withabeard

withabeard, 6 days ago

Replying in this thread because I like the openness and communication of it.

I completely agree with you Sharp this could be addressed by breeding and training. But … the end goal is not to have aggressive murder machines on our streets. The breeding of power and aggression into the breed shouldn’t have been done in my opinon (or allowed into the UK). Breeding out the aggression, effectively means eliminating the breed anyway and gives us a transition period of completely unknown dogs.

Unfortunately, the primary reason (in my worthless opinion) for owning these dogs is the visage of power and aggression. The public penalty of that is part of owning that “power symbol”. The public reaction to the dogs, is the reason people want them in the first place.

I do compare this to “assault weapons” in the US. It’s not a phrase that makes much clear sense (like XL Bully). If what you want is a working tool, get a different gun/breed. If what you want is a family companion, get a different breed. If you want the power symbol, get the XL Bully or the “assault weapon”. There’s no specific reason to own that specific dog, except the power symbol.

withabeard, 4 months ago

I keep trying trains, here are some of my experiences. Caveat, I actually like/enjoy driving myself, but I want trains to be good for everyone including me.

Living in Wiltshire, within walking distance of a train station. Have friends in Kent, again walking distance of a train station. I was visiting those friends a few times a year, maybe even monthly at the time. I didn’t have my own vehicle. Jumping on a train with a book, seemed like the good option. The cost was incredible, easily 4x the cost of fuel if I had a car/motorbike (as I later did). The trains were generally on-time, into London. Once I bought a vehicle (motorbike at the time) that became my default. The one time I wanted to leave the motorbike at home due to bad weather, the line was flooded between reading and Paddington and I had to take the bike in the rain anyway. It cost me less to pay the fuel, insurance and outright buy the motorbike in a year than I spent on the train.

Living in South Wales, travelling to leeds regularly (several times a month). Avoiding the road miles/fuel/carbon, trying to take the train. The journey is long, involved several changeovers. The worst changeover was at Cardiff, I had a 55 minute wait at the end of a 5+ hour journey before a final 20 minute train home. I did get a lot of reading done. I also got a lot of drinking done, that much time sat on a train and I’d have a few cans. Ironically google maps often told me to get off at a station before home, and walk the hour and twenty minutes from Cwmbran home, as it was quicker that taking the layover in Cardiff. Eventually started driving again.

South wales valleys, into cardiff. Rush hour traffic is horrendous. The drive to work at the weekend was around twenty minutes, during rush hour you’d add an hour to that at least. Started taking the train. Was regularly late to work as the rush hour trains would be at capacity and I wouldn’t be able to get on, or they weren’t running. I had a 35 minute wait at the station each evening after work, if I worked late I’d often get stuck waiting on the hourly train home. The train, while “in theory” quicker, was even slower than driving; it was less reliable and it worked out more expensive than the fuel.

The train should be a solid win. But time after time I’ve ended up buying a vehicle and going back to driving.

withabeard, 7 months ago

The job of every guard is to look out for threats.

And this “threat” has already had an exception written into the Security staffing standards. So, despite what that individual thinks, the item is not a security threat and the staff member is in the wrong.

Apologies have been made, and training hopefully improved.

withabeard, 7 months ago

Funny … I only know about the protest because she was there and arrested.

Funny … you’re bothering to promote her acts by commenting on social media about it.

Go sit in the corner rude boy.

withabeard, 8 months ago

One of the most worrying things here, to me.

We have 100 highly trained police staff who do not trust our legal process to only prosecute the guilty.

withabeard, 8 months ago

Attacking people for being misinformed

But, I was told people were not stupid and they knew what they were voting for. How dare I assume they didn’t understand the implication and how dare I think I know more about it than they did.

I understand your point that attacking people and calling them stupid wont “make them change their mind”. But they had the time to research and understand the implications before the referendum. They’ve had much more time now to go back over it.

Banging your head on the wall pretending it won’t hurt, doesn’t make you misinformed or need education. It makes you stupid and it needs to be called out. I don’t need to convince someone that banging their head on a wall will hurt.

Sadly, I do need them to stop banging their head on the wall. As it’s a shared house and we’ve all got to live here. Holes in the wall ain’t helping anyone.

withabeard, 8 months ago

The article states that some of the calls not attended by paramedics may be attended by an EMT.

So, the complete opposite of your comment.

withabeard, 8 months ago

So one spokesperson who is paid to male the NHS look good in front of the media claims that “some” incidents were responded to by a doctor. That some could be just the one.

Where there are multiple sources in the article claiming statistics of the number of incidents that do not have a paramedic on site, just EMTs.

Yeah, not buying your “mountain out of a molehill” argument.

withabeard, 10 months ago

14… 78% spiritual purity. Thank God for that! I was worried I couldn’t go to heaven.