You should be fined £100 for making me read that

It’s old-fashioned informal writing. Until about 20 years ago, the vast majority of writing was formal writing. Formal writing follows formal speech patterns, with proper sentences and commas and full stops. This is what you’d learn at school. When we talk informally, everyday, we don’t actually talk like that. We talk more in fragments. An ellipsis is sort of the old person’s way of separating these fragments. Younger people tend to press enter and send another message to separate the fragments. Maybe the oldies get annoyed at young people sending multiple messages when it could have been one.

First they came for the rabbit owners. And I did not speak up. Because I was in the mood for some stew.

Not to worry; I don’t have any good habits

“No circumstances” is a bit extreme. What if we were under active invasion by super nazis that wanted to force us to eat our pets and outlaw pubs?

Now THAT would be news. Undercover investigation reveals Reform are treating minorities well.

Does this imply that some anthems ironically mention boobs?

Had the week off work to become nocturnal and teach our little one to sleep better. Pure hell, I don’t even think it’s made much of a difference. My mates in the group chat were sending me videos of their babies falling asleep easily. Bastards.

Nothing you said is wrong there, I’m just saying it sucks on our end too. It sucks that women would rather walk past a bear than me, purely because of the way I was born. Sucks that if I mention being upset about it I get told that “I’m the reason she picked the bear”. So much vitriol. I can handle it but I know lots of men can’t and end up in Andrew Tate’s lap. This entire thread is a perfect example. It’s not helping.

And I know you’re probably going to reply and say that women have it worse because they get raped, and you’re right, but it doesn’t make me feel any better the next time a woman gives me a wide berth in the park for no other reason than my gender.

I don’t think that’s fair to say at all. The image you posted is specifically about #notallmen.

This seems like an odd thing to say. Like it doesn’t matter if it’s true or not, just which “team” is saying it.

I’m personally at 0% risk of slipping into the manosphere, but can you see how this sort of talk would push somebody more vulnerable into it? All I’ve said is that men are treated differently because they’re suspected of being rapists and according to this thread I’m a) a conservative (nope) and b) part of the problem (i.e. I’m a rapist?). I’d never usually say anything because I know this is the way discussions always go, but I guess I was feeling ambitious today.

I just think it’s fair to be upset about being treated differently because of the way you were born. You can’t immediately start pigeonholing people if they show the slightest annoyance at being treated like a rapist.

“Society assumes you’re a rapist because you’re a man” is the message I think the parent comment is arguing against.

Trans-Exclusionary Radicals

They only react with cis isomeric alkenes?

Prayers for those who died of blood loss 2 hours before God pushed the “allow transfusions” hotfix ☹️ 🙏

I went to Wales recently and they didn’t have them! My car still stinks of Dr Pepper from all the spills

I don’t think there’s a K in bacronym because it’s short for barely a causal relationship of numerous yucky morphemes

Yes but to be fair we also call each other child molesters somewhat casually

What are you actually trying to say though? The sentence ostensibly compares two values. “Number of times you’ve been to Berlin” vs “Amount of people who’ve been to Berlin”. You can’t compare those two. As a maths teacher would say, you’re mixing your units.

Are you joking because that makes no sense

“Not Israel?” “Well… <exasperated sigh>”