@er__cl Statistically you're very very likely to need it, and every pound you put in now is worth a fortune in your retirement. It's a bad decision not to.
@ChrisHilton83@HugeGrlff The Traitors? Why would you when he's out there being so confidently wrong so often? He's making noise in all the wrong places, he's their perfect stooge 😂
@Julesk23 People are dumb. Locally, there's a group who set up amazing warm housing for the feral cat population (adapted keter boxes and insulation) so they have e somewhere safe and warm to sleep, it's a lovely thing to do.
@Sarah_Curse Sending love. I cried solidly for about 3 weeks when I lost my dog suddenly and traumatically a few years ago, it's heartbreaking. Be kind to yourself and rest, do what you need to do. Treat yourself like you'd treat a grieving friend xx
@elonmusk You fucking moron. No she's not. She declined a new inquiry because there has ALREADY BEEN ONE that the right wing Tories ignored. Implement THAT, rather than wasting money doing it again. Why are you all so shamelessly gullible and STUPID?
@steelershockey Last year they said they'd skate through walls for him and the team. This year they look like they wouldn't bother crossing the street to say hi to each other.
@GBHockeyFuture Any natural atmosphere or chanting is drowned out immediately by Sweet Caroline or Freddie Mercury yelling "eeeeeey-oh!". It's hard to keep anything going 🤦🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️
For me there’s only one contender for Person of the Year.
Gisele Pelicot.
The woman who has recalibrated how we think about rape by refusing to feel shame.
“It’s time we change the way we look at rape”, she said outside the court today.
And…more than anyone I can think of… she’s done that.
“Shame must change sides”, she said, and perhaps – perhaps – that is a little more true today than it’s ever been.
But there’s something else that I want to talk about. Something that’s much more difficult to confront than the inspiration and dignity of Gisele Pelicot.
51 men.
51 men who are not all men… but who are also quite a lot of men. 51 of them in fact.
And if you read about them… their backgrounds… their jobs… their families or lack of family… they’re all quite different.
A firefighter…a nurse… an unemployed alcoholic.
Some were abused as children. Some had comfortable upbringings with kids of their own.
Six had domestic violence convictions. 45 didn’t.
One was 27. Another was 74.
There’s no pattern here. Nothing we can point to. Other than the fact there is no profile of a rapist. Which is perhaps the most frightening thing of all.
@steelermark@SteelerJb Yeah that would be nice. Although I guess nobody would buy the paper ones and we'd lose them altogether. I have a collection of special ones, where either we have had a birthday package and put a photo in, or a commemorative one, or a special game. I recycle the rest.