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Yes, that's how I read it: Hopefully this is the first of a series of 12 articles, I'm looking forward to reading what they say about Taurus.

Signed.

Lost my nerve waiting for another matching pledge and did the deed. Germany: 25 donors (#7)

Surely they haven't got to Bertie Bassett as well now? Is nothing sacred?

That's what it reads like to me. It doesn't contain any of the elements of the other article we've discussed which I've already said I worry may be counterproductive (e.g. annoying buzzwords and assumptions). I watched the act up documentary on youtube a couple of nights ago which was...

Another thought just occurs while I'm about it - don't all ME sufferers try to push through in the beginning? And generally without complaining? I spent the first 9 months waiting until I felt a bit better, then trying to build up slowly again. The reason was basic common sense, it's what works...

No idea where you got the idea that anyone was trying to invalidate his experience. I wrote this: It was his choice of language and the assumptions / baggage that came with it which I found counterproductive. I'm not sure that it's really fine when people bring their political perspectives...

According to this month's Journal of Psychocultural Gender Perspectives (I'm an avid reader) the correct gender-specific term for such behaviour in females is "toxic stroppiness". It's a new buzzword coined by a journalist/academic so it must be clever and we'll all be using unquestioningly...

I don't find incorporating terms / perspectives from psychology and gender studies particularly helpful in ME advocacy. Toxic masculinity, hegemonic masculinity, the patricarchy, white male privilege, blah blah blah. Incorporating such assumptions into an advocacy article: Is just as likely to...

Oh good, MS is back on twitter. Only a matter of time before he shoots himself in the foot again.

That, and this: Had me watching and waiting for the right time to blow the dust off my wallet. Reckon I'll make my donation on Thursday.

A day on which the child was an invalid. On such days the child may not think there's much point in wearing an accelerometer, or have the energy to think about it and put it on for the entirety of the day. I don't suppose there's any mention in the paper about excluding that potential bias...

Now come along, the BBC has recently shown some crime series where everyone is Scandanavian and only Scandanavians got the roles, whether they could speak English or not, and nobody spoke any English in the film. You could tell they were all Scandanavian because of their jumpers. Although I must...

I think that might be a biased sample. All the German actors who couldn't speak English weren't allowed to be on it because the British audience wouldn't understand them. Blatent discrimination, with subtitles or dubbing they could have thrown the roles open to everyone. Ja ja, mach' ich gleich.

I appreciate you sharing your perspective. Stay counter-hegemonic, bro.

Claire Fox, the tweeter from earlier in this thread: I have never heard an English teacher say more "y'know"s, "Kind of"s, "like"s and other irritating and unnecessary fillers. Worse than any student I've ever had. Espousing her interesting views on generation snowflake.

What a whole load of utter bollocks. The kind of drivel the cultural studies teacher on my parallel course tries to get her students to spout but fails miserably. All the women with CFS I read about in the tabloids are either kick-boxers, burlesque dancers, or starting a career in modelling or...

I had a blind student on my business English course about 10 years ago. He worked for a company developing computer software for blind people. I used to send him the documents for the lesson beforehand (as word.doc email attachments) and he'd turn up with a keyboard and earphones just as able to...

They seem to think that being full of shit is a good thing.

:laugh: What a fabulous verb, I'll teach it to my students.