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  1. Yes, I have the same memory, and it really doesn't feel such a long time ago. That's something which has got me down, to be honest. UKFF years seem to match those of dogs, and Manny having died three years ago seems a counterfactual: not possible because it doesn't feel to me that three years have passed since I was previously reading about him! I also recall when Margot was a new addition to @Sergio Mendacious's family, and she must be senior now. It's a real downer, isn't it, how short the lives of our four-legged family members are. I try not to think about it (they're both a picture of good health) but the fact that my girls are now 12 and 13 causes me some uncomfortable reflection increasingly often.
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    I don't think you have to be some sort of participant in something to believe that something isn't right. I have no interest at all in beauty pageants or frisbee competitions but I've no doubt I'd find it very wrong if news broke that people with a certain melanin content per cell were excluded. I'd have an opinion on that irrespective of my customary lack of interest. Given that most sports are single-sex presumably because of biological advantages that come with male bodies in certain environments, it shouldn't be hard to credit why plenty of people think it unfair if cis women are competing with trans women. "This woman trained with dedication for this event but was denied her gold medal because a [man/trans woman who would've been unimpressive against cis men] was allowed to compete" is an opinion which would be easy to have even if you wouldn't normally be found on your settee watching the boxing or a marathon, regardless of which part of the the parenthesised text you'd strike out.
  3. I have an aunt who routinely wishes people a happy birthday by posting a status update on her own timeline.
  4. The use of all-time with regards to very narrow temporal spans or limited to a tiny pool of possibilities gets on my nerves. I'm perfectly happy with this line from Wikipedia: There's been life on Earth of some sort for over 3 billion years. The dinosaurs made their appearance 225 million years ago. We're talking a considerable stretch. Fine by me. But then we get expressions thrown around such as "the greatest Wrestlemania of all time" or its sibling, "the greatest Wrestlemania in history". There have only been forty years' worth of them! The alternatives "the greatest Wrestlemania [of all]" and "the best match in Wrestlemania history" perfectly suffice. It's not actually wrestling which has got me posting, though: it's that recently I heard of the score from Close Encounters of the Third Kind as being "uniquely one of John Williams's greatest works of all time". All-time is doing a bit of heavy lifting there, constrained to one person and around 70 years.
  5. I can't speak on Chris's behalf but I suspect you've carried out the same process of elimination that I have to pair off two names and two trademarks, leaving Loki and "those ridiculous high grounds and bullshit opinions". So that, I presume. Edit: Chris is a friend in real life and has informed me that my speculation of three names and three traits means one apiece isn't correct. Loki doesn't get the tag about "ridiculous high grounds and bullshit opinions".
  6. I suspect it's because he associates each of those three with one of these trademarks he mentioned: If a fourth participant over there happened to have a trademark trolling characteristic over here, I imagine that he and it would've got a mention, too.
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