Wasn't Gladys one of our 'fat ladies'? Let her snore (like she could be stopped). Iirc she was rocking a tartan shopping trolley and a hard stare for the ages.

Now I'm the snorer.

I went on an outward bounds course years ago.

I was the only female in my group so they shoved me in with a load of girls from another college.

I awoke after the first night to just about everyone's pillow surrounding the bed.

The second night I slept in a lovely single room!

How's the food???

Mavis, that rang a bell....

Do your balls hang low? Do they swing to and fro?
Can you tie 'em in a knot? Can you tie 'em in a bow?
Do they make a lusty clamor when you hit them with a hammer?
Can you do the double shuffle when your balls hang low?

horntip.com/html/songs_sorted_by_name/with_music/d/do_your_balls_hang_low.htm

Yes, one missing never, on singing it back.

Thanks @Boiledbeetle .Gladys is a snorer. She's in danger of getting defenestrated in the middle of the night by a ward full of exhausted grumpy women.

If yer balls hang low
You can swing ‘em to and fro
You can bounce ‘em on the ceiling
If you ever get the feeling
But you’ll never never never never never never never
Never be a sailor if yer balls hang low.

Think there might be a bit missing before all the nevers, and I just guessed at the number of nevers. Can’t remember who I learnt it from, and had no idea it was still there in my memory until it all came spewing out of my typing fingers just now.

Hope the boredom/pain (delete as applicable) isn't driving you insane, along with the farting from Gladys in bay 2. God knows what she ate before coming in!

Glad women are women. Last time I was in hospital it was a women's only ward, but then we were all waiting for gyne ops so I would bloody hope it was!!

sending you thoughts of lavender pillows and high quality drugs.

💐🍫☕

I'm sure I read an article, years ago, about testes on classical statues (that sounds like a niche fetish) and which one hung lower. I'm not sure how I could find it again without taking my search history places where I don't want it to go.

Hands you the calipers the special weighing of small things scales.

Waits.

Clears out crap under fingernails.

Rumages around for snacks in pocket.

Blgh, catnip flavoured dreamies.

Just catching up on the thread.

I see everyone is talking bollocks as usual!

Oh, hope all’s well and that you’re out of there soon, @beastlyslumber .

Just checking in before the thread gets away from me!

Currently in hospital on a women only ward. Quite a few women have come and gone this week and literally every single one of them has said how glad they are they don't have to be on a ward with men.

I just hope I'm out of here before I have to find out their policies on TW.

I spent a couple of days working in a council-run nursery during the paediatric module of my nurse training, and there was one little boy (toddler really) who liked punching all the women who worked there in the face, because that’s what he saw his father doing to his mother every day. 40-odd years ago and I still feel chills at the memory. Monkey see, monkey do.

Some slightly more cheering news here:

www.theguardian.com/law/2023/mar/09/mother-unlawfully-denied-legal-aid-in-case-against-abusive-ex-uk-court-rules

My wife's friend is in a very similar situation, as she's been isolated from her son, who has been taught to hate her. The father is very weird, I only met him once.

He's taught the boy not to play with our daughter and a friend's daughter and that hitting them was no problem. (Neither of us were there, the mum told my wife). He's taught the son to be rude and disparaging to his mother and to hit and kick hers, if she wants him to do something.

She's been told she can't have legal aid, so this may change things for her.

There's other stuff, far worse, but I don't want to out her.

Introduction, [no details, commentary or analysis whatsoever], conclusion

To be fair, that seems to be the type of article the writer produces which are very feminist lite.

The Graun is clearly so stunned by the Barnes book that they completely forgot to include the middle part of this: www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/08/what-fresh-misogynist-hell-new-maid-cafe-causing-ruckus?

Introduction, [no details, commentary or analysis whatsoever], conclusion.

(I note that the concluding 'It's nuanced' does not apply to Linehan.)

I'm pleased and surprised to report that the Guardian has finally noticed the existence of Hannah Barnes' Time to Think www.theguardian.com/books/2023/mar/10/time-to-think-by-hannah-barnes-review-inside-britains-only-clinic-for-trans-children

I’ma bit sceptical of the “big pharma” aspect to this. Big pharma companies chase the next billion dollar blockbuster drug. The people making money from generic hormonal treatments are the generic manufacturers. They’re a nice reliable income stream but really not enough to be campaigning behind the scenes for policy changes in government.

Directly capitalistic also in that it is providing a nice new income stream for a pharmaceuticals industry that has taken a big hit in the fallout from the opiates scandal. I have wondered if this as one of the things that has led to the capture of the Irish establishment - pharma is one of the country's main industries and has plenty of opportunity for soft lobbying.

Nailed it, Crows.

Wow, this thread has been on fire today. Love the Dostoyevsky! Adore the testicles of objectivity!

It's funny - not funny at all - that the TRA thing is seen as so left wing and indeed most of those who are a part of TRSOH would think of themselves as left-wing but the whole thing couldn't be more capitalistic if it tried. It's all about the self, it's all about selfishness, it's all about entitlement and what you want you get and fuck everyone else. It's also when we get to the TW side of the whole issue it's about taking away hard fought for rights from others just because they can. Margaret Thatcher is their grandmother and we are all their handmaidens.

Re my deleted thread on the previous thread. I wondered too but I think that I indirectly misgendered the columnist. Not directly. I didn't use the wrong pronouns, at least I think I didn't, but I did complain about the Indie in a way that misgendered the author if any of that makes sense. I need to remember where I am and what I'm saying because I certainly don't want to get banned and neither do I actively want to upset anyone.

In the absence of scales and calipers, this is the best we can do.

Reminded me of bertillonage, which I learnt about from Paris Police 1900 😀

Oops. Link; theconversation.com/lady-rhondda-the-little-known-suffragette-whose-efforts-led-to-greater-equality-for-women-200767#Echobox=1678216916

Please thank MrG for his contribution to the body of knowledge.

On a completely different subject, Lady Rhondda - founder of the Six Point Group and of Time and Tide - will be getting a statue (if they can raise the funds).