The Pitters' Place

I've been very remiss and haven't been here for ages. No real excuse. Real life got very busy (pet died, redundancy, new job, death in the family (person this time - the father-in-law), absolutely massive family fallout and a global pandemic too). And I just kind of forgot... But normality seems to ...

It does seem quiet.

How are we all coping with the various lockdowns at the moment? Successfully managing to avoid the coronavirus? Are you being allowed to WFH?

I've just watched the end of season 4 of the TMITHC and I was very much left with a WTF? Was it just me or did anyone else feel like they were suddenly told to try to wrap up all the plot lines and this was a 10-minutes-to-the-deadline idea?

Hope you all have a good day!

Damn Reasons! I knew I hated them!

Happy Birthday though! Sorry I'm late. Life is busy at the moment... (which is no excuse!)

Congratulations!

I was expecting some comments or thoughts now we're a day "after the fact". I stayed up all night watching the results coming in (and booked today off as annual leave so I could do so). I love election coverage. The results are almost secondary to the stats and figures and all the numbers....

I could be wrong, but I think I might be picking up a hint of sarcasm in some of that post... but regardless I will continue. Yes - some people do plan for the future. But from my experience/observations many do not. I don't know how it works in America but here in the UK, the government only fairly...

I said it can work, but it relies on a large amount of goodwill from all the participants. And looking at the examples you list - they generally started from scratch like that, so the people joining them are signing up to it from Day One and know exactly what they're getting into to. So if this is t...

It's great in theory and I can see it working in small work places, but it relies on a large amount of goodwill from the participants. In a large organisation though (e.g. many thousands of people working at multiple sites - potentially very remote from each other) you certainly couldn't expect ever...

"Workers owning the means of production" is a slightly vague statement. Let's say that they do. How is that ownership shared out? Equally? Or based on length of service (so someone who's been there gets a larger share than someone who's only been there a couple of months) or some other way...

Y'see. There's a moral there. You should be more like me. Fiscally right wing. I'm socially very liberal - but when it comes to the money, I can't tear myself away from believing that if you earn it you should get to keep a big chunk of it. You don't catch us arguing over the minutiae of socialism l...

Saw this article on the BBC today and it got me thinking: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-45809169 Yes - in an ideal world women should be able to walk down dark alleyways late at night and listen to music and so on because they're not doing anything wrong, so telling them to take precautions ...

Anakin McFly wrote:It's ok, he has beer. He likes beer. Many people like beer. Do you like beer?

I like beer. I'm less keen on sexually assaulting people though. Even after a few beers.

Is Ohio good? I've been to America dozens of times and never had the slightest inclination to go there. Is there something of note there? Am I missing out?

Vote Putin! (cut out the middleman)

Well we have Trump over here now and the novelty's worn off already. You can have him back now.

We have raised our retirement age to 67 too and that will undoubtedly increase over time too. Obviously this doesn't apply to the people near retirement - only the younger people (again). Labour's current policies won't actually make it better. In fact you could argue they will make it worse. They b...

I appreciate that a lot of what I'm going to say is going to be unpopular, but it's annoying me and I wanted to get it off my chest. So here it is. Here in the UK (and some of this applies to other countries to some extent) we have the NHS and we have various state benefits and state pensions - that...

Happy Birthday! All the best!

That would be funny if that was a real response, but alas I fear you're right and it's fake. But Trump's response is typical in that his default action is to try to bully people and deflect from the possibility that he could bear any personal responsibility for any of it. I suspect the truth of the ...

They're going to start making more of their bikes outside of America. I'm not sure that's what Trump had in mind when he started all this? Or did he? Does he know what he's doing?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44604280

So the Toronto attack has been linked to Incels. I really don't get incels. I'm no looker and I've certainly not done well with "the ladies" (until I met my wonderful wife) but I never felt any sense of entitlement or that I have somehow been wronged by the world. So what the fuck is wrong...

I had no idea there was a strike going on in America (or what it's over). When are they sending the strike breakers in? (Just finished watching Damnation)

Guns should be cancelled. Truth is the mass shooting problem is multi-faceted: 1)Guns 2)Men 3)Guns 4)Right-wingery 6)Mental illness? 7)It's guns 8)Whiteness? 9)Guns 10)America 11)Man-babies 12)Did I mention the guns? In conclusion, a dangerous percentage of conservative, white, gun-fetishizing Amer...

Good effort on the "being even handed" on the arguments front there! I think the bottom line is that guns do make it easier to kill people (in the same way that you're right and cars make it easier to have traffic accidents) so it's perfectly reasonable to have controls in place making sur...

Well that at least sounds a bit positive.

Who won?

Who was playing?

Do people really think that American football is a sport?

He grew peanuts. (that's all I know about him and I'm not even 100% sure about that)

oh man she just spammed me with extremely obscene photos of her butt and naked body slathered in shit. :( :( :( :( :( it's nauseating and now I want to completely destroy her. Just so we can judge her levels of depravation perhaps you should share these pictures with us? For educational purposes on...

Wishing you all a healthy, wealthy and happy 2018!

Happy Holidays. (That's what we're meant to say isn't it?)...

Nah! Merry Christmas! Hope you're all having a great time and that Santa spoiled you rotten. My in-laws have final left so I'm feeling a lot happier about life now!

But fascists tend to have the coolest uniforms at least.

Happy birthday. Sorry I'm late. I can empathise with not coming here quite as much as you used to - my real life seems to be much busier than usual too at the moment.

Yup. That's why you have:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxism%E2%80%93Leninism

I haven't bothered reading the details, but the name "Marxism-Leninism" kinda tells you everything you need to know, right?

Thanks! I have been looking at the Huawei phones, but hadn't considered the Moto ones.

I read it as beer. But that may say more about me. [shame]

Hahaha!

I got Joseph Stalin. Do I win a prize for being the biggest mass murderer so far?

My sister in law is a full vegan and I find the concept slightly stupid. My wife has banned me from discussing it with her sister. Surely the logical conclusion of full veganism would be to shun oil and all its derivatives? As oil is ultimately an animal product.... And if you give up oil, not only ...

I tend to buy a sim-free phone and sort out the contract separately, so I'm just looking for a handset. My current phone is a Samsung S5 Mini so I would ideally like something around the same size so it fits into jean's pockets easily enough - I don't want a huge phone. I'm happy to pay about £200 (...

I'm thinking about getting a new phone. I've always had Samsung and I like Android, but I kinda resent paying over the odds just cos it's Samsung so I was considering trying a different make (and no - I don't want an Apple). But when I start looking at HTC, Huawei, LG, etc they all kinda blur into t...

78% Masculine and 14% Feminine

I guess the people that came up with this were 100% Feminine (or should that be 85%?) cos it doesn't add up?

I'd never heard of him either.

The EC system is the product of a historical system that created it and is no longer fit for purpose. In the modern age where every ballot can be quickly and directly voted and applied there isn't really a good reason on things like the election of a president (where by definition there can only be ...

Were those articles edited since you posted them? Because neither of them did what you said they did. Also, I have no idea what Opiate is trying to say, but it seems to me that he's trying to defend the media being dishonest. I guess I am defending the media being dishonest. (In a way) The problem ...

They've tried taking the high road before. And all the people that respond to those arguments know he's a moron, so pointing that sort of thing out again isn't going to change their opinion. And the people that still support him obviously don't respond to that sort thing - they like short-easy-to-un...

Done.

There's a lot of weather in Mur's part of the world at the moment - hopefully it won't effect you too much, but good luck and best wishes!

Whilst you're a very young 30, you are wise beyond your years...

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