lot of them.

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Florida put to death one of its oldest prisoners in its state history
on Tuesday, a 74-year-old convicted murderer who was one of three
older prisoners scheduled for execution within the span of a month
in the nation’s busiest death penalty state.

Dennis Sochor was pronounced dead at 6.16pm after a three-drug
injection at Florida state prison near Starke. He was convicted of
killing Patricia Gifford on 1 January 1982, just hours after meeting
the 18-year-old woman at a New Year’s Eve party.



Another 74-year-old prisoner, Dusty Ray Spencer, was put to death
last month. And later this month, the state is preparing to execute
an 80-year-old, Dominick Occhicone, the state’s first octogenarian
facing a lethal injection.  Florida, has now carried out ten of the 16
executions conducted in the United States this year—more than all
the other states combined.

So... what's the worth to society either ethically or morally of executing
an 80-year-old criminal?  Lawyers for Occhicone, who turns 81 next
month, say his planned execution is cruel and unusual punishment for
the near-incapacitated inmate.  He's been on death row for forty years.

Governor Ron DeSantis signed both death warrants.  Florida has seen
a surge in executions under DeSantis, carrying out 28 executions since
January last year.  Six (I think?) of the 7 Florida Supreme Court justices
were appointed by DeSantis.    Telling?