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    JC

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    • RE: Christmas Gifts

      @mariner4life said in Christmas Gifts:

      SHIT! I haven't got my parents anything.

      And you know what, i don't even know what they might need or want. I am so far removed from their lives i have no fucking idea. We talk on the phone maybe once a month. Maybe. And i haven't seen them in 14 months. I am a terrible son. I haven't spent christmas with my family in probably 4 years, but it might actually be 5.

      I stopped buying for my sisters a couple of decades ago.

      I always get my younger brother a decent present. He’s a tradIe who, as he has 5 kids, 3 of whom he’s put through uni with the last 2 due in the next couple of years, never has anything left for himself. He’s a great Dad and never expects much. A couple of Christmases ago I convinced Mrs JC to let me buy him the car he always wanted. It was worth it just to see the look on his face when he drives it. In return I expect him to research and buy me the best bottle of wine he can find for under 30 bucks.

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    • RE: No kids, any regrets?

      Well for us kids just weren’t an option sadly. We tried everything but when we first got all the tests done they told us it would be extremely unlikely and they were right. The never ending hormone treatments permanently damaged Mrs JC’s health - one of the fertility experts guilt tripped her into some pretty extreme treatments by saying if she had any second thoughts then she just didn’t want kids enough. So now she’s got anxiety attacks, near constant IBS, blinding headaches about 50% of every month, excruciating period pain, everything except the child she desperately wanted and still misses. The kicker is she is a amazing with kids and would have been the most awesome Mum. Sometimes you just have to laugh because the alternative is you’d never stop crying.

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    • RE: US Politics

      @Frank said in US Politics:

      @JC Unfortunately, a lot of people do listen to them. Sad.

      Stop then. Nobody is making you wind yourself up with this drivel.

      Honestly, the degeneration of this thread gives me the shits. I'm very interested in policy and especially economics in the US, but the nonsense on here about personalities, cucks, and the alt-right, the endless pathetic memes and the posting of links to fringe sites populated by feeble minds has made it pretty much unreadable.

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    • RE: Memes

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    • RE: Memes

      Maybe too dark?

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    • RE: Coronavirus - New Zealand

      @Crucial said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

      @JC said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

      @Godder said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

      @JC it was agreed by our representatives in Parliament giving those powers to the government if an epidemic is declared.

      And if the government keeps publishing criteria and revising it regularly, how will that keep public confidence? People don't trust them now, and that would look like flip-flopping.

      Oh no. We can’t have them looking like they’re flip-flopping can we? That would be so politically inconvenient.

      This is simple. If they know what the exit criteria are they should tell us. If they don’t know they should tell us that instead. The former has a time limit, even if it’s just connected to a condition or event. But if the exit criteria are rational, the abrogation of our human rights is temporary.

      However if there aren’t any exit criteria it is entirely possible that there is no exit, ever. I’m not OK with living like that, and I don’t care what representatives decided it.

      I’m not impressed by arguments that things are constantly changing when the people making the argument are the ones who are changing things.

      It’s a decision based on a situation of many variables, not one the can be locked in and held to.

      I get the element of frustration by some but things aren’t as simple as “when this number occurs”.
      It isn’t trying to save face either. You know exactly what would happen if they set some targets but didn’t move when the targets were met because of other information that had to hand.

      Of course it’s complex. But they chose an extreme course that varies from the original premise. Originally they needed to flatten the curve so that our health services would cope. The compact with the public was that we would temporarily surrender some freedoms so that could happen. I assume that they’ve used the time to upgrade our health systems so that we are prepared for a future wave. But I don’t know, because nobody has told us how that’s going. Instead something changed: we were going to go for elimination, something that nobody is sure will work. That’s a significant movement of the goalposts.

      Assuming elimination works, what are the implications? The WHO said overnight that COVID passports shouldn’t be used because there’s no evidence that having the virus confers immunity. Think about that. We may be permanently stuck with this thing. If so, it’s about time someone started to talk with us about what rights and freedoms we are prepared to permanently give up. And the answer might be “none”. So be it.

      I’m much more likely to be in the high risk category than most here, and I’d rather not die. But I’m fucked if I want to be the reason people who are at very little risk have their lives and livelihoods ruined just so that I can get a few extra years of living like a hermit. Fuck that. I’d rather take my chances and let people with an actual future have one.

      posted in Coronavirus
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    • RE: RWC: All Blacks v Ireland (QF2)

      @antipodean said in RWC: All Blacks v Ireland (QF2):

      @booboo said in RWC: All Blacks v Ireland (QF2):

      @antipodean said in RWC: All Blacks v Ireland (QF2):

      @canefan said in RWC: All Blacks v Ireland (QF2):

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      @Luigi said in RWC: All Blacks v Ireland (QF2):

      @MiketheSnow said in RWC: All Blacks v Ireland (QF2):

      @sparky said in RWC: All Blacks v Ireland (QF2):

      Not really sure what Matt Todd could do there?

      Tackle?

      Exactly. It ain’t about intent anymore. Or even it being an accident. If you’re in the way, flailing around like a epileptic squid you’re gonna get pinged. Todd got sent off for being a muppet. Can’t even claim cynicism, just rubbishness.

      He's directly responsible for both of Ireland's tries. His YC was deserved - you're supposed to tackle.

      Please explain to me the rule that Todd broke? He was inside, the vision clearly showed that. He did not make shoulder or arm contact with the irish player's head. It was at best a collision I would have thought? Honest question

      I'd go with foul play obstruction. He made no attempt to tackle and simply plopped himself in the way.

      Who is he obstructing. Isn't obstruction preventing someone from playing?

      The ball carrier, from playing the ball. I suggest you watch a replay. It's obvious and uncontroversial. Ignore that he got flustered in his explanation, the penalty and card are justified.

      I had to go and watch again after reading this. He did not prevent the ball carrier from playing the ball. The ball could have been made available to a team mate at any time and Todd didn’t stop him from trying to do that. He was, for the record, behind the try line when the ball carrier picked up the ball and only moved forward after that. He flopped clownishly at the base of the posts but was onside when he did it. If you called it a tackle or a breakdown then he was on the NZ side of it. If you called it open play then he can be wherever the fuck he likes.

      Or are you saying that defenders have an obligation to let a player attempt to place the ball and score a try? Because I missed that law change and so has everybody else who tries to hold up the ball and prevent a score, like in every game ever.

      As you’ll have gathered, I’m not accepting it’s obvious and uncontroversial just because you say so.

      Of course I could be wrong but you’ll need to cite your source.

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    • RE: US Politics

      @Siam said in US Politics:

      @MajorRage genuinely, what's been shocking about the trump reaction? You think his quote is defining?
      From the little I've seen his addresses to the nation have been pretty reasonable and met with majority approval.

      I fail to get the point of majority approval. That’s for when a politician wants to hedge his bets on re-election. It’s not the same as leadership, which is what’s missing here.

      Somehow the US has turned into a gerontocracy, with both parties’ likely candidates stupid old men. Maybe they were both clever once, but they’re not now. Biden acts like he’s suffering from dementia and Trump is a 140 character mind in a longform world.
      It’s sad it’s no longer shocking that Trump’s tendency to confuse what he thinks plays well in a tweet is the best response to any real world situation. Autocracy may play well in states where the political framework allows for it, but the US isn’t that place. Everybody in the country knows that ultimately they have the constitutional right to tell him to piss off, yet he continues to act as though ordering around free people will work. It doesn’t. He needs to find another way, and I think he’s too old to change, and too much a believer in his own myth for him to even think he needs to.

      And yet, where is the viable alternative? Charlatans, shallow panderers, mass-produced gladhanders who think a generic law degree is the ticket to wisdom that nobody else has, virtue signalling empty heads in bad American suits. How did a great country fall so low, so fast? From an embarrassment of riches to simply an embarrassment?

      Many of the smartest people I know are Americans. Trump and Biden aren’t fit to be seen in the same room as them. A pox on both their corrupt houses.

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    • RE: Memes

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    • RE: Coronavirus - New Zealand

      @Rapido said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

      My hunch is 28 days short sharp pain will do less damage to the economy than a drawn out half arsed approach.

      28 days which includes school holidays, plus 2 stat holidays. 18 working/trading days for many.

      Let a hairdresser or dentist stay open but with desultory turnover but still all the costs? Or shut stuff down , reduce all costs, subsidise wages, defer mortgages. Shift the pain to the commercial landlords who shift it to the banks.

      Wont work for all, for some time is money. Can't save everyone, let the 'creative destruction' begin as the textbooks say.

      Can’t agree. “Creative destruction” is pretty offensive really. The majority of businesses that go to the wall represent the sweat, dreams and livelihoods of individuals and families all over the country. They will not recover. Many will have guaranteed their debts with their personal assets and they will lose their homes, in many cases their families, and in some cases their lives. They will not be able to borrow any more money to start again. They will fail to pay their debts, often to other small businesses, leading to more of the same. Recession, too, is a virus. What most small and medium sized businesses want is to be in control of their own destiny, not have failure forced on them by someone who has no idea of what is needed to keep a business afloat in good times and bad, or empathy with the sense of helplessness when you see the hurt felt by your family, your employees and their families, and the community who depends on you to deliver your services and pay your debts. And it doesn’t matter how smart you are or how honourable your intentions are, you can’t do anything about it. Because you have been ordered not to.

      BTW, shifting the pain to the banks? Like that actually ever happens... The banks will do fine. And if they don’t, the squeeze will go onto their customers, and there’s nothing the government can do to stop them.

      posted in Coronavirus
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    Latest posts made by JC

    • RE: What are you listening to, right now................

      @dogmeat I’m Ok with most of Hunter’s picks. But sorry, I just can’t do Grateful Dead. I’ve tried many times, but it's always ended up boring the tits off me.

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    • RE: US Politics

      @Kid-Chocolate said in US Politics:

      @JC

      Impressive list that signals outrage but tells us SFA.

      May 26  /  Criminal Justice,Civil Liberties,Education

      There Have Been 13 Mass School Shootings Since 1966, Not 27 This Year

      There Have Been 13 Mass School Shootings Since 1966, Not 27 This Year

      Don't conflate <em>mass shootings</em> with <em>school shootings</em>.

      “The difference is significant. Education Week, which tracks all school shootings, defines them as incidents in which a person other than the suspect suffers a bullet wound on school property. Many of the 26 previous shootings involved disputes between students in parking lots, or after athletic events, and all of them resulted in one or zero deaths. These deaths are still incredibly tragic, of course. But they are fundamentally unlike what happened in Uvalde.”

      Oh that’s much better /s

      Sorry buddy, but if that distinction brings you comfort I fear you may have lost perspective.

      Just to be clear, the correct number of shooting deaths on school property is zero.

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    • RE: Tech, monopolies, censorship

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    • RE: Memes

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    • RE: NZ Politics

      @Tim I get the impression that Mahuta’s goal isn’t so much better governance, or even a better deal for Māori people, as much as it is about establishing a ruling dynasty. Aotearoa’s own version of the Gandhi family.

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    • RE: NZ Politics

      @dogmeat said in NZ Politics:

      @JC Don't forget Tuvalu

      I already had

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    • RE: Old TV Shows

      Jeez @booboo they're blasts from the past! Back in those days of course you had no choice but to watch them, only one channel

      posted in Off Topic
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    • RE: RIP 2022

      Depeche Mode’s Andy Fletcher is gone too. Younger than me.

      Wilson Chapman  /  May 26

      Andy Fletcher, Founding Member of Depeche Mode, Dies at 60

      Andy Fletcher, Founding Member of Depeche Mode, Dies at 60

      Andy Fletcher, one of the founding members of Depeche Mode has died. He was 60.

      posted in Off Topic
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    • RE: NZ Politics

      @antipodean When she says “we” she means “Australia”

      posted in Politics
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    • RE: US Politics

      So there’s a list of schools where shootings have occurred. 245 of them:

      Thurston High School
      Columbine High School
      Heritage High School
      Deming Middle School
      Fort Gibson Middle School
      Buell Elementary School
      Lake Worth Middle School
      University of Arkansas
      Junipero Serra High School
      Santana High School
      Bishop Neumann High School
      Pacific Lutheran University
      Granite Hills High School
      Lew Wallace High School
      Martin Luther King, JrHigh School
      Appalachian School of Law
      Washington High School
      Conception Abbey
      Benjamin Tasker Middle School
      University of Arizona
      Lincoln High School
      John McDonogh High School
      Red Lion Area Junior High School
      Case Western Reserve University
      Rocori High School
      Ballou High School
      Randallstown High School
      Bowen High School
      Red Lake Senior High School
      Harlan Community Academy High School
      Campbell County High School
      Milwee Middle School
      Roseburg High School
      Pine Middle School
      Essex Elementary School
      Duquesne University
      Platte Canyon High School
      Weston High School
      West Nickel Mines School
      Joplin Memorial Middle School
      Henry Foss High School
      Compton Centennial High School
      Virginia Tech
      Success Tech Academy
      Miami Carol City Senior High School
      Hamilton High School
      Louisiana Technical College
      Mitchell High School
      E.OGreen Junior High School
      Northern Illinois University
      Lakota Middle School
      Knoxville Central High School
      Willoughby South High School
      Henry Ford High School
      University of Central Arkansas
      Dillard High School
      Dunbar High School
      Hampton University
      Harvard College
      Larose-Cut Off Middle School
      International Studies Academy
      Skyline College
      Discovery Middle School
      University of Alabama
      DeKalb School
      Deer Creek Middle School
      Ohio State University
      Mumford High School
      University of Texas
      Kelly Elementary School
      Marinette High School
      Aurora Central High School
      Millard South High School
      Martinsville West Middle School
      Worthing High School
      Millard South High School
      Highlands Intermediate School
      Cape Fear High School
      Chardon High School
      Episcopal School of Jacksonville
      Oikos University
      Hamilton High School
      Perry Hall School
      Normal Community High School
      University of South Alabama
      Banner Academy South
      University of Southern California
      Sandy Hook Elementary School
      Apostolic Revival Center Christian School
      Taft Union High School
      Osborn High School
      Stevens Institute of Business and Arts
      Hazard Community and Technical College
      Chicago State University
      Lone Star College-North
      Cesar Chavez High School
      Price Middle School
      University of Central Florida
      New River Community College
      Grambling State University
      Massachusetts Institute of Technology
      Ossie Ware Mitchell Middle School
      Ronald EMcNair Discovery Academy
      North Panola High School
      Carver High School
      Agape Christian Academy
      Sparks Middle School
      North Carolina A&T State University
      Stephenson High School
      Brashear High School
      West Orange High School
      Arapahoe High School
      Edison High School
      Liberty Technology Magnet High School
      Hillhouse High School
      Berrendo Middle School
      Purdue University
      South Carolina State University
      Los Angeles Valley College
      Charles FBrush High School
      University of Southern California
      Georgia Regents University
      Academy of Knowledge PreSchool
      Benjamin Banneker High School
      DHConley High School
      East English Village Preparatory Academy
      Paine College
      Georgia Gwinnett College
      John FKennedy High School
      Seattle Pacific University
      Reynolds High School
      Indiana State University
      Albemarle High School
      Fern Creek Traditional High School
      Langston Hughes High School
      Marysville Pilchuck High School
      Florida State University
      Miami Carol City High School
      Rogers State University
      Rosemary Anderson High School
      Wisconsin Lutheran High School
      Frederick High School
      Tenaya Middle School
      Bethune-Cookman University
      Pershing Elementary School
      Wayne Community College
      J.B Martin Middle School
      Southwestern Classical Academy
      Savannah State University
      Harrisburg High School
      Umpqua Community College
      Northern Arizona University
      Texas Southern University
      Tennessee State University
      Winston-Salem State University
      Mojave High School
      Lawrence Central High School
      Franklin High School
      Muskegon Heights High School
      Independence High School
      Madison High School
      Antigo High School
      University of California-Los Angeles
      Jeremiah Burke High School
      Alpine High School
      Townville Elementary School
      Vigor High School
      Linden McKinley STEM Academy
      June Jordan High School for Equity
      Union Middle School
      Mueller Park Junior High School
      West Liberty-Salem High School
      University of Washington
      King City High School
      North Park Elementary School
      North Lake College
      Freeman High School
      Mattoon High School
      Rancho Tehama Elementary School
      Aztec High School
      Wake Forest University
      Italy High School
      NET Charter High School
      Marshall County High School
      Sal Castro Middle School
      Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School
      Great Mills High School
      Central Michigan University
      Huffman High School
      Frederick Douglass High School
      Forest High School
      Highland High School
      Dixon High School
      Santa Fe High School
      Noblesville West Middle School
      University of North Carolina
      Charlotte STEM School
      Highlands Ranch Edgewood High School
      Palm Beach Central High School
      Providence Career & Technical Academy
      Fairley High School(School bus)
      Canyon Springs High School
      Dennis Intermediate School
      Florida International University
      Central Elementary School
      Cascade Middle School
      Davidson High School
      Prairie View A & M University
      Altascocita High School
      Central Academy of Excellence
      Cleveland High School
      Robert ELee High School
      Cheyenne South High School
      Grambling State University
      Blountsville Elementary School
      Holmes County, Mississippi (School bus)
      Prescott High School
      College of the Mainland
      Wynbrooke Elementary School
      UNC Charlotte
      Riverview Florida (School bus)
      Second Chance High School
      Carman-Ainsworth High School
      Williwaw Elementary School
      Monroe Clark Middle School
      Central Catholic High School
      Jeanette High School
      Eastern Hills High School
      DeAnza High School
      Ridgway High School
      Reginald FLewis High School
      Saugus High School
      Pleasantville High School
      Waukesha South High School
      Oshkosh High School
      Catholic Academy of New Haven
      Bellaire High School
      North Crowley High School
      McAuliffe Elementary School
      South Oak Cliff High School
      Texas A&M University -Commerce
      Sonora High School
      Western Illinois University
      Oxford High School
      Robb Elementary School

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