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@RadicalCartoons I admire your bravery.
I have not heard about this before, which I guess shows that someone does need to bring it into the light!
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@sim @KeepTakingTheSoma Hamell on Trial does a lot of storytelling. His song 'The Vines' is all about his time working in highway maintenance pulling up weeds at the side of the road, but they call it foliage reconciliation to make it sound fancy! 'John Lennon' (the HoT song, not the Beatle!) is good too.
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@sim I do what I can, when I can with music to get me moving. Sometimes, I use the music as a timer. If I'm really not in the mood, but the house is looking awful, I'll decide to clean for 3 songs/1 CD/ 1 podcast episode, then I'm allowed to stop. Even if I don't finish everything, it's better than procrastinating while the mess gets worse.
I also have a cleaner who comes once a fortnight. I'm getting better at keeping on top of things since I hired her, as I'd be ashamed to let her see the level of squalor I sometimes live in, especially in winter when my depression gets worse. It's also less overwhelming knowing that I don't have to do it all on my own.
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@sim What new music have you been listening to? I'm always on the look out for new stuff to listen to.
Having someone to come in and help is great. I'd highly recommend it if you can afford it. The only downside is my family have started taunting me for 'becoming middle-class'!
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@sim Thanks! I'll have a listen while I do my paperwork when I get back to work in a couple of days.
I mostly like folk, rock, ska, alternative, industrial... but am willing to give most things a try. I especially like songwriters who use their songs to tell you a story, and bands that use instruments outside of the standard drums/guitars/keyboard combo. Stick some cellos or a hurdy-gurdy over pretty much anything and I'll probably listen to it!
Teaching lifeskills/household management to people in the privacy of their own homes would probably be a winning business idea for someone who has the time and motivation! In the meantime, you can learn how to do almost anything on youtube.
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@KeepTakingTheSoma @GrumpyOldNurse @Chronic-Yonic I used to clean for a living. My post was not meant as a dig at cleaners, and I hope it didn't come off that way.
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@GrumpyOldNurse @Chronic-Yonic Even when they're trying to justify it, they always compare prostitution to one of the really shitty jobs. Usually either cleaning or flipping burgers. You never hear them compare prostituted women's 'agency' to that of estate agents.
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@Chronic-Yonic That's so grim. I knew they had a big age gap, but they met when she was a kid?!
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@jmakesart @ellepalmer1 I've heard plenty about the glitter family abandoning detransitioners, but this is the first time I've heard of the actual family abandoning them also. That's unbelievably cold. I hope this brave young woman has a shitload of support from others, seeing as her cowardly parents won't step up for her.
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@Sherri_Ingrey @jmakesart @ellepalmer1 I guess they'd rather have a miserable 'son' than a detrans daughter.
Hypocrites.
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@TriptychTwinsRidesAgain When I saw the headline, I thought it was going to be a Modest Proposal style satire.
It's actually terrifying to share the earth with psychopaths who think this is ok.
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@ChasingWaterfalls Most (if not all) of those drugs were only tested on men. But it's your fault that a drug that was not designed for, or tested on, women does not react well inside your female body?
What a pack of arseholes.
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@BILLSan345 @polarisera @GrumpyOldNurse @LadyMont I'm not sure that's quite what they have in mind when they talk about being 'trapped in the wrong body' ! 😆
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@BILLSan345 @polarisera @GrumpyOldNurse @LadyMont Chesticles sounds like something a twelve year old boy might come up with.
Funny how so many of these 'neutral' terms are based on words for male anatomy.
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@agorahills They do understand that we want our own spaces. It is very important to them that women should not be allowed to have anything for ourselves. It must all be shared with males.
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@jmakesart I think you're right. Everyone knows that prostitution and homelessness are miserable experiences, but sex work and houseless sound much less upsetting, and possibly chosen.
George Carlin did a whole rant about this type of euphemism.
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@jmakesart This word really irritates me on several levels.
People live in all kinds of structures: caravans, boats, appartments... They don't have houses, but they do have homes. The emotional significance of 'home' is important. It suggests safety and stability and privacy: things that homeless people do not have. Calling them 'houseless' instead, almost hides how dangerous and depressing homelessness can be.
I would be interested to know how this change came about, and willing to bet money that those pushing for the change are not, themselves, homeless.
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@Fullycaffeinated @LadyMont @HebrideanHecate Or even just let her sit back in the car until she's ready to move around. I honestly think that being made to walk around immediately after birth would be even worse than giving birth in the car park.
I took the midwifes, "She's ok," to be a shorter and politer way of telling the cops to leave because the woman doesn't need (and probably doesn't want) an audience.
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@Biff @Piss_Ant @Cousin_Isobel You're right. I was being a bit too harsh there.
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@Biff @Piss_Ant @Cousin_Isobel I'm glad they've finally seen sense and everything, but this reminds me a lot of those blokes who do not understand that sexual assault and harassment are wrong until they have a daughter.
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