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Feminist Pub 16: where the Bluestockings develop armoured stockings to deal with the thousand paper cuts

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FibonacciSeries · 14/01/2015 12:39

Carry on.

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BuffytheReasonableFeminist · 20/01/2015 20:24

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EBearhug · 20/01/2015 19:50

hopefully the aim of the date wasn't to entertain us!

Some of us have to live vicariously, you know.

EElisavetaofJingleBellsornia · 20/01/2015 19:45

Harriet Harman doing a better job re Page 3 on C4 news than Germaine Greer.

LRDtheFeministDragon · 20/01/2015 19:35

Grin Indeed.

PetulaGordino · 20/01/2015 19:34

By which I mean, not disappointing at all, though hopefully the aim of the date wasn't to entertain us! Grin

LRDtheFeministDragon · 20/01/2015 19:33

I dunno, annie, possibly. Smile

Thank you for my effort badge. Grin

PetulaGordino · 20/01/2015 19:33

That sounds a perfectly enjoyable way to spend an evening

YonicScrewdriver · 20/01/2015 19:30
AnnieLobeseder · 20/01/2015 19:29

Will there be a second date?

LRDtheFeministDragon · 20/01/2015 19:28

Gosh, you really know how to create that relaxed, confidential atmosphere.

Sorry to disappoint. She was really nice, and I enjoyed talking to her, but I think we were both a bit shy of each other, so it was more friendly than flirty. But, seeing as it's the second date I've been on since I was about 19, and the first one with someone where it might actually go somewhere, I get points for effort.

PetulaGordino · 20/01/2015 19:18
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AnnieLobeseder · 20/01/2015 19:13

Erm, LRD, about that date.....

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FibonacciSeries · 20/01/2015 18:43

Maybe even wheel the cannon out...point it to the City of London please?

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AnnieLobeseder · 20/01/2015 17:39

Oi! I'll handle any kicking that needs doing around here, thank you very much!

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FibonacciSeries · 20/01/2015 17:03

You could kick some people for me, Lord. I'm facing a situation at work where I have to prove myself AGAIN, which I have the feeling (I admit this could be subjective though) the menz don't have to do because, you know, penis. Also, why is it such a frigging surprise that a woman could be ambitious? I only get confused looks when I say thanks but actually I aspire to more than what you are offering me, which is what people with five years less experience than me get Angry.

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UptoapointLordCopper · 20/01/2015 14:51

Phew! That's my 5+ hours done. I have read some pretty awful writing. I'm quite ready to kick somebody really hard now. I'm off to swim and kick water instead. Hmm

UptoapointLordCopper · 20/01/2015 09:30

My ideal working condition: work uninterrupted for 4-5 hours, then put your feet up at home. Which is nearly what I do everyday - except for the "uninterrupted" bit, and the "put your feet up" bit. Hmm Grin

PetulaGordino · 20/01/2015 08:42

i call that the worst of both worlds chunky

ChunkyPickle · 20/01/2015 08:36

www.nytimes.com/2015/01/20/business/co-working-on-vacation-a-desk-in-paradise.html I just read this - it's about co-working locations in exotic places.

I'm trying to figure out how I feel about it - my first thought is that it's in my past - I have kids now, they're not going to welcome my 2 running around giggling and pesting them, and I don't want to wander off for a month without them on a working holiday (wouldn't be a holiday after the first few days - I'd miss them)

Smacks a bit of those company retreats that were all the rage back in the eighties.

I wonder if the atmosphere is as safe and supporting of lone women as it is of men?

YonicScrewdriver · 19/01/2015 22:11

www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jan/19/has-the-sun-axed-page-3-topless-pictures

Fingers crossed (thanks to spence for the link)

Dragonlette · 19/01/2015 21:22

I've been at work all day and am now procrastinating because I know I have 60 year 9 reports to write :( I have a few days but that's at least 10 hours work on top of all the normal planning, teaching, marking, etc that I normally have to do :(

I can talk about mirrors though. I HATE how many mirrors I have to look in every day, without much choice. We only have a couple of small mirrors in our house, so I have to make a little bit of an effort to look in one at home (dd2 is 4 and LOVES looking at herself in mirrors at every opportunity). But at school, every time I go to the loo there's a mirror over the basin, then there are mirrors in random doors int he corridors, full walls of mirrors at the gym I go to, I literally cannot do any exercise class without having to spend the whole time looking at myself in an awful mirror. I would rather not have to look at myself the whole time, I'd be much happier not being very aware of what I look like.

EBearhug · 19/01/2015 21:19

Although I didn't have my most productive day of work, I have done some good studying this evening. Although most of it isn't really staying in my brain. Never mind. I got through my networks exam on cramming up to the last minute and forgetting it straight after. This will work as well.

(Sometimes, I think I'm not in the right field...)

ChunkyPickle · 19/01/2015 19:09

When DP and I lived in central america we were amused/disturbed/averting our eyes from the shop mannequins - all of which, even in littlewoods style grannys and kids stores - were more akin to the kind of thing you'd expect to see modelling latex french maid costumes in a dodgy sex shop.

My MIL doesn't have mirrors in the house. I found it weird trying to do my hair and stuff in the one small bathroom mirror. We can't have mirrors around DS1 - he's akin to the Cat in Red Dwarf and can't hold a conversation for admiring himself in it if one's around (he's 4 - but I first caught him licking and cooing to himself in the mirror at under 1.. definitely nature in his case rather than nurture!)