• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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      “Second year in a row when fasting during HOLY MONTH that we will be climbing this mountain! This is slow poisoning!”

      Blackburn is 30% Muslim and, just based on what I have seen of the people in this building, a lot more than 30% of them are Muslim. I don’t normally give a shit about religion in general, but these people feel like it’s their duty to fast and this really is something that could be done to help them. Especially since I see parents carrying prams up the stairs.

      • Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radio
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        Thanks for the transcript.

        In Australia there would be a legal requirement to have this fixed within a specified time. I wonder if there is a place to report this, since I suspect it likely contravenes several codes.

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          Unfortunately, I am subletting through VRBO (kind of like AirBnB) so this is not my fight, but I am pretty upset on behalf of the building’s residents.

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          My first read, I thought that was the source of the mentioned poisoning.

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      You mean, you cannot read cursive? I’m not even english native speaker and can read this easily, interesting

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        I’m an English speaker (mother tounge), I can read cursive. That is atrocious hand writing. I say this as a person with terrible hand writing.

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        Many people can not, it’s not taught like it used to be. This however is a mix of sloppy cursive and simply not lifting the pen. Also the case of some letters are shifted. While I read the message correctly, it didn’t have context until reading other comments and I wasn’t sure I had it correct .

        Hozy monizH

      • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
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        I am an even older fart, and I TAUGHT cursive. The only “cursive” here is the angry scrawl of someone who’d prefer to be cursing.

        Look, for example, at the word immediately after HOLY MONTH. The closest correct cursive letters to fit the scrawl are:

        “itreit”.

        It’s only by context, and allowing for the angry misplacement of the tittle, that we can read it as “that.”

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    Second year in a row when farting during Holy month that we will be climbing this mountain! This is slow poisoning!!

    Wat?

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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      “Fasting.” Blackburn is a city that is 30% Muslim and this building is far more than 30% Muslim based on who I’ve seen in it. They’re complaining that they’re making people, including the elderly, climb up multiple flights of stairs while they fast. And I sympathize despite being an atheist with no Muslims in my family.

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        I think it was some poorly-worded hyperbole. A lot of the people here are not native English speakers, so I’m guessing they were trying to poetically say “you’re killing us!”

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    Some civilized countries have a process whereby partial rent can be legally withheld/deducted, incentivising them to fix it quickly. Less civilized countries require you to engage a lawyer and risk having your rental contract terminated unilaterally.

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      Racist countries (like Britain can very much be unfortunately) also don’t give a shit what a building full of immigrants want.