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[Closed] What would you like to "take back control" of?

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Outs the crease that's sweeping the nation apparently.

Me?
Dentistry. I want to be able to do my own dental work. Money saving, I like a bit of diy and plenty of pain killers on Tap.

How about you?


 
Posted : 27/08/2019 5:16 pm
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My hairline, although I fear that time has passed.

Bladder and knees? Curse you middle age!


 
Posted : 27/08/2019 5:17 pm
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Yep, knees (joints in general) & teeth. Oh, & eyes.


 
Posted : 27/08/2019 5:26 pm
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Louise


 
Posted : 27/08/2019 5:35 pm
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My finances. Kids. Three.

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Devastated finances.


 
Posted : 27/08/2019 5:37 pm
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No need. I’m a control freak. 🤪🙄🤣


 
Posted : 27/08/2019 5:46 pm
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Just a bit of peace and quiet would be nice every once in a while.


 
Posted : 27/08/2019 5:54 pm
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Brexit although kinda sick n tired of hearing bout it and people’s so called insight of the consequences of either staying or getting out


 
Posted : 27/08/2019 5:56 pm
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Binners


 
Posted : 27/08/2019 5:59 pm
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My body clock. It seems to be broken and wakes me up at 5am every day. 6am would be nice, 7am is a dream!


 
Posted : 27/08/2019 6:57 pm
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My spending on bikes. Over 11k so far this year. I enjoy buying them more that riding them I think.


 
Posted : 27/08/2019 7:10 pm
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You’ll never take me alive Flashy!

I’d like to take back control of my bladder and the hair that’s migrated south from my head to my ears and nose.

Oh... and Manchester United from the ****ing Glazers


 
Posted : 27/08/2019 7:17 pm
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You’ll never take me alive Flashy!

He didn't say he was going to. 'Control' in the context of 'Pest Control'

Rentokil don't seek to take over the day to day management of bedbugs 🙂


 
Posted : 27/08/2019 7:20 pm
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Binners

Join the queue.


 
Posted : 27/08/2019 7:31 pm
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UKs petrol prices.


 
Posted : 27/08/2019 7:59 pm
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My weight. The amount of riding I do I should be at least plausibly skinny.


 
Posted : 27/08/2019 8:08 pm
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Democracy. Only a third of those eligible to vote asked for this shit.


 
Posted : 27/08/2019 8:12 pm
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The initial premise of the OP requires having had at least some degree of control over something in the first place.

So that’s me out.


 
Posted : 27/08/2019 8:12 pm
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The number of personal cars on the road... Take us back to around 1990 levels, no more than one per home and consequently residential streets free of cars parked on them and/or half the pavement.

No off road residential parking? No car for you! Only room for one car? Visitors have to park in official car parks, potentially 10mins walk away! 😮


 
Posted : 27/08/2019 8:21 pm
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The number of personal cars on the road… Take us back to around 1990 levels, no more than one per home and consequently residential streets free of cars parked on them and/or half the pavement.

No off road residential parking? No car for you! Only room for one car? Visitors have to park in official car parks, potentially 10mins walk away!

Any other totalitarian ideas?

JP


 
Posted : 27/08/2019 8:38 pm
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The TV remote.


 
Posted : 27/08/2019 8:44 pm
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Any other totalitarian ideas?

Yes, ban cars (and cats) outright.


 
Posted : 27/08/2019 8:45 pm
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My life. Would anyone like to buy a family? One careful owner...


 
Posted : 27/08/2019 8:51 pm
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^ If you’d been ‘careful’ in the first place...


 
Posted : 27/08/2019 9:11 pm
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The weather.


 
Posted : 27/08/2019 9:14 pm
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My working hours. Chuff all riding this year and a lot of long hours worked. Honestly considering bike packing to work in the autumn to get some miles and camping in.


 
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My flatulence- it's getting embarrassing 😳😂


 
Posted : 27/08/2019 9:58 pm
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My life, my kids, my weight and my complete lack of finances. One day....


 
Posted : 27/08/2019 10:16 pm
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The number of personal cars on the road… Take us back to around 1990 levels, no more than one per home

And you'd solve the nuisance of having women in the workplace at the same time. Genius.


 
Posted : 27/08/2019 10:47 pm
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What would you like to “take back control” of?

Prepositions. Get them back in their place 😉 😀


 
Posted : 27/08/2019 10:48 pm
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Bowel movements.


 
Posted : 27/08/2019 10:52 pm
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The amount of time I have to interact with ****s.


 
Posted : 27/08/2019 11:33 pm
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The strange hair growing where it shouldn't. WTF do my ears think they are doing? Its a bloody jungle.


 
Posted : 27/08/2019 11:55 pm
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Can't believe we got to posting #34 before some said

The Classifieds

*ducks*


 
Posted : 28/08/2019 12:43 am
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My eating. I can eat like a flipping bear, with no regard for whether or not I’m actually hungry.

That, and public utilities and transport policy.


 
Posted : 28/08/2019 12:58 am
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Today's control measure is UK population control... Death by snoo snoo! 😮

Yes, we've started watching Futurama again, this time on Amazon Video.


 
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My bowel, stupid FODMAP and gluten intolerance!

oh and population control (I’d make Thanos’s scheme look like a pansey).


 
Posted : 28/08/2019 8:24 am
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The number of personal cars on the road… Take us back to around 1990 levels, no more than one per home and consequently residential streets free of cars parked on them and/or half the pavement.

No off road residential parking? No car for you! Only room for one car? Visitors have to park in official car parks, potentially 10mins walk away!

This is the most sensible suggestion I've seen in years. We have neighbours who have four cars parked in their front garden and on the street and they only get used for commuting, as far as I can see. If insurance companies could be persuaded to incentivise families to cut down on numbers by giving a hefty discount to one-car families (they wouldn't because they'd lose revenue and some smart Alec would find a way of screwing the system) and if investors could be presuaded to reopen Becching-cut lines to towns and villages, we might begin to see a reduction of the mad mad numbers of cars on the roads. Dream on.


 
Posted : 28/08/2019 8:30 am
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This is the most sensible suggestion I’ve seen in years.

It doesn't really go far enough. We need to create a world where people can exist without personal, motorised transport by providing genuinely viable alternatives - functional public transport, walking and cycling infrastructure - and changing the way we do things.

Instead we're fixated on alternatives to petrol/diesel vehicles that are going to provide new issues of their own without solving many of the existing ones - brake dust and tyre debris won't change, we'll be eating electrical power instead of fossil and the environmental cost of producing and eventually replacing and recycling endless batteries doesn't look good.

And I can't wait to see what a motorway service station trying to fast charge Bank Holiday get-away traffic is going to look like with endless fields of 30-minute fast-charging stations. I think we sometimes forget how recently it was that relatively few families owned cars and how quickly we've slipped into a mind-set of thinking they're somehow completely indispensable.


 
Posted : 28/08/2019 8:57 am
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My exercise routine. Since I started cycling to work, it's all I seem to do. so, when I do get shamed into going to the gym, I always end up a) knackered and b) unable to walk for a couple of days afterwards.

Maybe I should actually be looking at taking back control of my will power....

Meh, whatever.


 
Posted : 28/08/2019 9:14 am
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This is the most sensible suggestion I’ve seen in years.


 
Posted : 28/08/2019 9:33 am
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Double Deckers:

It's about time we rose up as one nation and demanded the reintroduction of raisins.


 
Posted : 28/08/2019 9:35 am

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