Gert (I/me/my/mine)

@RebeccaCaine Talking of Manchester, I've just found my December 1981 diary & it turns out I saw you in My Fair Lady at the Palace with Tony Britton "good"; Anna Neagle "okay" and you - "excellent". I've followed you for years but I've never made the connection! @paulinecentral

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I'd like to see Michelle Mone locked up, even though I don't generally support jail for non-violent women convicts. No better than a wartime spiv. "I lied to protect my family...". Erm, that only works w/ personal/ family matters. This is public contract paid by public money

@_lliesl_ It's a strange workplace where a current project or contract doesn't build on the work done on previous projects by staff such as your currently sick colleague. Contracts or projects don't succeed in a vacuum. Staff transfer skills.

Just had a row at our work xmas meal. One of the team is on long term sick and I suggested we send them some of the hamper a client gave our team. I was told that everyone else was overworked cos they are not here and so they shouldn't get anything. Was my suggestion wrong?

@mancunianmedic @_lliesl_ These are people who somehow imagine that they can work longterm/until retirement without ever having a serious illness or injury. It's very shortsighted but I reckon karma will get most of them eventually.

@_lliesl_ you suggestion was a great one that is not a team i would want to be a part of with attitudes like that how would they like it if they were off sick and people were stabbing them in the back behind their back?

@DrHooley Men can't become women; and there is no God. What a waste of a life you could have spent doing something useful. "Pick me! Pick me! I'm here to please all men! I'm a subservient female here to indulge male sexual fantasies". What a disgrace.

@Gert You do know that most of us routinely use the gents when there’s a queue at the ladies?… (straw poll at the knit and natter group…)

Embarrassing watching #LastLeg. The level of ignorance in saying 'no Minister' having actually stated Mims Davies has been appointed as...Minister. Yet again, programme fronted by 3 middle class *men* defending 'gender neutral toilets' - advocating the sex crime of voyeurism

@DrHooley I really can't bear women like you who encourage predatory male behaviour. All this Christian bullshit of 'Be Kind' but only to the powerful & privileged. Why do you hate women so much? You're truly horrible. Now fuck off my timeline.

@DrHooley You do know that many women of all ages, many survivors of sexual assault, cherish all-female facilities; you know girls are missing school or getting UTIs because of people like you. Utterly devoid of compassion & desperate to please men. You sad fuck with a pointless life.

@DrHooley And your point is? You think it's okay for men and boys to be in the women's loos, which are sometimes used as a refuge from predatory males & are where women clean up after period mess or miscarriages. You Christians really hate women, don't you!

@_lliesl_ It still rankles that when I was off long term sick I got nothing, not even a bunch of flowers. Meanwhile, over numerous years I contributed to presents for people's weddings & babies, even 40th b'days - when I was 41 - & other people's sick flowers. Actually, I'm upset again

Just a thought, #LastLeg, you can't really pose as right-on defenders of vulnerable people and simultaneously shit on simple measures that protect women & girls (including daughters of middle class men) @adamhillscomedy

@LouiseMensch @jk_rowling I'd be curious to know what body of evidence or convincing logic caused you previously to think that men can become women. I'm not being catty; I fell for it. I do think we've been subject to societal level brainwashing.

@jk_rowling No. And I give you a lot of credit, because your quiet campaigning, with zero vitriol or anger in the face of a lot of both, has changed my mind on this issue.

No.

@ManUtd Very sad to read. Lots of love to Andrea & Suzanne and family.

Sir Bobby Charlton CBE, 1937-2023. Words will never be enough.

@AlisonMoyet Maybe they could do something like Duke of Edinburgh scheme, or similar.

New speak really can be a right old dose of bollocks. Graysexual? Demisexual? Jesus. Some people badly need to get a paper round or a sudoku habit.

Half of my great-grandparents were born more than a century before me. So, no.

Bizarre. First one I've had in 5 years here. I'm not in it (good). It happened to fall open at Duffield - Rosie's not in it nor is Damian Collins. Why would MPs publicise home address. There's someone listed with my surname proudly with her 'Miss' title. Top burglary target.

Autumn sunshine, today!

@QcWynter One flung itself against our patio door the other day; tragically didn't stand a chance.

Pigeons. I had not appreciated how fast they can fly until I moved out to the countryside. London pigeons loll about in public squares and can seem a bit dozy. The pigeons out here are magnificent creatures. And they are fast, whizzing by. "Racing pigeons"; all makes sense now.

I'm pretty confident that my partial/incomplete grasp of the facts & consequent opinion will change nothing, & make no difference.

@HJoyceGender @hstanley_ Anecdotally: booking legroom seats on a plane & being asked 12 times if I was a nervous flyer made me ask myself whether it was reasonable to be nervous. Before a blood test/vaccination, having the clinician blether on about it not hurting etc makes it unnecessarily painful

It's such a bad idea to encourage MH rumination in people who are doing fine. Schools' obsession with MH talk is part of what's making kids miserable