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Recording of Mermaids training

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Imherefornow · 18/12/2018 15:40

twitter.com/MichaelConroy68/status/1074723989308801026?s=19

Apologies if this has already been posted. Did a quick search and didn't find anything.

Michael Conroy attended and recorded a mermaids training session. It's hair raising listening.

I believe that someone is working on transcribing this, which will hopefully make it easier to analyse. But wanted to post it to make sure it hadn't been missed.

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VickyEadie · 20/12/2018 16:43

Do OFSTED have anything to say about groups that go into schools and the quality required of their educational materials?

Not their remit at all. They would have something to say about dodgy policies wrt safeguarding, however - schools can fail and go into special measures purely on a safeguarding issue (I know a primary school that went into SM because its fence was slightly too low).

hellandhairnets · 20/12/2018 16:36

Michael Conroy is an absolute star for making this recording. And you transcribers are stars for going through and writing down all this nonsense for all to see.

Do OFSTED have anything to say about groups that go into schools and the quality required of their educational materials?

Idontbuythejellybaby · 20/12/2018 16:16

:)

Melamin · 20/12/2018 15:51

Good name.

Idontbuythejellybaby · 20/12/2018 15:36

I name-changed in tribute to the questioner and then got so pleased with myself I announced the name-change on the wrong thread.

Annandale · 20/12/2018 14:40

Bittermints, as it's Christmas I will supply the dusty old punchline - they identify as jelly babies [boom tish]

AssassinatedBeauty · 20/12/2018 13:35

Also interested in reading the transcript... I can't bring myself to listen to it...

vivariumvivariumsvivaria · 20/12/2018 13:34

I'm going to buy jelly babies and eat them all up. Angrily. As a protest.

You can take our single sex spaces, you can take our rights and our protections - but, you CANNOT have the Bassets Confection. No.

do we still do ?

starcrossedseahorse · 20/12/2018 13:29

Fucking "jelly baby" nonsense

Quote of the day so far! Grin

VickyEadie · 20/12/2018 13:15

Fucking "jelly baby" nonsense.

Wordthe · 20/12/2018 13:07

Thank you for your good work transcriber 😎

starcrossedseahorse · 20/12/2018 13:01

Flowers to the transcribers. You are wonderful.

OrchidInTheSun · 20/12/2018 12:56

Its been transcribed and now it's being pulled together into one document. It's very long so not really suitable for a post on here so it will be a doc link. Please bear with us Smile

Sarahconnor1 · 20/12/2018 12:54

Blatantly placemarking for the transcript.

WallyTheWasher · 20/12/2018 12:43

Am I right in thinking that the training is in the process of being transcribed or is it posted somewhere and I’ve missed it ?
Can not wait to read it and die laughing

Bittermints · 20/12/2018 11:49

Are the jelly babies the little figures on the spectrum graphic? They look like no jelly babies I've ever seen, but it makes about as much sense as any of the rest of it.

Reminds me of that very funny Twitter account whose handle escapes me but they tweet, or did (may well have been banned) things like:

Jelly babies are real babies!
Sea horses are real horses!

Re the intellectual level of the training, is it the Dunning Kruger effect? Do they really think this is clever stuff that withstands scrutiny?

vivariumvivariumsvivaria · 20/12/2018 11:11

Jelly babies? Barbie?

My 15 year old could deliver better training than that.

How embarrassing.

nauticant · 20/12/2018 10:37

If the figure is 1% then there are 600,000 trans people in the UK. Since in recent years, the murder rate of trans people has been 1 per year, that means their risk, per year, is 1 in 600,000 or 1.67 per million.

Government statistics:

There were 9.9 offences of homicide per million population, and the homicide rate for males (13.8 per million population) was more than twice that for females (6.0 per million population).

TherightsideofHERstory · 20/12/2018 10:02

*The erase of transexualism and dysphoria as medical conditions was equally concerning.
Imagine if I said that clinical depression was an outdated term and from now on you just had to use the term "sad"....and anyone that ever felt even slightly sad came under the label. Instead of the x thousand people diagnosed with depression we now have x million people under the new sad umbrella. What happens to those with genuine clinical depression ? *

Full of meds today and a bit fuzzy but this post stood out for me, they really are happy to throw everything and everyone under the bus for validation aren't they.

WallyTheWasher · 20/12/2018 09:58

I so hope they come into my workplace. It’s a male-dominated environment and most women here tend to be of the straight-talking variety.

RedToothBrush · 20/12/2018 09:41

Because her brain jelly baby and her biology jelly baby are in alignment.

WHAT. THE. ACTUAL. FUCK?

This passes for training and education?

AspieAndProud · 20/12/2018 08:39

Except 1% is TINY.

1% is huge compared with the actual numbers.

If the numbers were correct there would be 3 or 4 on my street; two in each crowded train carriage I get to work each morning.

I’d notice.

Birdsfoottrefoil · 20/12/2018 08:29

Not listened (can’t bare to). But in my mind it is the cast of W1A doing that Jellybaby bit...

Dragon3 · 20/12/2018 07:35

Pencils and Orchid thank you so much for transcribing this Flowers

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