Thread 6 Burnham: Resitting and Resetting

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@Spandauer i miss the 😂 emoji sometimes…

I’m the same. Nobody has ever called me by my first name.

If we're going to meet up anyway, then I have no objection to you knowing/using my actual name.

Nobody I actually know…
I have a habit of signing up for things with it if money is involved so I don’t get questions about the name on the account, plus any official thing like medical or legal stuff. As a result I never know which name to expect fr9m an organisation and look like a right idiot when they ask my name and I hesitate and say ‘well you might have x, or you might have y’…
My sister’s name is also like this - it’s no coincidence that none of our children have been lumbered with it…

🫠🤣

We should be live on WhatsApp now. If I got it right, of course!

DH is the same @cardibach as was my DF. It gets worse as he often just gives his surname which is a fairly common first name as well so he could be called by any one of three names.

I haven’t had a notification/invitation arrive yet…

I have joined.

Me too.

I’ve had it now and I think joined but I’m completely confused. I got lots of different bits asking me to join and I’m not sure what’s going on…other groups I have are just one thing.

I am confused too. Now it is saying that any of us can invite anyone to join?

You’re confused? Sorry, I fucked it up. There’s now a group, I’ve deleted the community. Please don’t hate me!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqzrz0z4plk1o

Young people aren't snowflakes - mental distress is rising, says head of official review

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/sep/21/helen-jenner-reform-uk-new-leader-wales-dan-thomas-arrest

Loss of leader due to arrest "bump in the road" according to the witty (not) Farage. Dan Thomas stood down last Tuesday after he was arrested on suspicion of assault and controlling or coercive behaviours.

If I’d known Nige was in town I’d have gone out for a milkshake 😉
I don’t suppose she’ll last.

No doubt there will be something.

'bump in the road, pretend nothing happened'

Just a bit of assault and coercive control, locker room banter again?

Agree. As in I just pushed her and her head happened to hit the granite worktop.

Hey - I’ve not got invite or random groups appearing 😭lol - did you get my message @BIossomtoes?

Afraid not. It’s not showing. Do you want to try again?

"Mrs Jenner is the wife of disgraced general election candidate Emmett Jenner. In 2024, he featured in a BBC probe into Reform UK candidates who had made offensive comments about women online."

They're such a lovely caring lot, eh? Protect are wimmin indeed 🙄
https://nation.cymru/news/reform-wales-appoints-deputy-leader-as-senedd-campaign-threatens-to-stall/

if you can’t make it work @MsJinks i can forward it as I’m the other ‘safe’ person who has it! Let me know

And she’s still married to him? Ok then…

It was a very close election apparently (Helen Jenner) and according to Will Hayward who is usually in the know, lots of unhappy Reform people suggesting there’ll be another one in 6 months.