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Good piece, @Cycefree.
Off-topic:
Has it been noted that we are now over 25 million doses in the public stats?
25.13 million to be precise-ish.
But men who respect women can also help to build that self respect. And they do. It's a virtuous circle that needs to be encouraged.
https://twitter.com/DaveKeating/status/1371042507153346561?s=20
https://twitter.com/DaveKeating/status/1371043596057608194?s=20
https://twitter.com/politicsforali/status/1370842965329985545?s=21
(I'm sure they'll ease the born in the USA requirement to be POTUS soon enough.)
The sad thing is that you could have written this at any stage in my (quite long) adult life, and it would have been spot on. Sadly, progress is very slow, and going from some of the comments on here and elsewhere quite a lot of men are not yet up for the necessary change in behaviour and attitudes.
I shall now start writing my next piece so that I can take up another month of your valuable time.
And so much grief was offered up by so many in mourning our departure from this clown troupe, 2016-2021......
It just doing the anti-vaxxers work and undermining confidence piece by piece (which is the REAL danger to comprehensive vaccine rollout). So stupid and sad. The irony is that AZ is using a proven technology. The real experiment going on is Pfizer/Moderna.
https://twitter.com/OnDisasters/status/1371117739474100226?s=20
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/schoolgirl-given-police-caution-after-3896649
schoolgirl has been handed a police caution after ''sexting'' a topless picture of herself to her boyfriend.
Sending the picture using her mobile phone, the teenager's boyfriend then forwarded the image on to his friends after the young couple split.
The pair both received a police caution and were investigated after being deemed to have distributed an indecent image of a child.
The case emerged as Nottinghamshire Police issued a warning to other youngsters about the dangers of exchanging explicit pictures.
https://nottstv.com/nottinghamshire-police-say-school-pupil-sexting-still-daily-problem/
Police say they still have ‘grave concerns’ over reports of child ‘sexting’ happening daily in Nottinghamshire after sending warning letters to secondary schools.
The letters were designed to prevent pupils sending explicit pictures to each other on social media, online or through mobiles.
In some cases the messages could be classed as sex offences and lead to children ending up in court.
https://sports.ladbrokes.com/event/politics/international/us-elections/2024-us-presidential-election/229683570/all-markets
https://twitter.com/GroomB/status/1370837652086394882
Have any members of the UK nobility ever been President before?
Good afternoon, everybody.
Or is it a 31p stake limit deal.
In some respects modern teenage behaviour is worse, not better, than when I was that age.
I think it's a Ustinov story about Jackie Stewart about him making engine noises whilst watching, but I guess I applies to Murray Walker too. Motor sport will not be the same.
A great man.
PS. Actually looks a bit like @MikeSmithson! @rcs1000 - does OGH make political noises when watching elections?
Sorry the thred's been somewhat hijacked by the Megahan nonsense but well that's life I guess.
On THAT, my own view is that the Duchess of Sussex would be a BETTER bet for the White House that say, Baby Don or anyone else named Trump(sky).
However there is a justifiable criticism of your thread headers: they are too long. A huge wodge of text. It’s visually off-putting and I am pretty sure a good editor would and could shorten this one by 50% or more, while still getting over your worthy points - thus making it more likely people will read it: which is what you want.
Always remember the wise words of Blaise Pascal - ‘I am sorry this letter is so long, I did not have enough time to make it shorter’
Thank you for the thread, @Cyclefree and in many ways a deeply thought provoking and uncomfortable piece.
I don't have any answers.
Sexualisation is part of human nature - the primal urge to copulate and reproduce. Pornography has existed for thousands of years - for all our claims of human evolution and maturity and civilisation, I suspect we've not come as far as we think.
I don't have any answers.
EVERY murder is a terrible tragedy for those closest to the victim which, as @Cyclefree correctly opines, all too often includes the perpetrator. However, it's those killings which appear so incredibly random, so incredibly motiveless that bring out the sharpest emotional response. To think a life can be snuffed out in such an abominable way, to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
I don't have any answers.
No tenner if that's what you mean.
It wasn’t all that long ago that he was a COVID zealot.
I think respect for women taught from a young age is key to all of this, my parents played a big role in this for my, my older sister as well. I think Asian men have a lot to learn and thankfully in my generation for Indians it's a lot better than my parent's generation where wife beating was commonplace, honour killings a fact of life in India and forced marriage tolerated. I think Indians in the UK have come a long way and I think the other British Asians could learn a lot from us because if one were to look into the detail of crimes against women Asians will be massively overrepresented and this is all because of a culture that values boys more than girls.
Murray Walker can proudly take his place in the commentating pantheon alongside David Coleman, Peter O'Sullivan, Peter Alliss, Harry Carpenter and Reg Gutteridge among others. All those who made 60s and 70s television sport so memorable.
She told me that everywhere they went was fine and she’d go off exploring places on her own whilst her husband was doing business etc. With one exception. India. She said that when she left the hotel on her own she found she had a group of men following her. She managed to double back to the hotel, but it properly shook her up. Maybe she was unlucky but it fits with other stories that get reported in the media.
France has forced a face mask manufacturer to cancel a major UK order as the coronavirus-inspired scramble for protective gear intensifies.
The National Health Service ordered millions of masks from Valmy SAS near Lyon earlier this year as COVID-19 threatened.
But amid a global shortage, France earlier this week ordered the requisition of all protective masks made in the country.
https://www.euronews.com/2020/03/06/coronavirus-french-protective-mask-manufacturer-scraps-nhs-order-to-keep-masks-in-france
Excellent piece.
Being an obnoxious, boorish arse has for too long been tolerated.
Over the past 10 or so years, however, it has become celebrated and fashionable to the point of being a route to fame, fortune and even the highest political office.*
Maybe if we started calling it out rather than accepting it, or trying to logically reason with it might be a start.
Make it unfashionable.
* It is predominantly, but not exclusively, the pastime of men.
Edit. Oops. Not intended as a reply to @Casino_Royale .
Sending sexy or nude selfies is now universal amongst sexually actively kids. The ramifications trouble me, but I don’t see how you put the genie back in the bottle, now that every child over 10 has a smartphone
I always feel a Maiden is rarer in a T20 thatn a wicket and probably worth about as much. A wicket maiden is incredible.
Cyclefree, along with everyone else says that something must be done and I agree. Who could not?
In a sense the best way of knowing what should be done, as well as making a provisional finding as to whether it can be done, is to ask: Which country/community/culture at this moment has broadly got it right? Where do go to find the sort of male/female relationships and attitudes that we would like to see here?
If there is an agreed answer we could learn from it. If there isn't then parts, maybe most, of the problem would need to be filed under 'Intractable issues caused by human nature which may not have feasible solutions.'
NB The chances that something like this can be solved by the creation of new crimes feels like fanciful wishful thinking.
You could say that about a lot of politicians i suppose, but he has a long record of being a achieve nothing politician.
NYT - Jaime Herrera Beutler Is Undaunted
After seeing her eldest child through a medical nightmare, the six-term Republican from Washington was not intimidated by the idea of breaking with her party to support Donald J. Trump’s impeachment.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/12/us/politics/jaime-herrera-beutler.html?action=click&algo=identity&block=more_in_recirc&fellback=false&imp_id=73401395&impression_id=9fc8b151-8442-11eb-b00d-3babba05bd83&index=1&pgtype=Article®ion=footer&req_id=609640017&surface=more-in-politics&variant=0_identity
This is a very interesting profile piece, focusing on JHB's combined struggles as the mother of a special-needs child AND as a Christian conservative in the Age of Trumpsky.
"Ms. Herrera Beutler, who was elected to her sixth term in November, was unbothered by the criticism, and more willing than most in her party to publicly single out its origins.
She said she did not mind the judgment of “fringe-y people” whose whole political identity was tied to Mr. Trump, because “I’ve never been in that camp, and I’m not going to win them back,” she said. “I’m not exactly courting the white supremacy vote.”
Personal note:yours truly was one of those, on the Democratic side, who worked to defeat JHB's re-election to Congress in 2018 and 2020. Frankly was NOT all that surprised when she voted to impeach Trumpsky after his attempted Putsch.
Though I disagree with (at least) 80% of her politics, I salute Jaime Herrera Beutler as a true profile in courage. She makes me proud to be an American, and a Washingtonian.
https://www.thepeerage.com/p32217.htm
This is all irrelevant to me, and I hope to the vast majority of PBers, as neither a perpetrator, enabler nor condoner of any of this stuff. But, oh look, a visible-a-mile-off little booby trap has been cunningly incorporated into the piece to stop me saying that: "there is something narcissistic (grotesque even) about the rush by some men to focus on how they are not to blame, should not be victimised and should not have their freedoms curbed." I am not rushing to focus on anything, I don't claim to be victimised or to have had my freedoms curbed, I have yet to say anything at all on the subject and I am saying this now merely to rebut the insinuation to the contrary in the piece. We are not all guilty.
Quite scary.
It’s not just India tho. Woe betide the young blonde western woman in, say, Cairo
India has got a really, really huge problem with respecting women and girls. Happily most Indians in the UK seem to have moved past this stone age attitude of placing a higher value on boys than girls.
The leader Butlins folk would enjoy the company of is a fellow called Boris Johnson. I can't think of a Labour leader who would be comfortable in the knobbly knees comp etc. Nor another Tory one.
The latter I would agree with, the former not.
Why? Because I believe sexism is similar to racism, in that it is something DEEPLY ingrained and thus is in the warp and woof of nearly every human being, in some form or fashion.
If Khan doesn't understand why the application to hold a vigil wasn't treated on its merits, I'm with him. You perhaps wouldn't want to treat it on its merits -- especially if that enables you to derogate him.
Having spent a lifetime being never a perpetrator, enabler nor condoner of any of this stuff, I have huge sympathy for women who suffer the horrors meted out by that smallish percentage of twattish blokes who think they can use their physical form or belief in some inherent male advantage of "the system". But marking all our cards gets women nowhere, other than embedding the victimhood. Recruits us, don't paint us as all part of the problem.
Khan comes across as a void. A meretricious, insinuating nullity.
Cue "firm leadership."
https://twitter.com/captaincookuk/status/1246705304714256384?s=21
https://twitter.com/skynews/status/1246697830665904129?s=21
Oh.
The post is an overpaid sinecure without a smidgen of actual responsibility and authority - a bit like being First Minister of Scotland or Leader of Surrey County Council I suppose.
A primary target needs to be criminal justice reform, which means serious jailtime for breaking the law.
I am limited in my ability to relate to the way women are subjected to harrasment, but mentioned on the previous thread that I have been repeatedly a victim of violent crimes. Despite on two occasions the perpetuator getting arrested red handed, on one occasion they only got a six month jail sentence, on the other a suspended sentence. The prosecution, conviction and sentencing rates of sexual offenders are no better.
Why should law abiding women change their behaviour? All law abiding people have no choice but to change their behaviour when law breaking people are not taken off the streets for serious lengths of time even when evidence has been gathered, they've been arrested, caught, prosecuted and sentenced.
All that needed to happen this week was for politicians to say “you know what, we got it wrong”, refunded those fines and allowed people demonstrate all they liked. But no, they don’t want to be seen to be soft on COVID, so far easier to blame the nasty police.
Khan is so utterly dreary. He’s a downer. A whiny voice always lamenting. So he’s no good at the one thing a mayor can and should do: lead and inspire
Had a small amount on that at 5.5 (free bet). Little spot of greenery.
I don't know any parent or school that hasn't tried to impart values of respect towards women and girls to young males. Between us on PB, do we know any? Does Cyclefree?
It shouldn't be a men versus women debate, the vast majority of people share the same concerns and want safer streets.
When there is a close to five year gap between offences being committed and trial dates, the chance of conviction is meaningfully diminished.
And criminals concentrate far more on the chance of going to prison, than whether it's a nine or an eleven year sentence.