Another protest against WPUK where they advise "face coverings"

I'm really not sure why 'cosy' became 'cidyy' in my post...

It don't matter if you're black or white. Great. Bloody midnight earworm now.

I don't think folk is used because of cidyy connotations. I think it's because they genuinely don't know that it means the same thing as the words they are trying to avoid and once jargon has stuck with this bunch, they are rather tenacious about sticking to it.

The computer 'Deep Thought' was not named after them, for sure.

It's a TERF war on a global scale
I'd rather hear both sides of the tale.

Why don't all the people in attendance identify as transgender (which most people are anyway based on Stonewall's definition) and then accuse the TRAs are trying to shut down their discussion on trans rights?

Play the, at their own game.

maybe hobnobs for the mumsnet connection?

Fairplay - lemon drizzle for large numbers can turn out to be costly. Tho' there's always

Last week, I identified as a doctor and wore scrubs and a stethoscope, eschewing any need for medical training, exams and all that shit. I just was a doctor.

Next week, I will identify as a transgender OtherPamAyres (pronouns Mrs/Whatever) as I stroll to the Bath meeting. I will be the one wearing a fake leopard skin mini-skirt, boob tube, thigh boots and a Dusty Springfield wig.

My ancient mother will be on my arm - also transgender - wearing a Cirencester Rugby Club strip with the name TINDALL emblazoned across her back.

Do wave to us and shout very loudly, dear protesters. Nothing this exciting as happened to my Mum since she saw Kim Wilde buying yoghurt in Asda at Hatfield.

If the masks and the baseball bats aren’t protection enough the little darlings can always call the cops if the women turn on them with their harsh language.

Sigh. It ground glass - razor blades, or novichok or radiation or summit. Or dead unicorns.

"Don’t eat the custard creams! TERFS put ground glass in the biscuits so that trans folxs will be maimed by eating them!"

Clara Barker wrote after Oxford WPUK:
"I also saw one person trying to push biscuits into the mouths of the protestors. The act was clearly intended as silly but provocative. There was no thought to allergies. Those biscuits would have made me very sick."
clarabarker.blogspot.com/2018/04/last-night-i-attended-protest.html

Oldstyle that is both a sick and disturbingly accurate misreading! The more you peel back this movement, the more groups you find feeding off and winding each other up.

I do think there's something to the notion of trans being a bandwagon for some people of an antifa/anarchist persuasion, though. There's no NF or BNP to have a ruckus with any more (Robinson's lot are both pathetic and surrounded by coppers wherever they go); the animal rights lobby has died right back after the hunting ban. Authoritarianism in politics is too nebulous to have a fist fight with, and we don't have big white supremacist groups like they have in the US. Trans is something to hang your hat on and feel virtuous and rebellious about, easier to tackle than the rest of the general awfulness of austerity, and doesn't require much in the way of political savvy.

I think they like to use the word folk as it conjures up impressions of simple, honest people who are no danger to anyone

Look - if you crack open the chocolate hobnobs then I'll definitely l be there.

Aww I like Bristol.

Contessa Sorry - I wrote Bristol instead of Bath - fingers moving faster than my brain!

Biscuit subversives

Is there a meeting in Bristol too?

This is my favourite thread today!

They really should be Waitrose biscuits though, Budgie ....

Olenna have you not heard of Aldi
80p indeed

If A Women's Place need someone to pay for a bulk order of these, I'm happy to oblige

born

m.youtube.com/watch?v=11CvBKpKbn8

Can Women’s Place report this to the police so that they can have a couple of officers at the venue?

Do not underestimate the revolutionary power of the biscuit.
Liberté, Egalité, Rich Té

babushka doll of Trojan ponies all infiltrating each other
Love that. You get the simile of the month prize SilentCrow
(I misread it as 'impregnating each other' initially - works equally well.)