On The Sad Passing of Dolly Parton

Those Boarder biscuits are some of the most amazing biscuits I've ever eaten. I reckon they put crack in them.

You really shouldn’t have needed to find that out. Feels like something one could work out

to be fair, when freshly baked and interestingly flavoured, biscotti can be good and certainly superior to (say) bourbons. So I take the shittest of the biscuits thing back

Even dipped in Vin Santo, they are dry and shit. There's so many lovely Italian treats that I've never understood the lure of biscotti.

JKR as a biscuit? I see her as one of those delicious Dark Chocolate Ginger biscuits by Border Biscuits.

Well there's no point in going on living now is there!!

Get over yourself , knowing that humans can not change sex doesn’t mean anyone is in a cult, it’s a fact

I like biscotti, but I can tell you now that pushing them into yogurt and freezing it is disappointing.

😂

Very predictable from BB. Zero insight / empathy.
So many people like him, so completely self absorbed that they can't manage a minute to reflect on someone's death without using it for their own ends.

Jeez louise!

Yup.

And this is Dame Katy's bio on Twitter -

'#TransAnimals #ChairPoverty activist. TransBiPanLesbian of colour. Ms Grimsby 82. Psychic & stripper. PHD: Cat Psychiatry & Rodent Gender Studies. LGBTPARODY'

Imagine that in this day & age! Intelligent discourse & agreeing to disagree (respectfully!) That’s a thing of the 90s - that really was the best decade!

Unsurprisingly Billy Bragg managed to make Dolly’s death about trans rights and Trump. 15 years ago he might of focused on her rise from poverty, the value of access to music or her philanthropy. But nope.

(He’d never have focussed on her position as a strong woman, so I’m not going to pretend he would)

som unhinged replies to JKR’s post. One of them calls her a dry biscotti bitch

i mean they are the shittest of the biscuits but I don’t really get it as an insult

I, for one, had no idea that Dr Dame Katy Denise was a trans woman - she's probably the only TW that actually passed!

Im pretty sure if asked her opinion on the Lumos charity, DP would have had notjing but praise.

Male millionaires/billionaires could learn a lot from both these philantropists.

Doesn’t the deadnamed Dame Katy use Jack Duckworth as his avatar?! This is a hilarious thread.

Oh and of course, welcome to Mumsnet OP. Always good to see newbie posters showcasing their limited insight into facts, politics , ethics and the readiness of activists everywhere to use the death of a lovely woman for their own ends.
Quite the education 🙄

OP is either shrinking with embarrassment somewhere, or the post was in fact a total wind up...

Dang, you beat me to it!
Dame Katy - sorry, Dr Dame Katy Denise - is a legend, though perhaps not for the reasons that OP believes.

Three weeks or so until the universities go back...

It was very interesting to see so many emotionally incontinent adults using Dolly's death to expose unpleasant aspects of their personality. A Cambridge professor Priyamvada Gopal yet again exposed the unhinged inadequate mindset of too many academics by responding to JKR's gentle tribute with a tantrum

"One thing we know about Dolly: she was worth a million JK Rowlings who has nothing in common with her other than wealth. You, JKR, are eminently replaceable.

She was swiftly handed her arse on a plate by countless others

https://x.com/PriyamvadaGopal/status/2092617447392084213

Oh this one is comedy gold.
And I still can't tell if the op has fallen for it or is tongue in cheek. Well played OP if the latter.

Horrific behaviour from TRAs taking Jo's lovely tribute as a cue to throw insults again. Very disrespectful. Couldn't it be about Dolly just for one post?

There is a Keitha in Flight of the Conchords. Dr Dame Katy should have gone with that.

Another I hate JKR thread. 🤮

She answered British trans activist Dame Katy Denise by deadnaming her and saying she had seen her birth certificate.

Oh dear, OP. You can't possibly be that fucking stupid.

And I'm amused that Metro etc have just reproduced the article by Out without actually checking out Dame Katy (or as originally named by Out - Kitty - deadnaming Out? Tut tut) and seeing that it's a very obvious satire/parody account. Looking forward to the retraction!

Stupid x posts aside, Dolly was a very smart woman who unlike many people who are smart enough to get rich, was smart enough to see past being rich and into using the power it gave her to advance others rather than herself ♥I have a great friend who worked in child literacy and know how much her Imagination Library scheme was appreciated.

Sorry for derailing OP's JKR-bashing thread by actually talking about Dolly not just using her death as a vehicle for a misogynist rant and all that.