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snowflake
Beverley,
Mark Zuckerberg
he made a point of ensuring that an even gender ratio was maintained among his guests
a fair and balanced journalist.
Woke
he, she or they will show up at my front door complaining of abandonment and blaming me for everything that’s gone wrong in their life.
‘I understand that some people prefer the third person plural for a pronoun,’
suffering an allergic attack that left both him and his anthophilous assailant dead within minutes.
Ustym Karmaliuk
she had never once injected any foreign bodies into her face.
jobsworth,’
‘And when you share a similar mental age.’
A room in a shared house, most likely.’ ‘Oh no,’ said Beverley, grimacing. ‘Who knows what kind of diseases you could catch in such places.
Nelson Stupidly.
SANGERS FOR SKANGERS
jejune
puberty blockers
he insisted on her logging into a special sex app on his phone first to confirm that she was giving consent.
I appreciate you.’
just to do me.’
To focus on oneself
‘Your voice rose at the end of it and yet it didn’t seem as if you were asking us anything.
‘But you might tell the humanitarian that there are plenty of Fairtrade deodorants on the market if he’d like to give one a try.’
‘Social anxiety. Crippling shyness. Unresolved issues from childhood bullying. Fear of women.’
she might even be able to persuade him to join her for an afternoon at the spa of one of the five-star hotels on Park Lane, where they could scrub the greasy film of poverty from their skin with a meso-infusion body hydration treatment and a cryotherapy energy facial.
#MoltonBrown
Luxury beauty products
In fact, it wouldn’t even be allowed to look at its own genitals until it was eighteen.
‘Jesus wasn’t on social media,’ countered Elizabeth. ‘Only because it wasn’t around then. But can you imagine if he’d tweeted from the cross?’
You need to think before you speak these days,
‘The Wokesters.’
‘I’ll have you know, I was Woke when everyone else was still napping.’
Aidan—’ ‘Nadia.’
‘What you mean to say is people with mental health issues.’
‘You don’t consider that these decisions create a sort of literary apartheid?’
‘itchy finger’,
increase her profile.
‘I genuinely feel as if you’re speaking a foreign language to me right now,’
Who was this @TruthIsASword anyway? A man? A woman? A gerbil?
offensive to public sensibilities.’
think it’s idiotic and it feels like the obsession of narcissistic morons with far too much time on their hands, but I accept that the culture exists in the world.
Twitterati
‘Your sister isn’t. And she’s surgically attached to her phone. Social media is not reality, you know. It’s a mirage.’
blue-ticked
Give it some welly.’
‘My name’s Jeremy.’
tsundoku?’
It would just mean the world to us if, from now on, everyone could make an effort to get our pronouns right.’
‘we are officially non-binary.’ ‘Non-whattary?’
heteronormative
gender fluid.
