To think my neighbour has taken gender identication too far .

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Neighbour has been unwell with flu . Just rang and asked her if she needed any shopping . Gave me a short list including washing liquid . She asked for the Persil " non binary one " . 😁 She knows i am posting and wants to read the responses to cheer her up .

@Hoppinggreen , I do take exception at that 😉- pine nuts are lovely!

They do taste like pine resin though 🤔. But I like that! (unlike radioactivity, I have tasted pine resin)

Yes

When I was growing up, I remember my dad used to refer to anyone bisexual as 'ambidextrous'

Our biology teacher had concentrated so hard, over almost two years of curriculum, on saying 'organism' , when we got to sexual reproduction she couldn't bring herself to say 'orgasm'.

I think that Persil has a different name in France doesn't it?

I hope.your neighbour feels better soon and had a laugh at the thread. Flu is awful, so any laughs are good.

Is it themthey butter now?

My OU tutor asked us to summarise case studies with "a short vinaigrette" which always amused me.
I was slightly tempted to douse an essay in balsamic vinegar but didn't want to lose marks for blurred writing.

My aunt used to complain that "the midgets are out - I'm covered in bites" which always put me in mind of hordes of short Ninjas with sharpened teeth, rather than the insects she actually meant.

Embarrassingly I've only just realised, 4 hours after I first saw this thread, that she meant non bio

Don’t we all?

Wow, mine among (they/) them.

I certainly hope so as its what I got her 😂

Or maybe " they " butter ?

She says it's cheered her up a lot ! .

Mine too. It identified as funny so surely it was?

Well, I feel rather special now, I can do both! 😅

Are we related? According to my mum I shouldn't go to somewhere (was it Norway?) in the summer because the midgets there are terrible, and she knew how badly I react to midget-bites.

My late nan used to complain about "Josaphats Witnesses" knocking on her door.

Could have been Scotland, full of midgets apparently.

Or at least according to my best friend who'd seen Hadrian's wall as it is now and assumed that the Scots must have been tiny as they couldn't get over it.

Woman works in construction, has 2 MScs, and no common sense. I love her.

And forever since I have envisaged an army of tiny woad painted smurfs fruitlessly waving their fists at the Romans over a tiny wall.

I decided it was best not to bring the Antonine wall into the conversation.

Brilliant thread. Thank you.

They butter 🤣

What about that tune from the 90s Binery Finery-that would be frowned upon now. A bigoted tune if ever there was one.

Going off on a tangent here but that reminds me of the time I was on a bus and a dear little old lady asked the driver if he would mind dropping her off near the bollocks… she mean the bollards. 😂

It's Perborate Silicate - Per Sil

Maybe the Germans who named it just wanted French husbands to fetch the wrong item when sent for parsley too

Is it just me that is now wondering whether adding parsley to a wash could be....aromatic?

It probably is, and would spanner the washing machine, so if someone else else wants to try it, that'd be great

We went on holiday when I was a kid, leaving our neighbour to feed the cats. Got back to a note saying she'd left the back door keys in the conservative.