• Flying SquidOP
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      7922 hours ago

      “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)
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        2422 hours ago

        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.

        • Flying SquidOP
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          1222 hours ago

          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.

    • @Magister
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      16 hours ago

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

      EDIT: ok I’m not english native, I didn’t want to offense anyone, I’m just an old coot who learnt cursive and only cursive at school in the 70s. I don’t know how to write with “block letters”

      • @[email protected]
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        1113 hours ago

        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.”

      • @[email protected]
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        7022 hours ago

        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.

        • @[email protected]
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          921 hours ago

          I can’t write in cursive, but even I can write better cursive than that, with my foot.

          • @P00ptart
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            520 hours ago

            Remember that they’re writing on a paper taped to a window, not sitting at a desk.

            • @[email protected]
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              317 hours ago

              Remember that they knew it was paper taped to a window when they made the attempt.

              Who forced them to write quickly?

      • @XeroxCool
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        1017 hours ago

        This isn’t cursive so much as it’s dragged manuscript. Keep in mind there’s no single group of characters in cursive. There’s variations. Capital F is the whole reason I quit cursive. Some do a backwards print F, some do it like the Friendly’s restaraunt chain.

        Regardless, here’s what I couldn’t read accurately that buried the message: fasting, that, climbing, mountain.

      • @RampantParanoia2365
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        1217 hours ago

        I can read cursive just fine. I can’t make out this note.

      • Eager Eagle
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        1921 hours ago

        I can read it when the other person can write it

      • @[email protected]
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        516 hours ago

        …that’s not cursive? Like, there’s 3 or 4 actual cursive letters in there, the rest is sloppy print

      • @[email protected]
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        1422 hours ago

        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

        • @Magister
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          216 hours ago

          true! old coot here!