IWLTS it is 2023

[Kenickie]

What's wrong with aquariums?

[emma_p]

I’m guessing you’ve not seen (or heard of) Blackfish.

[Topcat]

I’m guessing you’ve not seen (or heard of) Blackfish.

If anybody hasn't watched it then they definitely, definitely should.

[Cerise]

What's wrong with aquariums?

I assume these are the “whale in a swimming pool doing tricks” types not the type we have.

[Ruby]

I've been to sea-life type places. I wouldn't go now and, yes, everyone needs to watch Blackfish. If anyone else went to Florida and went to one, though, it wouldn't even cross my mind. I need you to understand that this woman is a total prick. She gave me earache about flying to Poland rather than getting the train.

She also told me she thought the Brexit shortages would be good discipline for the country and that we should aim for self-sufficiency and only eat seasonal goods. Then she went and bought two gigantic vanilla air freshener aerosols.

[Smunder Woman]

Yeah, she sounds like a massive prick. I thought you meant a tour of UK aquariums

[emma_p]

Then she went and bought two gigantic vanilla air freshener aerosols.

Brilliant!

[Ruby]

What a fun holiday that would be!

Honestly, she's one of my weirdest 'friends'. Even weirder because I don't like her and never wanted to be her friend. She just ... happened to me.

[Smunder Woman]

I know, I was totally confused about why anyone would do it

Oh, those are always fun friendships.

[Marth]

I've never heard of it. I've had a quick Google :cry: and won't watch, because the world is so fucking grim and animals for dairy and meat production aren't exactly treated lovingly either. I wouldn't go to a SeaWorld though.
I really hate cuddly toys of lambs and cows and piggies and feel like yelling at the little children that cuddly lamb will be slaughtered when barely a toddler.

Obviously, I'm more measured than that and do not do the right thing myself in many ways.

[Ruby]

At one point I thought I'd shaken her as she got banned from Twitter ( ) and didn't have my phone number. BUT in a freak coincidence, she came to a Town Council meeting when I was still a councillor and an exchange happened like this;

"Omg! RUBY! Can't believe we lost touch. We must go out. Give me your number RIGHT NOW!"
"OH NO. I'm one of those idiots who can't remember their phone number and my phone has LITERALLY just now run out of batteries."
"No problem, I'll just get it off the COVID signing-in sheet!"
"..."

I went to see a rad fem punk band with her (I have no excuse for this, I should have just said no) and she ended up on the stage on all fours.

[Smunder Woman]

Oh god :lol:

[Marth]

I went to see a rad fem punk band with her (I have no excuse for this, I should have just said no) and she ended up on the stage on all fours.

:lol: You know you need to remain her friend don't you, because we need more of this.

[Ruby]

Look. Last time I went out with her, I genuinely couldn't talk about it for 24 hours afterwards. I get 'nam style flashbacks.

[Smunder Woman]

We could do a whip around to get you the good drugs in exchange for the stories.

[Dutchie]

I'll pitch in for that!

[Ruby]

I had to think long and hard about whether to drink or not. Drink would have made it more bearable but I did get to escape early in my car.

For a while we periodically went out with another couple of TERFs for lunch. One of the younger TERFs was constantly bemoaning her lack of romantic interest and I had to fight the urge to tell her that waxing her fulsome moustache might help.

[sally maclennane]

And does she have a cat?

[Ruby]

She has two but is not a lesbian.

[H1ppychick]

I think the suggestion was that you should offer to catsit again…