Interesting Links for 03-09-2019

[andrewducker]

What do the EU think about the current UK approach to Brexit?

(tags:UK Europe politics )

Parents say religious worship is least appropriate activity for school assemblies

(tags:religion school uk )

Islamophobic incidents rose 375% after Boris Johnson compared Muslim women to 'letterboxes'

(tags:islam racism uk Conservatives BorisJohnson OhForFucksSake )

Boris Johnson is completely deluded about the EU

(tags:Europe UK Doom wtf )

The Simpsons dubbed with Half-Life SFX

(tags:games Simpsons video weird )

In which a final ship arrives from the Grey Havens

(tags:lotr comics )

Emperor's New Clothes - A brilliant spoof of Kickstarters for board games

(tags:games satire kickstarter funny viaDanielDWilliam )

Teenager ends up with severe eye damage (enough to be registered blind) from living off crisps and chips.

What annoys me here is that there's clearly a sensory issue going on, but nobody seems to be trying to help them work through this. Just "Eat some veg". People don't restrict their diet this much because they like crisps a lot. They do it because the texture of anything else makes them feel awful.
(tags:food sight OhForFucksSake )

How did pole vaulting even get invented?

(tags:sports slowmotion video )

Labour set to block snap general election over fears of a Boris Johnson no-deal Brexit trick

(tags:UK Europe elections politics )

Scottish elections could move to every five years

(tags:elections scotland )

Comments

[errolwi]

Story on kid with eating disorder has been amended
https://twitter.com/AliceEmmaLouise/status/1168838520401747968
https://twitter.com/AliceEmmaLouise/status/1168879140726071299

[andrewducker]

Thanks!

[momentsmusicaux]

> People don't restrict their diet this much because they like crisps a lot. They do it because the texture of anything else makes them feel awful.

But he didn't manage to stick to taking supplements. Though I find it curious that the article says 'he didn't manage', aged 14, with no mention of the parents.

[andrewducker]

Yeah

I'd expect him to need a bunch of support, of some kind.

[dewline]

Johnson is committed to freezing out the UK Parliament in order to crash out. Parliament seems to have realized this, and is moving to lock him down to whatever degree they can.

[channelpenguin]

As Ken Clarke so rightly said : The PM's strategy was to "set conditions which make no deal inevitable, to make sure as much blame as possible is attached to the EU, and as quickly as he can fight a flag-waving election before the consequences of a no deal become too obvious to the public".

That has been obvious from the start

[lilysea]

What annoys me here is that there's clearly a sensory issue going on, but nobody seems to be trying to help them work through this. Just "Eat some veg". People don't restrict their diet this much because they like crisps a lot. They do it because the texture of anything else makes them feel awful.

I wonder if

a) the vitamin tablets gave him nausea [they often do on an empty stomach]

b) his family couldn't afford the vitamin supplements [they can often be very expensive, especially if the family are low-income]

I know someone [also a man] with food sensory issues, and trying to eat the "wrong" foods makes them feel very nauseated and emotionally distressed. Their "safe" foods are vegemite sandwiches, cheese sandwiches, peanut butter sandwiches, and if they are feeling particularly emotionally robust, they can sometimes manage potato wedges [not always] or nachos with corn chips [not always].

In their case it's because they were neglected by a parent as a child - sandwiches were literally ALL the food they were ever offered until the age of 12-13, so they missed out on the brain-development-window for learning to be able to cope with/tolerate the textures of other foods.

[hilarita]

Yeah. This was just like so *blaming* of a kid.