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[Magmacube_tr]

So you got some good weather up there bud?

I think my neuros are too divergent to get what this really means... But yeah, the weather's fine over here.

[Il Palazzo]

Absolutely smashing sunshine over here, old horse. Isn't this nice. We're having a conversation.

[Egan_BW]

Also a politics thread getting locked is for the best, hopefully the rest follow suit.

And when all remaining topics and members are of the most inoffensive, anodyne disposition, there will be no more point in talking about anything but the weather, and the forum will have died for good.
I don't think it's for the best.

I don't mind avoiding that whole scene, but I do think that the politics threads do a good service in occasionally weeding out the users who cannot control themselves, which improves the quality of our true work of silly forum games.

[Starver]

Though I'm not at all caught up in this thread, its purpose applies so well to having just read this article that I just had to append this contribution here.

As far as I'm concerned, there's two reckless individuals here, one drove the car (you can't casually do that sort of excess speed without noticing), the other drove the judicial bench...

[Il Palazzo]

I'm calling fake news. Only a moron would move to the UK with that surname in tow. Oh, wait.

[Akura]

I'm confused here. The judge said he had a good reason to be speeding, but gave him a fine ten times that of normal?

[Starver]

I didn't understand that, either.

("Minor" speeding tends to be £100-200, three points. "Serious" speeding goes from £100-1000 and/or 1.5 weeks of the the driver's take-home, 6 points and a period of disqualification. To me, the facts point at "Serious". Being caught by a speed camera removes the "was observed driving dangerously and failed to stop when chased" aggravation, but... come on... 166% the posted limit? Or 142% the maximum possible limit, if claiming bad signage/temporary misunderstanding (and perhaps having temporarily forgotten that it's only dual-carriageways where that applies if this was on a single-carriageway road).)


Mainly, though, I despair of there even being the possibility of any reason to consider 'being distracted' as a mitigation. If anything, a lack of focus would be an additional reason to not been going anywhere near as fast...

(Cards on the table, I've driven at 100mph. Reckless youth. You know you're doing it. I didn't go for long in that mindset, having avoided the obvious karmic fates that would stem from it. Further card on the table, I once mistook a 30-zone for a 40-zone (it was actually a 'safe speed' to do, but not what the road was designated at) and got pulled over for it (clearly somewhere where such mistakes happen often enough to make it worth checking for errors such as mine) and had to graciously accept the points/fine for it. And I'm the kind of person who will drive at the speed limit (near as my speedo allows) when it is safe to do so and yet still get others moving up on my bumber/passing at speeds that can't even be possibly reasoned as just us have differently-adjusted speedos. The philosophy of some people seems to be "they maybe allow a 10% overspeed, in case of the speedometer showing slightly lower than it should, and I'll go another 10% faster than that, to take up the slack, in case my speedometer is actually showing slightly higher than it should". That's if they're even trying to rationalise it.)

[Il Palazzo]

I'm confused here. The judge said he had a good reason to be speeding, but gave him a fine ten times that of normal?

Probably a mistake in the article, as expected of such quality journalism. I bet it should be the other way around.

[Great Order]

So you got some good weather up there bud?

I think my neuros are too divergent to get what this really means... But yeah, the weather's fine over here.

Referencing the comment above mine.

[Magmacube_tr]

So you got some good weather up there bud?

I think my neuros are too divergent to get what this really means... But yeah, the weather's fine over here.

Referencing the comment above mine.

Oh. Right. It is supposed to imply being aloof. I get it now.

[King Zultan]

Also a politics thread getting locked is for the best, hopefully the rest follow suit.

And when all remaining topics and members are of the most inoffensive, anodyne disposition, there will be no more point in talking about anything but the weather, and the forum will have died for good.
I don't think it's for the best.

The forum existed just fine before they were added and it'll be just fine without them.

[Frumple]

... I mean, it did, and instead of mostly being in dedicated threads the politics just kind of splattered everywhere like a particularly embarrassing after party. Not sure I'd call it an improvement, heh.

[Il Palazzo]

The forum was fine with anything back when it used to have more active members than the moderation log entries, is what I'm saying here.

[Magmacube_tr]

The forum was fine with anything back when it used to have more active members than the moderation log entries, is what I'm saying here.

I suppose that in the ancient times, the amount of users and the lack of dedicated threads made it harder for Toady to keep track. Now in the modern age, we are fewer, so he can.

[Great Order]

I am finding myself, once again, confused with the carnivore fad diet. Especially the raw carnivore fad diet. I forget it exists, get reminded, and feel an urge to look up the insanity they cook up.

Humans are natural carnivores, donchaknow. Hence why we've got a classical omnivore dentition with grinding molars. We produce amylase because uh... ancestral trait that hung around for a few million years. Scientists are all liars for reasons, they want you to eat plant matter because... something something.