A week in pathetic Britain

[DirtyDishSoap]

I see CC is still plagued with the usual nut jobs.

[2dimes]

Asocial about 10 minutes ago you mean?

[The ram]

Yes I have had flu this week, not too worry this forum will soon return to the baron waste land of brain dead gerbils talking about nothing and the post count will be down to 1 or 2 posts a day when I'm fit again. They don't like facts here

[mrswdk]

Ram, try moving to China where they solve every crime immediately.

[DoomYoshi]

They put Suez Canal on the wrong side.

[armati]

I like that map, they got he kangaroos right.

[The ram]

I like that map, they got he kangaroos right.

Thought your favourite bit would have been the evil doers

[The ram]

Actual fact from the Lancet ( non political, medical magazine). 6.5M migrants have registered with GP's in the last 10 years in the UK. 11% of our population.

[waauw]

Actual fact from the Lancet ( non political, medical magazine). 6.5M migrants have registered with GP's in the last 10 years in the UK. 11% of our population.

Still better than eastern europe. They had their population shrink by 10+% the past 10 years. If I remember correctly Lithuania's population even shrank by a quarter since joining the EU.

[mrswdk]

Actual fact from the Lancet ( non political, medical magazine). 6.5M migrants have registered with GP's in the last 10 years in the UK. 11% of our population.

More migrants coming to the UK is a good thing, unless you want the NHS to implode in 2025.

[DoomYoshi]

Actual fact from the Lancet ( non political, medical magazine). 6.5M migrants have registered with GP's in the last 10 years in the UK. 11% of our population.

More migrants coming to the UK is a good thing, unless you want the NHS to implode in 2025.

All the good people use the private system anyways...

[The ram]

Actual fact from the Lancet ( non political, medical magazine). 6.5M migrants have registered with GP's in the last 10 years in the UK. 11% of our population.

More migrants coming to the UK is a good thing, unless you want the NHS to implode in 2025.

I don't want the NHS or the welfare state.

After WWII when the people were so tired and deflated the socialists promised them free health care and welfare where needed. They got their foot in the door and installed their institutions in the hope vast swaths would be institutionalised and rely on the state. Just look at you! It has done much more harm than good.

[mrswdk]

Yeah ikr, all these snow flakes who still have all their own teeth and aren't dying of diarrhea aged 17.

[tzor]

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That map is so wrong. First of all the area marked "evil doers" looks like South France (where they wear no pants) and Italy (where comes Pizza).
Antarctica is "Penguins."
Australia is either "everything wants to kill you" or "toilets work backwards."
What is the island west of Japan?
Why is Japan shaped like a banana (Shouldn't it be shaped like a "J")?
Europe isn't "pussies" ... There's Germans and Swiss and the latter wield halberds in the Vatican.
And Africa is where we bless the rain.
India is "Bolliwood" and "Call Centers"
And you need to add New Zealand, "Holy Shit ... but good lamb."

[HitRed]

I didn't realize Australia was such an extensive nuclear bomb test site.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_w ... _Australia

[mrswdk]

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That map is so wrong. First of all the area marked "evil doers" looks like South France (where they wear no pants) and Italy (where comes Pizza).

That's the Middle East.

[The ram]

Yeah ikr, all these snow flakes who still have all their own teeth and aren't dying of diarrhea aged 17.

We'd have a far better medical service if it was private and not paying for medical tourists.

Years ago when the life expectancy was much lower was mainly down to many infants dying before the age of 1. If you made it past that there was little difference in life expectancy.

[mrswdk]

We'd have a far better medical service if it was private

Healthcare in the UK would be better if people didn't pay insurance to the government for the government to then pay for medical care, but instead paid insurance to an insurance company for the insurance company to then pay for medical care?

not paying for medical tourists.

Oh yeah, k.

[Dukasaur]

Forgot to say, once cash is taken away, altho there is resistance to that happening, once we go cashless the authorities,government,face book and probly netflix and besos will know every move a person makes.

Chips implanted will follow that, chips have already begun on a volunteer basis at some companies.
People actually want them, I bet once a plug of some kind is invented to attach a smart phone to a persons brain every one will want it. lol

Once we're cashless they can choose who eats and who doesn't, but I can't see that happening in the next 30 years.

Interesting you mention chips, how will they make the people think they need them inserted? Steal more children? Pl

Same as everything else. Convenience. People have happily moved from cash to plastic because it saves the hassle of going to the bank and getting money out in advance. A chip in your wrist that you pass over the cash register instead of having to fumble through the 30 or 40 different cards in your wallet simply saves time. Like it or not, bottom line is if you can save people time they'll accept it.

So to save a few seconds here and there you'd rather be chipped? And how many chips?

I didn't say I would rather be chipped. I'm what's known as a "late adopter" -- always the last one to follow the crowd. Hell, three quarters of my movie collection is still on VHS. So, I'll probably be one of the ones who gets chipped only after it becomes mandatory.

Nonetheless, I'm wise enough to understand that time is everything, and people will always sacrifice things like privacy to save time. As life gets more hectic, the trend can only increase.

PGP has been around for decades. Anybody has the power to encrypt their email, and yet almost nobody does. It only takes a few seconds, but a few extra seconds is enough to guarantee that nobody does it. Given a choice between vastly improving their privacy or saving a few seconds, almost everyone goes with the few seconds. Saving time is everything.

People used to configure their own computers, and a few geeks still using Linux do. But almost everyone else will just put on Windows and let it do its thing. Even myself. For years I fought it. I got hacks to override the spy settings in Windows, got geek friends to clean my registry, etc., etc. Eventually stopped bothering, because it wasn't worth the time. If the boys at Microsoft and their friends in the NSA really need to know what my glucose readings for the last 90 days were, I guess they'll find out. It's not that I wouldn't stop them, all things being equal, it's that I have better things to do with my time. Ultimately, time is everything.

So yeah. While I personally am a bit squeamish about the idea of getting chipped, I understand that for most people, saving time is more important than protecting their privacy. The vast majority will accept the chip because it saves time, and once it's the universal system, us few holdouts will get in line.

[Dukasaur]

I use cash except for auto payments like phone bills,taxes etc

I find the people using cards slow lines down.

The trick is to carry change, I pay exact amount every time, the cashier
doesnt need to give me change, I am about 2000 times faster than plastic.

I call bullshit on that.

I'll guarantee you that I can tap my Mastercard on the screen a lot faster than you can count out S86.49, no matter how good you are.

And to replenish your supply you have to make extra trips to the bank, and during banking hours too, and stand in line. I don't go to the bank more than once a month or so, and I do my banking in the drive-through lane at 3 in the morning when there's nobody in front of me.

[Dukasaur]

Every Decent Man Is Ashamed of the Government He Lives Under

H.L. Mencken

Henry Louis Mencken was an American journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic and scholar of American English
1880-1956

One of my favourite quotes...

[Dukasaur]

I find the people using cards slow lines down.

This. You just don't notice the extra time because instead of interacting with the person standing in front of you, you are interacting with the machine. Paying with a card is like playing Civilization... before you know it a week has gone by.

Credit cards are the very tool of Satan.
" No man can serve two masters: for either he
will hate the one, and love the other; or else
he will hold to the one, and despise the other,
Ye cannot serve God and mammon."

They don't call them "Master"cards for nothing. It is a deliberate provocation of the people of God and an affront to human dignity.

The entire credit card system is designed to make you exploit your neighbor while not realizing it.

What would you call a person who steals from his neighbor, lends his stuff back to him at interest and then comes to claim it and more when he can't pay the bill? That's what I call Average Joe who carries a credit card, because that's exactly what we have. The points and rewards on the credit cards aren't free and they aren't paid for by the bank... they are paid by your neighbor. But of course that doesn't bother most people because... hey - you deserve to be upper middle class, just like you deserve being born into a rich, white family.

It's not too late though. Somebody has already paid the price for your sins. Repent, and be saved.

I'd like someone to do a series of videos with some credit card points earners (I'm looking at you max) speaking face to face with credit card debtors (I'm looking at you duke) and the former explaining to the latter why they deserve to exploit them. Put a face to the nameless system.

I won't take the bait on most of your big troll.

There are certainly pitfalls to easy credit. However, they're not directly relevant here.

The drive to a cashless society is independent of credit. Probably 4/5 people I see using plastic for purchases are using debit, not credit. They're spending their own money, not borrowed money. If you eliminated all credit transactions, the drive to a cashless world would continue. It is related to, but not directly dependent on, the expansion of credit.

[armati]

Call bs will you?

I go to the bank once a month, take all the cash I need for the month.

I go during slow times but I really dont care how long it takes, we have lots of daylight in canada.

Those tap cards, maybe they are faster than cash, I have seen 1 or 2 used without issues.

There is a trick with cash, the change needs to be ready, before the total, not hard, simply have it in your hand.

86.49 1 loon(dollar coin) and 2 quarters, not difficult+ $85 4x20,1x5 = exact. we dont use pennies.


That might sound like alot of effort but with practice its not, I can have the bill paid for before you have finished pleasantries with the cashier.

[The ram]

I find the people using cards slow lines down.

This. You just don't notice the extra time because instead of interacting with the person standing in front of you, you are interacting with the machine. Paying with a card is like playing Civilization... before you know it a week has gone by.

Credit cards are the very tool of Satan.
" No man can serve two masters: for either he
will hate the one, and love the other; or else
he will hold to the one, and despise the other,
Ye cannot serve God and mammon."

They don't call them "Master"cards for nothing. It is a deliberate provocation of the people of God and an affront to human dignity.

The entire credit card system is designed to make you exploit your neighbor while not realizing it.

What would you call a person who steals from his neighbor, lends his stuff back to him at interest and then comes to claim it and more when he can't pay the bill? That's what I call Average Joe who carries a credit card, because that's exactly what we have. The points and rewards on the credit cards aren't free and they aren't paid for by the bank... they are paid by your neighbor. But of course that doesn't bother most people because... hey - you deserve to be upper middle class, just like you deserve being born into a rich, white family.

It's not too late though. Somebody has already paid the price for your sins. Repent, and be saved.

I'd like someone to do a series of videos with some credit card points earners (I'm looking at you max) speaking face to face with credit card debtors (I'm looking at you duke) and the former explaining to the latter why they deserve to exploit them. Put a face to the nameless system.

I won't take the bait on most of your big troll.

There are certainly pitfalls to easy credit. However, they're not directly relevant here.

The drive to a cashless society is independent of credit. Probably 4/5 people I see using plastic for purchases are using debit, not credit. They're spending their own money, not borrowed money. If you eliminated all credit transactions, the drive to a cashless world would continue. It is related to, but not directly dependent on, the expansion of credit.

There are many things like hiring vehicles etc where you can only pay with a credit card, debit cards not accepted.

You didn't address anything he said about credit cards really and he hit the nail on the head.

[The ram]

We'd have a far better medical service if it was private

Healthcare in the UK would be better if people didn't pay insurance to the government for the government to then pay for medical care, but instead paid insurance to an insurance company for the insurance company to then pay for medical care?

not paying for medical tourists.

Oh yeah, k.

Isn't it great when someone argues themselves into agreeing your point without realising. I'm starting to warmto you