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  • Echo Dot@feddit.uktocats@lemmy.worldCat can change anybody
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    5 months ago

    My sister was very allergic to cats when she was a kid. Then one day she just sort of turned up with this cat. My sister’s friends cat had kittens and this was one of the kittens.

    Anyway she was afraid my parents would say no so she hid the cat in her room for 2 or 3 days before my parents noticed. By which point it was somewhat of a done deal.

    Anyway 16 years later when the cat died my sister was no longer allergic, so if you spend enough time around them you do eventually become desensitized. Or at least some people seem to.






  • You’re correct there is no evidence, and in fact the people who published the story (not even journalists just people trying to write a scandalous book) eventually retracted it.

    However it’s stuck because it’s the sort of thing they probably would do. The Tories are like that.

    It annoys me though because there’s many many many many many reasons to criticize him, and a potentially untrue story isn’t one of them. Even if he’d actually done it, it would have probably been the least worst thing he’s done, but people repeat it because it’s funny. Unlike the other stuff which is just depressing.




  • The Olympics is supposed to be somewhere every country can participate.

    Yes that’s the line the Olympic committee always trot out as well when anybody is ever asking them to make a decision on anything. They always argue that the Olympics is not political, but refusing to take a political stance is itself a political stance.

    Continuing to allow Russia to compete even when they cheat constantly (because it is basically all the time it’s not one or two athletes it’s basically everyone they send) is itself saying that cheating is acceptable if you get away with it. It’s like the cost of doing business for Russia.