That is lovely. You and your mum and her friend rock. Have a great day. Every day. It sounds like your mum is a fantastic person and passed that on to you.
WIN.
Er, for my friend.
Yesss.
I mean yes.
META.
I actually laughed out loud. Thank you for sharing.
I was puzzled at first: "That's unclear. What progress is she making? 8 months since what? 8 months weight loss? Yeah she looks great, well done, her. What's this community? RIP and TERROR? No, she's not doing well at that at all! She looks really alive and friendly. Wait, no, it's the transfem community?! Oh wow, yes she IS doing well."
If you were at all worried about whether you pass, I can assure you that you pass. Go you! And you dress well.
I hope you have a life full of happiness and peace from here on in.
Oh, sorry, I didn't realise you were a Conservative, I just assumed you were left leaning because you were anti Brexit and Scottish. Didn't mean to offend you specifically.
You don't feel that's just a bit racist?
Whilst I don't disagree with your facts, I disagree with your tone.
It's really understandable for EU folk to be angry with us. Our newspapers are toxic, the BBC promotes Farage and we were always going for British exceptionalism, with Brexit being the ultimate act of We're Better Than You sentiment.
Me, you, 48% of the then voting public, Scotland and NI didn't buy it, correct, but genuinely the right approach to EU irritation with the UK is apology, not "stop being mean" and not "it wasn't my part of the UK".
We're not out of the woods yet. Britain's most unelectable politician of all time, with nine losses in hand-picked constituencies may well win Clacton because the stupidly corrupt Conservative party couldn't keep their stupidly corrupt MPs honest. How "we're not a bunch of racist loonies" is that going to look across the channel? Yes, a bunch of us are going to turn away from the stupid racist Conservative party, but a lot of them are going to turn to the even more stupid, even more racist, even more anti EU Refuse UK Party.
There's absolutely no chance of us getting a fishing exception. That was highly contentious when we were one of the big three EU countries. No way would they agree to that whilst also letting us back in after throwing all our toys out of the play pen.
If a kid throws their ice cream on the floor, giving them another one soon afterwards doesn't in any way teach the other kids not to throw their ice cream on the floor. This is very firmly a "no ice cream for you then" situation. I think labour realise they if they tried to rejoin, they would get a very rough ride indeed from the EU with massive amounts of playing hardball and that the best they can hope for in the next five years really is some softening and smoothing of the deal for being cooperative. We agree to fund EU science a bit, they let us back into erasmus, that kind of thing (although specifically not that).
But joining the EU takes a decade or more sometimes, and the "but it's really very simple, we follow most of the EU rules already because we're a former member" is as stupid as the "oven ready deal" and "German car manufacturers will insist we get a great deal" nonsense.
It was. A lot of right wing loonies in the EU dropped their leave the EU stance because everyone around the EU saw what a stupid and annoying thing it was to leave.
Wise person: "Those who do not know history's mistakes are doomed to repeat them."
Actual Nazis: Great idea. Let's burn some books.