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General Chatter - The Boozer / Re: September pub - Sep 29?

« on: September 30, 2023, 11:24:27 AM »

ALAS!

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General Chatter - The Boozer / Re: September pub - Sep 28?

« on: September 26, 2023, 06:58:36 PM »

Ridiculous! Preposterous! Outrageous! Ludicrous!
 Utterly inconceivable!

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General Chatter - The Boozer / Re: Workshop Booze Up VII - New Year, Same Plague, Same Booze Up, Deja Vu

« on: September 23, 2023, 10:41:00 PM »

Is there a what are you watching thread? Because I've been watching season 2 of Wheel of Time and it is much, much better than season 1. Season 1 was good enough to get me to read the books, but season 2 is actually a very enjoyable adaptation which imo even improves on the story at times.

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Announcements! The Town Crier! / Re: Going to be Away?

« on: September 08, 2023, 03:44:22 PM »

No sense, never sense, not a drop of sense. Kitchen gardening is clearly where it belongs.
Also I'm back.

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Announcements! The Town Crier! / Re: Kitchen Gardening

« on: August 21, 2023, 08:40:15 PM »

I'm going now. This is the end. GOOODBYE

ps
I'm off to Zambia for a couple of weeks, hopefully will have wifi at some point but might be a tad busy. Forgot where the travellings thread was.

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Discussion and Debate - The Philosopher's Plaza / Re: Russia/Ukraine Crisis 2022-3

« on: July 24, 2023, 06:51:16 PM »

Russia's been bombing the armadillo out of Ukraine's ports and grain stores apparently, I guess that makes the question of naval safety kind of irrelevant.

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History, Science, and Interesting Information - The Great Library / Re: Palaeontology yays

« on: July 04, 2023, 09:59:37 AM »

Paleontologists seem to have a lot of fun when they're naming things

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Food Discussion - The Jolly Boar Kitchen / Re: What have you been eating?

« on: July 01, 2023, 10:44:26 AM »

I am very hungry now, congrats everyone

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Tolkien & LOTR / Re: Rings of Power

« on: June 30, 2023, 08:57:19 PM »

Haven't managed to read the whole post yet but yes, yes indeed.

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Discussion and Debate - The Philosopher's Plaza / Re: Why i don`t support the CA politics of the rus-cancellation

« on: June 30, 2023, 08:40:20 PM »

I'm not sure how denying an official Russian translation of a PC game affects the war in any way. And if a government being armadilloty is the reason for not supporting their language then I'm not sure why CA is so happy to cater to the Chinese market.

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Discussion and Debate - The Philosopher's Plaza / Re: Healthcare, Pensions & Ageing Populations

« on: June 29, 2023, 09:20:57 PM »

I know here most (if not all?) GP practices are privately owned, not entirely sure how the funding works out but I think they have a separate pay negotiations from the NHS staff pay. NHS pay is a bit weird, most medical staff are on banded pay but at some point doctors get a separate pay scale, not sure at what level. Having set paybands for each level is presumably to prevent nepotism and whatnot, but unfortunately it also means you can't offer more pay for the armadilloty jobs that people don't want to do (like discharge coordination ewww), so those armadilloty jobs tend to stay understaffed or (sometimes) staffed by armadilloty staff.

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Discussion and Debate - The Philosopher's Plaza / Re: Healthcare, Pensions & Ageing Populations

« on: June 22, 2023, 10:13:10 AM »

In Canada, like the USA, the doctors' professional associations limit intake of medical students (and limit what anyone without a MD can do) to keep their incomes high and total spending on doctors' wages under control.  Is it the same in the UK?

Not as far as I know, I'm pretty sure the number of available educators would be the main limiting factor here. I don't think many doctors see training more doctors as a professional competition, there's clearly a shortage in most areas. IDK about the politics behind it but many GPs use physician's associates, nurses and AHP's to offload much of their work. It also seems that AHPs and nurses are more commonly being trained to be able to prescribe medication here too. So if the doctor's associations are aiming to limit all this they are not being very successful.
With physiotherapy I get the feeling that many current physios (particularly university educators I expect) feel that a university degree route is the necessary route, and that an apprenticeship route (even though it also necessitates studying at university) is not sufficient. But I would say that's from a kind of professional snobbery/elitism more than wanting to reduce competition.

Among Brits from say ages 18 to 60, what are the typical characteristics of someone who is physically inactive, has a diet heavy in processed foods and alcohol, and abuses substances such as weed, alcohol, or tobacco?

I'm not sure if there are typical characteristics, that's a very broad population unfortunately. It's probably most of the population, iirc it's something like 50% of men and 66% of women don't meet the national minimum exercise targets (which is only about 150 minutes a week of low intensity activity like walking).

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The Welcome Hall - Start Here! / Re: Hello there!

« on: June 21, 2023, 02:40:28 PM »

don't feel afraid to just post stuff, we're very un strict about putting things in the right subforum or whatever

He's lying, you should be terrified. You should probably run far far away

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General Chatter - The Boozer / Re: Upcoming Pubs (May & June)

« on: May 26, 2023, 06:08:39 PM »

I was busy watching people get sliced up and screwed back together.

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Writing, Poems, AARs, and Stories - The Storyteller's Hall / Re: Fantasy book recommendations please!

« on: May 13, 2023, 07:04:01 PM »

Just finished The wise man's fear by Patrick Rothfuss. Was quite good, although not sure it warranted the hyping up that one of my friends gave it.

Been a while since I last read it, iirc I found about half of it very very good, maybe a quarter of it was decent and the remainder was "wtf, why did he write so much plot based on his weird sexual fantasies and maybe orientalism hard on". Overall I enjoyed it and I'm sure I'll read the final book if it ever comes out, but as Joobs said the plot is not the best in this one. The Slow Regard of Silent Things is really good though, it doesn't need plot.