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[Johnsond]

Record numbers not working due to ill health

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Mental health issues and back and neck pain have contributed to the rise in long-term sickness.

Mental health issues !! back and neck issues due to home working 😞🤷‍♂️the insanity that was covid just seems to keep giving more and more. 

[Johnsond]

Rishi, it falls to you to cure the national malaise Covid has spread

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[Stere]

 

Not seeing the trees for the wood: willow shortage could spell end for Kashmir’s cricket bat industry | Global development | The Guardian

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The climate crisis and farmers opting to grow more lucrative timber is putting many...

 

[doobin]

59 minutes ago, Stere said:

 

Not seeing the trees for the wood: willow shortage could spell end for Kashmir’s cricket bat industry | Global development | The Guardian

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The climate crisis and farmers opting to grow more lucrative timber is putting many...

 

Same old story- don’t pay enough for the raw materials, then don’t be surprised if farmers change to other crops if their land allows it. 
 

if farmers are making more selling willow for plywood, then the rates from bat manufacturers must be laughable. 

[coppice cutter]

This seems to paint a rather different picture.

 

 

[scbk]

On 08/02/2023 at 17:43, Doug Tait said:

 

That's my local butcher. Andrew, now Amy I think. I used to play football with him. He's been living as a woman for a long time, last I heard he'd had an operation to finish the transition but he's been going downhill lately with drink. Don't know what this incident with the girl is about yet as they're not saying much but knowing him I wouldn't be surprised if he wanted to "mother" her rather than being abusive. It'll all come out so we'll see but he's bound to get a sentence for abduction whatever his reasons. If he's not actually got any male parts now will that mean he gets sent to a woman's prison?

Just glad the wee lass wasn't harmed.

I see your butcher's case has made it to court!

 

 

 

Man abducted and sexually assaulted schoolgirl while dressed as woman

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Andrew Miller, also known as Amy George, sexually assaulted the primary school girl for 27 hours after taking her to his home.

 

[trigger_andy]

24 minutes ago, scbk said:

I see your butcher's case has made it to court!

 

 

 

Man abducted and sexually assaulted schoolgirl while dressed as woman

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Andrew Miller, also known as Amy George, sexually assaulted the primary school girl for 27 hours after taking her to his home.

 

Utterly disgusting but hardly surprising. 

[coppice cutter]

Interesting terminology from the BBC.

 

Even though the person in question is unashamedly "transgender" and in the process of "transitioning", the article describes them as a man "dressed as a woman" and consistently refers to the person as "he".

 

All of which, I have come to understand from reading various BBC articles, in this day and age is seriously transphobic.

 

I wonder what the difference is in this case???

Edited May 18, 2023 by coppice cutter

[trigger_andy]

1 minute ago, coppice cutter said:

Interesting terminology from the BBC.

 

Even though the person in question is unashamedly "transgender" and in the process of "transitioning", the article describes them as a man "dressed as a woman" and consistently refers to the person as "he".

 

All of which, I have come to understand from reading various BBC articles, in this day and age is seriously transphobic.

That only applies if they are the 'good' type of trans. Not the disgusting pedophile sexual predator types. 

[AHPP]

4 minutes ago, coppice cutter said:

Interesting terminology from the BBC.

 

Even though the person in question is unashamedly "transgender" and in the process of "transitioning", the article describes them as a man "dressed as a woman" and consistently refers to the person as "he".

 

All of which, I have come to understand from reading various BBC articles, in this day and age is seriously transphobic.

 

I wonder what the difference is in this case???

 

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/30/section/6

 

6Gender and number.
In any Act, unless the contrary intention appears,—
(a)words importing the masculine gender include the feminine;
(b)words importing the feminine gender include the masculine;
(c)words in the singular include the plural and words in the plural include the singular.

Edited May 18, 2023 by AHPP