Mx Verda@johnzajac (genuine question: "oh god it's bad I cannot take this anymore" pain + "I refuse to visit nearest ER / A&E because I would literally rather die at home than beg non-care from them again."
... I guess there really isn't a good answer beyond "bully councils and governments to fund real healthcare, train laypeople to learn what doctors ACTUALLY do, and decide what I consider livable.")
ok so I may need to employ unusual morale techniques to swallow the bullshit of the Life in the UK test. And £50 bribe / test fee.
Special emphasis for historial ... can I use husbando or is it rude? Idk if he'd count as a himbo tho. Historical Hunk!
Post-Beveridge Report, the one and the only...
" " Clement Attlee, BEST BOI, Churchill's Deputy PM. 1945: became Prime Minister.
Nationalised major industries (reduced selfish wealth hoarding incentives) and
Created NHS (improved wellbeing for non-nobility's or nepo-babies', too). " "
Corrections hugely appreciated, tyvm!
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ok so I may need to employ unusual morale techniques to swallow the bullshit of the Life in the UK test. And £50 bribe / test fee.
" " People
[...]
Richard Arkwright, hoarded wealth by enacting strict working conditions.
Sake Dean Mahomet, first curry house owner-manager in Britain, introduced shampooing.
Florence Nightingale, founder and first modern nurse.
Emmeline Pankhurst, Suffragette (separate from Suffragists) who employed active civil disobedience.
Rudyard Kipling, Indian-born author and poet. Art collaborated to promote empire, colonisation, and / or colonialism.
[...]
pre-1720 CE Hugunots were French Protestants who settled in England due to persecution.
Henry VIII, manchild misogynist monarch who refreshed vaginal loot boxes for a non-sickly son. Established a national church to rig inheritance law to suit his whims.
1900s CE Margaret Thatchet snatched milk for longer than anyone else. Also first fem PM, so you'd think things could only get better, but you lot keep voting in self-servatives.
1945 became Prime Minister, Clement Attlee, BEST BOI, Churchill's Deputy PM. Nationalised major industries (reduced selfish wealth hoarding incentives) and created NHS (improved wellbeing for non-nobility's or nepo-babies', too). " "
Corrections hugely appreciated, tyvm!
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ok so I may need to employ unusual morale techniques to swallow the bullshit of the Life in the UK test. And £50 bribe / test fee.
" " Events
1348 CE Black Death (Yrsinia pestis) killed over 1 in 3 people.
1400 CE Courts and official documentation prefers English. (no one cares)
1660 CE Restoration of the (hierarchical, anti-equality) monarchy.
[...]
"During Queen Elizabeth I's reign" English colonisers started to squat on Indigenous American Indian Tribal lands on Turtle Island. " "
Corrections hugely appreciated, tyvm!
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ok so I may need to employ unusual morale techniques to swallow the bullshit of the Life in the UK test. And £50 bribe / test fee.
""Battles & Wars
[...]
mid-1400s CE last of Welsh rebellions silenced.
[...]
1889 to 1902 CE Boer War in South Africa. Many horrific war crimes.
1916 CE Battle of the Somme in World War 1.
1918 CE End of WW1 at 11 am on the 11th of November.
1939 CE Germany invades Poland. UK and France declare war on Germany.
1940 CE in World War 2: Evacuation of Dunkirk.
1940 CE in World War 2: Battle of Britain, between German and British airplanes.
1982 CE Argentina invaded Falkland Islands.
Corrections hugely appreciated, tyvm!
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@SecularJeffrey gotta recharge or recuperate before you re-charge at the battlements and re-coup the corporate.
@daedalean @jwcph the more I deal with anyone at work, the more I realise most allistic people need to literally see consequences right in front of their noses before ... idk, "allowing themselves...?" to see that you were right.
There is no win condition in my experience. I hope there is for other people, but for me, saying something meant getting blamed and saying nothing meant getting insulted.
It's not enough to communicate a problem brewing.
You need to do so politely (in a way that doesn't imply Any Blame for their fragile fucking egos),
at the right time (so they aren't distracted or irritable and will blame you for "not explaining it right"),
in a way that they understand (ideally through aphorisms and/or making pop culture references to things you had forced down your throat for decades),
*and* you need to be Someone They Respect.
So get fucked if you're disabled, BIPoC, queer, immigrant, ND, etc or even just ONE of these things.
Oh, and have the right accent and be conventionally attractive -- but not too much, you %$£^%.
hmm. What if we restricted all insurance companies to a non-profit model?
Or "yes save money / save for the future up to [whatever amount] per [whatever timeframe] with [whatever exceptions]"?
Anything above that, divert to researching and resolving health conditions or circumstances.
Allocate that surplus towards the conditions or situations proportionally, of which ones waste or limit the most healthy life years per capita.
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@LynMhairi ehhhhhhh... A friend at uni had issues with an (admittedly asshole) housemate, "HM".
In describing how and what HM did wrong, friendo started insulting HM's weight.
Indeed, HM was (or may still be?) a fat person.
However, their fatness (or thinness!) was not why they were unpleasant nor remotely related.
Friendo later thanked me for prompting them to focus on HM's specific actions they found upsetting.
This anecdote is to emphasise that, while
people who are pushed out of public life are still assholes sometimes who need their behaviours correcting,
relating their shitty actions to their or other groups of pushed-out people doesn't help anyone.
If it's *relevant*, then sure. But often it isn't.