@astarsscreams@FeartnTired@Lady_Penelope I'm somewhere in the middle. I didn't want my kids to have the exact same name as several other kids in their class, so went for names that are not in the top 50, but still easily recognisable as names for female humans.
' The day after the birth, the nurse asked me what I wanted to call her. In the haze of no sleep, adrenaline and mixed emotions, I blurted out the first thing that came into my head: 'Crumpets'.
This is not how babies get named. You have until the baby is 6 weeks old to pick a sensible name and go get the birth certificate. That's 6 whole weeks for partner, friends, grandparents etc to talk some sense into you if you think Crumpets is an appropriate name for a person.
@HebrideanHecate@FeartnTired@Lady_Penelope@astarsscreams That's a cute name for a puppy, but a bloody cruel one for a child. If your kids name sounds more likely to belong to a pole dancer than the next president of your country, you have failed parenting at the first hurdle!
@KeepTakingTheSoma@Sherri_Ingrey I can't use their stuff anyway as there's far too much artificial colour and fragrance in them. Kids used to go mad for it though. We also stopped going in when they said they didn't want terfs as customers.
@Nudhul@Hoss@vic@AnungIkwe@ChasingWaterfalls Your original statement was about how many people have died ever, but now you are only interested in deaths that occured post 1957?
Truly you are one of the most logical beings ever to have logiced.
@ChasingWaterfalls@Nudhul@Hoss@vic@AnungIkwe Cumbria had twice that number of extra cancer deaths in the years following the fire at Windscale, and that's just one power station in a relatively unpopulated part of the country.
@Chronic-Yonic Bullying women on the internet is such an easy way for men like him to look kind without actually being kind. Said exactly the same thing yesterday about Neil Gaiman, who has also tweeted about JKR being awful just for giving a shit about women.
I'm coming to the conclusion that if a man with a high profile attacks JKR online, he's probably abused someone IRL. Maybe their publicists/managers tell them to do it as an easy piece of reputation repair?
'Boy George was today sentenced to 15 months in jail for falsely imprisoning a male escort by handcuffing him to a wall and beating him with a metal chain.'
@KeepTakingTheSoma@HebrideanHecate At the same time as making schools increasingly awful, the government is also working on making home education much more difficult, and in some areas, you can't just move your kids to another school because there aren't any other schools with places. (Friend's kid missed a whole year of education a few years ago, as the LA couldn't find a school with a free place anywhere in the county). The end result is that they can indoctrinate pupils all they want, as their parents have no other viable options.
@FeartnTired@Haleakalacrater@HebrideanHecate@Lady_Penelope Fewer houses did get built, but not just because the councils were losing the investment. Councils only got to keep about half of the money from the sales, and were not allowed to use any of it to build more council houses.
@HebrideanHecate@FeartnTired@Haleakalacrater@Lady_Penelope The whole policy was a deliberate attack on working class/poor people. Fewer council houses means more desperate people for private landlords to exploit. And we know that a lot of politicians are private landlords. They are the main beneficiaries of this policy.
@HebrideanHecate@FeartnTired@Haleakalacrater@Lady_Penelope Well, according to the tory scumbags of the time it was about 'shifting wealth from the state to the people'. But really, it was about abolishing social housing. And they've pretty much achieved that now. Council housing still exists, but unless you tick every single box and get the maximum amount of points, you'll die of old age while still on the waiting list.
Case in point, friend has a disability, has kid with a disability, grew up in care, fled domestic violence (all of which gets you more points) and still had to live in refuge (which means she was legally homeless) for nearly a year waiting to be housed. If she didn't have kids, she would almost certainly have ended up street homeless.