Bad beat/Moaning/Venting thread - Wordle Gummidge

[Keane]

My kids have a really strong reaction to coriander (as in they hate it) in it's leafy form, don't notice it ground

Obviously my taste buds are ruined through old age but I never really thought of it as being potentially objectionable in any way...

I think coriander is one of those where some people are like super-tasters and it's like soap for them. Cucumber is definitely one - for me it's a mild flavour almost like leafy water but apparently some people get a completely different nasty flavour from it.

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[Raoul Duke III]

yup
100% best to stay away from it.
Obivously, I think what she is saying is certifiable but no way am I bringing that down on my head.

It's one of the things that really sets Mrs D3 off. Now bear in mind, in her day job, she leads a team advocating and helping kids and their parents with all manner of disabilities. So she is well-used to dealing with every kind of problem that walks through her door. All the way up to the worst kind of paedophilia, drug abuse etc.

But the only thing that really annoys the shite out of her is this nonsense of trans kids. She is pretty adamant there's no such thing and it's just vulnerable kids who have been exposed to too much BS on social media, or whose parents tolerate and even encourage this crap. Like our friend Dice discovered.

I suspect if she were allowed to prescribe it (and wasn't opposed to corporal punishment of course) a kick up the hole would be the required medication. Starting with the parents.

[Solksjaer!]

Yer missus is right ts complete bollocks. Kicks in the gee all round

[6starpool]

What does it say? I seem to be blocked from accessing it. Which is usually a sign of a crazy person.

Weirdly enough I was blocked as well. I can't ever remember saying anything on twitter related to that topic or anything like it. I'm totally devastated.

[RichieM]

It's one of the things that really sets Mrs D3 off. Now bear in mind, in her day job, she leads a team advocating and helping kids and their parents with all manner of disabilities. So she is well-used to dealing with every kind of problem that walks through her door. All the way up to the worst kind of paedophilia, drug abuse etc.

But the only thing that really annoys the shite out of her is this nonsense of trans kids. She is pretty adamant there's no such thing and it's just vulnerable kids who have been exposed to too much BS on social media, or whose parents tolerate and even encourage this crap. Like our friend Dice discovered.

I suspect if she were allowed to prescribe it (and wasn't opposed to corporal punishment of course) a kick up the hole would be the required medication. Starting with the parents.

Making your kids life much more difficult just so you can have a fashion accessory. Should be looked at as child abuse imo.

To be trans as opposed to straight is a much more difficult path even if its a bit better than it was.

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[Solksjaer!]

RIP mr Willie Thorne. Wasnt he called mr Maximum

[Guest]

Despite never making one competitively! Had a tough old life after snooker.

[Strewelpeter]

Wouldn't be looking to underplay the stupidity or damage the that type of Munchausens transference from uber woke parents to their unfortunate children reflected in that tweet or the damage that other clear attempts to misuse or abuse rights attained from progressive gender and sexual legislation and social awareness but there is an enormous danger in these discussions being another front in the culture wars. There are people who are trans and sometimes that is evident from when they are very young, it should be a good thing that they are free to express and experiment with that, I'm afraid that the current climate maybe making it more problematic rather than easier. Its such a difficult topic to deal with when the lines in the sand are being drawn in stupid places.
Fckd if I'm going to have my house burned down either

[Gimmeabreak]

this might be one of the greatest pieces of writing in the modern times.

https://www.ft.com/content/8ea1c992-...9-483c62d17528

[Strewelpeter]

On a tangentially related subject there's a new Irish film called 'Dating Amber' that's well worth a watch.

Very simple coming of age story set in the Curragh Camp in the 90's by and girl both bullied for being gay hook up together, well written, good performances from the leads, some lovely comedy from the supporting cast of twenty somethings playing schoolkids and knockout turns from Sharon Horgan, Barry Ward and Simone Kirby as the tragicomic parents .

[Solksjaer!]

Wouldn't be looking to underplay the stupidity or damage the that type of Munchausens transference from uber woke parents to their unfortunate children reflected in that tweet or the damage that other clear attempts to misuse or abuse rights attained from progressive gender and sexual legislation and social awareness but there is an enormous danger in these discussions being another front in the culture wars. There are people who are trans and sometimes that is evident from when they are very young, it should be a good thing that they are free to express and experiment with that, I'm afraid that the current climate maybe making it more problematic rather than easier. Its such a difficult topic to deal with when the lines in the sand are being drawn in stupid places.
Fckd if I'm going to have my house burned down either

The mind of a child should not be concerned with such complex thoughts as transgender info . If you want to be a girl when you grow up little Timmy that's ok. If you want to play with dolls now that's ok . The that's ok approach is all that is required. There is never a need to assuage a child any more than that .

[mocata]

Despite never making one competitively! Had a tough old life after snooker.

He missed a blue once when a 1/3 shot to virtually lock up a match and went on huge life tilt after that.

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[Solksjaer!]

Did Thorne ever hit a competitive maximum? I heard he racked them up in practice . I liked his commentary as well t as his playing. Good breakbuilder but the gambler in him costs him frames . Big buddy of Gary Lineker, himself not a bad snooker player cricketer.

[Tar.Aldarion]

I think coriander is one of those where some people are like super-tasters and it's like soap for them. Cucumber is definitely one - for me it's a mild flavour almost like leafy water but apparently some people get a completely different nasty flavour from it.

It's a genetic thing. My father has it for cucumber, my girlfriend has it for coriander. Even the hint of it in a spice mix would render a meal inedible for her. It's just a super strong soap like taste yeah.
A pity as coriander is class.

[tylerdurden94]

Does anybody use UnRaid for a media server?

I've been using FreeNas the last couple years but it's not exactly user friendly if you're not too familiar with Linux & coding and I updated it last week and it's just not running so decided I'm gonna go down a different route and UnRaid looks like the best option vs using a Windows operating system.

[Solksjaer!]

this might be one of the greatest pieces of writing in the modern times.

https://www.ft.com/content/8ea1c992-...9-483c62d17528

Wont allow riff raff to read . Got a pdf / text file / control v ?

[hotspur]

Has anyone ever talked to a young person who is a trans activist or supporter of it? I haven't because I don't know young people. I wouldn't mind having such a discussion, even though I imagine I would likely regret it. Has anyone read anything interesting on it I can read (not a book)?

I accidentally got into gender studies many years ago and really enjoyed it. I recall the "gender is a social construct" idea that was prevalent a few decades ago leading to gender surgery for babies with sex organ abnormalities (intersex babies of various sorts is more common than you imagine). The idea was, well if there's an issue let's just sort them out with a vagina and raise them as a girl. It was a disaster and caused huge suffering and later life realignment surgery.

Now maybe this is entirely unrelated to the current transgender activism that's going on, I don't know.

[Bubbleking]

I find it exhausting to debate any contentious topics with those types of people (you know the ones). Try and introduce any logic or science into the discussion and you will be met with anecdote and emotive bullshite. You'll leave the discussion not having learned anything and just frustrated.

So yeah live and let live - not my business how people want to raise their children

[Lazare]

That Talking Sopranos podcast is really great. Michael Imperioli (Christopher) is a joy to listen to.

They're discussing each episode, from the beginning. Each pod episode is based on an episode of the show.

Would highly recommend. Gonna rewatch too.

[ComradeCollie]

Aunt Jemima gone. Uncle Ben must be on the way out next https://eu.usatoday.com/story/money/...an/3204562001/

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[Kayroo]

Has anyone ever talked to a young person who is a trans activist or supporter of it? I haven't because I don't know young people. I wouldn't mind having such a discussion, even though I imagine I would likely regret it. Has anyone read anything interesting on it I can read (not a book)?

I accidentally got into gender studies many years ago and really enjoyed it. I recall the "gender is a social construct" idea that was prevalent a few decades ago leading to gender surgery for babies with sex organ abnormalities (intersex babies of various sorts is more common than you imagine). The idea was, well if there's an issue let's just sort them out with a vagina and raise them as a girl. It was a disaster and caused huge suffering and later life realignment surgery.

Now maybe this is entirely unrelated to the current transgender activism that's going on, I don't know.

I'd love to be able to have this discussion with someone also. I don't know enough about it but whenever I've tried to find out more I inevitably find this strange conversation style where everyone is waiting for the first mistake in wording and then the pile-on starts. It is like a form of conversational jenga.

[Guest]

I find it exhausting to debate any contentious topics with those types of people (you know the ones). Try and introduce any logic or science into the discussion and you will be met with anecdote and emotive bullshite. You'll leave the discussion not having learned anything and just frustrated.

So yeah live and let live - not my business how people want to raise their children

Read something a couple of years ago about doctors in UK scared to say anything negative/contrary to the parent/child as they knew they would probably lose their jobs under a media led government. They were also worried about who might replace them, so said nothing and did what they could,but stressful.

Not medical but would have thought an "100% government will back you but after puberty" rule would sort a lot of it + remove the pushie parents control somewhat

Might be wrong but pretty sure that the Greeks/Romans etc were a lot more gender/sexually fluid than us

If it's the parents pushing it a lot of those kids would probably have ended fucked up anyway

The prisons and sport will sort a lot of it out eventually, they always do!


Live and let live, hope the kids turn out alright, I'm staying out of it if I can!

[Guest]

Aunt Jemima gone. Uncle Ben must be on the way out next https://eu.usatoday.com/story/money/...an/3204562001/

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Good!
About time!

[AndyFatBastard]

Seeing a lot of calls for restraint around Dexamethazone. Actual paper hasn't been published, seems to be reported on the basis of a press release rather than a published study :-/

[Tar.Aldarion]

If that was the case Kayroo I generally start off with a disclaimer that I am trying to learn and will make mistakes in language.
It's easiest to ask questions somewhere like reddit than in person. I'm sure a lot of people I know could speak well on it but it's never come up, it's also just easier to find trans people to talk to.

I'd like to talk to somebody more about being non-binary. It's hard to understand for me and i'd like to know what they feel and how misguided I am. To me the it sounds like people an idea of what a woman and man should be / feel like, ingrained from society, and if you feel like that thing, then you are one?

I see it like I am confident in who I am, that I am just me without really caring what traits are attached to a gender traditionally, somebody with a penis and a personality that is my own, call me a man great, call me a woman great, call me neither great. At the same as being biologically male time I have some traditionally feminine characteristics, but that doesn't matter an iota to me. The question of being a man or a woman has never popped into my head. I'm not sure what my point is apart from how foreign all this topic in general is to my particular personality, which makes it hard to understand and none of the content I've read has made it easier, because I guess gender is meaningless in reference to myself, and not because I am just a "man" aligned with a male body. If society said a man and a woman were different things (than they say now) would they not be non-binary?

[Bubbleking]

Jordan Peterson is interesting to listen to on the topic of gender and role in society. You don't have to agree with him but he articulates his points quite well

[hotspur]

Here's the problem with the availability of media. I was at a lovely park yesterday with a canal going through it which has a pair of swans and little signets. I was chatting to a woman who said a couple of the signets were further down the canal and couldn't get over a little water fall to where the others were, and that someone had called swan rescue.

I didn't know that swan rescue was a thing, and just Googled it there thinking that "That's sounds like a lovely thing, maybe I'll get involved in that." I go to the ISPCA website and there's a story about rescuing a swan with a damaged wing from a fight. "Swans fight?" Cue me watching a 5 minute epic fight between 2 swans on Youtube. Needless to say during my cheering along the swans in the surprisingly Brasilian Jiu Jitsu like fight I am now far away from wishing to help any loser swans who couldn't hack it in the mean fighting pits of the ponds.

[tylerdurden94]

That Talking Sopranos podcast is really great. Michael Imperioli (Christopher) is a joy to listen to.

They're discussing each episode, from the beginning. Each pod episode is based on an episode of the show.

Would highly recommend. Gonna rewatch too.

Listened to the second episode of Fake Doctors Real Friends from Zach Braff and Donald Faison rewatching Scrubs and telling stories. Actually burst out laughing at one point walking down the road, wasn't too many people around thankfully.

[Guest]

"Stay away from swans they will break your arm"

Fairly vicious bastards!

[brianmc]

Here's the problem with the availability of media. I was at a lovely park yesterday with a canal going through it which has a pair of swans and little signets. I was chatting to a woman who said a couple of the signets were further down the canal and couldn't get over a little water fall to where the others were, and that someone had called swan rescue.

I didn't know that swan rescue was a thing, and just Googled it there thinking that "That's sounds like a lovely thing, maybe I'll get involved in that." I go to the ISPCA website and there's a story about rescuing a swan with a damaged wing from a fight. "Swans fight?" Cue me watching a 5 minute epic fight between 2 swans on Youtube. Needless to say during my cheering along the swans in the surprisingly Brasilian Jiu Jitsu like fight I am now far away from wishing to help any loser swans who couldn't hack it in the mean fighting pits of the ponds.

We live just off the Grand Canal. There's usually a swan's nest near us each year. There are plenty of stories of swan related hospital trips over the years. They get very defensive at this time of year and will take a notion to chase people off. They've sent a kayaker for stitches, left plenty of people with bruises, they've attacked the wheel of my jeep going past, they've even taken to flight and chased after my wife's car - interesting to see in your rear view mirror. I've rescued several people who haven't been able to pass the nest along the tow path.

I like them.

[hotspur]

Brianmc is right, we must do something about the swan menace!

The Birds would have been a better film if it had been The Swans, thousands of swans giving people what for.

[Keane]

Jordan Peterson is interesting to listen to on the topic of gender and role in society. You don't have to agree with him but he articulates his points quite well

That would be a first for him in my experience. A bizarre, rambling weirdo on anything I've ever listened to. He pretends to cry doing the reading for his own audiobook.

[Solksjaer!]

The Swan goes out to the 1 I love . The Swan goes out to the one I left, behind

That's how I heard it .

[Gimmeabreak]

RE: my earlier post - I think if you click the link from the tweet you will be able to read the article

[gorrrr72]

RIP mr Willie Thorne. Wasnt he called mr Maximum

Yeah, he was living here, met him a couple of times, really nice down to earth guy. He was playing pool for a local team here and I had a weekly gig there last year so he'd be in a bit. He's a friend on FB and would put updates on his health, sadly they were fearful, he knew he was in trouble, I just saw the Gofundme last night to help him out but I didn't think I'd be reading about his death today

[Denny Crane]

One for the apiculturists

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2...social_twitter

[Kayroo]

Jordan Peterson is interesting to listen to on the topic of gender and role in society. You don't have to agree with him but he articulates his points quite well

Nope. Nope nope nope. He may be a wonderful clinical psychologist (I don't know) but his reasoning is specious, his thinking is childish and his conclusions are beyond contemptible. Since he got a whiff of himself in 2010 he's gone on a spiral of increasingly stupid positions on a huge range of topics. Articulating a bad point well does not make it a better point.

[Bubbleking]

Nope. Nope nope nope. He may be a wonderful clinical psychologist (I don't know) but his reasoning is specious, his thinking is childish and his conclusions are beyond contemptible. Since he got a whiff of himself in 2010 he's gone on a spiral of increasingly stupid positions on a huge range of topics. Articulating a bad point well does not make it a better point.

Yeah they are all fair points - I just enjoy him because I assume (probably wrongly) that he is high level trolling all the feminists

I think he's had a bit of a melt down in recent months - went on a benzo binge in Russia sadly.

[DeadParrot]

Yeah they are all fair points - I just enjoy him because I assume (probably wrongly) that he is high level trolling all the feminists

I think he's had a bit of a melt down in recent months - went on a benzo binge in Russia sadly.

he had a high water mark in the Ch4 interview and had a lot of attention and opportunity for $$$
He turned into a mouthpiece for his most frequent backers

[hotspur]

Jordan Peterson is an exceptional genius. I can also assume you haven't spent enough time reading him or watching his psychology lectures Kayroo, because it is inconceivable to me that you could otherwise characterise his capacities so inaccurately.

[Solksjaer!]

Nope. Nope nope nope. He may be a wonderful clinical psychologist (I don't know) but his reasoning is specious, his thinking is childish and his conclusions are beyond contemptible. Since he got a whiff of himself in 2010 he's gone on a spiral of increasingly stupid positions on a huge range of topics. Articulating a bad point well does not make it a better point.

Articulating a bad point well does not make it a better point.. ya listening Kayroo ? Wha wha?

[Kayroo]

Jordan Peterson is an exceptional genius. I can also assume you haven't spent enough time reading him or watching his psychology lectures Kayroo, because it is inconceivable to me that you could otherwise characterise his capacities so inaccurately.

Not even remotely commenting on his psychology work. He may well be the finest psychologist in the world and I would not be capable of disputing that or even intelligently discussing it. However

However... he also holds some other ideas

1. Islamophobia is a word created by fascists and used by cowards to manipulate morons
2. He thinks the increase in sexual assault allegations is due to sex outside marriage being more common
3. He told Camille Paglia that it was a pity men can't control "crazy women" anymore by physically beating them
4. He thinks that the teaching of humanities in college is a form of indoctrination for neo-Marxists
5. He espouses a diet of salt, beef and water only.

He is a reddit forum with a book deal. He might well be a genius psychologist but he's an absolutely abysmal public intellectual.

[Kayroo]

Articulating a bad point well does not make it a better point.. ya listening Kayroo ? Wha wha?

And being barely articulate doesn't stop ya being funny Solks. Wha? Wha???

[Tar.Aldarion]

Those points above made by kayroo are not something I know much about and are such not my issue with him. I've watching some of his talks and so on, so by no means an expert but I did try and learn more about what he thinks (any power struggle...is this a marxist? any altruistic action, is this toxic empathy? ) and what others think about it. Jordan is regularly ripped apart on philosophy communities, and is the mascot of /r/badphilosophy. To me he seems to try and talk with authority about quite a lot of interdisciplinary positions without an in depth knowledge of them himself. When I want to go learn more about what he said, people in said field are generally just picking it apart (people seem quite pissed that he misrepresents others philosophical views and states them as fact), so I'd like to know more about his good aspects.

[Opr]

Didn't Peterson check himself into rehab late last year which is why we haven't had to endure his ramblings of late?

[Solksjaer!]

And being barely articulate doesn't stop ya being funny Solks. Wha? Wha???

I'll take 'barely' . I feel upgraded.

[Raoul Duke III]

Looking to book an airbnb in Ireland for the week of 13 July. Lost track of phases: is this a legit thing to do at that time?

[Solksjaer!]

Goal line tech and VAR both working from home in their jocks today. Sheff Utd robbed

[limpwhacker]

Now that Premier League is back up and running the EFL bets thread has become too difficult for a mentally challenged old man to find. A link would be appreciated if anyone can post it I'd appreciate it.

[Emmet]

Does anybody use UnRaid for a media server?

I've been using FreeNas the last couple years but it's not exactly user friendly if you're not too familiar with Linux & coding and I updated it last week and it's just not running so decided I'm gonna go down a different route and UnRaid looks like the best option vs using a Windows operating system.

Yes use Unraid for my server at home. Really like all the virtualisation aspects of it, run a lot of useful apps via the docker server on it, which means my machines at home are a chromebook, a raspberry pi, and a headless server which I can RDP to from either of the other ones.

There's a youtube guy who does absolutely loads of videos on how to setup all the bits you may want if you want it as a media server specifically - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZD...N0WeAPvMqTOrtA

It took me a little while to get the server setup (it doesn't have a screen), and quite some time to get around to setting up VMs and docker apps, but really I think I'll never go back to having a behemoth under a desk since I've done it.

I don't make use of the media server aspect of it, I am effectively using it as virtualisation server with a NAS and redundancy option there too.

[DeadParrot]

absolute clusterfuck by EPL in this game

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[Bubbleking]

Looking to book an airbnb in Ireland for the week of 13 July. Lost track of phases: is this a legit thing to do at that time?

We are renting an airbnb pub down in Kerry on the 19th/20th and it seems like it will be ok

[Bubbleking]

Like if you were to do this for a few months and see a quadrupling of cyclists, there's realistically no sane council can shut down a route that is clearly working. Suggests the impetus then is to get on your bikes everyone. I'd imagine they'll be tracking usage on all the routes too, so key is that everything is packed.

Ive taken up cycling in the last 4 months and love it! But I actively avoid routes that don't have cycle lanes. Had a motorist knock me off my bike yesterday even though I was in the cycle lane

[Guest]

absolute clusterfuck by EPL in this game

Id a bet on Sheff Utd to finish 4th ages ago, I think that killed it!