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Bank of England with pretty pink and blue lighting

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Melroses · 16/11/2020 23:26

twitter.com/bankofengland/status/1328382433553768448
Transgender awareness week apaz. Do they light up for every awareness day?
It's a bank - not even a high street bank wowing customers - a devolved govt dept Confused

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Redshoeblueshoe · 16/11/2020 23:48

They are getting absolutely hammered on Twitter 😂

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OneEpisode · 17/11/2020 00:05

My favourite pair of tweets was “The Old Adult Human Female of Threadneedle Street”, followed by “you forgot cis”.

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ErrolTheDragon · 17/11/2020 00:08

Are you. by the way, now to be known as "The Senior Cervix-Haver of Threadneedle Street" That has a fashionable ring of lunacy to it, don't you think?

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fatblackcatspaw · 17/11/2020 00:12

@Redshoeblueshoe

They are getting absolutely hammered on Twitter 😂

GOOD!
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testing987654321 · 17/11/2020 00:17

It's transgender awareness week? Can we not have one day off? Please!

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fatblackcatspaw · 17/11/2020 00:20

every day is transgender awareness week... never in a million years will you be allowed a day off

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PotholeParadies · 17/11/2020 00:41

Well, if it's official awareness week then I suppose they have to, as a public institution.

I'm sure they observe all the awareness weeks, because they wouldn't want to risk favouritism.

www.awarenessdays.com/awareness-days-calendar/category/awareness-weeks/

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CircleofWillis · 17/11/2020 00:43

Those dogs! I want my own jack russell pug cross that sits like on old man.

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ErrolTheDragon · 17/11/2020 00:48

Yes, they'd better be doing something for the other Awareness's of this week (well, the U.K. ones at least).
'World Nursery Rhyme Week promotes the importance of nursery rhymes in early childhood development and education' ...The wheels on the bus are falling off, falling off, falling off...

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fatblackcatspaw · 17/11/2020 00:50

Mad Cat Lady Awareness Week?

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PotholeParadies · 17/11/2020 01:47

What did they do for Pride? Anyone know?

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Whatsnewpussyhat · 17/11/2020 02:09

It's really great to see the replies though. People are waking up and catching on.

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Redshoeblueshoe · 17/11/2020 09:54

As a Bank surely they know above all else to follow the money 💰

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AbsintheFriends · 17/11/2020 10:01

Nice if the young bluehairs feel supported. However, I suspect this more about all the Pips Bunce types in the city.

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BlackForestCake · 17/11/2020 10:57

So oppressed and marginalised.

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PurpleHoodie · 17/11/2020 10:58

Exactly what Absinthe said.

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MissAHannigan · 17/11/2020 11:00

Is there a pips in the BoE by any chance?

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helloxhristmas · 17/11/2020 11:05

Is transgender awareness week why Fisherpeople came out on BBC this morning?

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MichelleofzeResistance · 17/11/2020 11:45

It was on the Google page yesterday and unfortunately my first thought was argh, can't we have a week OFF.... that would be a much rarer thing.

There's such obliviousness to the fact that when things are rammed down people's throats and up their noses relentlessly all the time people shift from neutral where awareness raising may help to exasperatedly fed up with it all and switching off at the sight of it. There's no understanding of how people work at all.

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BettyDuKeiraBellisMyShero · 17/11/2020 11:48

Hilarious. Wonder how the anticapitalist anarchist section of transactivism are spinning this? Grin

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ErrolTheDragon · 17/11/2020 12:04

When I looked at the twitter last night the word 'elite' was cropping up a fair bit.

Awareness that trans activism has influential moneyed friends ...

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yourhairiswinterfire · 17/11/2020 12:15

The middle just looks like a lilac block of colour, and the ends are dark blue. I wouldn't have recognised that as the transgender flag at all. What shoddy virtue signalling.

Surely Stonewall could have slipped some of their £££ to their champions to buy some decent lights.

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ErrolTheDragon · 17/11/2020 12:28

They should have interspersed the blue and pink with white lights. I hope they bear that in mind when they do a violet, white and green one .... oh bugger, they missed Equal Pay Day on Nov 14th, didn't they? Surely that's an event more relevant to a bank - the disparity in remuneration caused by structural sexism and discrimination against women.

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youvegottenminuteslynn · 17/11/2020 13:07

Those lights are so stunning and brave.

Guess equal pay day wasn't important enough as it only directly negatively affects half of the population.

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CigarsofthePharoahs · 17/11/2020 13:20

Tide sure has turned on twitter, hasn't it!

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