What pissed you off today? Mark II

[Blue]

I haven't been out for myself in 4 weeks... I've planned this, and now he's working late because he can't just say sorry I had plans. I just...

Professional babysitter?

 

[cookiecat]

I haven't been out for myself in 4 weeks... I've planned this, and now he's working late because he can't just say sorry I had plans. I just...

 

[Bramblethorn]

Not to me... For starters, confused by world's longest acronym.

There's a thing called Google that's great for resolving that kind of confusion. You can find out what the acronym means, with less effort than it takes to write "I don't know what that acronym means"

 

[Farawyn]

Fucking people on facebook. I'm about to just delete my account. I'm so sick of all the hate and ignorance and thoughtless cruel opinions thrown around as if anyone would want to hear them anyway. It's like the news anymore. Every time I get on my feed I get upset and angry and I can't even argue because no one will even hear or consider an alternative point of view. I just don't want to live on this planet anymore.

I'm not on FB for this reason.
My other 2 go to boards are a LOTR board which is private, and a professional board.

And I want you to live on this planet. Everything you say that I have read in my short time here is good and real.
Soooo, pffft.

 

[Farawyn]

There are a lot of people who cannot assimilate this next bit of info, but I do not have a Facebook account. I know, take a moment
I had one for all of three weeks and decided it was too weird and depressing and angsty for my liking. I have never regretted my decision to kill it!
So, what didn't piss me off today? Or any day? Facebook

Nor do I. Because, you, you and especially YOU? I lost touch with you for a reason.

 

[Blue]

WARNING - Politics.

NATO sending 4 combat ready battalions to the Baltic states after conducting the largest international military exercises in Europe since the cold war. As a supposed deterrent against Russia. As Russia does the exact same thing.
Political commentators going a bit ape, and it's just a matter of time before it hits the news and even the politics board will start making something of it.

Here's what pisses me off:
NATO's stupidity and Russia's stupidity and both their inabilities to step into the other's shoes.

NATO's tactic of turning the Baltic into a steel fortress and making fancy military displays is a so-called deterrent strategy to dissuade Russia from trying anything stupid that would lead to a military escalation. Problem there is that doing something like that isn't a deterrent strategy. When both NATO and Russia perform actions like these and beef up the borders they see it as a defensive measure in their own eyes, and see the other's actions as a provocation. When you flex your military muscles, the observing nation doesn't see that as a "Oh heck look at those biceps", they see it as "F*** THIS GUY! Egotistical jackass, I'm gonna go get my weights and we'll have a bench pressing contest!".

See, in the eyes of the Russians, annexing Crimea and starting uprisings in the Ukraine isn't a malicious or imperialist action. At the end of the cold war treaties were signed declaring that neutral border states between NATO and Russia (Ex members of the soviet bloc) like Ukraine would not be encroached on by western or eastern interests. They view the westernizing of the Ukraine as a breach of that treaty.

NATO beefing up the Baltic is an escalation, Russia beefing up their border is an escalation, NATO sending armies to the Baltic is an escalation, Russia flying planes into NATO airspace is a provocation, and the way these things always go is that tensions keep on escalating as each faction tries to 'dissuade' the other from trying anything stupid with progressively more extreme tactics. Then somebody dies and it's labelled as another 'escalation', then ten people die and it's just another 'escalating factor' and before you know it World War 3 has unofficially broken out, 10 million people are dead and everybody just leapt up from their chairs going "Wait wait wait wait, what? Wait, what's going on?! How did this happen?! When did this start?!"

Why can't our politicians in Europe just take a page from the relationship book and understand that they need to actually sit down and talk, work out what's making the other uncomfortable and work to fix it.

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[Bramblethorn]

I'm not on FB for this reason.
My other 2 go to boards are a LOTR board which is private, and a professional board.

Yeah, originally I balked at FB because of their privacy policies, but everything I hear about the tone of the place reinforces that decision.

Unfortunately several of my friends and family insist on using FB to organise things, so I'm dependent on my partner relaying info from her account there.

 

[desertslave]

Just a small sad, really. Went to a friend's birthday "tea party" today, and missed two of my other friends by about 10 minutes. Rats!

 

[Bramblethorn]

Music companies who make it harder to buy stuff legally than to pirate it, and then whine about piracy destroying their industry. Just wasted two hours trying to do the right thing.

 

[Penuche]

Well educated and fully grown adults apparently believe in the cleaning up fairies.

 

[LallyH]

Well educated and fully grown adults apparently believe in the cleaning up fairies.

It's a widespread problem

 

[LallyH]

Two things....

Having to leave a really enjoyable African fair - live music, food, arts and crafts - because of the torrential rain

Realising during a conversation that I had been right to think I was being spun a line I should just go with my instincts - they're very rarely wrong. Maybe it's better to risk being thought insensitive and calling bullshit than sitting here kicking myself after the event

 

[Blue]

The Danish government defending their decision to keep male circumcision legal and labels it a Human right for parents to mutilate their kids.

90% of Danes are not in favour of it.
The overwhelming medical consensus is that it leads to pain, sexual difficulties and psychological issues.
There is not a single demonstrable benefit to the practice.
It is mutilating and permanently damaging the body and mental state of a child unable to consent to it.

I am quite certain that this is called child abuse.

What is wrong with the brains of the Danish government.

 

[MastersDelight]

The Danish government defending their decision to keep male circumcision legal and labels it a Human right for parents to mutilate their kids.

90% of Danes are not in favour of it.
The overwhelming medical consensus is that it leads to pain, sexual difficulties and psychological issues.
There is not a single demonstrable benefit to the practice.
It is mutilating and permanently damaging the body and mental state of a child unable to consent to it.

I am quite certain that this is called child abuse.

What is wrong with the brains of the Danish government.

Circumcision is still available in the US too. I read up on it, found no medical reason to have it done to my boys, so left them intact. I had to sign 3 forms stating that I DID NOT want circumcision.

 

[LallyH]

I don't know how we stand in the UK? I know next to nothing about it, other than it being related to a religion I'm not a part of. One of my staff's sons had it done when he was 2 but it was for a medical reason, a necessity, and not a decision taken lightly by his dad.

 

[MastersDelight]

It's done more often than not in the US, mostly bc people believe it's cleaner than being uncircumcised. Some is for religious reasons, and the others is for social reasons. They don't want him to look "different".

 

[LallyH]

It's done more often than not in the US, mostly bc people believe it's cleaner than being uncircumcised. Some is for religious reasons, and the others is for social reasons. They don't want him to look "different".

Jeez.......

I never knew that...

 

[Blue]

It's done more often than not in the US, mostly bc people believe it's cleaner than being uncircumcised. Some is for religious reasons, and the others is for social reasons. They don't want him to look "different".

In my mind, none of those reasons are a fair exchange for 20,000 nerve endings.

Sad.

Edit:
It's legal in the UK for religious reasons, but FGM is classified as a violation of human rights.
This atrocious double standard greatly annoys me.

 

[MastersDelight]

In my mind, none of those reasons are a fair exchange for 20,000 nerve endings.

Sad.

Edit:
It's legal in the UK for religious reasons, but FGM is classified as a violation of human rights.
This atrocious double standard greatly annoys me.

To me either Consilience, that's why I made it very clear that I did NOT want the procedure for my boys. Circumcision is just starting to fall, but it's still a very prevailing procedure for newborns.

I had read where it was POSSIBLE that uncircumcised babies were at a SLIGHT increased risk for chronic UTIs. I decided if it became an issue of medical necessity then I would have it done then.

 

[LallyH]

In my mind, none of those reasons are a fair exchange for 20,000 nerve endings.

Sad.

Edit:
It's legal in the UK for religious reasons, but FGM is classified as a violation of human rights.
This atrocious double standard greatly annoys me.

I agree.

It must also be legal for medical reasons ie if it is too tight and becomes painful to have erections. When my son was born, I was shown by the midwife how to ensure (as far as possible) that this was never necessary

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[L1tTleD1fferent]

Made a last-minute trip to store last night on way home to buy (among other things) Father's Day card.

Got into checkout line before Mom walked up to me, leaned in, & said, "Did you get a card?"

Ran & got one, which I gave to him (still in envelope) this morning.

After watching one of incountable times of sister paying more attention to some of her kids than others (maybe completely ignoring some... While their Grandpa & Uncle each talked to one), wondered to self (& asked on Twitter), (something like) "Moms in May, Dads in June, so when is the day to celebrate people like me who have no kids, & don't fill divorce courts, birth people like Orlando shooter, &/or overpopulate the planet?!"

 

[cookiecat]

Ive actually never seen an uncircumcised penis.

In person...

 

[LallyH]

Ive actually never seen an uncircumcised penis.

In person...

Hope you've switched your PMs off then, cookie!!!