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@siege but the question is what would be the consequences of that knowledge?
Would we stretchy tissue folk with lupus... -
-Want to be cured?
-fear being 'cured'?
-Would the doc's suddenly interested in building cheap gene identifying kits be doing that for 'good' reasons? (nope)
-Cut to 150 yrs in to the future, and gene therapy available as a result of Gilead doctors experimentation, with a view to stamping out LGBT folk...

I think, on balance, it remaining folk knowledge for the time being is probably a good thing.
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@siege my daughter when she was about 6 thought the second name "2000" would be good, because you'd sound like a robot model. In your case, the 'Seige 2000' model sounds suitably terrifying!
(sadly, they don't allow numbers in names)

@siege Bert Burt?

@siege yup. I really, really want to support people in funerary situations. Particularly, folk who want to arrange their own. I think everything I've learned doing this weird but incredibly important job sort of accidentally has prepared me very well. What I want to do is shadow someone for a while before I train. I've reached out to someone but they didn't reply. Bloody humanists ;)

@siege they re so earnest and middle class (not by design) they kind of get lumped in with the Liberal Democrats and ignored, but they are rather lovely,, and hold lectures and 'interesting things' conferences all the time!

@siege I am hoping to train to be a celebrant!
Also,, I, just want to say that my Grannie was in the Humanists society and she was an excellent person, which is why I joined them too. So, I'm very glad they turn out not to be a bunch of gits.

@siege Pardon? What, as a blanket statement? That's an, extraordinary effect. I wonder if that is also the effect of reading other fan-fic porn, like '50 Shades'. I mean, we need to warn people!

@siege When was Scott Bakula in anything non-peculiar?
I don't know how many episodes of "Enterprise" I watched before giving up.

@siege I'm sure you've discussed this what has occurred to me before: that in some ways it can make cis women in particular more... understanding, I suppose, if you consider the parallel 'horror' of abortion. Can a cis male ever be an effective post-abortion counsellor, or indeed a pre-abortion one? Can even a person with a womb who has never actually had an abortion, effectively give a 100% empathetic presence to someone who is facing having to do that in order that they can maintain bodily autonomy and not potentially destroy their own potential? I certainly don't really give a fuck about anyone's opinions who haven't got skin in the game.
Just pondering now... the parallels that are useful to use for people who cannot reach a point of understanding are obvious, Eg it is at least understandable to have an 'anti' opinion regarding abortions from a personal perspective. Well whatever, but it's an opinion, and no one s going to force you to have one. An opinion is not a fact, and it cannot be used to deny someone else's right to their own bodily autonomy.

blah blah.

@siege my Dad ended up on a drugs hang case that dragged on for months. He had a 24hr police escorts in case of jury nobbling, and in the end, so many of the jurors had been in 'close proximity' to known gang members, it was a mistrial. What a waste of everybody's time.

@siege... as opposed to a very odd loner with ego problems? What a bizarre state of affairs.

@siege Good lord! That looks like a rather good acting headshot. Blimey

@siege hmmmm. Good idea in theory. The question is: when we have to run, will money of any sort actually be worth anything?
I suppose the answer depends of how pessimistic you feel about the nature of the running

@siege they look like they've got something mysterious and wonderful inside, a la Pulp Fiction.

@siege that sounds frustratingly familiar as a scenario to... just about every creative freelance designer I know.
I was thinking whether there is an instant poster printer online (a La t-shirt printers), there must be - so your designs could make you a very small but at least *something* amount of £. As I say, I am a total sucker for that glorious steampunky 'extreme lettering' type design, and the words were also rather wonderful :)

@siege very groovy also. You're rather good at this stuff, aintcha. Glad you get paid properly & are obviously recognised for doing good work.

@siege love the calligraphy flavoured ones. Reminds me of when Seb Lester does interesting work, only more atmospheric.
I s'pose they are the design property of the theatre company? They'd look great on a wall :)