Ideas That You Feel Are Ready For Retirement

[lovelydivot]

I got a lot of my information from this film...

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[titchbit]

Leaving children aside for the moment, it seems rather sexist in this day and age that women take precedence over men. Women and children first? Pshaw! EVERYONE FOR THEMSELVES, SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST.

I am very, very late to this thread, but I had to ask, is that a Howard Dean reference?

[nousd]

^not ignored, left for someone who knows

What about risk aversion...

I get that somebody inevitably pays for an idiot's idiocy
so we spread the costs around with insurance premiums
and try to minimize this cost by making things safer
I get it.

But

does that mean that forever more
we'll have to wear fluro clothing on building sites
don helmets on bicycles
paint the edges of holes yellow
label fatty foods with health warnings
and line every accessible cliff edge with a railing?

Can we not hand back some of these risks to individuals?
Without requiring them to sign wavers?

Climb a balcony drunk, fall & expect to be at the back of a queue.

I know this doesn't address the ability of the rich to pay for priority
but somehow we need to redress the creeping lack of accountability in welfare states.

[nowaysj]

Climb a balcony drunk, fall & expect to be at the back of a queue.

Which queue is that?

[nousd]

the line at emergency
of sober people who've fallen off balconies

whadidyuthink...the queue for ladies toilets?

[nowaysj]

Just wanted to confirm. So you'd like a triage nurse at the ER who evaluates the moral culpability of entrants. I'm down with this.

[Laszlo]

Insurance companies need to fuck off really. It's a law backed racket.

Insurance tax with nobody making a profit would be better.

[nowaysj]

Yes Laszlo. In the states we don't have health care, we (some, in all actuality) have health insurance, insurance against the potential that medical care will be required. If a health insurance business is to remain profitable, by definition it has to consume more value than it produces. Not so bad for smaller sectors, but health insurance is 15% of national gdp and rising like a Chinese rocket. Insanity. A death pact for a nation.

[magma]

Insurance companies need to fuck off really. It's a law backed racket.

Insurance tax with nobody making a profit would be better.

Never even had an inkling of a thought about that, but I think I agree.

[Laszlo]

noway - There are so many reasons i'd be vexed if I woke up American, that being far from the least of them.

[wub]

noway - There are so many reasons i'd be vexed if I woke up American, that being far from the least of them.

My number one gripe would be the loss of my foreskin.

I've grown quite attached to it.

[Laszlo]

Makes it sound like you were born without one but then got one later..

[Riddles]

How many charities are religion based? How many churches, mosques etc provide food and clothes and other services to homeless and poor people?

and how many of them horde unfathomable amounts of wealth that they'd rather not part with in favour of rinsing the public. (obv organised religions arent the only naughty wealth horders, but theyre one of the ones who have big gold candlesticks n diamonds n shit. like the queen giving a speech about austerity while covered head to toe in gold and diamonds. fucking old bitch face)

Maybe in the states at the super churches, but far from it in Britain. Most churches are dwindling and are closing due to not being able to afford the rent. Hardly sitting on tonnes of money.

[nowaysj]

I do indeed wake vex'ed, and live vex'ed.

And yes, I'd like that foreskin back... then again, I might miss those 45 minute safaris.

[Laszlo]

How many charities are religion based? How many churches, mosques etc provide food and clothes and other services to homeless and poor people?

and how many of them horde unfathomable amounts of wealth that they'd rather not part with in favour of rinsing the public. (obv organised religions arent the only naughty wealth horders, but theyre one of the ones who have big gold candlesticks n diamonds n shit. like the queen giving a speech about austerity while covered head to toe in gold and diamonds. fucking old bitch face)

Maybe in the states at the super churches, but far from it in Britain. Most churches are dwindling and are closing due to not being able to afford the rent. Hardly sitting on tonnes of money.

Big up Henry VIII

[nowaysj]

Big up Laszlo I

[magma]

Makes it sound like you were born without one but then got one later..

Anyone else get a cartoon image of a young wub streaking past a Bris as a foreskin gets discarded?

No?

Neither did I.

[Laszlo]

I thought it was more likely to be a freak accident with one of these

[nowaysj]

I did once get two small but high powered magnets stuck into the flesh of my penis in that sensitive area below the head. (deal with it Gareth) They squeezed so hard, they cut little circles into my skin. Couldn't get the fuckers off. Wife came home and had to help me extricate them.

Nowaysj True Story Valley Edition

[nousd]

ask him how Gareth
(I just can't)

& yes noway, I can't see why a triage nurse can't simultaneously evaluate an injury and whether the injured deserves treatment
in fact, I'm sure many of them would love the opportunity
particularly the ones kicked & spat on by tweakers & drunks on Friday nights.