Picture of the Day: British Navy Ships Visit South Korea
Two British naval vessels — the frigate HMS Richmond (R) and the logistical support ship RFA Tidespring — are anchored at a naval base in the southeastern port city of Busan on Aug. 13, 2025. The warships have arrived in South Korea as part of a regional tour aimed at enhancing security cooperation in the Indo-Pacific. (Yonhap)
The modern British navy is likely capable of providing little security.
And with all the liberalism infesting the minds of leadership, they only encourage one part of the traditional “sodomy and the lash”.
And it isn’t the part that encourages good order and disipline.
… they only encourage one part of the traditional “sodomy and the lash”.
… rum, sodomy and the lash?
More of those Royal Navy officers, crew and marines will be needed for the bars of Texas Street to stay afloat to replace the teetotalling USAF and the wodka swilling Russkis.
Heh, alcohol consumption is down for the UK too!
…wine drinking is down in France and Italy even.
I’d say it’s about cost but even in the most economically depressed times Italy and France imbibed plenty.
“they only encourage one part of the traditional “sodomy and the lash””
Who is to say they don’t enjoy lash play as well?
Looks like drinking has become a partisan divide. It makes sense. Young men are increasingly religious, and temperance is a Christian virtue.
“Looks like drinking has become a partisan divide. ”
That chart is bullshìt.
Here is some reality. Make your own chart.
Post-covid drinking is down for everyone, left and right. The chart should reflect that.
In America, part of this is obvious. Drive down the street and look at all the “dispensaries”.
Everybody in my American social circles not involved with military/government smokes pot rather than drinking. My military/government-related friends drink a lot less… and so do the next generation… because it is less necessary in a world full of entertainment.
The true chart would reflect this.
The true chart will also show the left not drinking becasue they smoke more pot.
And the big driver of past drinking?
Everyone gets their pussÿ online rather than going to a club. This can be from a dating app or blasting rope to OnlyFans. Fapping is less hassle that entitled bìtches.
Snooty women have lost their power to AI and coming sèxbot but they don’t know it yet.
So… that chart is nonsense.
But we can find the real chart.
CH, you sound a bit peevish… 😉
I quit tobacco and alcohol in 2000 and my outlook on life improved. In that order.
(The people — even so-called conservatives — who advocate for legalized pot are probably not very wise. It creates more like the Korea Things. It produces psychoses in teens.)
Setnaffa, I am a big fan of legalized pot.
– In the War on Drugs, the drugs won. We need to accept this and properly manage the next steps. Part of the reason is because the government treated pot and heroine as the same drug. They are not.
– When evaluating the consequences of smoking pot vs. incarnation of potheads, fatherless children for a victimless crime is not the way forward.
– As society divides, not by race or education or any of the other misdirection the media vomits up… but a division based on usefulness… pot makes the useless class less angry about their self-inflicted position and less motivated to cause trouble in a society where they just need to shut up and serve me my fries.
Short Version: some “drugs” are functionally just another form of alcohom. Some drugs need to be removed from society and their users executed.
Pot is barely a “drug”.
CH, I grew up in Humboldt County, California. I may have a wildly different view of the damage marijuana causes.
My home county went from profitable and safe to an absolute hellhole.
My experience basically poisoned me against pot, unions, and a few other things.
Setnaffa, consider the sutuation carefully.
Was the trouble caused by pot…
…or the government response to pot?
Just as alcohol prohibition led to the development of organized crime, the prohibition of pot led to:
– creating classes of victimless criminals and then squandering government resources to fight this easy “crime” while real criminals were ignored (or even let out of prison early because of mandatory sentencing for nonviolent victimless marajuana “crime”)
– artificial scarcity which raised the price above true market value and encouraged secondary petty criminality by users in acts such as shoplifting or breaking into cars
– organized criminal gangs controlling manufacturing, importation, and distribution… and the violence associated with managing such a profitable enterprise… which has all largely vanished with the current semi-legal status
I propose, like covid, the governemmt response caused far more problems than the actual “problem”.
This is not to say the current status is without problems. Dealing with members of the useless class frequently show them to be shamelessly high and even more worthless.
But they are chill.
…which can’t be said for many other drugs, such as alcohol.
CH, the problem was literally Democrats who “legalized” pot by blocking enforcement. Too many young people then developed mental illnesses, a known medical issue, the pot industry grew as other industries were forced out, and the cartels took over and brought meth with them.
It pretty much all happened between 1964 and 1994…
Maybe Humboldt County is an anomaly; but look at the rest of California, Oregon, Washington, and Colorado…
“It pretty much all happened between 1964 and 1994…”
I grew up in an upper middle class suburban area. There was lots of pot and little to no crime.
When traveling into the city, there was lots of pot, but, in contrast, lots of crime. The more “inner” city I go, the more crime.
The same difference holds true for alcohol and tobacco use.
Pretty sure drug use is not correlated to why cities got shitty in that time period. Pretty sure it’s the elephant in the room that caused everyone with the means to flee to the suburbs that is causing 95% of the problems.
I can see both perspectives. I don’t think the pot culture is very healthy for young people (young men in particular). It’s a real problem in Colorado now. I didn’t see it as much before the covid lockdowns so it’s probably a combination of things. It was apparent during our move just how many young people are perpetually stoned even on the job. And the results aren’t good. Being drunk wouldn’t be tolerated the same way.
Young people still under development are not supposed to be doing any mind-altering drugs…
…well… except those provided by Big Pharma.
Violence reduction is associated with marijuana use, especially compared to other drugs. In the (rare) cases long, heavy use induces mental illness (as can happen with alcoholism as well) the flight rather than fight response is almost always the case.
Based on my observations of a lot of pot smokers over many years, I haven’t seen anything that alarms me more than so many other things society accepts as normal.
(Is your butthole really clean after rubbing some paper across it?)
The worst:
– lack of motivation causes additional life problems
– i have witnessed it be a gateway drug… the gobberment is not exactly wrong on this one
More worst:
– financial, legal, social problems related to it being illegal
– paranoia caused by government, not the drug
When adding everything up, cheap and available marijuana seems the least bad, with the other option being my shìt stolen by petty criminals and my tax money being stolen to chase potheads more than the people stealing my shìt. Meanwhile, real criminals are getting rich or getting out of jail to make way for more potheads.
I will take my chances with more stupid people doing jobs robots don’t want to do.
It’s a complicated equation with a lot of variables, but we do have mass population experiments to go by now.
Colorado is definitely a less safe, uglier, more crime infested (including violent crime), dirty state than before recreational cannabis legalization. The mechanism of how it got that way is not as clear, but there is a clear difference between before and after. Could just be all the losers and vagrants flock to states that legalize pot.
That said, I do know a lot of very successful people who smoke pot.
Their children however (who also smoke pot, and grew up smoking pot) don’t seem to be anywhere near as successful.
Guess it is the same for alcohol, but (much like the direction Colorado employment seems to be going) few people who seem to tolerate their kids lying around stoned all day would tolerate them drunk on the couch all day.
Guess at the end of the day I’m not against legalization (I don’t think making it illegal again would help things at this point, and I like the option of a gummy now and then).
Colorado and pot is a perfect example of correlation does not imply causation.
Colorado has made so many bad decisions that there would be no difference if pot was supplied free by the government or if there was a mandatory death sentence for possession.
Like Liz said, things in Colorado went rapidly downhill after legalization. However Colorado was trending downhill before then; legalization just expedited the trend by incentivizing more undesirables to move to Colorado. Now even small towns that never had homeless problems have homeless encampments and plenty of dispensaries to service them.
This is why I am for either making pot a crime again or legalize across the entire U.S. so the undesirables get more spread out instead of concentrated in a state like Colorado. You see this same trend with illegal immigration, once Colorado became a sanctuary state it got flooded by illegals and the undesirables that come with them as well.
Combine that with soft on crime and other failed policies, you have the dumpster fire of a what was a great state to live in that you see today. We call it “Calirado” now for a reason.
Datarepublican used to live in Colorado.
Thought this was interesting. She associates the collapse with the introduction of the mail in voting system.
(started the year after the Democrat party saw its last Primary, 2013)
Interesting, I wonder if she went to the Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind in the Springs? As far as universal mail in voting that is another great example of a contributor to the fall of Colorado. The mail in voting allows the Democrats to ballot harvest from the homeless that flooded Colorado and other places like nursing homes. Republicans have to get better at beating Democrats at their own game when it comes to mail in voting to have any chance in states with universal mail in voting.
When you look at the states with universal mail in voting they are all reliably controlled by Democrats except Utah. Utah is actually ending their universal mail in voting in 2029.