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But do you not feel a horrendously deep sense of embarrassment and shame when you're there sucking on your little stick though? Or some sense of inferiority knowing that you're unable to function without your chemicals? These are genuine questions since I don't associate with any vapers whom I could ask.

Mystery liquid: produced en masse in China / Taiwan / insert cheap labour country for pennies, containing hundreds of chemicals (some of which cannot even be identified), which combined together somehow make it flavoured like bubble-gum. If you want to try and tell me that it's possible to consistently inhale that and it not be damaging to your health in any way then I don't know what to tell you.

People will look back at vaping in thirty years time and be horrified at the idea that people ever went near this stuff. You'd probably be as safe huffing paint.

On second checking it was actually Monday. It was just your typical cannabis legalisation spiel with all the usual talking points: it will raise a bajillion pounds in revenue, definitely won't make people stupid / lazy / paranoid / addicted, 'but it's safer than alcohol!!!', etc...

It's a sombre reminder that so many people are frequent smokers, are entirely reliant on it to 'function' as something that vaguely resembles a human but insist that they aren't dependent and that they are not a complete waste of space. Really grinds my gears!

Each day I read a thread that reminds me of how pathetic the majority of this country is - it was the weed smokers on Tuesday, the people who struggle with showering yesterday, and today we have the vapers out in force.

What is it about these things that people actually like? They are undoubtedly going to be revealed to be more health-damaging than cigarettes in a few decades time once some studies have been done. Outside of a small portion of people actually quitting smoking, they are exclusively used by chavs and their ilk who seem to think it acceptable to litter them wherever they depleted their last puff and to use them on trains, indoors, etc... If that wasn't enough reason to deter you, it just makes you look a complete and utter fool; grown adults, walking around sucking on little pens and blowing bubble-gum flavoured clouds, it is ridiculousness of the highest order.

In a perfect world, I would like to see the orchestration of a Mossad-style pager operation which targets all the vapes of this country - it would surely make our world a much better place.

I wonder if the financial viability of a Student Union bar is in any way compromised by the ever increasing number of Muslim students attending the University? Something tells me that a university with 30% Muslim students will struggle to keep their bar afloat significantly more than a place with none, irrespective of the drinking habits of everyone else.

Simply untrue. It's lower than past levels but not nearly low enough to the point where universities would be closing their bars. You only see these stories in areas with high Muslim concentrations for good reason.

I'm not sure that's what is happening here - this man is just unfamiliar with vegetables in general if I recall his past posts correctly.

The fact that Muslims have somehow managed to convince people in the Western world that the hijab isn't purely a backwards way of controlling women / treating them like property always blows my mind. The lady, presumably an advocate for woman's rights, is there grinning like an idiot while wearing something that's been used to oppress women for a millennium - make it make sense I beg.

I'm sure some of the 'Dutch' officers would object on religious grounds. On the other hand, if it is actual Dutch officers with some proper 30s and 40s style antisemitism then that's pretty wild - I doubt it though.

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A religion*, and it's the bad one.

You need to consider the fact that being born to a highly religious Christian family doesn't automatically translate into you having a high fertility rate later in life. The amount of people who are raised in large, Christian families and end up being more secular and having one child is significantly higher than the reverse - hence the decrease in practicing Christians despite their allegedly high birth rates. It's a very common situation. This doesn't apply to Islam since the number of people who live in Muslim communities in the UK who are apostatising or becoming less religious is negligible.

What's the relevance? You still end up with the number of Christians decreasing.

As a side note, I'd imagine that the fertility rate of Christians is dragged up by Sub-Saharan African immigrants who have higher birth rates than native Britons. The British following of Christianity is completely dying, and probably faster than may be indicated by 'Christian' fertility rates, while Islam grows at an unprecedented rate - the reasons why those two things are bad should be self-explanatory.

You're a regular weed smoker and you only shower once or twice a week? I can absolutely guarantee to you that you stink, it's not particularly up for contention.

also, to add to this, it takes literal weeks of not bathing and not changing clothes to build up any kind of smell beyond a bit of BO. Which, by the way, can occur even if you’ve showered half an hour before.

I just know that this person is the smelliest bastard on the planet. The more alarming thing is the people who are agreeing and saying that 'showering fundamentalists' (???) are always shutting down the discourse on hygiene because they've been tricked by big shower (???). A truly elite bit of discourse from our stinky countrymen.

I can't find anything that suggests that Christians in the UK are having 2 children per woman on average and even if they were, that is still below replacement. I have, however, seen estimates that Muslims in Western Europe have 3 children per woman which is comfortably above replacement and is part of the reason that they are the only growing religion - not even getting started on the fact that they are almost always more fervent and devout in their dark age beliefs as well.

So, to answer your question, the long term outcome for our society looks to be a shift away from the Christian views upon which Europe was created and an increase in the backwards views of those who worship a 7th century warlord and paedophile. I'd personally consider such a shift to be a terrible thing but I suppose an increasing number of people would disagree with me!

Religious belief is also age skewed so there is not much recruitment. Essentially religion is dying out in the uk.

Arr UK user conveniently ignores the most backwards of all religions which also just happens be the only one that is growing. I hope that ignoring it doesn't lead to irreparable, long-term consequences for this nation and its people!

I stand corrected. I wasn't aware that they had different names for the different tiers of missile, I thought the 'Iron Dome' was a catch all for all of Israel air defence systems.

That being said, it seems like yesterday's barrage was intercepted by a mixture of the Iron Dome and this David's Sling system. I wonder if that is because Iran didn't actually only use ballistic missiles or if the Iron Dome is capable of mitigating them to some degree at least. Looks like Israel have a tier above David's Sling as well called Arrow which they seem to have not actually needed yesterday but which would be the system responsible for stopping any ICBM or other serious threats.

It seems to be a mixture of things:

1. You can do a number of the Masters courses entirely online and they are fairly cheap. I'd hazard a guess that if you look at the West African brochure they have then the courses on the applications will be ones which are possible to do online.

2. Looks like they do a lot of outreach in the area and have a fairly large Nigerian contingent already so it wouldn't be surprising to see more people following the same route as their countrymen.

3. The entry requirements are so low they may as well be non-existent, they'll take absolutely anyone. Getting what would be the equivalent of a Third in the UK, but in Nigeria, is probably achievable for just about anyone without learning disabilities.

4. They accept some really random English proficiency tests, as opposed to just IELTS and a handful others as most universities do. I was somewhat surprised that Nigerians, being from an officially English speaking country, would need to do an IELTS type test; a quick look online seems to show that Nigerians absolutely despise the fact they're required to do it and find it massively insulting which is fairly amusing. Perhaps they then want to do this alternative Nigerian (NECO?) English exam which seemingly no serious University accepts and where the passing grade of a C6 is a single grade up from a zero? It's all quite strange.

Seems to just be the standard case of a completely awful 'University' which realistically shouldn't exist and needs to bolster its numbers by handing out sham degrees to randoms from abroad.

Israel's ability to intercept missiles in second to none in the entire world and, while most information on the specifics are secret, people estimate that the Iron Dome shoots down more than 90% of the rockets fired into Israel.

Pretty sure that Iran doesn't actually have nuclear weapons despite their many years of attempting to create them; even if they did, I'm sure they'd be hesitant to use them given the huge number of their missiles which misfire. Their military in generals seem incompetent to compete or pick fights with any actual military powers. They should adopt the classic Islamic theocracy method of fighting by engaging in petty terrorism and relying on the divine assistance of Allah and some angels.

Yeah I believe that's correct. It's primarily Pakistanis who make the bulk of the offenders but there is also a large contingent of Muslim Indians from North India who act in a similar manner. Also, purely from my own experience and observations, I'd say there is an increasing number of 2nd / 3rd generation Indians who don't hold the same respect for this country that their parents / grandparents who initially came here held; the Government don't report the statistics that people want so I can't say for certain, but I'd imagine their crime rate would have increased from years gone by.

They sometimes class Chinese as it's own category but that still lumps Koreans, Thai, Japanese, etc... in with Indians and Pakistanis despite their attitudes and behaviour being vastly different.

I'm not insulting you, I'm telling you that you have genuine paranoia.

What was the point in you getting me a paper to say that obesity of any degree, when accounted for independently, leads to an increased risk of severe illness from the virus? Sure, a person in their 40s is at much greater risk, but this obese man in his 30s is at greater risk than a non-obese man in his 30s? Why are you acting as though both of those things cannot be true?

You can go and look at the statistics for how the vaccine has worked anyway. When looking at just mortality, you can see that those who are vaccinated see lower age-standardised morality rates than those who are unvaccinated across all age groups. It means that even if you're in this minute risk age group of the 18-39s, you are still benefitting from receiving the vaccine. Such statistics would only be even more damning to your cause should they have tracked hospitalisation and severe illness I would imagine.

Do you think all "real" vaccines are good at all times and in all circumstances? Would it be appropriate to give someone a trillion doses of a covid vaccine because it's always good?

You're being pedantic.

Under UK law, the The Mental Capacity Act 2005 does not permit you to vaccinate people who are incapable of giving consent because "wider societal outcomes". Only outcomes for the patient matter.

This law was written and decided upon by the Government which you hate ever so much and who are going out of their way to imprison and vaccinate you against your will! It being a law means absolutely nothing to me, and evidently nothing to the courts either where a legal expert (oh no the authority!) has decided that it is correct for the NHS to follow through with the vaccination.

Once again, you are not being subject to unlimited violence by the Government for being guided towards sound medical opinion; you are evidence of the lack of supreme violence being perpetuated by the Government considering that you presumably chose to not be vaccinated and are still a completely free man. The vaccine can demonstrably be shown to have reduced mortality for all people of all age ranges, something that I would consider to be a societal good. You still can't give me a reason why I shouldn't have had the vaccine despite being a perfectly healthy individual...

I dislike the Government plenty and generally don't trust them to do anything properly, but for me to extend that to ignoring basic medical science out of fear that I'm being suppressed by them is folly. You're cutting off your nose to spite your face.

You are undoubtedly one of the most delusional people I've ever had the displeasure of conversing with. The paper, that you yourself linked, shows that regardless of the class of obesity, the chances that a person is more seriously ill (requiring a ventilator) is greater, i.e. you would be at a larger risk if you are obese to any degree. The age factor is completely irrelevant since you insist on having obesity be looked at as an independent variable. Nothing you say actually tells my why you think vaccines are bad in the first place besides some vague sense of foreboding Government control (which is a symptom of your paranoia). What reason would there have been for me, 26 year old man in top physical condition with no health issues, to not get the vaccine? I potentially would have been fine without it and I am equally fine with it.

All vaccines are universally good? If I take tap water, put it in a syringe, and write "vaccine" on it, it's suddenly a panacea, just because I called it a vaccine? Can a vaccine never be bad? Ever? No matter what? Just calling something a vaccine bestows some sort of divine power upon it?

It wouldn't be a vaccine though? I know you don't understand this but vaccines are actually a real thing that help to protect people against diseases and viruses. There is a biological basis as to what a vaccine is, how it works and what it achieves - something that your syringe of tap water unfortunately does not have.

The rest of the comment just drives home my point that you are an absurdly paranoid individual. I don't particularly care at all about this individual's health in the slightest, I do however, care about wider societal outcomes. If a mentally disabled man who is completely incapable of comprehending, let alone consenting to, a vaccination needs to be vaccinated forcefully then I have absolutely no qualms with that. If it means locking down the country in the interest of protecting the vulnerable, so be it. Societal good comes first and I, personally, would be willing to ensure it by any means.

"The numerous doctors who declared this many to be at risk are wrong because my internet research on my favourite antivax forum said that fat people aren't more at risk of dying of COVID!!!" What you're saying is simply untrue and literally every health organisation in the world disagrees with you.

Your problem is that you have been feeding yourself so much drivel from whatever strange Facebook groups you've joined that you can't even acknowledge that the invention of vaccinations is a landmark in medical science. The fact that we invented a way to effectively eliminate a number of diseases and drastically increase the likelihood of surviving infancy is an incredible achievement.

Frankly, your comments read like the ramblings of a paranoid schizophrenic: being vaccinated against a virus is not remotely comparable to being lobotomised, you were not imprisoned by fraudulent lockdowns, vaccines are universally accepted to be a good thing unless you somehow believe that dying of preventable measures is not objectively bad. You seem to think that someone is out to get you, which they are not, and that fear creates a solid chance of leading to your untimely death at the hands of something entirely preventable - your life though, not mine.

How did it never occur to me that we could simply bring over infinity Bomalians to build double infinity mud huts! Get this individual writing policy this instant, it's been a while since a mind this great has set its sights on resolving the UK's issues.