Youtube comments of I Hate Unicorns (@ihateunicorns867).

  1. Best comeback I ever heard for the 'virgin' teasing is: "I'm not a virgin. Ask your sister." "I don't have a sister." "You will in 9 months"
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  2. I had a job interview once and I froze up and stumbled over my words for a few questions and the atmosphere got really awkward. She then asked me that standard: "What areas are you looking to improve your skill in" to which I replied "I think a good start would be answering interview questions". We both laughed and the interview continued much more fluidly. I ended up getting the job. Always much better to acknowledge to awkwardness.
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  3. The Bechdel Test was never a device for reviewing individual movies, but to demonstrate how underrepresented women are in narrative media.
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  4. Rowan Atkinson is such a comedy genius that even answering an interview question on a chat show can have me cracking up with laughter at his performance. The story's not even that funny on its own, it's the way he performs it.
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  5. As someone who was abused as a kid by a parent, I can say that the world would feel a lot more comfortable if that parent were dead. Even though I'm in my 40s now, my abuser is still out there. I might bump into them one day. But there's a big difference between wanting someone to be dead, and wanting to kill someone. I would never kill my abuser, but I have fantasised about it. I can empathise with this girl. It's all just very sad for everyone involved.
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  6. What the actual fuck? Can't people just talk to other people like humans? What kind of person has to use a pre-calculated formula to get people to sleep with them?
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  7. OMG this is actually hilarious. 08:26 “We are trialing Shakira Law” I am literally laughing out loud.
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  8. Some of these cases seem utterly ridiculous. A carpet fitter forgetting to remove one of the essential tools of his trade from his toolbelt before picking up some stuff from the supermarket. How does a reasonable person amount this to a crime? It seems like a technicality to me.
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  9. To be fair, you could do a top 10 just for Buffy.
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  10. Did that guy seriously just describe people fleeing war and travelling across the sea in a dinghy as an "easy ride"?
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  11. There's no such thing as "The Friendzone", there's just people who fancy you, and people who don't. Believe it or not, women can make their own decisions and if they just like you as a friend, it's not of your doing. It's their decision. They don't fancy you. You didn't "play the game wrong". They don't owe you anything for being a friend to them. Just be a friend because it's the decent thing to do, not because you're trying to get something out of it.
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  12. Why do I keep getting told “where to place my router” as if I have some sort of choice in the matter? Where should I place my router? By the port that has the connection. Next: where to place your toilet!
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  13. “What’s makes you assume that I’m white?” “Are you white?” “… yes.” “Let’s carry on then.”
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  14. Man talks about how tasers don't work over footage of the police successfully bringing down the armed man with tasers.
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  15. This is so frustrating. My Dad got scammed and they took £80k from him. He wouldn't believe me that it was a scam and just carried on. I can honestly say that this is the most frustrating thing that has ever happened in my life. It's only when I called the police and they paid him a visit that he actually started to believe it was a scam.
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  16. My first thought was that they are meant to represent a herd of animals stampeding through a natural landscape. This is then cemented with the tagling 'Born to Roam', as cars are not born, but manufactured. The idea being that this car is so good at navigating off-road terrain, it's analogous to an animal native to that environment. I'm not sure what's wrong with that, though. It's not like they ran over Mufasa and the final shot was of Simba crying over his mangled body.
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  17. Do these 5 things and people will like you: 1. Be confident 2. Be funny 3. Be respectful 4. Listen to people 5. Be kind
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  18. I stopped drinking about 6 years ago. It's amazingly eye-opening. There always become a point where people stop listening to each other and start shouting about themselves at each other (repetitively). It's weird how people can't see that if they have to take drugs to enjoy other people's company, those people probably aren't really the best friends out there for them.
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  19. We already have this in operation on many streets in the city where I live. It works fine.
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  20. I've heard that answering questions with questions is a good tactic. "Do you know why I've stopped you today?" "Why have you stopped me?" "Do you know what speed you were doing?" "Are you carrying out speed checks in this area?" “But do you know what speed you were doing?” “Are you going to tell me?” This can sound quite naturalistic if you ask with genuine intrigue in your voice.
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  21. Dizni I think my first mistake was filling her with petrol.
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  22. Jesus Christ, WatchMojo! What's next? Top ten rapes? Top ten paedophiles? These kids aren't "evil", there's no such thing. They're just really messed up. I don't understand how people can ascribe adult-like qualities onto 10-year-old kids. These cases are just really sad, nothing more. Sad for the victims and their families, sad that something has driven a child to kill. I like your light-hearted top tens. Please don't turn these awful situations into entertainment.
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  23. I didn't think she was serious.
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  24. Collinge Communication Institute Not at all. I think this kind of attitude promotes the trophyism of women. I find the example clips shown here horribly misogynistic. I know Russell Brand publicly acknowledges that his prior sexualisation and objectification of women was a bad trait of his personality and is actively trying to change his behaviour. These really shouldn't be shown as behaviour to aspire to.
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  25. "Friendzone"? Women aren't machines you put "nice chips" in until sex comes out. Friendzone is a misogynistic term designed to assign blame to women who don't want to sleep with you, even though you were being "nice".  You don't need "techniques" to get people to sleep with you. You wouldn't trick someone into being your friend through psychological manipulation, you would make friends because you both like each other and get on. It's the same with sex.
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  26. This would make sense if you wore a facemask to protect yourself, but you wear a facemask to protect vulnerable people around you.
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  27. ***** I think you've misunderstood what I said. There is, of course, platonic friendship between men and women. It's the concept of the "friendzone" that is a misogynistic construct.
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  28. Kaiser Kailer Absolutely. Dawn's appearance alone has several: Faith making the bed for "Little Miss Muffet" … Buffy's dream where Tara tells her to "be back before dawn". …
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  29. TheFucker669 The "That's just the way it is. Accept it" attitude is common and has been the stance of many apathetic people throughout history in relation to any period of social change. The employment of 'techniques' to get people to sleep with you will only lessen your chances of meeting someone who you genuinely get on with. I'm married now, but back in the days when I was going out and meeting people, I never really 'tried' to get people into bed. I was just confident and chatted with them and was myself. That way I ended up spending time with people I genuinely liked and then after I'd gone back to theirs and had sex, we'd do something like stay up all night chatting and making each other laugh rather than me lying there, wondering when I could leave.  If I'm being brutally honest, I'd say that most of my friends who used to employ flirting and pick-up techniques don't seem to have ended up in very good relationships. Maybe that's just coincidence. I don't know.
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  30. It's not 'cyclists' or 'pedestrians' or 'drivers'. It's wankers. Wankers using whatever form of transport they possess.
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  31. Well done for not bowing to the pressure other drivers put on you, and following the law. It takes guts for someone as young and new to driving as you not to be bullied into doing something dangerous to appease angry road users. Top marks.
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  32. You guys don't half go on about it for people who supposedly don't care. If Rowling doesn't care, why has she spent years using her fame and power to attack trans people?
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  33. Yes, there was a vote back when the concept of leaving the EU was announced. But now we're two years on and we know a lot more about what leaving the EU would entail and mean for the country. Polls are showing a shift in public opinion and so a second vote is being proposed to make sure that the will of the people is being served.
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  34. Love this guy. I think he should run for PM.
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  35. Dizni Liking a woman to a car?
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  36. Dizni A pattern that likens them to cars? 
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  37. ***** I believe that there's a lot of sexism in society and women's position needs to be elevated so I would probably class myself as a feminist. What is a "social justice warrior"? Social justice sounds like a good thing. Not sure about the "warrior" part. Reminds me of when people call others "militant atheists" simply because they're vocal about what they believe.
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  38. ***** Go through life without being largely defined by their gender.
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  39.  @eadweard.  "Jumping to conclusions" is divisive language. Forming an educated guess of the most likely conclusion based on what we know about racism, what we know about the police, and what we can see from the video, is not forming an opinion without rationale. To paraphrase Richard Dawkins: Just because there are multiple possible explanations, it doesn't means those explanations are equally likely.
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  40. It's slightly unfair to put The Matrix in this category as The Wachowskis wanted Will Smith to play Neo, but he turned it down.
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  41. I wish you’d stop using Jordan Peterson as an example of logic and reason. He’s manipulative in his arguments. Poor old Cathy Newman never stood a chance. Peterson will say two statements together alluding that there’s a connection (eg Women are not in as many high-profile jobs as men, and hierarchies are natural and even Lobsters have them). This leaves the other person in a lose–lose situation. They can either deny one of the statements (which is not a good idea as they are generally truthful) or try to clarify what Peterson is saying (eg “So you’re saying…”). And then they end up being the one saying these ridiculous things. There’s a reason so many Nazis and other far-right groups love Jordan Peterson. He’s not famous for being clever, he’s famous for being controversial by refusing to use the correct pronouns for transgender students at his University. His method of arguing is subtly facetious and designed to attract attention. He’s the Donald Trump of academia. Don’t give him the attention he craves.
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  42. Thanks for letting us know. We were all on the edge of our seats wondering what your opinion of her was.
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  43. Absolutely. The cyclists were well within their lane. As a cyclist myself, I know how important it is to keep well away from pulled over/parked cars, as drivers and passengers often open their doors without checking for approaching cyclists. This can cause a collision with the cyclist and the door or cause the cyclist to swerve out of the way, into the path of oncoming traffic. I also somehow doubt that this car would be driving in the same way if it was a lorry approaching in the other lane.
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  44. Ben Provenza I mean to just act like you would anyone else rather than try to apply a formula to your conversation. Be confident, friendly, talk about something interesting and listen to people. Just see where the conversation leads rather than to having an aim. I don't mean literally saying "I want to mate with you" …although one of my ex-girlfriends did approach me by saying "Hi. I'd like to have sex with you." — which did work to be honest. I'd just finished playing a gig (I was in a band at the time) and I was having a drink and it took me completely off guard. The directness and confidence was intriguing. Although, from a guy this would sound a bit rapey, so I wouldn't advise taking this route! Basically, I mean women are people with feelings and personalities, so don't treat them like a challenge to be conquered with techniques.
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  45. Oh shut up. If this film was a coming-of-age story about boys, no-one would bat an eyelid. A film about girls isn’t just ‘for women and dads’. WTF? Your misogyny is outdated.
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  46. Henry Banner Stark I don't think that is most people. You can't make everyone like you, but continue being confident and kind etc. Some people need to deal with their own issues before they will accept others.
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  47. This is why we have a parliamentary democracy rather than a direct democracy (with the exception of the occasional referendum). It's a much better idea. We choose the experts to make the decisions, rather than handing the decisions over to the ill-informed and letting the Dunning-Kruger effect do its thing.
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  48. I had a situation earlier today as I was taking my daughter to school. Another car and I found ourselves approach each other on a road that was only wide enough for one car at a time. There was a right turning in between us which I intended to take, and so I indicated right (my intention being that the other car would wait a few seconds for me to turn in front of them, leaving the road clear for them to continue their journey). The other car understood and waited before the turning. However as I approach the turning, a woman and child approach the junction and clearly wanted to cross. I stopped and waited for them, but they were clearly unsure of why I was waiting and the other car was clearly annoyed that I’d just stopped in front of them and blocked the road. There then ensued a stalemate where everyone was waiting for an action from someone else.
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  49. I once saw a woman in Ealing park her car, walk to the machine to get a ticket, and when she returned, a traffic warden was issuing her a ticket. She was not happy with this.
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  50. Polly and John having a good old giggle about Russell Brand's former drug addiction. Classy.
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  51. In a bid to get fitter and be more environmentally friendly, I’ve started cycling instead of driving this past year. I obey all the road rules. I dismount when I told to. I stop at red lights. Yet, the hatred and distain levelled at me for simply riding a bike is frankly shocking. What is wrong with everyone? Yes, some cyclists act like dicks. So do some pedestrians. So do some drivers. Just because I’ve seen numerous loud and badly behaved pedestrians, I manage to get by without wishing harm on anyone who walks on the pavement. Sort yourselves out, people!
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  52. A friend of mine got a fine for parking in a parent & child space. He arrived at the supermarket with his baby in its car seat. He lifted to whole seat out and put it in the trolley with the baby still in it. When he returned to his car, he had a penalty issued. The reason stated was: "No sign of child seat in vehicle"
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  53. It looks too 'real', but not in the right way. Not real as in the story and characters are real, but real as in you're watching actors on a set.
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  54. Whenever anyone starts a sentence with "As a mother…", you know they're going to say something awful.
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  55. Almost every comment I read here is a variation on "he should have known better". I recommend everyone who feels this way to take a quick look at Vlogbrothers' latest video entitled Reasons Not to Care.
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  56. It's a shame that this channel has released this video. Daniel states that he is not giving his opinion, yet simply by making this video he is giving credence and publicity to transphobic propaganda. He says "I'm just bringing this issue to your attention". By simply referring to it as an issue, he acknowledges that he views it as an issue. This attitude will not age well. We saw the same thing happen before with gay people ... 'would you want a gay man using the same bathroom as your young son?' etc. The homophobia in that is now obvious, but at the time the zeitgeist was to associate homosexuality with sexual deviance. People didn't believe in homosexuality in the way that people in the comments here don't seem to believe in gender dysphoria. The language here needs to change. Trans people don't choose their gender identity, they just are the gender they are. Some women are born with biologically male bodies, but they are still women. Some men are sexually attracted to other men, but they are still men. It seems ridiculous to some people because it challenges how people have been taught and conditioned to understand gender. But things change. Our scientific knowledge advances. The power of everyone's personal status quo is strong, but objectively speaking, it's an arbitrary position. Human beings tend to think that things that happened prior to their life were good things (ending slavery, women getting the vote etc), and everything that starts to change during their lifetime is 'going too far'. And most people tend to not really change their minds. To quote Max Planck: "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."
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  57. Is there a giant iPhone statue in Bristol too?
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  58.  @Pooknottin  I agree. This is something I worry about. In America, the law is often utilised as a business practice. People often sue other people not to achieve justice, but to make money. It's imperative that the law's only objective is to maintain a fair and just society. This is why judges and juries exist. Each case needs to be judged on its own merits and set of circumstances. It's also why a lot of laws are written purposefully vaguely and open to subjective interpretation. A carpet knife could be used as a dangerous weapon, as could a bike lock, a heavy-duty camera tripod, a screwdriver, a wrench etc. Maybe there was more to this case that would justify the conviction. I hope so.
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  59. Stephen and Russell often say very similar things. The main difference is that Fry says it in Received Pronunciation and Brand says it is a working class accent. I think this is the cause of a lot of the animosity people feel towards him. Unconscious bias.
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  60. The "Guns don't kill people, people kill people" attitude has never washed with me. Charge the owners and ban the dogs. Dogs are unpredictable animals, not "tools". A hammer left on its own won't go feral and start ripping children's faces off. Sometimes you can have the most loving, best owner in the world and the dog will still savage someone. Would you say the same thing if people kept lions as pets?
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  61. What do you say when someone tells you a 'fact' that we know not to be true? eg. "I think you'll find a lot of people from the LGB community are going against the T". This is literally the opposite of the case. We've done research and taken polls and it shows that the LGB community are the people who most support the T. It's older heterosexual men that mainly have the issues.
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  62. This is pretty much what the men's response to the suffragettes was.
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  63. 1995 was not 38 years ago.
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  64. 1 2 I hate this constant weird strawman rebuttal against anyone who is pro-gender equality by making out that we're in some way denying biology. Please explain how being against making inappropriate, sexualised comments to professional women trying to do their job is denying biology…
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  65. ***** How hot are these girls? If they're over 100.4 F then, that's classed as a fever and they may need antibiotics.
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  66. ***** Sounds like people have misunderstood what feminism is. I take it this term is used in the majority by white men. Privilege is a blindfold unfortunately.
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  67. I have a problem where I laugh when something really bad happens. I'm not happy about it. It's normally when things are looking very bad for me. The more I try to suppress is, the worse it gets. I've heard that this happens to other people sometimes too. This makes for some escalating arguments with my wife. I hope I never get arrested for something serious as I'm likely to start laughing.
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  68. It always baffles me how people think that the solution to someone being dangerous because they have a weapon is more weapons.
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  69. I wish people wouldn’t dish out medical advice on the internet when they aren’t medical professionals. Please don’t just download an app and try this. Go to your doctor instead and consult them. Fasting can put stress on your internal organs such as your heart and liver. Fasting also temporarily lowers your metabolism as your body goes into starvation mode if you start to not eat. This is why you don’t feel hungry. The danger of this is that you will also not feel thirsty enough and may get dehydrated. Also, when you start to eat again, your body may go into overdrive and make you hungrier than you were before, leading you to actually consume more calories. All these diets where you intermittently fast or you can only eat this or that are fraught with problems. Some may make you lose weight temporarily, but you are likely to quickly put it back on. The only way to realistically lose weight is through calorie deficit — ie your calories in need to be lower than the calories you burn. And the only way to do this sustainably and for the long term is to make habitual change in your everyday eating. Eat little and often. Make sure you eat foods high in protein regularly (as the body cannot store protein). Make sure you are drinking plenty of water. …And many other things. But everyone is different. Please consult a medical professional on your specific needs. A dietician will be able to advise you on what you need to stay healthy.
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  70. It's so refreshing to hear a respectful conversation between two intelligent and articulate people of opposing views. No virtue signalling, name calling or bigoted conspiracy theories.
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  71. I have to say, it does bug me that Apple is the one being chastised for this even though they are the only tech company actively trying to solve the problem. Tile and other companies have been making tracking devices for a long time and shown no interest in combatting potential criminal uses. Apple have made the app for Android users, but Android do not install the app as standard. It’s all still a work in progress. I have AirTags on my bike and on my keyring, but if I’m on the bus, people around me get notified that I’m following them. My wife and daughter get notifications that I’m following them if they are out with me walking somewhere. You can’t yet turn these notifications off.
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  72. I'm confused by all of this. Can someone explain what's going on? Keir Starmer has very clearly said that she hasn't been barred from standing, so what has been done to her that everyone's angry about? Genuine question.
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  73. ***** Talk to other people much, do you?
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  74. ***** Now I'm in a difficult position. I really don't want to get into a YouTube comments debate about feminism. It'll go nowhere constructive and I've heard it all 100 times before. But on the other hand, what you've said is so easy to explain/answer. This is all very basic-level stuff though. Some things take more study to understand and I probably can't easily explain them in a comment of this length. Here goes: 1. No, it's a statement based on masses of evidence and countless studies by sociologists. It's not a controversial view, it's a view accepted by mainstream sociology. To argue that it wasn't the case would be a bold claim. 2. I'm not claiming that there are no biological differences between men and women — this is a common misconception/misrepresentation of feminist theory used by antifeminists. Our notions of gender roles are a mix of socially constructed and biological differences between men and women. Socially constructed such as: trousers/skirts, short hair/long hair, pink/blue etc. Biological being: logical intelligence/emotional intelligence, physically strong/physically weaker etc. However, the biological aspects are only general trends and men and women often don't conform. eg. You get strong, athletic women and you get emotionally intelligent, sensitive men. The part feminists have a problem with is the application of gender roles. eg: girls being discouraged from playing with "boys toys" and encouraged to play with dolls and make-up sets, boys being told that "boys don't cry" … "man up" etc. Feminists don't want a physically strong woman to feel she's less of a woman because of her strength. 3. This one is going to annoy you. I apologise, but I don't know how to say it in a nicer way. Firstly, you don't understand what intersectional feminism is. Secondly, you are falling into the classic trap of viewing your own culture as "the right balance" and everything from less-developed nations/past times as "needing progressive ideas" and anything that moves your own culture on as "going too far". This has always been a common psychological trait throughout history. It's what people thought when enslaving Black people was considered acceptable and normal. 4. Yes, you can find people who supported Solanas, but you are still anomaly hunting. Attempted murder is not part of feminist ideology. Sommers calls herself a feminist, but I feel she does this in a facetious way to make a point. She does not want to change women's position in society. She seems happy with things as they are and spends her time trying to discredit feminist theory. Believing in equality makes you egalitarian, not feminist. A feminist recognises that the way to achieve gender equality is to elevate women's position in society. 5. Being male makes you privileged in terms of gender, but there are many forms of privilege: ethnicity, gender, wealth, sexuality, disability etc. Each has their own problems. People get defensive when they are called privileged, but it doesn't mean you have it easy. It means you have it easier than someone else in exactly the same position as you, but who is female. 6. Many feminists are guilty of ignoring their own privilege. You are very right on that. This is what the notion of intersectional feminism is trying to counteract.
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  75. Well done guys. He's lying because he's bald. Flawless reasoning there. You've really convinced me to vote for Corbyn now. If you check out spectator article that this video was part of, there's links to back up everything he's saying. But don't let evidence and facts stand in the way of your beliefs.
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  76. Best comment on this video
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  77.  @sambrooks7862  I really hope you’re trolling.
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  78. They're colleagues. Their jobs are literally the same: to try to make the country work better. They just disagree on some of the methodology.
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  79.  @bodiesXunderXmyXbed  Isn't that basically what I said?
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  80. I had to sit through an advert for how to quit my job and make £1000 a day by signing up for a course to watch this video.
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  81. This is a really interesting interview. My brain goes into worry mode as a knee-jerk reaction. I'm thinking "God, she seems so young" … "She's not using protection?" … "I hope she's making sure that she has a good safety system in place for if people become abusive". But then I realise that I'm just being really judgemental and arrogant. She clearly knows a lot more about the industry than I do. I wouldn't think the same about a carer, or a zoologist, or a paramedic — all of which could be dangerous jobs. I just trust that they know what they're doing.
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  82. Go watch the 1985 movie, Young Sherlock Holmes (spoilers) where 2 boys and a girl make friends at a gothic boarding school with its candle-lot corridors and great hall. and solve a mystery. Holmes is already famous amongst his peers and is destined for great things. Watson, his best friend, is the comic relief. Elizabeth is a more level-headed and sensible character. The 3 spent their time hanging out with a chubby, bearded eccentric man who lives on the school grounds. Holmes’s nemesis is a posh boy called Dudley, whose ambitions are based on power and financial success in contrast to Holmes’s emphasis on the value of friendship. The trio eventually uncover and defeat an evil plot involving one of the teachers at the school. Beyond the plot, the whole thing just feels like Harry Potter. It’s even directed by Chris Columbus.
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  83. White people supporting Black people? Whatever next?
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  84. This all sounds totally fair. Paypal is a business and it makes a profit by taking a cut of people's sales. If Paypal is maintaining an account for you, but you're not making them any money, it seems fair to issue a charge. It's like sitting in a restaurant all week and not ordering anything.
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  85. So are you saying do the eyebrow flash or don't do the eyebrow flash?
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  86. +Lukestar1991 While other politicians try to fight their side, the media will always win because they make the rules of the game. Corbyn is confounding the media because he refuses to play the game. It's the only way to win.
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  87. ***** Well, I have two degrees in it so I'm fairly invested in the concept. Feminism is really an umbrella term for a wide spectrum of beliefs, but they are united by the desire to change women's position in society. I really do think that most adversity to feminist discourse by people who truly believe that men and women should be equal comes through misunderstanding. Although, I do think a lot of the time, feminists are to blame for this. Anger at injustice seems to take over from persuasive techniques a little too often for my tastes (but then I'm in a position of privilege being male, and have the luxury of being to walk away should I wish). I can see how people could be outraged if they read those radical 'think' pieces and take them literally. Due to the difficultly people face in being objective about their own culture, people write 'think' pieces with radical content. These pieces may call for the death of all white men or to round up men and put them in camps etc. These are not meant to be taken literally — no-one actually wants this. They are a hypothetical scenarios designed to take people out of their comfort zone and allow them to view a situation from a different perspective and therefore gain insight they might not otherwise gain. Unfortunately, the people who really need to benefit from these are the ones that will take it literally and make a YouTube video about the 'crazy feminists'. So, while I understand the reason for these things' existence, I'm not sure I can completely get on board with them. If you were referring to something else, then I apologise for rambling.
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  88. ***** Ah, but while you may find occasions where you are discriminated against because of your gender, it's not anywhere near as prominent and defining as women's experience. Notions and expectations of masculinity are the fallout from patriarchal culture, anyway. Feminism is fighting against this.
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  89.  @bigrack6668  True.
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  90. Get away from her. Mine is too. I'm 40 now and I got away from her when I was 29. I'm in counselling now and have complex PTSD from the years of abuse. Seriously, get away from her as soon as you can. Cut all ties. She won't get better, only the abuse will have a longer-term effect on you.
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  91. Is it also worth saying that the car behind is illegally sounding their horn? You are not allowed to sound your horn in anger/frustration and you’re also not allowed to sound your horn when your car is stationary.
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  92.  @sambrooks7862  Because you think that a car speeding into oncoming traffic on the wrong side of the road is in the right.
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  93.  @sambrooks7862  I didn't say anything about laws regarding crossing the line in the road. This isn't comparable to the video about the shadow. That was quoting one man's story from a tabloid newspaper, this is the decision made by a court of law. There is a law against dangerous driving and this video looks very much like this car is endangering people. Most people on here agree with that, so does a barrister and so did the legal system. It doesn't really matter what you think.
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  94. The comments on this video are disgusting. When someone is found not guilty of something, it just means that there wasn't enough evidence to secure a conviction. Yes, he should be vindicated. But the accuser has not been found guilty of anything. She hasn't been convicted of making false accusations. We don't need your vigilante revenge. It's estimated that around 15% of sexual assaults are reported to the police, and only 6% of those end in a conviction. People don't need any more reasons to be hesitant about reporting sex crimes.
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  95.  @pepsiaxe2937  I’m sad that the creator of Harry Potter is making life harder for trans kids by using her fame to promote bigoted pseudoscience.
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  96.  @xyanic2496  She doesn't care enough for the truth to actually do any research. What is the trans threat she's defending people from? She writes children's books about wizard school. Why not listen to people who have actual PhDs in related subjects or work with trans people?
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  97. People will leave her alone when she stops attacking trans people
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  98. My Dad’s just been scammed out of £8k (all his savings). He came to me to borrow another £3k. He still doesn’t believe me that it was a scam.
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  99. Fenton! Fenton! Fenton! Fenton! Oh Jesus Christ! FENTON! Oh JESUS CHRIST! FENTON!
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  100. This is helpful to know. I was leaving work one day and it was about 9:15pm. Unbeknownst to me, someone with whom I worked had climbed up onto the windowsill of a bank on the high street. I had seen this person around, but I didn't really know them. They just worked for the same company as me. So I was walking, unaware of this when a police officer ran up to me and shouted in my face "Don't dick about!". As this had come out of left-field, I was unaware of what was going on which seemed to annoy the officer more and more. I wasn't even sure what 'dick about' meant. After a while, it became clear what was going on and I told the office that this was nothing to do with me. The police officer demanded I give him my name and address. He told me that because I worked at the same company as this guy, I was responsible for his actions. I'm not sure that's quite right, but I gave him my correct name and address anyway as I hadn't done anything wrong (and I was quite intimidated by him and his aggressive tone). I've questioned whether I handled this incident correctly over time, so it's good to know that I did the right thing.
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  101. This new series of Hunted has taken a weird turn.
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  102. The more I hear from Jordan Peterson, the less interesting I find him. He’s not saying anything other people haven’t tried saying before. Peterson just has good charisma and so people gravitate towards him like magpies towards a shiny bit of tin foil. The crux of the problem I have with this is that everything he says is based on a presupposition that the way people are is through biological predeterminism, and not at any level to do with cultural conditioning. Because of this, I find his theories intellectually flawed.
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  103. Why is that shameful? It’s true.
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  104. The tearing down of the statue does not take away from history, this IS history. A symbolic act like this has made the whole country talk about it. THAT is education.
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  105. If you watch the CCTV footage, it wasn’t just a random shout, it’s continued shouting and gesturing until the point where she right beside her. She stands in the middle of the pavement and leans in aggressively causing the cyclist to flinch and fall into the path of an oncoming car. When I first heard about this case I thought that it sounded a little harsh. From seeing the footage, it’s not much different to Grey simply pushing her into the path of a car.
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  106. I can understand how people are imagining this, but in reality it works well. People know bikes come the other way because its signposted. You just pass cars on the left like it’s two-way street. It’s definitely safer for me as a cyclist. My way home from town involves me going the ‘wrong’ way down a small, 20mph high street as oppsed to navigating the long way round the one way system (which is a dual carriageway without pavements)
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  107.  @zombieoutbreakprod  They're not foolproof, but are you suggesting that guns are? That innocent people don't get shot dead as a result of police carrying guns?
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  108. The police came round to mine after I received an anonymous death threat. They saw my Ring doorbell and told me that Ring doorbells are an invaluable asset to them. They said that they catch many criminals because the victims have Ring doorbells. I'd say the basic moral of this case is: Don't be a bellend.
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  109. I love these interviews with Labour MPs. But, Owen, please understand that not everyone who is critical of Corbyn is "the right". I have a fair few issues with his leadership, but it's nothing to do with his left-wing stance.
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  110. No, no you really don’t.
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  111. Pissed? As in angry or drunk? I was neither.
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  112. Alman556 a comparable example: "The KKK is not Christianity" is not the same thing as "No Christian would ever be a member of the KKK". The fallacy only applies to the second statement.
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  113. Kid? I'm 35.
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  114. A marathon on Sunday, a marathon on Monday, a marathon on Tuesday, a double marathon on Wednesday, a marathon on Friday and half a marathon on Saturday. I’ve done that. It’s called Snickers now, though. I’m only joking of course. I bought a bike and started cycling every day. When you have something inside you slowly killing you, I really do think keeping your body as fit as possible is the best thing you can do (physically and mentally). It’s important to know you can’t control it though. One good thing about all this is it really does give you perspective on life. You immediately cut out all the shit and toxic people from your life. In a way, it’s strangely liberating.
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  115.  @JJamJ  Almost every parent has lost their kid at some point. Sometimes places are designed badly — play areas where you can't see all the exits at once, sometimes you have to pay attention to something or someone and your kids runs off, sometimes you have to do something where you can't watch your kid at the same time (pay for something, answer a message, hold a door open etc). Losing a kid can be really traumatic so maybe less of the victim blaming.
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  116. This happened to me a few months ago in Waitrose. I'm in my early 40s. The woman said "You can never be too sure with beards". The ironic thing is that I was buying alcohol-free beer.
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  117. Gas-guzzling, polluting, metal killing machine that can speed along up to 120mph? Fine. Eco-friendly, 15mph small scooter? Make it illegal to ride! Thanks, government.
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  118.  @sambrooks7862  You sound like you need a hug.
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  119. Let me guess… are you white by any chance?
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  120. That's pretty extreme. You have a single glass of wine with dinner on Friday evening and you can't drive to the shops on Saturday afternoon?
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  121. She was training as a teacher? She’d be sacked if she was one these days. Or maybe she’d be educated and less arrogant and bigoted.
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  122. He seems like such a lovely guy
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  123. Zed Fifth, are you criticising the legitimacy of the study from the BMJ?
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  124. This wasn't meant as a logical sentence. They were correcting themselves. They said 'women', and then corrected themselves to 'cis women' as they were talking exclusively about cis women.
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  125.  @evaidem  You're either a cisgender woman or a transgender woman. It's just a descriptor, like Black woman, or gay woman, or tall woman etc. Your woman-ness is not being called into question. Black, gay, and tall women are all still women. Any biologist will tell you that cis is a term that's been around for ages. It's Latin for on this side of.
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  126.  @muncangel5993  You are probably cis- quite a few things. You can argue with science if you want, but my money's on science in this fight.
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  127. It's no different from what we are allowed to say face-to-face. We don't have full freedom of speech and neither should we in my opinion. You can't incite hatred or violence against someone. Things you say can infringe on other people's safety and wellbeing. It's all a balancing act.
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  128.  @polex5830  No, it was 1995. I remember it coming out. Look it up on Wikipedia or something if you don't believe me.
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  129. "Everything that disadvantages me is ridiculous and should be stopped. Everything that advantages me and disadvantages others is just tough luck because life's not fair."
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  130. I think the results of these polls say more about your channel's demographic than what the general public think at large. For example, I'm willing to bet that in you YouTube Analytics, your viewership is over 90% male. I'd be interested to know if I'm right on that. It would be interesting to know how many of your viewers would want to live in a direct democracy, where decisions are made with referendums, or whether they are happy in the representative democracy we currently have. These two systems would have dramatically different outcomes for how the country is run. For example, we'd still be in the EU if Cameron hadn't decided to put it to the public.
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  131. Books from a variety of political perspectives I should imagine.
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  132. A lot of people dislike her. A lot of people dislike confident, outspoken women. A lot of people dislike people saying intelligent things with a working class accent. A lot of people also rely on social convention and the prospect of someone who will forgo politeness to pick you up on something you've done wrong is a threatening thought to them.
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  133. ***** Misogynist Detected
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  134. Racist detected.
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  135. Epictetus You make some good points. I have jumped the gun a little in linking flirting with picking up women for sex. Having watched some of the other videos this guy has done, I actually find them really interesting. As a psychological study, this is interesting (and maybe I was doing exactly this subconsciously when flirting), but my point is that if you do these things consciously, with an agenda, you are not going to get true connections with people. I also feel very uncomfortable about the concept that women are prizes to be won by playing a game. Maybe I unfairly placed this video in a cultural context to which it does not belong.
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  136. ***** I would say I'm being more didactic than prescriptive. The flirting techniques shown here are prescriptive. My position is opposed to that. When you say that "it is hardly rape", you're venturing into the fallacy of relative privation. ie— you can think of something worse, therefore the problem identified is not worthy of being cited. It is a problem nonetheless. Although, maybe not one you agree with, but I would put it to you that you don't think of this as a problem because it is not a problem for you. You don't have to think about it or deal with it. You can walk away from the debate if you want. I'm not positioning myself as a moral high-ground, I'm trying to communicate a social problem I can see with this video.
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  137. What? Seriously? Women approach me all the time. But this idea of "approaching" someone is very one-sided. The person who is now my wife I met at uni. We were just chatting and getting on well and it just gradually evolved into kissing. There wasn't really any preconceived agenda on either side. It just kind of happened. But this is my point. If you stop worrying about who you might and might not sleep with and treat women as human beings, these situations just end up happening.
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  138. Clive Pereira That's a strawman. I'm not implying in any sense that people should not learn how to be confident and social skills. Can you not see a difference between objecting to a pre-calculated technique that belittles women in order to seduce them and the abstract concept of social awareness?
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  139. +Charles Martel Actually, no it isn't. If she'd have said "No Muslim would ever be a member of ISIS", that would be the No True Scotsman fallacy. But that's not what she said.
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  140. No one's arguing that ISIS is not made up of Muslims. What was said is that ISIS is not Islam, which it isn't. Two completely different statements with completely different meanings.
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  141. I love The Babadook. It's a metaphor for the mum's grief and depression though, not a figment of the boy's imagination. Depression has killed lots of people.
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  142. nationofmillions Confident in your decisions, views and actions. Eg. If someone changes your mind on something, be confident in the fact that you were wrong before and accept the new viewpoint knowing you are now more informed and have nothing to be ashamed of. Equally, if you disagree with someone (or everyone else there), be confident in what you think, accept that people disagree and don't feel the need to have everyone agree with you to validate your opinion.
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  143. 3 months in prison for sleeping on land that turns out to be privately owned? Seems a little harsh.
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  144.  @the_once-and-future_king.  He disputed it and it was dropped.
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  145. Not caring for race is the luxury of white privilege. You don't get any choice when you're discriminated against as you're just trying to live your life.
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  146.  @Herebutnotreally  While this sounds positive, it's not true. The more she acts out, the more engrained the PTSD will become.
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  147.  @tooyoungtobeold8756  I had the weirdest argument with a worker in Tesco who came over to me after the self-checkout flashed for 0% alcohol beer. Her (annoyed): "Sir, you have to take alcohol over to the manned tills. You can't buy it on the self checkout." Me: "Yes, I know. But this is alcohol-free beer." Her: "This is alcoholic, look" points to 0% Alcohol on the label "Zero percent ALCOHOL! It has alcohol in it." Me: "But it's 0%" Her: "It doesn't matter what percentage it has in it. 0% is still a percentage of alcohol."
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  148.  @rabid_si  So is orange juice.
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  149. No-one mentioned a shadow. Both those bays are for blue badge holders only. He should be fined.
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  150. Unfortunately, the council had not responded to requests to remove the statue by peaceful request, so we resulted to what has worked in the past: Deeds, not Words. The law is not there to exercise pedantic technicalities. It's about deciding was is right and what is wrong. The legal system has been used and the decision was that there was no wrongdoing here.
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  151.  @escfxp  I find it laughable that the guy is claiming that tasers don't work over footage of the police successfully taking him out with tasers.
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  152. It's weird how he can't see that "Fairness in women's sport" is just another "Ethics in games journalism".
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  153.  @goldilocks913  Pilot are often caught as high as 30,000 feet.
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  154. The comment section of this video alone justifies this video.
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  155.  @sleepysystem  I disagree. It’s not a device for academics, it’s an introductory metric for people who aren’t even aware that women are underrepresented in narrative media. While I agree its history and origin are important, I don’t find it disingenuous to simplify it for the purposes of being palatable – and therefore effective – for its audience.
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  156. I have a question: I worked for a year in a shop. After about 11 months, I was called into the HR office and told that they had made an error with my pay and had been paying me too much. They then told me that I had to work my final month there for free to pay them back. This was particularly difficult for me as I’d been working to save up to do a postgraduate degree and ended up effectively having wasted the year. Was that legal?
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  157.  @lesglover9353  No. Do you really not understand the difference?
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  158. "Now, I don't know anything about zoology, biology, geology, geography, marine biology, cryptozoology, evolutionary theory, evolutionary biology, meteorology, limnology, history, herpetology, palaeontology or archaeology. But I think…" Stewart Lee
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  159. Sounds like someone needs to work on their PR. Imagine a restaurant showing staff spitting into someone's pasta with the title 'When customers are rude to the waiters'. List of companies to avoid updated.
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  160. My mother clearly has BPD too (in that she is an absolute text book case), but constantly refused to acknowledge that anything was wrong. Unfortunately, my sister and I don't see our mother any more. My sister has been left with sever PTSD and I have various issues from the abuse we were subjected to as children. I don't love my mum. I forced myself to stop as I couldn't deal with the many times she would tell me as a child that she was going to kill herself. As a kid, I couldn't stop her from taking pills, driving off in the car saying she was going to crash it etc. So I had to make myself stop caring as I couldn't bear it. As we got older, her BPD got more and more severe. In the end, we literally couldn't take the constant unpredictable behaviour and delusional accusations made against us so we had to run away. I challenged her to deal with her mental health and told her I would love and support her through it, but she reacted very badly. She denied all the abuse from our childhood, and convinced the rest of our family that we were doing a load of awful stuff to her that (which we obviously weren't). Our whole family disowned us and we were subjected to a barrage of hate for "making false accusations". My sister was homeless for a while, but now has accommodation provided to her. I manage to be able to work, but have severe anxiety. I miss my mum sometimes, or at least I grieve for what I want her to be. It's not fun is it? I know how you feel.
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  161.  @Black-Circle  That’s extremely bad advice.
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  162.  @laceandwhisky  This sort of thing happened to my friend. Her iPhone was stolen from her table where she was having lunch. She followed the phone using her husband’s Find My Friends app. The drove all the way to this person’s house where they saw them go in (and recognised them from the restaurant). The app showed clearly that her phone was inside the house. She called the police and the police said that there was nothing they could do. I don’t understand why.
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  163.  @marklittler784  Bikes don’t have to stay 5 feet away from the central dividing line in a road. Where did you read that? Doors open all the time. People often look for cars and not for bikes. Given how many roads have cars parked on them, it’s unrealistic to expect cyclists to slow down when passing parked vehicles.
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  164.  @marklittler784  The burden of responsibility for the distance left when overtaking lies with the person driving the overtaking vehicle, not the bike being overtaken.
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  165. ​ @kanedNunable  The tour guides told him he was allowed to take them. If I was on a tour, I would take the guides at their word as I would expect them to be informed correctly.
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  166. Imagine how different things would be is Rowling didn't have a Twitter account.
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  167. ↑↑ This is why we shouldn't have referendums.↑↑
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  168.  @PA-ss5cq  Because the general public aren't well equipped enough to make these kinds of decisions. A representative democracy such as the parliamentary democracy we have is the better option.
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  169.  @PA-ss5cq  ? That's what a representative democracy is. If people didn't vote, it wouldn't be a democracy. But there's a big difference between electing a party to make the decisions and making the decisions yourself.
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  170. Let's not pretend this is how people really use the site. They download as much as they can for free and never pay for it because it's not from actual human beings — not software developers, artists, musicians trying to make ends meet and feed their families. No, it's big faceless corporations who deserve to be stolen from. It's not theft like pickpocketing someone's wallet, it's 'sticking it to the man'. When you download all that pirated porn, those video games and films, you're basically Robin Hood. A moral crusader.
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  171. You can also just use common sense (seeing as that’s such a popular thing to talk about in these comments). Given that the whole road is double yellows, which progresses into residents-only bays further up the road, would the council really have put one solitary restriction-free parking space for anyone to use outside a post office on an otherwise impossible to park on high street? Or might it be that there are 2 bays for blue badge holders in an accessible location?
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  172. I'm also neurodivergent and the other day I was trying to say Happy Birthday to my friend, but I inadvertently invaded Poland instead.
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  173. As a UK citizen, I find this all very weird. There's no way for regular people to own guns and it not be dangerous. There is one straight-forward, reliable to solution to this, but America just refuses to do it. It's so obvious I don't even need to say what it is. You know what it is. It's a simple, binary choice: take the solution or accept the consequences of people having guns. America has chosen the latter.
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  174. I never take cash anywhere. I don’t even take my cards out any more. I just have my phone. But that aside, this perfectly exemplifies the main problem I have with the legal system. Why does no-one ever take a step back and think about why rules are there? Why does the car park charge you after 10mins? So people don’t park for free. Why exactly 10mins? Because it’s done by a computerised system. If the system was capable of distinguishing between if someone was parking for free or just trying to pay, they would use that. The 10min rule is a compromise that will work most of the time. …but not all the time, like this case here. It’s utterly unreasonable that he should be fined. It’s a case of a company exploiting a technicality in a flawed system. When this goes to human beings, it needs to be corrected.
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  175. It’s so weird to hear how media warps people’s minds. As someone who lives in London with friends and neighbours, some of whom are Muslim, it’s really odd hearing how people think they’re like aliens or something. I go round their houses. We have coffee and chat about what Netflix series we’re watching or maybe a bit about politics. We’ll go out for dinner. Our kids play together. Being Muslim and being British are not mutually exclusive things.
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  176.  @TrevorTyroneSSH  You think the guy with the sword was in a rational state of mind?
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  177.  @oneoflokis  In what way is he disingenuous? (again, genuine question — not arguing)
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  178. This video should be called: Schadenfreude: The Movie
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  179. It was something I thought he said in this interview, but I can't find it now. Maybe I misheard. It was an inference rather than a direct statement by referring to opposing sides and the side that backed Corbyn was "the left". I possibly read too much into it because I know he personally backs Corbyn and I keep expecting his own feelings to cloud his objectivity.
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  180. Ben Martin Nandy perfectly encompasses my thoughts on Corbyn. It was really refreshing to hear. I'm fed up of getting called a Blairite when I don't join in the Corbyn worship.
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  181. She's such a dude.
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  182. Kyle Richter It's what people call you when you don't act like a douche.
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  183. ***** Unless you actually mean "can't" in which case: turn invisible.
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  184. ***** Solanas was mentally ill and Sommers doesn't even fit the definition of a feminist. It seems like feminism's detractors always pick extreme fringe cases in order to make their point. Wouldn't a more intellectually honest approach be to critique mainstream feminist discourse rather than to ignore it? Do you know what confirmation bias is? I see a lot of people online (YouTube etc) who seem to scour the Internet for extreme cases, sensationalistic misrepresentations and some genuine misunderstandings (I think) in order to built up a case against feminism. The weirdest trait of this behaviour (that I find) is when people cite education into a subject as a bad thing. As if this somehow blinds you to the reality of a situation. It's what young earth creationists do. As though studying evolutionary biology is an indoctrination into a world of lies designed to conspire against God. The problem with confirmation bias is that the majority of the time, people don't even realise they're doing it. You'll need to bear with people if they get angry at your questioning their arguments. It's difficult when someone in a position of privilege tells the underprivileged how they should feel about their situation. Like when rich people question the poor's work ethic, forgetting about how their private education, contacts through daddy and inheritance advantages them. Like confirmation bias, privilege is difficult to see. This is because the privileged party doesn't have to think about it all the time like the underprivileged party does.
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  185. ***** Please do not speak for me. You clearly do not understand my position.
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  186. ***** It's about fuelling a culture of viewing women as trophies or goals, not suggesting that women are unable to transcend pick up techniques. Analysing rapports between people is fascinating, but manufacturing a false rapport to achieve a goal leads to a whole set of problems.
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  187. ***** You were inaccurately explaining my position, so you either don't understand it or were deliberately strawmanning my argument. Either way, please don't.
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  188. ***** There's a big difference between telling someone their hair looks good in order to not hurt their feelings and dictating the structure of how two people interact in order to make someone feel like they have a rapport with you so they will be more willing to sleep with you. Developing an emotional connection with someone should be nothing at all like a job interview because — and I reiterate— human beings are not goals to be achieved. In an attempt to steer this conversation back to my original problem with this video: These women are interviewing these people, they haven't approached them in a bar to flirt with. The woman interviewing Brand is just trying to do her job. We live in a culture where women are constantly harassed, sexualised, objectified when they're just trying to do get on with their lives. Flirting is great when both parties are up for it, but it shouldn't be constantly forced upon women when they are trying to work. I watch the Brand clip and think "Brand is unable to talk to this woman without reducing her to her sexuality", but it's being presented here as aspirational behaviour. This is my objection.
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  189. Epictetus "Reducing someone to their sexuality" is not and anti-sexuality statement, it means that her primary function becomes about her sexuality rather than her job, talents, general humanity etc. The media obsesses about what women look like or who they're dating/married to much more than it does to men. This is a product of and addition to that culture. Beautiful women are people too. Being attractive doesn't mean you should just be there to service the sexual needs of men. But you know that already. Why don't I focus my criticism at the producers? — This is what it always comes down to. People get so defensive when they think they're being criticised. Rather than identifying a problem and working together to solve it, people just worry that they're being criticised and argue for their defence that there's actually no problem. I'm tired of this.
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  190. Epictetus This is the media. I don't think flirting is wrong. Flirting is great. But the constant message that the primary purpose of women is something for men to have sex with is problem, and one that has a lot of impact into other areas (rape and male entitlement for example). If something is a problem for women, it doesn't mean that that problem has the same relevance for men. You have to work within cultural context. Men are not defined by their sexuality in the way women are, so the cultural effect is very different. There is still a lot of pervasive sexism in our culture. The more people who challenge this, the better. Men need to become more aware of their actions and views. Being objective about your own society is very difficult. "White knight"? Grow up.
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  191. Epictetus A 'white knight' is a derogatory term meaning someone who supports feminist issues because they think it will get them laid. It's a term used by people who cannot understand why someone would support women's rights if they were a man. No, I didn't say it was "fine". I said it didn't carry the same cultural and social implications. Sometimes female reporters will speak out, but it creates an awkward situation/ruins your interview and they become subject to criticism and scrutiny. Possibly in trouble with the boss. If they're freelance, maybe people would be reluctant to hire them again. Sometimes hatemail from viewers. Sometimes death threats, stalking, abuse. By challenging it, you are publicly criticising a lot of people's idol. You start a whole shitstorm with you at the centre. It's not an easy decision to make, especially not one you have to make on the spot. It's a lot easier to get on with it and rant to your friends about it in private later.
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  192. ***** You need to do more reading.
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  193. ***** The comments you're making are very naive. You are questioning things that are well established facts as though I've just invented them. You need to do more reading on feminist theory and look at studies into gender.
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  194. Epictetus You asked why women don't object. I assumed you meant didn't object if they didn't want it. I'm sure lots of women love it. What's your point?
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  195. ***** There are hundreds of feminist books, studies and theses already written about film. I don't think this research will change anything as it's just confirmed what everyone already thought. I'd like more research to be done across industries as you say, though. It would be interesting to get a really wide set of data to really analyse the details of everything. We kind of have a top-line understanding of most industries, but I want proper geeky, hardcore data. (If only to help prove points to those who oppose the women's rights movement).
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  196. Epictetus I didn't say the interviewer was harassed. I'm not talking about her reaction. Forget about her. Her personal feelings and reaction are irrelevant. The point is what Brand is doing. It's about making something about a woman's sexuality when it is neither appropriate or consensual. The problem here is two-fold. Firstly, maybe she doesn't want to make the interview about her own personal sexuality. Secondly, the wider social implications of reinforcing the notion that women are primarily about their looks/sexuality.
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  197. You guys have a very warped idea of what feminism is.
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  198. ***** Because having two degrees in something makes you understand it less? Oh no, hang on… Undergrad and postgrad degrees are education except when it comes to gender and feminism when it become brainwashing and indoctrination. The voice of truth is to be found in the YouTube comments section from people who've never studied the subject. Does that sound about right?
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  199. ***** please don't labour under the delusion that you have provided "difficult arguments". I only respond to points when I believe the people I'm talking to have a chance of understanding. I'm also just tired of the platitudes. If I'm not enjoying the debate, I'll leave.
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  200. I think we all need to take a step back and think about what we're trying to achieve here. Why are you continuing to talk to me? This started off fairly civil (well, not actually civil, but civil for taking to someone who's openly identified as a feminist. No-one's threatened to kill anybody yet so we're in a good place). It's kind of descending into a slanging match now. My ultimate motivation in these matters is to impart my knowledge, plant the seeds of ideas and try to make the world a better place. I seem to have become lost in emotive responses and don't feel like I'm being productive in any way. Nobody else will be reading a thread this long. It's just us three here. So I wonder if it's time to stop.
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  201. Epictetus I think she uses the term "feminist" in a deliberately facetious way. She is firmly settled in 2nd wave theory and seems to spend her time discrediting all 3rd wave discourse. She may class herself as a feminist, but to me, a feminist is someone who wants to change women's position in society. She seems to think that everything is great as it is. Equality achieved. I don't give her much thought really. The fact that so many MRAs cite her all the time speaks volumes to me.
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  202. I was also at work which didn't help. The reason I cite my degrees is not to gain points but to emphasise how unlikely it is for someone to change my viewpoint on things. I do keep it brief for a few reasons: 1. This is a comments forum. 2. The iPhone app I use sometimes just deletes my comments without posting them. 3. I'm normally at work and probably should be on my phone. 4. I am a busy person with a wife and two kids. 5. (Probably the most important one) I worry that if I go into too much detail, you won't understand and you'll think I'm saying something I'm not and then get angry. (Not because I think you're stupid, but because I may reference concepts you're unfamiliar with. I got in a proper argument with a feminist on here not long ago because I referenced sometime from poststructuralist queer theory and she thought I was being homophobic.) But I'm happy to carry on if we can keep it respectful.
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  203. +Bad Man Okay, This is going to be rambly and go off at tangents and not really form any kind of cohesive structure. Sorry. Any areas you want me to expand on, please ask and I'll do my best. Top, top line: I find the term Egalitarianism to be of very little use when you are trying to establish what someone believes. Speaking purely from a western perspective, pretty much all people believe that all people should be equal. The bigger question for me is recognising the problems that are getting in the way of forming an egalitarian society (or as near to it as we can get). For me, Feminism is recognising that women's position in society needs to be advanced to achieve equality for gender (again, for me. Many different strands of feminism. Some don't want to be advanced in a society with the current patriarchal framework… long story. Lots of theory. I've never met a feminist who wants superiority over men, but I'm sure they exist somewhere in the same way there are socialists who want the monarchy and the rich executed, but that doesn't really define what socialism is). But this is all just semantics really. Gender inequality is so, so vast and so, so complex. I'm not sure it helps dividing it up into problems that negatively affect men and problems that negatively affect women. In a way it's lots of different problems but it's also one big problem. Men are in a more powerful position than women and this causes a lot of problems (for women and for men, but women suffer a lot more — although it's not a sympathy competition. It's a question of identifying what's wrong and fixing it). The majority of discrimination men face based on their gender is a fallout from patriarchy. If you want to fix this, fix it for women and the male problems will also be fixed. It's very difficult for men to understand what it's like being a woman and vice verser. Empathy is hard. And when you are able to dip in and out of a discussion/problem as we are, it's difficult to understand what it's like being in that situation. As the great Jarvis Cocker puts it: "Still you'll never get it right, 'cause when you're laid in bed at night watching roaches climb the wall, if you called your Dad, he could stop it all". I recommend following EverydaySexism on Twitter just to see how commonplace and normalised harassment and sexism is for women. Men do not experience discrimination anywhere near as frequently. I can almost hear you asking for evidence. The problem with evidence for things like this is it is there but is doesn't take the form that people are asking for. It's like the creationist asking for evidence of "transitional forms" and using the lack of it as confirmation of intelligent design. I'm going to call it a "technique", because I believe it is a technique used to dismiss the struggles of women. People want to see scientifically tested or peer-reviewed evidence of things or else they don't believe them. Now, this is a great attitude to have for things that can be tested like that: medicine etc. But you can analyse sociological phenomena like this because you cannot isolate it, and if you could, it would lose all meaning because it's defined by its context. You have to listen to people's experiences. But some people take a leap of logic and conclude that if you can't prove it via rigorous scientific method, then it must not be true, and they take absence of evidence as evidence of absence. They can then explain away every instance they hear one by one with full-on confirmation bias while believing that they are upholding the scientific method. — this is a tangent sorry. You are not being pushed to the right. You are pushing yourself. You don't have to align yourself to any movement. You can just believe what you believe and be critical of methodology you perceive as negative. I recommend just trying to see life from the point of view of a woman. Read something lighthearted and funny like Caitlin Moran's How to be a woman. I like her a lot as a feminist. Her views are pretty in line with mine. She doesn't want to fucking ban everything like they all seem to want to do. Banning stuff is rarely the solution. Education, not legislation. If something is sexist, make better stuff and give people the choice. Random side note: Massive generalisation, but I'll tell you something about 2nd and 3rd wave feminism: 2nd wave may seem all great and simple (hindsight is a wonderful advantage there, of course), but they were pretty anti-porn. 3rd wave on the other hand… a lot more pro-porn. I think porn can be feministic, although most of it isn't. But as a concept, great. Not that that's really got anything to do with anything. Apologies for the non-sequitur there.
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  204. +joaov2 Unfortunately I have no guarantee of your impartiality. Given that the YouTube comments forum is heavily populated with antifeminists, I don't fancy taking the risk.
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  205. joaov2 This isn't like physics or something though. What do you class as "Empirical Evidence"? Say we're talking about something like the amount of rapes that go unreported or the amount of catcalling women get in the street. What kind of evidence would be acceptable for that?
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  206. joaov2 Yes, I mean no action taken by the victim after the attack. But there is more than just hard statistics and completely making something up. You have, for example, the sheer volume of accounts by various people that this has happened to them combined with the many reasons not to report it (eg. how little chance it has of leading to a conviction given how difficult rape is to prove, labelling the person who reported it a 'liar' and adding to the MRA's favourite pot of 'false rape accusations'). You can't just dismiss subjects because you don't know exact numbers for sure.
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  207. joaov2 Great. I'm glad you would consider anonymous surveys and even analysis as worthy of note. A lot of people I talk to don't accept things like that because "Women have a victim complex and these people could be lying" etc.
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  208. joaov2 Your moderation skills are impressive. I'm sold.
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  209. Epictetus Badman came up with a structured suggestion so I agreed. It's nothing personal, but you guys get into this tag-team style where you are just firing stuff at me. I check my notifications and I have several messages from you guys addressing all sorts of different points which leaves me struggling to answer anything before more questions come. And then my not answering earlier questions is used as my "running away from difficult arguments".
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  210. +Bad Man The term “objectification” covers a wide area so I’m going to keep this about sexual objectification within the media. Sexual Objectification is a psychological phenomenon where someone views a person as less of a whole and more of a object with a purpose (in this case for the viewer’s sexual gratification). A common form of this is known by psychologists as ‘dismemberment’, which is where a person is reduced to their body parts (you get this a lot in advertising). Sexual objectification has historically occurred mainly with women, but there is an increasing amount of it happening with men (although nowhere near the level that it happens with women). The gender imbalance in objectification can be exemplified in many things. Eg. Magazine covers http://www.dailylife.com.au/content/dam/images/2/5/j/b/g/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.25jc9.png/1347517427753.jpg And music videos such as this (where women are literally used as decoration) http://www.vevo.com/watch/USUV71300526?syndicationid=bb8a16ab-1279-4f17-969b-1dba5eb60eda&shortlink=W0OCcA&country=GB The objectification in the media encourages not only men to view women less as people and more as sex objects, but also women to objectify themselves contributing to various psychological conditions such as body dysmorphia and depression. (study: http://tcp.sagepub.com/content/39/1/6 ) More studies on objectification theory: A study on the effects of sexually objectifying music videos on college men’s sexual beliefs: http://comm.arizona.edu/sites/comm.arizona.edu/files/JOBEM_aubrey%20et%20al.pdf An overview of a study published in the European Journal of Social Psychology that concludes that we are more used to seeing women as individual body parts and men as a whole: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/07/study-proof-that-we-sexually-objectify-women/260339/ A study into the sexualisation of girls in media and its psychological effects: http://www.apa.org/pi/women/programs/girls/report-full.pdf
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  211. ***** Sexual objectification is not just people presented in a sexual way, it's about reducing people to their sexuality. Take Lana Del Rey on the GQ cover for example: Her sexuality becomes her defining characteristic and she become interchangeable for another woman. It's not longer about Lana Del Rey, but about a naked woman — the identity of whom doesn't matter. For a slightly easier example to understand, see this drink advertising example: https://genderdisplays.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/front-page1.png It fulfils quite a few (if not all) criteria from this checklist (which is also a good way to start understanding what objectification is): 1. Does the image show only part(s) of a sexualized person's body? 2. Does the image present a sexualized person as a stand-in for an object? 3. Does the image present a sexualized person as interchangeable [with other similarly sexualized persons or other objects represented as available]? 4. Does the image affirm the idea of violating the bodily integrity of a sexualized person who can't consent? I.e. is that person acted upon as though they were a sexual object? 5. Does the image suggest that sexual availability is the defining characteristic of the person? 6. Does the image show a sexualized person as a commodity, something that can be bought and sold? 7. Does the image use a sexualized person's body as a canvas? The studies don't assume sexual objectification has detrimental effects, the studies conclude this after a collection and analysis of data. It's perfectly possible to show people in a sexual way without its being objectification. The key is what is the defining characteristic: the person or their body/body parts shown as sexual objects.
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  212. joaov2 I don't think that's what BadMan is saying, though. I don't think he accepts the concept, but thinks "objectification" is an inappropriate term for it. I think he is challenging the concept that people can be objectified by the media.
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  213. ***** Let's move on from the subject of where our perception of beauty comes from. It's a different discussion and one that doesn't change my position on objectification either way. It reminds me slightly of when people discuss whether being gay is a choice or not — ultimately it doesn't matter when it comes to issues homophobia. You've referenced several times things like religion or creationism and likened them to my position to explain how you feel. Let me try to explain how I see it: When it comes to understanding feminist issues, it took a lot of time for me. I didn't start off as a feminist. I was — by default — a product of my culture. If you'd have asked me about the media objectification of women 20 years ago, I would have told you that of course people didn't see other people as "objects", that it was a ridiculous idea that anyone could think that and I wasn't interested in over-sensitive nonsense like this. Issues made up by people with too much time. etc. Looking objectively at your own culture is difficult for two reasons: Firstly, you are trying to see something from within it. You have a binary concept of normal/abnormal and your cultural is your deeply ingrained understanding of "normal". Normal, by its very nature, does not stand out to you. Secondly, you are part of the culture. You contribute to it and are validated by other members for conforming. But once you understand an issue, it's like someone's switched on a light. You start to be able to see the problem clearly. You see people doing it and you can see yourself doing it. You become acutely aware of it and it suddenly seems obvious. Much like the "push-pull" technique referenced in this video. Once you're aware of it, you can spot it a mile off. Other people will argue that it doesn't or can't exist because "everyone is different" … "people interpret their own meaning onto conversations" … "It's just how people talk naturally" etc. But I wouldn't expect someone to be able to recognise the technique if they didn't understand the concept. This is my position. So next what I will ask is this: What could you see that would convince you that objectification exists and is present in our media?
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  214. kenonerboy "friendzone"? What is that exactly?
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  215. ***** In what sense?
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  216. ***** I'm familiar with the phrase, but as it's a socially constructed concept, different people have different definitions and in order to effectively critique, I need to be clear in what I am critiquing.
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  217. kenonerboy So how is being "friendzoned" different from someone just not liking you in a romantic/sexual way? Your statement that you shouldn't treat women "like humans" does worry me somewhat.
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  218. ***** It's the implication that women are some sort of conquest and you have to play the game right or you end up in the "friend zone" is what I would critique. When a guy isn't attracted to a girl, people don't say he's been "friend zoned" because the girl didn't play it right. It's a misogynistic trope, not some deep psychological analysis.
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  219. ***** I think my experiences are normal. I'm clearly attractive to some people and not others. Attractiveness is not a strictly objective characteristic. I don't think it's conducive to categories people into binaries eg. a misogynist/a feminist. I believe this "push/pull" technique contributes to a misogynistic paradigm within our culture, but I wouldn't want to demonise everyone who tried to use it because they wanted to pick up women. I'm aware that sometimes you just want sex. When I've had one-night stands, just sex has been fine, but I've always made sure it's clear that we agree on this beforehand. Nothing wrong with hooking up. You seem to think I'm against sex in some way. I'm not.
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  220. "Why do you feel the need to make this personal […] Is it because you're a dick?" Kind of stepped on your point there a bit.
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  221. Izaya at the Beach This isn't a pick up channel, but this is a pick up video. I find this video to be an anomaly amongst other very good videos. There's a much better video about flirting where he addresses the boundaries and when to back off. I find the examples used here to be wholly inappropriate. I don't think it's okay to encourage men to hit on women while they're at work and I don't like the "push-pull" technique. It's belittling and it's about the man asserting a position of psychological power. And ultimately, what's the point in creating a false connection between people other than to get laid? It's not about saying something nice, the motives are more selfish than that. There are better, more genuine ways to make a connection with someone.
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  222. ***** Nope. Pretty pointless once it stops becoming enjoyable. Sometimes I just try to understand why people think the way they do.
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  223. ***** No, ISIS is Islamic — not Islam Westboro Baptist Church is Christian — not Christianity Why does no-one get this?
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  224. Great video. The interviewer, Krishnan Guru-Murthy, is a TV news presenter here in the UK. He's done a range of cringeworthy interviews like this one. I think he wants to get a reputation for being a hard-hitting TV journalist, but unfortunately lacks the social skills to pull off those probing questions that others become so famous for. Ironically, he completely overlooks the value of building a rapport with the person he's interviewing.
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  225. I think they're both pretty closed-minded. Self is pretty rude and arrogant with it, too. I don't think the Labour party should split at all. Self talked about "Marxists" and "effective Neo-Liberals" as though it were some binary split that makes up two opposing factions. In reality, if there are any people as extreme as this in the party, there are only a couple of them. The rest of the PLP comprises of a scale between the two. This breadth of political diversity within what we would describe as mainstream left-wing ideology is the Labour Party's strength. It is this that can be used to understand and address those sections of the electorate that they are not currently reaching. Solutions can be found that fit a more socialist, post-Blairite model. It's not the 1990s anymore and Blairite politics doesn't really exist. It can't exists in the current socio-political and economic climate. It was a product of a more indulgence time when the country had more money. Blair's government remained socially left, but shifted Labour economically right which was where the problems occurred (Iraq aside). We can learn from that. Retain the good bits and learn from the bad. Corbyn's current government has the same problems that Miliband's did (but to a more exaggerated degree). Miliband has left-wing policies, but dressed them up as more right than they were in order to try to win the centre ground. The result was that he engaged neither group and lost the election. Corbyn, on the other hand, has (for the most part) fairly similar policies (although much less defined), but is dressing them up slightly abstracted, left-wing rhetoric. He promotes himself in a very politically rigid position and refuses to engage with the breadth of Labour's politics. The result of this is that he will alienate most of the electorate, writing their concerns off an "unimportant" rather than opening up a dialogue and creating solutions that work within a socialist framework. Unfortunately, I can't see him going anywhere or changing his approach anytime in the near future. He just digs his heels in and carries on in the face of devastating poll results that place him in a similar position to Michael Foot in 1983. I think we should be prepared for many further years of Tory rule.
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  226. She pretty much sums up my attitude to this all. I was initially a supporter of Corbyn, but not anymore. I don't think he's a good leader and I don't think the majority of the electorate do either. There's a reason 80% of his MPs have passed a vote of no confidence in him. People like Tom Watson and Ed Miliband are not "the Blairite political elite", so please spare me the conspiracy theories. I hope Owen can be open-minded on this. It's not just the media.
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  227. Blah blah blah blah blah fucking blah. I've given up at 1min 40. Fallacy of relative privation. Look it up.
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  228. Absolutely right. Subjects like the hostile environment towards women in the STEM fields are total non-issues. We all know women can't be proper scientists anyway. Who left the kitchen unlocked? They should never have got out.
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  229. How does this work in restaurants then? You get the bill at the end of the meal. Surely that's legal?
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  230. Which one? There have been many. This is the 6th woman to accuse him of sexual assault, I believe.
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  231.  TheWhiteWhale  This is exactly the problem with Peterson I was talking about. When it comes down to technicalities, he never directly says what he is alluding to, leaving this 'get out of jail free' card. He didn't say he wouldn't call transgender people by the correct pronouns, but he did say that he wouldn't not call them by the incorrect pronouns. And then people fixate on the details, when what we should be asking is why does he think that his choice to say a word is more important than acknowledging the existence of someone's identity? Peterson is not out to educate. He is out to stir up regressive controversy. And yes he does have an unhealthily large following of people with far-right political views (including many people who openly identify as Nazis).
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  232. I'd be interested to know if this guy also think that heterosexual couples who can't have children should be banned from adopting, because that's basically what he's saying. No terminations for unwanted pregnancies, but no adoptions for unwanted children. Weird morality.
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  233. Oh, so that's what a leader should sound like. With Johnson in charge, I'd almost forgotten.
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  234. Moving house is such a costly venture. Beyond the obvious price of equivalent property, there is the cost of all the time it takes from you and how much work time you lose. It's literally months of work lost with searching, surveys, moving, organising everything from fixing a leaking roof to a new boiler. There is the cost of furnishing your new home; that table/sofa/bed/wardrobe etc you bought for your previous home may well not fit in your new home. All the little things that you never think of: parking permits, having a new line installed so you can get decent wifi. What with so many more people working from home these days, you might have a home office too that will need to be moved too. These are often in small rooms, so a new desk, new shelving etc may be needed. Do you get compensated for this stuff?
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  235. I dont know who I am Do you think I didn’t try to get her help? She didn’t think there was anything wrong with her. I tried approaching her family to get help, but they didn’t believe me and ostracised my sister and me for “making disgusting accusations”. If an NPD sufferer acknowledges they have a personality disorder, then that’s all fine. But an abusive parent is a really toxic thing for a child. My sister was more badly affected than me. She’s an adult and she can’t work due to her complex ptsd and her acute depression and anxiety. She has to live off benefits. I manage better, but I have regular panic attacks, crippling anxiety, low self-esteem and attachment issues. If I’d have managed to get away from her earlier, I may be able to live a more normal life. Abuse is abuse. Prolonged, intense psychological abuse is no less harmful than physical or sexual abuse (hence my reference). The ONLY way a survivor of abuse can end the abuse is to get away from the abuser.
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  236.  @stevenhibbitt6380  On the counter to that, I know someone whose brother caught it. He was fit, in his early 40s, and with no underlying health conditions. He died from it. But this is an outlying anecdotal example. I'm fully aware that Omicron is proving much less likely to be deadly. I'm just not convinced we should take the masks off yet. Kind of feels a bit like a herd immunity strategy by letting it run its course.
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  237. He’s parked in a blue badge holders’ bay. Nothing to do with his shadow. It’s worrying that you’re calling for their deaths because you believed something printed in a tabloid without researching it to check if it was real or not.
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  238. (just in case this goes over anyone’s head, my replies to this awful comment are sarcastic)
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  239. Krishnan Guru Murthy is so embarrassing. JL: "Social media is bad for us because… X Y Z" [citing studies and evidence] KGM: "But do we know that for sure?" JL: "Yes, because of… [research] [psychological studies] [reasoned evidence]" KGM: "What about video games?" JL: "They don't work in the same way." KGM: "Have you played fortnite? They make you buy stuff." JL: "That's just someone selling something. That's not what I've been talking about." KGM: "Are you just a hippy?" JL: [confused] "Err… no…"
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  240. They could get sued for copyright infringement if they played any more of the track than was absolutely necessary to demonstrate their point (which would be ironic).
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  241. This is absolutely hilarious.
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  242. She doesn't stand up for trans women, though, does she?
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  243.  @PedroConejo1939  It’s Blackheath Village Post Office in Lewisham.
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  244. Absolutely agree. It's just like people did with Jimmy Saville. They suddenly forgot all the charity work he did just because he routinely sexually assaulted vulnerable children. The media is so selective when it suits them.
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  245. That's because labradors are playful, easy-going dogs with a friendly disposition.
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  246. I heard that they ask this because they often don't have any evidence of what they suspect you of doing, and so your admission of guilt becomes the evidence. Otherwise, it's just their word against yours if it goes to court.
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  247.  @ArminGrewe  The energy of the Middle-England angry middle-aged white man is strong on this thread.
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  248.  @richardk5246  What has race got to do with this? Are you serious?
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  249.  @richardk5246  No, I'm not "Racist against white people". You can't be racist against white people. Racism is racial prejudice exercised through a power structure. I'm calling out racism.
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  250. You see nothing wrong with that?!?!
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  251. I think this video is really important for many people to watch.
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  252.  @goldilocks913  I cycle to the shops. And I don't drink.
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  253.  @lotharschramm5000  I’m sorry that facts offend you. You must have a very hard life.
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  254.  @sleepysystem  I think there may be some confusion here. When I said it was “never a device to…”, I’m not talking about its origin or nomenclature, I’m talking about its usage in media criticism.
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  255. This aged well.
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  256. I sell software online as my livelihood. It's how I pay my bills and feed my kids. I started doing this as I needed passive income due to an impending transplant I need. This will put me out of action for many months (if I survive). I need this income, but pirate sites have caused a massive drop in my income. People who pirate stuff like to justify their actions be imagining faceless, abstract corporations that deserve to be stolen from, rather than parents struggling to make ends meet for their families. This is the reality of it. I can't stop you stealing, but don't kid yourself that you're any better than a common thief who pickpockets someone at the train station.
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  257. One problem I see in this approach is the idea of saying that truth will always trump political correctness because this promotes the idea that there is a disparity between the two. Political correctness is about creating a nomenclature for things to do with people that's as accurate as possible. The point of this is to move forward from inaccurate stereotypes, but political correctness is aspiring to be truthful. It's like saying truth with always trump science as science is also aspiring to be as truthful and accurate as possible by definition. Anything else is bad science, or bad political correctness.
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  258.  Adrian Heath  Not guilty does in no way mean "100% innocent". This is why they phrase it in the negative: Not Guilty rather than Innocent. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Because you can't prove to me that you brushed your teeth this morning is not proof that you didn't brush your teeth.
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  259. Also, £5 a day to save £50k for deposit and moving costs would take about 30 years (at which point house prices will have tripled again).
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  260. One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision. — Bertrand Russell
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  261. Given that the brightness of light can be measured and also the darkness of sunglasses, is there actually any guidance given in legislation as to what “too dark” actually means in an objective context? If there isn’t, this is all just subjective opinion and therefore how do we enforce laws around that?
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  262. Much better. Jobs was a harsh bastard often, but he would not have let Apple release things like a magic mouse with a charging port on the base so you can't use it while it's charging. Jobs' primary objective was to make the experience intuitive for the user. That's why Apple stood out from the other tech companies whose objective seems to be how sophisticated they can make their products.
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  263.  @nwoDekaTsyawlA  I think you're getting your terminology a bit muddled. Trans males are people who were assigned female at birth, but whose gender identity is male. You're talking about trans women. That's the term. It already exists.  I think your understanding of gender is a little reductionist. Gender basically can be broken down into 3 distinct factors: biological gender, gender identity, and gender expression. All three of these exist on a spectrum with male/masculine at one end, and female/feminine at the other.
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  264. It's British law that when a British person is in the right, they have to being the sentence with an apology. Hence: "Sorry, but…"
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  265. a kid with bpd Please don’t victim blame. BPD, like psychopathy, can destroy the lives of other people. Don’t ask the victims of abuse to be kinder to their abusers. It’s not okay.
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  266.  @PatrickSilent  Ah yes, you're right. I stand corrected.
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  267. He shouldn't have been named, but it's also important to note that just because he was found not guilty, this doesn't mean the woman is a 'false accuser'. It just means there wasn't enough evidence to find him guilty. She has not been convicted of anything. My sister got sexually assaulted and the police officer told her not to bother pressing charges because there probably wouldn't be enough evidence to secure a conviction.
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  268.  @Bickle121  I've had to google this now and it seems to be a contentious issue. Some people are arguing that it should be 'octopodes' due to its Greek origin. Unfortunately for the grammar nerds, 'correct' language is primarily formed from how people use it. So to me it's going to remain 'octopuses'. Not that this is a word I see myself needing to use on a regular basis. It's not often I see an octopus, let alone many octopuses that would necessitate the use of its pluralised form.
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  269. This is misleading and potentially dangerous advice. Please don’t endanger a child by following unqualified advice from YouTube. Consult a medically qualified dietician.
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  270.  @RoganGunn  No uniform. This was just outside where I worked so I assume he saw us coming out of the building together. I did tell him we worked together because he said that I was “with” him, but I made it clear that he wasn’t someone I knew on a personal level. The officer then asked me if another officer were to assault me and he stood by and did nothing, would I feel that he had some responsibility in that? Regarding what he was doing: I have no idea. It was an old building with big pillars and grand frontage. Currently being used as a bank. I think he was — the put it in the eloquent words of the police office — ‘dicking about’. I think he was a bit of a ‘lad’ and was showing off. He just climbed up (only about a metre off the ground) and waved his arms about to his mates.
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  271. They're not really wrong about the future of music. Digital is the way …just not stored on tape.
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  272. I think just reading the comments section backs up your point well.
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  273. 8:40 - "This guy…" — That's Max Clifford. He was a famous publicist for many celebrities but ended up in prison for multiple counts of sexual assault. He's dead now.
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  274. This interview is painful to watch. Primarily because there are gaping flaws in Jordan Peterson's analysis of gender, but Cathy Newman isn't bright enough to articulate the problem. This results in what appears to be a random assault of ad hominems against Peterson. Newman knows there is something wrong with Peterson's hypothesis, but can't establish what it is. Peterson is a very well-educated and intelligent man, but his thinking is flawed based on his acceptance of the world as he sees it. Take, for example, his assertion that the gender pay gap is down to numerous factors that are not gender. His example is that women are more agreeable than men — but this is still a gender issue. He has simply taken the observation that women in contemporary society, on average, are more agreeable without looking at why that is. Girls and boys are exposed to a plethora of influences from a very young age that condition them to act this way based on their gender. There is also the assertion that women choose lower-paid careers "of their own free will". Now, there's two problems here: Firstly, when we are conditioned to think and act in certain ways, is that really free will? Secondly, who's to say that it's the women that choose the lower-paid careers or the careers that are valued less because they are dominated by women? The reasons for the gender pay gap are complex, intricate and nuanced. To assume essentialist motivation behind all thoughts and actions of adults in contemporary western society will inevitably create a flawed model by which to analyse.
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  275. What a stupid argument. Gender dysphoria is a real thing.
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  276.  @underworldjam  some with dedicated lanes, some just one way except for bikes. As long as the road is quiet enough, it hasn’t been a problem. If a car comes you just pass it on the left like you would any other road.
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  277.  @steve00alt70  Yes.
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  278.  @sampleheed  I'm pretty sure that if you caused an accident whilst cycling under the influence of cannabis, you'd be in a lot of trouble.
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  279.  @marklittler784  The average weight of a bike is 8kg, the average weight of a car is 1,300kg. A well-trained cyclist can pedal up to around 15-20mph. The average modern car can go up to around 120mph. These two vehicles are not comparable. Bikes already go slowly. This is why the new legislation around the Highway Code gives bikes the right of way over cars. I don't really understand what your agenda is for arguing this weird logic, but the law is not on your side.
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  280. Ok boomer.
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  281.  @polex5830  It was part of his HIStory album. 1982 would put it on Thriller with Bille Jean and all that. It's not from that era. You can hear it. It's 90s Jackson. You are not Alone and all that stuff.
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  282. Casey tells us that you can't succeed on YouTube if you're uploading once a month. But then people like The Nerdwriter upload about once a month and have over 2M subs. And then he tells us to do what we're told we can't. … I guess the message is: Don't let other people tell you what you can't be successful at (including Casey Neistat)
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  283. Because Churchill's statue just had its plinth graffitied, which will be washed off. If it was torn down and thrown in the Thames, I'm sure there would be plenty of coverage.
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  284. ​@Moonfall777 "How are you coping after your wife's death?" "My wife's not dead." "Oh dear, stage 1: denial." "But she's not dead though." "You'll move onto anger next" "But she's not dead. Look, she's there. Over there. Look." "You really can't accept it can you?" "FFS! Just turn your head and look! SHE'S STOOD RIGHT THERE!" "Oh, here's stage 2: Anger." This series of Doctor Who is doing well in the ratings. Facts, not opinion. http://guide.doctorwhonews.net/info.php
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  285. @Moonfall777 The ratings are falling in a way consistent with every other series of Doctor Who and most other TV dramas. Ratings for TV dramas don't hold steady. They drop as the series goes on. Look at the previous season: http://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/doctor-who-series-10-2017-uk-ratings-accumulator-84045.htm or Capaldi's debut series: http://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/doctor-who-series-8-ratings-accumulator-66394.htm
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  286. @Moonfall777  Episode 6 overnight viewing figures:  Series 11: 5.77m Series 10: 4.16m  Series 9: 4.34m Series 8: 4.89m Series 7: 5.7m Series 6: 6.72 Quite a big discrepancy between the very low audience score and the very high critics' scores on Rotten Tomatoes unlike the other series of Doctor Who where the scores are similar. I don't know what that means, but it's interesting.
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  287. @Moonfall777 I don't think it's safe to say anything at the moment. It's early days. I'm finding it quite mixed. Chibnall's episodes are quite safe and dull. But Rosa and Demons of the Punjab have really enthralled me. My daughter thinks it's the best series of Doctor Who so far. It's certainly the most different series of NuWho, but that's what Doctor Who does: it radically changes. And fans take a while to catch up. Everyone was sure the show would die after Hartnell regenerated. I don't feel I've seen enough to make a call yet.
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  288. I think it's time for a change of government.
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  289. Call me a contrarian, but if these super-rich buyers can’t tell the difference, why does it matter? It’s not as if Rembrandt is still alive and losing profits to someone plagiarising his work.
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  290.  @rosez6737  the concept of owning something exclusive is an interesting one. It’s no longer about getting something good for your money, but about what you can deprive from others with your money. Exclusivity is not about what you have, but what others don’t.
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  291. Wow. This dude has no idea. The arrogance of old white men. He seems to think it's all about him.
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  292.  @jimfiggerty833  Intellect can't be measured on a one-dimensional, linear scale. Starkey clearly has a very low understanding of why society is progressing the way it is. Or maybe he has some sort of NPD.
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  293. Technically, yes. But I’ve fallen off my bike before because a car behind me sounded its horn and made me jump, causing me to lose my balance.
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  294. So here's my question: As we have all these equal legal gender rights, and we don't need to make "artificial adjustments" (or positive discrimination as it's commonly called), then the issue is why do we have a massive imbalance in gender roles across powerful positions. Why are majority of the government, male? Why are about 95% of CEOs of the Fortune 500 companies male? Why are the majority of celebrated film directors, journalists, artists etc. male? (please don't start listing female directors etc. I'm aware that there are some.) — on a side note, this is what patriarchy is: a society where the powerful and influential positions are mainly held by men. It's not a "conspiracy theory" as it is clearly provable simply by looking at stats (or really basic facts like how America has never had a female president). Making something law doesn't solve the problem. This is what 3rd-wave feminism is tackling. It's not as easy to understand as before because the problem has become more nuanced and to do with a complex system of social interaction and media influence. A myth that gets thrown around a lot is that feminists believe that "The Patriarchy" is some sort of secret society where people are pushing a sexist agenda through. This is not true. The pervasive attitude that perpetuates the general zeitgeist is just what's ended up being, and it's self-perpetuating (unless people actively seek to change it). Writing people off as "stupid" and their views as "ridiculous" is not a constructive position. It's clear that Sargon has good intentions, but he does not properly understand the problem. His attitude is understandable given what he perceives feminism to be, but his perspective is warped and limited.
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  295. charlesvan13 Sexual Dimorphism is the reason that 95% of the CEOs of the Fortune 500 companies are male? Obviously common physiological differences between the sexes will have some effect on average numbers, but to completely transcend culture and social conditioning? Really? Quite an extraordinary claim. I think I would require extraordinary evidence to take that seriously. From where did you form this opinion? Over 90% of prisoners are male. The incarceration rate of non-whites is also much higher than whites. I should imagine that these issues are partly down to discrimination in the courts and by police, but things are rarely that simple. I should imagine the incarceration rate is higher in these cases because more crimes are committed by people from these groups. If that's the case, then we need to look at the socioeconomic factors that are affecting these groups. What are the circumstances? What is the balance of types of crime? Is the law administered fairly? Are the laws themselves, fair? etc. etc. Like all these things, the answers lie amid a mess of complex political, historical, social and economic situations. People are complex. Sociology is complex.  In my experience—when talking about how people behave—if the answers appears to be simple or large numbers of people appear to be "stupid", you probably don't fully understand the complexity of the issue.
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  296. Gommu Apologies, I'm not sure what you mean by The number of men who are in powerful positions is small. Are you saying that women hold more powerful positions? That the media, government and CEOs of the big companies aren't powerful? Would you mind clarifying? There are indeed a lot of men in shit positions. Society is shit for a lot of people. Men occupy a lot of the more dangerous and physically demanding jobs, but I don't see this as a separate issue; it's all fallout from the same issue. Men are pressured to suppress their emotions, to "man up", and then people wonder why the suicide rate amongst men is so high. Patriarchy shits on men too.
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  297. ***** I think you've either misread my comment (or are deliberately strawmanning my position). Either way, the view that society and culture has no affect whatsoever on the way people think and behave is an extraordinary claim. I did not claim that personality was purely from social conditioning, I said that common physiological differences between the sexes would have an effect, but that social conditioning also plays a part in forming our behaviours and views. This is what the general scientific consensus is currently, I believe (or at least it was about 4 years ago when I last read the studies).
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  298. Gommu How very astute of you.
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  299. Gommu Did you have a question?
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  300. ***** Don't forget to doff your fedora.
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  301. Gommu Okay then, The number of people suffering is high. And men mostly occupy these positions. How do you quantify that men suffer more than women?  Stop being silly. It has nothing to do with masculinity, how fucking indoctrinated are you? Think for yourself god damn it ! Don't just repeat feminist talking points - this is why nobody takes you guys seriously ! This is kind of why I didn't respond. I don't have much time for rudeness. It has no place in rational debate. I would challenge that nobody takes you guys seriously! In the academic world around the study of culture and sociology, your views are in a small minority. The notion that men are more oppressed than women is not the mainstream school of thought. Christina Hoff Sommers is about as respected in the world of sociology as those PhDs that deny climate change are in the world of science. For every academic text she writes, there are a thousand others that oppose her viewpoint. Her work is easy to debunk. This shit is complicated, and cannot be explained by something as arbitrary as "the patriarchy" !!! To reiterate, "patriarchy" does not "explain" anything. It simply means a society where men hold the majority of the power. That's all it is. Antifeminists have tried to warp its meaning in order to discredit feminist discourse. I think the aim is to make feminism look like a conspiracy theory where "the patriarchy" is like some sort of secret society like the Illuminati. This is an academically dishonest practice, but then this is not an academic argument. There are always people who oppose social progression — be that gender equality, racial equality, the equality of sexualities etc. People fear a paradigm shift in social attitudes. They feel that their own specific status quo is the "right" balance and any further progression would be "too much". This is why people opposed the abolition of slavery. To them, this was the norm and it was how things "naturally" were. Personally, I think women take more than their share of "the shit" given how often they are sexually harassed, patronised, overlooked etc. I really think you would benefit from reading some feminist books and trying to understand a bit more, but I know you won't do that. This is why I didn't reply. I think this is a futile venture. If you're wondering how open minded I am on the subject, I am always looking to change my opinion on things. I do frequently when presented with better evidence. But… I do have 2 degrees in this stuff and the kind of rhetoric that goes on in the YouTube comments sections is not exactly groundbreaking. Now, someone with an MSc in climate science will be looked upon by a climate change denier as having been 'indoctrinated' rather than educated. It's the same with Gender and Feminism. An anti-feminist will dismiss is as 'indoctrination' because that's what they need to do to confirm that their position is correct. It's called confirmation bias and it's one of the big sticking points in any debate like this — this is why I don't reply to everyone. I make a judgement call. I also have 2 kids and 2 jobs, so my time is limited.
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  302. +Gommu  I don't really understand why people can't accept the concept of patriarchy. We live in a patriarchal society. That's just demonstrable fact. Men hold most of the positions of power. Whether you think this is down to social conditioning of biological pre-determinism is another matter. If you're serious about reading something from "the other side", I would recommend starting with something not too heavy. Don't jump straight into Judith Bulter's Gender Trouble yet. Read something contemporary and fun like Caitlin Moran's How To Be a Woman. This book is first and foremost comedy, but she is also a feminist (and one I tend to agree with on most issues). Check out Everyday Sexism by Laura Bates (the book or the Twitter feed) just to get a sense of what women have to put up with on a day-to-day basis. Don't fall for all the "But loads of men are homeless" stuff. This is relative privation — a logical fallacy. Homelessness in men is a serious issue and wanting equality for women does not affect one's ability to care about or take action against this.
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  303. Gommu The problem with the MRA is that it attributes all the blame onto feminism rather than the actual causes. Ironically, they kind of want the same thing: gender equality. This is why I like Caitlin Moran. She gets annoyed (as I do) when feminists try to silence or ban things. I'm not into banning things. There was a big campaign to ban Donald Trump from entering the UK. Now, I don't know what your political persuasion is, but I'm not a fan of that man, but banning him from places won't achieve anything. More choice is the answer. If films are sexist, make better films.  I've never, ever in my life met a feminist who actually wants to kill all men. Seriously? We're not on the path to destruction of the west. People always think that society is collapsing. It's actually getting better. Islam won't take over. That's just silly.
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  304. I'm not "playing" anyone (?) I don't know much about the killallmen hashtag, but I doubt very much that it's meant to be taken literally. If someone actually wants to kill all men, that's psychopathy, not feminism. Do you really think I would embrace a philosophy if it called for my own murder? There are atheists out there that want to kill all christians, but that does not change what atheism is. I have never, ever met any feminist that hates men. Never. Feminism is not misandry. This is why I encourage reading actual contemporary feminist literature rather than basing your opinions from YouTubers that misrepresent what feminism is. 
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  305. Gommu You are picking out individual people with extremist views and using them interchangeably with mainstream feminist discourse. I can't talk reasonably with you if you do stuff like this.
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  306. jq747 Defending Daryush Valizadeh now? Classy.
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  307. jq747 Apologies, I was deliberately provoking a response to prove a point. RooshV does not represent MRA beliefs, so why pick other random extremists and link them to feminist belief? I want a sensible discussion, not a point-scoring exercise or a debate about semantics.
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  308. jq747 Argh! Can we please move on from killallmen? Yes, mainstream feminists will "defend" it in the sense that they try to explain that it's not meant to be taken literally. It, and I quote: "represents a structural critique, presented in a provocative fashion. Nobody is actually planning to kill all men. Not even some men. It’s just a phrase, an expression of rage, a rejection of a system which is riddled with violence" Personally, I think this has backfired badly as people who aren't bright enough to understand the cultural nuances behind it, take it literally. No-one wants to kill anyone. Okay? FFS
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  309. +jq747 Wasn't that from like 5 or 6 years ago? Mneh. It's certainly incendiary to call it "rape", but I see what they're saying. From my personal experience of the birth of my own kids, the first time we were pretty appalled by how some of the midwives and obstetricians treated my wife. Some people would walk in, not acknowledge my wife or introduce themselves, then just walk over and stick their fingers in her. There were too many people who treated her like she was just a piece of meat. Now, for our second kid (same hospital 4 years later), it was clear that the staff had been called into question about this as we were treated really differently. The first time properly traumatised my wife and I'm pretty clear this was largely to do with how she was treated as something subhuman and how out of control and scared that left her feeling. Again, it's not literally rape, the term is used to make people look at it differently. I do think they have a point. I think this is part of a wider systemic problem of dehumanising women. But these sorts of things are thought exercises. It's difficult to analyse your own culture because you are part of it. Things like this are deliberately (and often provocatively) altering the framework by which we view something in order to helps its audience look at something from a different perspective. They are not meant for someone like you. Unfortunately, these things get picked up and taken literally by the lesser-educated on feminist theory. I'm sure if you look, they'll be an angry video by a white, male, heterosexual youtuber like Thunderf00t or The Amazing Atheist telling women how they should be feeling about this; talking about how feminists are saying birth is rape and how stupid they are. As if life were that straight forward and the world were divided into "goodies" and "baddies" like fucking He-Man. I want to know what you thought of the shirtgate video I posted.
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  310. I'm pretty open to people liking whatever they like, but the White Stripes cover is nowhere near as brilliant as the original. That guitar riff is amazing. Have you heard it played at 33RPM? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMrfM711vXI
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  311. Is that the Hannah's mum from Girls?
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  312. I remember my girlfriend and I being on the floor in laughter at that scene because we had this rather eccentric landlord at the time who used to over-explain everything in exactly the same way.
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  313. Political strategy isn't a binary choice, though. Ed Miliband failed because he tried to dress up left wing policies as more right wing than they were. People saw through it and it shows a fundamental misunderstanding of what the electorate want. Blair engaged the electorate by staying socially left, but shifting economically right (with mixed outcomes). It's about finding a way to engage with the electorate and address the issues the those on the middle-ground care about (the economy, defence etc). I believe this can be done through a left-wing framework. What's not going to work is ignoring those issues and telling people they're wrong for caring about them. I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "ordinary people" not voting. Are voters not representative of "ordinary" people? As someone who has become more and more critical of Corbyn as time has gone on, I would have to say that I would love to be proved wrong. I'm not that egotistical that I would be upset if my daughters didn't grow up under a generation of Tory rule.
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  314. I can't help but feel that you're selectively looking at the data because you want a certain outcome rather than giving an honest and unbiased evaluation of the facts. I would love it if Labour had a strong, socialist leader, but I can't lie to myself that Corbyn is it. I'm sick of being presented with yet another bunch of old, white men (Sanders, Trump, Farage, Corbyn…) and being told that this is about new politics. The Labour Party has so many outstanding MPs in it — potential leaders. As a lifelong Labour voter, I want to know if Corbyn will step down, and I want to know because I want a strong opposition to the Tories.
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  315. +Gary Henderson I always find the term "girls" weird when referring to sexual subjects. "Women", I think adults, "girls", I think 8-year-olds.
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  316. Olivia Colman.
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  317. Not my personal list, but very close. Top Gear is divisive. A lot of people really hate the right-wing attitudes, racism, climate change denial (just all the things that would Donald Trump proud), but it is very popular so probably deserves to be there. Putting it above Sherlock is a twist of the knife, though.
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  318. Never any women in these Watch Mojo lists.
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  319. Corbyn keeps talking about uniting the party, but it seems to only be under his terms. It's like an abusive relationship "Just admit that you were wrong and all will be forgiven". He has to accept the coalition nature of the Labour Party and let members of his cabinet have their say.
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  320. She killed people though.
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  321. Well, there's a bit of a mix of opinion here. It is certainly true that Hollywood is racist and sexist when it comes to casting — google the Bechdel Test if you don't believe me. But I don't think it has anything to do with casting people from other countries to play Americans. I can think of very many Black actors from here in the UK that have found themselves playing Americans over in the states. Maybe it's more obvious to me because I know who these people are from seeing them previously in British stuff. They pop up all the time when I'm watching US shows — from David Harewood in Homeland to Lennie James in The Walking Dead to Daniel Kaluuya in Get Out to Chiwetel Ejiofor in 12 Years a Slave to Idris Elba in … well… everything (just off the top of my head). But there is massive racism in Hollywood casting. The problem is systemic, not because of foreigners taking American jobs.
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  322. Fuck this racist shit
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  323. This is funny, but in reality, I don't actually know any vegans who act like this.
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  324. I don't get the constant comparison between Windows and Macs. Macs are better (for most people's needs) but cost a shed-load more. You wouldn't compare a Jaguar with a Ford Escort. You pay more money, you get something better quality. Big surprise.
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  325. Jason Grooming My point is that I find it crass when John uses Russell's former drug addiction to mock him and then he and Polly have a little cliquey giggle about it. I agree with the sentiment that his telling people not to vote was a dangerous and foolish thing to do. I think that was born out of a place of privilege and naivety and I'm glad he has since retracted that statement. Personally, I think Polly is a little star-struck from meeting a pop-idol from her youth. Lydon has gained a reputation of late for being some sort of progressive social justice figure, but—and let's be fair here—he made a name for himself from being arrogant, rude and obnoxious. The Sex Pistols were undeniably a catalyst for a cultural paradigm shift in popular culture, but Lydon was just someone who happened to be there at the time, screaming into the mic. …I digress slightly. Apologies. My point is that I doubt Polly would have echoed that sentiment on a forum like Question Time. And if she did, I think she would have been heavily criticised. Drug addiction is a serious, crippling and much misunderstood affliction. Lydon's statement and Polly's support are not helping the issue.
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  326. I'm reading her book at the moment. It's very insightful.
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  327. Last Exit to Springfield was always my favourite. I thought it was a random one that no-one else gave too much thought too. I'm surprised (and pleased) to see it at number 1.
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  328. ***** What I believe, I believe based on evidence and data. You seem to think that any theories are all equally likely. I was just earlier today looking at a load of data gathered about gender in films. Not a feminist group, not collected with an agenda, just pure data gathering. Check it out, it's interesting: http://polygraph.cool/films/
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  329. So why do you think that Brand now publicly acknowledges that this behaviour was not okay and says it's something that he's since become aware of and is "working on"? Does he really believe this? Have "the feminists" got to him?
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  330. ***** You think page 3 is fine?
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  331. Epictetus The term feminist is fluid and covers a vast array of ideologies. Not all feminists want equality, but the common factor that unites them seems to be to change women's position in society. Sommers does not seem to want this. I'd call her an Egalitarian (although that describes pretty much everybody in western society). Please understand this is not the way I define myself, this is how I perceive the term 'feminist'.
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  332. ***** okay. Are there any points you'd like me to address that you feel I haven't to your satisfaction?
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  333. BosonCollider Huh? The suffragettes had many questionable beliefs and causes. Personally I'm in favour of votes for women, but not eugenics or the white feather movement. I'm not sure I understand your point… 
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  334. +Bad Man Why don't you pick a topic?
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  335. joaov2 Go on then. I'll take a chance. 
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  336. ***** Let's go with objectification. That's probably more my field.
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  337. I'll await Badman's question on the subject of objectification.
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  338. joaov2 Well, I'm happy to answer that, but I only want to debate one person at a time.
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  339. Err… okay. I'll wait for Badman to offer a question then.
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  340. ***** Can you give a specific example here where a feminist has cited something as objectification so I can respond to it? Maybe something Anita Sarkeesian has referenced or something like that?
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  341. joaov2 Thanks, ref.
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  342. Shall I give an explanation of my understanding of objectification and we can start from there?
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  343. ***** I'm at work at present and so will not be able to formulate a response until later. I see there's a lot to read through. One thing I did note whilst skimming through is that you say that you understand what objectification is, but the way you're conflating it with issues of nudity and positions in denial of sexual dimorphism makes me think that you don't. These are other topics that don't really bear any relevance to what we're talking about. You also made reference to one of the models in Blurred Lines by referring to her as "the most beautiful" one. This ascribing of a hierarchical ranking onto the women based on their bodies is in itself a form of objectification. Again, it's not really relevant how much success the model gained from this video, we are talking about the effects of the objectification.
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  344. joaov2 Thanks for moderating (and for researching). I appreciate it.
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  345. +Bad Man +joaov2 Our interpretations of the media we consume are subjective, but that subjectivity is born largely out of the cultural framework from which we view it. There is a shared notion of human "beauty" within our culture, but this is at least partly due to being conditioned by the culture we live in and are part of. We know this as we can see this archetype vary throughout our history and throughout the world. I'm sure you know from your art history that notions of female beauty have changed many times. If we look at baroque paintings, "beautiful" women are depicted with chubby, pair-shaped bodies and small breasts. Even decade by decade we can see the "ideal" woman change. In the 1980s, broad shoulders, pubic hair and large breasts were the thing. Today, different cultures aspire to different things. In Japan, women have their teeth cosmetically un-straightened whereas in America, straight, white teeth are the thing to have. I'm vaguely aware of the studies carried out about facial symmetry etc. But — and please correct me if I'm wrong on this — from what I remember, they were investigations into seeing if there were any common attributes across different cultures' ideas of beauty rather than suggesting that beauty is an entirely objective phenomenon driven exclusively by our biology. I'd like to move away from the Blurred Lines comment if we can. It was just a throw-away observation that I made because it further suggested to me that you don't fully understand what objectification is. I appreciate that by picking up on it, I am effectively saying "you have done something wrong" and you will feel that you need to defend you position. This is probably a bad psychological position to put you in as it will likely divert the debate and entrench your views. I have more to say on this subject, but I don't think it would be productive to continue this line of conversation. The Wikipedia link is good (I love Wikipedia), I'm wondering if we should focus more on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_objectification rather than objectification as a wider topic as this has more relevance to the video we were originally discussing. BadMan, what is your take on this entry? What do you feel it is missing?
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  346. joaov2 We need to be careful that we don't fall into a fallacious position by invoking an argument based on relative privation. I would challenge that we are purely discussing semantics, but that we are discussing the validity of a concept.
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  347. joaov2 Our visual understanding is more complex than that. The beholder associates themes, motifs, meanings, semiotics etc. by being a product of their culture.
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  348. +Woder The Great I've been a massive Doctor Who fan since I was a kid (watching what is now described as the 'classic' series). I live it and breathe it. But yes, you're right. Sherlock is better.
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  349. Sadiq Khan doesn't endorse Corbyn. Most Labour MPs don't.
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  350. Defining Islam by some elements taken from a self-contradictory book, and not what is actually practised as Islam by the vast majority of Muslims is facetious and not reflective of the reality of the situation.
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  351. ***** Err… yes. I agree. Thank you, Jesus.
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  352. ***** I'm glad to hear it. Sorry about the whole crucifixion thing… awkward…
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  353. Baigandine L Two subsets of Christianity are both religions. Islam is a religion, but ISIS is a militant, political group, not a religion.
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  354. Why does no-one understand this? Yes, ISIS follow their own, extreme version of Islam. They are Islamic, but they are not Islam. Do you understand the difference?
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  355. purpandorange I thought that's what this thread was about.
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  356. ***** To claim that religions are defined by the level to which they follow their texts is not representative of what the reality of religion is in today's society. You are facetiously peddling a technicality and it's intellectually dishonest.
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  357. ***** The trouble is that that's not the reality of what most people practicing religion do. Religion is also complexly intertwined with culture. 'Criticism of religion' is too often used as a smokescreen for racism. While I wholeheartedly support being critical of the more pernicious aspects of religious practices and values, to simplify it down to something unrepresentative of the reality of what most people do is at best, dishonest and at worst, dangerous. 
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  358. ***** You've changed, Jesus.
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  359. ***** So the tolerant, forgiving, kind Jesus we think we know is a myth? Did you even get crucified or was that an exaggerated account of some horrific DIY accident?
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  360. Skinner Sweet No, it's a movie about depression and learning how to manage it.
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  361. I think maybe you're interpreting the narrative in a too literal sense. It's not meant to be about a "strong female". Where did gender as a subject come into it? If we're talking about feminist tropes in cinema, the "strong female" one is tired and sexist. It's like a kind fake feminism. I found the film to be feministic as the character was deep and complex. That's what's lacking in the film world. "Strong" women can too easily become a shallow series of semiotics, personified on screen. The mum isn't meant to be perfect, she is battling a crippling condition. The film is about how she learns to live with it — "you can't get rid of the Babadook".
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  362. Fire Marshall Bill No, it can't. Ghosts and monsters aren't real. It's a film. The Babadook is a metaphor.
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  363. Skinner Sweet Have I misunderstood something here? Yes, it does seem like an obvious point, but you are discussing the plot of this film as though it's a series of real events (or at least events that are bound by the laws of the real world). It's a piece of art. Concept can take anthropomorphic form within a film.
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  364.  @Charismaoncommand  I recommend watching Richard Ayoade get the better of him. He answers all passive-aggressive questions with absurd answers, but in a serious tone. It totally throws Krishnan Guru-Murthy and Ayoade ends up completely controlling the interview.
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  365. Good call on Street Fighter 2, but Sonic 2 is worth more than just an honourable mention.
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  366. Aw man. World respected economist Ann Pettifor says that the UK borrowing from the private sector is a good way to finance public spending …but Graham in the YouTube comments section says she's talking bollocks. I just don't know what to believe anymore!
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  367. +Neil Wood What is Peaky Blinders? I think people probably need to have heard of the shows in this list at least. They're all pretty iconic.
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  368. Wow. People in the comments really aren't getting it. Yes, ideally everyone should be picked based on their abilities — that's the world we want. But unfortunately we don't live in a world where everyone is given a fair chance. Through discrimination, we have an imbalance of gender, ethnicity and sexuality within many industries and those need to be addressed to create this "fair world" that we all want to live in.
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  369. UH YEH. I HADDA FAWT A DAT.
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  370. Fuck Bleach, Drink Drāno Do you ever ask yourself what the point of making comments like these on a forum are? What exactly are your objectives? Immediate catharsis at the expense of longer term unhappiness? Or do you believe that calling people weak minded, Nazis and retards is the way to win them over to your way of thinking? I'm just as guilty here, by the way.
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  371. This guy even looks evil. It's like he's dressed up as a comic-book villain.
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  372. It is the dogs, though. It's not the owners mauling a child to death.
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  373. This is fascinating. As a non-scientist, I always just assumed it was centrifugal force pulling the bike the other way as it turned.
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  374. That's literally the definition of a hate crime. It's about the intent and effect of what is said. Free speech can't truly exist due to the paradox of tolerance. It needs to be policed in some way.
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  375. Facts certainly don't care about your feelings, but make sure you've got your facts straight before you start to dogmatically administer your views.
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  376. I have a question: My sister doesn’t have a TV license. Her boyfriend does. Can she and he watch BBC iPlayer at her house together when he is round there?
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  377.  @juliebrooke6099  So you can't watch iPlayer on your phone on a bus?
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  378. 10 people out for a pub lunch in the sunshine. 2 drivers drinking non-alcoholic beer or other soft drinks.
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  379.  @Treblaine  I think most police officers do want to prevent crime. It would require an awful lot of resources to have officers stationed at every pub around the country. Budgets have to be prioritised.
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  380.  @Treblaine  Why would they want more arrests than prevention? It costs much more in resources, time and workload to arrest someone than to work with people and communities to prevent crimes. What motive would fuel this conspiracy theory?
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  381. Yes, that's the way it was written, but yes it is being sexist because it refers to all people as 'he'. This reinforces the idea that male is the default, and female is an exception.
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  382. I get shivers watching this. It’s so good.
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  383. I think Adele's cover of Dylan's Me you feel my love is pretty good
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  384. How can you not be emotionally affected when you're dealing with people driven so far to the brink of despair, they're considering suicide? When you see small children go hungry because their parents can't afford to feed them? The worst thing about all this is that it's avoidable. It's a choice made by the Conservative Party. We have enough food, we have enough wealth. The Tories are choosing for children to live in poverty.
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  385. While I appreciate the Tesla driver's gesture, the same visibility issue of another lane caused my wife to crash her car: A person stopped to let her turn right into a junction. She waited because there were two lanes and the couldn't see the far one. The guy behind her got impatient and beeped her, and the car waiting kept waving her to go. She was intimidated so she began to turn and a car ploughed into her that was coming up in the other lane. Both the other cars drove off and the guy got out of the car who'd ploughed into her and began screaming at her. It was a generally horrible experience.
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  386. Because Morgan Freeman is such a voice of wisdom?
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  387.  @KalkuehlGaming  It's a global problem. Racism affects Black kids from birth from the direct discrimination they face and also the knock-on effect of institutional racism that has affected their families. Race is important because being aware of racism is. You can't resolve a problem by pretending it doesn't exist.
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  388. You don’t need a USB-C charger, you need a lightning cable. I charge my iPhone with my old iPhone charger. The trouble with Apple is they lead the way and their products reflect that. The issue is that the rest of the world is still catching up. Chargers that fit multiple devices sold separately is clearly the future, but not everyone is ready for that yet. I remember having an argument with Canon over the software they supplied with their camera about 10 years ago. Apple had dropped CD readers from its iMacs and MacBooks. I bought a pro-level camera from Canon and they supplied the software I needed in order to install picture profiles on the camera on a CD (it wasn’t available online in those days). I argued that the world had moved on and they needed to supply me the software on a media that was accessible to someone with a contemporary computer. They argued that CD drives were normal in computers and the Apple shouldn’t have taken them out. Interesting standoff. I ended up having to buy an external USB CD drive in order to just install the software.
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  389. I remember this going viral. I always hated it. It was just bullying, and really extreme bullying too.
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  390. I dont know who I am Who you say that if it was a father who was raping a child?
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  391. I dont know who I am You can’t sit and wait and hope an abuser will “get better”.
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  392. I dont know who I am I got away and I also rescued my little sister. But I needed someone to tell me it was ok to end the relationship. I know you’re trying to help, but advising someone to stay in an abusive relationship on the hopes the abuser will improve is not good advice.
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  393. I dont know who I am Here’s an idea: stop dishing out advice to abuse survivors on what they’ve done wrong and how they could have stayed with their abuser.
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  394. I dont know who I am Not all people with NPD are the same. The OP said she was experiencing trauma. She is being abused and she needs to end the abuse. Just because your friend had a certain experience with NPD, this does not mean it will be the same for other people. I am talking about abuse, not specifically NPD.
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  395. I think it's too early to lift restrictions. As someone in a high-risk category, this scares me. If I'm being honest, I think Johnson is trying to divert attention away from the latest furore around his alleged breaking of COVID rules.
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  396.  @gpz904  I'm pretty sure no old people have had a lonely death because people wore facemasks in Sainsburys.
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  397.  @_.Madness._  While wearing a face mask protects you a bit, it's the wearing of face masks by those around you that significantly lowers your risk of inhaling the airborne pathogens that transmit COVID.
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  398.  @_.Madness._  it’s academic now anyway for me as I’ve just tested positive.
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  399. I think this is a difficult one to judge and can only really be answered with more investigation and data. One the one hand, you have the argument that sharing will make people slow down on a problematic stretch of road. On the other, people who speed generally as a rule may avoid a fine/points/a speed awareness course that may otherwise encourage them to change their driving behaviour.
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  400. Lol. Yeah. 141 cyclists were killed in the UK in 2020. Let’s try and top that. “Sorry kids, Daddy’s not coming home today.” 😂 so funny.
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  401. My friend lost her unborn baby because a bus knocked her off her bike. That was in 2007. Still makes me chuckle. 😆
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  402. CHOCLATE IS BAD FOR YOU AND CHILDREN ARE DYING BECASE THEY ARE CHOKING ON TOYS BUT GUNS SHOUD BE LEEGAL BECASE THEY SAVE PEPL FROM GETTING SHOT BY BAD PEPL WITH GUNS.
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  403. Original Channel 5 branding at 7:30
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  404. It's weird that there's this talk of YouTube as though it's a loss of tightly controlled regulations when it was the big, untouchable media outlets that protected people like Jimmy Saville, Rolf Harris and Gary Glitter.
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  405. You'd have thought that Matthew Perry has quite a bit of incentive to not be a drug addict here. All his success in Friends and the possibilities of what could come from that; how his career as an actor could evolve and grow. A drug addiction destroys all of that. There's your incentive, Peter. A pretty big one, no? So why doesn't he just not be an addict? What's the explanation for this behaviour if he's in control of it?
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  406.  @TB-us7el  No.
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  407.  @TB-us7el  Given that I wrote my comment after his death, I doubt very much he had an opinion on it.
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  408. I have an unrelated question I think would make an interesting video: Is it illegal to download music and films you have already bought? Say I have an old favourite album on CD and I want to listen to it on my iPhone. My Mac doesn’t have a CD drive, so if I download the tracks from a torrent site, am I acting illegally?
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  409. Or… Maybe don't sexually assault anyone, guys.
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  410. Ewwwwwww
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  411. What was the point of this? What are they protesting?
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  412. Do you have to sit inside your car while it defrosts in the morning? If you do, then I am breaking the law every day at the moment as I get my kids ready for school. EDIT: My kids are inside the house with me, not in the car. This is a question about leaving the car engine running whilst leaving the vehicle.
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  413. The parent and child spaces are wider as parents need to lift children/car seats in and out of the car. When a child is old enough to not need a parent's assistance to get in and out is the time you're meant to stop using the wider spaces.
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  414. Prince was always vocal about how he doesn’t like people covering his songs, but Sinead did it anyway without his blessing (although she can legally due to specific clauses in music rights). That song is now synonymous with her, and that was exactly Prince’s problem. When he performed his own song, a large number of people thought he was doing a Sinead O’Connor cover. I can’t speak for the event itself because I wasn’t there (although I take everything Sinead says with a pinch of salt), but I think his anger is justified. White people have a history of stealing Black people’s music.
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  415. I really wish Lisa Nandy had been elected leader of the Labour Party instead of Corbyn. She's really forward-thinking and has a good grasp of what's going on and what's needed. What we're left with now is warring factions of far-left socialist, Corbyn Labour vs centre-left Blairite Labour. Both of these are throwbacks to the past. We need something new and for me, Lisa Nandy was that. Watch her interview with Owen Jones.
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  416. Swinging them around to dry will be much worse.
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  417. The SRY gene isn’t as straightforward as XX for women and XY for men. While typically, males have XY and females have XX chromosomes, this isn’t exclusive. When groups of people are sampled, plenty of anatomically male bodies have some XX chromosomes, and likewise female bodies have XY. We know that a single amino acid change from methionine to isoleucine in the SRY gene can cause an embryo with XY sex chromosomes to develop as a female.
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  418. I met a guy a couple of days ago as I was locking up my bike. He had a nice electric bike and told me that he'd ordered it online and the company had sent him 2 bikes in error. He told me he sold the other one on eBay and got most of his money back. Is this legal?
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  419. I’m on the NHS ADHD diagnosis waiting list. This is currently 5 years long. In the meantime, I self-medicate with coffee. If I stopped getting a £5 coffee every day, it would take about 30 years to save a deposit + moving costs. At this point, house prices would have advanced 30 years. Probably tripled.
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  420. No. The rules are clear and written down.
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  421. There’s some debate as to what this song’s about. It’s pretty clear to me: It’s about coming out as gay. Letting the person you were trying to be die and embracing who you really are. Struggling with how people around you and society react to that, how you feel from being conditioned for so long into a heteronormative world, and apathetic and depressive sense of futility this brings you. It’s quite a sad song really. Having the choice between being someone that you’re not and being accepted by those around you, or being true to yourself and being rejected by society.
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  422. Don't you need to attribute the source for your use of this clip to be lawful?
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  423. It's just a fucking tree.
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  424. It’s difficult to have an opinion on this without more information. Are these learners taking up spaces at peak times and causing the supermarket to lose business? Are these learners blocking the way around the car park and causing potential customers to get frustrated and change to a different supermarket? Are these learners damaging cars? It’s tricky enough getting around a busy car park as an experienced driver. It seems like a weird thing to do without a reason.
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  425.  @bridgetonowhere  Trans women are women. You may not believe in gender dysphoria or homosexuality, but these things do exist. I suggest you educate yourself a little.
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  426.  @PedroConejo1939  Why do my replies keep getting deleted?
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  427.  @CaptainObvious1504  For a start, he follows Nazi and pro-apartheid accounts on X. He has boosted Nazi voices on X, liked, retweeted, and commented his support for accounts and posts talking about Jewish conspiracies and white genocide. You can't just analyse body language without context. There are people with PhDs who study the rise of the alt-right, and they are pretty much unanimous in saying this was 100% intentional. They even predicted the current course of political events decades ago. The aim is to de-stigmatise support for Nazi ideology and make Nazi idea mainstream.
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  428. Actually, they can't. Racism is about prejudice exercised through a power structure.
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  429. Mark Hypothetically, if a white person were to be killed by a Black person and that Black person’s motive was skin colour, it would be an act of prejudice, it would be murder, but it wouldn’t be racism in the way we understand it on a systemic level.
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  430. I disagree. I think this in an emotional reaction, and it comes from a place of wanting someone to face hurt in their life because you feel angry. The people inciting violence against marginalised group — families, children, innocent business owners and residents — DO pose a danger to society, and there needs to be a clear message sent of zero tolerance towards this stuff. People get killed because of this kind of thing, and it's too easy for people to do, not to mention how divorced from reality and anonymous it feels to post things online. Huw Edwards, on the other hand, is not a typical case. Despite how angry his crimes make people feel, he's already lost everything he built up in his life and I'm not sure prison would serve any further benefit. Imagine going from being famous and respected to suddenly everyone hating you — literally everyone. He can never go out in public again. He's famous. There's no chance he could be in a position to abuse his power again because he has none. The judge will be privy to move information than anyone here has, and I'm sure they will have made the right call.
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  431. Because each case needs to be judged on its own circumstances and nuances. What is relevant here may not be relevant to you.
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  432. Am I the only person who thinks American Psycho sucks ass?
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  433. There is plenty to criticise post-jobs Apple about, but this video seems to be primarily focussed around the fact that you haven't worked out that you can put iTunes in list view and have it look and function like before.
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  434. Don't talk shit. This isn't food and clothing. It's videogames and porn. The abstract idea of the rich, faceless, corporation is bullshit. It's hardworking software developers, musicians trying to support their families, artists trying to make ends meet. You don't know who you're hurting. You don't know who will go without because of your laziness and entitled attitude. It's theft, just like a pickpocket stealing a wallet at a train station. It's just that you don't have to see it.
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  435.  @engineeredlifeform  You can kill someone with a tin opener if you try hard enough. A hammer isn't made for the purposes of killing. Guns are.
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  436.  @commanderuk  But then the guy with the sword would be dead rather than incapacitated and in police custody.
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  437.  @dereknash3638  The choice is guilty or not guilty. It's a binary choice. The jury are asked to only form a guilty verdict if they "are sure". That is how the British judicial system works.
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  438.  Enoch's Ghost  No, it doesn't. It means it took 23 minutes to see that there was not enough evidence to make a jury sure of his guilt. It still means nothing about her. She was not on trial. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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  439.  Enoch's Ghost  There are so many reasons a case could pass through this quickly. This woman was not the defendant. We can't assume her guilt based on the limited information we have.
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  440. I hate our FPTP voting system, but that’s what we’ve got. This is a 2 horse race. Any vote/seat Labour loses is a gain for the tories. The view that Starmer’s Labour is no different from the Tory party is a viewpoint from privilege. You can spurn Labour and vote for someone else, then when the tories get in again, you can watch all those kids in poverty go hungry safe in the knowledge that you remained ideologically pure.
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  441. Biology is more complex than the simplified version you were taught as a young child. Gender isn't as binary as Rowling's supporters like to make out.
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  442. But she's not banned. I'm confused.
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  443. You've just completely summed up the problem I have with Tory philosophy. I've thought this for a while. It seems that every decision they make, every legislative change, every scheme, is based on the idea that people and selfish and only out for themselves.
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  444. Unfortunately the cautiousness and attention of this driver does not seem to be the norm in my experience. I’ve almost been knocked off my bike before by cars suddenly deciding to turn left across a cycle lane without looking.
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  445.  @ChrisM541  I just knew some twat was going to decide to blame me without any knowledge or insight at all. I'm a very careful and conscientious cyclist. Cars suddenly pull out, without indicating or checking their mirrors.
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  446. This is history you numpty.
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  447. What this actually shows me is proof that most people jump on the outrage bandwagon without doing their research. Both those bays in Lewisham are for blue badge holders only. He’s parked illegally and should be fined. Doesn’t make a good story though. People will just believe what is printed in tabloids, and that is the depressing thing here.
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  448. "Gimme your wallet!" "Manners… maketh… man…"
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  449. Not really a problem. Most cyclists are also drivers, and a lot of pedestrians are too. But it doesn't really matter if a pedestrian doesn't know that cars are meant to stop at junctions for them. The worst that will happen is that there'll be a standoff. If a driver doesn't know, they could potentially kill someone.
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  450. It’s incredibly naive to say he’s not harming anyone. Growing cannabis is supporting an industry that grooms vulnerable kids into gangs to sell for them. They often end up getting stabbed. This guy is not a hero. He’s a criminal and he should go to prison.
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  451. She has blood on her hands. People are dead because of her. She should be in prison.
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  452. The right believe the media has a left wing bias. The left believe the media has a right wing bias. I don’t think there’s any bias based on politics ideology, but rather a capitalistic bias: Whatever sells the most papers.
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  453. What does the brand of car have to do with her neurodiversity?
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  454.  @goldilocks913  #dadjokes
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  455. The tories are like the political equivalent of Jay from The Inbetweeners. "I met this Iceland employee, Phil. He said that…" "Oooooh Phil! Is Phil your boyfriend? Oooooh give me a kiss, Phil. Oooh I love you, Phil" "…he said that he was struggling to pay his mortgage." "Struggling with your cock, more like!"
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  456. 12:09 No pun intended?
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  457. Yeah. If I want facts about gender, I'm not going to listen to the scientists and PhDs who study gender. What do they know? I'm going to get my knowledge from a single mum who wrote children's books about wizard school. That's where the true knowledge comes from.
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  458.  @ThePanicman66  I think the lesson is that she’s not a reliable source of information on a topic she has no qualifications or experience in. Wealth and fame have given her a false sense of righteousness. She’s surrounded by people who tell her she’s right in everything she says. If I want to learn about how gender identity works with the complexities of the SRY gene, I’ll go to one of the many PhDs making advancements in the fields of gender, not a single mum who got rich writing children’s books about wizard school.
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  459.  @ThePanicman66  Yes. Her understanding of gender is (possibly wilfully) ignorant. I think her bigotry is fuelled by her own personal trauma. But she sees Transwomen as men, which is just wrong on both a biological and sociological level.
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  460. lol @ 02:00 (headline + video)
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  461. Yes, this is a shame. But it's just a fucking tree. Capital punishment? Life imprisonment? For a kid? Get over yourselves.
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  462. So here's the problem: The series is losing viewing numbers since Whittaker's debut. But this fact alone is devoid of context. The series viewing figures are dropping in a way that's consistent with every other series of DW since its reboot in 2005. This is how the viewing figures for TV series always work. More people watch the first episode than the rest of the series. If you compare the numbers, this series is actually doing very well for Doctor Who. If you want to argue that the Doctor shouldn't be a woman or that the show pushing a PC agenda (which it has been doing since 1963) is having a negative impact on the plot, fine. Let's talk. But don't misrepresent facts to support your opinion. Intellectual dishonesty is just a waste of everyone's time.
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  463. Neither of those people are medical doctors.
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  464.  @blackbeltsecrets  I'm aware of that. But I think if you're dishing out medical advice and calling yourself Dr Ekberg, it implies that you're a medical doctor.
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  465. Isn’t the whole point of a multi tool to carry for unforeseen needs?
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  466. I hate all these legal battles. Are artists really put out-of-pocket by another artist having a similar melody in their song? This is the antithesis of everything that art should be in my opinion.
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  467. You know woke means aware, right? It means being clever. Saying you're not woke is basically saying you're a bit dumb and ignorant. Seems a weird thing to be proud of to me, but you do you sweetheart.
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  468. At the end of the day, he's a highly-skilled, hard-working craftsperson trying to make a living. He's not a gangster, not holding banks up at gunpoint, not terrorising people. Stealing from the very rich (who can't tell that the artworks they are buying are forgeries). It opens a larger question about how we ascribe value to art and the actual point of it.
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  469.  @lordbayron8510  I price my software as low as possible. It’s very cheap compared with the competition. Literally 1/10th of the price, yet people still steal it.
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  470.  @lordbayron8510  Good and Evil don’t exist. It’s biblical nonsense trying to simplify the complexities of human behaviour. I accept piracy is the natural way for humans to behave with access to the internet. Anonymity and the removal of face-to-face interaction make people do things they would never do in the street. I’m sure there are many people who would pirate my software, but would never dream of grabbing £20 off me and my kids in the street and running away. But it’s effectively the same thing.
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  471. Hang on… “Last year was the best year for the pound since 2020”? Last year was 2021. So 2021 was the best year for the pound since the year before.
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  472. What a horrible prejudiced comment.
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  473. So basically their argument is: "No, we didn't swerve dangerously towards a cyclist because we were angry, we swerved dangerously towards a cyclist because we were negligent."
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  474. 1.5m is about the width of car. It's very clear that this is a very close pass and nowhere near the width of a car. The wide nature of the lens on the camera would only serve to make the car look further away, so it's probably even closer than it looks.
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  475. Free speech can't truly exist due to the paradox of tolerance.
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  476. Ah, the make-believe "War on women".  I'm getting pretty sick of this adoption of the rhetoric of the victim by the oppressor. Not “White supremacy” but “White Genocide” Not “Cis-superiority” but “Lesbian Extinction”, “Erasure of female identity”, “Phasing out of women” Trans women are women. If there's any war on women, it's from Rowling's lot.
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  477. So Graham seems to be confusing men who pretend to be women online for misogynistic purposes with trans women. Trans women are not men pretending to be women, they are women.
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  478.  @lemmypop1300  Given what the current research in gender dysphoria shows, it would be facetious to say they're not women. Well, facetious or ignorant.
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  479. If those hippies persist in not voting, they're going to find themselves doing national service soon.
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  480.  @blackbeltsecrets  I’ve said all I want to say on the issue. People can talk to medical professionals themselves and see what they say.
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  481.  @Magicalfluidprocess  You’ve spelt intellectual wrongly in your username.
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  482.  @Magicalfluidprocess  It’s actually from a combination of an educated understanding of how airborne pathogens travel and researching peer-reviewed studies about the efficacy of face masks.
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  483.  @Magicalfluidprocess  No, because you can’t catch obesity from someone else. Viral airborne pathogens like COVID are transmitted through aerosols and liquid droplets that are projected from our mouth when speaking or coughing. Face masks help to stop the spread of those.
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  484.  @Magicalfluidprocess  Well, the usual method for this is cui prodest? So who benefits from us wearing masks and how?
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  485. Bigots always claim their opinions are "facts". "Women have smaller brains. It's just a fact" … "Black people aren't proper humans. It's just a fact." … "Homosexuality doesn't exist. Just look at our bodies. Men and women are designed to reproduce together, not two men. That's a fact." etc. It doesn't make them facts. Joanne isn't stating "facts" or "truth", she's stating her opinion.
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  486. I'm 1min 30s in and I've had 5 ad breaks. Fuck this, I'm outta here.
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  487. I’m a big Weezer fan and I love Beverly Hills. I didn’t even know people had a problem with it. :-(
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  488. @beaterbikechannel2538 No, what she's done is: - Publicly Mocked trans-inclusive language - Claimed the existence of transwomen is an attempt to erase women - Promoted a store selling anti-trans merch such as "f-- your pronouns" & "transwomen are men" pins - Publicly stated support for a woman who was fired for refusing to stop misgendering trans people
- Followed and liked tweets by a woman who referred to trans women as “blackface actors” with “dirty f--ing perversions” - Written an anti-trans essay ‘Terf Wars’ that was cited in blocking equality legislation - Repeatedly insinuated that trans women are criminals who will use women's spaces assaults girls - Written a book about a man who dressed up as a woman to get away with his crimes - Publicly states opposition to trans rights legislation - Created a "cis only" support centre - Tweeted "Merry Terfmas” - Posted a picture of herself wearing a T-shirt by Posie Parker attacking Nicola Sturgeon for being a trans ally - Has never once distanced herself from any of the many openly self declared TERFs who quote her - Written a second book about a stand in for herself being murdered by trans-rights activists - Met and been photographed with a group of TERFs that declare "all transsexuals rape women's bodies" - Publicly praised Matt Walsh for his movie ’What is a Woman?’ - Referred to trans women as ’men in dresses’ Among other things. With transgender teens 7.6 times more likely to attempt suicide, she's not exactly helping things.
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  489.  @TheTraveler980  The years-long attack Rowling has dedicated a large amount of her time and influence on. What a weird hill she's chosen to die on. And she will die on it.
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  490.  @frishter  I've never once heard a trans person claim they were being erased. What I have heard many, many times is transphobes making ridiculous claims that things like trans-inclusive language is an attempt to 'erase women'.
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  491. ​ @Dondizle  If that were true, nobody would have any problem. Unfortunately she has been on a years-long tirade against trans people. She has done many things including (but not limited to): - Publicly Mocked trans-inclusive language - Claimed the existence of transwomen is an attempt to erase women - Promoted a store selling anti-trans merch such as "f-- your pronouns" & "transwomen are men" pins - Publicly stated support for a woman who was fired for refusing to stop misgendering trans people 
- Followed and liked tweets by a woman who referred to trans women as “blackface actors” with “dirty f--ing perversions” - Written an anti-trans essay ‘Terf Wars’ that was cited in blocking equality legislation - Repeatedly insinuated that trans women are criminals who will use women's spaces assaults girls - Written a book about a man who dressed up as a woman to get away with his crimes - Publicly states opposition to trans rights legislation - Created a "cis only" support centre - Tweeted "Merry Terfmas” - Posted a picture of herself wearing a T-shirt by Posie Parker attacking Nicola Sturgeon for being a trans ally - Has never once distanced herself from any of the many openly self declared TERFs who quote her - Written a second book about a stand in for herself being murdered by trans-rights activists - Met and been photographed with a group of TERFs that declare "all transsexuals rape women's bodies" - Publicly praised Matt Walsh for his movie ’What is a Woman?’ - Referred to trans women as ’men in dresses’ I can give more examples if you want. I don't know what you mean about biology. There has been plenty of research done into gender identity and gender dysphoria. I can provide links to several peer-reviewed papers on this if you want (although links are often blocked in YouTube comments). Not enough study has been done for the evidence to be totally conclusive, but it points to genes playing the biggest role in determining someone’s gender identity. We don’t know why trans people experience gender dysphoria in the same way we don’t know why gay people are attracted to people of the same sex. We also don’t know why we need to sleep or why gravity works. Ultimately, it doesn’t matter. We don’t know why yet, but we know that it exists and what its effects are. When people quote "basic biology", they often seem to have little knowledge of the non-binary nature of the SRY gene. It isn’t as straightforward as XX for women and XY for men. While typically, males have XY and females have XX chromosomes, this isn’t exclusive. When groups of people are sampled, plenty of anatomically male bodies have some XX chromosomes, and likewise female bodies have XY. We know that a single amino acid change from methionine to isoleucine in the SRY gene can cause an embryo with XY sex chromosomes to develop as a female. There's too much to go through in a YouTube comment. Although, ultimately this is all futile as I doubt you're interested in actually learning something.
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  492. Jeremy Clarkson: "I've never watched Doctor Who and I haven't looked at the ratings, but I'm sure the show's doing badly and I'm sure it's due to political correctness gone mad."
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  493.  @kysersoze3632  Rowling has - Publicly Mocked trans-inclusive language - Claimed the existence of transwomen is an attempt to erase women - Promoted a store selling anti-trans merch such as "f-- your pronouns" & "transwomen are men" pins - Publicly stated support for a woman who was fired for refusing to stop misgendering trans people
- Followed and liked tweets by a woman who referred to trans women as “blackface actors” with “dirty f--ing perversions” - Written an anti-trans essay ‘Terf Wars’ that was cited in blocking equality legislation - Repeatedly insinuated that trans women are criminals who will use women's spaces assaults girls - Written a book about a man who dressed up as a woman to get away with his crimes - Publicly states opposition to trans rights legislation - Created a "cis only" support centre - Tweeted "Merry Terfmas” - Posted a picture of herself wearing a T-shirt by Posie Parker attacking Nicola Sturgeon for being a trans ally - Has never once distanced herself from any of the many openly self declared TERFs who quote her - Written a second book about a stand in for herself being murdered by trans-rights activists - Met and been photographed with a group of TERFs that declare "all transsexuals rape women's bodies" - Publicly praised Matt Walsh for his movie ’What is a Woman?’ - Referred to trans women as ’men in dresses’ ... the list goes on unfortunately.
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  494. You sure dish out a lot of legal advice for someone whose job is making coffee.
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  495. no
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  496.  @byteme9718  You have idea where I live.
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  497.  @ДжесикаИванова-б8ф  I don't think she's ill, I think it's more a case of a personality disorder. I am obviously not qualified to pass any diagnosis, but she seems like quite a textbook psychopath. She'd probably score highly on the Heir checklist. Especially because her motive seemed to be just the excitement of killing and watching the parents grieve. I don't want her to suffer. There would be no benefit to that. The catharsis people think they want will only serve to prolong their suffering. Life imprisonment seems like the only viable option. I think if she ever got out, she'd be at high risk of doing it again.
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  498. Are all laws written with "he"? Do women not commit crimes? Someone should tell them about the word "they".
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  499. It's almost laughable how the comment section is filled with people desperately trying to justify their actions. Trying to twist logic to argue that stealing something from someone is morally ok. It's the same as when people argue with vegans that eating meat is fine or trying to argue that some stereotype isn't racist. People don't like to feel bad about themselves. Everyone is the hero is their own story, not the villain. But pirating software, music, films, porn, games etc. is just stealing from someone. You're just a thief taking someone's wallet in a bus station. The only difference with piracy is that you can't see the people you're stealing from, so it's easier. You can imagine them as abstract, faceless corporations that should be taken down. You're the hero — the little guy. It's not people with families to feed. It's not struggling artists. No… it's 'the system' and you're the one fighting it. Fighting for freedom. Not because you want something without having to work for it.
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  500.  @ArminGrewe  Thanks. There's 106 miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses
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  501.  @bpmgaming3351  But you find unnaturally straight teeth attractive because that's the aesthetic you've been born into. Other cultures find all sorts of different things attractive. Your desires and aesthetic sensibilities are partly a result of your cultural conditioning.
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  502. I was under the impression that when there was a sign indicating an impending lane closure, the law required you to exit that lane as soon as possible. My wife was told this on a speed awareness course. Was the instructor wrong about that?
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  503. I'm not sure about the wording of your opening line here. Hating cyclists isn't really an acceptable position. It's not like hating a pizza topping. Cyclists are people.
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  504. My mother was narcissistic and she fulfils all 10 of these things. My sister and I are now in counselling, but we got ostracised by our family when we tried to reach out about the abuse. No-one believed us. Our mum is very good at convincing people she is a great mother and we are the problem.
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  505. Why do people on YouTube say "I'll see you in the next video"? No, I'll see you. You won't see me. …will you? I hope not.
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  506.  @SorewaHimitsu-g7y  Trans women are women. Cis women are also women. Trans women do not pose a threat to straight women. Gay people not pose a threat to straight people. I advise you to educate yourself and move on from your bigotry or those around you will not remember your fondly when you’re dead.
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  507.  @nwoDekaTsyawlA  Cis is a Latin term used in science to mean ‘on this side of’. It’s been used for a long time. It’s clear your logic stems from the fact you don’t believe in gender identity. Gender Identity is not currently very well understood, but current scientific theory is that it’s likely that gender identity is less about behavioural, cultural, or social circumstances or upbringing and more biological. Not enough study has been done for the evidence to be totally conclusive, but it points to genes playing the biggest role in determining someone’s gender identity. We don’t know why trans people experience gender dysphoria in the same way we don’t know why gay people are attracted to people of the same sex. We also don’t know why we need to sleep or why gravity works. Ultimately, it doesn’t matter. We don’t know why yet, but we know that it exists and what its effects are. So trans people exist whether you like it or not. We can either call cis women, cis women (when you want to talk about only cis women), or you can say ‘women who aren’t transgender’. But the latter takes longer.
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  508. ​ @nwoDekaTsyawlA  I think we're at very different levels of understanding in this topic. So much so, that I'm not sure how to talk to you. I'm sure you understand the facetious nature of your comment. The problem is that you are making deliberately ridiculous equivalencies as you don't believe in gender identity. I'm not sure if you're just not aware of the research that's been done in this field, or if you think it's some kind of conspiracy, the way a flat-Earther views NASA.
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  509.  @DJKINS  The research into the neurobiology of gender identity is still very nascent, but it's currently looking strongly like environmental factors have very minimal impact on determining someone's gender identity. It's an interesting field as while there are many parallels to related fields, such as sexuality, gender identity is different as it appears to manifest itself very early in a child's life.
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  510.  @suepoppelwell804  You are a plethora of subcategories within your own sex. Cis is just a differentiator to say you’re not trans. Why does that upset you so much?
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  511.  @ThisisKyle  People used to deny that Black women were women too.
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  512. @welderfabrod Yes. That's what I said. No woman has ever lied. Well done. I live in a world where an estimated 15% of sexual assaults get reported, and 5.7% of rape cases end in a conviction.
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  513. This all sounds pretty standard to me. There are too many cases of people promoting pseudoscientific products or bullying/harassing others (largely men harassing women) online and PayPal needs to take action against financing these practises. The problem with the law is that it legislation often lags behind current technology and people exploit this anachronism.
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  514. The older we get, the more indistinguishable 'new' music becomes to us. It's all to do with formative teenage years when we're forming our own identity and our brains link dopamine rushes to certain types of music — we connect with a tribe. Those songs may use the same chords, but they sound very different to each other — although maybe not as clearly to you due to your age. Not ageism, just biology.
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  515. Well, that was a very defensive reply to what I thought was an interesting bit of science (not BS btw, quite a few PhD papers written on this). I apologise if I offended you. That wasn't my intention.
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  516. I recommend reading This Is Your Brain on Music by neuroscientist and music producer Daniel Levitin.
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  517. I think what's more likely than 3 people having such an extreme reaction to what we are being shown is that they're not reacting to the tame, forgettable, mediocre set we've just seen a clip of. I'd be willing to bet there was some substantially more political and extreme material that we weren't shown. It's also possible that the guy got bad reviews not because of some liberal conspiracy, but because he just wasn't very funny.
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  518. @Mr Brightside My opinion is irrelevant because I am not a comedy critic and I haven't seen the show, just the handful of clips shown here. I'm just saying that it's possible that the poor reviews weren't down to some conspiracy, but that the overriding opinion amongst critics is that the show wasn't funny. There are plenty of comedians with right-wing views that are very successful. Steve Hughes for example. He's frequently on prime-time TV comedy shows denying climate change and calling political correctness "thought crime". There are also plenty of left-wing comedians who get panned by critics.
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  519. @Mr Brightside 1. The various reviews mentioned on screen throughout the video. eg. 00:13 and 00:53 and 1:23 and 2:33 — this was the theme of the video. Did you actually watch it? 2. I haven't seen enough of him to form an opinion. You seem convinced I dislike him. My comments regarding the jokes being shown as "forgettable" and "tame" are in reference to the disproportionate backlash against his set. What I am saying is that the jokes aren't particularly memorable or impactful in any way, so I would guess that there is maybe more divisive material we aren't shown in this short video. 3. See point 2.
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  520. @Mr Brightside I'm not talking about the 3 randoms. I'm talking about the reviews cited in the video. Click the timecodes I provided and look at what is on screen.
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  521. @Mr Brightside "2 Stars" — Chortle … "2 Stars" — Fest Mag … "2 Stars" — The Wee Review I don't know if you're trolling or what. But this ^ is what I am talking about. NOT the clip of the 3 random people.
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  522. @Mr Brightside "some footage from my show and excerpts from my many 2 star reviews." — Literally the video description.
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  523. @Mr Brightside My initial comment was making 2 separate points. Firstly that the 3 vloggers might be reacting to something more politically divisive that we haven't seen in the clips. The 2nd point was that the reviews had possibly been terrible (as he states on screen in the video) not because of a liberal conspiracy, but because the show as a whole wasn't very funny. This is not my opinion as I haven't seen the show, this is a theory based on the fact that normally, the most obvious answer is the most likely.
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  524. @Mr Brightside There's a heavy implication that the reason his show got bad reviews is because the media has a left-wing bias. This would be a conspiracy theory. Of course, people who believe conspiracy theories don't think of them as conspiracy theories, they think they're the truth.
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  525. What's an octo-pie?
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  526.  @Bickle121  'Octopi', like 'cacti'? I didn't know that. I thought the plural was 'octopuses' as I thought only words derived from Latin are pluralised with 'i'. Ah well, I've learnt a new word.
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  527. The trouble with conspiracy theorists is that any evidence to the contrary is just further proof to them of how deep the rabbit hole goes.
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  528.  @NJ-tg7  Nobody thinks they’re a conspiracy theorist. They think they know the truth and people with an agenda are trying to cover it up.
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  529. E A Changes like not having a phone or a computer or clothes you bought from a shop? Suggesting that Black Lives Matters is pointless unless everyone throws their phones into the sea is ridiculous.
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  530. My sister has stopped paying for the TV license. She lives on disability benefits and can't afford it. She doesn't watch iPlayer or Live TV, only Netflix, BritBox, Now TV, Amazon Prime etc (for which she pays numerous subscriptions). But the TV license fee people won't leave her alone. She gets endless letters stating they "know" she is watching live TV (which she isn't) and that she "must" pay the fee. They send people round who try to catch her out by starting seemingly innocent conversations about shows like Line of Duty in the hope she'll slip up. I find this practice reprehensible. It's the desperate last attempts of a company to hang on to an anachronistic model, and law-abiding citizens like my sister are the ones who have to suffer these intimidation tactics from these fear-mongers.
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  531.  @bmwm6661  Yeah
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  532.  @Pacmanfan-po9rn  Over a period of about a year and a half. Pretended to be a lawyer that needed investment in a court case. The longer it went on, the more my dad wanted to believe it was real. Sunk-cost fallacy — chasing the losses. He ended up giving him all his savings, getting a £20K bank loan (for 'home improvements') and withdrawing £9k in cash from his credit card.
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  533. Interesting how these people are never professors of subjects that would be educated in gender and feminism. Peterson is a psychology professor and she's an English professor. Never sociology — the study of society. As I'm a postgrad educated in feminist theory, I should go and tell some environmental biologists that they're doing it wrong.
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  534. Why do you think the NHS website states that fasting should be avoided as it's an unsafe way of dieting?
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  535. Why did she do it? Sounds like there's more to this story. Is there a link to climate change?
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  536. Ah. Found out. She is wearing a t-shirt bearing a message to end UK private jets. This is a fair concern as they cause a lot of preventable carbon emissions. I think she 'sacrificed herself' as such. She committed an act that she knew would not hurt anyone, yet cause outrage, and subsequently get her message shared around the country. She's only 21, so doesn't have a fully developed adult brain yet. I'm not sure this is a good strategy to raise the word about climate change as making people angry doesn't put them in a good place to listen. I hope her sentencing is reasonably lenient. It was a silly thing to do, but when a man who runs over a cyclist and then concusses him by punching him in the head escapes jail time, I don't think someone should be going to prison for pouring faeces over an inanimate object.
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  537. Why is this guy so happy about it?
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  538. He is parked in a disabled bay. That post office in Lewisham has two parking bays in front of it, both of which are for disabled badge holders only. The rest of that stretch of road it double yellows. Clearly no-one researched this before publishing the article.
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  539. It seems that Peterson is such a charismatic character, that he's even pulled the wool over Charisma on Command's eyes. Studying Peterson is like studying a leader of a cult. This video is wrong in its assertion that he listens or concedes to the credibility of his opponents' arguments. He gives the illusion that he is listening and responding, but what he actually does is a clever combination of the gish gallop and straw-manning. It's often enough to confound his opponents, giving the impression that he's won on the grounds of logic. His appearance of wanting to educate and help people is a Trojan horse for reactionary right-wing politics. He grooms impressionable people (usually young white men), and he's very good at it. I recommend ContraPoints' video on Jordan Peterson on for a balanced perspective. And as Peterson became infamous for his opposition to a rule that staff should gender trans people correctly, it's probably worth listening to a trans person's perspective on it all. People who have to live stuff tend to have a deeper understanding of issues that someone who's just thought about it for a bit.
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  540. …Andrew Tate, Jimmy Saville, Rolf Harris, Max Clifford, Gary Glitter, Dave Lee Travis… The pattern is that men in power often use that power to sexually abuse women and girls. Like Andrew Tate, Brand knew this was coming and built himself a cult.
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  541. Can I put a YouTube video on and put it in the cradle if I don't touch it? This sounds facetious, but I sometimes listen to podcasts on YouTube through my car stereo via bluetooth. I don't watch the screen. I would turn it off if I could, but that stops the audio.
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  542. You certainly know lots about how to rob a bank…
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  543.  @CristiNeagu  Nothing like the is simple or black and white. That's why we have courts and juries and judges etc.
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  544.  @CristiNeagu  You advocate for unregulated free speech, but claim that speech that calls for violence should not be allowed. It's either unregulated or it's not. Freedom of speech is not in danger. Those who propose that it is do not want freedom of speech, they want freedom of consequence for the content of their words. Ironically, the consequences they want stopped normally involves other people exercising their freedom of speech.
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  545. You don't "know" that, you believe a conspiracy theory. I seriously hope you never kill a child or something because of your arrogance and stupidity.
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  546.  @MakeItBreakIt169  There’s that famous survey that showed that 93% of people believed their driving abilities to be above average. There’s a horrible irony to the fact that the more likely you are to believe that you can safely drive faster than the speed limit, the less likely you are to be a competent driver. Speed limits are put in place following rigorous testing and analysis. If you speed, you let your own arrogance endanger lives. While the Dunning-Kruger effect may be a fun thing to read about, it can also mean people needlessly die.
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  547. Rishi Sunak should apologise as he is the leader of the Conservative party and therefore has vicarious liability for the actions of Truss.
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  548. To massively oversimplify it: The tories are a right-wing party that pretend to be more left in order to get votes. Labour are a left-wing party that pretend to be more right in order to get votes. The tories are never going adopt economic reform in this way because it won’t benefit them. Labour might be more open to it. While it’s great the Greens are on board, they’re a fringe party that will never get into a position where they can affect change on the level that’s needed. I think the best option is to get Labour into power, keep them there, and do everything we can to lobby them into taking action. Vote tactically, not ideologically. Our FPTP system sucks, but it’s what we’re stuck with. You’ll never win the game by refusing to play.
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  549. Man, America is so fucked up. Why do they have a death penalty?
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  550. Cats are bastards. They kill things for fun all the time. They leave things half dead so they can 'play' with them while they writhe about in agony with their intestines hanging out. The difference is that cats and small and weak and perfectly suitable for pets. Bigger, more powerful animals from the cat family are not suitable for pets. People wouldn't keep a pet lion.
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  551. The election is always decided by the floating voters. Making it clear that Tories are defecting to Labour will help swing those voters. You can sit in your little Jeremy Corbyn bubble and lose election after election, watch children in poverty go hungry safe in the knowledge that you’ve remained ideologically pure, or you could do what needs to be done to get Labour into power.
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  552. You’re talking to a bot. This is why the conversation isn’t more understanding. I think they probably want to make it a hassle for people to do that otherwise everyone would always be asking for some money back.
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  553. I burst out laughing at 02:00 “Sadiq Khan has introduced Sharia Law?”
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  554. Why does Helen think she knows more about what happened than the findings of a full Metropolitan Police investigation?
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  555. Kind of missing the point, but he was told by the tour guides that he could take the pieces. If you were on a tour and the tour guides told you what was and wasn't allowed, would you really spent time fact checking everything they said just in case they were wrong or would you expect them to be informed correctly?
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  556. Joaquim G. I’m sadly not wrong here I’m afraid. I wish I was.
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  557. AJ You’re looking at it on an individualistic level. This is about a cultural paradigm. And it’s not something I’ve just made up, there is a vast amount of rigorous academic research to support this.
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  558. Would you have less compassion for someone stealing alcohol? People turn to alcohol and become homeless when they're dealing with trauma. It's something you should be compassionate about.
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  559.  @Warriorx269  What should we be doing then? Conversion therapy? “Being trans makes baby Jesus cry”. It’s just like homophobia all over again. Literally the same old tired cliches are being wheeled out.
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  560.  @cuerex8580  Can you cite the studies this hypothesis is based on?
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  561. I'll take Cox's view of religion over the Dawkins attitude any day. There's a hell of a lot of shit we don't know, so just be humble and stop pretending you know everything.
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  562. I've been trying to turn motion smoothing off on my Dad's TV for years, but he won't let me. He thinks I'll break it and that the TV knows best. I literally can't watch a film on it, but no-one else in my family can see it.
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  563.  @historex54tamiya  There are no furnishings, that was a metaphor. Online shops use other companies for their transactions (to whom they pay a fee). A lot of online shops use PayPal’s engine to take card payments. If you have a PayPal account and PayPal are holding money for you, that is a service. But if you are making no transactions, the service is still working for you and PayPal has to employ coders, customer service, web designers, pay for hosting space, offices, server maintenance etc. but they are out of pocket. It’s not the best decision and it’s annoying for its users. But I think it’s justifiable. I don’t think it’s accurate labelling it as a ‘scam’.
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  564. Marie Curie didn't have a moustache.
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  565.  @stevesmith7530  We know things like stop and search statistics, for example. You’re 9 times as likely to get stopped and searched if you’re Black compared to white people. So either you believe that there’s something about Black people that makes them inherently more criminal, or there’s a problem with racial prejudice in the Police Service.
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  566. My wife has done a speed awareness course and was also very positive about it. I'd quite like to do one, but I don't speed and they don't seem to offer them voluntarily.
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  567. This will never stop making me smile.
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  568. Straight, white dude: "There might be a racism factor but we just don't know…" Thanks for your wisdom and insight, straight, white dude.
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  569. Jesus. Privilege tantrum much, Pie? “People keep calling me a misogynist”. I wonder if he’s considered the possibility that that’s because it’s true rather than a political-correctness-gone-mad conspiracy against free speech.
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  570. I never cross on a pedestrian crossing. That’s what THEY want you to do. I’m not a sheep.
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  571. My friend's husband died from a short battle with an aggressive cancer around the time this alleged party took place leaving 3 young children without a Dad. Friends and family couldn't visit him in hospital over his last few weeks and his funeral only allowed a small handful of people to attend. Us, our other friends, and even her family weren't allowed to visit her to help her cope through this time. She managed to obey the lockdown rules. I'm generally an empathetic person. I always try to see both sides of a story. Even when I had my studio broken into and my computer stolen, I felt sorry for the person who stole it when I found out that his girlfriend has just had a baby and they didn't have much money. But I'm struggling with this one. The attitudes on display here are not the result of poverty or abuse, but the results of privilege. So, yes I'm angry. I'm angry at their privileged attitude; that they're somehow 'above' the rules. I'm angry that they think it's funny.
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  572.  Jamie Bull  This kind of thing only works in an equal society. We do not have an equal society.
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  573. A neuropsychiatric disorder like psychopathy probably.
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  574.  @polex5830  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Song
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  575. At 12mins. I'm thinking 'It seems like this kid has ADHD which would explain all these actions'. Then suddenly it turns out she does. But apparently that's "Not an excuse". It is in the same way a wheelchair user has a valid excuse for not walking up the stairs to the 16th floor. I don't know anything about all of this, but this just seems like an internet pile-on of some child with ADHD. Switching off now.
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  576.  @le_nozo  Having ADHD and being a child might push someone to lash out and say stupid shit. She was obviously dysregulated when she said that. I'm not saying the racism is ok, I'm saying that she's a human struggling with a neurodivergent condition and people need to respond appropriately.
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  577.  @le_nozo  Having ADHD and BEING A CHILD is the issue here. She said that when she was a kid. When you have ADHD, if something triggers you, you can get dysregulated and lose control and lash out (often saying things you don't don't mean or believe). The racism is not ok, but would you blame someone with Tourettes in the same way?
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  578. There's too much information available now. People can't deal with it, so they start to act based on their emotional response. This is now being utilised to manipulate the electorate. It's why Brexit happened. Helen is a very literal example of this: Helen: "I believe X" … Host: "Here is proof that X is incorrect" … Helen: "Well, I still believe X". Logic doesn't change people's emotive mindset.
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  579. Honey was clearly a scam. I'm really surprised that people didn't work that out. They approached me (on my proper channel) and I declined because they seemed dodgy af. How do they make money? The FIRST thing you look at when a sponsor approaches you is how their business model operates. Is it clear how they make money? Do the books balance? I'm feeling dumb for not speaking up earlier. I just assumed people would know they were up to something shady.
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  580. Ah, the sweet voice of privilege.
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  581. I have close contacts in the PLP, and I was going to send them this video and try to push this agenda. But when you claimed that Labour said “It would be nice to reduce inequality but it isn’t worth the effort”, this is a completely misrepresentation or the truth and it takes credit away from everything else you said. I don’t feel I can push this now which is immensely frustrating.
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  582. Confidence is like exercise. It's something you do, not something you are. The more you do it, the better at it you get.
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  583. I often wonder what would happen if I — as a cyclist — had an accident as a result of a pothole (or maybe ‘carriage defect’). I ride a Brompton which has small wheels. Some roads I cycle down force me to swerve all over the road to miss all these potentially hazardous holes in the road. If my front wheel fell into one of those holes, I would come off my bike. I also might collide with a car due to having to swerve around one of these holes. You can’t see a lot of them until you’re almost upon them.
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  584. Radiohead didn't sue Lana Del Rey.
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  585. Huh? No-one's saying they aren't. J.K. Rowling is at the centre of the art/artist debate at the moment. There are more cases of controversial male artists because there are more famous male artists.
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  586.  @charliegirl3056  He sounds like he's from London.
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  587. The increasing misuse of the term is a big issue. I got called a 'Karen' for calling out racist behaviour. This seems to me a complete subversion of the trope, or maybe even a hijacking by those whom the term criticises in order to disempower its impact.
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  588. This is not in any way the same thing. One is about following a beauty trend, the other is about hating one’s own ethnicity.
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  589. The police have specialist, advanced driving lessons in order to handle stuff like that.
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  590. It means a lot of people know who you are. It's just a certain demographic like any kind of famous. Famous artists, authors, directors, scientists etc. will only be famous to the people who are interested in that world. Social media is no more or less valid than any other discipline. You get arrogant and selfish people in all forms of fame.
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  591. I set off a speed camera on my bike the other day. I was freewheeling down a hill. I don’t have a speedometer (because it’s a bicycle). I was wondering what the legalities around this are. Was I breaking the law?
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  592. Having done a bit of research, I think I wasn't. I don't think speed limits apply to bikes. (Although Dangerous Cycling is a crime. But I wasn't being dangerous. I was just freewheeling down an empty road.)
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  593. Maybe don’t be a rape apologist.
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  594.  @Hollyucinogen  Well, Sherlock, I’m a similar age to Brand. How young did you mean? You’re the one professing to know that he didn’t do it. Brand is a cult leader. Don’t drink the Kool-Aid.
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  595.  @Hollyucinogen  It's a cult of personality. The people in a cult of personality aren't normally aware that they're in it. But there are telltale signs, such as: defending the leader against criticism as a default position, overestimating the influence and importance of the leader, confirmation bias in favour of the leader, ad hominem attacks in place of discussion to counter criticism of the leader, deflecting the subject… the list goes on. Russel Brand, Donald Trump, Jeremy Corbyn, Andrew Tate, Jordan Peterson… all these people are leaders of a cult of personality.
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  596.  @Hollyucinogen  Why do you keep talking about vaccines?
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  597.  @Hollyucinogen  re: I bet they’ll accuse him of being a pedo next. He did send a BBC taxi to a school to pick up a 16 year old kid and bring her back to his house so he could have sex with her. If we ignore the alleged rape that followed that, while technically within the age of consent, there’s a nasty abuse of power there.
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  598.  @Hollyucinogen probably? Probably a coordinated conspiracy to bring down the star of Hop rather than a load of vulnerable young women speaking out about a sexual predator? No. It’s probably that he’s a sexual predator. We landed on the moon, the Earth is spherical, and 9/11 wasn’t an inside job. I think maybe you overestimate this comedian’s influence.
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  599.  @Hollyucinogen  I’m going to ignore that little story. I’m not interested in his take on vaccines. My friend has a PhD in Immunology and was one of the scientists who worked on the COVID vaccine, so I’ll get my info from her, not a comedian with a YouTube channel. He’s just filling the void that David Icke left when he got kicked off YouTube.
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  600.  @Hollyucinogen  Stop talking about vaccines. I have no interest in discussing vaccines with some rando conspiracy theorist online.
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  601. Hand dryers aren’t the most hygienic way to dry your hands, but not drying them, wiping them on your trousers, or air drying will give you much more bacteria. In most public bathrooms, they are the best option for you.
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  602.  Garrett Guerra  That's not how it works.
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  603.  @maka8551  Thank you for living up to your stereotype.
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  604.  @maka8551  I think you’re the only one playing this game.
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  605.  @kaylamichellep  Well, you're clearly a better person than me. Thanks for letting me know.
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  606.  @blackbeltsecrets  I stand corrected.
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  607.  @catsandcrafts171  Because the comment section is very male-heavy.
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  608. A logical fallacy I find extremely commonplace (not mentioned in this video), is the fallacy of relative privation — the appeal to worse problems. "All these women complaining about sexism should try living in Saudi Arabia. Then we'll see who's really got problems."
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  609.  @DropdudeJohn  He unknowingly broke the law after being misinformed by his tour guides about what he was and wasn't allowed to do.
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  610.  @DropdudeJohn  No. And the penalty wouldn’t be death in this country either.
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  611.  @glasgowmcglasgowfacevotegr7049  But what has happened to make you arrive at that conclusion? I just want someone to tell me what Starmer has done/said that has got everyone so angry. I’m told he’s disingenuous, that he’s lying, etc etc. But there must be some basis for these claims. Is it just because he kicked Corbyn out and that upset people?
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  612. No, because that's not the outcome of the case.
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  613. A pint was 50p in my college bar in 2001. £1.50 in Leeds city centre in 2003. I had no idea it had gone up so much as I stopped drinking in 2007.
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  614. The story isn't that because that's not what the court said.
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  615.  @aeriumfour6096  Statistics around convictions for sexual assault suggest it’s Leslie who’s lying. But we’re not going on guess work. A not-guilty verdict doesn’t mean the accuser is lying, it means there wasn’t enough evidence to convince a jury beyond doubt that he was guilty. But how could you prove someone grabbed someone’s breast at a party over 10 years ago?
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  616.  @aeriumfour6096  There are many reasons I can think of. Police and rape crisis centres advice people not to press charges. When my sister was sexually assaulted, the police officer told her not to. Maybe this woman felt empowered to speak up after MeToo or from the other claims against Leslie. Culture is changing. Even from 10 years ago, attitudes around sexual assault are very different. But I can only speculate.
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  617. "Trolls beware. Authorities can track you down by tracing your IP address. …Now, download this VPN software that masks your IP address."
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  618. Weasley excuses for selfishness and theft.  I make and sell digital software. What I make is good. It's so good that people pirate it. As a result, I lose part of my income — the income by which I support my family. I price it very competitively. It is much cheaper than my competitors' products and it's also better quality. I want people to be able to afford to buy it, but I also need to make a living. The idea that people wouldn't pirate stuff if it was inexpensive and easy to access is utter bullshit. People do whatever they think they can get away with.  What's all this nonsense about not keeping stuff? When you go to the cinema, you don't get to keep the film. When you go bowling, you don't get to keep the pins. If you rent an apartment, your rent doesn't allow you to keep any of it when you leave. Can someone explain why it's ok for someone to steal money I've worked hard to make?
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  619. “There are some people who’d rather go live in some shithole country than pay an extra few thousand quid a year, and quite frankly I’d be bloody pleased if they fucked off” Quote of the century.
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