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Scottish post-menopausal feminist hag. Be who you want to be, but don’t harm anyone. I like facts, logic, evidence, common sense & independent thinking.

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6 months
The principles that wd change the world tomorrow if only they could become fashionable: Honesty Education Compassion Altruism If we are ruled by “who can lie most effectively”, “I really don’t care about anyone else”, “I like making up my own ‘facts’”and “die, scum”, we lose.
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@eyeskewer @elizamondegreen By anyone’s standards, you were an adult. The doctor gave you written information about the risks. Who exactly, other than yourself, are you trying to blame?
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@PatrickAndrews @MissRegardless @richbsys Oh no you don’t. People who voted Leave are going to own every single consequence of this. They don’t get to shuffle off their responsibility.
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7 years
@JuliaHB1 @MSalt69 @NickEd82 @talkRADIO You know, something anodyne like “fancy that”, rather than “I couldn’t care less”. Didn’t they teach you that at home or school?
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2 years
@laurenhowellss It’s pretty rude to post something that was sent to your hosts who are presumably entertaining and feeding you. It wasn’t any of your business to examine their cards and it certainly wasn’t ok to publicise them. Failure in basic good manners there.
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4 years
@scotlass42 @Clariana45 @Cambellxo Plastic football breasts, blank robotic face, sticking out either breasts or bum or both. Yep.
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2 years
@HalifaxBank No, they do not. Politeness, efficiency and courtesy matter when you’re working in a bank. I don’t need to know about the sexuality of people I don’t know.
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2 years
@MollyCritical Ah. When talking the talk and walking the walk diverge. Awkward.
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2 years
Ok then, haters. If @BootstrapCook offends you with her solutions for people who have no money, as in,not even £1, go and buy a handful of tin openers and Tupperware dishes and donate them to your nearest foodbank. But you won’t, will you? You’d rather sneer.
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3 years
It occurs to me to wonder why zebra crossings have been black and white since 1934 when they were introduced. Could it be that the extreme contrast is easiest to see for everyone, including those with imperfect eyesight, and animals, like guide dogs and police horses? And…
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2 years
@DonaldPretsell @NeilMackay That’s the rich ones. The poor ones thought Brexit would magically make non-white people disappear in a puff of smoke.
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3 months
@LiamThorpECHO @1957AJB One minute it’s “THEY don’t integrate”, the next it’s “oooh, comin ere and tekkin our mayorships”. Which is it, racists?
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3 years
@chrisbrighton10 @EmmaKennedy And the first question has to be, why now? BJ has been the same from day 1. Yet all of a sudden SOMEONE has decided his time is up. Why, and why now?
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@soppystern @runthinkwrite Everyone has an absolute right to remove themself from a situation where they are scared. In fact,if the worst happens, many ppl will ask why they didn’t do so before it happened. I have no obligation to pamper an obvious man’s feelings if *I* feel unsafe and have an escape route
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5 years
@samsmith You're a man. Men dance.
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3 years
@seangunn Have you done that, Sean? Because I’m struggling to see how JKR has no right to comment but you do. Basic, very very basic, logic.
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2 years
@laurenbari1 Isn’t it tedious to be so infantilised and considered so juvenile? I agree strongly. It’s all very demeaning to women to be thought of this way. We grow out of that by the time we’re in our early teens.
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@TheFamousArtBR @jeni040866 I am very happy to let trans people be, if they promise to reciprocate, mind their own business and not shove their way to the front of every queue while screaming transphobia at others. Be who you want, but harm nobody by it.
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4 years
@vlpkam96707 @SWGoldman @gtconway3d Which was obvious to anyone who watched that clip where he jeered at the guy with the arm disability. Anyone who can do that is not a good person in any way.
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4 years
@lecanardnoir @63_susan @MhairiBlack And if I want my kids taught that it’s normal 2be gay (which I do) then the library/school shd invite ordinary gay ppl. Lots of them about.
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@AlgorithmDancer @eyeskewer @elizamondegreen I have a lot of compassion for children who are pushed towards transition and would happily campaign for total abolition of that. But there must be SOME boundary at which we say, you are an adult, you are now in charge of your own body and can choose what you do to it. It’s….
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2 years
@IAmStealingFire @carolinefff Perhaps we could start by telling students that learning is meant to make you feel “triggered and unsafe”. If they don’t want to be out of their safe zone, they should stick with colouring in.
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6 years
@chlorineslut Who put you in charge?
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3 years
@PadmaLakshmi Parents’ main job is to see their children through to adulthood in safety, both mental and physical. This often means not letting them do what they want to because they haven’t the life experience to understand long term danger. Children need parents for precisely this reason.
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@msm_monitor @Scunnert2 Let nobody forget, polls are to mould opinion, not to reflect it.and the proof - not a single poller picked up the SNP landslide in Scotland in 2015. Not one. Or not one who was willing to publish it, more like.,
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5 years
@RAS_Diversity @rasnam2019 @RoyalAstroSoc "A horrible comment from a terf"?? Is this account run by a 12-yo?
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7 years
Look, everyone. Here is the clip of @kezdugdale advising Tory voting. I’m so fed up with RTing it. Please help out.
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5 years
@HadleyFreeman @twot134x If Sarah Vine isn’t happy, then I’m sure they’ve made the right decision.
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7 months
@BBCRadioScot I am hearing and seeing absolutely nothing to change my previous opinion that the ScGov dealt with the pandemic and conducted itself far more competently and openly than the U.K. Gov. I am, however, seeing lots of evidence that BBC Scotland doesn’t want to admit that.
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4 years
@Cambellxo Sorry, son. They look like inflatable dolls, not women.
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6 years
@MarcusStead @EsylltMair So when I go to Avignon should I rail against Provençal? Or in northern Spain, Basque? Languages are cultures. Why is Welsh culture bad?
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4 years
@Omnidolor @Zin5ki For a Brit, going to the US and being shown historical monuments that have been EXCAVATED and are less than 150 years old was a bit weird.
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7 years
@nikuaIe @Mc_Heckin_Duff Awww. Isn’t it cute how men assume that all women are there for is to please them?
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1 year
@jasonvholmes @ada_akpala @slben_ He specially isn’t choosing groups of young men. What a coincidence.
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6 years
@admjmaddox @JeriLRyan @RobertPicardo @levarburton Seven, the Doctor and Geordi don’t have political opinions. But the actors who play them are citizens like any other and have every right.
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4 years
@SimonMeechan_90 @PatrickAndrews @MissRegardless @richbsys From now on I block every single person trying to excuse Leave voters. They are responsible for what they did. They need to have at least the honesty to admit that, even if they do now regret it. That’s what democracy is.
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9 years
Person comes to live in a country. Likes it, stays, end of story. OR Doesn’t like it, leaves. Oh no, far too simple.
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. @iainmacwhirter Quite a claim. How many English incomers were polled before the making of that confident assertion? http://t.co/Pfp6vy3IGe
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@ChrisFa76144739 @lickedspoon The woman told her where she was from - Britain. She was born in Britain. Not accepting that answer is where the problems start.
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4 years
@seabreeze843 @Lauralols @GianniBoi5 @dxtrpro @Wild_Womyn Oops, what a giveaway. The correct answer, btw, is “these things should not happen to anyone”. If this was not your first thought, you have a serious problem.
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@Wommando @vrarda1 Me me me me me me me. Whereas OF COURSE other women just LOVE having smear tests and aren’t at ALL apprehnsive, no no no. God these people are tedious.
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7 years
@Maccadaynu @mrjoshz I do feel quite sorry for the kid, but no doubt I’m being too kind.
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2 years
@thetimes If “his Etonian friends” didn’t like her, I’d count that as a huge mark in her favour.
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@AlisabethO @skhanyz @GaetaAmy And mothers don’t leave disabled children at anything like the rate fathers do. It’s almost a cliche how many disabled children live in one parent families.
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@DeboraMontesoro @Linda_W96 @shekeepsgoing Because when girls go missing, the first 12 hours are when they might just find her alive. Looking for her with known associates/friends is a pretty obvious thing to do, whatever the hour, and most parents would understand this at once.
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2 years
@simonjedge What I can’t understand is why people like this compulsively publish their views. Just as well for the rest of us that they do, of course.
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8 years
Born England, one Scots grandparent. Came here when I was 7, educated here, worked here, had my children here. I am a Scot. #WeAreScotland
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4 years
@DrJCrawford @RooneyRachel @eyre_ann Someone whose sex is male cannot, by definition, “fail at boyhood”. Which means that what is failing must be your definition of “boyhood”, since that’s all that’s left.
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4 years
@theresaboyle @RhinestoneCow11 “Nursing mothers” are not dirty words.
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5 years
@HRC And forcing girls and women to share their facilities with make-bodied people can impose real harm on those girls/women. Provide 3rd space.
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@LGB_1962 @mc_simmy @Keir_Starmer I really don’t care whether he wears a poppy or not, but I do care about whether he has any beliefs that he is consistent to. Either wear one or don’t. But don’t chop and change for effect.
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@LauraNadiaHunt @mysteriouskat @Docstockk Shutting someone up is freedom of speech? Big Brother would have loved you.
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4 years
@hellomarkhere @KatyMontgomerie If that is true, then anyone using any of those phrases needs to make it 100% clear to every single person on earth, because the amount of obscene abuse that I’ve had for saying no to all three is legion. Let’s be honest, it’s not true. Is it?
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2 years
@ScallopSnail @Makemineadoubl3 I’ve never seen a woman pissing up a door.
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4 years
@SimonMeechan_90 @PatrickAndrews @MissRegardless @richbsys Well, half right. No, it isn’t going to change things. But boy, does it make Remainers who bear no responsibility for all they’ve lost, feel better to point out who dropped them in the shit. And they don’t get to pretend that didn’t happen.
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@TeamPfizer @MalesOfReddit I think that last sentence is uncomfortably close to the truth. Using the term “transGIRL” rather than TW is a dead giveaway.
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@PeteWishart Pete, you will see from my bio that I am not obsessive, but I am an SNP member and I tell you now, this tweet will come back to haunt you. You cannot dismiss women with serious concerns like that and hope to retain votes. At least be polite.
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@adamrhaines @jamesdoleman Which means there is absolutely no point whatever in them moving from place to place each week. They might as well stay n London.
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@ripx4nutmeg @MsCourgette @Glinner Ah, book burning, that infallible guide to a person who is broadminded, rational and intelligent. Always.
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@Sorelle_Arduino @mrstomlinstan @scottishgreens @Gatwick_Airport This is beyond disgusting. It is totally unnecessary for this photo to be published AT ALL. Reported to X and @scottishgreens . Where else might it be of interest?
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5 years
@boodleoops @aytchellesse I understand there are two other pools, one for males and one mixed. This is completely unnecessary and vindictive against women.
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10 months
@MujerGuerrera78 @ilovepreserves What sort of a name is Dempsey? And why the pink frills and coy over-the-shoulder looks? 🤮🤮🤮
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@HDMW18 @scottlong1980 You excuse that. And you say so openly. I can hardly get my European head round that.
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5 years
@TimClarePoet Do please screen shot and post that tweet.
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1 year
@auntympumi @WomenReadWomen Anyone who can father children is a man, by definition.
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2 years
@megszzzzzzz @vrarda1 If they’re NB, then presumably they don’t care which toilets they use?
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2 years
@OkBiology @Makemineadoubl3 @Primark Has any woman in a female changing room ever had another customer pull back the curtain of her cubicle? I haven’t.
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@drvolts Let’s try it this way. Imagine you are 5’3 and weigh 130lbs. And suddenly you are told that every private space you have had till now, plus all the sports you play, are to be open to men who are all much bigger and stronger than you and some of whom are downright nasty and....
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@bindelj @radfemkat He was sexually active at 8. There is a word for that.
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7 years
@MichaelLCrick @WomenDefyHate The field in which I grow my fucks…….etc.
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3 years
@PatrickLenton Translation - “I do not like free speech when it disagrees with me and I am scared that my obsessive interest in gender ideology might be shaken by hearing facts, so I wish to silence anyone who doesn’t worship exactly as I do.” You’re welcome.
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@MelTankardReist If I had ever caught my son, as a teenage schoolboy, doing even one of these disgusting things, the sky would have fallen in on him. Schools MUST start imposing discipline on their pupils. Why don’t they?
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7 years
@depressionnote @StryderBourke Also inability to string a sentence together, silence/withdrawal, sometimes sleeping excessively.
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4 years
@innocent @leftist_rage @Flashmaggie You’ve lost my business. At the very least you could try making your own minds up rather than the knee-jerk reaction to the magic word “transphobia”. I thought better of you but you’re just like all the rest, for all your protestations of being different.
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6 years
@WingsScotland @ChildOfAlba STV news - Oliver Mundell saying "nobody wants this". Aye, that'll be why 10,000 people just marched down your High St then.
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5 years
@gregjames @BritEuropa @MrNishKumar @LordsTaverners Well, the comments are illuminating. If I were you I’d be resigning from your ambassadorship and leaving them to it.
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5 years
@egemini618 @donmackeen Are there any female Trump supporters who DON'T have shoulder length blonde hair?
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4 years
@ConnieFr @ProfJamesLogan @MeallyHen Neighbour told me wonderful true story. Friend driving into Edinburgh from E Lothian to hairdresser, got stopped by police, turned round, fined £30. Thought now she’d been caught might as well get hair done anyway. Caught again on way home, fined £1000 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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4 years
@sally_hines What are you hoping to achieve by this?
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3 years
@JamesPMorrison If EI wants to be left alone, that’s fine. Nobody will bother him. But giving long interviews to the Guardian and appearing on its front page are usually done to get attention. You can’t do that and then complain when people notice and remark on what you said there....
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2 years
@DrawingEggen “Imagine being so obsessed with trans ppl that….”says KM, without a trace of irony 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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1 year
@JackD157 @CapricornFM And that women continue lineage and blood. Why would anyone even imagine they don’t?
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3 years
..could it be that the safety of everyone might be more important than paying compliments to very small groups of the population, if those compliments detract from universal safety?
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4 years
@ALLIANCELGB @POTUS Perhaps a free for all will wake many people from their previous slumber on this issue. When it’s happening in THEIR community and disadvantaging THEM and THEIR families, they will care in a way they didn’t when it wasn’t touching them.
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2 years
@CardiffFeminist They’re unwilling to date TW because they’re straight.
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6 years
@thewhitepube @FeministRoar @gabrielledlp @welshstreets Please explain what makes a transwoman a woman. Because this is fundamental. And “they feel like women” or “I believe they are” won’t do.
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@TwwitterSavage @WorkPsychol Access to elective plastic surgery. If a trans person has pneumonia or cancer or broken limbs, they get seen exactly the same as anyone else. Ask people who want other forms of elective plastic surgery how long they have to wait.
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@jomickane @KnittedLamb @adamsonjon But you have to have cancer to get chemotherapy, so how can you tell?
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2 years
A genuine question. What would Johnson have to do to get him out of office? I know he’ll never resign, but what would upset the requisite number of Tory MPs enough to do the deed?
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@MelTankardReist The very first lesson in sexual behaviour, to both boys and girls, needs to be - YOU CAN SAY NO AND YOUR PARTNER MUST ACCEPT IT. This has ALWAYS been the most important thing. Without this, anything else is a waste of time. Every single sex education lesson should begin with this
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4 years
@YaFavesFav Oh yes. Just had the “nobody over 60 is capable of accessing the internet, poor senile old duffers” line. Bloody insulting.
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2 years
@timhighcliffe89 @JenBartram Because it is deep in many English people to know better than anyone else, refuse to be told anything and to be a team player. Over and over again you see this characteristic. Little Englanders would rather personally suffer than concede that they don’t know everything.
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3 years
@_BarringtonII We are speaking up. And yes, you can help, by talking to other men about it and pointing out that gender ideology has no basis in fact and does not have to be treated as Holy writ. Thank you.
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10 months
@jn_welch @IBJIYONGI Why do you implicitly and automatically believe everything Israel tells you? Does it not occur to you that by their strange morality, all they have to do is scream HAMAS and then they think they can bomb anything including refugee camps? Don’t you think that’s quite convenient?
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8 years
Sarah Smith on BBC news - "the SNP has stolen so much support from Labour in Scotland". Stolen.
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2 years
@jamieharrisnyc I grew up with a narcissist who regularly threatened suicide if they didn’t get their own way, complete with bystanders pretending they were happy with it. That person lived to be 88. Three people came to their funeral and one was the manager of their supported accommodation.
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@theeAlexandra @FantaCarrot_231 @hypergamyiskey Projection. They are jealous of us because with or without make-up, sexy clothes, surgery, hormones and everything else, we are indubitably women. And they can’t stand that.
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5 years
@value_judgement @AmazonFBAGuy @lporiginalg The world is full of real women. Why go to all that trouble?
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3 years
@Otto_English But nobody, at any point, surely, said “vote Brexit to demonstrate your patriotism and encourage others to share it”. Even the bus was about stated amounts of cash. How am I to respect a vote that was made for something that was never offered?
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5 years
@sistersuncutmcr What harm was done to Trans participants?
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4 years
@elle_hunt @LFCSandra @SandsUK As Alison Moyet so brilliantly said, if words mean a lot to you, what makes you think they don’t mean just as much to others?
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