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@Ihatesugar3 Thank you for posting.

Just a small thread to warn people to keep an eye on what appear to be skin blemishes. ( pics in comments) A year or so ago I spotted a small patch of dry skin about 6mm (oval shaped) on my leg. It wasn’t a different colour to the rest of my skin neither did itch or ouze

I just want to bring awareness to people to keep an eye on themselves. In my case I can’t thank the NHS enough, from diagnosis to eventual op it’s taken approx a month. Sadly not the case for others. Trolls keep your opinions to yourself 😊

I meet an unbelievable number of people over 80, in amazing health with a positive attitude, and when I ask them what their secret is, they tell me: Oh doc, I have my favorite cocktail every evening! I’m a doctor and you will never be able to convince me that alcohol is all bad

The word "dog" is something of a mystery. All of English’s relatives have something like "hound": German has "Hund," Dutch has "hond," Swedish has "hund." Yet only English has a word like "dog." In Old English, the word for ‘dog’ was "hund" too, a word which survives in "hound." It's traceable back thousands of years to link up with its cousins in Latin "canis" and Ancient Greek "kýōn." Then, around the year 1050, a different word appears: "docga." It’s clearly the ancestor of "dog." But it has almost no written history before that, and no clear relatives in any other language. Nevertheless, by 1500, "dog" had replaced "hound" as the normal word for the animal. The upstart won: a real "underhound" story. So where did "dog" come from? And why did it spring out of nowhere? Some scholars think it might be a nickname. One clue: "dog" belongs to a cluster of English words that all share an unusual shape. We have "dog," "pig," "stag," "frog," "hog," even "earwig." They're all terms for animals, the kinds of things we might give cute nicknames to… even earwigs. On this theory, these words are like thousand-year-old versions of "doggy" and "piggy." They tend not to show up in Old English texts because they're informal: not the kind of thing monks write about. That's one theory, anyway: we'll probably never know for sure.

Spell it backwards and it all becomes apparent!

@DuncanWestbury @CotswoldSeeds I need this machine!

Re-started my #BumblebirdPatch today. £9 for the bespoke mix from @CotswoldSeeds plus a handful of phacelia & coriander.

Pair of perfect parsnips 💛💚 pulled up a buckets worth of carrots and parsnips for the week or two ahead 💪💚😍

Star Wars.

As a disabled chronically ill person, this TERRIFIES me 😨 Labour now forces GPs to bounce back 1/4 hospital referrals ⚠️ Hospitals paid £33 per patient removed 💰 GPs paid £20 for every avoided referral. So when Labour says they’re “cutting waiting lists”…this is what they mean. They’re not increasing care. They’re rationing it to hit targets 📉 It’s not just us at risk. It’s EVERYONE 🚨 - your family, your neighbours, anyone who gets ill. When you need that specialist… the gate slams shut 😡 We should all be furious about this. It will cost lives. 🔥

9 hours to see a doctor, 30 hours on a corridor. Acutely confused, dysphagia, elevated WCC. Triaged by a nurse and initially offered oral paracetamol 🤷 Later required MRI, but not available at the weekend. Patient died aged 66! Hey @wesstreeting, much better under your watch!!

Lovely day out to Port Eynon today with grand daughter. However, £39 for 2 fish and chips plus a kids version with just soft drinks is mad. With £6 for parking £45 for a day to the beach makes it an expensive day out. Unless something is done to help hospitality this summer we could see many of our UK hospitality businesses really struggling by the end of the year. #UKHospitality #Wales

Who’s Wrong Here posted this I was at Trader Joe's yesterday when this woman in see-through yoga pants—literally sheer black Lululemons where I could see her underwear line—bent over to grab almond milk from the bottom shelf. I looked. Obviously. I'm a straight man with functioning eyes, and she had the kind of gym-sculpted physique that clearly took years of work. I wasn't drooling. I didn't catcall. I just... looked. A normal, appreciative glance. She caught me, rolled her eyes so hard I thought they'd fall out, and then loudly told her friend "some creeps just can't help themselves." CREEP? I'm a creep now because I noticed your entire bare ass outline that you decided to showcase in the dairy aisle at 2pm on a Tuesday? You aren't at Pilates. You aren't running errands post-workout with messy hair and a sweaty tee. You're wearing $120 compression pants that lift, separate, and highlight every dimple of your glutes, paired with a crop top that shows off your abs, full face of makeup, hair styled, clearly going for maximum aesthetic impact... and then you act VICTIMIZED when men notice? Let's be real. If I had Arnold's 20-year-old physique—12-pack, vascular arms, the works—and I walked around shirtless in public, women would stare. They'd take photos. They'd comment. And you know what? I wouldn't cry about being "objectified" or write Twitter threads about how "men are visual creatures but I have a personality too." I'd understand that when you put premium goods on display, people window shop. That's not harassment—that's biology. The same women screaming "we aren't sex objects" on social media are the ones posting thirst traps in gym locker rooms, arching their backs for the algorithm, wearing tops so low-cut I can see their birthstone. You don't get to weaponize your body for attention—likes, free drinks, validation—and then switch to "innocent victim mode" when a guy at the grocery store clocks your outfit choice. Either cover up or own the fact that you're fishing for looks. Don't cast the bait and then act shocked when the fish bite. Am I wrong for thinking that if you dress like you're auditioning for a fitness influencer sponsorship while buying kale, you forfeit the right to clutch your pearls when people notice? Am I wrong for being tired of this game where women sexualize themselves for profit and power, then demonize men for responding exactly how nature designed us to respond?

@Ravious101 Trollops.

@Shelaghbry @TeeJayR31 @TheSnoozeDoctor @wesstreeting Appalling…

@TheSnoozeDoctor @TeeJayR31 @wesstreeting My husband tried for 3 days to get a scan after GP sent him to hospital. Blood clot on his aorta waited from 5.30 in morning all day. On blood pressure medication now but no other help. Just told not to get stressed

NHS care is now being rationed. GPs have been told (and will be paid) to refuse, at least, 1 out of 4 specialist referrals to hospitals in order to reduce waiting lists by 25% minimum. Wes Streeting is a dangerous menace. This is an inhumane way to reduce waiting lists.

@Shagnasty6591 @Jenny_1884 @KingBobIIV 😡😡😡

@Jenny_1884 @KingBobIIV Yes, but Labour MP’s including Starmer are getting a £3300 payment to help with the cost of living. So there’s some good news then…….

So people on benefits are to get a 6.2% pay rise. So what are workers going to get? Absolutely nothing It no longer pays to work It’s infuriating

@Jenny_1884 The system literally rewards you more for not working than for showing up every day 😤. The working Monkey pays taxes that fund the benefits, gets nothing back, then watches his neighbor Monkey get a bigger raise. That's not welfare, that's a design....