@elizabethm46248 "It was expected" is pretty much the definition of a dress code. If you're calling me "son" you must be well into your nineties, so you should be able to remember. You aren't giving that impression.
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Photographs wildlife and nature in and around Wolverhampton
Wolverhampton شامل ہوئے Temmuz 2012
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@Wolves_Wild It was expected not enforced
Also scarves were voluntary not enforced
Got a problem with that, son
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For the second time, because idiots never learn: this is not a portrait of a British woman. It is a painting of a Belgian woman. It was the fashion in Benelux countries at the time for rich women to wear huge amounts of fabric on their heads and bodies to show off their wealth.
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@elizabethm46248 @BradfemlyWalsh Was the dress code of females keeping their hair covered in church to stop their hair style being ruined?
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@Wolves_Wild @BradfemlyWalsh Usually protection from wind and to stop hairstyle getting ruined
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@stevewelfare @simongerman600 @peterfrankopan Chicken tikka masala invented Glasgow. Balti in Birmingham. Currywurst and doner kebab in Germany. The battered fish in f & chips also British cuisine of immigrant origin - Jewish C19 refugees.
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@simongerman600 @peterfrankopan Hmm, anyone know if the U.K. actually consumes more curry, pizza or Chinese takeaway than Fish n Chips? 🤔 collectively yes, but as separate dishes?
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I’ve never seen a map that makes more sense.
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One way to tell your science is taking a back seat to your ideology is if you reflexively and selectively dismiss any study that disagrees with your already established conclusion, while still claiming that you are on the side of scientific consensus.
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@Mobell_k @viennoiscafe If OnlyFans refutes any economic theory, it refutes the marginalist theory of market prices. What is the marginal cost of some simulated sexual act?
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@viennoiscafe Tu critiques la théorie marxiste en confondant valeur et prix. Marx n’a jamais nié la subjectivité de la demande : elle explique les fluctuations des prix, pas l’origine de la valeur. OnlyFans ne réfute rien — c’est du travail marchandisé. Faut pas lire que des memes dans la vie
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Jusqu'à ce jour, les marxistes sont incapables de donner une réponse satisfaisante à ce genre de meme. C'est dire la nullité de leur pensée économique.
La valeur n'est pas dans le bien ni dans l'effort fourni pour le produire. Elle est dans l'esprit de celui qui désire ce bien pour résoudre un besoin individuel. La valeur est donc subjective, marginale, contextuelle. Elle n'est pas objective, mesurable, mathématisable.
Ainsi s'écrase lamentablement la théorie marxiste de la valeur travail et les théories classiques de la valeur objective. Si ces théories ont réussi à survivre jusqu'à aujourd'hui, c'est uniquement parce qu'elle donne une caution scientifique à l'interventionnisme étatique, rien d'autre.
I,Hypocrite@lporiginalg
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@OurWolverhampton I use crutches, for me it's almost impossible to navigate. Must be even worse for wheelchair or white stick users.
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@OurWton Pavement by the roadworks on Darlington Street an absolute disgrace. Shopkeepers on this stretch say contractors won't be coming back to finish off for months. At the moment it's passable with difficulty for able bodied people.
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@FondOfBeetles Does that mean they've never seen any male darts players?
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Apropos of nothing 🤨the recorded data on female darts players is woeful. Like, I just want to know what weight their darts are.
What do I get? Whether men on forums think they are fat or not.
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@RichardBratby "Walsall lad" - the family moved to Stourbridge when he was two, then moved again to London while he was still young, eight if I remember correctly.
The only Punch writer who did snap and crackle was Alan Coren.
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Feeling terrible about the fact that I am simply not clicking with Jerome K Jerome despite the fact that we ought to rub along splendidly & also that he is a Walsall lad. The baggy, rambling type of humorous narrative just doesn't do it for me, it seems. I crave snap & crackle.
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@History__Speaks And that makes regular people more reluctant to support actual trans rights: no to face discrimination in employment or the provision of goods and services.
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I think the biggest political problem with this issue is that regular people foundationally just don't think the empirical claims being made by the advocates for trans rights, about the ability to change one's gender, are true.
Lakshya Jain@lxeagle17
The trans rights backlash is extremely real and very worrying for progressives. The public is aligned with conservatives on several issues like sports, restrooms, and minors' access to care. It's possibly the worst issue for progressives I've ever polled. theargumentmag.com/p/the-trans-ri…
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@Tanni_GT Exeter St David's lifts also just gone out of action for a couple of months!
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Got an email to my parly account to say that the lifts wouldn’t be working at Bristol Parkway station for a couple of months. Booked a train to see how it will be dealt with. Just checked the Network Rail website and it says the lifts aren’t working but the train
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@janeclarejones Like the previous and still ongoing cuts to the welfare state.
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One remarkable thing about the hard right discourse about the destruction of the rules based order, and their welcoming it as the simultaneous destruction of hated liberalism and leftism, is the extent to which it relies on what was originally the leftist critique of liberalism.
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@harden19971 @DrMatthewSweet Unlike more modern rain gear, it mostly worked. Not so good heading directly into a gale, downpour across the Somerset Levels.
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@Wolves_Wild @DrMatthewSweet I saw a guy wearing what I would call a so'wester (yellow full body & cycle cape) just before Christmas. Very impressive.
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Now *this* is the Britain I remember from my childhood. Vandalised bus stops, phone boxes with the coin return tray full of fag ash, trips to London that turned your snot black. Might write a poem about it in rhyming couplets.
Alastair Wright@Pott_Shrigley_
Ecclesall bus terminus, 1977 #Sheffield
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@harden19971 @DrMatthewSweet Me too. Elderly white mail lefty. Pro science and women's rights.
I'd probably settle for bringing back southwesters and
cycle cape.
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@Wolves_Wild @DrMatthewSweet I recently emerged from the hairdresser on a particularly vile wet day and actually regretted the passing of ladies' hair scarves. 😱
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@FondOfBeetles There's a website (L-Space??) with very detailed but still incomplete catalogues of them. Was mostly compiled from comments of fans on Usenet when that was a thing, so tends to tail off for the later books.
TP occasionally contributed to the Usenet group, confirming Easter eggs.
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Any Pratchett/Discworld fans.
I’ve read and re-read my whole life. I still find new Easter eggs.
Share below?
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@nomatestype @broseph_stalin Pre-1933 German Communist slogan: "After Hitler, us"
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@broseph_stalin Dead important tweet this.
Reform voters have finally seen through the uniparty illusion.
If Reform win, they will disappoint their voters hugely when they privatise the NHS
Those voters are not going back to Tory/Lab. Many will move to socialism
It wastes ammo attacking Reform
Ashok Kumar | 🇵🇸@broseph_stalin
After the 2019 Corbyn defeat, I took annual leave and went to stay with my parents at their home in rural southern Virginia to knock doors for Bernie. I didn’t grow up there. I didn’t use the Bernie app. I just knocked every door. What I found was simple: Trump voters were far more open to Bernie than liberal Buttigieg or Klobuchar voters. Because politics isn’t a line from Trump to Bernie with the “sensible centre” in between. The centre is the status quo. The right and left both challenge it, for worse or for better. And it’s easier to move people from the right to the left than from the centre to anywhere at all.
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After the 2019 Corbyn defeat, I took annual leave and went to stay with my parents at their home in rural southern Virginia to knock doors for Bernie. I didn’t grow up there. I didn’t use the Bernie app. I just knocked every door.
What I found was simple: Trump voters were far more open to Bernie than liberal Buttigieg or Klobuchar voters.
Because politics isn’t a line from Trump to Bernie with the “sensible centre” in between. The centre is the status quo. The right and left both challenge it, for worse or for better.
And it’s easier to move people from the right to the left than from the centre to anywhere at all.
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS
NEW: A full 10% of NYC Trump voters turned around and voted for Zohran Mamdani. So we went to talk to them. These voters are done with the status quo. One New Yorker told us: "As Americans, we can realize it's not Republican versus Democrat. It's more of like a class war."
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@colinwibbley @BriefcaseMike I think he does understand human biology. Not sure whether his comment shows homophobia, transphobia, or both.
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@BriefcaseMike "Trans man" = woman. "Trans woman" = man. That's the facts of the matter. Why do you not understand fundamental human biology?
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The nurses who have won a tribunal case may not be laughing if a very butch trans man has to use their changing room instead of the male changing room in order to comply with the tribunal ruling.
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@MadelaineLucyH If any man actually said that, I'd have doubts that he'd ever been friends with anybody of either sex.
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You can tell when a man has never been friends with a woman because he says stuff like 'men fantasise about saving people and using super powers/time travel for good though' and 'men talk about ethics and morality and important stuff together, unlike women'
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