So your original comment about asking people suffering from the condition was crap.

Because the term little people was one requested by themselves. As early as the 1980. As a way to avoid the lack of respect post a time when midget and dwarf in circus freak shows was their only available employment.

You really care nothing for how anyone feels. Other than your loss of the ability to belittle other?

Actually no. My friend John did. Before he died in 1996. From complications related to what at the time was called dwarfism.

Sorry i assumed you were answering a different comment.

As you comment has no relevence to this one.

The fucking article points out the original complaint was also about the car being named after dwarfism. The pub was named after a record breaking car named after little people.

And my comment was you are ignoring the fact that people bullied should not be required to tell the bullies.

Its like saying its OK to hit people smaller then you because they are to scared to hit back.

How easy do you think it is to disagree when everyone around you thinks your acceptable to joke about.

If you actually read my comment. You would realise the car was named after a person’s physical abnormality.

The car was an insult from the beginning.

People said the same shit about the word nigro. Without yaking into account the dificulty faced by any bullied person to accuse the bully.

Requiring the victim to openly tell you your an arsehole is some of the worst indications of a gaslighting sence of ideals.

Not sure I can agree with your logic.

This is about the use of the word. More then its meaning.

Is it really reasonable to name a pub or car after a person based on there physical abnormality no mater what term we consider acceptable.

Your interpretation would suggest naming the car the little person would be accpetable today. But in the future would be offensive.

Honestly can you really claim the name littlebperson is ever an appropriate way to name a model of car or pub?

Wondering if anyone who knows the language/region.

Can confirm the terms they use. Because age of consent when its clear the child is not able to express a chioce or old enouth to understand what they would be agreeing to.

Seems like a western interpretation. Or are the laws there really that hypocritical in their terminology.

Get defs correct

Congress sent wespons to ukraine.

Trump broke the law and delayed the funding in an attempt to blackmail ukraine over US election properganda.

Yep.

Also while the UK governance structure is crap.

Other EU nations have some of the same issues. (As has briccs nations in the past)

This is more about corperation power. Capatalims control over government is everywhere. But fully embedded in the west.

‘Political malpractice’ sorta describes everything he does.

But, as statements go. It has the same value as suggesting he make his own orange die.

By drinking some not crap tea.

And being shocked this shit ripped you off for so long?

Solving politics is cheap and fast.

Utter crap. Solar power companies have been trying for 20 years.

Its not like you came up with a new idea.

You can theoretically. Unfortunately, you are not considering the land difference.

More to the point, the absolute political nightmare of buying and getting permission to use so much land.

It is a nightmare for both. But rare to see the amount of land needed for the power station, have to argue about arable use. Whereas, it’s pretty hard in the UK to locate the solar without others claiming land is lost. Farm land mainly as that is the cheap build option. (pricy land, lower labour).

But even brownfield land. Once you have the area to host something like this. You are usually talking about close to populated areas. And just about every NIMBY crap excuse is thrown up about history or other potential use. Meaning, at best you end up with some huge project that takes decades. With a vague plan to add solar generation to the roof.

Honestly I agree. It should be fucking easy to build these plants. Farming should be updating. And honestly can benefit from well-designed solar if both parties are willing to invest and research.

But we have been seeing these arguments for the last 20 years. And people are arseholes, mostly.

And this is all before you consider the need for storage. Again solvable with hydro etc. Theoretically easy. But more land and way way more politics and time. If hydro the cost goes insane. And the type of land become more politically complex. If battery, you instantly get the comparison of mining and transport costs. So again more insane politics.

If it was. And lets face it in 2024 we have well and trully lost the definition.

Posting false images of people compleatly unrelated to the event. Based entirly on what they look like.

And trying to stir fear and hatred to dismis a political proteat.

Yep hard to call that anything bur terrorism.

Unfortunately, only local auth councillors tend to have any interest in lowering the limit.

Well at least since 1967 when the M1 was first given the perm 70mph limit.

Sounds logical on a just consider it level.

But us old farts know better.

The nation went metric in 1965 joined the EU in 1975.

You know how all road signs are reflective. Well, back then that did not exist. Reflective roadsigns started in the early 1980s.

Add to that, most major roads end up replacing the signs every several years.

And the simple fact is No If in the 80s we decided to double sign (as other nations did. Every nation in the EU did it at some point. France was well before road signs, 1795 I think. But the rest of the EU could not agree on anything before the 1940s. Almost all of them had their own versions of imperial like units divided over regions based on political power.

It was not until the early predecessor to the EU post ww2 that most of Europe changed.

If we started in 1980 by displaying km plus mph on all signs. (Rounded to the nearest unit). The original change would not have cost any more than current spending. Buy now, most major roads would have had many replacements, likely dropping the mph.

We would still see some dual signs in very low use back roads.

But when did you last see a non-reflective sign. Because that is as often as you would see MPH only signs. At 0 extra spending.

Just to be clear. The UK is full metric as far as EU rules are concerned.

Heck, as far as the SI is concerned, so is the US. We both changed in the 70s. SI just required all other units to be defined based on metric. The UK and US do this. And the EU just requires all trade to be available as a metric option.

What you actually use to communicate in nation non-sales is your own business. Heck, we can even sell in your own units as long as we also offer conversions on request. (according to EU. I think the UK required display in metric at some point. )

We and the US are just too stubborn to use the better units.

Grins born 1970 exactly.

So your a young wipper snapper.

Feel free to pass that proffesional opinion on to your significant (or otherwise) other.>

Yes, that can be a grey area, but it would be a start.

Yep lets remember. Under that rule. The NHS bus passes.

Advertising really only has to not be provable false. The ASA has way less power when claims are questionable or down to interpretation.

Does a Mars a day help you work, rest and play. Well, obesity and increased risk of type 2 diabetes would say hell no. If a politician claimed sugar treats helped you work, rest and play. He would be dragged over the coals in the media.

But technically. As a type one diabetic. Without access to sugar (refined carbs) exercise is very able to kill me via hypoglycaemia. And all mammals need energy. So technically it’s true. But full of crap at the same time.

Yeah you may be too young to remember that advert. I have no idea I dont think Ie seen it since the 90s. But it’s still legal today.

I agree. But can see how this will go.

If it gets the votes. (Hard because most have gotten fed up with these things achieving nothing)

Parliment will have a discussion. Argue about how impossible it is to define truth from a government prospective. (IE without looking like censorship)

Then never being it up again.

Unfortunately this is the sort of problem that needs answers before letting government discuss it. And then needs grass roots support to force it forward.

And honestly. I don’t think the UK is capable of that any more. NHS creating and post war social housing was likely the last time we were.