Would be the smartest thing they could do, what they fuck are they doing otherwise - besides providing testimony to inequality?

accent calibration?

Seriously the brand value would go up billions

England outlawed slavery in the 19th century and actively fought and stopped those that were in the business of slavery.

Back in the day it wasn't like there was one country enslaving another, it was a world wide business and England stood up to the world to stop it. England has already had it's anti-slavery moment, it took place over a hundred years ago and since then we have been against it.

There were African tribes capturing and selling people to slavers, do you want them to pay as well, and who do you want them to pay?

The Chinese and Persians also took slaves from Africa, they castrated them.

Pulling down statues and washing over history is going to do more to help people to forget that it ever happened, we should leave the statues up and educate people so that we know to never ever let it happen again.

Taking away someone's freedom without reason and trading in people's misery is about as bad as it gets and I repeat, we should never let it happen again. Pulling down statues is another step in the direction of helping people forget that it ever happened and if we can't learn from the past then we are in danger of repeating it.

regardless the royals personally owned slaves and here they still are able to pay up for it.

You idiot, lots of people owned slaves, it was kind of a thing.... Let me guess they also need to pay war reparations to the horses of the light brigades descendants? The fact you buy drugs online rather than work on your mental deficiencies is astonishing.

just wondering how does that 2 wrongs make a right routine work out for you? my experience and that of the history of man is that it's toxic as fuck.

and what about the 1.5 million white slaves taken from europe by africans? dont they count?
or was reading real history too complicated for you? clown.
we abolished slavery while african chiefs were putting cages full of slaves on the beaches waiting for profit.
over 2000 british servicement died fighhting slavers while it was still legal in every other country on earth.
more blacks owned slaves than whites did...and over 90% of slaves in africa died before they reached sdale.
but dont let the truth effect your ill informed media driven propaganda.

I had a feeling you were here Charles.

Exactly this.

Hindsight is twenty twenty, as they say. It is, however, useless when we are aimlessly stumbling through the present moment to survive. I liken the experience to growing older and maturing. If we were to atone for every sin we accumulated through childhood, we'd mostly ALL be skint, black, white, yellow, brown, or rainbow-coloured. If you are always looking back over your shoulder, you'll never look forward.

Who should they pay reparations to?

The African countries that are still using their own people as slaves?

that would exclude all the descendants of slaves since they were taken away from those countries

Why do descendants deserve anything? Would they move back to Africa now? They probably have a better life where they are.

The Romans enslaved most of Europe but you don't see Europeans begging for a handout from Italy. Same with the Vikings and Denmark.

Actually the remaining institution of Rome is starting to pay up. Windsors should do the same.

Absolute bollocks. Read your own article. It says "Leaders of the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States". Nothing to do with Rome. Just a few North Americans virtue signalling

The continent of Africa circa the trans-atlantic slave trade was inhabited by peoples of various tribes and factions who were engaged in perpetual conflict, over resources but also owing to cultural differences. They would each kidnap rivals and enslave them, offering them to the British in exchange for money or goods. The notion that Europeans simply bopped over and ransacked the place and shackled the natives is not just unfounded, it is preposterous. Excursions to Africa were costly, not just in terms of money and resources but also in men. They were mounted with the intention to obtain slaves through trade as this meant less lives (and gunpowder) were lost in the pursuit of their objective, which was to bring slaves back to the continent.

TL:DR African tribes were complicit in the trans-atlantic slave trade

Can we talk about how our king has done more for equality, against slavery and human trafficking than any African monarch.

The fact you can post this and think "ooo take that Britain" just shows what kind of pathetic warped individual you are, I bet you also agree with "from the river to the sea"

This country is a bastion of human rights, fairness and equality and has been longer than any single country on earth. Posting shit like this just demonstrates not everyone SHOULD have the right to be here.

I think you are cleverly proving the point that slavery exists today. It all starts with an arbitrarily chosen ruler and ignorant obedience.

I'll have a bit, probably give it to charity but the thought would mean a lot.

bigg up

The royals don’t have bank accounts or given any cash so how it would be the firm who are the slave masters of the royals watch Harry’s speech about it they are only allowed direct material items i suppose they can hand out their TVs and shirts off their backs? Do your research.

Nice idea though. If anything it should be the government but then it’s been so long now it’s like getting paid for someone running over your dog it’s not really the same as it never happening in the first place but smart fascism and racism is bigger than ever. And it always stems from the top down never the other way around.

in short their finances are
assets: around 1 billion
income from property: 20 million pounds every year
income from each of our pockets: 80 million pounds every year

reckon they can afford something here and still live it up like they like to.

if they embraced it that would be something

Last comment on this subject from me;) humans are almost clones of each other. For example to apes are always more genetically different than any two humans and they basically do the same in life due to most being born in to similar situations. So it’s very easy to judge people for their mistakes, when if born in the same situation, we may do very similar things. It’s very easy to say how wrong things were and are from the we have everything we need perspective that we look from nowadays in developed countries anyway. Using others for your own gain is wrong imo but if you were born into the Royal family, ask yourself, how vocal about reparations would you be? Peace

I'd be vocal, at least it would be an alternative to the monotoous life of bullshit I'd otherwise be living.

story of the Buddha starts right there

I agree. The problem is Royals follow protocol and listen to their advisers. If they listened to an economist they would use the surplus 18 billion raised in the Chancellor's budget to plug that other black hole.

As soon as former common wealth nations ask for repatriation. Commence operation Bad Enoch. Wealth isn't common.

slavery was always wrong, it was cheap and easy and the other guy was doing it but anyone with a conscience is hard wired to know stealing people in chains and imprisoning them for life isnt ok.

Slavery still exists , it’s just changed name to employee. If you are working, it’s for shareholders benefit,

The means of exchange for employment is money. The means of exchange for slavery is the threat of violence. Most humans can see a big difference in this.

uh yeah i think its a little different if you're getting paid for your work and have a choice of employers. different than being kidnapped or bred into a life of hard labour.

this, what we are forced to live, is not slavery as on a cotton plantation, but it still is slavery. best proof is the "distribution of wealth". its just a different kind of slavery. where we are our own slave-drivers haha. it is essentially feudalism and it is becoming digital more and more.

feudalism is very different to slavery, some of our ancestors had the pluck to get out of it and become tradesmen, artisans, even adventurers. today a lot of people are born into fucked circumstance but many more have education and at least a shot.

a slaves life (if they made the journey which murdered a majority of them) was *nothing* like this.

literally no, but conceptually yes. at least to my mind

You're not forced to work for someone else. It's your choice and the easy option. There's nothing to stop you starting you own business except gumption and effort.

I won’t write a response because it would take a lot of writing for you to see the similarities. Just ask yourself though. How much of your life is for you? Why did you get sent to school? Can you roam about freely? How many of us are stuck in a job , just so we can pay the bills? Who is benefiting from your consumption? Are you doing what you want to be doing or are you enriching someone else’s life by working hard? What does that sound like? Peace;)

it sounds nothing like moral equivalence, not by orders of magnitude. it also sounds like a response, just a very weak one.

Well I hope you eventually find some level of peace and a way to deal with the reality of life now and our shared history for your future sanity;) take care

and a weaker gas light attempt, like a match next to a small fart.

Not really. I mean it , truly. Why haven’t I downvoted a single post of yours? Because I feel for your tormented minds

All life is suffering. So make it meaningful :)

Now your talking. Agreed;)

Tribal elders fought and captured other tribe members and sold them to Europeans its still practiced today so go point the finger straight back and ask them

"It wasn’t wrong then though." Cue modern day comparison. You are so uninformed it's actually a bit sad but more proper cringe tbh.

Yes I am the sad one. I’m not the one whining about how wealthy others have been 100’s and thousands of years ago by following the laws of their time. Whining about others is just a deflection from your own faults;) try thinking about what you can do now to make the world a better place, not whining about history. Also now the black people who are descendants of slaves don’t seem to want to go back to live in the country of their genetic heritage, right? I wonder why;)

Who's been whining? Me (no) or some other or every single Black person? And why on earth would some random U.S/U.K Black dude "want to go back to live in the country of their genetic heritage". What planet are you living in? A very white one, I imagine.

Only because my grandparents had to flee out of their country due to they would of been killed . Also stripped of their lands / money and I am not asking for reparations from anyone. Just saying

Right. And so do you want to "go back to live in the country of YOUR genetic heritage"? Or do you think that question doesn't apply bc you're White? I think that's the road you're going down here, isn't it? Assuming it's WWII, there's really no Nazi's left for you to claim reparations from, is there? If your Grandparents are from the middle east, then reparations are for the regime of that time and place whether current or not. BTW I think any Black person claiming reparations is an attention seeking fool, usually found on the end of a megaphone dictating the new world order to a bunch of (majority) white middle class uni students basically out on a day-trip with banners like "white privilege is real" and "eggs are a chickens period!".

You can see through the bullshit w/o being bias. Just saying

how the fuck is white privilege not real?

Straight out the gate. Chill, Raj, or your banner with all its bullet points of what White Privilege is may get damaged. Simply put, because I'm White, have grown up with Black friends with more advantages and privileges than me. I've lived in council estates all over the UK, some of which I'm the minority. The only ppl that seem to scream white privilege are Americans and UK white middle-upper class angry women, who are without a shadow of a doubt; PRIVILEGED. Same colour as me, but worlds apart. It's that simple. Don't try and tell me I've had more advantages and not used them, w/o knowing the first thing about me - just that I'm white and therefore privileged? Is that the sum of the profiling, Raj?

" just that I'm white and therefore privileged? Is that the sum of the profiling"

Yes. That's what white privilege means.

We don't need to know anything about you, all other things being equal, you're better off than your black neighbour.

"We don't need to know anything about you". Who is "we" on this occasion? Just so I'm on the same page..

'We' in this context means everyone who isn't 'you'.

Well there's some irony spelled out and still not clicking. Figures. Lovely bit of sanctimony btw, PieBoi. Props.

Sanctimony? Irony?

I'm not making a judgement, I'm explaining what's meant by the term.

White Privilege does not mean the least privileged white person is still better off than every black person, which is what you're railing against.

It means wherever you are and whatever you're doing, a black person in the same position has fewer opportunities than a white person.

A white doctor gets paid more than a black one.

A white police officer has more opportunities for promotion than a black one. That kind of thing.

"I'm not making a judgement". It's the only thing you have done.

"It means wherever you are and whatever you're doing, a black person in the same position has fewer opportunities than a white person."

You sound like the kind of person that really over emphasises the "awwww THANK YOU" whenever you buy anything from a bus ticket to a house off anyone Black.

Your quote is pretty much the banner I mentioned above (when everything you've described is pay disparities within 2 industries that by-and-large have Black top-dogs, just like Obama). Look I'm bored of this I feel like you look like a really angry Velma Dinkley at this point no offence. Bye.

Haha I’ve been called a lot of things in my life, but never that.

You misunderstood me, I hate this moderation of language as much as you do.
I’d much rather racists are allowed to be as clear as you are, then we all know where we stand.

Peace be upon you.

"I’d much rather racists/then we know where we stand". I hope you're not including me in that. I'm currently the only white dude in a house of 5 so that's me homeless. But I know my views are of my own. I have a Chinese boss and White people wince when I do a perfect impression of him. That's me. No malice or hate. You raised some valid points and I'm digging my heels in. Props for taking the digs on the chin. Peace.

Big of you man.
Sorry if my last one was a bit hot.

Big up.

It's about being honest and checking yourself. I would like to add my thoughts on UK (not US!) white privilege are pretty much summed up here by Kemi Badenoch. It used to be called a "pond" (Atlantic), but since social media breaking borders it hardly feels that anymore. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vf7yX9ESRc

you just said white privilege is real in other classes.

don't doubt you get a pass when class distinctions are bigger than race.

Wow! This reply is literally from weeks ago, and you think I wrote what now? Raj you are so off course, it's like some Jake Paul 4+4=5 conclusion. You've reached new levels of dumb digging for the ever elusive reasons you're not smart enough to be a dentist. Honestly I think it's kinds cool. You should get a podcast and enlighten all your friends. Ciao4now, bud.

fair enough and i would probably feel the same from that perspective but what you are missing is the punitive damages aspect of the liability.

at a time when the world is turning more separatist and fascist it's especially valuable to know that shit like that is held accountable for ever.

Make this guy a politician please

really wish this guy could crusade a little cooler. i think he's right about the cali but he's a cunt.

He loves Cali, buys 6 packs of JungleBoys at a time apparently, just trying to goad this vendor for some reason.

I have had a few non packs of Cali from vendors and the one jungles boys pack from TGD. The jungles boy pack not only verified using the scratch off code thing but in the thirty years I have been smoking it was the nicest tasting bud I have ever come across. It didn't have a passport or speak while I had it but it certainly was of a quality I have never came me across in my years. What is interesting about MrCaa is he only crusaded against TGD and not any other sellers with Cali, hell not even the other seller selling the exact same thing. It's the fact they have targeted TGD solely that make me think they should be terminated

Supported!

Supported. Terrible baseless attacks on the innocent including women. Has to go !!

Supported

Supported, good riddance to bad rubbish. Don’t need arseholes here. I’ve noticed a few creeping in over the last couple of years. Fuck them and the horses they rode in on.
Individuals like this are a disease, give them an inch and they’ll ruin everything.

can you link to some of the posts please i cant see anything form his page

https://littlebiggy.org/viewSubject/v/4780534?gotoPost=Y6e0U4Jwq

There are a few here, I can provide one more at a minimum and probably another couple if I went looking.

Oh and then the thread he made below to get them terminated

Try cryptovoucher . io

Fees arent so bad if you only purchase small amounts and you can just top up your wallet this way, it's the only somewhat cheap method I've found that's hassel free and no verification needed (as long as you stay within their daily/monthly purchase limits)

Coinbase wouldn't process payments from my Lloyds card. I got the card cancelled and a new one issued and all was fine

I just looked them up and ... https://cryptobriefing.com/fire-com-burns-bitcoin-bridges/

My bank has a no bitcoin policy as well and I'm looking for alternatives.

Epilogue : with my bank a dead end I thought I'd try a Bitcoin atm so I looked up the map on coinatmradar, found one about half an hour away listed as online "reported by provider 10 minutes ago".

Went there and the guy said they hadn't had a bitcoin machine in the shop since he bought it a few years previously.

try localbitcoins.com - there should be a link to your local exchange, at least thats how it is in my country. cheapest btc one can find and I pay for it with a slip and with cash.

Well that does seem to have got trustpilot reviews, although I thought p2p transactions were a bit risky.

I avoided paxful on the same basis, although they've got the option to use paypal, which would be convenient.

I've heard reports that paypal are also not keen on transactions buying bitcoin, but I'm not sure how accurate that is.

Just get a Monzo bank account. It’s online only. Takes minutes to set up. I transfer money from my main bank account into my Monzo account (instant transaction) then buy from Monzo using Coinbase.

The entire buying process takes less than 5 minutes and you don’t have to go anywhere.

i can recommend dope chef for brownies, accurately dosed, no BS.

Thats like the holy grail on LB at the moment. Let me know if you have any luck

Most YT vape reviews make me squirm, the reviewers seem to think they are 18th C showmen but somehow trained by USA shopping channel presenters, urgh.

Dynavap - I've blazed for 50 yrs, spliffs & pipes until, like you, vapes arrived. Have tried most but don't like complex parts, fiddly operation, batteries etc as retired from a hi-tech industry and want "simples" now.

The dyna recreates the whole flame & stick thing in the fingers memory for me. So 99% they are the thing for me. The coil is a waste of time for solid, hash that is. The fuss of dewaxed hemp fibre is inded a pain so I now use a Boundless CFX for hash, though crumbling some hash into a Dyna with bud or shake works well but messes up the flavour & hit ofc.

To those who have difficulty with Dyna, don't over think the method, just try all variations of packing, rolling, heating until you find what suits you - it's a very personal thing. I pack loose with medium grind, use a large single flame jet lighter and "feather" the carb open/closed fairly fast, Works for me, a wondrous thing, I now have three 8-0

Polly - if you have overheated your clicker cap to the extent it glowed red, it's likely damaged and will never click at the correct temperature again, needs replacing.

Good advice Dirigible!
Nah, I was exaggerating about the glow, but I’m sure it doesn’t click every time and those extra seconds of heating leave me nervous about the temperature of the draw. I’m obviously cack-handed on the “feathering” too although I guess that’s just practice. But “practice” at all seems a little weird- turn on my battery vape and like a polite doobie-butler it prepares everything for me, every time the same.
I have FOMO with my Dynavap but I’m not sure it’s justified!

Gotta concur with the shopping channel vibe you get. Those fanboys will grate before long, but you've helped their click commission by that point, tee hee.

I love my Dynavap m 2020. Simple and stealth. Still like to toke a pure one now and again too. I clean it with pipe cleaners and alcohol liquid.

Cool review!
I want to love my Dynavap M but the fiddly little bastard resists all my advances. Maybe I’m a fat-fingered fool but I never seem to ‘play the same tune’ on the carb twice, which means sometimes I get an unexpectedly hard/hot hit and sometimes I get sweet bugger all!
And don’t get me started on the darn “click”. I will swear before a Grand Jury that mine does not click every time which usually results in overheating (glowing red hot being a clue!)
But it does like to tease- it’s very economical on the load and every 4th or 5th attempt I get a lovely draw that lures me back. I want to do that every time like I want to hit that great sweet spot golf shot every time but it continues to elude me.
It’s either a fiddly little temperamental piece of overpriced shit or a wonder of modern engineering. Dunno.....

Well put. It's both of those things, relative material pricing being a case in point. Pax may be considered the 'Apple' of vapes in form and (not that long ago) function but I raise a cynical eye at the cost of screens and novelty caps once the R&D and tooling costs have paid for themselves.

As for consistency of hit, the fact mine stopped clicking a few years ago and I rarely combust proves it isn't a necessity. Basic understanding of thermodynamics isn't as important as common sense, concerning how metal distributes and retains heat. It's not exactly living dangerously, but even my memory has the capability of stopping the heat before all fingers are used up. A single jet torch helps and I can usually smell when things are beginning to liven up.
Tease it back: experiment with smallest capacity first and duration/length/location of flame. Rules are made to be broken, or at least reviewed. Pay more mind to breathing speed than click and you'll develop an intuition and new respect for it, like both the earlier Vapman and Vaponic butane vapes demanded.

My bwain hurts...

Absolutely love it

What’s your secret?

Practice mostly. Triple jet torch imo is a necessity, and respect the click. I combust often but not enough to piss me off. Usually when I'm a bit stoned and don't !at it get to the click on the cooldown.

I usually get one wispy draw, and 2 decent clouds maybe 3 per cycle. I don't go for full extraction cos I like to use the avb. I hope you'll persevere with it. When you get it right, it's a great experience. I suppose I am a bit of a cultist though.

I definitely agree about practice. It does take a while, and I’m still chucking different ways of heating into the equation!
Combustion is an occupational hazard but as you say no biggy. I really like the dynavap and it has got me off tobacco easier than any other attempt I’ve tried to make. There have been multiple attempts. What a great vape.

Thanks buddy, very helpful...

With all due respect, I wouldn’t use this test as the gold standard

To be fair, I would. Resin glands don’t crunch. Simple. What would be your gold standard? I make a lot of my own hash, none of the grades crunch - ever!!

Right now I don’t know the exact scientific process but it’s not chewing lol

Crunch to me, my brain thinks what biting sand is like lol....is this what you mean?


The only other way to know what’s in it is to make it yourself ;)

Hash is an organic product so....there’s always gona be some discrepancies

Different if it was indoor grown weed but it’s not is it?

It doesn’t need to be scientific, it’s a simple test that tests for contaminants. Even if it was only sand, it’s still a contaminant. High grade hash isn’t mixed with sand, go to Amsterdam, their hash is clean because the coffee shops have long established relationships with the farmers. Good grade hash is pure resin glands. Why is it funny for it to be mixed with sand? If it even is sand. I’m saying this for the benefit of every hash smoker. I don’t see what you’ve got to gain by assuming it isn’t contaminated when it is. If your going to accept 2nd best and bury your head in the “sand” then there is no hope.

How odd. Hadn't considered contamination before, but I've just tried a nibble of hashes from two vendors here and both have a crunch. They taste nice and weedy and the smell takes me back 15 years... but a definite crystaline sandy crunch. Hard to quantify but maybe 1 crunch from 10 chews (working the same small piece of hash between teeth)

They both smoke nicely and have the desired effect, no coughing or harshness... hopefully it's something intert.

Would you believe that some people put profit before quality? Shocking, I know!!

Would you believe some people are putting profit before quality. Shocking, I know!!

I've been using uk 420 for months. Clean as a whistle. When its filtered through a 90 micron screen, you're pretty safe.

I’m sure some is legit, maybe it is filtered through a 90 micron screen In Morocco, but when it gets to Spain it is broken up and fillers added. Tell me does the hash you’ve got right now crunch between your teeth, even just a little bit? Like gritty. Even if it’s just a little it’s still cut. If it doesn’t I’ll give uk 420 a try. Resin doesn’t crunch, not even a little bit

There is a very slight crunch to it, I can see your point. What do they add to it ?.

That, I do not not know. In the best case I would guess henna, but am unsure. Could be something nastier.

Could just be dust or fine sand. Morocco is very dusty and dry.

Could be, I have thought that. None of it was a year or 2 ago though. Also the smell and taste of the hash isn’t right. Also the Moroccans are pretty good at keeping it clean, they know what they’re doing.

Thanks for the info, I know how corrupt the trade is, so am always dubious. Because hash is a brownish lump, it's easy to mess with. I have enjoyed uk420's hash, it's better than 99 % of the stuff I had in the 90s before the soap bar epidemic. I suspect he's selling some of the highest quality on here. Hashashin seems to have some nice looking stuff also.

Agreed. It is still much better than the 90s stuff. I’m sure it will get worse though, because everyone will accept it. In case you hadn’t noticed I am a complete cannabis snob. And also agree Hashashins stuff does “look” extremely nice. I have the Leb cream, but it smells weird and crunches between the teeth. So don’t really want to try it.

One of reasons why i used UK420 for the pureness. Grab a henry see how you go. Not done your teeth test though. But have on stuff im smoking now, not from here and no crunch and imho UK420 conoisseur stuff should be up there, if not better than that.

I've been using uk 420. Best purest hash on here. I think the crunch is tiny particles of sand that get through the screens stuck to the resin glands etc. Morocco is basically a dust bowl, I'm surprised in a way that it isn't more crunchy. Indoor hash won't have this, because it's grown in a sealed environment.

Yes that is true but Morocco hasn't suddenly become dusty in the last couple of years, my guess for what its worth is that Spanish dealers are trying to recover some of their losses from recent unprecedented seizures, Harryhogan is right - if the market accepts it then it will continue.

2 different “10/10” hashes, under microscope. It is not sand. It is something to bulk up the hash thus making it impure. Like I said before this is a new thing. The hash from a year or 2 ago did not crunch. It was clean. This stuff isn’t clean, don’t try and convince yourself otherwise. Pure hash doesn’t crunch.