What little acts of rebellion or activism do you do?

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I’m not talking about going on marches, but minor things, that you know about.

Mine is I won’t play Michael Jackson songs, after all the alleged behaviour, which certainly wouldn’t be accepted by today’s standards.

The second is I won’t buy McCain products, after they put out an advert for Smileys, which referred to ‘knocker’s’ in them. I thought that language had died out in the seventies.

Agree, from the trailers the film looks very much to glorify him.

I’m on maternity leave at the moment and my standards for films are lowered to basically whatever they’ll show at the baby friendly screenings but i definitely won’t see that.

Multi level marketing/ direct sales

pyramid schemes all of them

I’m pretty strict. Mostly because I think women had interesting stories about their experiences in war that we just don’t get the chance to see.

I think the more we support films and tv shows that tell the stories of women the better.

Otherwise you end up with this perception that women never did anything of note/worth. And that we aren’t interesting.

I want to hear from mothers! Mothers who raised children that changed the world. Mothers who helped their children accomplish great things. Mothers who gave their children great lives against the odds.

Every mother I know is sacrificing themselves for their kids day in and day out. Yet so often the mum gets killed off or sidelined before the action/adventure starts.

Dune is one of my favourite movies because it has Timothee only surviving because his mum is such a bad ass.

Not engaging with children who invade my personal space.

What I mean is - I once went for a cup of coffee in a Waterstones coffee shop with my teenage daughter. The rest of the cafe had been commandeered by a group of mothers and toddlers/babies. No problem in itself.

But the toddlers were running around at top speed, crashing into people, tables and displays. The mums were happily ignoring them and enjoying their coffee, which is more than I could manage!! I'm not an evil person so I didn't make a fuss or spoil anyone's fun, but I absolutely refused to make eye-contact or smile at any of the children. I wasn't going to encourage them! I got the impression the mums thought the behaviour endearingly cute, but I DIDN'T. So there, take that!

Especially the dates! I try to buy Israeli dates but if they’re not around I buy the Coachella ones you get in Waitrose in the yellow bags.
I boycott any company that hates Israel if I have that knowledge.

I don't wear makeup or spend money on a skincare routine.
I don't buy pink tax stuff.
I am aging - grey hair, wrinkles, it's natural.
I wear what is comfortable and suitable.
I don't buy from shein, temu, etc. I buy a small number of items of quality clothes per year which last. I don't follow fashion so it doesn't matter how old clothes are.
I report thirst trap photos on instagram even though they don't breach guidelines. Nothing is going to happen, but it's cathartic to hit report on people hanging their cleavage out in front of the camera, or their skin tight painted on leggings at the gym. If men showed what women show in the gym, we'd crucify them!
If someone is driving up my arse, I drop my speed to a few mph below the speed limit. Only in 20/30mph zones though - anywhere else I'd rather have the impatient eejit go past rather than drive dangerously behind me.

I love this, but out of curiosity, were you ever called up on giving so much money away? Surely they’d track how much money is given away? Etc.

That’s not quite the burn you think it is, because I don’t own any products by those companies!! Go and have a look at Jewish Voice For Peace, they are the honourable Jews

Same for Michael Jackson and lots of others, including Chris Brown who has an awful track record of violence against women.

I try my hardest to say 'darling/love' etc back to men who say it to me. Sometimes wonder if they like it though and don't get the sarcasm.

Always use Ms as my title and request that it's changed if anyone lists me as a Miss.

So this is about Jews...not Israelis?
What are "honourable Jews", in your opinion?

In some supermarkets, in order to exit the self checkout area, you have to scan your receipt in order for a gate to open - it gets printed with a bar code on it.

Absolutely pointless imo because a) if you were stealing you could just not exit through those tills - there’s a Sainsbury’s near us that has it and I just walk out of the entry area if I haven’t bought anything, or nip down between the manned checkouts, and b) I imagine a lot of self checkout theft is people not scanning everything they’re getting, which is not picked up at all by this receipt scanning thing.

@AllaMova
Yes. See response further up

I worked in collections.

Did you know, if the bank is aware that someone has felt suicidal before, then they have to treat the collections process differently?

Because there have been suicides where debt and the banks have been part of the cause.

So if a customer mentioned they had felt that way before - even if unrelated to their finances - then the collections process had to be done differently.

So you can also bet that I fully left the conversation open for a customer to mention ANY time they had EVER had ANY dark thought ever in their life. Even if it was decades ago.

So much irresponsible lending in the world (by the banks, I mean)

This ones a real mc boomer one - I thought I'd get that jibe in before anyone else does!

I used to get the Radio Times, years ago. I looked forward to reading the articles, the letters page, the interviews etc etc.

But it became so much like all the cheapo TV mags and once, they included an interview with a celebrity which featured the word fuck many times. My son was about 8 then, and liked reading the RT, which has always positioned itself as a family magazine. I can swear when necessary and have no problem with swearing in adult contexts - dramas, books etc. But I thought the BBC, with their twee family image, had misjudged this.

I complained to them and got the most patronising reply you can imagine. This word was now generally used and acceptable, I was told, and no-one was offended by it.

I've never bought that down-market rag since ! I make 15 years at an average of £2 a copy to have saved me £104 X 15 which equals £1,560.

Reminds me of Adrian Mole putting “Yes please”.

Or they can park in disabled bay, or the parent and child bay.

9/10 times it's someone in a Range Rover. And we all know what sort of people drive those cars. Ones that can't drive.

how old are you? 10?

I completely get your preference for Ms over Miss in this context, but...

I wish that the title for women in professional life had always been established as 'Miss'. Liz Taylor was married 8 times, but she was always 'Miss Elizabeth Taylor', never Mrs Richard Burton etc.

Ms is an odd word and difficult to pronounce. I just think it should have been 'Miss' for women and 'Mr' for men in a professional context from the outset.

I don't think it could be changed now though.

I have always remembered with huge gratefulness the bank employees who were so decent with me

• firstly when I escaped an abusive relationship and discovered my ex was draining the joint account that was used to pay nursery fees and mortgage etc. I went into the bank in tears and they blocked him so swiftly.
• and secondly when (in the aftermath of that) I was struggling with a hugely stressful life and MH problems and I didn't realise I had gone into my overdraft (I was paying the right amount in, but hadn't checked it in the chaos and at some point an unexpected amount had gone out). They refunded the charges and were so kind about it.

Bank employees were definitely the unexpected heroes for me at that time.

The bank posts have reminded me that years ago I had a job in a phone shop and used to write out the monthly cost x24 for customers which would usually put them off taking out contracts.

I wasn't on commission and even if I was I would have done the same as I think the whole thing was predatory. 18 year olds would come in on their birthday and commit to paying £1500+ over the next two years for a fancy phone that would likely be broken within months.

me too.

haven't read the full thread since this post, so someone else might have questioned it - but why are you anti halal and kosher? both are humane and respectful, as well as attached to specific religions - why would you not buy those products?

I do too. I think their gauche rudeness is already starting to bite them on the backside, though. Emma Watson recently tried to creep up to JK, with no success. Stay strong, JK.

I never understand the hoo ha over Ms/Miss/Mrs. When men have a title other than Mr, it's never an issue to get it right: Rev, Dr, Sir, Major, etc. Women can have those titles too. But if those variations can be navigated why can't Ms/Miss/Mrs be correctly accommodated? I do agree that a universal female title should have been plumped for decades ago but as it wasn't I don't understand the confusion. It isn't hard to ask the preference and record it.

I don’t buy products from Isreal.

I make it my mission to find out and contact somebody’s place of employment, if they leave any form of racist comment on social media.

I agree that its tricky to pronounce and I've had to spell it for people before when they don't get my 'Mizzz' pronunciation.

I would never judge anyone else for their choice to use Miss/Mrs. It's a deeply personal choice. Personally I believe that if a man is a Mr his whole life, I want to be a Ms my whole life.