mastertigurius

Reminds me of when I was having a chat with the owner of a company I worked at in London. We had just made ourselves a cup of tea, he got himself a digestive to go with it. He dipped the digestive in his tea, and mid-sentence only half of the biscuit came back up. Stunned silence. The look of utter misery and disappointment on his face stays with me to this day - this was the last thing he needed just then. I suggested it could be fixed by adding the rest of the packet of biscuits and enjoy it as a biscuit porridge - he wasn't entirely convinced. 😄

This happened outside of Trondheim in Norway. Funny thing is that the homeowner didn't even notice. He slept through the whole thing and woke up to a 135 metre cargo ship outside his window.

Mindless troll

And what you're doing there is often called red-tagging; baselessly accusing whichever person is disagreeing with you or being inconvenient of being a communist in order to "win the argument". Common practice in places with either authoritarian rule or corrupted democracies, such as the US and the Philippines. A very poor strategy, though - it only reveals that you have nothing to show.

It's not hard to detect your animosity towards tankies, I'd venture to say you identify them as enemies. Question is: What are your criteria for someone else to be defined as what you call a "tankie loser"? Have those criteria gradually narrowed over the years?

Thanks for the explanation, it's really helpful. Though I do appreciate open fora where all ideologies and viewpoints can converge and discuss in a peaceful manner, what I don't like is the otherization, polarization and labeling of those not sharing someone's opinions. I hope the discourse climate will move in the right direction soon.

No worries, I've told my fair share of compete flops, many of them in front of everyone at work. 😆

I think the phrase we're looking for is panem et circenses; bread and circus. That's the delicate balance the powers that be are using to keep the general populace complacent. Any developed society is three meals away from collapse, but when we have a steady supply of junk food and Netflix binges coming our way, we're just too comfortable to care.

What is this obsession with the term "tankies" on Lemmy nowadays? Fled here from Reddit because it had turned into a quagmire of American politics, rage and misery. The others fleeing seem to have brought it with them.

I had cat scratch disease last year, and do not recommend it. Very painful and uncomfortable. If a cat bites or scratches you hard enough to break skin, clean and disinfect immediately. If you feel ill after a couple of weeks to a month, test yourself and kitty for Bartonella Henselae. If positive, prepare for three months to a year of misery.

I stand corrected. I do know what legal tender means, and thought that the Euro was required to be accepted in all of the EU. Not any less confusing when your neighbours in Slovakia use the Euro and we were visiting Austria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia in the same trip. Good beer, btw.

Pretty much, though that's not a requirement either. Sweden and Denmark still have their kroner, the Czechs have their koruna and Hungarians their forints. The euro is legal tender in all of these countries, but it's also legal tender in most parts of Norway already. 😂

The only arguments against joining the EU I've heard so far from staunchly anti-EU people are variations of "we'll be ruled from Brussels", "the EU will take all our money", "we'll be flooded with foreigners" and "we'll lose our culture".

The response to these claims:

We won't be ruled any more from Brussels than France, Spain or Hungary is. All these countries have their own methods and unique sets of laws you have to familiarise yourself with before moving there. The EU won't take our money any more than any other member; it's a mutually beneficial transaction. We're already a part of the EEA and Schengen so anyone in the EU has the right to live and work in Norway, just as Norwegians enjoy the same rights. I've visited most countries in the EU, and can't say I got the impression that any of their unique cultures were under threat. We stayed in normal residential areas, far from the touristy parts of town, and could clearly see the unique characteristics of each place we went to.