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WithSilverBells · 21/06/2025 17:53

ArabellaScott · 21/06/2025 17:51

Well okay, maybe quite a big outing, depending if we can all fit in.

Mind you, I've just popped over and can't find the thread. Has it been vanished?

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I had one vanish while I was reading it the other day. Weird experience

MrsTerryPratchett · 21/06/2025 17:52

TwoLoonsAndASprout · 21/06/2025 17:50

Abso-flipping-tutely - in fact, bring extra, because I will need a whole bowl for myself. Not even remotely ashamed.

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Me as well. Several bowls. I could happily eat it with a spoon. Actually, I’ll bring celery to effectively scoop it into my gob.

DiamondThrone · 21/06/2025 17:51

DiamondThrone · 21/06/2025 17:49

Sorry, I'm a veggie.

Will bring some gluten-free brownies instead! Mine are very good, even if I say so myself 🙆

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OMG this has caused me to look at the ingredients for Tunnock's tea cakes. There's no gelatine in the marshmallow???!!! Count me in!!!

ArabellaScott · 21/06/2025 17:51

WithSilverBells · 21/06/2025 17:49

a wee outing?😬

Well okay, maybe quite a big outing, depending if we can all fit in.

Mind you, I've just popped over and can't find the thread. Has it been vanished?

TwoLoonsAndASprout · 21/06/2025 17:50

Boiledbeetle · 21/06/2025 17:47

Can I bring my mackerel pate?

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Abso-flipping-tutely - in fact, bring extra, because I will need a whole bowl for myself. Not even remotely ashamed.

WithSilverBells · 21/06/2025 17:49

a wee outing?😬

DiamondThrone · 21/06/2025 17:49

murasaki · 21/06/2025 17:40

Tunnocks tea cakes, surely. I'm with MrsTP on the cheese though.

Sorry, I'm a veggie.

Will bring some gluten-free brownies instead! Mine are very good, even if I say so myself 🙆

Waitwhat23 · 21/06/2025 17:47

Ooh, I'm now in the mood for a cheese board. Some onion marmalade, some grapes and raspberries, 3 different cheeses (Boursin, Brie and a sharp cheddar) with those wee cheese knives in, schmancy crackers and some Japanese rice crackers. And a massive goblet of very, very cold gin and tonic (The Botanist and Fevertree).

Hmm, how might I facilitate this tonight...

Boiledbeetle · 21/06/2025 17:47

ArabellaScott · 21/06/2025 17:44

That sounds like a plan, Waitwhat. A good picnic probably needs a spreadsheet.

Can I bring my mackerel pate?

TwoLoonsAndASprout · 21/06/2025 17:46

ArabellaScott · 21/06/2025 17:44

That sounds like a plan, Waitwhat. A good picnic probably needs a spreadsheet.

Surely a spreadblanket for a picnic?

ArabellaScott · 21/06/2025 17:44

That sounds like a plan, Waitwhat. A good picnic probably needs a spreadsheet.

MrsTerryPratchett · 21/06/2025 17:43

OK, pickles, biscuits, fancy crackers and cheese. Maybe a cheeky bottle of wine.

Waitwhat23 · 21/06/2025 17:41

Ooh, and fancy crackers and silverskin pickled onions. We could make a portable cheese board for convenient snacking.

murasaki · 21/06/2025 17:40

Tunnocks tea cakes, surely. I'm with MrsTP on the cheese though.

MrsTerryPratchett · 21/06/2025 17:33

ArabellaScott · 21/06/2025 17:32

I've never posted on Reddit. Maybe we should all have a wee outing. We can take biscuits.

I’m off sugar. Can I bring cheese?

ArabellaScott · 21/06/2025 17:32

I've never posted on Reddit. Maybe we should all have a wee outing. We can take biscuits.

feministmom4ever · 21/06/2025 17:27

BeeSouriante · 21/06/2025 00:07

Like I've had three posts removed

Are you also posting on Reddit asking why gender critical comments are being removed? Or why they are not even allowing a gender critical thread to exist? I would welcome a civil, evidence-based debate with the pro trans side, but have yet to find anyone willing to have one with me.

murasaki · 21/06/2025 17:05

It seems to me that the alleged 'dissenting' voices take themselves out with the trash as they have no points to make. I'd be interested to hear their points should they ever be bothered to make any.

As said many times, only posts that break the guidelines are deleted.

Boiledbeetle · 21/06/2025 16:57

Waitwhat23 · 21/06/2025 16:52

As it's the Internet and we can claim to be, well, anything I am going to self declare myself as an eminent expert in 19th century book inscriptions, with a specialism of such books found in rural Aberdeenshire.

Thrilling, tell me more. No! Honestly I'm not bored in the slightest

Why is this subforum so intent on removing voices that dont' agree?

MrsTerryPratchett · 21/06/2025 16:54

Come on. Two posts, both still up, buggered off.

It’s classic being offended and aggrieved but not actually wanting to engage in good faith. It’s tiresome.

Waitwhat23 · 21/06/2025 16:52

As it's the Internet and we can claim to be, well, anything I am going to self declare myself as an eminent expert in 19th century book inscriptions, with a specialism of such books found in rural Aberdeenshire.

WithSilverBells · 21/06/2025 16:41

@CuriousGeorge80 Well I obvs respect your right not to engage. I just find it a bit odd that if you have some slam dunk lawyerly arguments about which trans rights shouldn't be opposed you would be willing to share them, being a gender critical lesbian and all

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CuriousGeorge80 · 21/06/2025 16:21

WithSilverBells · 21/06/2025 13:06

@CuriousGeorge80 I am a qualified lawyer with in-depth experience of equality law.

Well then, surely you have something useful and informed to add to the discussions about trans rights? What trans rights do trans people not already have? Is there any way that they can gain those rights without taking rights away from some other group? Genuinely interested in your thoughts, but can't guarantee you won't get pushback about any proposals that would reduce women's rights.

@WithSilverBells- I genuinely choose not to discuss the subject on here really as I don’t enjoy engaging in the discussions. I honestly didn’t post to get involved in a discussion on trans rights (I would have thought that was clear from my initial post) but to comment on the moderation approach on this subject which I would say has clearly shifted over the last few years and - across the forum - I don’t think moderation is consistent or particularly good. I honestly would have thought this was an uncontroversial position, but even that seems to have really pissed some people off, despite me holding this view as a gender critical lesbian. I definitely don’t want to engage further on the topic 😂😂 - Anyway, not meant at all arsey to you, just didn’t want to ignore your post.

Supima · 21/06/2025 16:14

I never report deranged TRA posts - even the horribly racist ones describing Black women as a ‘subset’ of women (who are basically men) - because they peak people and because sunlight is a disinfectant

Waitwhat23 · 21/06/2025 16:05

MissScarletInTheBallroom · 21/06/2025 14:52

I think the #NoDebate policy was introduced precisely because they knew they had no coherent points to make.

The problem is that society is no longer taking #NoDebate for an answer.

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People kept saying to the people chanting no debate 'that's fine if you want to stick your fingers in your ears but the conversation will continue without you'

And it did.