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The fight for rights for women
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1. Throughout much of the nineteenth century, a husband, father, or other male authority figure could—and did—have a woman declared insane as easily as getting two doctors to sign the certificate, and they didn’t even have to see the patient. A man’s testimony was enough to get a female relative loc...
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Nicola Sturgeon quit
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Old Krankie has finally come the decent thing and quit.  The English, woman hater has done Scotland a big favour. Horrible woman.
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NAA said
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...and others they like the way I wrote my script as if it was poetry. Still no one seems to get it. 20 years ago everywhere was like this place is now. Write a whole sentence on one line and you have to scroll backwards and forwards to read it. Still people do it on sites like this. When are you going to get it?...
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Bonfire night.
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Might be me getting old but I didn't seem to notice it creeping up on me in the usual manner of lots of whizz pops and bangs around. Lots of special night goings on advertising... I noticed nothing and suspected even less! I'm a couple of days away from it and I swear it's just kind of appeared like popping i...
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COMMUNICATION?
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We live in the age of communication. Instantly call your friends and family anywhere. We have video connections we have video information galore search a word a phrase a song line and instantly we're connected to a world of information. There's never been anything like this before and my grandchild...
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Where's the protests?
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A baby was fed to its own unwitting mother by Isis, who also raped a ten-year-old girl to death in front of her own family, an Iraqi MP has claimed.Vian Dakhil is a prominent Yazidi politician and has served as an important mouthpiece for the horrors perpetrated by Isis against her people. The extremi...
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Interstellar travel?
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The more we learn the more it's looking like we'll never ever achieve it. The vastness of the universe is incredibly difficult for our little earth based minds to conceive. The closest star after our own is 4 and a half light years away and traveling at the speed of light is becoming more and more impossi...
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Nanny State
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This is so sad. The man had this squirrel for 7 years, it never went outside, so there was no way it had rabies. The whole family are heart broken. I get that rodents are perhaps more likely to carry diseases but only if they have access to the wild. You can see how healthy this one is and how loved. ...
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Swapped at birth.
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A very unusual case, the first one ever recorded by the NHS. "Two families in the West Midlands are waiting for compensation in the first documented case of babies being switched at birth in NHS history.It was only taken out of idle curiosity one rainy winter’s day – but the shocking result of a DNA tes...
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The amazing UK!
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Where to start? The land is so full of history and historical places. How about starting in a place that when you've experienced it you discover it's a world within worlds. The canals... two thousand miles open and working at present many dating from the mid 1700's. They were dug across the land throug...
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Trick or Treats.
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Do you open the door...or just ignore? Some years we get loads, others none. I got sick of being left with teeth breaking lollies so now I buy chocolates so I can eat them all myself if no one comes. We have had countless kids calling tonight, all dressed up brilliantly as tiny demons or witches....and t...
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$20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
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A Russian court has fined Google more money than exists https://metro.co.uk/2024/10/30/russian-court-fines-google-20-000-000-000-000-000-000-000-000-000-000-000-21890949/
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Substantial minimum wage rise to be announced.
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Good thing or bad? In today's budget, as from next April, for people aged 21 and over, the minimum wage will rise to £12.21ph. For 18 to 20 year olds, a 16% increase, will bring their minimum wage up to £10ph. Some owners of small businesses are not happy and are saying they will have to lay people off. ...
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The real danger of on line trolling and catfishing
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A family has expressed their rage after a father and daughter were driven to suicide by a prolific 'catfish' abuser.Cimarron Thomas, 12, who was named for the first time after a court order protecting her identity was lifted, used her father's handgun to take her own life after being blackmailed onl...
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Lets hear it for Russia!
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Vladimir Putin was unable to open the car door. Broken door handle
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Prince Williams Beard
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Do you like him with or without? Personally I don't like it at all. Makes him look dirty, but then I don't like beards or this unshaven look. What do th think?
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Liam Payne is dead.
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Ex One Direction star Liam Payne, has been pronounced dead after falling from a third floor window in Argentina. He was only 31, ex husband of Cheryl Cole and father to her son.
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Two Tier Kier aka The Human Hand Grenade aka The Sausage Assassin aka....
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$100K raised for legal fees of dad who allegedly killed man he found with his missing daughter
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LONOKE COUNTY, Ark. (Gray News) – More than $100,000 has been raised for the legal fees of an Arkansas father accused of killing a 67-year-old man who he found in a car with his missing 14-year-old daughter, his family said.According to the Lonoke County Sheriff’s Office, officers were called in ref...
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“Let’s show those Yanks how to win elections!”
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Activists from Sir Keir Starmer’s party will spend the next two-and-a-half weeks canvassing for Kamala Harris in four key battlegrounds ahead of the US election on Nov 5. They will target Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Virginia, which are all seen as crucial to Ms Harris’ path to the Whi...
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Free weight loss jabs for the obese unemployed.
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"Labour wants to give millions of obese, unemployed Britons free fat-busting jabs used by celebrities in a desperate bid to get them off the couch and 'back to work'. Health Secretary Wes Streeting is planning to offer jobless Brits free jabs of the controversial 'miracle' weight loss drug, Oze...
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Suspected acid attack on a 14 year old girl and two others in London.
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"A 14-year-old girl has been left with potentially life-changing injuries after a suspected acid attack outside a school in west London. A boy aged 16 and a 27-year-old woman were also injured after the substance, believed to be acidic, was thrown at pupils and a staff member outside Westminster A...
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Aurora Borealis
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13 year old granddaughter is staying at the moment and has been in and out pointing her phone at a blank black sky north and north east and catching some great pictures of the northern lights that we can't see with the naked eye. If you're still up go give it a go now!
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Conscription time?
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UK Gets SHOCK Conscription WARNING! The comments are very interesting.
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Meghan and Harry
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I make no apologies...
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For dropping the needle on the past often...
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Just another conspiracy theory?
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Testimony: Challenger Astronauts Allegedly Alive “I think we all remember the Challenger explosion that took place in 1986 that tragically took the lives of all seven astronauts on board. It launched not too far from where we're standing here today. Well the interesting thing is a couple decades l...
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Who will you remember from forums once they become 'extinct'?
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Most forums have been and gone, or are on the brink of going 'allegedly', so when they are no more, who will you remember fondly....or not?
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Hypocrisy.
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Rachel Reeves, who along with her husbands well paid job has an annual income of £300 thousand, has taken,..over the last 4 years, £3,700 in energy payments, from the tax payer, to heat her second home. Yet 10 million pensioners, who's income rises above £12.000 annually, have had their winter f...
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Ugly truth about the Kennedy dynasty
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Women and girls historically do not fare well with Kennedy men – be they wives, girlfriends, mistresses, sisters or daughters.Patriarch Joe Kennedy, a former US ambassador to Britain, was not only politically and financially ruthless, he was also sexually deviant and violent.Well before he was...
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Iran bombing Israel
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In answer to Israel bombing Lebanon, Iran now bombing Israel.I Next, Iran will be bombed. As war could now come.
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Remembering Maggie Smith: A Career In Photos
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https://deadline.com/gallery/remembering-maggie-smith-a-career-in-photos/nowhere-to-go-from-left-maggie-smith-george-nader-1958/-- Edited by jackb on Saturday 28th of September 2024 02:07:09 PM
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RIP Kris.
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I just mentioned him to Syl about 3 days ago. "The Texas native was of the most accomplished and uniquely impressive individuals to ever walk the planet. A Rhodes Scholar in Oxford, a defensive back, a bartender, a Golden Gloves boxer, a forest firefighter, and an Army Ranger who flew helicopters…...
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Most memorable lines in songs or films.
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From Elton Johns 'Your Song'...How wonderful life is while you're in the world. Julia Roberts character to Hugh Grants in 'Nottage Hill.'....I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her. Glen Campbells 'Wichita Lineman'..".and I need you more than want you, and I want you for al...
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Al Fayed the Rapist
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Well well....is anyone surprised? The man manipulated his son and lied about Diana being pregnant, and her being murdered. All hogwash. Now he's been revealed as a sexual predator. Former Harrods boss Mohamed Al Fayed has been accused of rape, with five female ex-employees alleging the l...
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