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You are, of course, entirely within your rights to redefine whichever words you want to mean whatever the hell you want. Good for you. You will have redefined the English language to be entirely unportable. If you would prefer that we all understand each other, then my recommendation is to celebrate the nuance and creativity of your predecessors and stop imagining that some knuckle dragging simian saying woteva they wont weneva has equal value. BTW, WorkingMummy, you were simply wrong. Get over it. I doubt you will ;-)

No, it doesn't mean a set of standard works, it means a measuring stick, a comparative. Canon cannot be used as a replacement for 'portfolio'. Unless you don't know what it means.

Lots of good points in there! In particular a 'perfect' market can only operate effectively when the customer is informed and the purchase isn't made 'in distress' (I don't mean customers are distressed, although they might be, I mean that they are compelled to purchase). Mumsnet is a 'stakeholder' (????) - I sincerely hope that lobby groups are not considered 'stakeholders'!

Canon rather than cannon. But even so I'm not sure the usage is quite right - canon means 'measuring stick', and is typically used when making comparisons. So it can mean 'standard' but not in the sense of 'a standard (normal) repertoire', more in the sense of 'a standard (lofty values) I measure myself against'.

mashcov you may be confusing the Administrator with a Moderator. Whilst the Administrator has final say on content (as he created, maintains and pays for the site), the majority of the work nourishing this happy community resource is done by Moderators. These are a group of generous, tireless and dedicated volunteers who set themselves the not unreasonable target of doing what's best for the community. That means that certain types of behaviour are considered unacceptable, and it may be that your previously liberal use of ALL CAPITALS and aggressive use of the 'C' word means you haven't worked out where those boundaries lie. That may account for your deleted thread, any 'investigations' you choose to indulge in will teach you nothing more than that ;-)

What did he put in your kids' mouth? WTF? Are you trying to suggest he sexually assaulted school children? You're aware that claim is both a criminal offense and abusive fabrication of the highest order? So far as I can make out mashcov, this is a story about a local school catering employee exchanging child porn online. He has been found guilty and subjected to a number of correctional, preventative and penalty measures. What else do you want? Everyone running in tight circles holding their faces and screaming? BTW - I do want to point out that he has not been convicted of being a paedophile: watching child porn doesn't make you a paedophile any more than watching CSI makes you a murderer. Obsession can be a little further down that line, but that would make the average teenager playing Medal of Honour for 20 hours a week a psychotic.

Every team has both good luck and bad luck - the winners are those who put themselves in a position to capitalize on good luck and mitigate for bad. France were ill disciplined and dedicated several of their team to one on one spoilers, it was a strategy that unsettled Engalnd but cost them in the last 20 minutes when they started to run out of steam. I think the bizarre substitution choices were forced upon them by a lack of fitness - they just forgot that whilst the new players may be fresh, they wen't very organized. England kept missing tackles. They were slightly embarrassing!

I understand that marmite will outlive a human. These guys reckon it's actually antiseptic: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2004/dec/23/advertising However, if you've been using a dirty knife in it, with butter or other organics on it, that might spoil the batch.

Just about everyone ;) http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/21/pope-retired-amid-gay-bishop-blackmail-inquiry Keep up!

He probably needs locking in a cell with a Robin Morgan... "I feel that "man-hating" is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them." Or this one is a particular favourite: "I claim that rape exists any time sexual intercourse occurs when it has not been initiated by the woman, out of her own genuine affection and desire." On that basis I have lost count of the number of times I've been raped. Every movement has its lunatics. If Robin Morgan doesn't invalidate feminism then this blogger doesn't invalidate Loz.

I can't really understand that blog. He veers incomprehensibly between first, second and third person until I can't understand who he is addressing, describing or lampooning. He needs an editor.

I must have missed something? I can't identify the quote or the book?

I think people have tried to help here a number of times vicki08, although she doesn't respond to any of the advice. You can see an example from me on the bottom of this thread: http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?12,1024941 I don't have an awful lot of sympathy if she doesn't bother to engage people who are willing to help.

Well any newspaper that ran the same story every day (regardless of what it was) would find themselves struggling to get readers. Variety is the spice of life and all that. Can't escape the vicarious joy of schadenfreude either - we like to see the mighty fallen, the travails of the little guy are usually too close to home to be comfortable reading.

Are you sure you're not conflating impotence with disinterest? There's no evidence that the good people of ED are unconcerned about the plight of women, and more that they are unconcerned about any of the other challenges and tragedies that affect so many of the 7bn people alive in the world today.

I should think globally that the number of people who believe women have equality of rights is in a minority. There's no doubt that comic magazine culture doesn't espouse equality in general (Bat'man' but only Bat'girl' - infantilisation is a blatant reduction of rights).

I think they're just pointing out susiq, that despite your goodwill, feeding foxes does more harm than good to the foxes. You're hurting the foxes.

Well if the trapped rat was really nagging, you shall have to draw your own conclusions. ;) *yes, I KNOW, gimme a break*

:) Another interpretation of that experiment was that the trapped rats sent out regular distress calls, and that the free rat was doing the equivalent of "WILL you SHUT the F*CK UP!!!!" It was also noticed that females were considerably more likely to free the trapped rat than males. Genetic inheritance eh?

I didn't know about feminist French Comic Books DJKQ, have you got some examples? Loz, it was the authors that described it as feminist in interviews, to quote: "a feminist approach from the ground up, in terms of story, character, artwork and production". http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/feb/18/comic-book-superheroine-cat-gender It certainly doesn't adhere to the common negative stereotypes about feminists, and I must say I think the heroine is quite hot when she's in her clubbing gear. Don't know why she has to go around in tweed the rest of the time ;-)

New launch, and who woulda thunk it. No heaving cleavage or razor stilettos, damsels in distress or whimsical female sidekicks. It's here: http://www.mysocalledsecretidentity.com/comic/volume1/issue1/cover I've not read a comic since Roy of the Rovers, and I'm sure Marvel have higher production values, but I enjoyed it :) Is this a new medium?

By the way buddug, I don't know why you're surprised I wondered if it was a sex strike - this is a traditional method of campaigning for women's rights in the developing world. Most recently here in Togo last year: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/31/togo-womens-sex-strike-against-dictatorship In the last decade we've had sex strikes in Columbia, Kenya, Liberia and The Philippines. We've even had them in Italy, and proposals last year for the US. So far from me being 'bizarre' by wondering if this was what the proposal meant, it would in fact appear that it's you who isn't familiar with the territory of this debate.

You might be getting some of the conversations mixed up buddug. I've no query about the day of dancing, nor the desire for women worldwide to be treated with the respect due under basic human rights. Good on them, I share those goals! I'd be the first dancing in the roundabout. I was merely pointing out that this organisation aspires to loftier goals and a lasting influence (as well it should). The world is littered with failed endeavors simply because of piss poor planning. At the moment, the wifty wafty manifesto pledges bear all the hallmarks of that. I'm disappointed not because I want it to fail, but because I want it to succeed but see clear flaws at inception. At the moment the main response seems to be 'we'll sort it out when we get to it' which is what every failed start-up I've ever worked with has said.

Yeah, I know, I shouldn't get so annoyed!

I'm not saying they're Nazis, I'm saying they're idiots, and that you cannot escape the symbology associated with little books of hate. Their politics is a particular mixture of schoolboy posing founded on binary interpretations of social interactions that are 30 years out of date. By persisting in rolling these half baked aphorisms out, they are part of the problem, not the solution. The only white privilege that their lyrics speak to is the one tossed around by people with an IQ of less than 60. The real white privilege is far more nuanced and complicated than that. It is also foolish to speak to white privilege in deprived working class areas of London where skin colour is irrelevant in the face of crashing poverty. Either way I had to suffer years of listening to these lunatics driving around ED on a Saturday afternoon with their volume cranked up to 'assault'.