HumanPenguin
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- Comment on The SNP is not the only political party that wants to rejoin the EU - Full Fact 1 week ago:
They still consider it a key motivation. But have decided not to push for it during this election/parliment.
Basically choosing the battles they can gain ground on. Leaving the rest for a better oppertunity to convince voters.
- Comment on BBC News - Stonehenge covered in powder paint by Just Stop Oil 1 week ago:
Out of interest. As I’m not a farmer. Do you know how I would go about buying and filling a muck spreader.
Plus Rishi Sunaks home address would be a totally unrelated useful fact to share.
- Comment on Surrey police face criticism after using car to ram escaped cow 2 weeks ago:
You know cows kill a fair few folks in the UK right.
The summery said it was reported running at members of the public.
While I am sure there are better ways to deal with it. As lets face it the car is only going to scare it more. Scared out of control cow are freaking dangerous.
There have been a number of news articles talking about killer cows over the last few years. Even though it is rare. Average of a few a year and normally when the cows are stressed for some reason. But let’s face. Media is not known for responsible reporting.
But a cow in the middle of a busy road acting aggressive towards humans. Is a genuine threat. I can def see a cop being to scared to approach it without the car and thinking removing the cow is urgent.
Of course the action is dumb. Clearing the road and calling a vet would be better. But I can fathom a cop panicking.
- Comment on Michael Mosley: Body found in Symi search for missing presenter 3 weeks ago:
Island has a population of 2k. So if no one else has been reported missing.
- Comment on Reform UK pulls to within two points of Tories in latest YouGov poll 3 weeks ago:
Only if you are an immigrate. British born citizens he will shit on personally.
- Comment on Extend success of UK sugar tax to cakes, biscuits and chocolate, experts urge 3 weeks ago:
They dont. Manufacturers do not actually pay the tax. Instead sodas lowered the sigar level to below 6g per 100ml. From 10 to 12 before.
So full coke in the UK has no more tax then diet.
To confirm this. I just discovered coke is now selling a classic taste version. With 10.6g sugar per 100ml.
And sainsbury charges 21p more for 8 cans then diet coke.
If you look at pepsi full. It is 4.6g now rather then >10g.
- Comment on Extend success of UK sugar tax to cakes, biscuits and chocolate, experts urge 3 weeks ago:
LOL I have temped in a UK orange juice factory. Believe me your sanity depends on what you dont know.
As for fruit juice and sugar. My comment makes things look more all juice then I intended.
We tend to sell a few different forms. Pure Juice tends to come in cardboard (plastic coated) tubs of a litre or more. Pure is literal in the name. So no added sugar. It also need to be refrigerated and only lasts weeks. But honestly nattural juice has a sugar called fructos that works pretty well on low blood sugar. Way higher in actual carb grams then modern sodas like coke. But way less then the old pre tax amount.
We also have Juices made from concentrated juice with water and sugar added. During the concentration process it is heated to remove most of the water. Then shipped to factories. Here purified boiled water ands sugar is added.
This leads to a juice that can sit on a shelf without refrigeration for years. Both will work when grabbed in a hurry. But as the reconstituted from concentrate juices have from 8 to 12g of sugar carbs per 100 ml you tend to need less. Making it actually better to carry on a summer day. Old coke full sugar was about the same.
Modern cola is about 4 to 5g per 100ml. Although I have just discovered Coke has started selling Coke Original Taste Brand with 10.6g per 100ml. So looks like they have decided people will pay a bit more after all.
In sainsbury’s it £5.20 for 8 330ml cans where Diet coke is £4.99 so the tax is far from huge.
- Comment on Extend success of UK sugar tax to cakes, biscuits and chocolate, experts urge 3 weeks ago:
It has not changed the price of sugar free. Because the compqnies have drematically reduced the sugar in other sodas.
IE you can nonlonger buy full sugar coke etc. So no tax is actually payable.
Ir is definitely improved diets. But to give you an idea of how much the sugar is reduced.
The first few years after the change. Type Q diabetics like me ended up in ER.
Because we had spent years ,(decades in my case) turning to fullvsugar drinks to avoid dangerous lows in hot summers.
Now coke etc has only a small amount more sugar then diet coke.
Many of us only realised this as we came to in an ambulance on the way to ER.
It was such an issue that the NHS now prescribes us very high sugar drinks in small plastic ( 100ml) bottles we can carry for emergencies.
We all also now know to stick to fruit juice if we need to buy something in an emergency. As that is not covered by the rule so has tons of added sugar.
- Comment on Extend success of UK sugar tax to cakes, biscuits and chocolate, experts urge 3 weeks ago:
Ill also share a cute story just to cheer evety one up.
First I am hypo unaware. It is a condition that often hits long term well managed T1ds (40years in my case) where we lose the ability to tell when our sugar is low.
At the time this sugar tax came in. Icwas goingvthrough a 3 year strugle with nice. Where my specialist was trying to grt me issued a CGM. (Continues, Glucose Monitor that warns you when going low)
I had a girl friend at the time. Who litrally kept me alive. As over the hot summer nights she was regually required to place glucose in my mouth as I was having a fit.
But after the glucose was in. It can take up to 10 mind for my mind to start responding sanely. Low blood sugar can look like you are very very drunk to outsiders.
So she would be paniking and constently asking what to do while I was recovering. With me just not in a mental state to explane.
So when fine one day she asked me wjat was best.
So I gave her thos advice. Post the low. I genrally needvto take some slower acting carbs to prevent the heat sending me down again.
The easiest way tovtake it is a sugery cup of tea and a few biscuits.
Now that is only rechnically true. Pretty much anythibg with a lottle morecsugar and some slow acting carbz will work.
But when i wake up after those night time lows. My memory is missing a chunch of s few hours (I never regain that). And things feel pretty darn stressful.
You have no idea how relaxing a sweat cup of tea in bed and some biscuits to dunk is as your comming to from that crsp.
While also taking the GF mind of rhe panic and giving her something to do rather then worry if I am going to die.
- Comment on Extend success of UK sugar tax to cakes, biscuits and chocolate, experts urge 3 weeks ago:
Exactly rhis. We are all used to it now. But that first summer was real hot. And many got seriously in danger. Folks forget death cancreally happen in these situations.
But there is a much bigger worry if this new idea is sctually implemented the same way.
Currently we have options as fruit juice dosent follow these tule. A d still has loads of added sugar. Although some village store do not stock it. In genral we can find somthing that will work.
If companies act the same way with evrtything cakes sweets juices etc.
Buying a packet of sugar really is not an option in many small villages.
- Comment on Extend success of UK sugar tax to cakes, biscuits and chocolate, experts urge 3 weeks ago:
Yes it is. Coke or an equivalent.
First remember this shit his freaking fast. Especially in the summer where it littally feels like sugar is leached from your skin all day.
Sugar and water is fine at home. Although honestly dose not mix well if the warer is not hot. But it can work.
When you are out and about doing every day thongs. Most tiny village stores do not sell bags of sugar.
Atm even friut juice is far from a garrentee in tiny shops. And you can have less then a few mind to handle this situation when its bad. (HOT).
ATM. You can still get something sweet at most stores. Even if frout juice is not available. Something food wise is. Food is slower but can work. And honestly dealing with heat uou need slower acting carbs all day long.
But if this new tax idea happens. And companies respond the way they did with sodas.
It will mean deaths.
- Comment on Extend success of UK sugar tax to cakes, biscuits and chocolate, experts urge 3 weeks ago:
Lol. Auto corrected typo.
ER. Thanks for pointing it out.
- Comment on Extend success of UK sugar tax to cakes, biscuits and chocolate, experts urge 3 weeks ago:
Hilariously lucozade was originally used for exatly what the new gluco shots given buy the NHS were.
Its original name was glucoaid. And it was used in hospitals in the 50s and 60s to give energy to paiteints.
Back in the 80s when I was diagnosed Lucozade was what we were recomended to keep for the job. But there was so much better tasting stuff. I never got into it.
- Comment on Extend success of UK sugar tax to cakes, biscuits and chocolate, experts urge 4 weeks ago:
I and a good number of other type one diabetics ended up in EAST due to the sugar tax.
Honestly I am not against the tax. Just feel the companies should have rebounded a little.
Many T1ds were so used to buying coke etc when they are going low. We got hit hard by how quickly the companies adapted and started only selling the lower sugar versions.
To the extent that the NHS will now RX small buttles of high glucose drinks. (Lemon or Berry flavoured but non fizzy) just to ensure T1ds have an easy source of sugar to prevent unsafe low blood sugar comas.
As I say its something easy to fix now. We all just grab fruit juice. But the change and companies reactions to it. Left many of us waking up in an ambulance on the way to ER.
If they start applying it to all products. And the companies all act the same way. Just reducing sugars without any clear branding.
It will leave us with zero easy high sugar option that can be grabbed easily from any small village shop etc.
- Comment on Conservatives plan to bring back mandatory National Service 5 weeks ago:
Yeah this is a tread about the UK government trying to sell a crap idea.
So yes the only opinion of any merit at all. Is what the military leaders of the UK armed forces think.
Other nations have different military structures. Different concentration of assets. The UK back in the 1960s ended conscription. And decided instead to invest in technology. And personal with the training to operate that technology.
Rather then using ill motivated short time troops as little more then cannon fodder.
- Comment on Conservatives plan to bring back mandatory National Service 5 weeks ago:
As we are talking about the UK. Where it is UK military leaders and technological investment that the leaders will be training for.
What any other nation thinks or dose is pretty worthless. As is some politicians trying to win votes from boomers. Or myself.
Only opinion that matters really is the UK military leadership. Who make it clear they do not want this.
- Comment on Conservatives plan to bring back mandatory National Service 5 weeks ago:
The military disagree with you. IE the experts who need to manage the system.
All it dose is create ill motivated unskilled labour. At a time were fighting a wat has the least need for that type of labour.
- Comment on DWP told to pay £50,000 to Deaf job-seeker after repeated failure to provide BSL interpreter 5 weeks ago:
Seriosly
Why would anyone expect the states to be better. You have a reputation for cruelty towards your own citizens.
Honestly the states is not the part of the world most brits expect anyone to aspire towards. Its who we warn people to avoid.
- Comment on Conservatives plan to bring back mandatory National Service 5 weeks ago:
Cameron set up a service where you can vollenteer to do just this. Its been around for years. And like any work experience training. You end up doing the unskilled stuff. Cos of course you will never gain any experience that requires qualification. At best you get to watch.
And even before Cameron charities offered and offer these services and many more.
This is literally just making a volentry thing mandatory. Nothing else at all.
- Comment on Conservatives plan to bring back mandatory National Service 5 weeks ago:
Sure but you can already do it.
All this is is a requirement to do it.
- Comment on Conservatives plan to bring back mandatory National Service 5 weeks ago:
The sceme is mandatory. Military service is an option. But you must spend 25 days doing one of the options.
Of course the options are NHS Policing or mental health. All things tories have screwed.
So using teens as slave labour to look like they are fixing their own screw ups. Would be a fair description.
- Comment on Conservatives plan to bring back mandatory National Service 5 weeks ago:
Worse. He is using people who would be very unlikely to vote tory. The youth.
As slaves to convince old folks who have lost faith to vote tory.
Just like he is fucking the disabled its another culture war attacking those who refuse to support him.
- Comment on Conservatives plan to bring back mandatory National Service 5 weeks ago:
We funked up the NHS Policing and local services. By cutting funding to the bone. While refusing to invest.
But thats OK. We will use 25 days of teenage slavery to fix a bit of it.
Or you can learn to kill people ready for our next oil war.
- Comment on Suella Braverman acted unlawfully by making it easier to criminalise protests, court rules 5 weeks ago:
Dose any one have a list.
There seems to have been an unusual number of attempted illegal actions from the tories since they gained power.
It seems we are constantly hearing about odd moves or attempts to work around the system. And them fighting court cases that proove what everyone thought. They are breaking the law.
Add there inventive attempt to pass laws they have already failed. And refusal of benifits constantly voting rejected as against their own created rules.
It seems worth considering their record while the still claim to be a party of law and order. Those laws only apply to folks not themselves.
- Comment on Rishi Sunak announces 4 July general election 5 weeks ago:
I’m am going to correct myself a little.
I said not voting favours the incumbent. Currently that is less true then in the past. The principle has always been. People in your area will be more likely to vote for consistency. It is just a human nature thing. We avoid change. So the MP you have now is more likely to win. Unless many people are motivated to change.
This election is pretty unique. Even compared to 97. We have many many voters thinking like you. But outright hate in many tory traditional safe seats. Add the huge change in many borders.
Things are a little less predicable then ever. I’m still not a fan of the don’t vote idea. But honestly have less data to challenge the logic.
- Comment on Rishi Sunak announces 4 July general election 5 weeks ago:
Nods.
Wish green was a winnable option in my area.
They are far from great. But at least are a real change in Ideas.
- Comment on Rishi Sunak announces 4 July general election 5 weeks ago:
Nope. Fptp is fucking crap.
But you are correct. 2 evils.
But beyond genocide. One is planing to use culture war blaming and punishing disabled to fund tax cuts.
While the other just refuses to invest in a nation where voters are scared of spending.
There is a clear lesser of the evils. And refusing to vote also favours the incubate party.
I live in a constituency where labour is not the most likely way to remove a tory mp. So other bad options exist. At least one that a.so hates fptp in my mind.
- Comment on Rishi Sunak announces 4 July general election 5 weeks ago:
Sorry but that is a little unrealistic atm. We on the left just do not have the support for such a protest to be effective.
Even a weak labour win. Where left of centre mps could slow government function. We don’t have enough MPs with a rebellious streak to limit much. And no other opposition likely to have the numbers to help.
If we had a significant number of green MPs. Maybe. But honestly there are few places where urrent data dose not mean. Voting green is going to help tories rather then create a green mp.
- Comment on Rishi Sunak announces 4 July general election 5 weeks ago:
Yeah we all know its significance in the US. Because US movies and media are a huge export.
It is just not considered significant when making any plans.
In the UK the whole US UK war was the act of a mad King. Our parliment at the time refused to fund it. And the war bankrupted the royal family. Sorta leading to our current odd funding. Where parliment profits from royal land. And funds the monarch in exchange.
So the events have more historical significance then average brits recognise. But we don’t tend to treat the date any differently beyond the odd. “Oh the yanks will be on holiday.”
- Comment on Rishi Sunak announces 4 July general election 5 weeks ago:
Yeah not really. The day means nothing to the average brit. No event that happened then is important enough to raise a single eye brow. As another poster pointed out much of the world celebrated something similar on some day in a year.