Baht Simpson

So you're happy that a child's genitals are mutilated without consent?

Well, I'm happy for you but I doubt they did it to make your future wife happy, and it was certainly done without your consent, and that's the point.

The far right think everything they dislike is a mental health disorder.

Lol. Well I don't think the Inquisition, Aztec Priests or Mengele had a 97% approval rating from their customers. Please don't be silly.

What is your view on the mutilation of infants and young boys penises for religious purposes?

You replied 2 minutes after my post so you obviously haven't read it. Rather pathetic to criticize don't you think?

If true her case is sad but statistically she's in a tiny minority, As of 2022, worldwide less than 3% of transitioners expressed regret and even less decided to de-transition. This figure is also falling. Here's an illuminating article on the subject with links to all the government studies. https://www.gendergp.com/detransition-facts

Yes, and not just for transgender children but for medical and physiological issues like precocious puberty.

It depends who you believe. https://stopabuse.umich.edu/about/same-sex.html I imagine it's roughly the same or a bit higher. People are people.

Not sure if you're being sarcastic.

Really? How did you get emotionally involved with them? Lol With all the nonsense we have to put up with it's a wonder we're not all axe-murderers. ????

This whole thing seems very well planned out. Could it be that he's been swayed and directed by some online influence? If so they need to get to the bottom of it quickly.

I don't know whether to be proud or ashamed but I can honestly say I've never used a sex toy. It's just never appealed to me yet others swear by them. I'm probably alone in this.

Thanks for that, impulse. If that is indeed the case then it seems a little short-sighted to me as that would apply to the whole pension not just the increase. Moreover, a lot of us are still U.K. tax-payers and an increase will be kept as savings and will attract a higher tax levy. Perhaps a compromise would be to withhold the increase for one year. That way the U.K. economy would benefit for one year on the withheld funds and we would eventually get the increase. But of course why should they? The amount of the increases must pale into insignificance compared to the amount tourists spend abroad each year. Then there's the huge sums that expats save the economy by not claiming benefits or NHS services. Erosion of the pension will only lead to more pensioners going back home to rely on the state. Oh well, whistling in the wind.

Actually, Maugham was a piece of work. "His (Hugh Walpole) reputation in literary circles took a blow from a malicious caricature in Somerset Maugham's 1930 novel Cakes and Ale:"-Wikipedia Walpole, although not as good a writer as Maugham, was popular and outsold him leading Maugham to attempt a character assassination, which worked. He did subsequently recant his remarks on Walpole only to cowardly re-state them on Walpole's death. His characters might have fine virtues but he himself was rather lacking.

The last basic State Pension rise was £203.85 a week, up from £185.15. So that's £18.70 a week x 500,000 frozen pensions = roughly £486m a year. Good business if you can get away with it. I've never seen a reasonable explanation as to why they do it, other than a cash grab.

Good time to have a heart attack. ????

"And God said unto Moses come forth, but he came fifth and was sore afraid."

What's the position with license /plates/ tax with these bikes?

Also, don't seize a crocodile.

True, but I think I'd replace prior with proper.

I know no one's going to show me everythingWe all come and go unknownEach so deep and superficialBetween the forceps and the stone Joni Mitchell -- Hejira

That argument doesn't really work. You're conflating two examples. My first point was that far greater things have failed to destroy society. The second example referenced a leader that now has the ability to start a nuclear holocaust, which certainly could. So it's not having it both ways. And what's TDS? Are you being unnecessarily rude?

Well, being a bad world leader certainly has the potential to destroy society but transitioning doesn't. Let's not make this a political issue.

Well, I was addressing Richard's comment. But I fail to see how, even given your example, how society will be destroyed. We had two world wars and society wasn't destroyed. Hitler, Stalin and Mao exterminated millions and society wasn't destroyed. They dropped a nuclear bomb, society wasn't destroyed. We often hear this empty rhetoric from the right about how gays serving in the military or gay marriage will destroy society and now it's being applied to a tiny minority transitioning. I have no comment on the video because it's Glenn Beck and not a serious commentator.