Oh Hum its a funny old world

[cashman]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

And isn't that a very, very sad thing?

It is, but i reckon its true.

[Hill Walker]

Originally Posted by DaveinGermany

And this weeks winner of the "Whaaat the!!" awards is :-

Britain's first gender fluid family where son is raised as gender neutral | UK | News | Express.co.uk

He-she, She-He, it & ..... Star-Cloud???? Is it just me, or are there other folk out there who can't get their heads around our "Modern world"?

Well there will be something to entertain this offspring:-

UN called to make Thomas the Tank Engine GENDER NEUTRAL - fans furious | UK | News | Express.co.uk

The strange thing is that I know several drivers of steam engines and they always refer to the engines as 'she'.

[Less]

Originally Posted by Hill Walker

Well there will be something to entertain this offspring:-

UN called to make Thomas the Tank Engine GENDER NEUTRAL - fans furious | UK | News | Express.co.uk

The strange thing is that I know several drivers of steam engines and they always refer to the engines as 'she'.

Quite right, no machine be it a train, a ship, or a car should be called she, that suggests SHE is a bitch to work with and let's be honest most of us can get on better without the tantrums, mechanical failure is so much simpler.

[DaveinGermany]

Originally Posted by Hill Walker

The strange thing is that I know several drivers of steam engines and they always refer to the engines as 'she'.

No surprise really, constantly hissing, seething & steaming, lets not forget the constant attention they need to try & keep them happily ticking along!

[Less]

Originally Posted by Less

Quite right, no machine be it a train, a ship, or a car should be called she, that suggests SHE is a bitch to work with and let's be honest most of us can get on better without the tantrums, mechanical failure is so much simpler.

Terribly sorry, I forgot to add,

[Margaret Pilkington]

And so you should be Less.(I know you didn't make the comment about steaming and hissing...but it seemed that you agree with it)
Some women might steam and hiss...but there are some(and I consider myself in this category)are helpful, low maintenance, and useful...my other half and I have been hitched for 51 years.
I feel sure that if I had been painful to live with, or be around he would have scarpered long ago.
This is not to say we always see eye to eye...but a little bit of friction makes life interesting.

You might have been unfortunate enough to have had a steamer, a hisses, a nagger...but we don't all fit into that mould.

[DaveinGermany]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

And so you should be Less.(I know you didn't make the comment about steaming and hissing...but it seemed that you agree with it)

No yer Lady Honourshipness, I did! You can't really believe I meant those things I wrote do you? You've read of my varying exploits in life (through various blogs & suchlike), so surely you're aware of my odd humour added to that I did put a "winky" smiley on the end of the comment.

Furthermore the witchitty one would string me up if she thought I was serious!!!

[Margaret Pilkington]

Son my comment was tongue in cheek.

[taddy]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Son my comment was tongue in cheek.

A female of the species with a tongue small enough to be kept in her cheek !
Must be an evolving new lifeform.

stay happy Marge, Your's Taddy.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Taddy I hope to...stay happy, that is.

As for my tongue...it is big enough to be effective,can be sharpened to a fine point when the need arises, can also be heated when necessary(as in hot tongue and cold shoulder) and is definitely small enough to get in my cheek...also small enough to be held

[monkey hanger]

never had names for any car i have owned apart from words i cannot post on here. always remember going back years to the car sticker era where there was an image of a tramp saying i bought british and look at me now. owned a rover once and hadn,t a grey hair in my had when i bought it.

[DaveinGermany]

And elsewhere in the tabloids "Lefty numpties screwed by their own bigoted hatred!". Couldn't happen to nicer people, must admit to having a somewhat indulgent smug grin on me chops while reading.

Channel 4 Islamophobia Documentary Sparks Racism Row over 'Blackface'

[DaveinGermany]

Seems the UN have really lost the plot now .....

UN Agency Makes Mugabe 'Goodwill Ambassador' One Month After He Endorsed Killers of White Farmers

Think it's time they were disbanded, failing that, totally ignored as their attitudes are definitely irreparably skewed!

[monkey hanger]

Originally Posted by DaveinGermany

Seems the UN have really lost the plot now .....

UN Agency Makes Mugabe 'Goodwill Ambassador' One Month After He Endorsed Killers of White Farmers

Think it's time they were disbanded, failing that, totally ignored as their attitudes are definitely irreparably skewed!

as sensible a move than giving dracula the keys to the blood bank.

[DaveinGermany]

I prefer the expression "Giving the Monkey the keys to the Banana plantation!", far more earthy & fluffy don't you think? Wouldn't want the sjw's & the whiny liberal leftist wetting themselves over perceived nastiness now would we.