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What little acts of rebellion or activism do you do?

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Steelworks · 20/04/2026 07:25

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.

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CatrionaBalfour · 20/04/2026 20:37

CharleneElizabethBaltimore · 20/04/2026 20:34

Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF)

Thanks

MovingBird123 · 20/04/2026 20:38

CatrionaBalfour · 20/04/2026 20:36

Oh right! I'm guessing you saw the "honourable Jews" post upthread 🙄

Mind-boggling.

CatrionaBalfour · 20/04/2026 20:38

CharleneElizabethBaltimore · 20/04/2026 20:36

yes and people should know better

I can't stand food waste at the best of times, but to destroy it in a shop like that is awful.

JudgeJ · 20/04/2026 20:39

Modernfamily2011 · 20/04/2026 19:02

@Dappy777 - Completely agree, I’m so fed up with the St George flag being seen as Racist, if people want to fly their flag, why is that a bad thing with people feeling the need to tear them down?
How DARE we fly the flag of our country 🙄

Hopefully we'll see a lot of St G's flags flying on the 23rd or will that also upset the pseudo offendees?

CatrionaBalfour · 20/04/2026 20:41

JudgeJ · 20/04/2026 20:39

Hopefully we'll see a lot of St G's flags flying on the 23rd or will that also upset the pseudo offendees?

I think it should be taken back from these people and normalised, like when there's footie on. It's fine to fly it then!

JudgeJ · 20/04/2026 20:41

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CharleneElizabethBaltimore · 20/04/2026 20:46

sometimes i try to play devils advocate and say that for all those that are against x regime or against x leaders, why not give the ones they are attacking the power and how long then would the enemies be just as bad etc

themonkeysnuts · 20/04/2026 20:46

I wont buy Albert Bartlet potatoes due to allowing fox hunting on their land

godmum56 · 20/04/2026 20:46

CatrionaBalfour · 20/04/2026 20:38

I can't stand food waste at the best of times, but to destroy it in a shop like that is awful.

sorry, I can't find the "food waste" post?

CharleneElizabethBaltimore · 20/04/2026 20:47

godmum56 · 20/04/2026 20:46

sorry, I can't find the "food waste" post?

they edited the comment with a .

HearMeSnore · 20/04/2026 20:49

I never buy from Lush. Partly because their stuff is over-priced, over-scented muck but mainly because my friend’s ex works for them and he’s a dick.

CatrionaBalfour · 20/04/2026 20:49

godmum56 · 20/04/2026 20:46

sorry, I can't find the "food waste" post?

That poster said that they crushed Israeli produce when they saw it in a supermarket.
Then they edited the comment out.

Silverbirchleaf · 20/04/2026 20:55

Phoenixfire1988 · 20/04/2026 17:52

Its well documented he had vitiligo 🙃 many children have said he was protecting them from the predators in Hollywood he had an abysmal childhood and yes that left him mentally unwell but he wanted to keep children safe and protect them from abuse .those parents wanted an easy payday why on earth would you allow a child to continue going somewhere they were being abused and you knew why wait so many years 🤔

The parents were groomed as well, and were perhaps wowed that a megastar was interested in their families.

Can you imagine the outcry today if a popstar routinely shared beds with teenage boys, which was one of the claims allegedly.

Also, people say he wasn’t charged, therefore is innocent. Scott Mills has just lost the biggest job in radio broadcasting on a similar basis.

ContentedAlpaca · 20/04/2026 20:56

I try not to buy nestle or related products
I don't use self checkout.
I donate money to women having to fund court cases linked with saying men aren't women.

Silverbirchleaf · 20/04/2026 21:02

I’m not aware that men expect me to move for them, but froM now onwards I’m so not going to move out of the way. Maybe it’s been one if those unconscious things I’ve always done.

ThunderCatsHooo · 20/04/2026 21:02

My dad bought a roofbox for the car and stuck black tape over where it said halfords on it as he refuses to drive around advertising them 🤣 (surprised he hasn't stuck tape over the vw badge on the car 😆), he also purposely takes different carrier bags to the shop he is shopping in so if he is in aldi he will use asda bags or vice versa 🤣🤣. Maybe this isn't the sort of thing you are on about but it makes us laugh!

WildCats24 · 20/04/2026 21:02

nomas · 20/04/2026 20:14

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vickylou78 · 20/04/2026 21:07

WildCats24 · 20/04/2026 18:53

How do we know Jimmy Savile was guilty?

That's easy - dozens of people came forward to say they had been abused by him!!! The evidence was overwhelming. The people who came forward didn't do that for any money.

WildCats24 · 20/04/2026 21:17

vickylou78 · 20/04/2026 21:07

That's easy - dozens of people came forward to say they had been abused by him!!! The evidence was overwhelming. The people who came forward didn't do that for any money.

The P Diddy victims were accused of making it up for money. As was Virginia Roberts.

nodramamama · 20/04/2026 21:36

Again, for those at the back, thoroughly researched by this true crime investigative YouTuber:

ContentedAlpaca · 20/04/2026 21:40

Tontostitis · 20/04/2026 18:14

Nope sick of being told what to do what to think and how to act. I'll do it my way and support all the brave women who walk their own petty path 😁

Ditto.

GreenCandleWax · 20/04/2026 21:52

I play Patriarchy Chicken when a man is walking towards me and there is only room for one of us - I have the bruises to show for it!

Astrabees · 20/04/2026 21:55

vickylou78 · 20/04/2026 17:44

That's not really a reason though is it. You don't want to know if you have cancer? Wouldn't it be better to know sooner rather than later?

No. I don’t care. Who are you? The medical enforcement police?

ThisOliveKoala · 20/04/2026 22:01

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Do as your conscience directs you. I remember learning in history how people stopped buying South African products here in the uk and other countries too in support of ending apartheid regime there. Israel actually supported the South African apartheid regime and if you visit Ramallah - Palestine authority they have a statue of Nelson Mandela, the Palestinians supported ending the apartheid regime. So again it’s a free country, my conscience leads me one way, so do as yours will. God bless

vickylou78 · 20/04/2026 22:08

WildCats24 · 20/04/2026 21:17

The P Diddy victims were accused of making it up for money. As was Virginia Roberts.

Yes it's awful what they did to Virginia Roberts, thankfully it's all hopefully going to come out now if they ever release the whole files. I watched the p diddy court case he got away with a lot, I believe the women and his victims - the footage of diddy abusing his girlfriend Cassie is awful.

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