Baht Simpson

Uncanny. This is how I imagine some of the of the posters here. 🙂

Not so. Music can be enjoyed at a visceral level of course but much reward can be had through examination of music and particularly lyrics.

Indeed. Pasolini's Mamma Roma caused quite a stir in the sixties with a Last Supper scene with a woman. This stuff is nothing new.

I'm totally against this sort of thing. I think drag queens should stick to the classroom. 🙂

You join a thread about police and Muslims having an altercation and immediately link it to Pride, which has got nothing to do with it. This says much about you doesn't it? Rather pathetic to accuse others of gaslighting.

That's not your decision and it's certainly not the decision of this teacher. It's not about beliefs, yours mine or his, it's about his actions toward this pupil, which were humiliating.

Couldn't help yourself could you?

This mantra that it's just the fault of lack of training is specious. You cannot train an attack dog not to ever attack. They're bred for aggression and this can't always be suppressed. "This genetic history is present in the XL Bully. “These dogs, being bred for aggression, are likely to inherit aggression,” says David Sargan, a geneticist at Cambridge Veterinary School. “However well you treat them, a proportion of them may explode.”

It's amazing but perhaps not surprising that most of the commentators here are appalled by the censure of a teacher but care less about the abuse of a schoolchild. Religious beliefs are what you personally believe and not what you proselytize to others. If religion is taught it should be in a broad curriculum, otherwise it becomes indroctrination. Clearly the issue here is that this man has sought to push his beliefs onto his class, including his perverse and outmoded views on homosexuality and transgender. This was no mistake, he deliberately and wilfully misgendered a vulnerable child opening her up to possible scorn and abuse by other kids. The judge summed it up perfectly.

Who's saying you can't drink wine? Quality of life is not about abstention or excess. Like most things it's about balance, and moderation gives you that.

I orginally started a few years ago as an exercise to see exactly what my alcohol consumption was, as I had no idea. I know that my alcohol consumption has decreased year on year, so I probably could not keep a record now. I started after I increased my alcohol intake after a tragedy a few years ago and I wanted to keep tabs on it.

It's just a rough guide. I don't obsess over every last ml. You wouldn't be serious losing weight if you didn't look at your calorie intake and you wouldn't be serious exercising if you didn't keep a record of your physical effort. It's much the same with alcohol only you have much more to lose. I can't imagine why anyone wouldn't want to keep a note of how much of a potentially health-affecting substance they're pouring down their throat. I guess the graveyard is full of them. In any case I have a spreadsheet and it's about 10 secs a day to record. A small price to pay for staying within llimits. It's not for everyone I know but I enjoy all aspects of drinking except getting p***ed which I grew out of in my mid twenties.

Your original post referenced Google Maps who added the LGBT+ - friendly notice in 2018 and appear to have recently changed the notice to an icon. This was in response to a number of people stating that some hotels were hostile or discriminatory to LGBT+ persons. They wouldn't have bothered otherwise. These notices are not aimed at you, so why get your knickers in a knot?

I agree. It's just the people who run them that aren't always. 🙂

It still is. It's just more cowardly now; done by proxy and online.

You've been able to list your business as LGBTQ+ since 2018. Maybe they've just added icons now. You'll just have to troll around the internet for something else LGBTQ+ to be offended and outraged by. 🙂

That's interesting. Where did you get the Vedett IPA? I've only seen the Extra White and Rosé here.

Thanks. That seems cheap. I read before that someone had paid 20,000. I guess it varies.

How much does that cost in total?

Lol. You couldn't be more wrong. Firstly I can easily do without alcohol. When I first came here I did the Buddhist Lent alcohol abstinence for 3 months at a time. I haven't done it for the last few years because my Thai partner stopped. Even so, I keep a record of my alcohol consumption and will often go days or weeks without, if I wish. I'm lucky in that I don't have a compulsive or addictive nature. Secondly, I have an extensive knowledge of beer. I know my Tripel from my Doppelbock. In just the last few years since I've been keeping records I've tasted 25 Belgian beers, 30 German, 39 Thai and a number of others. Some beers are delicious, some are awful. My quest is to find the best available. And I never get p*ssd. I do it for enjoyment Thank you for your concern though. 🙂

I definitely don't drink like I used to in my youth, although I've never been a heavy drinker. Fortunately I've become more interested in flavour than volume and the advent of better beer alternatives has meant I can be more discriminate in what I imbibe, which has consequently led to lower alcohol intake. There are a number of ways you can lower alcohol consumption without going teetotal.

I can't see anywhere that family history is mentioned, just information relating to the applicant and any dependents. I find that astonishing. There is a section where you can add details but again that only mentions the applicant and dependents. I would have thought that family history of heart conditions, cancer and possible genetic illnesses would be crucial but obviously not.

Do they take account of family history, say, of heart disease or genetic problems?

Well, clearly we are. 🙂 I do it primarily for the taste, secondarily for the appreciation and knowledge of good beers and thirdly for the social aspect. Getting "hammered" is never a consideration. That's not to say I don't enjoy that small frisson of headiness after a small amount; it can be quite enjoyable. We're all different.