THE ENCLAVE
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Bill Overbeck, my hero. *-*
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i like this shirt. swans are handsome.
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I’d say your best bet is to contact a charity and ask them if they could be used by someone. Sure they might be adjustable to some extent if you are in the mind to donate them
Thanks, yeah I think I’ll do that tomorrow, and contact Action on Hearing -
Not entirely sure what one does with a bag full of unopened, unused hearing aid stuff with a receipt in for £3015. It’s my dad’s but has no sentimental value because it wasn’t used or anything and hearing aids aren’t exactly a sentimental item.
Don’t know what to do, contact a charity, or…? I’m assuming it must be personally tailored since it was so expensive but presumably most of the parts are usable/worthwhile to someone. -
British American Tobacco AGM Protest 2013
On April 25th, I took to the streets of London with REframe - an organisation in Kent run by, and for, young people with one main goal: to fight back against the big tobacco companies.
Our main objective for the day was to protest outside of British American Tobacco’s headquarters in London on the day of their AGM, or Annual General Meeting. The focus of our protest was simple: introduce plain cigarette packaging.
More than 200,000 11-15 year olds take up smoking every year in the UK - with almost 600 children trying a cigarette for the first time, every single day. The aim of introducing plain cigarette packing is not to try and persuade current smokers to quit, as we all know smoking is bad for your health - the aim is to try and prevent younger generations from trying smoking for the first time, and letting them know that they are the targets of big tobacco companies such as BAT.
The main theory behind the argument is that young children and teenagers are tempted and drawn into smoking by the brightly coloured, glamorous looking packets with memorable and easily recognisable branding. By replacing the attractive packaging with a plain box and more noticeable health warnings, young people should hopefully be deterred from beginning smoking, after all - most smokers stick with a certain brand of cigarette from childhood.
Here is an example of how plain cigarette packaging would look.
The day was not a lone effort - over 70 young people from all over the UK joined together to have their voices heard in the fight against the big tobacco industry. Along side us in REframe, other campaigners included The Filter from Wales, Kick Ash from Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire, and Cut Films. We spent a good four hours or so protesting outside BAT with chants, banners and picket signs - one of which, I found was particularly poignant, but incredibly effective in getting the point across.
Later on, we were invited inside the House of Lords to discuss plain packaging legislation with MPs.
Our demand was a push for plain packaging in the changes to legislation following the Queen’s speech - David Cameron initially backed the plan, but was persuaded that it would “damage the growth of the packaging industry”.
So unfortunately, the legislation was scrapped as people in power care more about lining their pockets than the health of young people, or even our country as a whole. But the fight isn’t over. Hundreds of thousands of people back the plain packaging campaign. Let’s do this not only for our own sakes, but for our children and future generations.
Children should be able to grow up smoke free, without being targeted by big tobacco companies.
Want to know more? Find out more about REframe and get involved by clicking here.
You lot are actually hilarious. You get brainwashed by antismoking “charities” who receive billions of pounds a year from pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer who want people to smoke less so they can push their useless nicotine patches/gum/dangerous anti-smoking pills on people.
Young people of decades past went protesting against the system and against authority - women’s rights, the civil rights movement etc.
And you lot… all expenses paid trip to London on a school day, chaperoned by adults in a position of power in order to protest what they say you should protest. For unpleasant looking packaging on cigarettes that will do nothing but fuel counterfeiting and mean more funding for the adults who tricked you into going.
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Postcard from Germany in 1936 to my great grandmother from her friend, the German representative in New Zealand. My grandma called him “Uncle John”. In about 1940 he was put into an internment camp on Kapiti Island. Really interesting to have unearthed a piece of history like this.
Binz island of Rugen, Aug 2nd, 36. My dear Doreen, I am as near heaven as I have ever been, which is saying a lot. I am amazed to see what our beloved Fuhrer has made of Germany and the German people. There is not the slightest fear of war ever coming from Germany. So don’t take any notice of all the lies in the N.Z. papers. Heil Hitler. Love from J.B -
Every damn conservative blogger on here loves to reblog lefty’s posts with
“The tolerant left everyone” or some variation thereof
and it’s gotten really boring, because like, fuck tolerance tbh
^ And this is why no one wants communism. Whenever people say, “Oh no, under Mao/Stalin/Pol Pot/Kim Jong Il… that wasn’t actual communism. Communism’s nice :)” - No it’s not nice. Huge sections of the population who dare to think wrong, be born to the wrong family, are literate, have ever read a book (in the case of Pol Pot) etc will all be brutally murdered and repressed. And people who are favoured? People who keep their heads down? Millions of them die, too, because even if the intentions are “good”, communism doesn’t work.
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youmissyouroldfamiliarfriends:
https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/337968073522946048
I can’t believe this.
OH MY GOD HAHAHAHAHAHAH
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME
WHO THE FUCK THINKS CONTEXT DOENST MATTER?Dawkins is so fucking stupid, its hilarious. How is this man considered a ‘public intellectual’ again?
I am loving how butthurt everyone in the notes for this is, ranging from calling him a pseudo-intellectual, stupid, illiterate etc to saying he’s never done anything of value.
Yeah, I forgot. Academic papers saying Doctor Who is racist are far more of a contribution to the world. Academics who say e=mc^2 is a sexist equation and take issue with the assertion that ”fluid mechanics is unfairly neglected because it deals with “feminine” fluids in contrast to “masculine” rigid mechanics” are the real geniuses of the world. Marvellous. -
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Islam, Marxism, the Scorpion, and the Frog
Islamists and Arab Nationalists use the Western Left, and the Western Left uses Islamist and Arab Nationalists. The screeds of Marx and Muhammad both declare the unbeliever an enemy who must be brought low and humiliated into line by any means, and Western Civilization, with all its advantages and accomplishments, is an embarrassingly fruitful product of unbelief in either. But where either one succeeds in coming to power, in the end they will begin to turn on each other. Both ideologies proclaim their righteousness, their shining utopia that will blossom when they are in control, but for both, these promises are but rationalizations of the real goal: to satisfy an obsessive hunger for feeling in control, and with the right to be in control. Even worldly power itself is only a means to this end. Those who do not control themselves always hunger to control others, to make the external world submit to accepting their rationalizations, to force it to fit inside the confines of the falsehoods they embrace. And with the enemy that was both their enemy gone, they turn their true faces upon each other.The plight of the typical, un-discerningly sympathetic Left-leaning Westerner is one that was summed up many centuries ago - and I say that as a formerly un-discerningly sympathetic, formerly Left-leaning Westerner.
Aesop: ‘The Scorpion and the Frog’ -
Once there was a frog, who while sitting upon the river was approached by a scorpion, politely asking her to help him across. “But you’re a scorpion,” replied the frog, “how do I know you won’t just sting me?” The scorpion, looking hurt, pointed out that it wasn’t fair for her to distrust him so, and that it would make no sense for him to sting her besides, as he could not swim, and surely would drown. “That makes sense,” said the frog. But then she thought some more, and asked, “but what about once we’re on the other side? What’s to stop you from stinging me then?” Again, the scorpion put on an expression of having been wounded, but again showed that he was willing to be patient, and subdue her fears. He asked her if, she having generously helped him where he could not help himself, having provided him what no other can, did she really believe he would feel so ungrateful as that? “No,” she answered, “I guess not.” Certainly, she knew, she would never be so ungrateful. So it came that she offered herself to the scorpion, and allowed him to climb onto her back.
Once he was on top her, they set out across the river together, and just as they were halfway there, the scorpion stabbed her in the back with his stinger. At first she was in shock, at the pain, and the deception, but then, just as she began to feel the numbness spread, and before they both sank into the dark, cold water forever, she asked, muttering, “Why?”
“Because I am a scorpion. It is my nature.”
