[King Lear]

lapdogs. why.

[Macros]

I get people didn't like old Maggie t, but really at a basic level an old woman has died, her family are probably devastated, peoples comments on bookface just make me cringe and wonder why on earth I'm friends with people.

[Tiste Simeon]

I agree. Celebrating someones death because of opposing political views? Horrible...

[Macros]

Add in complete ignorance of any historical facts into the mix, sprinkle with mindless bigotry and bake in an oven, et voila! Macros' new feed all day long.

[Abyss]

Briar King, on 08 April 2013 - 07:11 PM, said:

Talking to computers when I need to talk to a LIVE MOTHERFUCKING HUMAN!! I hate dealing with companies.

Skynet doesn't like you either.

[Ukjent]

6 hour with School then another 6 hour with AVR courses, its going to be a long day..

[Macros]

People trying to defend their completely disgraceful comments from the position of utter fucking ignorance that they were made from.

[pathos]

Macros, on 09 April 2013 - 08:35 AM, said:

People trying to defend their completely disgraceful comments from the position of utter fucking ignorance that they were made from.

i dont know what you are talking about... but you are wrong

[worry]

He's talking about all the people slandering the dearly departed Annette Funicello on facebook.

[Satan]

Macros, on 09 April 2013 - 08:35 AM, said:

People trying to defend their completely disgraceful comments from the position of utter fucking ignorance that they were made from.

Say what you will, you'll still take that free drink.

[Illuyankas]

People trying to whitewash Thatcher's horrible deeds just because she's dead.

Quote

http://www.whydopeoplehatethatcher.com

The economic policies she resolutely stuck to left thousands of families in poverty.
Source: http://www.guardian....charts#unemploy

Her 'Right to Buy' scheme was a massive sell-off of council housing to private landlords, including many Tory donors.
Source: http://www.mirror.co...council-1743338

She sold off government assets and community resources to private companies.
Source: http://news.bbc.co.u...ess/4061613.stm

She spent £1bn of government money propping up Saddam Hussein during the 1980s.
Source: http://www.guardian..../iraq.politics1

Prior to her intervention it was considered normal for growing schoolchildren to get milk at school, regardless of household income. She stopped that.
Source: http://news.bbc.co.u...ial/1095121.stm

She used her political power to censor the media with the goal of distorting public opinion.
Source: http://en.wikipedia....nd#The_Troubles

She was fully briefed on the truth of what happened when 96 people died at Hillsborough, but intentionally distorted the truth because the Police were responsible.
Source: http://www.liverpool...00252-33137951/

She called General Suharto, mass-murdering dictator of Indonesia "one of our very best and most valuable friends."
Source: http://www.guardian....indonesia.world

She advocated and pushed for the 2003 War in Iraq.
Source: http://online.wsj.co...5816880,00.html

Her tax policies gave large companies a break while the poor paid more.
Source: http://books.google....nepage&q&f=true

She praised and supported Pinochet long after it was known he was responsible for killing hundreds of dissidents.
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/304516.stm

She played off hatred of foreigners to become more popular with National Front voters.
Source: http://www.guardian..../asylum.uknews1

She supported laws which made homosexuality a taboo subject and closed gay and lesbian support centres.
Source: http://en.wikipedia....wiki/Section_28

Her 'Care in the Community' scheme left vulnerable people to fend for themselves, resulting in increased homelessness, crime and suicide.
Source: http://libcom.org/ne...rovision-250406

She supported apartheid and considered Nelson Mandela's ANC a terrorist organisation.
Source: http://www.sahistory...c-calling-it-te

She deregulated school meals, lowering nutritional standards for children.
Source: http://www.tandfonli...rnalCode=ccph20

Her so-called 'poll tax' was hated because it shifted the tax burden from the rich to the poor.
Source: http://en.wikipedia....ommunity_Charge

Under her reign, inequality rose. The poor got even poorer but the rich continued to get richer.
Source: http://www.guardian....-charts#poverty

Far from being a feminist icon, she opposed equal rights for women and enacted policies that hit women more strongly.
Source: http://books.google....nepage&q&f=true

She aided the Khmer Rouge while they were killing millions of Cambodians.
Source: http://www.popularmy...er-article.html

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1. She supported the retention of capital punishment
2. She destroyed the country's manufacturing industry
3. She voted against the relaxation of divorce laws
4. She abolished free milk for schoolchildren ("Margaret Thatcher, Milk Snatcher")
5. She supported more freedom for business (and look how that turned out)
6. She gained support from the National Front in the 1979 election by pandering to the fears of immigration
7. She gerrymandered local authorities by forcing through council house sales, at the same time preventing councils from spending the money they got for selling houses on building new houses (spending on social housing dropped by 67% in her premiership)
8. She was responsible for 3.6 million unemployed - the highest figure and the highest proportion of the workforce in history and three times the previous government. Massaging of the figures means that the figure was closer to 5 million
9. She ignored intelligence about Argentinian preparations for the invasion of the Falkland Islands and scrapped the only Royal Navy presence in the islands
10. The poll tax
11. She presided over the closure of 150 coal mines; we are now crippled by the cost of energy, having to import expensive coal from abroad
12. She compared her "fight" against the miners to the Falklands War
13. She privatised state monopolies and created the corporate greed culture that we've been railing against for the last 5 years
14. She introduced the gradual privatisation of the NHS
15. She introduced financial deregulation in a way that turned city institutions into avaricious money pits
16. She pioneered the unfailing adoration and unquestioning support of the USA
17. She allowed the US to place nuclear missiles on UK soil, under US control
18. Section 28
19. She opposed anti-apartheid sanctions against South Africa and described Nelson Mandela as "that grubby little terrorist"
20. She support the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia and sent the SAS to train their soldiers
21. She allowed the US to bomb Libya in 1986, against the wishes of more than 2/3 of the population
22. She opposed the reunification of Germany
23. She invented Quangos
24. She increased VAT from 8% to 17.5%
25. She had the lowest approval rating of any post-war Prime Minister
26. Her post-PM job? Consultant to Philip Morris tobacco at $250,000 a year, plus $50,000 per speech
27. The Al Yamamah contract
28. She opposed the indictment of Chile's General Pinochet
29. Social unrest under her leadership was higher than at any time since the General Strike
30. She presided over interest rates increasing to 15%
31. BSE
32. She presided over 2 million manufacturing job losses in the 79-81 recession
33. She opposed the inclusion of Eire in the Northern Ireland peace process
34. She supported sanctions-busting arms deals with South Africa
35. Cecil Parkinson, Alan Clark, David Mellor, Jeffrey Archer, Jonathan Aitkin
36. Crime rates doubled under Thatcher
37. Black Wednesday – Britain withdraws from the ERM and the pound is devalued. Cost to Britain - £3.5 billion; profit for George Soros - £1 billion
38. Poverty doubled while she opposed a minimum wage
39. She privatised public services, claiming at the time it would increase public ownership. Most are now owned either by foreign governments (EDF) or major investment houses. The profits don’t now accrue to the taxpayer, but to foreign or institutional shareholders.
40. She cut 75% of funding to museums, galleries and other sources of education
41. In the Thatcher years the top 10% of earners received almost 50% of the tax remissions
42. 21.9% inflation

Literally everyone in the UK and a huge number of people in Europe can thank her for why everything sucks, especially economically. You might find the vitriol excessive but the alternative to insincere platitudes and sweeping the crimes under the carpet isn't silence. I'm also a pretty big fan of this article too: http://www.guardian....death-etiquette

(personally I'm not glad she's dead, I'm pissed off she didn't rot in prison)

[Macros]

I have no problems with people being happy she's dead, what's messing with my groove is people taking great delight in proclaiming how they'd love to piss on her grave and hope she burns for eternity.

I agree wholeheartedly with the last articles sentiments that the veneration of the dead regardless of their life is dangerous, especially with such prominent figures. But there's a broad line between publically stating her faults and drawing needed attention to the damage her policies and actions caused (and are still causing) and mindless vitriol and hate that people are spewing. Show some fucking decorum, she's dead and her family are mourning. Calling her a hellbitch who needs to burn for ever whilst the masses piss on her grave is not a political statement, (looking at old Georgie here) its an insult to her family.


*not aimed at illy, illys post is what I would prefer to see over what my fb has had the last 24 hours*

[Tiste Simeon]

Yeah open debate & well constructed arguments are one thing. Ill educated hate speech & talk of corpse desecration are quite another...

[Macros]

*resists tiste corpse joke*

[Assail]

People whining incessantly about things they cannot change.

[Adjutant Stormy~]

Manual labor. God do I hate it, but it pays the bills.

I also have a broken bone in my foot that I'm just suffering through.

[Illuyankas]

Assail, on 09 April 2013 - 08:13 PM, said:

People whining incessantly about things they cannot change.

Passive aggressive comments. Especially facebook statuses, jesus christ.

[Adjutant Stormy~]

PEOPLE WHO DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MEDIAN AND AVERAGE.

GOD. FUCKING. DAMN. IT.

[Adjutant Stormy~]

Adjutant Stormy~, on 10 April 2013 - 01:36 AM, said:

PEOPLE WHO DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MEDIAN AND AVERAGE.

GOD. FUCKING. DAMN. IT.

WORSE, THEY ATTEMPT TO USE IT TO PROVE WIDE-SPANNING ARGUMENTS.

NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE.

[Defiance]

My son didn't get diagnosed with autism.

Yes, you read that correctly. I'm pissed that my son did not get an official diagnosis so that he could be medically labelled. Why?

I won't go into excessive detail, but my son has a serious learning disorder. For reference, he's five years old and is in kindergarten with an IEP. While he does will with non-verbal activities, when it comes to using language to express himself, to communicate, or to understand anything that's even slightly abstract, he completely fails. As a result, I can't ask him what he did at school today, what he's doing right now, how he's feeling, and so on. Any sort of directions that involve more than one and sometimes two steps go way over his head, even when he has a visual cue and other people demonstrate what to do first. At school, he spends most of the day in the special education room receiving one-on-one or small group help; in larger settings, he experiences sensory overload and zero learning gets done. His behavior is also really poor in this kind of setting (his behavior is a problem overall, but I think a large part of it is due to his inability to express himself).

So anyway, we've been on a waiting list for 8 months to get an appointment so that he can get an autism diagnosis. The school, his family doctor, myself, and my girlfriend are all pretty sure that he falls somewhere on the spectrum, although he is a bit more sociable than most autistic children I've met. We want to get him this diagnosis so that he can get the extra support programs he needs. I don't know how it is in other countries, but in America you need to have a medical label for your disorder before you can receive services. My son needs extreme amounts of speech therapy as well as supplementary services over the summer in order to stop him from regressing and losing all of the progress he's made this last year. Problem is, we leave paycheck to paycheck already; we can't afford any such things. Thus, we need the label.

So, we go in today, and the first two professionals are not entirely sure it's autism, but they say they'd rather diagnose because otherwise he just has an unclassified learning disorder and won't be eligible for help, which he really needs. For reference, he scored roughly average of non-verbal activities, but he was in the lowest percentile when it came to verbal; I was told that this sort of gap is extremely uncommon, and given the nature of the school system in the United States it will cause him to fall increasingly behind in every grade. I want to do everything I can to prevent this as much as possible, and given the progress he's made in kindergarten this year I am positive that lots of extra help, particularly speech services, would help him immensely. I don't know if he'd ever be at quite the same level as his peers, but I think there is definitely some room for improvement. The first two professionals agree.

The final one, who is the one who is able to give the diagnosis, however, isn't convinced that it's autism (as if that really matters; I'll label my kid as whatever the hell it takes as long as I can get the resources needed to help him succeed). In terms of learning development, he shows the signs, but he doesn't show many of the social behaviors that autistic children do (he has no problem making eye contact or interacting with others). As a result, we don't get the diagnosis, and she proceeds to list off all of the expensive programs that we can pay for. We tell her we need some sort of official label in order to get him the assistance he needs, but she just repeats what she said.

The result? Between $1400 and $2200 for the visit (won't know until the bill comes) which resulted in them just repeating to us everything we already knew. We didn't come because we're retarded and can't observe our child and figure out where he's struggling, we came to get a god damn diagnosis so that he can actually get the extra help he needs in order to fulfill his potential.

Meh, that was probably excessive detail, but I needed to rant (for probably the 50th time today). I'm going to spend the day relaxing tomorrow, and then figure out where to go from here. It's impossible to qualify for assistance on anything without a diagnosis, but I'm not sure that a diagnosis even exists; the psychologist we saw today actually had a conversation about the state of the healthcare system and how messed up it is because so many kids have learning disabilities but don't fall under a label and as a result don't qualify for help. I guess I have to start looking into other disorders (if there even are any) that he might fall into so that we can get a diagnosis. It's frustrating as hell, especially because it feels like I'm failing him as a parent. There's got to be some way I can get him the help he needs.

/end rant