Arther was amused. “The Göbeklitepe Man Bag! Vakko could sell them!” he declared, “they could use the H symbol to denote the Göbeklitepe Handbag brand.”

Vakko is a posh Turkish retail outlet specialising in fashion and accessories. We’ll look at the Göbeklitepe H motif later.

With her tongue in her cheek, Ayşe wondered, “Are you supposed to say man bag on social media? It’s a bit non gender fluid isn’t it? Not very non-binary.”

“Bollix to all that gender and identity political correctness,” responded Arther pointedly.

Ayşe raised her eyebrows, “You can’t say bollix on social media!”

“I just did. Anyway, I bet Roddy Doyle can say bollix on social media. He says it all the time in his bollix trilogy.”

“You mean his Barrytown Trilogy? You could try a little tenderness… Take me to the river…” and Ayşe almost began to break into song, “… and wash me down… Won’t you cleanse my soul, put my feet on the ground…”

Ayşe paused for thought. “Audio phonetics are peculiar; in that a person might complain of being offended by one or more words. It is bemusing how often people relinquish their energy to someone else’s thoughts and words. If you take offense at a word, you are merely taking the choice to become a victim, it would seem to me at least. Stick and stones may break thy bones, but words will never hurt…”

Arther was still thinking man bags.

Ayşe continued her philosophical train of thought, “So few people have any understanding or awareness or concept of Natural Law; not a written law, but a pure, simple innate knowing of correct or incorrect, right or wrong, love over fear.”

Arther looked back at her. “All I said was bollix…, but I agree, gender and identity politics are Tavistock Institute constructs infesting our communities, so bollix to all that tosh and nonsense.”

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