I think we've located the angriest women on Te*f Island.

[ArabellaScott]

'Repeal the GRA' petition, screenshot of current map:

oh congratulations. Welcome. Welcome.

So go on then show us what your dusky new staff badge says.

Can't wait to see your pronoun choices.

Of course as a fully inclusive office we fully understand your anger levels will fluctuate in any given minute so we do provide immediate new pronouns badges.

Just type your fingers and voila it is so. see I've just changed mine:

OLD ANGER PRONOUN BADGE

My name is: GC PERMANENT STAFF MEMBER
My ?????? Seriously??? I HAVE TO DO THIS SHIT?? Ok then : I/hate/NICOLA/STURGEON/betrayer/of/women

NEW ANGER PRONOUN BADGE

My name is: GC PERMANENT STAFF MEMBER

My ?????? Seriously??? I HAVE TO DO THIS SHIT?? Ok then : I//am/confused/by/Ilford/South/most/perplexing

I wonder how the government will respond, as we’ve reached over 10,000 signatures. Do we each receive an email with an acknowledgement? Then what - will we need another 10,000 signatures before the government ‘up’ their concern?

Dear MP Re: MAP OF ANGER

This really is the end you know.
Where women start to see.
And THIS all falls apart.

Where the wheels fall off,
and the brakes won't work,
and apples tumble from the cart.

There's AT LEAST
one pissed off person,
in every single place.*

Where there's an MP,
who has an office,
and a name, and a face.

So, use this MAP OF ANGER,
that shows the support,
THROUGHOUT ALL*
this (fair and equal?) LAND

To inform them of the fact
that soon, ALL VOTERS will be informed,
and then will show as ANGRY and as RED
as our sisters in SCOTLAND.

• Can someone also c.c in Sam Tarry MP for Ilford South as he probably won't be hearing from his constituents. I don't think they've got Wi-Fi.

Still waiting for Ilford South but have things to be getting on with. They can catch up.

I have to say the Paddington Beetle stare really seems to work. Congrats!

I'm beginning to think the folks of Ilford South are immune to the raised eyebrow and
( he he (or should that she she) just seen it, Paddington Beetle😆) the PB stare.

Maybe they have a stare rebounder. Which actually sounds more like a piece of exercise equipment.

Beetle wanders off into somewhere in the very strange corners of her mind...

"Right ladies we are going to power through and I want an intense 30 seconds burst on your stare rebounders. Today's activity is level 5 and our guest starer for the day is Beetle."

"Right rebounders the stare will start in 3 2 1 .... Oh Maureen , are you OK? want to take a breather. Maybe sit this one out until you've had some more recoil from petitioning training. I see you've actually started filling in the email address box...."

Perhaps the residents of Ilford South can't get the internet?

@mum2jakie i fear that may be the case, hence including then in the above poem. I mean imagine how awful they are going to feel to have missed out through a corrective dodgy internet connection. So I have assumed, because looking at the rest of the country I mean come on! There had to be at least one woman who watched the news about Scotland before Christmas who lives in Ilford South who went "Thats Fucking outrageous"

I've included that woman!

So we can't hold it against them. They still got another 89 540 opportunities, they'll get on the map at some point soon I'm sure

Collective dam you not corrective

Maybe they need their own thread with Ilford South in the title to draw their attention? They might be very busy and distracted…

I'm just finding it really bizarre. I mean I'd get it if they were off in remote or really coastal places, but even then seriously? It's 2023?

But they are c Kendrick by constituencies who all got the memo.

Ha s there been something really exciting going on in their town centre for the last week or something.

Do they sirens the week over Christmas and New year cheese rolling?

I'm just stumped.

I reckon there is an error in the code and everyone ha signed in Ilford South but none of their signatures have registered.

My tablet is dead that makes no sense.

But they are surrounded by constituencies who got the memo

Do the spend the week

<<Wanders in>>

Is this where you mean @Boiledbeetle ?

East and West,

Sisters here and sisters there,

Tell your friends you need to share,

Help your friends to read and sign

and change the tide to truth this time.

Harrow East and Ilford South are ethically very diverse boroughs so I think this may be the reason. If translated into various languages / read and explained I suspect there would be a good response.

Hey I hope that this helps all angry women to take heart!! It may have been posted before but it should be heard far and wide.

A beautiful voice of hope.

twitter.com/quirkathon/status/1609619946165927936?s=46&t=_v6TGwDOjWOQXCLosQOHmw

The EA petition has been signed by 37 people in Ilford South!

10 600

Just gave myself a heart attack was about to press post and realised I wasn't the beetle!!!!!!!

Has given me the chance to get fresh screen grabs though. Still waiting on IS.

That rectified on with the business of the day.

I have been and checked my wheeeeeeeessshhtttt???? Spelling. As you'll have noticed my tablet can't spell (and as i can't either I'm screwed), and hates me.

So, I originally travelled many pages through the internet to determine the correct amount out Es and Hs and Ss and saved what I hoped was the correct combination.

Then I needed my second tablet to do angry map watch.

Sigh.

The other tablet has, I've just discovered, just about every version of ESH wheeeeeshhts! you can imagine, including all the lovely cut and paste ones where you find you have chopped the last letter off!

Can someone let me know what the accepted (don't want to upset or annoy a load of already angry women) spelling of wheeeeeeeeeeeesht is as I fear I've used the wrong one on more than one occasion recently.

Apologies.

From reading @IcakethereforeIam post, unless they've all moved recently there are we know at least 37 people who have an issue with the Equality Act in Ilford South. So I think we can absolutely, based on that plus every other constituency currently has at least one pissed of woman in it, assume the women off Ilford South are with us on this.

as @Ritasueandbobtoo9 noted when she posted the poem below:

Ilford South is an ethically very diverse borough Rita suggested translating her poem into various languages / read in the hope of a good response.

Sisters here and sisters there,

Tell your friends you need to share,

Help your friends to read and sign

and change the tide to truth this time.

Finally, and if you haven't yet clicked then please click on the link in @Helleofabore post. It's worth a couple of minutes of your time. It's beautiful.

Right tea and fag time.

Bx

I just took my own advice and watched this again (I've watched it rather a few times now!)

Every bloody time she has in me in tears before half way through. Every time.

It is beautiful.

It's vernacular, Beetle, so I don't think there is necessarily an accepted spelling. And I think most Scottish women will be delighted to hear other women use the term however they spell or pronounce it.

Just on a practical level, though, if you're using it to try to silence, say, a child, 'wheest' is a bit wishy washy. 'WHEESHT' has more fricative force. IMHO.

Here's the science:

'Let's start with the sibilants "s" and "sh", in the upper right of Figure 5. They are by far the loudest fricatives. The darkest part of [s] noise is off the top of the spectrograms, even though these spectrograms have a greater frequency range than the others on this page. [s] is centered (darkest) above 8000 Hz. The postalveolar "sh", on the other hand, while almost as dark, has most of its energy concentrated in the F3-F4 range. Often, [s]s will have noise at all frequencies, where, as here, the noise for [ʃ] seems to drop off drastically below the peak (i.e. there's sometimes no noise below 1500 or 2000 Hz.) [z] and [ʒ] are distinguished from their voiceless counterparts by a) lesser amplitude of frication, b) shorter duration of frication and c) a voicing bar across the bottom'

home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~robh/howto.html

Slighly ironic that one looks to maximise volume/force in a word designed to silence. Perhaps that inherent tension is part of what powers a useful motto.

And here's the linguistic history:

dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/whisht

'WHISHT, int., v., n., adj. Also wheesht, wheisht; weesht, weisht, wisht, woosht; wheest, wh(e)ist, whust, wiest; wheesh, whish, whush, whoosh, wish; quish (Sc. 1887 Jam.). Also wishtie, whistie ( < wheesht ye). [ʍɪʃt, ʍiʃt; ʍist, ʍɪst; wiʃt, wɪʃt; ʍiʃ]'

So there you go.

You see having checked my oldest use of it that was what I went for. But I obviously did a bad cut and paste at some point and lost the h in the process. And as I've been having to look at the screen with one eye shut whilst squinting (must go to the opticians this year!) through the other, I think I was blind to it being missing in action.

It's hard enough just trying to stop the wordss 💃 a'll over the place!

Are no words safe?

Won't someone think of the words!!!

10 800

You know I'm not quitting until I've finished this jigsaw don't you.

Just thought I'd check in. The RSE petition might break 10,000 before I've finished typing this sentence. Including, I'm sorry Beetle, over 25 from Ilford South.

🤔😐😶😥😠

The five emoji of grief

Fat fingers, you nearly got a football!