OK. I realise this probably looks like trolling, sorry, I’m genuinely interested in the different system.

No problem. El Creepo up there also got reported for hate speech. People suck.

Cash, or one of those giftcards that can be used at about a thousand shops. That way she can get exactly what she needs, with no restrictions in her choice of shops or price range. When you’re broke, it’s pretty frustrating to have a gift card for a high-end shop when you need money to stock the pantry or you know…

I use the old proverb, “If you throw a stone into a pack of dogs, the one who yelps was hit”. #notallmen-ing is a silencing and derailing tactic and I am not here for it. If you want recognition and special treatment for not being a kidnapping sex-slave trafficker, you are part of the problem.

Sounds reasonable. What are the costs? I’m used to the Australian system, I don’t know how the US system works.

Excuse me?? You used a transphobic slur. I gave you the benefit of the doubt and assumed you were using it in ignorance, and you tell me to “relax”? Go fuck yourself.

Whenever someone says something will get rid of “toxins”, ask which ones. It is literally illegal for sellers of bullshit to answer this question. If they say Bullshit (tm) removes, say, lead, they have made a specific and testable health claim for the product, which makes it into a pharmaceutical. If their product do…

Schroedinger’s director. Ask an actor to do a fucked-up and possibly illegal thing which has the potential to haunt their career for the rest of their days. Decide whether or not you’re joking by the public reaction.

Can anyone come up with any innocuous reason an employer would try and prevent its employees unionising?

OH. MY. GOD. I...nope, I got nothing.

Same reason all Hollywood starlets look the same. There’s a template for the way Conservative women have to look before they get in front of a camera. Only ones that match that template even get as far as the casting couch. You think Twitler would let his son bring an ugly* woman into the family??

Hey, just so you know, t****y is a slur towards trans people. It’s the equivalent of calling a gay man f****t. It’s also not cool to imply that trans woman = ugly. Please don’t do that.

Even worse, he’s her father IN LAW. She doesn’t share his DNA. She joined that horrible family willingly. She could have noped out of there. She could disassociate from him today by filing for divorce. And yet she publicly stumps for him.

Ew.

The Lady Frances Howard tried that in the reign of James I (although it wasn’t her husband, just his friend who’d tried to prevent them marrying). It didn’t go well for her.

Then they will publish their robust evidence in reputable scientific journals where it will stand up under peer review, and Roundup will be banned. If you’re right, we’re in the middle of a slow moving apocalypse. Don’t waste your time on freaking internet message boards. If you have evidence of the standard needed…

I’m so sorry you’re having such problems. Sounds like the people around you aren’t helping, either. You are certainly not “less” because you are no longer a Cog of Capitalism. Your worth is in the things you mentioned. The smiles when you walk in; the contribution to the workings of society; the ways you make…

I made an unwarranted assumption in my long reply, and I’ve missed the Edit window. I assumed you were a self-employed landscape gardener responsible for your own timetable, and therefore with no one but yourself to blame if you weren’t taking the time to don protective equipment when spraying chemicals. I now…

Yep. QEI knew her father had disgraced his first wife and murdered her mother, then watched him get rid of 3 stepmothers including one execution...was probably sexually abused by her last stepmother’s next husband...watched said stepmother (who she loved dearly) die in childbirth...watched her second cousin Jane Grey…

Thanks! I’ll take your points one at a time