First off, I appreciate that this may be an understandably sensitive topic for some, and I apologise if my language is insensitive at any point.
My understanding is that the advent of new psychiatric medications and the huge costs associated with running residential institutions holding people with mental health problems and developmental difficulties led to a political drive to close these institutions and care for the people previously held in them 'in the community'. As far as I can tell it seems to have progressed at varying rates in most 'Western' countries, with the majority of most large long-stay institutions being closed. Indeed now it seems to be a generally held consensus, both in general public discourse, politics and clinical thinking that it would not be appropriate for institutional 'care' of this sort to be the default option.
I'm interested whether, when deinstitutionalisation was nascent and moving forward, were there any significant movements arguing against it? Was it objected to on political, economic, social or clinical grounds? Were there ever any meaningful movements or groups advocating for 're-institutionalisation'?
I've seen deinstitutionalisation be presented with two opposite connotations, one that reveals us to be a cold-hearted and negligent society that thinks its a waste of tax-payers dollars to house the mentally ill. Or a society that wants to avoid the horrors of institutionalizing the mentally ill in state-run facilities.
Do your worst!
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
Buenosdillas
They’re on standbi
Pilot on me!!
Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.
Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.
When I got home, they were still there.
What did 0 say to 8 ?
" Nice Belt "
So What did 3 say to 8 ?
" Hey, you two stop making out "
I won't be doing that today!
You take away their little brooms
This morning, my 4 year old daughter.
Daughter: I'm hungry
Me: nerves building, smile widening
Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.
She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.
Thank you all for listening.
There hasn't been a post all year!
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It’s pronounced “Noel.”
After all his first name is No-vac
What, then, is Chinese rap?
Edit:
Notable mentions from the comments:
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Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits
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French/Finnish art
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Country/Canadian rap
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Chinese/Country/Canadian rock
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Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap
There hasn't been a single post this year!
(Happy 2022 from New Zealand)
Nothing, it just waved
Bob
Just to clarify, 12345678
So that I could frequently say, "I am going to walk 5 miles now."
Edit: My most popular post on Reddit! 😀 Thank you for the awards.
Me grabbing a soda from my (what I thought was) half full 12pk...
Notices there's only 2;
Me: "Awe man... This is a damn bird box!" Her: "What the hell does that mean?!" Me: (Pulls both cans out & shows them to her) "It's only got Toucans."
I'm not ashamed to admit the look on her face was glorious.
I was just sitting there doing nothing.
“BOOM”?!
