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@borgranta @Uebok_Rebuke @gotrice2024 Yes, agreed. Thing is though people don't and then they expire or worse, the company goes bust and they become worthless. Google says "Roughly $3 billion in gift card value goes unredeemed every year in the US."

@freda646 @Uebok_Rebuke @gotrice2024 Gift cards are a fine gift if the recipient can spend them right away.

This woman takes all of her kids birthday and holiday money. She says that since they get many gifts anyways, they won’t miss the money to spend on frivolous things. Instead she takes their money and saves it in an account that she will give them when they are 18. As soon as people heard she was taking their money, they attacked her saying how greedy and selfish she was taking their money. After hearing what she’s doing with the money, would you say she’s doing the wrong thing?

@borgranta @Uebok_Rebuke @gotrice2024 Still a risk given the whales that have gone bust these past years. You also have to consider, if you are thinking about Visa, Mastercard and Amazon because they are 'safe', not so easy for small children to spend.

@freda646 @Uebok_Rebuke @gotrice2024 Not if it is a Visa or Mastercard gift card. Also Amazon, Walmart, and Apple are unlikely to go belly up.

@husamasi @afneil Realise Twitter is not the BBC. 😂

@afneil How does the BBC allow you to post this misleading information?

Polanski is a know-nothing blowhard. The only Jewish person to lead a political party — bar, that is, Benjamin Disraeli, Ed Miliband, Michael Howard, Jimmy Goldsmith and Herbert Samuel. He is clearly ignorant of the country’s history. And much more besides.

@afneil The problem we have, as a country, is who do we vote for? I am an old-fashioned liberal and have not had a party representing even a fraction of my views for most of my voting life. It is numpty vs numpty vs numpty vs numpty.

@decorativeartt Does anyone know why he changed his name?

Good morning, Zack Polanski. How very revealing. You, the man formerly known as David Paulden, now stand there claiming the “right-wing propaganda machine” is “going after your family” because the Green Party is polling at 20%. One does so admire a politician who changed his name, joined the Greens, and then watched his own family publicly denounce him as a danger to Jewish people and British values, only to cry victim the moment anyone notices. The same Zack Polanski whose party has become a safe haven for antisemitism, Hamas apologism and Hezbollah cheerleading now pretends the real scandal is a newspaper reporting what your own relatives are saying. You’re not a victim of propaganda, Zack. You’re a victim of your own choices. While you lecture the country about “ending Rip Off Britain” and “making hope normal again,” your party obsesses over pronouns, open borders and tearing down Western civilisation. The polling bump is temporary. The stench of hypocrisy is permanent. The British public sees you clearly now, a rootless, name-changing political opportunist whose own family has disowned him and whose party is rapidly becoming the most antisemitic force in British politics since Oswald Mosley. Your entire act has reached its final, pathetic curtain call. Britain First. No Surrender. 🦁🇬🇧

@ZackPolanski A man in stockings grinding and wiggling his groin. Is this really how people in London make their voting choices?

If there's one thing that will be guaranteed to cause people who protect the wealth and power of the super rich - it's people having a great time. I present to you Trafalgar Square today which was beautiful and alive and buzzing with just that. 💚😍

@borgranta @Uebok_Rebuke @gotrice2024 Then they are stupid as those are the worst gift ever given there is no consumer protection. They expire, the companies go bust or change hands, and the money is lost.

@Uebok_Rebuke @gotrice2024 They might start sending them store gift cards.

@Maria_Wildlife @sharrond62 @cancivlib As I am sure you know, that is a non-starter as the demand is for access into the sex category of their choice and not for an alternative.

@sharrond62 @cancivlib The trans can have their own categories

New rules announced by the International Olympic Committee risk undermining the principle that sport is a human right. Policies that exclude athletes and authorize invasive testing have no place in a rights-respecting sporting system. ccla.org/press-release/…

@cancivlib Sport is not a "human right" you numpties. But in any case, there is pretty much a sport for everyone but there is no universal law that says I have to be allowed to drive a Formula One car because I demand it.

@Watchman_motto The ruts will get deeper until you start damaging the underside of your car on the centre raised section. So sounds like your neighbour is being quite sensible, wanting to deal with it before it becomes a problem.

I share about 100 yards of drive way with my ~70yr old neighbors. For some reason he’s obsessed with knocking down the center grass in the middle of the tire ruts and covering it with gravel. He talks about it all the time, probably 30% of all conversations I have with him are about this. He’s asking if I want to pitch in for more gravel, etc. When I put my parents in a guest house behind the barn, my dad started talking about it too. He got some roundup and sprayed his section of road. Am I missing something here? I see no problem with it. It looks fine. It occupies 0% of my mind. I’m prepared to spend 0 dollars to remedy this “problem” What is happening?

@Ninney2021 @StanisJenna @JayneCellis @neveratall @AldiUK Personal experience - when someone who is that close dies you go a little mad. Not the time for life changing decisions if they can be avoided.

@freda646 @StanisJenna @JayneCellis @neveratall @AldiUK Grief can bring you somewhat of clarity in my opinion.. I will stand by what I said 😊

@Microinteracti1 No, because even if the next president isn't mad the world is on notice that the one after might be.

🇺🇸Can the United States repair the damage left by the Trump era?

@Ninney2021 @StanisJenna @JayneCellis @neveratall @AldiUK I get your view but unfortunately (fortunately?) life goes on and having to cope with unemployment and debt on top of bereavement really is not the way to go. Better to try and get it sorted out, keeping the job for now, and then look for another job if there's still bad feeling.

@StanisJenna @JayneCellis @neveratall @AldiUK Yeah I get that. But emotionally, does aldi come before your dying mother... I think not!! 🙄

@Trukunitedfc @JeremyVineOn5 @sharrond62 @theJeremyVine So why are you so upset and angry if they new rule affects no one? Hmmm? 😶

@JeremyVineOn5 @sharrond62 @theJeremyVine Sharron Davies is a massive bigot end of. Trans women have been allowed to compete in the Olympics for 20+ years. Lets look at some stats. Paris 2024 no one was good enough to qualify. 2021 one TW qualified and came last. Total medals won by Trans Women in the Olympics ZERO

"This isn't about keeping anyone out of sport." "This is about fundamental fairness for 50% of the world's population who are biologically female." @sharrond62 says banning trans women from female events is about equity not exclusion. @theJeremyVine | #JeremyVine

@MN_Ament @BrianSuttererMD @stevemagness Removing men from women's sport is going to make a lot of women and girls very happy indeed. As for the men removed, they knew what they were doing. Stealing medals, prizes and scholarships. In a word -> cheating.

@freda646 @BrianSuttererMD @stevemagness Try re-reading what I wrote. You argued that an individual being banned would bring them relief and satisfaction. I simply said that it would be heartbreaking for them. Didn’t make an argument one way or the other about allowing or not allowing them to compete.

I don’t think the sports world is ready for how many unexpected positive tests they are going to find if every athlete is tested. Especially anxious to see how this plays out in sports like women’s basketball, where genetic gender testing isn’t done If they are truly going to do genetic testing on every female athlete, guaranteed there will be unexpected positives that will have a major life impact in the athlete who may have had no idea.

@adamndsmith An evil adult has told this boy, a child, he is actually a girl. Probably a deranged, homophobic parent. He won't forgive.

Imagine being the kind of person who sees this as a victory

@MN_Ament @BrianSuttererMD @stevemagness You are arguing that because someone cannot help being male they should be allowed to compete in the women's category. Too funny. 🤣

@freda646 @BrianSuttererMD @stevemagness Yes being banned from doing the thing you love for something you had no control over will bring immense relief and satisfaction. What are you talking about?

@StateDept This thread is good example of how indoctrinated and stupid too many Americans are. I will forever be grateful not to be one.

PRESIDENT TRUMP: NATO wasn’t there for us. We send billions of dollars to them every year to protect them. We would have always been there for them. But based on their actions, I guess we don’t have to be, do we? Why would we be there for them if they’re not there for us?

@AndrewP500 @SandyofSuffolk @Jan_Leeming But as children most of us knew how to behave rather than being selfish brats. Not the childrens fault of course, all down to the parents.

@SandyofSuffolk @Jan_Leeming Miserable adults should be banned from holidays , moan, moan, moan I think you may have been children once !!

Ban noisy kids on holiday. @Jan_Leeming has a piece about this in today's Daily Mail. She suggests it's down to manners and being taught to have respect for other people. And I agree with her. Too many meals out, too many flights spoilt by unruly children whose parents are unaware or just don't care about the effect their children's bad behaviour has on those around them. Many people would gladly pay extra for child free flights and it's time airlines offered this option.

@bluemoonjules @the_Limberlost @TheCinesthetic But was brought in the UK so you'd like to think he had a clue that we have a Parliamentary system and not one where a random author passes legislation. No excuses.

@freda646 @the_Limberlost @TheCinesthetic Half American...and lives there

Andrew Garfield says he recently watched the Harry Potter films for the first time, but added: “we shouldn’t be putting money in the pocket of inhumane legislation right now through she that shall remain nameless.”