THE BRITISH THREAD II

You what? Firstly, this is a tad patronising.

Secondly, is all this talk of the glass ceiling a load of old tosh? I thought able women were complaining that they couldn't get into the upper echelons of management?

Yeah--and farmers are always complaining about being undervalued. Is there any organised group that doesn't?

There's glass ceilings everywhere. If complaining about not being able to crash them is enough to actually crash them then we are well and truly cooked. Like burnt toast.

There are no limits holding them back but their own failings. You are making them sound like they want the door opening for them. You're a tad patronising Mac. Why was I?

I know a lot of ordinary women and they don't look in such good shape to me.

You've gone off into a fanciful flight of your own devising, Spendy, and I'm not following you there. You seem to be arguing from both points of view. I never said anything patronising about anyone, except Australians.

Well Mac--there are many wimmins who think that holding doors open for them is patronising.

You asked, I assume rhetorically, "is all this talk of the glass ceiling a load of old tosh? " And the answer is yes. Talk of glass ceilings is a load of tosh. There are no restrictions on women rising in the world as dear Mrs Thatcher and Ms Harriet Harman have proved. And many others. There are certainly restrictions on non PC points of view getting a fair hearing.

If women choose to pursue other activities which are detrimental to economic and political ambition they cannot expect the doors to be opened for them and be wafted through on the basis of their complaints. One can sense from their appearances in public that they have spent the preceeding part of the day in a primping parlour.

We've come up with a plan to give it back to the Aboriginees but they dont want it.....pity...we were all going to claim land rights in East Anglia.

????How did you find out about my chain fetish...

I suppose Smorgs has gone off on a plumbing course.

I changed a lightbulb yesterday. Totally successfully.

I had a bit of a struggle with our mixing taps a few weeks ago- but it's simple when you know how (on the third attempt). These ceramic tap thingies are very strange when you are used to rubber washers.

The last time I changed a light bulb it shattered in my hand...didnt cut me but left the remains in the socket. Took a lot of ingenuity to determine if a live wire had been connected to the light (illegal but it does happen) before I could remove the remains.

Tell us what they've done to you, and we'll arrange for a little accident to happen to them.
Like we could break all their pencils and put their paperclips in the wrong drawer.

Oh dear, Smorgs is in the slough of despond, apparently.

I don't know whether I can risk more levity.

I'm off to practise my bass.

Mornin' chaps!

I have forced myself out of me slough of despond to let you know that my pussy's being 'done' today...

She should have been done last week. I starved her from midnight, then she spotted a corned beef opportunity whilst I was showering.

I heard her trump the other night, she was on my knee and emitted a 'pffft'! First time I'd ever heard a cat trump. Have you?

PS The corned beef was Eunice's - mine was waffer thin ham.

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for just a moment, I thought you were announcing a new brazilian...

(you'll have to bear with me, I broke my glasses at work tonight, and at 2:30 in the morning, I was unable to get replacements. everything is a little fuzzy yet.)

Good to hear, smorgs.

This reminds me of a story, which goes something like this:

You remember, a few years back, that there was a bad case of food poisoning in Aberdeen which spread at a rate which baffled the health authorities.

Then they tracked the source to a butcher's shop. The fast spread was explained by the fact that Aberdeen is the only place in Britain where they can divvy a tin of corned beef into 1500 slices.

'everything is a little fuzzy' ha ha ha - how apt.

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Do you remember years ago, there WAS an outbreak of something nasty with tinned corned beef?

I was a child at the time - but we didn't have corned beef in our 'ouse for many years.

Me Mum blamed it on Argentina...

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I'm going to google it.

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Found it:

n postwar Aberdeen (1964) a large scale (>400 cases) outbreak of Typhoid occurred, this was caused by contaminated corned beef which had been imported from Argentina[41] The corned beef was placed in cans and because the cooling plant had failed, cold river water from the Plate estuary was used to cool the cans. One of the cans had a defect and the meat inside was contaminated. This meat was then sliced using a meat slicer in a shop in Aberdeen, and a lack of cleaning the machinery lead to spreading the contamination to other meats cut in the slicer. These meats were then eaten by the people of Aberdeen who then became ill.

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Duh!

'64, Jesus, 46 years ago? I didn't think my memory stretched back that far.
If you can remember the '60s........

How's the pussy this morning, Smorgs? Your fans want to know.

I'm being attacked (again!) by a Jewish nutter on another thread. It's most unsettling.