Not a boomer, but as a Brit - the grey squirrel is an invasive species which has pretty much driven out the native red squirrel from most of the country. They also cause damage to trees through bark stripping.

A book.

Requiem for a Dream has entered the chat.

It was all downhill after Bob.

Well, yes. You find a sharp tooth that’s as long as someone’s finger you’re going to make up some kind of creature for it to have come from.

Ohh I thought donut was the American spelling of doughnut.

I didn’t think the American system allowed for early elections?

Regional

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Bants

Bullies often don’t realise what they’re doing is bullying. It was just a bit of bants, you shouldn’t be so sensitive about it.

Sky wasn’t even launched until he was 9. So a big chunk of his childhood it wouldn’t have even been possible to get sky.

Rock and a hard place.

So while in public you don’t have a reasonable expectation of privacy. That being said flashing like the woman did in this story is sexual assault and and should be treated as such.

From the article

From 1 February, it became a criminal offence to own the XL bully breed in England and Wales without an exemption certificate. Anyone who owns one of the dogs must have had the animal neutered, have it microchipped and keep it muzzled and on a lead in public, among other restrictions.

So I’m guessing she got them before they were banned and had an exception so she didn’t have to have them destroyed.

I don’t really keep with the Cardassians. Is she a TERF now?

What a fucking hag, she does know that In the Flesh shouldn’t be taken as a statement of intent right?

Are there any queers in the theater tonight?

Get them up against the wall!

There’s one in the spotlight, he don’t look right to me, Get him up against the wall!

That one looks Jewish!

And that one’s a coon!

Who let all of this riff-raff into the room?

There’s one smoking a joint, And another with spots!

If I had my way, I’d have all of you shot!

On reddit I’d have said unexpected DS9. But on Lemmy it’s more unexpected not to have a Trek reference in the comments.

Thank you for explaining and the example.

OK, but why not eat less beef and more chicken and herring?

In my country at least beef consumption peaked around 2012 (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/24/uk-meat-consumption-lowest-level-since-record-began-data-reveal)

I think post WW2 there was a drive towards the idea that we’d never need to go without. This combined with lifestyle changes (more people working longer hours) gave birth to the rise of fast convince foods and the mass growth of places like McDonalds and Burger King.

Why don’t people just stop? Ideas within society have a lot of momentum, they take a lot of energy to get started and a lot to turn or stop again.

But name/pronouns change all the time otherwise so it’s more normal to use the current ones. If Ms. Jones gets married and is now Mrs. Smith, it wouldn’t be inaccurate to talk about Mrs. Smith’s car breaking down last summer.

That’s such a good and clear comparison.

With a married person who has changed their last name you can use “née” if using a trans persons birth name was for some reason needed (I can’t think of a reason why it would but be though) would something equivalent to "Mrs Smith (née Jones) be appropriate, or largely offensive?