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[Jacob]

It's a frog stab frog world out there.

[Sheilbh]

Have a cold, which feels like the first proper cold I've had since before covid.

I am, of course, handling it with the quiet dignity and grace for which ill men are so renowned

[HVC]

Have a cold, which feels like the first proper cold I've had since before covid.

I am, of course, handling it with the quiet dignity and grace for which ill men are so renowned

The worse you handle it the more testosterone you have. Congrats on your manliness

[Josquius]

Have a cold, which feels like the first proper cold I've had since before covid.

I am, of course, handling it with the quiet dignity and grace for which ill men are so renowned

The worse you handle it the more testosterone you have. Congrats on your manliness

As in you actually feel the cold more or you just get more pissed off about it?

[HVC]

Have a cold, which feels like the first proper cold I've had since before covid.

I am, of course, handling it with the quiet dignity and grace for which ill men are so renowned

The worse you handle it the more testosterone you have. Congrats on your manliness

As in you actually feel the cold more or you just get more pissed off about it?

The higher your testosterone the worse your immune system is. Biology is funny.

[garbon]

Have a cold, which feels like the first proper cold I've had since before covid.

I am, of course, handling it with the quiet dignity and grace for which ill men are so renowned

The worse you handle it the more testosterone you have. Congrats on your manliness

As in you actually feel the cold more or you just get more pissed off about it?

The higher your testosterone the worse your immune system is. Biology is funny.

Do you have a cite? Everything I've seen says "can" or "may".

[HVC]

Have a cold, which feels like the first proper cold I've had since before covid.

I am, of course, handling it with the quiet dignity and grace for which ill men are so renowned

The worse you handle it the more testosterone you have. Congrats on your manliness

As in you actually feel the cold more or you just get more pissed off about it?

The higher your testosterone the worse your immune system is. Biology is funny.

Do you have a cite? Everything I've seen says "can" or "may".

Something I read many moons ago and choose to believ because it made me feel better about my whiny ass

Still, "may" works for me. Delusion intact!

[Josquius]

The other day I saw someone calling someone else a 'centrist' as an insult.
This person really hated centrists. They had the idea they were worse than the right even as at least right wingers wanted change whilst centrists want everything to stay exactly as it is.
Quite a broken outlook which ignores groups like the Fabians, not to mention the idea that change is always a good thing.


Got me thinking though. Surely there are two axis in how right/left you are. Your long term ambition and what you see as the most sensible policy to follow for now.
Is there not a sort of 'cross of centrism'- though thinking further as I sketched it out it will by nature be quite a wonky cross with the world in general being a very right wing place so pushing this even further to the right breaking any idea of a centrist world as a perfect aim.
Sketching out within the red those people who are centrists.

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And yes yes. Right/left are gross over simplifications, most people have views all over the place, etc....

[Sheilbh]

Centrism's been a term of abuse for ages. Since at least Corbyn, especially for the Novara types - "centrist dad", Rest is Politics etc.

There's (as usual) half a point in the criticism.

[Grey Fox]

Are we looking at the transformation of Jos into a conservative in real time?

[Josquius]

Are we looking at the transformation of Jos into a conservative in real time?

No?
I've always been pretty pan-left, stop the squabbling, etc...

[Tamas]

Are we looking at the transformation of Jos into a conservative in real time?

Him and Sheilbh. It's the British way, I mean, there must be a reason why there is almost never a Labour government.

[HVC]

Are we looking at the transformation of Jos into a conservative in real time?

Him and Sheilbh. It's the British way, I mean, there must be a reason why there is almost never a Labour government.

Sheilbh has always been a crypto conservative. Love of tradition in the first step down the road

[PJL]

Extremists hating moderates more than their polar opposites have been a thing for decades. Nothing new there.

[Josquius]

I seriously am curious at what says I'm becoming conservative there.

In other news. I've completed the annual Virgin Dance.
Is this just a UK thing?
You have to call your internet provider every year (in my case Virgin Media) to say you want to cancel so they continue to give you a decent deal rather than doubling your bills.