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@Nettleshippy

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Barrister, parent, cyclist and lapsed artist.

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@PipSinks “ Counsel, what are your pronouns?” “Recuse/yourself”
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I’m starting a support group for people who didn’t see the Northern Lights last night. We are valid. Stop erasing our existence Any joiners This is our flag
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What has GQ done to Cillian Murphy ? He looks like he is in a Duran Duran tribute band If ever there was a man who didn’t need bronzer
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History is complicated isn’t it? On #InternationalWomensDay2024 you might be interested to know that Lord Balfour was for women being able to have university degrees.
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If you haven’t watched Friday Night Live yet, it begins with Ben Elton telling us his pronouns and ends with a transgender male exposing a penis. That my lovely is the ‘trans debate’ in a nutshell. Remember that next time you are asked your pronouns.
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I hadn’t realised that this was Attitude magazine’s first-ever woman of the year award. So the magazine created the category just to troll woman.
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“Is it right for a school where 50% of the pupils are Muslim, in an area as diverse as Brent, to stubbornly cling to a vision of secularism that excludes a core component of half their pupils’ identities?” Yes
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Am I right in thinking the impetus for getting rid of the female category from The Brits was to indulge this person’s sense of self ?
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If a 40 year old convicted paedophile identifies as a 13 year old, should he be placed in a young offenders institute rather than an adult jail? (Asking for Scotland)
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Hand up if you think Dr David Bell is heroic?
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Sunday maths quiz : If 1 boy is more important than 6000 girls, how insane is this to the nearest decimal place ? Show you workings for additional marks .
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The Football Association has threatened to suspend a football league featuring more than 6,000 girls because it has refused to allow a boy to play in it. The boy does not want to play with other boys "because of his ability"
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I tell you what isn’t inclusive - endometriosis - it’s very very sexist.
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Endometriosis UK stands in solidarity with the trans community. We will not tolerate hate speech on our platforms. You can read our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion statement here:
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Are we allowed to hit people whose jokes we don’t like now? Asking on behalf of all women who have ever heard the words “it’s only a joke, love”.
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I’m really uncomfortable with that footage of the woman being raped whilst having a c section being shared all over Twitter. I know it’s horrific. Maybe the victim has consented to this being shared - I don’t know. Urge caution.
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I’m not a criminal practitioner, can anyone help: is marching whilst being a lesbian a specific offence?
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Anyone interested in Wickes’ 2022 pay gap reporting? 7.4% mean gender pay gap mean gender bonus gap grew from 29.1% to 31.6% Median gender bonus gap increased, from 16.4% to 17.9%
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If you like this tweet you are an automatic member of the mysterious right-wing think-tank, retweet for a leadership position. We meet at dawn to discuss: If running in the park is right- wing, is walking your dog fascist adjacent ? Bring croissants
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@CaptainVirgilx “One woman was raped several times over a period of at least seven years by different men while unconscious, having been drugged and blindfolded by her husband,” So sick - that poor poor woman
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“ Were Semenya growing up in Britain today, it’s possible that she would have been encouraged to identify as a boy. “ Err no, he would have been tested as a baby and not had an incorrect birth certificate
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I know this isn’t the main point. I think it’s interesting that the chaps with DSDs are wearing proper shorts, whereas the women are wearing shorts like knickers and cropped tops with their stomachs showing.
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@ReduxxMag Here's the moment when three intersex males took gold, silver, and bronze at the 2016 Rio Olympics Women's 800M event. Not a single woman placed in their own category.
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2/2… I put it back and choose something I might like better like a cuddly toy. (?!?) No I insisted I want the screwdrivers. Sometimes I proudly let my dad borrow my screwdrivers. Anyway I think this is the sole survivor.
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Anyone going to sadly open their mouths today?
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Did they ever find that 6 foot 3, red head, female, alleged sex offender?
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1/2 When I was about 8 there was a raffle at the school fayre (we were told it had to be spelt that way) and I had a winning ticket. I went up to choose my prize and a chose a beautiful set of screwdrivers -all different colours like boiled sweets. One of the mums suggested…
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Well this unexpectedly blew up. While you’re here, why not check out my new book “Why I’m No Longer Talking To The Aurora Borealis Privileged About Solar Energised Particles And Disturbances In The Earth's Magnetosphere”
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Has Mumsnet been arrested yet?
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@CurtisDaly_ He said: "When challenged with what he is doing in a women's toilet he said: 'Just chilling'. He then said he was there as he identified as female." Did you forget about this bit? He said he was female - does that not mean he is trans? Self ID innit?
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@youcanthaveshe Reported and blocked
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Check out these Dagenham Karens
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Check out these Karens
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Hands up if you had to do Maypole dancing at primary school ? Apparently the Maypole at my old school was removed as too Pagan or Health and Safety gone mad and/or other unreliable reasons.
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You’re not going to believe it but I have just found a right wing think tank down the back of the sofa
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Why they persist in this methodology is beyond me. Everyone knows surely that Caster is male with a DSD. Caster Semenya: ‘How would I label myself? I’m an African. I’m a woman. I’m a different woman’ | Caster Semenya | The Guardian
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1) My review of Friday Night live 🧵 As i said in an earlier tweet it began with Ben Elton’s pronouns and ended with the spectacle (don’t forget your spectacles) of a transgender entertainer’ penis . A perfect mirror to the trans debate. Give an inch, get a couple of inches
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Wednesday Maths Quiz If 99.9% of 6 foot 3 inch people are male And 97%* of sex offenders are male And the alleged offence happened Sussex What are the chances (to the nearest decimal place) of the 6ft 3 woman who allegedly sexually assaulted a 15 year old being a woman?
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Steph was asked about whether a CEO of a trans charity could be not trans. His example of a trans charity was Stonewall.
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If you have accidentally misgendered someone who was rude to you & it wasn't your fault, you may be able to claim compensation. Misgenderings happen – & many are avoidable. If yours feels wrong & you think it could have been prevented 📞 the National Misgendering Helpline now
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Any news on that six foot three women*, with red hair that sexual assaulted that boy in Sussex with her blond/e friend?
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My assessment of Twitter this evening is that everyone is in love with Naomi Cunningham.
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Shall we just have our own female artist of the year? Nominations please ?
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@DinasaurusD In London, no one owns a washing machine and this lady is responsible for all our Laundry. Fact
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1 If your knowledge of the sex/gender debate is at Level Kirstie, here are 10 starter questions to chew over: 1)In what circumstances does your sex matter? 2) Does it matter to some people more, eg if they are old, disabled, female or have particular faiths?
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@DatCatDer Feels fitting
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Repeal The Gender Recognition Act
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@Wommando @BBC Well done Leicestershire Police for accurate reporting/headline
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1) Every time I see a photo of those young women who have had elective double mastectomies I weep. Every time. I work in child protection: dead children, children who’ve been raped and beaten, hideous neglect - I have seen. I’m battled hardened, but I weep for these girls. Why?
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Why is #TerfsWereRight trending?
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@SocialCareWales Early years. I believe that’s ages 3 to 5. Can’t you just tell them that some children have two mummies and that’s ok and then go do some finger painting ?
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I’m sitting, writing under a cypress tree in my South London Garden. The evening quiet is cut by a small series of screeches from the copulating foxes by the rosemary bushes. As if gravity has just been invented, a leaf falls into the paddling pool. Plop.
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Check out these Karens
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Look at all these 50 year old Karen's protesting against PIE in 1977. Always on the wrong side of history eh?
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@sprolliehouse @tomhfh I think usually you can tell the difference about 14 weeks after conception
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BBC announce 8 part series entitled “What it feel like to be a horse”
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@bernardTcastle @WGAbroad Please be an optician
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@RosieDuffield1 We specialise in Emotional Support Animals who are visually impaired as it would be unfair on our members if the animals could see the lights and they could not.
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So, I have a chocolate library. That’s perfectly normal right?
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You are allowed one image which sums up the travesty of allowing men to participate in women’s sport. Here’s mine. This should have ended it. For shame.
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The revolution starts here
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@dsj_itv I tell you what isn’t respectful - 1)males in women’s sports, 2) males saying they are female 3) journalists not challenging them on this. Telling the truth is a huge issue of our times in sport and journalism.
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Call The Midwife 2030. Half the midwives are on a disciplinary for correctly guessing the sex of the babies. Trixi is teaching the Poplar dads to lactate. The Sisters are now cisters except for the male nuns. John Lewis design the uniforms. Cister Monica Jones is still alive
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@SauveShari Exactly. If any Southerners saw the Northern Lights its cultural appropriation.
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Wait til @BBCWomansHour find out that they have been incarcerating men who kill and rape women in women’s prisons
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'It's shocking that a man who kills a woman can be close to a woman in prison' Farah Naz, @psych_iamfarah , the aunt of murdered law graduate Zara Aleena, tells @EmmaBarnett about her reaction to her killer who was allegedly caught having sex with a prison worker. 🎧 ⬇️
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@ewansomerville ‘Dr James Orr, a Cambridge lecturer who helped organise the Scruton lecture series, said: “It is disheartening to discover that there are students at Oxford who believe that the physical presence of those who do not share their views affects their safety.”’
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On gender gibberish and battle strategies Glinner is too obsessive PP shoots from the hip Those proper feminists are too purist Stock is too moderate. Etc etc Who cares. Just get the job done I salute you all.
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Always late to the party and reliably out of style , I’ve discovered Happy Valley. Binged the first season , bracing myself for diving into season 2 …
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I suppose there are many things in life I don’t understand, bread sauce is one of them. What? Why?
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@LPStaySafe "While we recognise that people have strong and often conflicting views regarding this issue…” Where is the bit where they apologise for posting misleading information about what constitutes a crime?
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@MForstater Are you going to ask he/him to explain how you have violated the rules?
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@DavidMillitt “Visibility” is a trigger word in this community
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“My testicles don’t make me any less of a woman”
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What’s the best joke: A) Ed Davey saying that women “quite clearly” can have a penis. B) Sunak taking the piss out of Ed Davey C) Pink News etc pretending Sunak’s joke is transphobic
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Enough Law. Isn’t high time we discussed @JoPhoenix1 fashion Icon? Big fan of the cool prints and statement glasses. I guess criminologist know a little something about pattern recognition.
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@thejamesmax @HJoyceGender We have all heard/ seen the interviews . Telling Joyce that maybe she has assumed there there can’t be another side is hilarious. Maybe you should read her book?
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@MissSmallVoice We are very inclusive
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Best trolling of #InternationalWomensDay2022 competition. First contender:
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This #InternationalWomensDay we're going to talk about trans women in history. We've turned replies off, because we know some people would prefer these stories to be erased and silenced.
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Is there a German word for when you tell your partner you are going to the hairdressers, you have about a foot cut off, your hair is a completely different colour and you meet them immediately after and they don’t notice.
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@Baroness_Nichol @DannyBeales . Hi Danny I just wanted to know which budget the funding for this comes out of and also which disability groups were consulted. Thanks
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Lots of talk about the Marks and Spencer’s progressive changing room policy . Here is the M and S gender pay gap results . Regard how progressive the mean bonus gap is.
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“Understanding sex differences in injury patterns may help paramedics predict who is more likely to have certain injuries,….. It may also help vehicle manufacturers direct safety systems to protect men and women equally.”
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@FondOfBeetles Colour is a social construct
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Found a chocolate square on my bedside cabinet this morning. Through the medium of taste I learnt it was in fact the mini chocolate scented soap I picked up last time I stayed in an hotel.
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READ OUR STATEMENT ON WHY WE DONT UNDERSTAND WHAT INCLUSION MEANS AND WHY LIBRARIES SHOULDN’T BE A PLACE OF IDEAS AND WHY NOT ALLOWING A LESBIAN TO SPEAK DURING THE HOLY MONTH OF PRIDE IS A PUBLIC GOOD.
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There are 3 types of people 1) those that watched Friends and loved it 2) those that watched Friends loved it, then later pretended, they hated it 3) those that watched Friends, loved it, pretended to hated it, then pretended that they hadn’t pretended to hate it
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@Opportunitweet Well if they won’t check their privilege, I’ll check it for them
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@SamanthaTaghoy On what basis were the police questioning you ?
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Did anyone else put empty packet of crisps in the oven to shrink them when they were kids? What was all that about ? !
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Name this Yoga position:?
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BBC Good Food Tits Cake recipe just dropped Ingredients 300g of Propaganda 2 tablespoons of Homophobia I Kg of political capture 0 consideration of impartiality I bucket of flippancy Some sweeties for the kids (Next tweet for method)
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Pick a team. Choose wisely
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Never underestimate how stressful litigation is. It’s hard. When people have the courage to pursue their case for the wider good an extra level of respect and admiration is due, I think.
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The judgment is published:
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@HonsCupboard Badges, lanyards, Days of Remembrance- I’ve already signed up a number of police forces to have our flag emblazoned on their cars
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@NadiaWhittomeMP Nadia help me with this: Why do you think “ sex” should mean sex plus those of the opposite sex who have a GRC and minus those of the sex in question with a GRC? And why clarity isn’t a good thing? Why are you prioritising rights if MtF with a GRC over FtM with a GRC?
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What these teachers are saying is compelling evidence in my view of why guidance is required. Teachers should understand that social transition is not neutral and that they are not qualified to make decisions about whether and to what extent a child is socially transitioned.
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Chesterfield High School says its "contract" is with its children, and will only notify parents if it believes there is a safeguarding risk in not doing so
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Who got the pie?
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Anyone else think the Census questions were really boring? Better questions would include 1) how many bikes do you own? 2) where can you buy the best coffee? 3) what’s for dinner? 4)what are you reading? 5) have you still got your Christmas tree up? 6) how are you feeling?
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2) I think it’s because it shows we have failed as a society. It’s not some harm inflicted by one ‘monster’. How many adults were involved for each girl: said nothing, cheered her on, took the money? How many professionals?
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There has been no issue in my lifetime that tops “gender” for revealing people’s true colours. Whether that’s misogyny, self interest, political cravenness, blind stupidity or cowardice. Or here, mansplaining: E Balls telling Stock it’s more complicated- she wrote the book, fool
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The haunted look on @edballs ’ face represents the North London liberal establishment waking up. He clearly hasn’t given gender identity a second thought. He agrees a woman can’t have a penis yet thinks @Docstockk is “simplifying the issue” …she wrote a whole book about. 😂🤦‍♂️
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@australianwoma1 Can’t they just identify as black or a woman - problem solved
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@POLITICOEurope I couldn’t finish the piece - too much of a hatchet job for my taste. Could it be possible the JKR’s views on women’s rights and old school politically left concerns remain consistent but “the left” has metamorphosed? It’s true for me in any event.
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Is “Lanyard Shagger” in common parlance? If not, its my gift to you
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@Taylor_Advocate I’d give up the right to graze sheep on common land
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