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  • "Radio 6 Music presenter Liz Kershaw sparks fury after criticising campaign to beat period poverty - after she tweeted 'how did my mother get to uni without free tampons?'

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article…g-old-rags.html

    This follows on from the decision to provide free sanitary products to menstruating schoolgirls

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51167487

    This means of course that these schoolgirls will now have extra pennies to spend on their latest smart phones

    One also wonders why this is not looking at equality and providing the boys with free shaving products and condoms

  • "Radio 6 Music presenter Liz Kershaw sparks fury after criticising campaign to beat period poverty - after she tweeted 'how did my mother get to uni without free tampons?'

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article…g-old-rags.html

    This follows on from the decision to provide free sanitary products to menstruating schoolgirls

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51167487

    This means of course that these schoolgirls will now have extra pennies to spend on their latest smart phones

    One also wonders why this is not looking at equality and providing the boys with free shaving products and condoms

    It's not quite the same...:/

  • "Radio 6 Music presenter Liz Kershaw sparks fury after criticising campaign to beat period poverty - after she tweeted 'how did my mother get to uni without free tampons?'

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article…g-old-rags.html

    This follows on from the decision to provide free sanitary products to menstruating schoolgirls

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51167487

    This means of course that these schoolgirls will now have extra pennies to spend on their latest smart phones

    One also wonders why this is not looking at equality and providing the boys with free shaving products and condoms

    I don't think having periods can come as a surprise to girls after they have started so I am puzzled as to what exactly lead to this moment. Are female sanitary products incredibly expensive? How many girls are actually in period poverty? Why wasn't this a thing in years gone by?

    Celebrate it, Anticipate it, Yesterday's faded, Nothing can change it, Life's what you make it

  • Apparently the EU are considering legislation to regulate tattoo inks because of long term health concerns.

    EU considering legislation on Tattoo inks

    Apart from infections at the time of tattooing and the obvious regret that some feel after having a tattoo done, I have never considered that the inks that are used are not medically tested and approved.

    Having said that I haven't heard of any deaths that have been blamed on tattoos either.

    This is the sort of thing I don't mind the EU poking their nose into to be honest. I think its a good thing.

    Celebrate it, Anticipate it, Yesterday's faded, Nothing can change it, Life's what you make it

  • I don't think having periods can come as a surprise to girls after they have started so I am puzzled as to what exactly lead to this moment. Are female sanitary products incredibly expensive? How many girls are actually in period poverty? Why wasn't this a thing in years gone by?

    It's a bandwagon from those who are convinced that people need everything provided for them, they've already started food banks, clothes banks, and fuel banks

    It will be transport banks next

  • But irrelevant to us as we're leaving the bloc.

    Indeed, I couldn't give a shit to be honest. But I thought it interesting that the subject is now under review and is possibly the sort of thing the EU is actually good at. I find it hard to object or see a negative. But I am not tattoed and I have no interest in the subject.

    Celebrate it, Anticipate it, Yesterday's faded, Nothing can change it, Life's what you make it

  • Full story and pictures on link above.

  • Full story and pictures on link above.

    I saw a clip o the news about this and the desperate efforts of growers trying to drive the plague away including trying to shoo them off

    Isn't it frogs and hailstones next?

  • I saw a clip o the news about this and the desperate efforts of growers trying to drive the plague away including trying to shoo them off

    Isn't it frogs and hailstones next?

    ...and here is a case for good pesticides.

    Not good for planet though (or locusts).

    Celebrate it, Anticipate it, Yesterday's faded, Nothing can change it, Life's what you make it

  • Difficult given the current aversion to anything edible covered in pesticide

    Indeed I hadn't thought of that. With the push to eat insects to save the planet it could be considered that this a just a very good harvest.

    Celebrate it, Anticipate it, Yesterday's faded, Nothing can change it, Life's what you make it

  • Not a peep in the MSM about this, yet France is almost paralysed.

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