[Zizu]

Originally Posted by Redway

I know your randomness is supposed to be part of the charm but it’s not always funny. Here’s a good example of that.

????

I was just showing that there’s a free Ai spp readily available .. I wasn’t suggesting or recommending it to you ..


Maybe it’s just an example of how things get misunderstood or misinterpreted in text !!


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[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Redway

Artificial intelligence/AI (not that it’s a little ting at this point). I stan authenticity too much. To hell with all this GBT chatline nonsense. Why are humans now consulting robots?

Humanity is too obsessed with mechanical stuff, and I say that as someone that loves Video Games, Psycho-Pass and Ergo Proxy.

[Redway]

Originally Posted by Zizu

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I was just showing that there’s a free Ai spp readily available .. I wasn’t suggesting or recommending it to you ..


Maybe it’s just an example of how things get misunderstood or misinterpreted in text !!


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I didn’t really ask to see the AI app and you should’ve been able to figure as much from my post. Text or no text, there wasn’t really much to misunderstand. It’s just you.

[Redway]

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

Humanity is too obsessed with mechanical stuff, and I say that as someone that loves Video Games, Psycho-Pass and Ergo Proxy.

Nah, video games are an important creation (not that I’ve ever played much of them myself). Mortal Kombat and GTA aren’t taking people’s jobs by the minute or making people put more and more trust in robots. I’m just not comfortable with where AI’s taking us as a society.

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Redway

Nah, video games are an important creation (not that I’ve ever played much of them myself). Mortal Kombat and GTA aren’t taking people’s jobs by the minute or making people put more and more trust in robots. I’m just not comfortable with where AI’s taking us as a society.

Oh I can see your point tbf.

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by Redway

I didn’t really ask to see the AI app and you should’ve been able to figure as much from my post. Text or no text, there wasn’t really much to misunderstand. It’s just you.

It really isn’t ..

I maybe didn’t really explain myself well enough and you just decided to take umbrage anyways


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[Zizu]

Originally Posted by Redway

Nah, video games are an important creation (not that I’ve ever played much of them myself). Mortal Kombat and GTA aren’t taking people’s jobs by the minute or making people put more and more trust in robots. I’m just not comfortable with where AI’s taking us as a society.

So how has AI impacted on your life .. thus far ?!


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[Redway]

Originally Posted by Zizu

So how has AI impacted on your life .. thus far ?!


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Never you mind.

[Redway]

The way everyone seems to have a cough-and-sniff cold at the moment but are wandering around the shops mask-less instead of working. If you’re not getting paid to be out, stay in bed and do your Christmas shopping online. I don’t want your bug.

[Redway]

Parents trying to marry off their young-adult children in their 20s just so they can have some grandkids to boast about. I understand where it comes from but I think it’s disgusting. And it takes at least 9 months to do all that and put to bed anyway.

I’m mentioning this because it seems to be especially common. We know that but I don’t think we talk enough about toxic pressure. Timing can be unfortunate but some things just can’t be rushed.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Redway

Parents trying to marry off their young-adult children in their 20s just so they can have some grandkids to boast about. I understand where it comes from but I think it’s disgusting. And it takes at least 9 months to do all that and put to bed anyway.

I’m mentioning this because it seems to be especially common. We know that but I don’t think we talk enough about toxic pressure. Timing can be unfortunate but some things just can’t be rushed.

Common, really? Most parents I know want the opposite for their kids, want them to travel and get their education before they tie themselves down with kids and a mortgage. Sometimes when I read your posts I feel like we're living in a parallel universe

[Redway]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Common, really? Most parents I know want the opposite for their kids, want them to travel and get their education before they tie themselves down with kids and a mortgage. Sometimes when I read your posts I feel like we're living in a parallel universe

Yeah, our reference points might be somewhat different at times but that thing I’m talking about is very-much sometimes a thing.

[Redway]

People turning Instagram into TikTok with constant videos instead of pictures (unless it’s a designated channel supposed to have more videos than photos; that’s different) and having whatever audio I’m listening to at that time being paused and cancelled out because of that video’s audio.

[Redway]

Constant affair stories in soaps and just the same pregnacy loops/reveal-threats over and over and over again. This Tracey/Caleb thing on Emmerdale feels like the last straw. It’s just the same thing being rehashed for the 700-and-umpteenth time for the sake of cheap drama.

[Swan]

Originally Posted by Redway

Anti-drugs hypocrisy (as a general note).

Cannabis as a plant is varied and packed with all sorts of benefits (from various non-psychoactive cannabinoids, like CBN and CBD, to actual THC, like it or not) and ketamine and psychedelics likewise (when they’re done safely) and alternative treatments for severe, treatment-resistant depression and OCD and other mental health issues. But some people continue to demonise them while (especially in this Britain) one of the greatest poisons of all, alcohol, continues to be glorified. I’m far from teetotal but the thing is I’m not a hypocrite either. Alcohol is one of the most destructive drugs in the world (ethanol is literally poison, no matter how nicely packaged) and there’s no medical benefit to be gleaned from it beyond a bit of red wine at dinner or a sprinkling of beer, but it gets a free pass in places like the UK because it just happens to be the first drug that was socially accepted, and people expect you to drink to your liver’s discontent every weekend and all Christmas. But if you’re pro-alcohol and anti-weed/mushrooms, something in the reasoning’s flawed and very wrong. Especially if you expect people to not see you as a homeless alkie with alcoholic paranoia/hallucinosis and advanced cirrhosis lying in a vodka-den but can’t hear sense about some of these other substances without assuming that the person’s a stoner-bum who lies in a den of green iniquity and doesn’t accomplish anything for themselves all day. If they’re like that, chances are it won’t be the weed.

I rarely agree with what you say, and i know you rarely agree with what i say, but you are absolutely spot on in that post.

I've been watching quite a bit of telly over Christmas, films and tv shows old and new, and one thing that is a constant is alcohol. It's so unbelievably normalised in our every day lives, yet offers no health benefits whatsoever. It's bad for you mentally and physically. And it's massively overrated too.

I don't watch modern soaps, only classic Eastenders, but my God, alcohol is consumed 24/7. Any scenario and every scenario calls for a drink, it's crazy really.

There was a show called People Just Do Nothing, quite good tbh, and appealing for people of my age (mid 30's). Anyway, a character on there takes drugs all the time, it's his character's make up, yet he's offered a drink and says "oh nah i don't touch that stuff, messes with your head" Excellent line, and much truer than we've been conditioned to believe.

[Beso]

People who say.. "I dont usually agree with you, but...."

Like it somehow makes the opinion more valid cause THEY agree.

[Swan]

Originally Posted by parmnion

People who say.. "I dont usually agree with you, but...."

Like it somehow makes the opinion more valid cause THEY agree.

No not at all. I was just pointing out that myself and Redway rarely agree, however i agree with him 100% on this one. It was more a point of even if people don't like each other, there is always common ground to be found.

Doesn't mean what you're saying.

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by Redway

Constant affair stories in soaps and just the same pregnacy loops/reveal-threats over and over and over again. This Tracey/Caleb thing on Emmerdale feels like the last straw. It’s just the same thing being rehashed for the 700-and-umpteenth time for the sake of cheap drama.

Plus they let the storylines slip in advance ..

Sh1te


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[Redway]

Originally Posted by Swan

I rarely agree with what you say, and i know you rarely agree with what i say, but you are absolutely spot on in that post.

I've been watching quite a bit of telly over Christmas, films and tv shows old and new, and one thing that is a constant is alcohol. It's so unbelievably normalised in our every day lives, yet offers no health benefits whatsoever. It's bad for you mentally and physically. And it's massively overrated too.

I don't watch modern soaps, only classic Eastenders, but my God, alcohol is consumed 24/7. Any scenario and every scenario calls for a drink, it's crazy really.

There was a show called People Just Do Nothing, quite good tbh, and appealing for people of my age (mid 30's). Anyway, a character on there takes drugs all the time, it's his character's make up, yet he's offered a drink and says "oh nah i don't touch that stuff, messes with your head" Excellent line, and much truer than we've been conditioned to believe.

Yup. The hypocrisy is staggering.

[Redway]

And for the record, Swan, I don’t hate you (and classic EastEnders is one thing we probably converge on). I just … ya. We just have to agree to disagree on most things.

[Redway]

Originally Posted by Redway

Anti-drugs hypocrisy (as a general note).

Cannabis as a plant is varied and packed with all sorts of benefits (from various non-psychoactive cannabinoids, like CBN and CBD, to actual THC, like it or not) and ketamine and psychedelics likewise (when they’re done safely) and alternative treatments for severe, treatment-resistant depression and OCD and other mental health issues. But some people continue to demonise them while (especially in this Britain) one of the greatest poisons of all, alcohol, continues to be glorified. I’m far from teetotal but the thing is I’m not a hypocrite either. Alcohol is one of the most destructive drugs in the world (ethanol is literally poison, no matter how nicely packaged) and there’s no medical benefit to be gleaned from it beyond a bit of red wine at dinner or a sprinkling of beer, but it gets a free pass in places like the UK because it just happens to be the first drug that was socially accepted, and people expect you to drink to your liver’s discontent every weekend and all Christmas. But if you’re pro-alcohol and anti-weed/mushrooms, something in the reasoning’s flawed and very wrong. Especially if you expect people to not see you as a homeless alkie with alcoholic paranoia/hallucinosis and advanced cirrhosis lying in a vodka-den but can’t hear sense about some of these other substances without assuming that the person’s a stoner-bum who lies in a den of green iniquity and doesn’t accomplish anything for themselves all day. If they’re like that, chances are it won’t be the weed.

Let’s just sit with that for a minute.

[Redway]

Originally Posted by Swan

I rarely agree with what you say, and i know you rarely agree with what i say, but you are absolutely spot on in that post.

I've been watching quite a bit of telly over Christmas, films and tv shows old and new, and one thing that is a constant is alcohol. It's so unbelievably normalised in our every day lives, yet offers no health benefits whatsoever. It's bad for you mentally and physically. And it's massively overrated too.

I don't watch modern soaps, only classic Eastenders, but my God, alcohol is consumed 24/7. Any scenario and every scenario calls for a drink, it's crazy really.

There was a show called People Just Do Nothing, quite good tbh, and appealing for people of my age (mid 30's). Anyway, a character on there takes drugs all the time, it's his character's make up, yet he's offered a drink and says "oh nah i don't touch that stuff, messes with your head" Excellent line, and much truer than we've been conditioned to believe.

Again, yes. If me and Swan can agree on something, it must be quite-something. And I say all this as someone who might as well be in the pub right now.

As far as EastEnders goes, characters who they make a point of as being skint at any one time (Karen and Bianca no less) still manage to find enough loose change inside the couch to have a few drinks. They’re not exactly doing it by halves either. And they definitely don’t do tabs at the Queen Vic. Ordinary to humble themselves and order a half or a cheap shandy to reflect their lack of money, they will not. It still ends up being pint upon bottle of Prosecco when they can barely afford to feed the kids. Where alcohol’s involved they’ll always find the money.

Some people might resent me putting Karen in the same sentence as Queen Patsy-B but one thing they both have/had in common is being skit mums who liked a good drink. Most nights and most afternoons alike. The way it jars is almost as annoying as those Insta posts matching up brands of wine with breakfast foods, just promoting and enabling borderline alcoholism on weekdays. Unless you’ve just done a night shift or it’s the weekend/something special (like Christmas), you should not be drinking wine with your Cornflakes at 7am. There’s starting early and there’s being one step away from rehab.

[Redway]

Racism is still a problem unfortunately but things like “most white people don’t want us here” aren’t true. I think a lot of black people see white people as more inherently racist than they are. And you can find micro-aggressions that tally up with every form of “ism” out there without the seriousness of any one type of discrimination being trivialised (God forbid). There are a lot of similarities and common ground for making someone your person or at least finding them worthy of interest that cut beyond the colour of any one person’s skin.

There’s just a certain closed insularity a lot of people (of all races) have and then there’s this thing of being obsessed with everyone outside said marginalised/discriminated-against community having to do lots of work just so they can finally say they’re not prejudiced. In a world filled with so many issues and where the average person is just trying to survive and put bread on the table, learning about every possible thing under the sun that someone might take as a micro-aggression of some kind (whether it’s racial, gender-related, age-related, sexuality-related, whatever) is a bit much. Cultural diversity is huge and that’s worthy of attention and celebration but people are still people. You’re still an individual before you’re anything else. You’re still a person before you’re Igbo, Yoruba, Black British, Jamaican, Irish, German, mixed race or Scouse. You have your own individual personality and essence which sure does take a fair bit of influence from some of your demographics but there’s still only one you. No other person is going to be exactly like you just because they have ancestral roots in the same place or have sexual feelings for the same gender as you. Your demographics, diagnosis or environment don’t define you 100%.

[Zizu]

I get irritated by the lowering standards in advertising .

They say that ‘sex sells’ hence all the gorgeous people featured in most tv advertisements..

Now I’m noticing more and more things like Maltesers .. who are using two young women referring to selling dirty socks to perverts on eBay or SpecSavers who have a couple laughing together when hubby realises that the wife has read loads of explicit books ..

Has it always been this way or am I just being more observant ?


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[Zizu]

Foreign dentists to be allowed to work in UK without qualification checks
Ministers plan to scrap exam required to allow dentists from countries outside of Europe to work here, in a bid to solve dentistry crisis


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