The BBC ran a completely insane story this week about a transman (ie a mentally ill woman) who almost died of kidney failure because she didn’t tell her doctors what sex she really was. The standout paragraph was probably the one pictured below, in which the atom-brained narcissist imbecile explained to a startled nation that apparently having a mental disorder also changes your physical biology:
(Also, y’know, “cute and awesome!” is definitely how men talk.)
But anyway. When we commission opinion polls, we’ve often noted that in any given poll you can expect around 5-10% of respondents to vote for even the most seemingly ridiculous options – either as a “joke”, or because they’re too dim to have understood the question, or whatever.
And last week we thought we’d put that to the test.
Yesterday we posted an article noting that hardline trans-rights extremists, among whose number we must regretfully count the Scottish Government, were engaged in a determined and alarmingly successful attempt to abolish the scientific basis for reality.
We did not expect such a striking illustration of that assertion to arrive this soon.
A new study reported at the weekend has found disturbing levels of sectarian beliefs among pupils at Scotland’s 357 Catholic schools. But there was an interesting twist – sectarianism was higher among the pupils who WEREN’T practicing Catholics.
Mark Beggan on Response Level Upgrade: “St James @ Just because your chums are in the big pokey and you are a bunch of terrible things.You…” Jun 17, 22:23
Alf Baird on Response Level Upgrade: “““Anglos” apparently colonising us and stealing everything” Well, who else has been colonising us Scots and robbing our resources these…” Jun 17, 22:10
James on Response Level Upgrade: “Apologies SP, list was one short, almost forgot; agentx Wouldn’t like to leave anyone out.” Jun 17, 21:44
Hatey McHateface on Response Level Upgrade: “I put a tenner on the Lesbians to score draw. Any thoughts on the Thespians? Worth a flutter?” Jun 17, 20:25
Hatey McHateface on Response Level Upgrade: “Wally Walrus wails! When I said we Scots used to be smarter, I excluded you to keep the average up.” Jun 17, 20:21
Hatey McHateface on Response Level Upgrade: “Are you sure you’re not in thrall to Bronze Age scribblings, Marie? You’re named after one of the people they…” Jun 17, 20:18
Hatey McHateface on Response Level Upgrade: “Wally Walrus witters! Thatcher, eh? Get them to crane you out your bedroom window and stretch you out on a…” Jun 17, 20:07
Hatey McHateface on Response Level Upgrade: “Ach, sam. Print your theories on sheets of A4 and take yourself off to Southport and other such ground zeroes.…” Jun 17, 19:57
James on Response Level Upgrade: “Site Prick; “the English have had to invest about ten times as much in the generation and distribution infrastructure as…” Jun 17, 19:53
Hatey McHateface on Response Level Upgrade: “Of course, in order to “steal” the leccy, the English have had to invest about ten times as much in…” Jun 17, 19:45
Young Lochinvar on Response Level Upgrade: “HMcH Well Hatey; Tell that to the pre existing incumbent resident Jebusites, Canaanites and Philistines! Not to mention Empires that…” Jun 17, 19:37
James on Response Level Upgrade: “I take it we have all seen the ‘UK’ ‘Google’ home page today? We don’t count. Vote Yoon. …..”come on,…” Jun 17, 19:30
Hatey McHateface on Response Level Upgrade: “How many millions of these people specifically came here in the sure and certain knowledge that our poverty is an…” Jun 17, 19:13
James on Response Level Upgrade: “Sam; Not so sure about ‘Unison’; they seem to be slavishly tied to the Yookay ‘Labour’ Party, and thus; pro…” Jun 17, 19:06
Mark Beggan on Response Level Upgrade: “Oh, say can you see, By the dawn’s early light, What so proudly we hailed At the twilight’s last gleaming,…” Jun 17, 18:56
Jay on Response Level Upgrade: “Aidan, ‘white collar crime’ is, doubtless, widespread, furthermore, much depends on who defines what is a crime.” Jun 17, 18:52
sam on Response Level Upgrade: “Yes. Scotland has a different demography. England has more young people. More healthy, excluding deaths of despair. Something else again.…” Jun 17, 18:42
James on Response Level Upgrade: ““The game is over for the inbred cretins.” Bad news for you then, eh “old boy”? LOL” Jun 17, 18:33
Mark Beggan on Response Level Upgrade: “Rubble land is the fake of fakes. Low IQ people think otherwise. The game is over for the inbred cretins.” Jun 17, 18:16
sam on Response Level Upgrade: “I think he has been on the leadership program offered by the USA to future leaders. See Wings “All the…” Jun 17, 17:36
agentx on Response Level Upgrade: “In Scotland, approximately 26% (or roughly one in four) of all deaths are considered avoidable, which is higher than the…” Jun 17, 17:16
MaryB on Response Level Upgrade: “Stephen Gethins interviewed yesterday by The National. When asked about a national energy company, like Norway, Robin McAlpine’s suggestion, he…” Jun 17, 14:07
sam on Response Level Upgrade: “In 2022 in England and Wales nearly 22% of deaths were avoidable in people under the age of 75 and…” Jun 17, 13:55
sam on Response Level Upgrade: ““just a cow in a field”. Around 14 million people today in the UK live in poverty. A political choice…” Jun 17, 13:05
Spartan 117 on Response Level Upgrade: “A good, if lengthy, post making very good points, aside from the brief wibble at the start of the last…” Jun 17, 12:38
Confused on Response Level Upgrade: “It has been said that future wars will be about water (the litani river, the nile, the tigris, the ganges);…” Jun 17, 12:31
Alf Baird on Response Level Upgrade: ““achieved peacefully and lawfully” ? That’s some brass neck there, considering London’s colonial track record.” Jun 17, 12:06
