"Cats"

• Button

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 22 Jul 2016
  • Posts: 3,027
  21 June 2023     09:34381789
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  I note from today's Telegraph that one can self-identify as a cat - and anyone mocking this is, obviously, despicable (along the lines of 'don't you laugh at my mule'). What I want to know is, if you identify as a cat, do you then qualify for half-price bus fares and do you have the right to sit on people's laps and brush round their legs without a by-your-leave?
  
  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/20/rye-college-children-neo-pronouns-cats-moons-rishi-sunak/
  
  Actually, is it me or has the world gone barking mad?
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• Arthur

  • Registered: 18 Nov 2020
  • Posts: 432
  21 June 2023     12:17381790
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  The world has gone barking mad! Absolutely no scientific evidence to support this nonsense of gender identity. It was only a matter of time until the ‘cat’ ‘dog’ ‘dinosaur’ etc etc etc began appearing as an identity. I’m so glad I’m past caring about being cancelled or having my view challenged. Men and women until science evidences differently.
• The Gov

  • Registered: 24 May 2020
  • Posts: 151
  21 June 2023     12:43381791
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  One of my grandchildren goes to D G S G. There is a child that states she is a MUSHROOM does not speak etc ?
  
  What is this world coming too ?
  
  Glad I am near to my sale by date.
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• Button

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 22 Jul 2016
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  21 June 2023     13:16381792
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  Ah, now mushrooms are different - there's been many a time that I've felt like a mushroom! As for animals, perhaps it's a passing thing that will die out when the realisation dawns that employment legislation applies only to humans.
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• Jan Higgins

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 5 Jul 2010
  • Posts: 13,797
  21 June 2023     14:46381793
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  I agree the world has gone mad, a five year old I would not be a worry as they often have weird ideas.
  
  Unless the child has some form of mental problem it is entirely wrong that any secondary school or teacher condones such thoughts
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  I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
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• Bob Whysman

  • Registered: 23 Aug 2013
  • Posts: 1,932
  21 June 2023     17:37381796
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  [QUOTE="The Gov. Glad I am near to my sale by date.[/QUOTE]
  
  The name for this moment in life will probably soon be known as flatulance (this will replace the derogatory term ‘old fart’ maybe)!
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• Reginald Barrington

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 17 Dec 2014
  • Posts: 3,227
  21 June 2023     23:52381797
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  I thought 'old fart' was a term of endearment
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  Arte et Marte
• ray hutstone

  • Registered: 1 Apr 2018
  • Posts: 2,158
  26 June 2023     09:46381848
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  https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/26/girl-didnt-identified-as-a-cat-post-truth-politics-media-gender-identity
• Button

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 22 Jul 2016
  • Posts: 3,027
  26 June 2023     18:05381855
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  Cool!
  (Not my real name.)