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She's going to be very impressed with you looking at your watch during sex. 😮

Cue someone moaning about the rainbow flag. 🙂

Freud was accepting of homosexuality, although his reasons for it are rather outmoded. I think he probably would have a different view on being able to just change these days.

This isn't a straight or gay thing and the average gay will not need educating on transgender issues. Transgender can be straight or gay. In my experience the huge majority of gay men are more than happy to remain as men.

It's already started. Let's see what that nice Mr. Trump says about it. "On Monday, the Idaho House of Representatives asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges, the landmark 2015 case that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. If the Supreme Court takes up the challenge and rules in favor of the Idaho House, it could mean the end of gay marriage in the United States." Source: USA Today

One thing to think about is the condition of the remaining tooth. In the old days, in the U.K. at least, when filling a tooth they would drill a big hole and fill the whole tooth with filling. Over the years if you haven't had any more work done the enamel on the outside wears down and leaves the walls of the tooth very thin. They don't drill out the whole tooth now for that very reason. Obviously it varies from person to person and you may be o.k., but something for the dentist to advise you on.

Tick the box "male". Is that so hard?

In a way I agree. It's not about getting rid of LGBT people (although there are a number of pond dwellers on here who would like to), it's about slowly removing their hard fought rights. Vile Christian nationalism is on the rise and they want revenge.

He'll be O.K. when he puts the fact that private healthcare will only cost 4p a week on the side of a bus. 😀 And people fall for it.

Weekly poll. Lol. So there will be 200+ of these before the next election. And several Tory leaders.

Pathetically stupid remark.

It'll be interesting watching Trump as he holds his balls and dances.

Trump's balls. Has a ring about it. 🙂

Surely they can introduce a public by-law that prohibits sleeping on the beach. In the U.K. police have the right to move people on if they are loitering. Walking is giving public access per the law. Sleeping is loitering. The problem is enforcing it.

Yeah, I was just being a bit facetious with passengers.

Well, there was no compunction to retain funds in an account in those days, so I imagine that money has long since been spent. But I agree with you. For GBP 17T or so, of much more concern to me is the rate at which funds are transferred. The 800b on my account went in at just over 46 a few years ago. The rate is now bumbling around 41/42, so to do monthly transfers at that rate plus charges is more costly. I can live on other savings plus low top ups but unlike with monthly transfers I can sit there and wait for an appreciation in the rate. Heineken is right that savings rates are better in the U.K. but even they are slipping right back gradually. On GBP 17,000 it's hardly a king's ransome. And there are other factors like convenience, legality, quick access to funds, opening UK fixed deposits etc. It's really horses for courses and everyone has different needs, so I wouldn't criticize anyone's methods. If the exchange rates plummet or they change the rules I might think differently but at the moment I'm content with my situation.

Actually a dollar and a half to enter a tree museum isn't a bad deal. 🙂 But we digress.

Passengers is such a silly word anyway. Who passenges by train? You travel by train. If u have to change it just use the word travellers which includes everyone without perceived prejudice.

You must be new to the old man, expat whining forum. Lol. It's all done to aggravate and divide.

The Foundations. God, my memory is awful. Getting old.

No. Mod/Ska/TwoTone. The Specials were a multicultural group, a response to racist stereotypes much like The Equals and another group whose name eludes me at the moment in the 60s. Not everyone with a short haircut is a skinhead.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_power_skinhead Some were. Big enough to be a violent movement that spread across Europe.

Well that's diplomatic. Lol I don't think you quite understand what diplomacy is.

A reminder if needed.

So what's to stop Trump in 30 days saying, right, now we've got this we want this and we're re-instating tariffs until we get it. You can't bow down to bullies. They'll just get worse.