Shon Fay smearing mumsnet on twitter.

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I'm blocked by Shon so can't read her tweets, but someone posted this screenshot

'I dont like...' Stupid bird brained autocorrect.

A budgie badgie, just for you.

Even a video :-)

Heh. Perhaps we can persuade MNHQ to create a budgie badgie.

Oh thank you! I shall treasure it :)

I’m not keen on them in captivity tbh. Pet birds carry all sorts of nasty bacteria.

BirdyNews that is an excellent post!

hipsterfun that badge is awesome, we could be like a secret group with our own secret badges and some kind of silent gesture when we see each other out and about. Maybe a subtle peck like nod of the head. I'm in!

Someone clever than me needs to do a meme showing that the Twitter bird logo is actually a cropped/ filtered/ edited picture of a randy budgie in a mirror

Did someone mention the glorious Mr B?

The glorious Mr B you say?

Love this picture of Kate Moss in David Bowie's blue Life on Mars suit
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Dear God Dorothy, what on earth is that?

Xen it's Mr B the Gentleman Rhymer - he's a banjolele maestro dontcha know

Well, there's a thing, and no mistake!

DH and I have just enjoyed MrB’s hip hop history. YouTube has given lots of quirky extroverts a platform and the variety of their output is strangely heartwarming.

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Men did makeup in the 70s, too.
This is an album cover done in 1976 for The Stranglers, with the men in front heavily made up. They had a nasty reputation for violence and misogyny in their early days.

^What's with all this fay stuff? Jane Fae, Shon Fay?
I know it's various versions of fairy but why?^
I wondered that, until AskprofessionalFekko posted earlier in the thread: “Feigh - I got it!” so I looked it up. Urban expression for ejaculation, it seems. How very edgy 🙄

I was thinking feigh as in fake!

I was thinking 'fey' as in 'twee'.

Whatever - it's not a compliment!

I think it's to do with faeries. Jane Fae has faeries in his Twitter profile. But 'fairy' is or was an insult for a gay man, so I don't quite get the usage here.

Unfortunately every time I hear the phrase 'literal violence' with its origins, a voice in my head starts chanting 'I do believe in fairies! I do! I do!"

I have idly thought about approaching my MP and requiring that denial of fairies becomes hate speech. After all many people have a strong inner feeling they exist and identify with the fairy mythology, there is a widespread range of anecdotal evidence and fragments of dodgy science, and it's time we got past these outdated notions of facts and biology.

Tinkerbell will die if you don't say you believe on fairies!

Right, now I'm more awake I put my library research hat on and I found this
Fairies, transgender men who adopted a flamboyant, “tough girl” style of femininity and who engaged in sexual relations with conventionally masculine men, became fixtures in many urban working-class and immigrant neighborhoods
in a chapter in this book, published in 1932
www.amazon.co.uk/Scarlet-Pansy-Robert-Scully/dp/0823272559/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&tag=mumsnetforum-21&qid&sr

Or is that too obscure?

The phonics of the word Fay or fae or Faye sound very female, feminine, feme.

Never mind Shon's dissing of MN on twitter - there is a better description in the guardian(!!) Mumsnet, a pleasing hotbed of radical feminism these days

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/mar/31/man-explains-what-means-be-woman?CMP=ShareiOSAppOther