Mary Regnier-Wilson 🔶 retweeted
Terrible news for SEND families. We @LibDems have offered to work with the government to get SEND reform right - this can-kicking can’t go on.
I do my throwing up on the drive to the count, and then it’s for looking at your phone and looking at the sampling sheets from box counts. And if your spreadsheet says you are winning, frantically checking the formulas to make sure for the 10th time they are right
Mary Regnier-Wilson 🔶 retweeted
Normalise saying “this is really fucking weird, but I don’t think it should be banned”. True liberalism needs to make a comeback.
I hate porn. I’ve been sexually assaulted. My kids have seen porn which normalises the objectification of women (but talked to me about it).
But I woke up to 100+ notifications because I hate censorship even more -
especially via badly worded laws that won’t work
This is horribly similar to my experience 24 years ago. Midwives were just too stressed and busy to care.
22 years ago, in a private hospital (thanks work insurance) I had a wonderful c-section experience. Food, plentiful painkillers, a bed that sat me up.
And here’s an example of the real problem which bad porn creates - a woman assuming that all sexual acts are things men do to women.
The kink community is possibly one of the sections of society women are most respected in.
Lewy Body is one of the worst forms of dementia. I’m glad for this absolute giant of a man that his experience of it was brief, and that he was surrounded by people who loved him.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to:
Johns Hopkins Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Fund
alzresearch.org/giving/
Alzheimer’s Foundation of America Caregiver Resources
alzfdn.org/donate/
Photo Credit: Tommy Garcia
Sometimes we even have good years. And desperately want to believe we are cured. To the extent that we tell everyone we are cured.
The first crash after a period of remission is the worst. If only because you never let yourself feel that hopeful again.
I wonder if Piers Morgan asks this question of every child of an alleged abuser?
If Police told Meghan of allegations it’s on them to follow up, not her.
Almost forgot how nasty people can get on here - but it is quite hilarious when half the replies to a post about someone else’s comments are “they didn’t say that” and the other half are “yes and they are right”
Mary Regnier-Wilson 🔶 retweeted
This guy utterly dismantles the populist politics of Reform and Restore in 90 seconds. It’s actually quite beautiful.
Take decades of deep-rooted problems in Britain and convince people that a relatively tiny proportion of the population is responsible for all of them. Housing, the NHS, crime. Blame illegal migrants for everything.
Suddenly, you don’t need credible solutions to the housing crisis, NHS waiting lists or crime. You just need increasingly extreme policies on immigration.
And by the time people realise you never had meaningful answers to the vast majority of Britain’s problems, you’re already in power, handing out tax cuts to your donors.
So most of this is good, but I don’t know a single woman who will tell a man she doesn’t really know her address. And if a man pushed to get it that would be a complete red flag.
Attention Young Men:
I am surrounded by 20 year old girls in my life that are smart, capable, hard working and cute. Nobody is dating them. Not sure what the deal is, but I don’t get it.
Step 1: Stop playing video games
Step 2: Head to great clips and get that lettuce cleaned up
Step 3: Hit a shower (when dating hygiene is critical)
Step 4: Go clean your car
Step 5: Sign up for a yoga class
Step 6: Go to the yoga class
Step 7: Ask a cute for her phone number at yoga class (yes you can meet girls IRL and not just on the apps - 10/10 the Dirt Dog highly recommends)
Step 8: Follow up within 2 days with a phone call and ask them out for this coming weekend Friday or Saturday night.
Step 9: IMPORTANT - come up with a good game plane for date night. Get a dinner reservation, get an activity planned. Let them know in advance what you are doing so they can dress appropriately. I know you are gunna roll off the couch and head to date night, but they are not. They are going to stress about what to wear and call at least 6 different people on FaceTime to ask their opinion.
Step 10: I highly recommend you bring flowers to the door step. I’m not covering that you go to the doorstep, because if you don’t do that you have no hope here. Women want men to date them. You don’t need to break the bank on flowers. Head to Trader Joe’s. Grab 2 different kinds of flowers. If you don’t know what matches find the closest looking lady to your mom at TJ’s and ask her. Wrap the 2 flowers into 1 bouquet with paper. Bonus Points you can cut open a TJ bag and use that as the paper.
Step 11: Be a gentleman on the date. She isn’t there to hear your life story. Ask her about her. For every 1 question you answer, ask her 3. Open Doors, pay for the meal, be polite.
Provided you follow most of this guideline you are highly likely to get yourself an opportunity for date number 2.
Keep going until you find someone that you can’t imagine not being around all the time. That’s when you have found a good one for you.
My life is complete with my wife as my companion. I wish you the same fortune in life. Happy Hunting.
Sex can be shitty and something you regret without being rape.
Defining a binary of “sex I was glad I had” and “rape” is just as bad as defining it as “not rape” and “violent sexual assault”
This was me. Had always planned three kids. First pregnancy with OC on NHS was horrific. Only went ahead with second because work insurance covered private treatment. Gave up work and couldn’t face another awful NHS experience (or to pay for private treatment
“Transformed” is an incredibly useful word
