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So you don't want to look like a thickie thickie dum dum... but you still think asking trans folks and their allies to "define a woman" is the ultimate gotcha... ...a short Fred.

Not sure what it says about society at large, that so much consideration is given to defining a tree, so little to defining a woman.

So you don't want to look like a thickie thickie dum dum... but you still think asking trans folks and their allies to "define a woman" is the ultimate gotcha... ...a short Fred.

Nah. If you wanna be a woman, all it takes is a quick shuftie at your genitals the day you're born and that's it. Done. Dusted. Defined. Whereas, trees... Not go into detail. Just go Google it yourself: "legal definition of a tree."

So you don't want to look like a thickie thickie dum dum... but you still think asking trans folks and their allies to "define a woman" is the ultimate gotcha... ...a short Fred.

So. If there is no word for tree, is there no tree? @dannybate.com

So you don't want to look like a thickie thickie dum dum... but you still think asking trans folks and their allies to "define a woman" is the ultimate gotcha... ...a short Fred.

But perhaps for context... rebuttal, even... you could ask them how they define something. Something easy, let's say. Like a tree. I hit this one many years ago while doing linguistics. It came up en passant, in respect of the relationship between language and the world it described.

So you don't want to look like a thickie thickie dum dum... but you still think asking trans folks and their allies to "define a woman" is the ultimate gotcha... ...a short Fred.

Heartening as it is to see the hot words today and yesterday on the NHS ban, folks who would like to make a difference need to follow through. That means making it clear to the NHS now - not at point of going into hospital - that you will refuse treatment rather than be placed on the wrong ward.

Last up, while it may be rhetorically impactful, don't go telling medical folks you'd "rather die" than be treated on x ward. There will be bad faith actors out there who see that as their cue to get you sectioned for 'suicidality,' and you will then have no rights to decide on your own treatment.

Heartening as it is to see the hot words today and yesterday on the NHS ban, folks who would like to make a difference need to follow through. That means making it clear to the NHS now - not at point of going into hospital - that you will refuse treatment rather than be placed on the wrong ward.

What is pissing me off today? Maybe, the fact that the geopolitical world i grew up with, then lived with, all my life was structured round the US need to keep Russia at bay. And today, not just Trump, but a procession of senior GOP folks are scolding Europe, as if this was OUR doing, all along.

I don't even know how to characterise this. Hypocrisy? Certainly. A re-writing of history? Yup. But beyond that, it's just demented. I'd say "like watching a 6-year-old discovering matches," but at least a 6-year-old understands the concept of consequences.

OK. I'm staying with Pierre, which is a semi-decent drama about a campaigning lawyer trying to solve a crime against a background of police racism and other shenanigans. And i accept that most sleuths are meant to be flawed characters. But, boy! Is Pierre an a'hole. Entitled. Insensitive.

Wtf! Following on a seriously skewed attack on Labour plans a week or so back, Jeremy Vine today doing a UK Economy 101 with just the one guest there to talk up neoliberal economics, with a good dose of "There Is No Alternative" on the side. I blame the producers...

So. This is unlike me. Apart from getting picky over minor details that other folks would let by. Anyway. #Uprising. No idea if it's a good film. Though the fact it seems to be presenting the English Rising (1381) as a "Peasants'" Revolt seems to be very much at odds with what we now know. But...

...Uprising doubling up: taking two ad slots back to back. And also approx. every two minutes.

So. This is unlike me. Apart from getting picky over minor details that other folks would let by. Anyway. #Uprising. No idea if it's a good film. Though the fact it seems to be presenting the English Rising (1381) as a "Peasants'" Revolt seems to be very much at odds with what we now know. But...

The advertising for #Uprising has me seriously hacked off. I watch a lot of history channels on YouTube. I don't pay a subscription. So i accept i will get to see/hear ads. I am OK with that. But not OK with the Uprising ad campaign.

OK. Missed this little historical nugget yesterday, but caught up today. October 7 is the birthday of both former high-ranking KGB officer Vladimir Putin, and leading nazi/head of the SS, Heinrich Himmler.