Imagine being so insecure that you deny yourself a wee massage to the ego from people online? What a sad little life some people have 😭

We need to start calling out this kind of behaviour. Make the media embarrassed for wasting people's time by inviting these wastes of space on.

Says something about the complete lack of trust among the general population towards anyone involved in politics.

Ah! I couldn't see what you were quoting, totally fair then

Not to be a contrarian, but aren't the generation of people raised and traumatised by these films now the people who are doing stupid shit as adults? Or is it more of a constant exposure to these that reinforces the social norms?

Big "please clap" energy.

Absolutely, I think the majority of accommodations don't offer anything to you unless you actually need them.

I don't think many people would put themselves through that if they really didn't need it.

I think people underestimate just how much of a chokehold societal pressure has over people to be perceived as "normal". Yes, you can get a bit of extra time on your exam, but you are also often isolated in a separate room and highlighted as requiring "special" accommodations.

Every time I tell anyone on the NHS how long I've been waiting for this scan, they're shocked; everyone has said "it only usually takes 2 weeks". I've been waiting for 15 weeks.

I got sick of hearing nothing, so I called the department today, and they're trying to tell me that the referral was only made on the 17th of November, according to their system.

However, I must say that I think there is a limit to an open democratic institution. I know the Greens are a one-member-one-vote party, but when they were developing as a party and bedding in, they didn't have thousands of members all with varying levels of concern about ideological purity.