Is a lesbian governor similar to a lieutenant governor?
11.08.2025 18:29 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0@andrewcraig.bsky.social
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Is a lesbian governor similar to a lieutenant governor?
11.08.2025 18:29 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0It's not only unpleasant politicians that get assassinated, unfortunately.
11.08.2025 17:43 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0"They are a biological male" rather conflicts with "I should have been much more straightforward"!
11.08.2025 15:39 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0It's a whimsical word for silly.
11.08.2025 15:37 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Because religion has lots of damaging effects, and mockery can help to lessen some of them.
If I saw two lovers walking in a park, I would at least know that they both existed, unless I'd been taking some strong drugs.
What if we believe that there's no divine to interact with?
In any case, every religion thoroughly deserves a good mocking.
Minoan? "Fresco paintings portray three class levels of women: elite women, women of the masses, and servants."
11.08.2025 09:11 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Yes, in hunter-gatherer bands of no more than a few dozen people. Returning to that social and economic system seems a bit improbable now.
11.08.2025 07:46 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0But not testicle-related ads?
08.08.2025 09:38 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I'm old - tax the young people!
08.08.2025 09:06 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Other people.
08.08.2025 08:56 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Better still, stop flying.
07.08.2025 17:44 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Winston Churchill? Son of a chancellor of the exchequer.
07.08.2025 16:59 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0One of the most annoying things about the article is the use of the wishy-washy idiom "not OK" to mean "morally wrong".
06.08.2025 07:48 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I am to say that their belief was wrong. No, the display of their mummies and grave goods is not ripping them out of the afterlife.
06.08.2025 07:30 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I once saw John Thomson deal brutally with two hecklers.
First: "No, the point of heckling is to make ME look a cunt."
Second: "I bet if we cut you in half, both ends would live."
Then what?
05.08.2025 17:07 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It's possible, indeed quite easy, to change your name and choose a new one. It's impossible to change your sex and choose a new one.
05.08.2025 16:34 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0What happens to 50-65 writers then? On the dole?
05.08.2025 11:48 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Even in Dubai, that's not routine. Most of the people in Dubai are not billionaires.
05.08.2025 09:31 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Brook went bananas throughout his innings - there was no reason to stop.
04.08.2025 17:44 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It's about the right to speak the truth.
04.08.2025 16:40 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 3 π 0Does the sex lead to living dead babies?
04.08.2025 14:32 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0There's no time called 12 am or 12 pm - they're 12 midnight and 12 noon.
03.08.2025 16:48 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Apartheid breakfast.
03.08.2025 14:16 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I shall remind you of this tweet in two hours' time.
03.08.2025 13:44 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I turned 18 in 1975, and went to lots of football matches in my teens, and this never happened to me, either.
03.08.2025 12:08 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A calculated gamble. If it had been missing, it might have changed the result of the match.
03.08.2025 11:40 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I think I, and other men, should be allowed to deviate as far from masculinity as I like. But deviating from masculinity wouldn't mean that I was "living as a woman". Just as deviating from femininity doesn't mean a woman stops living as a woman.
03.08.2025 11:33 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0But you're telling ALL men to live as women for a few years. I wonder what YOU - since it's you making the suggestion - mean by "live as a woman".
03.08.2025 11:24 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0