The Irony Thread
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Along with 99.9% of the population.
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Don't think that's true, nor do most of us threaten legal action over a comment we disagree with.
Am also really bored with politicians chipping in on live police Investigations (coz free speech, obviously), however trivial they may turn out to be.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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What did she do to that showed she wasn't in support of freedom of speech?
Maybe she should have taken the advice from her Telegraph colleague about social media being a waste of time.
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That’s not to say I necessarily agree with what the police did. That’s a subjective judgment depending on how you think the law should be applied. But that’s the point, as soon as you accept there are limits to free speech, which nearly everyone in practice does agree with, it is a judgment.
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I hadn't been aware of this, but the law on registration of births was recently changed so that the gender on the birth certificate cannot be amended (for culture war reasons, I understand). We now the first example of why that was a stupid idea and a child's birth certificate now has the wrong gender due to a clerical error. The parents have now complained to their MP: Lee Anderson. 😐
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A London secondary school where more than half of pupils are eligible for free school meals has asked children to “fast for Gaza” on Friday.
Staff and students at George Green’s School in Tower Hamlets have been told to “come together in a collective fast” on Dec 13 in support of the people of Palestine.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/12/10/school-asks-pupils-to-fast-for-gaza/
One way to save money I suppose.😉
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Surely better than raising money to charitably send kids on foreign holidays?
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Perhaps all the kids in Gaza will get the chocolate sponge with peppermint custard that the kids in London are not going to get? Don't know what they will make of that tbh.
Or perhaps the kids in Gaza will notice FA different after the kids here forego possibly their only cooked meal of the day. The irony of making more kids hungry to support hungry kids is quite bizarre.
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It's fund raising. A bit like asking how running a marathon helps a cancer patient.
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I assume you are inferring from the article that the kids will donate their dinner money? Well as more than half the kids have no dinner money to donate, it's not much of a fund raiser. I read that it was to come together to show solidarity not to raise money per se.
The further irony would be all the food that gets binned that the kids and staff don't eat to "show their solidarity".
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The co-educational state school, founded in 1828, has launched a Just Giving page to raise funds for a crisis appeal in aid of Gazan children, run by the humanitarian charity Unicef.
George Green’s School has raised more than £2,000 for the initiative so far – around 80 per cent of its £2,500 target – and will donate funds towards “food, medical aid, and other critical resources” for children in Gaza.
No. It's just like any other fund raising. When someone runs a marathon their entrance fee doesn't go to the charity.
Also, just because a child is on free school meals doesn't mean they won't donate. My kids' school is constantly asking for £1 for various things and the majority do contribute.
There is also little comparison between free school meal kids' level of poverty and kids in Gaza.
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Nice of the Telegraph to advertise their justgiving page, that will help them reach their target.
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Interestingly it has forced some people to pay £2 in order to put forward messages like "Support the IDF".
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That that's a yes to you inferring that the kids had to donate dinner money. It does say that the school has raised money in the past but says this is to raise awareness and show solidarity. No mention of kids HAVING to give money.
I get that you don't see the irony of asking kids to go hungry to show support for starving kids, whereas I do. No biggie, everyone's different.
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Yes I suppose it was. Starving kids is a worthy cause and I make no comment on the validity of the cause, just the irony, at least to me, of the nature of the event.
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I liked the extra layer of irony.
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Even when I was a kid they did sponsored "famines" to raise money for starving kids. I think the purpose of the fast was to help with the empathy, but I found it a bit ridiculous that someone would skip two meals and claim any incite into starvation.
Anyway, I don't really see the irony although I get why others might.
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A vicar telling kids that Santa doesn't exist.
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Shooter allegedly a student there too.
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Just see how long the list is here:
"As of November 30, a total of 648 people have been killed and 2,227 people have been wounded in 547 shootings."
In comparison, the UK has had one mass shooting this year, with four people injured. And the entire list for all history is shorter than the US's for just this year.
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