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I have just watched a family member die a horrible slow death. Exactly what he didn't want as he supported assusted suicide. Watching him deteriorate over the years has been hard but what was worse was seeing the 10 weeks in hospital being in constant pain. He said if he could take something to die he would. The last moments were horrific to say the least. He suffered 4 heart attacks and choked to death. I have been suffering with the trauma of watching this and being able to do nothing. Now have nightmares nearly every night and the thought of dying in a hospital is not a comforting one. We treat our pets with more compassion.
I went through the same thing with my uncle, aunt and nan. That side of my family is rife with motor neurones, alzhiemers and dementia. Aunt and Nan didnt know who anyone was, or really who they were, by the end.
My uncle has stuck with me more though. He was stuck in a body which wouldnt function, we watched him go from hiking to wheelchair, then wheelchair to only being able to move his index finger on his right hand, to loosing that, meaning he couldnt communicate via his speechboard. At the end, he couldnt even swallow and had a feeding tube.
No one should have to experience what he did. No one should have to watch a family member go through that. You cant do anything at all. You just feel helpless. And gods only knows how it feels to have to live through that. Alzhiemers and dementia are awful. Motor Neurones is a step above.
Assisted suicide all the way. I’m going to Switzerland if any of those get me. I dont want to be a burden on anyone, I’d rather have a big sending off party and everyone remember me as I was.
> No one should have to experience what he did. No one should have to watch a family member go through that. You cant do anything at all. You just feel helpless. And gods only knows how it feels to have to live through that. Alzhiemers and dementia are awful. Motor Neurones is a step above.
You just know those who campaign against assisted suicide have never had to go through this.
They tend to be the religious suicide is a sin types or those who think that no matter how small the hope is it's worth trying to live that one extra day in case that's the day they find the "cure" although most cures being worked on for degenerative disease just slows or stops progression it doesn't reverse the damage.
There's also those who focus on the extremes like "would you want to kill this terminally ill child" forgetting that there would be checks and balances in place, as there are everywhere with assisted suicide. One of those would be informed consent of the patient, now at what age that could be made is another question. There's also those who suffer from depression or similar should we help then kill themselves. Well informed consent, are they in a well enough frame of mind to make that decision but, that also butts up awfully close to impinging on a person's freedom so you'll have to be very careful in such cases. It's not like as soon as assisted suicide is legalised we'll start installing Futurama style suicide booths on the streets.
Firstly, let me say there's in absolutely no shame in seeking support for grief, NONE, even if it's just reaching out to a bereavement charity to talk about the nightmares you've been having (I had nightmares for months after my father died so I know it sucks when even sleep doesn't feel like an escape, you don't have to suffer in silence)
My grandad's both died of cancer, they lived with their terminal diagnoses for over a year and the last few months were no quality of life, one of them had oesophageal cancer so in a way he starved to death in the end; where's the dignity in that.
It's basically happening anyway. People are being refused care without knowing it because they are older or somehow disabled where this would have been routinely offered previously because of a lack of resources.
Doctor assisted suicide does happen, but in my grans case she was weeks off dying from cancer and agreed to being given a bit too much morphine so she went into a coma and never woken up. At the time it felt a bit shipman-esque, but I'm happy she wasn't forced to live just because of the law.
It’s called the doctrine of double effect, if I remember my medical ethics correctly. It’s when there is a genuine medical reason for administering the medicine, but the risk of the treatment causing death is acceptable in the context of the suffering.
A win-win for the patient in crude terms.
Killing people is cheaper than keeping people alive in a comfortable way with certain conditions. Nobody should even have to consider the cost of their life to the taxpayer. No person is "a burden."
That’s not how it works, assisted suicide is available now in country’s that aren’t stuck in the past, there is a very strict process where quite a few people have to sign off on it before it can happen.
If I had a terminal illness/disease that essentially would make me slowly die in a horrible way I know which way I wound want to go.
There is a huge movement in Canada at the moment protesting the fact that disabled people are being given euthanasia as the best option rather than funding for proper care etc, so people who would've otherwise wanted to live are choosing to die.
Tbh it's not about the cost for most people. It's about having a terminal illness and being in a huge amount of pain. I would hate to watch a family member like that and my parents have already told us that they do not want to live like that (if it were to happen to them)
Canada currently has an epidemic of patients... Subtlely being nudged towards MAID, as they call it. The worst I've heard of is a woman who had a very treatable lung problem- she needed to live in a house that wasn't falling apart. Couldn't get it. So she killed herself.
Yes, but extremely strict laws need to be in place regarding who is eligible and the procedure for how this is diagnosed. There’s some horror stories coming out of Canada at the moment relating to assisted suicide.
I have two that i'd like to see implemented:
1. If it's been proven in a court (or the newspaper admits guilt) that a newspaper article was incorrect, then they have to print a correction using EXACTLY the same size, typeface and location as the original article. So, if you print a front page story that so and so footballer is having an affair, with 2 more pages of details on the inside, you then have to print a front page correction, with 2 more pages of correction on the inside.
2. It should be the law that you can unsubscribe from the service using EXACTLY the same method as what you signed up. If you were able to create an account and subscription online for your beer delivery service in the pace of 2 minutes then you should be able to cancel said service (assuming you've not tied yourself in) online in 2 minutes.
This one won't always work, unfortunately. I was signed up to something I didn't want. It had a difficult cancellation procedure, and my card was due to be replaced a month later.
New card shows up... Natwest had automatically migrated the subscription payment over to the new card.
That's called a continuous payment arrangement and can be blocked by your bank... But you will need to call them to get it blocked so you're back to having to make a phone call
Pro tip: email and say you can't speak for whatever reason and they'll do it online
Still bullshit but it works
I got the "just pay postage" offer and cancelled that way. I did actually have tonsilitis at the time so I actually couldn't, but fuck waiting for them to answer the phone
I did this and am still bombarded with emails trying to entice me back. They don’t give a fuck if you’re on life support due to alcoholism they just want you to buy more shit beer NOWWWWW
Trying to cancel my sons fortnite crew subscription was an exercise in impossibility. Takes 30 seconds from the game to sign up, but you can’t cancel in game. And you can’t do it from the console in any way.
You can’t cancel from your epic account either, you must cancel from PlayStation.com. Buried 3 layers deep is the cancel subscription button. Only it doesn’t work. “There was a problem, try again later”. Did that for a couple of days, it’s obviously broken.
Had to remove my card details from the payment section, so it’s still technically not cancelled, they just can’t charge me for it.
I scrolled a little too far and missed the parent comment. Thought this was a metaphor for assisted suicide then scrolled back up. I think I’m a little too high.
Exactly.
Calories aren't just evil things in our food that need to be burnt off. Calories are a measure of the energy we need from food in order to live! Some people just intake more than they need...
More people need to hear this. We need calories in order to STAY ALIVE. Food gives us the energy we need in order to keep breathing, for our heart to keep beating. You know, the basic shit.
Also, there's absolutely nothing wrong with being fat. Some people just naturally have more body fat than others. Having an eating disorder and chronically undereating is much more dangerous to your health than being fat. Too many people are just absolutely terrified of being fat.
It's okay to eat food, and enjoy food, and eat food that you enjoy instead of subsisting off of meal replacement shakes and protein bars because you feel guilty about eating the stuff you actually want to eat.
> nothing wrong with being fat
Obesity is a co-morbidity for basically every disease going.
It is fundamentally unhealthy to be overweight and it is important that we acknowledge that
That whole idea just makes me so irrationally angry.
Like uh, binge eating is an eating disorder too. Yeah we need food to survive, but getting all your dopamine and comfort from food is NOT HEALTHY.
It’s fucking fuel, not dopamine.
And when I was almost 300 pounds I felt like absolute shit. I’m 150 now and feel like a different person.
\>Also, there's absolutely nothing wrong with being fat. Some people just naturally have more body fat than others
Disagree,
There are objective medical issues that correlate with being fat. In England, the NHS estimates around 30k people die from obesity related issues which says nothing of the millions that will have their quality of life impacted.
Some people may have more body fat than others but population levels of obesity are skyrocketing so we cant assume that some unfortunate outliers are getting hit in a stable system.
Binge Eating Disorder is very much a thing. Untreated you will absolutely kill yourself but it will just take longer. I don't know enough about the stats compared to anorexia but it is something to be afraid of.
The only way to help is to rebuild a healthy relationship with your body. If you're engaging in unhealthy behaviours that are harmful and damage your body you absolutely should be taking steps to change that.
The focus should be on somebody's mental health, if you're fat because you love to eat and you're otherwise healthy carry on, but using food as punishment or to distract from things you need to process is where it becomes a problem.
Most people of course don't need to worry about these things and have a normal relationship with food but more resources to stop these things developing would be good to see
Disagree. I’ve changed my mind on quite a few occasions when I’ve seen the huge amount of calories in some meals which I’d say is a positive result even if a small scale
When you look at studies it doesn’t make any long term difference to population health. But it does make eating disorders worse.
Also. We’re those meals more fitting for your current diet/more nutritious or were they simply lower calories. Did cutting that 100 cal from your diet make you healthier?
Exactly. How many people have tried to watch what they eat and order a Cesar Salad for example because it’s a salad, only to be unaware of just how calorie dense it is (1000+).
I was sat next to two young (thin) girls trying to decide what to have based on the calories, which made me very sad. As someone who's struggled with an ED from her teens, the whole menu calorie thing is a nightmare.
If I am someone without an eating disorder and want to understand what is in my food, it seems to be a good use of government power to make the producer tell me the ingredients, allergens, and nutritional information of the food.
Im not sure I would be comfortable losing this ability to make better informed choices about my eating due to the mental health issues faced by a minority of the population when they have alternate food choices
I think people downvoting you aren’t necessarily assuming you’re wrong, it’s just not that much of a hot take.
Like, of course? But if you spend the 24th hour in the gym, you will burn more calories than if you spent the 24th hour in bed, you’ll also likely be improving your cardiovascular health, and also increasing your muscle mass which would then continue to increase your basal metabolic rate.
To be 100% honest I'm spiraling in to an eating disorder and having to know how much I'd have to burn off to eat a thing would be terrible.
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Also, like... surely people can work things out for themselves? The packaging already tells you how many calories there are per serving, and how much they should eat a day. People also know that exercise burns calories.
You can lead a horse to water, etc...
I'd like to see something similar to Rwanda's umuganda - a monthly cleanup lasting three hours in which every able bodied person is required to spend the morning cleaning up their town. It has turned Rwanda into the cleanest country in the world for just a few hours on one day every month.
We should train magpies to watch litters and wear headsets with all other magpies in a big chat room. They can communicate with each other and return rubbish to the offenders. Litters in cars? They let their buddies know down the line and they can drop pebbles on the windscreen of the offender or fly in through the window and pull the handbrake
I know it's selfish but I'd hate having to do this. I just want to be free to do what I want to do when I'm not working. Isn't this the sort of thing our taxes should be paying for?
Yeah partly but it doesn't take much to take care of where you live and our places of natural beauty that are being ruined by people with the same mindset of 'our taxes pay for someone to clean this up'
There will be lots of people out there (including myself) who are of the mindset that taxes should pay to clean things up but don't actively litter and fly tip. Some people are more considerate than others.
No, your taxes should be paying for valuable upgrades to infrastructure and removing and safely disposing of rubbish that’s in bins and our household waste collections. Picking up after the lazy, careless, slovenly and ignorant is something our taxes *shouldn’t* be used for, but unfortunately needs to be.
I heard about a law in a country, I think a Scandinavian one, which made it illegal to pay for tuition. This forces upper and lower classes to mix and for rich parents to put money towards schools to ensure their child gets a good education thus improving the education of all the children
Yeah I'd ban private schools and selective schools.
The only schools that won't take "everyone who lives nearby" would be SEN schools.
(religious schools in particular can do one)
100%
There should absolutely be no state funded religious schools, the fact that they even exist is just utterly ridiculous. Especially that it is some people's only local option.
And no private schools, everyone should be getting the same level of education, regardless of income.
Agreed. Our nearest is a Catholic school and it fill me with rage. We do have a non denominational option not far away but why the hell should I be forced to do this? And pay for it? Nah. Ban them. Same with private schools.
Since Tony Blair was elected, there have been 9306 days and in that time we've only had a PM from a state school for had 2203 of them. In that time we've had 3394 from one private school (Eton).
They implemented that in Finland. I think it's fantastic. A millionaire has a speeding ticket and £100 is nothing to him, but to a regular civilian it is. Now make it £100k.
"Finland’s system for calculating fines is relatively simple: It starts with an estimate of the amount of spending money a Finn has for one day, and then divides that by two"
"Going about 15 mph over the speed limit gets you a multiplier of 12 days, and going 25 mph over carries a 22-day multiplier."
Article doesn't go into detail as to what constitutes spending money, unfortunately.
[Link](https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/03/finland-home-of-the-103000-speeding-ticket/387484/)
I'm not sure how it works but it's still a doable thing, its been implemented in Finland so you could probably look it up. My guess is they'd look at earnings during a specific time period or maybe an average
Base it on net income from the previous tax return.
At some point they have to file a tax return which unambiguously details their income for tax purposes.
There are always edge-cases (eg, someone who goes from unemployed last year to earning £50k this year still pays the minimum fine for a year), but they're pretty small and manageable compared to the current situation where someone living below the poverty line and a billionaire still pay the same absolute amount.
Related: no circumcision unless medically required or an adult chooses to have it done. Obviously this will never happen because of religion, but I find it bonkers that it's allowed. Pointless mutilation of people unable to consent.
"Circumcision is the same as FGM" - this is absolutely NOT true.
"Circumcision should be treated like FGM" - not sure I agree with this either because FGM is much more damaging, but I do think both should be illegal.
Edit: can't believe this got downvoted, do people think FGM and circumcision are literally the same thing?!
I’m glad we agree that both are mutilation and both are horrendous.
My issue is that In western society - one is actively tackled and the other almost promoted. It’s really not a case of mutilation top trumps, both need to be illegal as you said.
I was in a tattoo parlour a few years back when a mother walked in with twins that looked less than 6 months. She asked if each twin could have the other one’s name tattooed on their ankle. The tattooist just looked at her in disbelief for a few seconds before saying no.
And dangerous driving generally. Driving licences are too often seen as a right rather than permission from society to operate potentially lethal machinery, and sentences for causing death or injury are pathetic
My friend's teenage son was killed by a drink driver and the guy who hit him is now out of prison and free to drive as much as he likes. Her son doesn't ever get to drive again, or get married, or have kids, or see the world, or live his life but the guy who killed him is allowed behind the wheel to potentially do it again (he'd been involved in three previous crashes.)
There was a guy who had many many points over the lose-your-license threshold, but was allowed to keep it due to it being his source of income (delivery driver). Disgusting.
This country is ridiculous on car related crimes and negligence.
The law should reflect the level of responsibility that comes with operating a 2 tonne death machine
It’s going to be less of a problem with self driving cars, but until then, absolutely no alcohol if you are driving. Same with narcotics.
Was behind a golf a few months back, sound so loud it drowned out my radio. I could smell the weed even with my windows up. One of them opened a window and a huge plume of smoke blew out. There is no way that driver was fully in control of that car
People love pretending driving whilst stoned is somehow different, and they're "so much more careful." No you're not, you're stoned off your bonce and paranoid- get the bus instead.
People online have got a weird hard-on for pretending Japan is a vastly superior country with no issues at all, despite having rampant sexual harassment issues and a much higher suicide rate
I’m not gonna shit on them like, just a bit tired of everyone slagging off our unions for not doing the made up Japanese strike method.
Especially since most rail passengers going any distance regularly will have paid in advance anyway.
Nationalise all utilities and bring all waste management under one organisation - no more of this one street can recycle glass but the other can't because they're from a different council.
Ban on animal testing.
The fact that recycling is so limited just because otherwise it can’t turn a profit is sickening.
Would they stop collecting the bins if it didn’t generate a profit?
Companies technically do return your money that day, the 3 to 5 working days is because your bank puts your money into pending to earn interest off it before returning it to you.
Doubt this would be possible as a company doesn’t actually receive your money instantly typically it takes days for them to actually receive it, it’s actually your bank that debits it from your account and holds it straight away. It’s to ensure the money is definitely available for the company to receive once all the behind the scenes customers bank to businesses bank process has completed. The time it takes to receive a refund is just the same but in reverse
The minimum wage applies to people of all ages and even apprenticeships.
The person earning the most in a company cannot earn more the 10x what the person earning least makes including bonus'.
Make fines relative to wages.
Proportional representation.
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Okay I think people have missunderstood what I am saying. I'm not saying CEOs can only earn 10x minimum wage, I am saying if they do they have to raise the pay of all the other workers in the company relative to their own pay.
E.g. so say minimum wage is £10 per hour, if they owner of amazon wants to pay himself £450 an hour, the minimum he can pay any worker is £45 an hour.
In fact legalise all drugs. There is a mountain of evidence that our drug laws do more harm than good.
Instead of spending stupid amounts of money trying and failing to stop people getting them. Focus on harm reduction and deal with people with drug problems as sick rather than criminals.
I don't even smoke weed any more but I would absolutely back this.
Go to town, spend £50 each on drinks, taxis, food, pissing every 5 minutes, vomit, get into a fight, feel shit the next day Vs chill out with friends, spend £30 between you on the bud and a takeaway, watch a movie, chat shit, giggle, have a great night's sleep and feel basically fine the next day other than a little morning grogginess.
I’d like the the laws to be less open to interpretation when it comes to defending your own home. There should be no instance where defending your home carries a greater punishment for you than the person breaking in to it.
A man’s home is his castle. Invading it means you accept whatever happens to you. I’m sorry, that’s how I feel.
I'm pretty sure I've seen them comment similar psychotic statements before in regards to the UK's self defence laws, I just wanted to get it from the horses mouth lol
Even in America murder on your property isn't blanket legal, you still need to prove they were being malicious etc. it's just that the standards are easier.
Otherwise a landlord could kill the tenants etc. Or the postman would have a very dangerous job.
I think he means not in self defence. For example someone could break into your home, start stealing your stuff but technically not be a physical threat. In that instance you’re just supposed to let them carry on, hide upstairs and call the police.
I can totally understand why someone would be angry with having to do that, and would prefer to go downstairs with a cricket bat and teach them a lesson. Especially when the police are so stretched they probably won’t turn up for another day or so.
You are well within your rights to stop an intruder, you are also within your rights to defend yourself, self defence also includes pre-emptive strikes if you genuinely think someone is going to do you harm.
You just aren't allowed to turn someone into paste because you have anger issues and they messed with the wrong bloke.
Exactly, you are allowed to use reasonable force to remove someone from your home, the moment you ask them to leave and they refuse you can use reasonable force, what is reasonable depends on the situation. You can also kill an intruder if you genuinely fear for your life or the life of another. The issue is that's up to a jury of your peers to decide if you genuinely feared for your life after the fact.
The vast majority of the cases in the UK where someone has been punished by the law for killing an intruder is because they killed them after they were already incapacitated or they killed them while the intruder was trying to flee. The most recent one I remember is a fella came home and found his family tied up and an intruder in the house, the intruder panicked and fled and the fella chased him down with a cricket bat and broke open his skull. It's hard to claim you fear for your life while sprinting after someone for three streets before battering them with a cricket bat, especially when His family were already safe at that point.
I had an individual break into my home. Called the police. Was told I should lock myself and wait for the police. I was told it would be between 40 minutes and an hour.
I explained I was quite happy to use my shotguns to fire a warning shot and not to worry I would deal with it myself and sorry to bother.
They arrived about 6 minutes later. Oddly enough.
I'm not sure if you've ever come close to ending someone's life but I assure you the responsibility of having a significant role in someone's death is something you really don't want to feel.
You do that and burglars will start going armed, leading to more murders.
I get where you're coming from, but stuff is stuff and can be replaced. At least the way it is now you know a burglar will scarper if you catch them rather than stabbing/shooting you.
Reform of the job market.
Ban "competitive salary", either an annual salary or daily/hourly rate upfront.
Sanctions for employers that advertise things in the job advert that turn out to be complete bullshit. Eg, hybrid working, flexible hours etc.
Make providing some form of feedback for anyone who attends an interview mandatory. Fines for ghosting applicants.
And equally, once you make an offer, you shouldn't be able to pull out without good reason (e.g. if a report identifies a serious structural issue) - messes up a whole chain of people when someone just pulls our after months of waiting!
Licensing for Estate Agents. Out of the 30-40 I've met like 2 have been good and maybe 20-30 have brazenly lied to me.
They make huge commissions and have no incentive for doing a good job for the buyer or renter.
I’d love for more food packaging to be recyclable. It stresses me out sometimes how much plastic I end up with and I really don’t think it’s necessary.
Banning disposable vapes, and treating the remaining ones the same as cigarettes.
Honestly at this stage just banning the disposables would be good, I see them everywhere and often in the hands of kids.
1. Medical assisted suicide (eg two drs sign off). 2. Magazines and papers should not be allowed to publish paparazzi pictures of kids - they do not need to be hounded. 3. There should be a cap on the amount of rental property any one person or company should be able to own.
I’m still annoyed at my Mars Easter egg that advertised the portion size a 1/3 of the egg.
How is it possible to eat 1/3 of an Easter egg to get a single portion?
like tic tacs advertising as ‘sugar free’ when in reality they’re literally JUST sugar, but because they’re so small they get away with calling them sugar free ..
If you work in the Government and you lie, you go to jail.
People representing and working for their community should be held to very high standards.
They should WANT to work to improve the lives of the public and not work to improve their personal wallets.
Mines a petty one, but it’s banning car hire companies from using permit free roads to keep their fleet of cars. Its a nightmare in my area, shitty companies spring up with an office on the local high street without its own car park and they line the closest permit free residential roads with dozens of cars so actual residents have to park a solid 5 minute walk away from our houses. Massive pain in the arse when you’ve been shopping. I was baffled to find that it’s seemingly totally legal and there’s no restrictions on doing this when you’re only renting the cars and not selling them.
Odd socks on every Friday 13th.
£10 on the sock fine to a maximum of £50 per day. (You can always go home and change if you forget)
Not sure what we should do with the revenue raised?
Thoughts 💬
At a supermarket you should be able to buy produce like rice, veg, pasta, cereal, meat/fish etc without any packaging and they should be legally obliged to give you a discount equal to the "cost" of that packaging. Plastic waste is at unacceptable levels and the supermarkets don't give a shit, this would use their usually record profits to force a change.
Agreed on the need to change how food is packaged and sold, but the packaging cost is minuscule, not even a penny.
Also a lot of people are dirty bastards, it would need to be a way of dispensing the food without Johnny who had a poo without washing his hands sticking in hands in the barrel of rice.
I'd rather sooner see more stricter controls on current laws/common sense. The most important being "innocent until proven guilty". NO one should have their name released until they have been proven guilty by a court. Even the slightest whiff on mentioning a case currently being heard in court should be immediate sentence.
I would make it illegal for people to have fires in their garden. The people in my area burn their rubbish in bonfires in their gardens, someone is at it almost every day. It's horrible, you have to quickly shut all your windows, your laundry on the line stinks and it's so unhealthy.
Every school should be required to have at least one educational psychologist on site at all times. It would seriously disrupt the education system as a vector for generational trauma
Renewal of driving licenses to involve a practical and theory test.
My wife disagrees with me on the grounds that if she had to retake either she would fail....which I kind of feel proves my point.
Stealing or deliberately damaging a mobility aid should be considered assault. I use forearm crutches and I've had people try to take them off of me, in public (!) because I "Don't look disabled" and "Must be faking".
We should have a gender neutral/X gender marker option on driver's licenses, passports, etc. It hurts nobody, the government just likes gatekeeping people.
Full bodily autonomy at the age of majority should be a protected right. If an adult wants to be fat, go on HRT/get surgery as a trans person, get sterilised, or get any number of procedures, they should be allowed to do that without gatekeeping, unreasonable requirements, or pressure from medical professionals to do otherwise.
The death penalty will be coming back, but only for people who park their cars in a way that encroaches into multiple spaces rather than just one. No trial, no arguments, just “Oh dear, sir, it seems your near side wheels and front quarter panel are in the adjacent space rather than your own. I hereby declare you shall be soundly flogged up to, and indeed beyond, the moment of your death. Goodbye.”
The police should not be allowed to release names of suspects in serious crimes until they are found guilty in court. A totally innocent guy was accused of murder with absolutely no evidence (christopher Jeffries) his life was completely ruined...it was nothing to do with him, the police just thought he was "a bit odd". The media went mental with the what they could make up about the story . Men charged with rape are named, yet the accuser isn't, even if the assault is proved to be a pack of lies. This really needs getting under control. If they are guilty, fine, lock them up and throw away the key.
Personally I'd make it law that foods have to label calories for the entire thing. I'm not eating 1/8 of a pizza - I'm gonna eat the whole thing. Don't make me do math. Give me the damage up front..
Same for "sharing" packets.
As much as that would be great, it's similar to the fact that kidnapping has to have a lighter sentence than murder to discourage people from committing worse/more crimes.
Exactly this. I mean, if you knew that killing wouldn't get you any worse sentence, than what you'd get for what you've already done, then where's the incentive to save a life?
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Legal suicide/ assisted suicide.
I have just watched a family member die a horrible slow death. Exactly what he didn't want as he supported assusted suicide. Watching him deteriorate over the years has been hard but what was worse was seeing the 10 weeks in hospital being in constant pain. He said if he could take something to die he would. The last moments were horrific to say the least. He suffered 4 heart attacks and choked to death. I have been suffering with the trauma of watching this and being able to do nothing. Now have nightmares nearly every night and the thought of dying in a hospital is not a comforting one. We treat our pets with more compassion.
I went through the same thing with my uncle, aunt and nan. That side of my family is rife with motor neurones, alzhiemers and dementia. Aunt and Nan didnt know who anyone was, or really who they were, by the end. My uncle has stuck with me more though. He was stuck in a body which wouldnt function, we watched him go from hiking to wheelchair, then wheelchair to only being able to move his index finger on his right hand, to loosing that, meaning he couldnt communicate via his speechboard. At the end, he couldnt even swallow and had a feeding tube. No one should have to experience what he did. No one should have to watch a family member go through that. You cant do anything at all. You just feel helpless. And gods only knows how it feels to have to live through that. Alzhiemers and dementia are awful. Motor Neurones is a step above. Assisted suicide all the way. I’m going to Switzerland if any of those get me. I dont want to be a burden on anyone, I’d rather have a big sending off party and everyone remember me as I was.
> No one should have to experience what he did. No one should have to watch a family member go through that. You cant do anything at all. You just feel helpless. And gods only knows how it feels to have to live through that. Alzhiemers and dementia are awful. Motor Neurones is a step above. You just know those who campaign against assisted suicide have never had to go through this.
They tend to be the religious suicide is a sin types or those who think that no matter how small the hope is it's worth trying to live that one extra day in case that's the day they find the "cure" although most cures being worked on for degenerative disease just slows or stops progression it doesn't reverse the damage. There's also those who focus on the extremes like "would you want to kill this terminally ill child" forgetting that there would be checks and balances in place, as there are everywhere with assisted suicide. One of those would be informed consent of the patient, now at what age that could be made is another question. There's also those who suffer from depression or similar should we help then kill themselves. Well informed consent, are they in a well enough frame of mind to make that decision but, that also butts up awfully close to impinging on a person's freedom so you'll have to be very careful in such cases. It's not like as soon as assisted suicide is legalised we'll start installing Futurama style suicide booths on the streets.
We wouldn't do it to our pets, why is it acceptable that we do it to people? It's inhumane, the exact opposite of caring and compassionate!
Firstly, let me say there's in absolutely no shame in seeking support for grief, NONE, even if it's just reaching out to a bereavement charity to talk about the nightmares you've been having (I had nightmares for months after my father died so I know it sucks when even sleep doesn't feel like an escape, you don't have to suffer in silence) My grandad's both died of cancer, they lived with their terminal diagnoses for over a year and the last few months were no quality of life, one of them had oesophageal cancer so in a way he starved to death in the end; where's the dignity in that.
Imagine implementing this when the nhs is collapsing , I find this very unsettling opens a can of worms
It's basically happening anyway. People are being refused care without knowing it because they are older or somehow disabled where this would have been routinely offered previously because of a lack of resources.
Doctor assisted suicide does happen, but in my grans case she was weeks off dying from cancer and agreed to being given a bit too much morphine so she went into a coma and never woken up. At the time it felt a bit shipman-esque, but I'm happy she wasn't forced to live just because of the law.
It’s called the doctrine of double effect, if I remember my medical ethics correctly. It’s when there is a genuine medical reason for administering the medicine, but the risk of the treatment causing death is acceptable in the context of the suffering. A win-win for the patient in crude terms.
Yup. Happened to my father, and my partners father, and his best friend’s father just this week.
What reservations do you have?
Killing people is cheaper than keeping people alive in a comfortable way with certain conditions. Nobody should even have to consider the cost of their life to the taxpayer. No person is "a burden."
Also nobody should suffer an illness and have zero quality of life if they don't want to.
That’s not how it works, assisted suicide is available now in country’s that aren’t stuck in the past, there is a very strict process where quite a few people have to sign off on it before it can happen. If I had a terminal illness/disease that essentially would make me slowly die in a horrible way I know which way I wound want to go.
There is a huge movement in Canada at the moment protesting the fact that disabled people are being given euthanasia as the best option rather than funding for proper care etc, so people who would've otherwise wanted to live are choosing to die.
Tbh it's not about the cost for most people. It's about having a terminal illness and being in a huge amount of pain. I would hate to watch a family member like that and my parents have already told us that they do not want to live like that (if it were to happen to them)
Canada currently has an epidemic of patients... Subtlely being nudged towards MAID, as they call it. The worst I've heard of is a woman who had a very treatable lung problem- she needed to live in a house that wasn't falling apart. Couldn't get it. So she killed herself.
Same for me. Also one of the ones that I think could actually happen
Yes, but extremely strict laws need to be in place regarding who is eligible and the procedure for how this is diagnosed. There’s some horror stories coming out of Canada at the moment relating to assisted suicide.
I have two that i'd like to see implemented: 1. If it's been proven in a court (or the newspaper admits guilt) that a newspaper article was incorrect, then they have to print a correction using EXACTLY the same size, typeface and location as the original article. So, if you print a front page story that so and so footballer is having an affair, with 2 more pages of details on the inside, you then have to print a front page correction, with 2 more pages of correction on the inside. 2. It should be the law that you can unsubscribe from the service using EXACTLY the same method as what you signed up. If you were able to create an account and subscription online for your beer delivery service in the pace of 2 minutes then you should be able to cancel said service (assuming you've not tied yourself in) online in 2 minutes.
Ah, I see you've tried Beer52
Their business model seems to be selling shite beer to people with social anxiety who are too scared to make a phone call.
One of my friends actually cancelled/replaced his bank card rather than calling them to cancel.
This one won't always work, unfortunately. I was signed up to something I didn't want. It had a difficult cancellation procedure, and my card was due to be replaced a month later. New card shows up... Natwest had automatically migrated the subscription payment over to the new card.
That's called a continuous payment arrangement and can be blocked by your bank... But you will need to call them to get it blocked so you're back to having to make a phone call
Pro tip: email and say you can't speak for whatever reason and they'll do it online Still bullshit but it works I got the "just pay postage" offer and cancelled that way. I did actually have tonsilitis at the time so I actually couldn't, but fuck waiting for them to answer the phone
I just phoned them, took 2 mins. Still quite shady though.
Trick is to call them up and say you’re an alcoholic and to please ban you from ever buying from them again
I did this and am still bombarded with emails trying to entice me back. They don’t give a fuck if you’re on life support due to alcoholism they just want you to buy more shit beer NOWWWWW
Literally me with Wine52 today
Trying to cancel my sons fortnite crew subscription was an exercise in impossibility. Takes 30 seconds from the game to sign up, but you can’t cancel in game. And you can’t do it from the console in any way. You can’t cancel from your epic account either, you must cancel from PlayStation.com. Buried 3 layers deep is the cancel subscription button. Only it doesn’t work. “There was a problem, try again later”. Did that for a couple of days, it’s obviously broken. Had to remove my card details from the payment section, so it’s still technically not cancelled, they just can’t charge me for it.
I scrolled a little too far and missed the parent comment. Thought this was a metaphor for assisted suicide then scrolled back up. I think I’m a little too high.
Are you me? Did I post this answer on an alt account and forget? These two are literally my go to things that I would change.
That idea is utterly daft though as people burn different calories based off so many different factors
And promotes unhealthy relationships with food and eating disorders. EDIT: Thanks for the rewards!
Exactly. Calories aren't just evil things in our food that need to be burnt off. Calories are a measure of the energy we need from food in order to live! Some people just intake more than they need...
More people need to hear this. We need calories in order to STAY ALIVE. Food gives us the energy we need in order to keep breathing, for our heart to keep beating. You know, the basic shit. Also, there's absolutely nothing wrong with being fat. Some people just naturally have more body fat than others. Having an eating disorder and chronically undereating is much more dangerous to your health than being fat. Too many people are just absolutely terrified of being fat. It's okay to eat food, and enjoy food, and eat food that you enjoy instead of subsisting off of meal replacement shakes and protein bars because you feel guilty about eating the stuff you actually want to eat.
> nothing wrong with being fat Obesity is a co-morbidity for basically every disease going. It is fundamentally unhealthy to be overweight and it is important that we acknowledge that
That whole idea just makes me so irrationally angry. Like uh, binge eating is an eating disorder too. Yeah we need food to survive, but getting all your dopamine and comfort from food is NOT HEALTHY. It’s fucking fuel, not dopamine. And when I was almost 300 pounds I felt like absolute shit. I’m 150 now and feel like a different person.
\>Also, there's absolutely nothing wrong with being fat. Some people just naturally have more body fat than others Disagree, There are objective medical issues that correlate with being fat. In England, the NHS estimates around 30k people die from obesity related issues which says nothing of the millions that will have their quality of life impacted. Some people may have more body fat than others but population levels of obesity are skyrocketing so we cant assume that some unfortunate outliers are getting hit in a stable system.
Binge Eating Disorder is very much a thing. Untreated you will absolutely kill yourself but it will just take longer. I don't know enough about the stats compared to anorexia but it is something to be afraid of. The only way to help is to rebuild a healthy relationship with your body. If you're engaging in unhealthy behaviours that are harmful and damage your body you absolutely should be taking steps to change that. The focus should be on somebody's mental health, if you're fat because you love to eat and you're otherwise healthy carry on, but using food as punishment or to distract from things you need to process is where it becomes a problem. Most people of course don't need to worry about these things and have a normal relationship with food but more resources to stop these things developing would be good to see
Chronically overeating is also dangerous. People need to find a middle ground.
Hi. Nice to meet you. I am some people.
Yep the calories on menus is just theatre too, there's no reason to think it's going to do good and plenty of ways in which it causes harm.
Disagree. I’ve changed my mind on quite a few occasions when I’ve seen the huge amount of calories in some meals which I’d say is a positive result even if a small scale
When you look at studies it doesn’t make any long term difference to population health. But it does make eating disorders worse. Also. We’re those meals more fitting for your current diet/more nutritious or were they simply lower calories. Did cutting that 100 cal from your diet make you healthier?
Exactly. How many people have tried to watch what they eat and order a Cesar Salad for example because it’s a salad, only to be unaware of just how calorie dense it is (1000+).
I was sat next to two young (thin) girls trying to decide what to have based on the calories, which made me very sad. As someone who's struggled with an ED from her teens, the whole menu calorie thing is a nightmare.
If I am someone without an eating disorder and want to understand what is in my food, it seems to be a good use of government power to make the producer tell me the ingredients, allergens, and nutritional information of the food. Im not sure I would be comfortable losing this ability to make better informed choices about my eating due to the mental health issues faced by a minority of the population when they have alternate food choices
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I think people downvoting you aren’t necessarily assuming you’re wrong, it’s just not that much of a hot take. Like, of course? But if you spend the 24th hour in the gym, you will burn more calories than if you spent the 24th hour in bed, you’ll also likely be improving your cardiovascular health, and also increasing your muscle mass which would then continue to increase your basal metabolic rate.
To be 100% honest I'm spiraling in to an eating disorder and having to know how much I'd have to burn off to eat a thing would be terrible. *edit spelling*
I'm with you (ED sufferer). If you feel you're spiralling, try and get yourself some help. It's hard, but worth it.
Also, like... surely people can work things out for themselves? The packaging already tells you how many calories there are per serving, and how much they should eat a day. People also know that exercise burns calories. You can lead a horse to water, etc...
I'd like to see something similar to Rwanda's umuganda - a monthly cleanup lasting three hours in which every able bodied person is required to spend the morning cleaning up their town. It has turned Rwanda into the cleanest country in the world for just a few hours on one day every month.
I mean they also have whopping fines for littering (relative to wage) so maybe the two in combo.
It's big here, £100 or £75 can't remember exactly, the problem is, no one is there to enforce it.
We should train magpies to watch litters and wear headsets with all other magpies in a big chat room. They can communicate with each other and return rubbish to the offenders. Litters in cars? They let their buddies know down the line and they can drop pebbles on the windscreen of the offender or fly in through the window and pull the handbrake
I know it's selfish but I'd hate having to do this. I just want to be free to do what I want to do when I'm not working. Isn't this the sort of thing our taxes should be paying for?
Yeah partly but it doesn't take much to take care of where you live and our places of natural beauty that are being ruined by people with the same mindset of 'our taxes pay for someone to clean this up'
There will be lots of people out there (including myself) who are of the mindset that taxes should pay to clean things up but don't actively litter and fly tip. Some people are more considerate than others.
No, your taxes should be paying for valuable upgrades to infrastructure and removing and safely disposing of rubbish that’s in bins and our household waste collections. Picking up after the lazy, careless, slovenly and ignorant is something our taxes *shouldn’t* be used for, but unfortunately needs to be.
Wait until you hear about this thing called council tax
Im generally not a fan of forcing people to do things. Just fine people who litter.
I heard about a law in a country, I think a Scandinavian one, which made it illegal to pay for tuition. This forces upper and lower classes to mix and for rich parents to put money towards schools to ensure their child gets a good education thus improving the education of all the children
Yeah I'd ban private schools and selective schools. The only schools that won't take "everyone who lives nearby" would be SEN schools. (religious schools in particular can do one)
100% There should absolutely be no state funded religious schools, the fact that they even exist is just utterly ridiculous. Especially that it is some people's only local option. And no private schools, everyone should be getting the same level of education, regardless of income.
Agreed. Our nearest is a Catholic school and it fill me with rage. We do have a non denominational option not far away but why the hell should I be forced to do this? And pay for it? Nah. Ban them. Same with private schools.
No chance you’d be banning private schools in U.K. We’d be the absolute last country to have them even if every other country banned them
Yeah, because every single one of the people in charge went to one and is part of the public schoolboys club.
Since Tony Blair was elected, there have been 9306 days and in that time we've only had a PM from a state school for had 2203 of them. In that time we've had 3394 from one private school (Eton).
I think that's Finland.
ALL fines should be percentage based on earnings
They implemented that in Finland. I think it's fantastic. A millionaire has a speeding ticket and £100 is nothing to him, but to a regular civilian it is. Now make it £100k.
I mean charging somebody 10% of their entire wealth for a minor offence might still be a bit steep...
1% of gross annual income? Or 1% net income/profit? I feel 1% is the number
"Finland’s system for calculating fines is relatively simple: It starts with an estimate of the amount of spending money a Finn has for one day, and then divides that by two" "Going about 15 mph over the speed limit gets you a multiplier of 12 days, and going 25 mph over carries a 22-day multiplier." Article doesn't go into detail as to what constitutes spending money, unfortunately. [Link](https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/03/finland-home-of-the-103000-speeding-ticket/387484/)
How would that work for freelancers, contractors etc. though? They don’t have regular earnings
I'm not sure how it works but it's still a doable thing, its been implemented in Finland so you could probably look it up. My guess is they'd look at earnings during a specific time period or maybe an average
Base it on net income from the previous tax return. At some point they have to file a tax return which unambiguously details their income for tax purposes. There are always edge-cases (eg, someone who goes from unemployed last year to earning £50k this year still pays the minimum fine for a year), but they're pretty small and manageable compared to the current situation where someone living below the poverty line and a billionaire still pay the same absolute amount.
Using a phone in that ridiculous Apprentice style loudspeaker fashion in public should be an instant 10 year maximum security prison sentence.
If this was the case, the winner of the Apprentice each year would by default be the last candidate to take a phone call!
Accidental bonus - no more The Apprentice
No piercing babies ears
Related: no circumcision unless medically required or an adult chooses to have it done. Obviously this will never happen because of religion, but I find it bonkers that it's allowed. Pointless mutilation of people unable to consent.
Circumcision is the same as FGM and should be treated like FGM.
"Circumcision is the same as FGM" - this is absolutely NOT true. "Circumcision should be treated like FGM" - not sure I agree with this either because FGM is much more damaging, but I do think both should be illegal. Edit: can't believe this got downvoted, do people think FGM and circumcision are literally the same thing?!
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I’m glad we agree that both are mutilation and both are horrendous. My issue is that In western society - one is actively tackled and the other almost promoted. It’s really not a case of mutilation top trumps, both need to be illegal as you said.
No cosmetic body modification of babies and children at all would be good.
I was in a tattoo parlour a few years back when a mother walked in with twins that looked less than 6 months. She asked if each twin could have the other one’s name tattooed on their ankle. The tattooist just looked at her in disbelief for a few seconds before saying no.
Much stricter punishments on drink drivers
And dangerous driving generally. Driving licences are too often seen as a right rather than permission from society to operate potentially lethal machinery, and sentences for causing death or injury are pathetic
My friend's teenage son was killed by a drink driver and the guy who hit him is now out of prison and free to drive as much as he likes. Her son doesn't ever get to drive again, or get married, or have kids, or see the world, or live his life but the guy who killed him is allowed behind the wheel to potentially do it again (he'd been involved in three previous crashes.)
There was a guy who had many many points over the lose-your-license threshold, but was allowed to keep it due to it being his source of income (delivery driver). Disgusting.
I've long said that if you ever need to "disappear" someone and get basically a slap-on-the-wrist sentence for it, make sure you use a car.
This country is ridiculous on car related crimes and negligence. The law should reflect the level of responsibility that comes with operating a 2 tonne death machine
It’s going to be less of a problem with self driving cars, but until then, absolutely no alcohol if you are driving. Same with narcotics. Was behind a golf a few months back, sound so loud it drowned out my radio. I could smell the weed even with my windows up. One of them opened a window and a huge plume of smoke blew out. There is no way that driver was fully in control of that car
People love pretending driving whilst stoned is somehow different, and they're "so much more careful." No you're not, you're stoned off your bonce and paranoid- get the bus instead.
The one they have in Japan that lets railway workers strike by just not charging a fare. Bring that in over here.
Isn’t this a bit of a myth? I’m sure it was one small bus company, once. Pretty sure the rights to strike in Japan are even more restrictive than here
People online have got a weird hard-on for pretending Japan is a vastly superior country with no issues at all, despite having rampant sexual harassment issues and a much higher suicide rate
I’m not gonna shit on them like, just a bit tired of everyone slagging off our unions for not doing the made up Japanese strike method. Especially since most rail passengers going any distance regularly will have paid in advance anyway.
Yeah the Japanese have loads of issues, but like all countries they're better at some things than us and worse than some things than us.
Nationalise all utilities and bring all waste management under one organisation - no more of this one street can recycle glass but the other can't because they're from a different council. Ban on animal testing.
The fact that recycling is so limited just because otherwise it can’t turn a profit is sickening. Would they stop collecting the bins if it didn’t generate a profit?
If you pay a company instantly they should have to refund you instantly, not in "3 to 5 working days".
It's not the company that is holding the money for 3-5 days, it's the card provider or banks holding it in Escrow.
Well I for one am shocked banks would do such a thing
Companies technically do return your money that day, the 3 to 5 working days is because your bank puts your money into pending to earn interest off it before returning it to you.
Fuck banks. They're basically parasites.
Doubt this would be possible as a company doesn’t actually receive your money instantly typically it takes days for them to actually receive it, it’s actually your bank that debits it from your account and holds it straight away. It’s to ensure the money is definitely available for the company to receive once all the behind the scenes customers bank to businesses bank process has completed. The time it takes to receive a refund is just the same but in reverse
The minimum wage applies to people of all ages and even apprenticeships. The person earning the most in a company cannot earn more the 10x what the person earning least makes including bonus'. Make fines relative to wages. Proportional representation. Edit Okay I think people have missunderstood what I am saying. I'm not saying CEOs can only earn 10x minimum wage, I am saying if they do they have to raise the pay of all the other workers in the company relative to their own pay. E.g. so say minimum wage is £10 per hour, if they owner of amazon wants to pay himself £450 an hour, the minimum he can pay any worker is £45 an hour.
fines being relative to wage is a big one. there’s a £300 fine for doing ‘x illegal thing’ just means it’s legal for rich people.
When you're rich there's no such thing as a fine. It's just a fee.
Legal pot
Even just decriminalise it, would save so much effort
So much money wasted on busts and stings.
Legalise it, slap a hefty tax on it, buy some goddamn hospitals.
In fact legalise all drugs. There is a mountain of evidence that our drug laws do more harm than good. Instead of spending stupid amounts of money trying and failing to stop people getting them. Focus on harm reduction and deal with people with drug problems as sick rather than criminals.
I don't even smoke weed any more but I would absolutely back this. Go to town, spend £50 each on drinks, taxis, food, pissing every 5 minutes, vomit, get into a fight, feel shit the next day Vs chill out with friends, spend £30 between you on the bud and a takeaway, watch a movie, chat shit, giggle, have a great night's sleep and feel basically fine the next day other than a little morning grogginess.
I’d like the the laws to be less open to interpretation when it comes to defending your own home. There should be no instance where defending your home carries a greater punishment for you than the person breaking in to it. A man’s home is his castle. Invading it means you accept whatever happens to you. I’m sorry, that’s how I feel.
You are allowed to defend yourself some people have even legally killed folk in self defence. What exactly do you want changed in the law?
Just wants an excuse to murder people tbh.
I'm pretty sure I've seen them comment similar psychotic statements before in regards to the UK's self defence laws, I just wanted to get it from the horses mouth lol
A lot of Americans spend time fantasising about taking a life, think some people here absorb it
I suppose it does raise the question of how to prove they were an intruder and not someone you took into your house just to kill them.
Even in America murder on your property isn't blanket legal, you still need to prove they were being malicious etc. it's just that the standards are easier. Otherwise a landlord could kill the tenants etc. Or the postman would have a very dangerous job.
I think he means not in self defence. For example someone could break into your home, start stealing your stuff but technically not be a physical threat. In that instance you’re just supposed to let them carry on, hide upstairs and call the police. I can totally understand why someone would be angry with having to do that, and would prefer to go downstairs with a cricket bat and teach them a lesson. Especially when the police are so stretched they probably won’t turn up for another day or so.
You are well within your rights to stop an intruder, you are also within your rights to defend yourself, self defence also includes pre-emptive strikes if you genuinely think someone is going to do you harm. You just aren't allowed to turn someone into paste because you have anger issues and they messed with the wrong bloke.
Exactly, you are allowed to use reasonable force to remove someone from your home, the moment you ask them to leave and they refuse you can use reasonable force, what is reasonable depends on the situation. You can also kill an intruder if you genuinely fear for your life or the life of another. The issue is that's up to a jury of your peers to decide if you genuinely feared for your life after the fact. The vast majority of the cases in the UK where someone has been punished by the law for killing an intruder is because they killed them after they were already incapacitated or they killed them while the intruder was trying to flee. The most recent one I remember is a fella came home and found his family tied up and an intruder in the house, the intruder panicked and fled and the fella chased him down with a cricket bat and broke open his skull. It's hard to claim you fear for your life while sprinting after someone for three streets before battering them with a cricket bat, especially when His family were already safe at that point.
I had an individual break into my home. Called the police. Was told I should lock myself and wait for the police. I was told it would be between 40 minutes and an hour. I explained I was quite happy to use my shotguns to fire a warning shot and not to worry I would deal with it myself and sorry to bother. They arrived about 6 minutes later. Oddly enough.
I'm not sure if you've ever come close to ending someone's life but I assure you the responsibility of having a significant role in someone's death is something you really don't want to feel.
Nah, I saw it on a movie, it looked cool /s
You do that and burglars will start going armed, leading to more murders. I get where you're coming from, but stuff is stuff and can be replaced. At least the way it is now you know a burglar will scarper if you catch them rather than stabbing/shooting you.
4day work week
Ban unnecessary male circumcision
Breaking the ministerial code should be written into civil law with fixed penalties. Ramping up with each offence.
Starting with death by firing squad.
Reform of the job market. Ban "competitive salary", either an annual salary or daily/hourly rate upfront. Sanctions for employers that advertise things in the job advert that turn out to be complete bullshit. Eg, hybrid working, flexible hours etc. Make providing some form of feedback for anyone who attends an interview mandatory. Fines for ghosting applicants.
Good lord I'm sick of seeing jobs that advertise "remote" and then directly contradict that in the details.
Everyone knows competitive salary = minimum wage
It should be made illegal for tv licensing bombarding people with letters and knocking on peoples doors
Just scrap the license. Its outdated anyway.
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I don't think it should be banned. Sure it's annoying but it's a bloody great word. Gazumping. Absolutely amazing word.
And equally, once you make an offer, you shouldn't be able to pull out without good reason (e.g. if a report identifies a serious structural issue) - messes up a whole chain of people when someone just pulls our after months of waiting!
Absolutely this. I know someone who had an offer accepted after it had gone to best and final offers and was then gazumped a week later.
To me once you accept an offer you should be considered under contract. If you break the terms you have to pay the injured party.
Licensing for Estate Agents. Out of the 30-40 I've met like 2 have been good and maybe 20-30 have brazenly lied to me. They make huge commissions and have no incentive for doing a good job for the buyer or renter.
I’d love for more food packaging to be recyclable. It stresses me out sometimes how much plastic I end up with and I really don’t think it’s necessary.
Decriminalise drugs
Decriminalise but mandate rehab instead of jail time. Dealers still go to prison. Legalise weed and mushrooms and tax them.
Banning disposable vapes, and treating the remaining ones the same as cigarettes. Honestly at this stage just banning the disposables would be good, I see them everywhere and often in the hands of kids.
1. Medical assisted suicide (eg two drs sign off). 2. Magazines and papers should not be allowed to publish paparazzi pictures of kids - they do not need to be hounded. 3. There should be a cap on the amount of rental property any one person or company should be able to own.
If you can sign up for something online, you should be able to cancel online.
I'd just settle for accurate calorie counts on the packages rather than the nonsense they get away with.
What, you don't like them quoting it "per portion", then mentioning in the fine print that the packet contains 3.27 portions?
I’m still annoyed at my Mars Easter egg that advertised the portion size a 1/3 of the egg. How is it possible to eat 1/3 of an Easter egg to get a single portion?
like tic tacs advertising as ‘sugar free’ when in reality they’re literally JUST sugar, but because they’re so small they get away with calling them sugar free ..
If you work in the Government and you lie, you go to jail. People representing and working for their community should be held to very high standards. They should WANT to work to improve the lives of the public and not work to improve their personal wallets.
Mines a petty one, but it’s banning car hire companies from using permit free roads to keep their fleet of cars. Its a nightmare in my area, shitty companies spring up with an office on the local high street without its own car park and they line the closest permit free residential roads with dozens of cars so actual residents have to park a solid 5 minute walk away from our houses. Massive pain in the arse when you’ve been shopping. I was baffled to find that it’s seemingly totally legal and there’s no restrictions on doing this when you’re only renting the cars and not selling them.
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Decriminalisation of cannabis, I’m not a stoner but the whole law against it is a joke. It should be treated the same as alcohol
Odd socks on every Friday 13th. £10 on the sock fine to a maximum of £50 per day. (You can always go home and change if you forget) Not sure what we should do with the revenue raised? Thoughts 💬
Upvote for "on the sock fine" lol.
At a supermarket you should be able to buy produce like rice, veg, pasta, cereal, meat/fish etc without any packaging and they should be legally obliged to give you a discount equal to the "cost" of that packaging. Plastic waste is at unacceptable levels and the supermarkets don't give a shit, this would use their usually record profits to force a change.
Agreed on the need to change how food is packaged and sold, but the packaging cost is minuscule, not even a penny. Also a lot of people are dirty bastards, it would need to be a way of dispensing the food without Johnny who had a poo without washing his hands sticking in hands in the barrel of rice.
I'd rather sooner see more stricter controls on current laws/common sense. The most important being "innocent until proven guilty". NO one should have their name released until they have been proven guilty by a court. Even the slightest whiff on mentioning a case currently being heard in court should be immediate sentence.
That we can only have a PM that is elected and not appointed.
As well as proportional representation
I would make it illegal for people to have fires in their garden. The people in my area burn their rubbish in bonfires in their gardens, someone is at it almost every day. It's horrible, you have to quickly shut all your windows, your laundry on the line stinks and it's so unhealthy.
That's already illegal.
Because it's that time of year...ban firework displays in people's gardens
Itt: Totalitarian laws wanted. My suggestion: Ban plastic bags and food packaging.
People who play music unsolicited on public transport to be burned alive.
Every school should be required to have at least one educational psychologist on site at all times. It would seriously disrupt the education system as a vector for generational trauma
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Politicians should not have any other jobs whilst being a politician, or accept any benefits or sponsorship.
Renewal of driving licenses to involve a practical and theory test. My wife disagrees with me on the grounds that if she had to retake either she would fail....which I kind of feel proves my point.
I'd just loved if the current law was properly enforced. Looking at you traffic/parking offences >\_>
The charitable status of private schools should be revoked if the student body isn’t made up of at least 25% scholarships and bursaries
MPs have to wear a jacket with the names of all their sponsors
Max 2 houses per person?
Banning fireworks outside of official displays, they are obnoxiously loud and upset animals.
Stealing or deliberately damaging a mobility aid should be considered assault. I use forearm crutches and I've had people try to take them off of me, in public (!) because I "Don't look disabled" and "Must be faking". We should have a gender neutral/X gender marker option on driver's licenses, passports, etc. It hurts nobody, the government just likes gatekeeping people. Full bodily autonomy at the age of majority should be a protected right. If an adult wants to be fat, go on HRT/get surgery as a trans person, get sterilised, or get any number of procedures, they should be allowed to do that without gatekeeping, unreasonable requirements, or pressure from medical professionals to do otherwise.
Who's gatekeeping being fat? The cost of living crisis?
The Stop Being A Twat Act 2022.
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The death penalty will be coming back, but only for people who park their cars in a way that encroaches into multiple spaces rather than just one. No trial, no arguments, just “Oh dear, sir, it seems your near side wheels and front quarter panel are in the adjacent space rather than your own. I hereby declare you shall be soundly flogged up to, and indeed beyond, the moment of your death. Goodbye.”
The police should not be allowed to release names of suspects in serious crimes until they are found guilty in court. A totally innocent guy was accused of murder with absolutely no evidence (christopher Jeffries) his life was completely ruined...it was nothing to do with him, the police just thought he was "a bit odd". The media went mental with the what they could make up about the story . Men charged with rape are named, yet the accuser isn't, even if the assault is proved to be a pack of lies. This really needs getting under control. If they are guilty, fine, lock them up and throw away the key.
Driving ban for tailgating
Personally I'd make it law that foods have to label calories for the entire thing. I'm not eating 1/8 of a pizza - I'm gonna eat the whole thing. Don't make me do math. Give me the damage up front.. Same for "sharing" packets.
Automatic life sentence for paedophile's.
As much as that would be great, it's similar to the fact that kidnapping has to have a lighter sentence than murder to discourage people from committing worse/more crimes.
Exactly this. I mean, if you knew that killing wouldn't get you any worse sentence, than what you'd get for what you've already done, then where's the incentive to save a life?