ChaoticMusings

Syl wrote:

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I think most people now use their mobile phones for everything OTHER than actually phoning people.

Crazy world.

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 Teens have them velcroed to their hands!

Many people walk out in front of cars, because their eyes are glued to.phones.  What are they looking at fgs!

Maddog wrote:

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Syl wrote:

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I don't have a mobile phone, I don't want one, and I refuse to get one, I like the freedom of NOT being at everyone's beck and call, If they want me, they can phone me at home.

I do cheat a bit, because I use my OH's sometimes...but only when desperate.

 

The latest ridiculous idea, restaurants that don't have actual menus...you have to download it online.

I accept that some restaurants don't handle cash now...though it seems to take longer to pay, and you still have to carry cash to tip, because some staff don't receive the tip when it's added to the bill...so that's a farce in itself..

 

Progress...is it hell.

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 You still have a land line? 😳

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 I do. 

And funnily enough, people, including grandkids,  call me on it and we can gab for ages.

We have just been sat out at the garden centre, OH and me, actually talk to each other. A concept that so many people seem to have lost.

We also people watched, saw robins, squirrels, admired the plants dotted around the cafe...the things that the majority of people are oblivious to nowadays.

Apart from the 'advancements' (not always for the best) in technology... social changes that discriminate against the majority have gone too far.

This is a step in the right direction.

"New restaurants, public toilets, shopping centres and offices in England will be required to have separate male and female toilets under proposed legislation, the government has said.

The law will affect new non-residential buildings as part of a push "ending the rise" of gender-neutral toilets, Equalities Minister Kemi Badenoch said.

A consultation highlighted concerns from women, elderly and disabled people who felt "unfairly disadvantaged" by toilets being converted into gender neutral facilities sharing cubicles and sinks, the government said.

But transgender rights groups argue gender-neutral toilets can protect trans people from discrimination.

The rights groups say that, along with other people who do not conform to the gender binary, trans people can face intrusive challenges when using male or female toilets."

Single-sex toilets required for new buildings under proposals - BBC News

Syl wrote:

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Maddog wrote:

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Syl wrote:

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Maddog wrote:

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Syl wrote:

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I don't have a mobile phone, I don't want one, and I refuse to get one, I like the freedom of NOT being at everyone's beck and call, If they want me, they can phone me at home.

I do cheat a bit, because I use my OH's sometimes...but only when desperate.

 

The latest ridiculous idea, restaurants that don't have actual menus...you have to download it online.

I accept that some restaurants don't handle cash now...though it seems to take longer to pay, and you still have to carry cash to tip, because some staff don't receive the tip when it's added to the bill...so that's a farce in itself..

 

Progress...is it hell.

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 You still have a land line? 😳

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 I do. 

And funnily enough, people, including grandkids,  call me on it and we can gab for ages.

 

We have just been sat out at the garden centre, OH and me, actually talk to each other. A concept that so many people seem to have lost.

We also people watched, saw robins, squirrels, admired the plants dotted around the cafe...the things that the majority of people are oblivious to nowadays.

 

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 Well, to each their own. 

 

I thought my dearly departed mother was the last person on earth with one. 😎

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 Maybe she was in the US, several of my friends here still have one.

Not the old fashioned dial ones, the hands free ones....we do dip our toes in modern technology sometimes.  

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 She had a cell and a portable phone for her land line. She wouldn’t get rid of the land line because she was afraid she might miss an important call. No idea who that would be. It was almost always scammers trying to separate her from her money. 

She constantly lost both of them. 

This is the latest....

Pro-Gaza activists have dramatically issued a list of 18 demands to Sir Keir Starmer and threatened to withhold their support at the next general election if he does not fulfil them. 

The Muslim Vote has called for the Labour leader to promise to cut military ties with Israel, allow followers of Islam to pray in school and stop people with the name 'Muhammad' being charged more for insurance should he become prime minister.

It has also demanded a law that criminalises spiritual and religious leaders from instructing their congregation how to vote is scrapped and wants seven per cent of public sector pensions to be invested into 'ethical and Islamic funds'.

The group, which has vowed to 'punish' MPs who it sees as not being supportive of Palestine by mobilising the four million Muslim voters in the UK, said it would only consider backing the Labour leader if Sir Keir caved in to their demands.

The activists claim to have more than 25 organisations backing them, although it was revealed earlier this year that at least two of them were being investigated over extremism concerns. One of its supporters Muhammad Jalal, who has appeared on the campaign's social media pages, was previously head of the now-banned Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir.

Sir Keir said he was 'determined' to win back voters who deserted Labour at the local elections over his party's stance on Gaza, after dozens of pro-Palestine campaigners were elected as councillors in place of Labour candidates.

The Muslim Vote issued the following demands to Sir Keir Starmer in a series of tweets: 

'1. Apologise for your comments greenlighting a genocide and for not backing the ceasefire in Oct/Nov 2023.

'2. Sanctions on companies operating in occupied territories. Sanctions on settlers.

'3. Recognise Palestine state

'4. Travel ban on all Israeli politicians that prosecuted this war and support illegal occupation.

'5. End military ties with Israel.

'6. Issue guidance that Muslims are allowed to pray at school.

'7. Implement findings of people's review of prevent - not Shawcross.

'8. Remove 'extremism' definition [Michael] Gove introduced.

'9. Commit to full implementation of Royal charter re media regulation.

'10. Adopt APPG definition of Islamophobia.

'11. Commit to review of public sector equality duty.

'12. Increase council and public health funding for the 10% most deprived areas in the country to finally address systemic and chronic health inequities as detailed in the Marmot Review and revisited by the Health Foundation 10 year later.

'13. Deliver alternative student finance.

'14. Ensure sharia compliant pensions are available at every workplace. So the 1/3 of Muslims without a pension get one.

'15. Ensure insurance quotes don't cost more for someone called 'Muhammad'.

'16. Commit 7% of the LGPS/ public sector pensions to ethical and Islamic funds.

'17. Oppose BDS bill. Kick it out of law.

'18. Remove the archaic 'spiritual influence' offence from statute.'

Digger wrote:

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Who the fuck in their right mind would vote this weak flip flopping fool in?

 

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 I know...I can't stand to listen to him, never mind look at him.

Syl wrote:

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Digger wrote:

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I'm more alarmed by the way people behave towards each other and all the stabbings of kids etc.

I'm quite tech savvy, always have been.

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 There have always been young people who go around stabbing, shooting etc. Nowadays we hear about it because news travels fast and wide via the internet.

 

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 I don't think it was as prevalent when we were young.   Apparently, records for stabbings only began in 1946 and it has now reached record highs.

Syl wrote:

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Digger wrote:

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Syl wrote:

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Digger wrote:

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I'm more alarmed by the way people behave towards each other and all the stabbings of kids etc.

I'm quite tech savvy, always have been.

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 There have always been young people who go around stabbing, shooting etc. Nowadays we hear about it because news travels fast and wide via the internet.

 

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 I don't think it was as prevalent when we were young.   Apparently, records for stabbings only began in 1946 and it has now reached record highs.

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 It was high in the 50's when Teddy boys roamed around, then in the 60s mods and rockers came about.

It's probably higher today because there are 30 million more people than back in the 40s....and stabbings in particular often involve black males.

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 Perhaps it's that the knife crimes are kids a lot younger than years ago.