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BruceAndNosh · 24/02/2026 22:48

Lalgarh · 24/02/2026 22:44

The State of The Union address tonight is forecast to last 2 hours

While the actual state of the Union could last decades

AcrossthePond55 · 24/02/2026 22:53

Lalgarh · 24/02/2026 22:44

The State of The Union address tonight is forecast to last 2 hours

It will be the bigly-est, best, most beautiful SOTU ever, never mind the longest.

His last one was the longest, being 1 hr 39 min. He has to beat that record. Because you know, no one, not even himself, can hold the record for longest speech.

PerkingFaintly · 24/02/2026 23:04

CaveMum · 24/02/2026 22:19

Apologies for absence, I’m in a manic period at work and barely finding time to keep up with the thread let alone post!

Place marking ahead of SOTU: Pod Save America think there’s a good chance 🍊 will completely lose his shit at some point in his, expected, marathon waffling session With the SCOTUS justice’s sitting in the front row and Dem’s reportedly bringing Epstein accusers as guests it’s anyone’s guess what will trigger him….

My money's on the same, especially if it really is planned to be two hours.

That's a loooong time to hold it together.

I suppose his team can try to fine-tune his drugs and his sleep beforehand, so that he starts in the best possible condition, but...

Lalgarh · 24/02/2026 23:13

Will he shit himself again

PickAChew · 24/02/2026 23:42

BruceAndNosh · 24/02/2026 22:48

While the actual state of the Union could last decades

Yet is summed up in a single word.

Fucked.

TiredCatLady · 25/02/2026 00:18

stretches
cracks neck
pours massive whiskey
Anyone need one?

Checking in for The Absolute Fucking State Of The Union.

AcrossthePond55 · 25/02/2026 00:56

TiredCatLady · 25/02/2026 00:18

stretches
cracks neck
pours massive whiskey
Anyone need one?

Checking in for The Absolute Fucking State Of The Union.

Yes, please. Make it a double. And don't bother to put the bottle away.

RedTagAlan · 25/02/2026 02:07

No live stream for me then, sigh.

RedTagAlan · 25/02/2026 02:19

AcrossthePond55 · 25/02/2026 00:56

Yes, please. Make it a double. And don't bother to put the bottle away.

And none of that homeopathic whisky :-)

AcrossthePond55 · 25/02/2026 02:27

@RedTagAlan

You aren't missing anything but nausea and a headache.

I'm ready to check out. There's only so much of 'if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit (and lies)' that I can stand.

I'll read about it in the funny papers tomorrow.

RedTagAlan · 25/02/2026 02:35

AcrossthePond55 · 25/02/2026 02:27

@RedTagAlan

You aren't missing anything but nausea and a headache.

I'm ready to check out. There's only so much of 'if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit (and lies)' that I can stand.

I'll read about it in the funny papers tomorrow.

Edited

Sky has it on its website with txt updates. Mens hockey team. It's Wednesday morning here.

RedTagAlan · 25/02/2026 02:58

"Trump says tariffs paid for by foreign countries will "substantially replace the modern day system of income tax"."

Hmmm.

I suppose the revenue raised can be used to pay the subsidies to farmers then.

RedTagAlan · 25/02/2026 03:23

The problem with reading a description of his speeches, as opposed to watching or listening, is that much of the absolute dumbness is lost.

Is there any way to get the US electorate to actually watch it ?

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RedTagAlan · 25/02/2026 03:45

Good photo from Reuters, published on Sky.

Name a better trio than Onion, Garlic & Ginger - Trump Thread #155
DuncinToffee · 25/02/2026 08:56

Trump’s speech was a tsunami of lies and hate wrapped in jingoism and cheered on by fascist goons. But it was worse than that.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trumps-state-of-the-union-speech-was-bad-the-actual-state-of-our-union-is-worse/

DuncinToffee · 25/02/2026 09:06

Brock Nelson, Jackson LaCombe, Jake Oettinger, Kyle Connor, & Jake Guentzel chose not to attend the U.S. men’s hockey team White House event today

Hard to remember a championship moment that lost its shine faster than this U.S. men’s hockey team win

placemats · 25/02/2026 09:22

The Democrats are "crazy" says a man who's clearly lost touch with reality.

MrTiddlesTheCat · 25/02/2026 09:47

Donttellempike · 24/02/2026 19:46

I’ve never heard Scuttlebutt before, it’s very appealing. Sounds like a Dickensian character.

Thanks. 👍

Me neither. But now I'm stealing it for my next cat's name. 'Lady Scuttlebutt the 3rd, pspspspsps.'

LizzieW1969 · 25/02/2026 10:03

DuncinToffee · 25/02/2026 08:56

Trump’s speech was a tsunami of lies and hate wrapped in jingoism and cheered on by fascist goons. But it was worse than that.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trumps-state-of-the-union-speech-was-bad-the-actual-state-of-our-union-is-worse/

^Indeed, all his speeches are. I actually can never even bring myself to listen to his speeches, I switch channels. I really don’t get what anyone sees in him?

LizzieW1969 · 25/02/2026 10:04

MrTiddlesTheCat · 25/02/2026 09:47

Me neither. But now I'm stealing it for my next cat's name. 'Lady Scuttlebutt the 3rd, pspspspsps.'

Love this, brilliant. 🤣

SerendipityJane · 25/02/2026 10:09

MrTiddlesTheCat · 25/02/2026 09:47

Me neither. But now I'm stealing it for my next cat's name. 'Lady Scuttlebutt the 3rd, pspspspsps.'

Scofflaw ?

CaveMum · 25/02/2026 10:59

Apologies if this has already been shared, but I’ve just seen this on Facebook:

BREAKING: BOOM. Feminist influencer Barrett Adair absolutely devastates the Olympic Men’s team for partying with Kash Patel and mocking the women’s team in must-see fiery takedown!

After watching the men’s team hoot and bay over Donald Trump mocking the women’s hockey team, who also brought home a gold medal, this popular TikToker read them the riot act — and then some.

“This is a message for the US men's Olympic hockey team who were just caught on a video giggling and pissing all over themselves in glee because Trump called them up on speakerphone in their locker room so that he could openly mock and insult the US women's Olympic hockey team, who by the way, just became world goddamn champions in their sport.”

“All the while our FBI director is inexplicably standing in the corner looking like the first motherf*cker to ever be given a make-a-wish for being terminally 5'4 and cross-eyed.”

“It only took you like 37 seconds from getting off of the ice from your game into the locker room to disappoint the entire goddamn country, you loser btches. There's something so emblematic to me of the way American men are allowed to think about themselves, that they won with the same exact score the women's team won with against the same exact rival country that the women's team competed against, a full three fcking days after the women won their gold medal, and they were prancing around that locker room acting like they did something revolutionary that a woman could never possibly conceive of.”

“Mind y'all, the last time that this team won an Olympic gold medal was 46 years ago, in an event that became known across the country as the miracle on ice, which means that every single person in the United States of America collectively understood that when a man goes out and successfully accomplishes exactly precisely what is in his job description and what he set out to do, it must have involved an act of God.”

“The women's team already rejected their invite to that fcking pedophile's house because they saw this video of y'all making fun of them and insulting their work. So enjoy your fcking sausage fest together and stop asking why the fck you're so lonely all the time. We don't care and it's because of your shtty personalities as we've said a million times before. I do wanna carve out one exception for whoever it was in the locker room who actually took that video and then leaked it to ProPublica.”

“I don't think enough people understand the significance of this. We saw that video because somebody directly sent it to a staffer at ProPublica. That is not entry-level woke. That is some advanced sh*t. I know damn well your parents had a first edition print of that love is love, science is real, water is life, science sitting outside of their house."

"The rest of y'all can choke on your missing teeth. I genuinely don't care. And then next, next, next, next year when your sport finally becomes relevant again, but at that point you're too fat and old and untalented to actually compete in it,and you realize for the first time that you immediately squandered the one bit of goodwill you were ever gonna get with the American public within mere moments of receiving it, enjoy that realization.”
MIC DROP.

That perfectly sums it up. Their reaction to Donald Trump’s crude and sexist joke is emblematic of the deep-rooted and virulent misogyny that led to him getting elected in the first place, the rollback of women’s rights in red states across the country, and the cultural attitudes that lead to the epidemic of femicides, sexual assaults, and income inequality that American women must suffer through.

They need to apologize, and they need to do it NOW.

persephonia · 25/02/2026 11:39

CaveMum · 25/02/2026 10:59

Apologies if this has already been shared, but I’ve just seen this on Facebook:

BREAKING: BOOM. Feminist influencer Barrett Adair absolutely devastates the Olympic Men’s team for partying with Kash Patel and mocking the women’s team in must-see fiery takedown!

After watching the men’s team hoot and bay over Donald Trump mocking the women’s hockey team, who also brought home a gold medal, this popular TikToker read them the riot act — and then some.

“This is a message for the US men's Olympic hockey team who were just caught on a video giggling and pissing all over themselves in glee because Trump called them up on speakerphone in their locker room so that he could openly mock and insult the US women's Olympic hockey team, who by the way, just became world goddamn champions in their sport.”

“All the while our FBI director is inexplicably standing in the corner looking like the first motherf*cker to ever be given a make-a-wish for being terminally 5'4 and cross-eyed.”

“It only took you like 37 seconds from getting off of the ice from your game into the locker room to disappoint the entire goddamn country, you loser btches. There's something so emblematic to me of the way American men are allowed to think about themselves, that they won with the same exact score the women's team won with against the same exact rival country that the women's team competed against, a full three fcking days after the women won their gold medal, and they were prancing around that locker room acting like they did something revolutionary that a woman could never possibly conceive of.”

“Mind y'all, the last time that this team won an Olympic gold medal was 46 years ago, in an event that became known across the country as the miracle on ice, which means that every single person in the United States of America collectively understood that when a man goes out and successfully accomplishes exactly precisely what is in his job description and what he set out to do, it must have involved an act of God.”

“The women's team already rejected their invite to that fcking pedophile's house because they saw this video of y'all making fun of them and insulting their work. So enjoy your fcking sausage fest together and stop asking why the fck you're so lonely all the time. We don't care and it's because of your shtty personalities as we've said a million times before. I do wanna carve out one exception for whoever it was in the locker room who actually took that video and then leaked it to ProPublica.”

“I don't think enough people understand the significance of this. We saw that video because somebody directly sent it to a staffer at ProPublica. That is not entry-level woke. That is some advanced sh*t. I know damn well your parents had a first edition print of that love is love, science is real, water is life, science sitting outside of their house."

"The rest of y'all can choke on your missing teeth. I genuinely don't care. And then next, next, next, next year when your sport finally becomes relevant again, but at that point you're too fat and old and untalented to actually compete in it,and you realize for the first time that you immediately squandered the one bit of goodwill you were ever gonna get with the American public within mere moments of receiving it, enjoy that realization.”
MIC DROP.

That perfectly sums it up. Their reaction to Donald Trump’s crude and sexist joke is emblematic of the deep-rooted and virulent misogyny that led to him getting elected in the first place, the rollback of women’s rights in red states across the country, and the cultural attitudes that lead to the epidemic of femicides, sexual assaults, and income inequality that American women must suffer through.

They need to apologize, and they need to do it NOW.

In fairness some did shout out sometho¹"hell yeah we should" and "two for two" which I guess is support for the womens team.
I can àccept their statement (that they and the women's team are close and have been training together for ages and celebrating each others wins) is true. I can also see how, in the heat of the moment they might have found themselves laughing along with the Presídents joke out of social obligation.
But that's sort of what's so maddening. You can be on the same "team" with "the guys", be friends with them, work with them seemingly have built up mutual respect. And they will still throw you under the bus in order to bond with or suck up to another male (especially a socially "high status" male).
Its also an interesting reflexive action to women achieving something good

Igotjelly · 25/02/2026 11:47

persephonia · 25/02/2026 11:39

In fairness some did shout out sometho¹"hell yeah we should" and "two for two" which I guess is support for the womens team.
I can àccept their statement (that they and the women's team are close and have been training together for ages and celebrating each others wins) is true. I can also see how, in the heat of the moment they might have found themselves laughing along with the Presídents joke out of social obligation.
But that's sort of what's so maddening. You can be on the same "team" with "the guys", be friends with them, work with them seemingly have built up mutual respect. And they will still throw you under the bus in order to bond with or suck up to another male (especially a socially "high status" male).
Its also an interesting reflexive action to women achieving something good

It’s the typical thing of “boys being boys” taking the piss out of women when it’s the socially “cool” thing to do 😑

BruceAndNosh · 25/02/2026 13:09

I'm glad i didn't waste waste 2 hours and my sanity watching that pile of garbage. Sounds totally predictable .
Did he wander off the autocue much? He always sounds bored when reading the autocue