mannycalavera
@mannycalavera@feddit.uk
- Comment on Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed 2 weeks ago:
It’s not clear how they will police this. Will you need to provide ID at point of sale?
You have to right now if you’re lucky (unlucky) enough to still look like a child otherwise the seller is fined quite substantially and they do spot checks to enforce this. Same with alcohol. The difference is that the lowest age will increase each year.
- Comment on Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed 2 weeks ago:
What metric? Metric? The metric would be: Deaths. Perhaps you mean sources of this claim?
NHS Statistics on Public Health 2023 shows that smoking was attributed to 74,600 deaths. The same statistics show 408,700 attributable admissions to hospital due to smoking.
The Office For National Statistics showed that, in comparison, there were 10,473 deaths from alcohol-specific causes. Whereas the Government figures from another study showed there were 339,916 alcohol-specific hospital admissions, 280,747 alcohol-related hospital admissions under the narrow definition, and 1,018,986 alcohol-related hospital admissions under the broad definition in England (you can read up on the definitions yourself).
So in terms of deaths smoking is by far the greatest of the two evils. Whilst it is right to point out alcohol still causes harm if the government were to focus on one then smoking and vaping is the right one to focus on.
- Comment on Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed 2 weeks ago:
If it “reeks” of anything it reeks of making a compromise of what is more damaging to society and what could reasonably be done given the current circumstances.
Smoking / vaping hands down trumps drink. That’s not to say drink isn’t damaging but of the two what is more damaging.
It’s actually one of the more sensible things this government has achieved.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
“If you add up the total of these two time periods, there were 14 meetings with Zionist groups and five with pro-Palestinians,” Professor David Mond, a member of CAMPAIN’s executive committee, told Declassified.
Correlation does not inply causation. Dear lord. And this person is a Professor?
Not that I am excusing the BBC before someone waves their finger at me. But this reporting… I expected better.
- Comment on Keir Starmer faces ‘judgment day’ as Mandelson vetting debacle grows 3 weeks ago:
Why is it so hard for the British government and civil service to not be utter fuck ups? Is this too much to ask?
- Comment on Centrepoint to cut ties with Sharon Osbourne after she backs Tommy Robinson rally 3 weeks ago:
Of all the things I thought Sharon Osbourne was… a racist nutter was not one of them.
How disappointing.
- Comment on James Bulger's grave vandalised again as man, 78, arrested 3 weeks ago:
Honestly I don’t know what is wrong with people. A 78 year old?
- Comment on Switching to a four-day week ‘could save councils £1bn a year’ 3 weeks ago:
My council does fuck all as it is. Cutting it down to fuck all four days a week doesn’t quite make sense to me.
- Comment on People assume I can't speak Welsh because I'm not white 3 weeks ago:
there is literally no other way to interpret it
There’s literally another way hat I’ve explained to you. 😅
I know what “innit” means.
Oh good so you can then at least understand the tone or contextual background for what I wrote in the first place wasn’t meant to even be serious.
Not really sure why you’re arguing about this. Sounds like you just want to pick a fight where there is none. Quite sad.
- Comment on People assume I can't speak Welsh because I'm not white 3 weeks ago:
Imagine how cynical you have to be to think the worst of everything you read online. There’s no tactics. It was a joke. If you don’t think it’s funny that’s cool. But to concoct the narrative in your mind that you have speaks more about your own insecurities than anything else.
Maybe next time you read something online try not to assume the worst when you don’t understand the context or the words. Hint: in the UK saying “innit” isn’t meant to evoke seriousness. Have you ever seen Ali G? Probably not I’m guessing.
Now that I’ve had to explain the joke to you (regardless of whether you find it funny or not) are you able to answer my question? Why does your mind race to assume the worst?
- Comment on People assume I can't speak Welsh because I'm not white 3 weeks ago:
Serious question. Why was the first thought that came to your mind “Gee I think that person is being serious what a stupid analogy let me tell them”. Like, why does your mind go there?
- Comment on People assume I can't speak Welsh because I'm not white 3 weeks ago:
People assume I have listened to Nirvana because I wear their t-shirts. Mad, innit?
- Comment on Wylfa power station can begin that promises 8,000 new jobs 3 weeks ago:
You know what. In the morning then original title doesn’t sound so bad. Haha. My late night brain was like WTF is happening?!
- Comment on Wylfa power station can begin that promises 8,000 new jobs 3 weeks ago:
I’m sorry I’m not high enough for that title. LOL. WTF is it trying to say?
Wylfa power station can begin that promises 8,000 new jobs
- Comment on Shoplifting rife, police overwhelmed, an angry public – the trail leads back to one person: Theresa May | Dal Babu 4 weeks ago:
As usual we learn more from the comment section on the article than the article itself 😂. Have a read, they’re much better than the article.
- Comment on Keeping the country safe 4 weeks ago:
Where are the signs they refer to? Or is that the joke 🤔?
All I see is Quakers for Peace and Jews For Palestine.
- Comment on Keeping the country safe 4 weeks ago:
They changed their mind
- Comment on SUVs are making Britain’s potholes worse, say scientists 4 weeks ago:
No
- Comment on Peter Mandelson faces fixed-penalty notice for urinating in public 4 weeks ago:
The real question is, how on earth was there a photographer who got me as I was arriving, and was still there at 11 o’clock at night?
No mate, the real question is why were you friends with, taken money, and passed secrets to a nonce?
Fucking disgrace of a man.
- Comment on SUVs are making Britain’s potholes worse, say scientists 4 weeks ago:
You can’t stop boomers buying SUVs. It’s as much as a status symbol to them as Adidas trainers are to kids (I might be showing my age here do kids still care about Adidas?).
Tax the fuck out of heavier vehicles. Put that money back into the roads. Why most of the inner city streets needs a mini tractor riding up and down them is beyond me. But it’s not going to stop. So deal with the problem better.
- Comment on Wireless Festival cancelled after Kanye West blocked from coming to UK 4 weeks ago:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9vl1pn70ddo
Wow what a monumental shit head.
- Comment on NHS staff resist using Palantir software 5 weeks ago:
No! This is not how you Special Relationship with the US.
Keira Starter Wed Streaming Labour Party, 2026
- Comment on Foreign tourists could be charged to visit UK museums - including top London sites 1 month ago:
Why’s that?
- Comment on NHS ordered to share patient data with US ‘spy-tech’ firm 1 month ago:
The company’s founder, Peter Thiel, donated $1.25m to Donald Trump’s election campaign.
Thiel, like Musk, supported Trump for one reason: to further his business interests. Thiel is just less loud mouthy about it and hasn’t (yet) fallen out with Trump. This is what Keir Starters means when he says he’s negotiated a “trade deal” with the US. He has signed your data away to Palantir. This isn’t going to be reversed. There’s nothing the UK can do about it now and Keir doesn’t want to upset Donald more than he already has.
- Comment on UK iPhone users face over-18 age check to use services after update 1 month ago:
- Comment on Transgender girls told to leave Girlguiding groups by September 1 month ago:
There’s (slightly) more context in the linked article. Basically they want to exclude boys because they’re called the Girl Guides. They can only do that lawfully under the Equality Act that recently said this was only designed to cover what you were born as. At least that’s their logic.
I don’t understand why they can’t ignore that unless they’re being pressured by people who hate trans people on a threat of being sued? Not very clear from the reporting.
- Comment on Travel warning for Brits heading to Japan as entry requirements set to change 1 month ago:
Yikes ESTAS are now in pretty much every country as a secondary income source 😞.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
To be fair this one person is responsible for about 30% of the content on Lemmy. 🤣
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Is this a typo? Did they mean to say hated instead of supported?
- Comment on 1 month ago:
What are your special circumstances?