@kakapowhakatoi@carmelon@fesshole Completely undiagnosed. So many tests, consultants, hospitals, no answers. Went ten years with no flareups in my 30’s then they came back. Going through another break now, no pains for 3-4 years🤷🏻♀️
@David90shaw They can control their own moderation. How will this help our teens? It’ll be shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted each time they try to close anyone down.
@carmelon@fesshole To be fair I agreed to it. I had actually just demanded the consultant do something, anything, about my 8 years of crippling pain flareups lasting up to two weeks each time.
The pains have continued for another 30+ years since, so I’m guessing it wasn’t my appendix after all!🤷🏻♀️
@lau_viil All schools in my area have leavers do’s , (unfortunately they call them “Prom”) the parents spend a fortune on the dress, the nails, the makeup, the hair, the limo etc
@TXdoxiemomma@japan_nobunaga We do have Ranch Dressing, it’s not as popular here in the UK as it is in the U.S. but I love it.
Peanut butter is the food of the devil and should never have been invented🤮
Dear Lush (cc Chelmsford City Council),
As a woman who had half a breast removed last year due to cancer, I am writing to raise my concerns about your “Proud of My Stripes” window display.
I am also, on behalf of other women who have experienced breast cancer, respectfully requesting its removal.
Because mastectomies are not a fashion statement, an identity marker or something to be celebrated.
They are something women undergo because they are ill, because they are frightened, because they are trying to stay alive.
Around 59,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer in the UK every year. Many will undergo surgery - a mastectomy, lumpectomy or other procedure.
Others choose preventive mastectomies because they carry a high-risk BRCA gene mutation.
If a woman chooses to have her breasts removed to affirm a gender identity, that is her personal choice.
I honestly don’t know the number of women who have elective mastectomies for this reason.
What I do know is that it is a tiny number compared with those for whom breast surgery is medically necessary and not something to be celebrated.
I think I speak for many women who have experienced breast cancer - and for their families - when I say this:
Breast removal surgery is not something I regard as cute, playful or empowering.
Nor is it something I believe retailers should be celebrating.
For that reason, I am requesting that the display be removed and that @ChelmsCouncil apologise for promoting it on social media.
Yours sincerely,
Janet Murray
@Get_Labour_Out@Kristinartz Exactly. And your screensaver keeps coming in so you keep having to put your password/face recognition back in again multiple times…it’s too annoying!
I don’t do shopping lists generally but when I do, paper is infinitely easier and better!
@ben_brechtken Didn’t he have conversations a few years ago (with was it the UN or similar agency) about ending global hunger and they wouldn’t commit because he wanted receipts as to where the money was being spent? Or something along those lines?
@Blvcko00@AmarPape82 It is a consideration needed to be made by lawmakers. Whether they ignore it or agree to it even if anyone thinks it’s a no-brainer either way.
@Blvcko00 Absolutely (men and women!) BUT in making that law we need to consider consensual sex between teenagers ie:15/16yr olds. I don’t get why some kids choose to have sex that young but they do and they potentially need a different kind of protection/prosecution system.
@Alexarmstrong Of course there is. There’s no better evidence than statements bereaved families read out on Court steps at the end of every trial.
Why do we never hear from the families for years after? Why aren’t they on every political TV program, every news bulletin and magazine programme?
@BasilTheGreat The families might have NDAs and be somehow pressurised to read these statements and then not speak to the media, but their friends and extended family aren’t under the same pressure. I’d be shouting any injustices from the rooftops if this happened to one of my family or friends