Gert (I/me/my/mine)

A Shakespearean Tragedy written by monkeys on typewriters. Fibromyalgia, opera, Labour, cycle, audit, photos, feminist, food, MUFC, knit, secular, walk, crime.

[Gert (I/me/my/mine) @Gert]

@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

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@_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.

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@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.

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@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.

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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

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@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.

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@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.

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@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!

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@_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

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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

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@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.

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

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

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

[Author Benjamin Ryan @brclothwrites]

Did you ever get to meet your great grandparents?

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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.

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Autumn sunshine, today!

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

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

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@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