Pet Peeves

[Necro Red]

How is that evil bitch Catriona Carey not in the jail? Infuriating.

some laugh isn't it?

[stearl]

How is that evil bitch Catriona Carey not in the jail? Infuriating.

some laugh isn't it?

I guess the DPP and Gardai are followers of the forum - they seem to have responded to your post 

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/crime/catriona-carey-arrested-over-alleged-600000-mortgage-scam-42436870.html

[The Heretic]

How is that evil bitch Catriona Carey not in the jail? Infuriating.

some laugh isn't it?

I guess the DPP and Gardai are followers of the forum - they seem to have responded to your post 

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/crime/catriona-carey-arrested-over-alleged-600000-mortgage-scam-42436870.html

Some set of headlights goin on there..is that where some of the money went?

[Caomhaoin]

Yeah she just frittered the money away. Some fuckin' accountant she is. Good enough for her the snake.

[blessed1]

Did you hear about her brother too?
Another scammer. Made out he had some form of cancer and was getting donations from people. All just made up bullshit.

[Necro Red]

Did you hear about her brother too?
Another scammer. Made out he had some form of cancer and was getting donations from people. All just made up bullshit.

tis all local goss here ha ha ha

[Caomhaoin]

I loved DJ growing up but I cannot understand the mentality of asking lads for substantial sums over a made up illness. Outrageous, he's an absolute cunt for doing that.

[Caomhaoin]

Typical bait and switch bullshit from the BBC. https://www.bbc.com/news/health-65300168

If true, not giving pain relief to black women because of stereotyping (dubious enough claim) is unacceptable. Nevertheless it has nothing to do with child mortality. Black women being more likely to suffer from obesity than white or Chinese is a more likely factor, but why state facts when you can blame it on some vague notion of racism.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Nevertheless it has nothing to do with child mortality.

Literally; that article is about maternal, not child, mortality. Not sure what you wanted the BBC to do in directly reporting the results of the NHS' Women and Equalities Committee..? "Here's what they say, but just to keep the culture war people happy, we feel we should also add it may just be because they're fat."

Would that have been too much to ask of the political correctness gone mad BBC!?

[Caomhaoin]

Sorry, maternal mortality I meant to write.

The implication is that RACISM (dun dun dun) is somehow to blame. Surely you can agree that issues related to obesity (to which you have egregiously dumbed down, not me) such as diabetes etc (more prevalent in blacks than whites) might be, among others, the more likely culprit?

The 'article' does not show any evidence of racism causing the disparity in mortality rates, just some anecdotes about pain relief and 'not feeling safe'. It's a spurious, dishonest article like most things on their website.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

It's not about "the likely culprit" though, not primarily. It's about people dying, in childbirth. Not wanting to sound trite, but I think the first angle of approach needs to be compassion there. And as I said, as shitty as the BBC can be, I don't really know what you wanted them to do better here if they're reporting the results of a given committee.

Yes, rates of obesity are much higher in black populations, and also more generally in lower income populations, in the UK and elsewhere. The NHS knows this and faces it as a high threat public health issue, as they should. That medical personnel (medically) treat patients differently according to race, especially in the area of pain, is well known, and isn't limited to pregnancy/childbirth (example study: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1516047113). Reasons for this are complex, but part of it is because our historic clinical knowledge has come predominantly from white population samples (and much of this was due to capital R Racism, since white people often had access to care that non-white people didn't or else didn't live in the kinds of areas where samples were selected from, etc.).

Sometimes when you generalize this clinical knowledge to all ethnicities it poses no real problem, but sometimes it does (see the whole area of sickle cell anemia). If medical staff were led to believe that complications in childbirth in black women are more "likely" just because they are more likely to be overweight, that is not an attitude conducive to improved medical treatment, quite the opposite, as already indicated in the area of pain treatment. The real question is, given a mother's physiological state, whatever it be, how best should she be medically treated, for pain and other complaints/complications, and are the personnel at the medical facility she is being treated at trained to deliver that optimal treatment. And I think the conclusion of the NHS report relayed in the BBC article there is, no, they are not, not to a satisfactory level. Just as the obesity epidemic in lower income populations is not being addressed to a satisfactory level either. All of that seems more important to me than culture war stuff, so on their side I do think the NHS should have strategically restrained themselves to terminology like "racial bias" (because that's exactly what it is) rather than "racism", but I also think anyone looking for a culture war skirmish still would have gotten their knickers in a twist over it.

[astfgyl]

Biro thieves

[son of the Morrigan]

Jumped-up young pricks of "automobile technicians" who are of the opinion they can bullshit a lad that's 30 years working on machines and engines.
Cheeky little cunts.

[Carnage]

Thai food. Got a takeaway last night and it was lovely but by christ am I suffering today. My guts have been at me all day, only right now after the second turbohypermegadump of the day (I'll be charitable and suggest that listening to the new Metallica had nothing to do with bringing that on). The minus effect of that is the chili's passing through now - and I don't get the ring of fire. Ya falla'?

[John Kimble]

Yep, I hear ya. Love Thai. Tom Yung Goong is my absolute favourite. It's an awful affliction since I had my entire large intestine removed a few years ago. That, as you can imagine, doesn't lend itself well to spicy foods.