I have a vivid memory of my parents trying to teach me to wash my hands and me eating the soap.
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I have a vivid memory of my parents trying to teach me to wash my hands and me eating the soap.
The token is probably more expensive than the coin itself in this economy 😂
People here just carry a “trolley pound” in their car these days. Sometimes you can even get commemorative disks the size of a pound
I live in the UK, so rabies isn’t a thing. Is there a vaccination I should get before travelling?
Apart from physical injuries, I believe rabies is quite preventable with a shot after being attacked?
In the UK you need to use a £1 coin to unlock the trolley from the rack, which stays jammed in the trolley. When you lock it back in, the coin is dispensed. Dunno why other countries haven’t figured this one out yet.
Remember how Mike Pence was the reason why everyone was scared in 2016? Some reckoned he was worse than Trump
I wish we had snow
!self harming!<
There used to be memes going about showing hello kitty characters doing drugs, s//h’ing, etc. in dingy rooms. I think it was an outlet from people who were suffering
Not necessarily. Mental health issues are consistent. They can come and go. However, children when growing up as teenagers get different mental health complications - maybe from their surroundings or hormones or both. I have seen plenty of times that teenagers try and use transitioning as a way to cope. Maybe they are struggling with identity or sexuality when going through puberty. Maybe they are neurodivergent and feel like they don’t fit in. Maybe they are looking for an identity or a community. Maybe they just have an illusion that changing their gender could solve their problems.
There appears to be an escalator which we do NOT want to encourage. Whenever an adult or therapist enters the picture to ask them “are you sure you are a boy/girl inside, or is something else going on”, there’s a chance they may get shut down as “transphobic” which we don’t want happening. Then there’s a community which may further encourage it.
Some people I’ve grown up with that identified as trans ended up dropping the identity as an adult, later saying that the real reason was because she didn’t want to be a girl because she felt girls were weak and she wasn’t like that. Then again, there’s somebody else who still identifies as transgender. But their dysphoria appears to be waning a bit. I’ll still support them as my friend regardless.
When I was younger, I questioned my own gender identity. I had a discord friend group and I suggested that I might be non binary. This friend group was constantly making fun of and mocking “cis straight men” and I didn’t want to be one of those. As soon as I questioned it, someone -a transgender person- just kept telling me “you are non binary.” Thankfully there was a falling out, I separated from that friend group and I am now more comfortable being the gender I was assigned at birth.
I’m also concerned that people grow into adults with these identities and a sunk cost fallacy may come in to play also.
I don’t want anyone to think I’m saying all transgender people are like this - I’m sure it’s a minority. But that transgender person later ended up getting into loli. They were abused horrifically when they were younger. So I don’t know if the abuse had anything to do with it or not.
We don’t want an escalator going- but we don’t want to breed hatred. It’s a tricky situation and people keep trying to make it black and white on both sides.
Teenagers like identities and labels. I saw my friends back then behave with pronouns, gender identity and sexuality the same way that people were behaving with choosing religious denominations, vexillology and heraldry communities making flags and arms for themselves (the latter two are more healthy than the rest tbh). People also obsess over star signs and mbti types. We just seem to like labels.
We shouldn’t be giving people life altering medical treatment because of these thoughts. I think we should also try loving people and telling them that they’re valid just the way they are first, before trying to encourage their belief that they need to change.
Where are you drawing the line on “transphobes”? You are implying someone is transphobic for suggesting you should get therapy first before getting procedures done.
I’d draw the line at somebody wishing harm on somebody else simply Because they’re trans. But I don’t think someone should be censored if they are skeptical of the whole transgender thing, as long as they do so in a way that is sensitive and respectful to those dealing with gender dysphoria.
insecam.org is one, although they intentionally remove indoor webcams.
That was a referendum, but my point basically was that the government was like “we have a mandate to leave the EU fully” when the vote result was like… 52% in favour, and many people (including some I know personally) regret voting leave because they didn’t realise how significant the EU was.
Of course, there was a 2019 election where the conservative party won on a “get brexit done”’ campaign under Boris Johnson, but their opposition was split between Lib Dems (wanted a second referendum and was quite clear) and Labour (run under Corbyn who already lost an election, was extremely incompetent and hard to elect, and decided for some reason in this crucial time to fencesit the entire Brexit issue. All I can remember is them offering free WiFi which has the same vibes of the 2024 national service campaign)
Wait until you find out about Brexit…
Isn’t it actually illegal to call your child “null” or “nil” in some places
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I unironically supported Elon buying twitter. It really needed to die, and elon coming along to finish it off was it excellent.
What if everyone had a personal train
I don’t think it’s the act that’s bad, just the undertones and the guy it’s coming from. Same thing with Mariann Budde 😂