Alan

I'll try, which bit is her 24?

No, just loose trousers.

I legit just read the first bullet point and then scrolled on past. Then thought "waaiit a minute..."

Don't beat yourself up Robin, I'd be boasting about lasting 11 minutes with Emma Thompson.

Here you go, Alice. You've earned it.

Native British Animals you say?

At 14 it might have been a bad case of Wishful Thinking.

In today's episode of "I Love You Dearly, But...":

Her: "Can I borrow a screwdriver?"

Me: No.

"What? Why?"

_sigh_ Ok, what sort of screwdriver?

"Oh, I don't know, a Philips I suppose."

What's it for? Show me?

"I need it to poke holes in something."

... aaaaaaand that would be exactly why.

One thing I learned from working there is that this is a REALLY STUPID thing to do.

I'm great at dealing with call centres these days because I know that what little power they have will absolutely be exercised and being a dick puts you as far down the priority list as they can get away with.

I worked in a terrible call centre many years ago. Even then we weren't expected to put up with abuse (well, from not customers at least). One warning, two if you're feeling generous, then click.

The "BOLD POLITICS" ident there makes it look like it reads "BOLLOCK POLLANSKI, you might want to check that. 😁

Seems to me like an ideal opportunity to lie outrageously. Who's going to know? Buy a sow'wester and tell them you're a deep sea whale hunter or something.

Nonsense. Your middle-aged scrotum has become corrosive.

If it is your balls then you've got bigger problems than underwear.

I don't really understand what "cancelled" is supposed to mean. Like, going "I think you're shit and/or have intolerable opinions" isn't _cancelling_ anyone.

The thing that the people who trot out this nonsense always conveniently forget is that "freedom of speech" applies equally to everyone else.

We have an International Men's Day too.

Was it during the day? 😁

Oh, curious. What was the difference?

It's hard to believe today that smoking in the office was once normal, and not all that long ago.

I worked in Support for an IFA maybe 20 years ago, they had an office with the smoke-at-your-desk-ers in. Everything was all brown and sticky, from the walls to the PCs to the keyboards. Grim.

If there's any organisation signing letters still, it's going to be a bank or a solicitor.

Part of was he just didn't want to, and scared of it as I said. It was a Civil Engineering company and getting him to even try was a battle. I figured playing cards might be more relatable to get him to actually tolerate the thing.

That part of this tale is plausible, I know because I did it. The owner of the company I worked for at the time was terrified of computers so I got him playing Solitaire to get used to alien concepts like "clicking." And yes, this was late 90s.

At the risk of repeating myself,

There are those who want to hang around outside toilets inspecting people's genitals, yet it's the people wanting to take a piss who are the problem?

I do -try- not to swear too much on social media. With varying degrees of success.

It pains me to type "I admire your optimism" but some people are just thick.

And some people more are just cu

Andrew Tate has been arrested in Saudi. I've just heard someone describe him as Lawrence of Drylabia and now I can't see the screen.

A good point, well made.

I thought he was quite restrained under the circumstances. Condescending mare. He's talking about lives and she didn't even blink.

People like her want to hang around outside toilets inspecting other people's genitals, yet somehow it's the trans folk who are the problem?

Well quite. Simple questions often have complicated answers, who'd have thought it.

My high school English teacher once wrote on a report, "his handwriting looks like a spider crawled through an inkwell, had an epileptic fit and then died."

My reaction of "well, whose fault is that, then?" was not favourably received.

It sounds apocryphal I know. Wild on the Internet I wouldn't believe it myself. But I know who claims to have perpetrated it and I have a high degree of confidence that they actually did it, it's exactly the sort of bastardery they'd have got up to in their student days.