RosieH

Patriarchy bot! To the stud farm with him.

El Pibe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hire, like rent can be either sale or purchase. Hmm, I've never understood it that way, although granted, I have never sought to procure, nor to offer, the services of a prostitute. "Hire, let, lease, rent, charter mean to engage or grant for use at a price. Hire and let, strictly speaking, are complementary terms, hire implying the act of engaging or taking for use and let the granting of use." http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hire

*Bob* Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Merely a point of order - that pimping is the > hiring of prostitutes, not the selling of them. Point of order, would pimping not be the hiring out of prostitutes? The hirers are not the pimps, I think.

Sue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It was so long ago I've probably forgotten :)) Then I suggest you hop to it! I intend to unleash my first Christmas seven inch of the season on Thursday - it's gonna be awesome.

No, it's not seven. It's Lucky Sevens because you play seven inch records. Sue, if you got seven then you must have been there on quite a quiet night. It's all down to how many people put their names down to play. Typically you get 15 mins, so about four songs, unless they're perfect slices of 3 minute pop. On a quiet night, you might get longer, on a really busy night, maybe only three.. Once a friend and I got about an hour at the end of the night, and were let loose on Mr Gowlett's record collection, but it's never happened again since.

I like Bonar Road. It's not in East Dulwich, but I like it.

For me it was Land of Make Believe by Bucks Fizz, rare northern soul my arse!

For Otta: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bao5GS2VREM

Yep, Lucky 7s very much alive and kicking. And Sue, my tip is always to take along a couple of spares for just such a happening. In fact I usually take a few, in case the mood of the night feels different from what I'd planned to play. And Otta, really, in the Gowlett? I remember a Saturday in the CPT when my companion was threatened by a coked up wanker who claimed to have a knife for erroneously identifying the football hat on his child's head.

what does this: ":pear" mean?

Awesome pub. Great staff, good wine (don't know about the beer), delicious pizzas. My favourite in the area by a mile.

For me, it was all over by age 9 or so. A man's gotta chew what a man's gotta chew, so off he walked into the desert sunset and my life has never been as golden or glorious since. That said, my hair, clothes and sex life all go some way to compensating for the paucity of modern day confectionery; so chin up Otta. I heard jet packs are a'comin'.

Did D_C really just "lady" this thread?? Saw Dan Mangan at the Scala last night. In spite of a rather off-putting recent comparison to Mumford & Sons, he was immense: made me cry, made me laugh, conducted the sudience singing "robots" as well as backing vocals on another tune. A perfect night. A steal at a tenner. I love him. I do. I want to cuddle him.

Ah, the gym - friend to the waist, enemy of the boob. The perfect gym bra is the holy grail. Sharon, how does it wash?

You're welcome!

maxxi Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The immediate and compulsory lopping off, chopping > down or otherwise eradicating of any and all > branches, boughs, bushes and leafy twigs that > stray into the area of pavement designated for > pedestrians by even an inch - especially those > that drop down from above. If I want to walk > through a @#$%& forest I'll go and find a @#$%& > forest. Hell yey-ah. Alternatively, just fund a chainsaw for me and I'll take care of it. A ban on heaters outside pubs, and all pubs provided with blankets for smokers instead.

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Serious thinkers? Oh noooooooooooo, please behave > Rosie, I really didn't have you down as one of > 'them'. Ha, Quids, I didn't say I subscribed, but yes, as Pibe says, people like Gore Vidal and Chomsky (although I suspect I'll get a kicking for namechecking him). To be honest, I don't think it's so terribly far-fetched to think that if a country is prepared to go to war for oil (with all the death that brings with it) that they'd be prepared to stand back and do nothing as their citizens are murdered, to give them the justification they need to launch said war. I've seen no evidence to suggest that to be true, but just like the royals killing Diana, do I think it's possible? Well, sure.

Well, genocide has a very specific definition, but it's an emotive subject and it's not surprising that people resort to such language, particularly when you get fuckers like Gilad Sharon calling for Gaza to be flattened Hiroshima-style. There are also some serious thinkers who believe 9/11 was part of a conspiracy (although perhaps not by a Zionist World Order).

Otta, how on earth do you know that they've taken no time to look at the bigger picture? There's certainly plenty of informed reason to boycott, as a for instance, products from the occupied territories, often labelled simply as "product of Israel".

For once I'm in complete agreement with Huguenot. The jury's verdict was unanimous. That's twelve people who heard the evidence, and every single one found him guilty. It's pretty arrogant to assume you know better than those in receipt of the facts.

Someone was taking a picture of some shoes outside my house earlier.

Is that even words?

I have seen parents riding with their kids on the pavement, but not as many as I've seen cycling without kids. For the record, for all adults who think it's ok to cycle on the pavement, I think it's ok to push you off your bike. Consider this fair warning. Edited as I wasn't a fast enough typer, and my post didn't make sense.

Ach, don't be churlish, you're asking for an ad to reflect the way things ought to be, rather than how they actually are. The ad's designed to appeal to harried mum, not to on-his-high-horse offended dad. You want the ads we deserve, then get the 9 out of 10 men who still get 'er indoors to do the grocery shopping to pull their weight, and then we can have a conversation. (NB - this stat was accurate when I was working for a major supermarket two years ago, it's possible the ratio has come down slightly since then, but given that Oxford university predicts parity on housework only by 2050, it's unlikely to have shifted significantly). Like I say, it IS sexist that this is the way things are, but it IS the way things are. So fellas, you don't want the nasty television people calling you out on it, then pull your fingers out. http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/mar/10/housework-gender-equality-women http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_releases_for_journalists/110520.html http://www.keynote.co.uk/market-intelligence/view/product/10564/men-and-women's-buying-habits

Dogger and Loz, you're right of course. It IS frightfully sexist that women still do the lion's share of grocery shopping, housework, cooking and childcare. I know that, like you, I'd rather see Daniel Craig or maybe Michael Madsen pushing the trolley and rustling up the dinner, but don't worry, I reckon we've not long to wait. According to a study by Oxford University, we should be heading for parity in household chores by about 2050, so we can get the adverts we truly deserve in another 38 years or so.