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My lovely horse please. Lol

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That's got to be ripe for some donk remixes surely. I want a version of My Lovely Horse that I can blast out my windows while doing burnouts in the local Aldi car park.

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My Lovely Donk-ey, if you will.

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I got thinking to myself, "be the change you wish to see in the world", and made this. Enjoy, if that's the right word for it: https://soundcloud.com/user-524396903/my-lovely-donkey

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Speechless with something Emily! A masterpiece!

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Cheers! Add to the playlist if you're driving to the farm in an AE86 I guess. ;)

I forgot I had that SoundCloud account, there's a story to that actually:

For reasons which escape me, the various leftist movements in Ireland seem to each have their own SoundCloud rappers. Anyway, a couple of years ago, the Connolly Youth Movement came out with a load of anti-left policies supporting decriminalising johns and pimps and the whole TWAW nonsense. At the time I was in the Young Communist League and we were always nice to them, because they were affiliated with our sister party the CPI, but I figured it was fair game, so I did a diss track (Connolly YETHER Movement on that same acc, I suck but I only had to be better than their guy lol) and they got so angry they complained to the gen sec. They later disaffiliated from the CPI so I can rip into them as much as I like.

My favourite part of that whole debacle was that their complaint only mentioned the last line. They had to listen to the entire thing of me calling them punters and nonces and fascists and all sorts, and they only complained about the last bit. I guess the rest couldn't really be disputed.

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I tried to fit in a sample of Go Shinkansen! in the "train in the night" breakdown but it wasn't working like

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Just a reminder to everyone on this thread in the U.K. to the dreadful threat coming down the line potentially to our free speech. Institutions here are enamoured with speech patrols. With the we know best for you. Which both Conservatives and Labour are parroting. Transgenderism is embedded everywhere. Now is the time to fight for freedom of speech for everyone. Even for cunts like Owen Jones. Regardless of KKK comparisons. But he is long over due for the sack. For being a wanker. But let’s not be bitter Please uphold freedom of speech. This fight is not over. As long as you are not threatening violence. Everything goes. If we don’t hold that everything will go. All the sturgeon / snp bollox shows us is how little these people view us as people. They don’t care. They are sociopaths. How could any rational human do that in regards to a venerable group? Of your own sex class? And then see it as some game. Where they tell us what language we can use and how to speak. Which sums this all up. Elites thinking they are better than you. You have every right to use a word, a pejorative, a slur, be hateful, be a cunt, be whatever and the Nicola Sturgeons of this world have the right to the basic right. The right to fuck off.

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What disturbs me is the 'reframing' of actions and words to declare them 'hateful'. You've used a selection of words here, which could objectively be described as offensive as they are swear words, but are used to display emotions, including frustration, confusion, annoyance, distress or anger - which it's legal to think, feel and express. But we are losing the context and nuance.

I have read a lot of descriptions of alleged actions which have caused police activity in response. I have also experienced it. I've seen police act appropriately and also seen them do the opposite, standing around where they’ve decided to be present allowing 'both sides to express freedom of speech' when it's not at all - it's a few individuals or a group verbally harassing and intimidating, then physically assaulting another group or individuals. Silencing, threatening and literally shutting down any other voice or voices. Seemingly with impunity.

Or there is often no threat, no hate and nothing which could possibly lead to any justified action. Yet the police get involved. Starting processes that are then dropped fairly quickly, or maybe dragging out over months or years and until they try to avoid court at the last minute and looking completely incompetent under the mildest of scrutiny. Losing the understandable and objective in favour of the mysterious, blurry, murky and any balance. Trust is lost and I'm unsure how we regain and build that. If someone 'hears' and 'feels' something is hateful ‘in their experience’ then it becomes hateful as the trans rights activists online and offline are pushing. So if I calmly and politely disagree, or disagree at all. To say no, to any man, you are a man, or I refuse to be coerced into calling him 'Miss' and ‘she/her’ and also say I don't want men in my space and services. The theoretical backing of legislation feels empty when I am being accused of 'transphobia' and I am receiving actual threats. If I dare to not support, I am accused of 'hate'. If I ask questions, that too is declared ‘hateful’. The absence or withdrawal of complicity and agreement is viewed as an overt action of 'hate' – like all the totally exaggerated, often offensive and callous comparisons and accusations of genocide for ‘misgendering’ anyone. Declarations of ‘erasure’. The reframing of who is most vulnerable and marginalised. And others, public services, employers and service providers feel wary or ambivalent and under that influence withdraw support as they 'don't want to get involved', the path of least resistance. There is a focus on 'risk assessing' men and 'trans-identified' males in women's spaces - often totally missing and denying the psychological and physical impact and consequences of that on those women and our safety.

Hate is being missed and overlooked, people are harmed, then senior counter-terror figures argue about what constitutes hate. Meanwhile some are vexatious and really taking the piss.

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Be sure to add the "cancelled" Aretha Franklin song, "You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman"

Also, I appeared on Joh Uhler's new commentary show, links work now for some reason!

https://wordpress.com/post/uteheggengrasswidow.wordpress.com/5352

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I love your and Jon Uhler's work, looking forward to watching this! Best crossover since (insert comic book franchise movie).

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We love this. And we’re driving.. 💃🕺🏻

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Cheers G. Hope Old McDonald is the grand finale.

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Keep sharing the music stuff, Graham!

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All new ones to me! Some wonderful female voices.

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With a title like that, it has to include the simultaneously best and worst song in the world: Hey Chicken by Jeff Driller. Hi-NRG eurobeat for hooning around, and it has chicken noises and is about farms. I think.

And like all the best/worst songs, it has a dance. Oh, you better believe there's a dance.

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Normies: The Birdie Song

Me, an intellectual: Hey Chicken

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Kids These Days think they invented dance routines for songs, you see them on TikTok, but we were doing para-para like 30 years ago. And my fellow elder millennial Sidhbh Gallagher exploits that to try to look hip and down with the kids/marks. She doesn't look cool, she looks like me doing the Hey Chicken dance.

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Thanks very much. I really enjoyed listening to the tracks.

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A compilation here too, of common sense:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlor5d6DFNA

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Completely o/t but I’ve just had a reminder for my subscription renewal , what is ‘gang membership’ ?

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