Take The Metro

The Metro is a 'news' outlet that keeps cropping up on  my MSM feed. It's got it's own website, but it never seems like a real newspaper, and always has a serious bias towards transgender issues

It's like a reverse Onion or Daily Mash

 

Take this for example:

Fencer who refused to face transgender athlete criticised for taking a knee in protest 

I've seen this story a LOT, in the past couple of days, but I've yet to see any criticism of this woman until now. Maybe I'm just getting my news from the wrong sources...

Redmond Sullivan’s team have defended the transgender athlete’s participation at a recent fencing event while condemning the behaviour of her opponent, who took a knee in protest.

Then his team are woke idiots. Or they just fancy having a man on their side to guarantee some wins

Just as the match was about to start, Stephanie Turner, 31, refused to compete, dropping down to one knee, and was shown a black card for bad behaviour or unsporting conduct.

The only unsporting conduct I see here, is a male cheating at sport to take prizes from women 

Speaking after her disqualification, Turner refused to acknowledge Sullivan as a transgender person, claiming ‘this is a man’ and using male pronouns.

Good for her. Speaking the truth. This is a man, and everyone can see it. Denying reality, does not change it

‘I saw that I was going to be in a pool with [Sullivan], and from there I said, ‘OK, let’s do it. I’m going to take the knee’,’ Turner said. ‘I knew what I had to do because USA Fencing had not been listening to women’s objections. 

I don't really understand 'taking the knee', but refusing to participate against a male opponent was the right thing to do, and more women should be doing it until the message is received

‘I took a knee immediately at that point. [Sullivan] was under the impression I was going to start fencing. So when I took the knee, I looked at the ref and I said, ‘I’m sorry, I cannot do this. I am a woman, and this is a man, and this is a women’s tournament. And I will not fence this individual’.

*Applause* 

In a short statement, Sullivan’s team, Iconic Fencing Club, stressed that their 20-year-old competitor had complied with ‘every rule’ and had ‘every right’ to take part in the event.

‘Red has followed every rule and guideline set forth by the FIE (the international fencing governing organisation) and USA Fencing (the national organisation),’ Iconic Fencing Club told the Daily Express US.

Rules can be changed, and if this man is within the rules to compete in a womens event, they need to be. And now 

"We're inclusive and respectful to anyone who buys into the lies. If you disagree, you're excluded. To maintain inclusivity"

Former United States footballer Megan Rapinoe last month labelled Trump’s executive order banning transgender athletes from women’s sports as ‘cruel and depraved’.

I'm glad she's 'former', she was the worst of the woke brigade. I would imagine normal people would describe facing males against females in contact sports as cruel and depraved, not insisiting men compete in their own category

 

The is a statement from USA Fencing, which rambles on for a lobg time, but it's all:

 expand access to the sport

 create inclusive, safe spaces.

 everyone should have the ability to participate

 equity and inclusion 

 err on the side of inclusion

 respect the viewpoints on all sides

 engage in this dialogue

 respectful discussion

 committed to inclusivity

 

It's pure doublespeak. And if you disagree, no inclusivity for you!

 Women’s tennis legend Martina Navratilova has slammed USA Fencing over their call to disqualify Turner from the Cherry Blossom tournament.

‘This is what happens when female athletes protest!’ the nine-time Wimbledon singles champion posted on X. ‘Anyone here still thinks this is fair??? I am fuming… and shame on @USAFencing, shame on you for doing this. How dare you throw women under the gender bulls— bus!!!’

That's more like it

And to put the icing on the article's cake:

 

The Metro is just a propaganda rag for men in dresses

 

The world needs less Metro and more JK Rowling

 

 

A home without a cat is just a house

Sad times at Moose Meadows. The last of our cats passed away this afternoon

She started having breathing difficulties in the week, so we took her to the vets. Fluid on the lungs. The vet told us that for a small fortune and a stay in the cat hospital, they could find out what was the cause, but in all likelyhood, they wouldn't be able to treat it.

 

If they'd quoted us a grand and said they could definately get her back on the road again, we'd have done it, but we didn't want her last couple of days to be the stress of cat hospital and tests, so we made the tearful decision to let her go

 

I don't envy the job those vets do. It must be quite rewarding being able to help animals, but also very stressful to be doing this all the time. For that I thank them

 

I don't expect life to be fair. That shit is for children and socialists, but when it comes to little critters like that who don't understand, I sometimes think life could be a bit fairer. It's not the wild and natural selection and stuff, cats and dogs are members of the family. You should nevr outlive a child, but you'll always outlive a pet

 

We'll miss the bits of cat litter being dragged through the house, and the pukes on the carpet, along of course, with the 16 years of unconditional love from a very happy cat 

The house is going to feel quite empty now

 

Appolgies for any spelling mistakes and waffling, but I've been raising a few scoops for Scrappy

 

And for all you out there who have lost a beloved little pest 

It sucks big time. Bottoms up

May I make a suggestion?

I seems the Government is having some more 'chaos'

Chaos in asylum system as Home Office sacks firm putting migrants in hotels

Oh dear

The Home Office has sacked one of the firms responsible for putting asylum seekers in hotels after raising "concerns". The Government employs private contractors to find housing for asylum seekers but, in a sign of the continuing chaos in the UK's immigration, the Home Office announced it was ending its contract with Stay Belvedere Hotels. The firm houses people waiting for asylum decisions in 51 hotels in England and Wales, as well as the Napier Barracks in Folkestone, Kent.

So the Government probably needs another company to step in and take up the slack

 

May I suggest British Airways?

Phoooone Hoooome (Or just please go there)

Illegal aliens who can't phone home, can now stay in the UK

Migrant avoids deportation because he lost his phone

Have a think about what possible reason a judge could give for allowing an illegal to remain in the country, because they lost their phone. I got nothing

 

So let's take a look through the crazy window:

An illegal Iraqi migrant who fled his home country over his part in an alleged exam fraud has avoided deportation after claiming a people smuggler threw away his ID and phone.

The man fled Iraq after being threatened with arrest for the alleged fraud when he was caught on CCTV delivering test papers to an address a day before students were due to sit for the qualification.

He left Iraq because the local fuzz were after him. No fleeing war, or poverty, or persecution, but fleeing the Iraqi Old Bill, who were hot on his tail after he comitted a crime 

He claimed that an “agent” who facilitated his passage to the UK had not only thrown away his ID documents but also made him get rid of his phone, on which he had his family’s numbers.

Maybe there's a reason they do that? And maybe it's all working as planned? 

The Iraqi, who was granted anonymity, told an immigration tribunal that he could not remember the telephone numbers for his family, which meant he could not get their help to replace his lost ID card.

Not lost, thrown away. And how is any of this our problem?

Iraqis cannot safely return to their home country without such ID documents because of the risks of arrest and interrogation, as well as preventing them travelling cross-country through checkpoints.

If you enter Iraq without ID, you get arrested and interrogated? But you do so in England and they bloody let you stay 

Fearing that he would be framed for fraud, the Iraqi student sought shelter with a human rights group, Ashti, before fleeing to the UK.

Why the UK, I wonder? 

There are so many countries directly between Iraq and the UK, not counting all the other countries in other directions, that are closer than ours

Could it be we're the only ones likely to put up with his shit, fall for his sob story and give him a huge pile of cash for the inconvenience? 

He didn't come to England becuase he has family here. They're back home and he can't call them because his phone is in the sea, although I bet he quickly finds a way to contact them and bring them here once his assylum application is granted

He didn't flee Iraq because of war or persecution, but because he got involved in some shady stuff and was going to get in trouble 

Why are we even indulging this man with courts and judges? The only people he should be interacting with are cabin crew, wishing him a pleasant flight to Baghdad

MOT Time

I've got one of those health MOTs today

 

The doctors just messaged me in the week and invited me in.

I know a few people don't like these, as they don't like doctors getting all righteous about their lifestyle habits, but I seem to be with a decent surgery, and in the past, they've just taken their samples and asked their questions without judgement

At my age, I really don't mind mind having the odd check up to make sure everything is ticking over as it should be, and if they get a bit too personal, I can always tell them to shush

 

Besides, it's the only MOT I can pass these days

It's all Greek to me

This article, linked to at Tims place, is behind a paywall, but all you really need to know is in the first paragraph, which you can still read

People should not use colloquial phrases like “a piece of cake” and “kill two birds with one stone” because they are “very British-English” and may not be understood by foreigners, a university has suggested...

As my regular reader may be aware, we spend a lot of our holiday time in Corfu, as we love the place and want to retire there

As a result, I end up having a lot of conversations with local Greek people. Obviously in Englash, as my Greek is appalling (but better than your average tourist), and their English is better than that spoken in many UK cities, though I do try to throw in some Greek and pick up a couple of new words where possible

During such conversations though, I always try to simplify my English as much as I can, avoiding slang and other stuff they're not likely to know (Eg. This weather is a bit pants)

 

Of course this university is not suggesting we tone down English jargon while travelling abroad, but we completely remove our idiosyncratic language from everyday use, in case one of our imports happens to hear it and gets a bit confused

 

I'm all for particular language for a particular context, but in my native environment, I'm gonna talk proper. I'll happily explain anything that my listener doesn't quite grasp, but I'm not going to stop saying it

 

Why? Well I simply cannot think of a single reason why I would 

And for the avoidance of any doubt:

Cardiff institution also says phrases such as ‘the blind leading the blind’ are ableist 

At which point they can just fuck off