What little acts of rebellion or activism do you do?

[Steelworks]

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.

Edited as I've realised who meant the poster I was replying to and not me!!

Sorry...

He fought in the trenches in WW1 and fought in the Boer war too. The problem is that folk like you spout these half truths or downright lies about our national heroes to impressionable youngsters and these lies become accepted wisdom over time.

I have personally been turned down by rescues twice for strange reasons and several of my long time dog owning friends have too. Best refusal story I ever heard was a rescue who refused a friend of mine a dog because he had a garden door in his garden wall with a latch on it and the home visitor said that a dog could learn to open the latch and escape....which would have been a fair comment except the door was a fake and opened onto the wall which surrounded it! The bloke wouldn't change his mind though, even after being shown the door opened. I wholeheartedly agree about puppy farms though, also some "well respected" KC approved breeders

I close Mumsnet whenever it takes me unwilling to the Shein website (am off now, again, byeeee)

I do the proper Lord's Prayer too, trespasses comes out quite loud and I always use mankind in other parts of the service instead of the trendy alternatives.
Can't be bothered with most of the rest of the bits of rebellion on this thread, I tend to be very anti anyone telling me what I should/should not be buying.

Steady on love - I don’t make a habit of speaking to ‘impressionable youngsters’ in general. I don’t give my opinion in real life because it doesn’t really come up.

I am entitled to my opinion as you are. And those impressionable youngsters should be intelligent enough to make their own minds up.!

Gave up on twitter when Elon Musk took over. I used to enjoy following some people and probably spent too much time on there. Never logged in again when it was announced that he’d bought it and I don’t miss it. I also vetoed DH’s idea to buy a Tesla.

You said it yourself. It's your OPINION.

It's not fact.

You should really learn the difference.

Probably, but about 100 years ago - I wouldn't chop down recent barbed wire. But this was so historic that it was no longer serving any purpose; the woodland has grown up such that the barbed wire isn't for keeping livestock in (or out), and was just at ankle-height (partly covered by leaves!) being dangerous to dogs and walkers.

No you just make more work for existing staff - well played. They aren’t going to think ‘ooh people are leaving shit by the self checkouts, let’s get more staff in’.

This is what makes me laugh about some of the small ‘acts of rebellion’ - the people you have an issue with don’t know and don’t care that you do it.

And was designed to keep them out presumably?

You're entitled to your own opinion, but you're not entitled to your own facts. Churchill fought on the front lines in WW1 and was 65 when WW2 started. He had to be talked out of storming Normandy by the King. A realist on the Nazi threat, definitely. But not a warmonger. He was also PM in the 50s during the cold war, who did he monger a war with then? Perhaps he should have enlisted in his 80s?

Me too. Shame as I quite liked twitter.

I haven't missed anything. Unless I've missed what they're 'making a stand' about, when they turn away from cars. Happy to be informed..

well, having left my time machine at school, it's hard to say. I imagine more likely it was there to keep out travellers and ne'er do wells from a nearby industrial area which was well-used about 100 years ago but has been derelict for the last 40 years. This isn't deep, I just removed a trip hazard, that's it.

Not being impressed by flash cars or people who's whole personality is their car.

Like Sheila Bloom and her mercedes in Friday Night Dinner 😆

that was funny, oh the merc

Her mother died in the mercedes 🤣

🥰

Wow all these people fine with keying cars, slamming into people, sitting on their bags etc but losing their shit about Churchill 🤣🤣🤣

Okay so he had access to special supplies that weren’t available to the rest of the country. While ordinary people were fighting and their families were starving, he was not leading by example. Even the Royals rationed bath water.

Not the actions of a national hero, in my opinion. Or do you think he maintained his substantial figure by restricting himself?

I forgot to add, I always declare my title to be 'Ms', and when anyone defaults to using 'Miss' or 'Mrs' for me, I tell them that when men declare their marital status via their own titles then I will happily do the same. Until then, it's 'Ms'. If it's a man, the usual reactions are confusion or irritation. If it's a woman, she usually laughs.

I see. I don't know Sheila Bloom. You do know that wealthier people buy more expensive things. In the same way a poorer person will drive a cheaper car, a wealthy person will drive a more expensive car, because they can. Not to try and impress randoms, not to make it their personality..

It's the boy racers in stupidly (usually cheaper by the way) noisy cars who Are looking for attention, I ignore.

OMG Bitchface 🤣🤣🤣🤣

’All I did was kiss her breasts a little bit’ 🤣🤣🤣

I make a point of doing most of my shopping from places and brands we’ve been told to boycott!

Snap!