The stupidity of the anti-vaxx nutcases

[LDC]

Next week they're organising a demo against the introduction of the decimal system.

 

[Buddy Bradley]

Brilliant. There is an anti lockdown protest going on today. Yes, TODAY. You couldnt make it up.

Are you sure it's not just a celebratory gathering for the end of restrictions? Dumb as they are, nobody could have missed the build-up to today.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

certified loon, she blocked someone I follow on facebook who was trying to reason

Maybe Twitter and FB should make everything these weirdos post appear in green ink.

 

[Orang Utan]

Are you sure it's not just a celebratory gathering for the end of restrictions? Dumb as they are, nobody could have missed the build-up to today.

they probably perceive the current restrictions and obligations in regard to public health as lockdown measures and probably won’t accept that the lockdown is over until everything is exactly the same as before

 

[WouldBe]

Next week they're organising a demo against the introduction of the decimal system.

Don't give them ideas.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Next week they're organising a demo against the introduction of the decimal system.

At least it's not quite as nasty as the library refuseniks - with them it's always 'I blame the Dewey, I can't find the book I'm interested in and it's all because of the Dewey' etc

 

[Louis MacNeice]

dp

 

[Louis MacNeice]

Oops!

 

[DaveCinzano]

It's all going a bit friendly fire

 

[glitch hiker]

It's all going a bit friendly fire

She's quite angry!

Still at least someone's watching GBeebies

 

[fucthest8]

Next week they're organising a demo against the introduction of the decimal system.

Nope, it will be a protest demanding the end of the £sd system

 

[salem]

But the quack is at least consistent in their idiocy. The authorities running the country have flip flopped on advice, backtracked, changed things at the last minute, broken their own rules…. None of that builds faith or trust.

Indeed, but (and I say this generally rather than in defence of the stupid decisions the gov has made) part of taking real science and acting on it is observing, adapting, testing etc. Good science admits when it's wrong and these idiots see that as a flaw rather then the way things should be.

It's all going a bit friendly fire

That woman seems troubled, I saw a bloke like that on the tube yesterday - was getting very angry and upset at the recorded messages. He made everyone feel quite uncomfortable but tbh wasn't the first time I've seen someone ranting and raving at that station - I felt sorry for him tbh - as opposed to disdain for the people who seem to enjoy walking around the supermarket with a scowl on their faces.

 

[Yossarian]

Are you sure it's not just a celebratory gathering for the end of restrictions? Dumb as they are, nobody could have missed the build-up to today.

Wasn't expecting COVID to have a victory rally.

 

[Dogsauce]

It's all going a bit friendly fire

Someone who can’t do maths with the banner behind. This lot seem keen on only doing half the sums, yes more vaccinated people are dying than unvaccinated, but there are significantly more vaccinated in vulnerable groups than there are unvaccinated, need to consider the proportion of each population. Fuckwits.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

It must enrage people in countries without adequate access to the vaccines to watch these idiots waste it.

 

[Pickman's model]

Next week they're organising a demo against the introduction of the decimal system.

you say that like the introduction of the decimal system was an unmitigated Good Thing and anyone who opposes it must be mad. tell you what, if it's such a grand notion then why isn't it applied to time?

 

[NoXion]

you say that like the introduction of the decimal system was an unmitigated Good Thing and anyone who opposes it must be mad. tell you what, if it's such a grand notion then why isn't it applied to time?

Only inertia really. It would take something like a massive globe-spanning empire to do it, or perhaps some new religion or philosophy that utterly takes the world by storm. Base-60 time has been with us since the Babylonians IIRC, whereas £Sd wasn't around nearly as long.

 

[Pickman's model]

Only inertia really. It would take something like a massive globe-spanning empire to do it, or perhaps some new religion or philosophy that utterly takes the world by storm. Base-60 time has been with us since the Babylonians IIRC, whereas £Sd wasn't around nearly as long.

pounds shillings and pence in many ways a much more sensible system than the one we've ended up with, which is solely based on the number of fingers most people have (and the pre-decimal coinage lives on in the way we learn up to the 12 x table).

 

[scalyboy]

It must enrage people in countries without adequate access to the vaccines to watch these idiots waste it.

100% agree. It's embarrassing, these privileged simpletons and their fantasy oppression.

 

[NoXion]

pounds shillings and pence in many ways a much more sensible system than the one we've ended up with, which is solely based on the number of fingers most people have (and the pre-decimal coinage lives on in the way we learn up to the 12 x table).

Not sure how it's sensible to have more than one sub-denomination in today's economy. I've never needed to pay for anything in fractions of a penny. A penny is already pretty damn fractional right now!

 

[two sheds]

Ah but you can get exact amounts if you're dividing anything between 2, 3, 4 or 6 people - not just the miserly 2 and 5 of a decimal system.

 

[Pickman's model]

Not sure how it's sensible to have more than one sub-denomination in today's economy. I've never needed to pay for anything in fractions of a penny. A penny is already pretty damn fractional right now!

oh i'm not making the case for farthings or groats

 

[two sheds]

although there's a case to be made

 

[cupid_stunt]

oh i'm not making the case for farthings or groats

That's one for sasaferrato.

 

[NoXion]

Ah but you can get exact amounts if you're dividing anything between 2, 3, 4 or 6 people - not just the miserly 2 and 5 of a decimal system.

Ease of general calculation is more important these days than ease of division. I know I've never had such problems.

 

[Pickman's model]

That's one for sasaferrato.

quite so

 

[two sheds]

Ease of general calculation is more important these days than ease of division. I know I've never had such problems.

pah it'll all be done by computer soon, then societies with multiples of 2, 3, 4 or 6 people will outcompete ...

 

[NoXion]

pah it'll all be done by computer soon, then societies with multiples of 2, 3, 4 or 6 people will outcompete ...

I'm not sure anyone else wants to be the masters of the World Cake Dividing Championships, so they can have at it.

 

[two sheds]

It's not just cakes though, is it. Any thing that can be counted.

 

[agricola]

It's not just cakes though, is it. Any thing that can be counted.

Samurai and Ronin will be especially vulnerable