I’m now going to exhaust the interesting things I know about this by saying: he won a competition with his design of the Anglican cathedral despite being a Catholic himself; the Catholic cathedral in Liverpool was conversely designed by an Anglican. The city was a lot more sectarian then than it is now and the cathedrals stand at either end of a road called Hope Street.
I’d say that David Cameron and every PM since him were several times worse downgrades than making an uglier version of an obsolete box but that’s just me 🤷
Blair was to Thatcher what Clinton was to Reagan: while both cynically perpetuated most of the society-destroying new norms of their non-immediate predecessors and even vehemently resisted attempts to undo them, they didn’t make big reforms to make things much worse still like Dubya and Cameron did.
"Doth mylady fancy another bowl of most delicious slaughtered animal or does her majesty wish to finish staring at the reflection of my watch on the wall first?"
Cats have someone that will feed and house them, provide toys, scritches and pettings, catnip and medical care their entire lives for nothing. They dont have a job to worry about or bills to pay. They dont have to care about politics or how the world is on fire, they just hang out with other cats and people that spoil them their entire lives. We on the other hand, have bills to pay, a soul sucking job to go to 8+ hours a day, 50 weeks a year until were so old we cant do that anymore then we spend maybe a decade or two falling apart medically speaking until we stop forever.
Who is actually the dumb animal here? And before someone mentions their cat doing something dumb, I bet you know a person thats done something even stupider.
I’d agree, but cats are also too dumb to do anything Else except hunt, shit and sleep. I know we are all on the ‘humans are trash’ train rn, but we are still exponentially more intelligent than anything else around us.
Our advantages come down to incremental improvement. Thog takes a rock and splits it into sharp af edges and now hes got a hand axe. Ogg takes another rock, splits it into sharp bits (or not) and uses sinue or twine to attach it to a stick. now they could have a number of different tools. Nog figures out they can tan hide using astringent plants they soaked and exposed the hide to and now theyve got primitive clothing. But most people… would struggle if they had to survive without all that technology. Cats… can survive off hunting birds and rodents. They do such a good job of it that theyve wiped out the 2nd most species on the planet aside from us. And keep in mind these are housecats not wild cats or strays. Itd be like some dude living in suburbia going to the mountains and killing everything with his bare hands or whatever tools he could cobble together from the materials he found there. Most people… would probably die of exposure, starvation or wild animals like bears and mountain lions if they tried that. We do as well as we do despite this because we improve generation after generation. Thats it. That’s our advantage.
Kinda and not really, simultaneously. We are good at adapting and we have a really high ceiling intelligence-wise (at least compared to other species). Cats will never have the capability for building houses, cars or space shuttles. They just don’t have the capacity. Neither do birds, fish or any other species, except us.
It’s kinda ridiculous to tell yourself that’s not true, just look around yourself. We might still be dumb apes after all, but still we are a million times smarter than a cat or an eagle. If we wanted, we could wipe out all life on the planet, and there is nothing any animal could do about it. It’s cruel and I obviously don’t want that, but it’s the truth.
I had a similar conversation with my wife the other day, but then took one thing into account that you missed. I cut my cat’s balls off as a condition for him living in my house.
Would you do the same to avoid all the shit that comes along with being a stressed out human?
Glad you said "one of" the biggest downgrades... because I'd argue your Monarchy and your geopolitical situation got heftier downgrades. Not much heftier than the telephones... but still.
Are there even any of those 'newer' BT phoneboxes still around?
Granted I don't go outside much anymore but even a few years ago they were few and far between, with most having the walls, door and phone removed by that point.
You joke, but the gay/trans conversion “therapy” industry, which people like these no doubt support, is rife with cases of sexual abuse against children and teens. The stories from victims are honestly nauseating.
You know those horror stories about kids being tricked or kidnapped and put in some twisted social experiment? That actually happened. Normally I’d say fuck the rich but in this case it would be in more than just bad taste; in the southern states there was a “school” where rich families were “sending” their kids to. Why? Some were spoiled brats that were making their family name look bad to their rich parents’ rich friends, others were “too soft” and the bastard and bitch who raised them wanted to “toughen them up”.
The place was straight out of something like those edgy novels that teenagers read but, well, real. There was emotional and social manipulation up to and including gas lighting, they drugged the kids to keep them from escaping, and yes, there was rape. If the place had been discovered recently rather than being shut down years ago, I would be demanding some level of legal autonomy for children because it’s gotten to the point where kids can’t trust anyone to protect them from forced confinement and cruelty.
I would know, I was illegally taken from my family at age 10 by government officials and it took my parents two years of fighting in court to get me back. There’s a difference between grounding a kid or preventing them from going to a cherished event because they screwed up, and being cruel because you can get away with it or being homophobic towards someone who depends on you for survival.
Some still survive but mostly just for tourists to take a picture next to. Hardly any of those left, even the “modern” ones, actually have a working phone.
They do exist in some towns, but they stopped making new ones a long time ago. They are expensive to maintain. No one uses payphones anymore so new ones aren’t being built anyway.
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