Ireland doesn’t have a colonial past, except in the being colonised sense. While no country is completely without racism, Ireland doesn’t have any racist policies or prime ministers calling for referenda on immigration. Fairly small population though.
Nefrayu
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Capital punishment is prohibited in all circumstances in the UK, that includes times of war. It’s the same across almost all of Europe.
The UK only offers 2 weeks
In the UK you get up to 52 weeks of maternity leave. Of which 39 weeks is paid, the first 6 weeks of which is at a rate of 90% of your salary. The £172 is then the pay for the remaining 33 weeks. It can be shared with a partner.
but cops are the same everywhere
You have yet to demonstrate this
I believe you had some riots about that a while back.
No, I didn't have riots. I don't live in the UK anyway if that's what you're inferring.
there were over three hundred police caused deaths in england and wales between 2021 and 2022
Why lie? The number is 217. A number that includes all sorts of things, including people dying of natural causes in police custody or dying shortly after police contract, for example in a traffic incident of their own causing. What's the comparable number for the US? We know that US police shot over 1000 people dead last year. That's just one type of killing and given the population difference between the UK and USA it would put them at an equal rate, but that is ignoring the fact that the UK number is for all deaths, not just direct killings. The number of fatal shootings in the UK in 21/22 was 2.
So don’t call them unless you want someone to be hurt or killed. That’s just basic safety.
Only if you live in a 3rd rate country that doesn't have a proper police force. I'd have no issue calling the police on someone if they were causing a disturbance and I'd have no fear for their safety. Similarly I'd have no fear for my safety if the police were called on me.
Projecting America's problems onto other places is absurd and demonstrates a complete lack of awareness of places that aren't America. You need to look outside your bubble and stop pretending that everywhere else is as shitty as the US. Also stop looking at situations as being black or white, presuming all cops are bad is stupid. Thinking in absolutes is not a good way to live your life.
So are you going to produce any data to show that calling the police to someone’s house in the UK put them at a non negligible risk of being killed or injured by those police, or are you not?
Are you just going to keep assuming that America’s issues are universal rather than accept that America is broken?
Again, the police in the UK and most of Europe are far better trained than those in the US. There aren’t going to have a baton out waiting for someone to open a door.
i challenge you to find some reports of UK police killing people on routine callouts unprovoked. Then compare that to the what seems like a weekly occurrence of such incidents in the US and control for the population difference.
Here’s a list of all police killings in the U.K. to help: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforcement_officers_in_the_United_Kingdom
There is little to no chance a person would be killed or even injured by the police calling to their house over a noise complaint in the UK. It just doesn’t happen. You simply can not presume that America’s dysfunction is replicated everywhere.
Not all police forces are trigger happy idiots like those in the US. Many forces aren’t even routinely armed. Police officers calling to a house about a noise complaint in the UK aren’t going to be carrying guns.
Duggans shooting stands out because it is rare, whereas in the US it is routine. Don’t project America’s problems on to the rest of the world. Just because your police forces are batshit insane doesn’t mean that is the case everywhere.
I have a water resistant smart watch and I take it swimming all of the time. I see lots of others swimming with smartwatches too. Smart watches are usually fitness tracker. I very much care that the watch is water resistant. I care more about that than having a user replaceable battery, which I’m unlikely to replace given that I never did when replaceable batteries were common in phones.
In Ireland you can always leave out everything but the postcode, each code is unique to an address. For example D02 R583 is the address of Government Buildings in Dublin. It’s for all addresses, not just larger buildings.
Perhaps if you want to enlighten people you should give more than short overly hostile replies to comments?
It is, there’s no law specifically outlawing it, but it is already illegal to accept sex as payment for something.
You can buy bottles of pasteurised egg whites in Ireland too. I assume you can also get the yolks somewhere too I just haven’t seen it.