Starmer insults women’s intelligence to blame Sunak for judicial failures when it was Starmer’s CPS that failed to prosecute rapists

It's hilarious that you're trying to blame the Tories for you starting a bitchy thread, although I suppose it's completely on-brand for you. Makes me doubt anything else you post though, so...

@Floisme I’m from N Ireland and I’m not very surprised when US or GB people don’t know things about NI - our history/political situation doesn’t get taught well in those places, or in ROI either (weirdly).

It’s a pity that people are confused about us but it’s something I’ve got used to i.e. explaining N Ireland to people. It can be a bit frustrating at times, but the political & legal situations here are complex and they differ from GB and ROI, for obvious reasons of history, and people are often astonished to learn about those differences.

Having said that, I’ve also had GB and US people state confidently that the Republic of Ireland is part of the UK (so it’s not just N Irish history/geography that confuses people) 🤷‍♀️ 🤪

As for Labour, I can’t vote for them, as they refuse to run candidates in NI, but we do have Conservative candidates in a lot of our elections (not that they get many votes in comparison to local parties). Having said that, Westminster legislation and politics affects us over here in myriad ways and I am very keen to support GB women’s endeavour to get Sunak and Starmer to take women’s rights (and biology) seriously because it will not only help women in GB, it will ultimately help us too. Solidarity ✊

Do what in the open? I asked you the questions I wanted to ask you on this thread. Yours was not the only post on the topic I read that night. So I started a thread about it so as not to derail the threads here.

Im sorry that people screenshotted your posts and a bit shocked that none of them told you they were doing it.

I'm starting to understand other FWR posters mention of monitors now. I seem to have some tetchy Tory monitors of my own.

That really is interesting @JanesLittleGirl!

Makes me feel better about not really ‘getting’ time zones - won’t make me
any more punctual though 😬

That is fascinating JanesLittleGirl.

I'm sure Boots' answer will be fascinating too.

.JanesLittleGirl · Today 15:18

How fascinating, thank you.

France has a lot of time zones because French possessions in the Caribbean, the mouth of the St. Lawrence, the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean are all part of France. Mainland France has one time zone - UK +1.

Spain should be in the same time zone as UK or even UK -1 but was moved to CET in the 1930s by Franco in solidarity with Nazi Germany.

Thank you ScrollingLeaves, like I've said, it's quite absurd to get to my age without understanding time zones, and I've no issue with people laughing at me for it.

Are you going to answer my questions, Boots?

I was interested to look on TooBigForMyBoot’s
other thread they started in AIBU and saw a very interesting answer from one poster showing how reasonable any one might be for not necessarily knowing about whether the Time Zones in NI and Ireland are the same or different from that in the UK.

Apparently the whole of Ireland used to be in a different time zone to Britain. This was for roughly 40 years. Then GMT was standardised in 1916 in Dublin. This was known as Dublin Time and was used throughout the island of Ireland.

Apparently France uses several time zones, whereas many other countries of the same breadth ( meaning the time related to noon Sun will vary) keep to one.

So, there was nothing so shocking, nothing unreasonable, about Floisme not knowing.

Oh hi @TooBigForMyBoots, thanks for responding. No need for a pm, let's do this out in the open.

Please will you explain: 1) what you did and 2) why?

Feel free to PM me @Floisme. I am glad you haven't received any negativity, I did think it was a dick move for the people not on this thread to screen shot your messages and post them elsewhere.

🤣

I won't tag you again Boots but I'd still like to talk to you and I don't think that's unreasonable.
Are you OK?
Are you going to come back?

They might explain that days are 24 hrs long 99.9% of the time.

It would have to be certain days of the week only though. People who work Mon-Fri might vote for a 25 hour Saturday but I doubt they would for a Monday.

I might be on time with an extra hour to fanny about with!

(or a whole extra hour late?)

I wonder if Keir/the Labour Party understand time zones.

Perhaps, like biology, they think time is flexible. A new election pledge? A 25 hour day. 😀

It does seem a bit odd, especially when I was on this thread yesterday if Boots had wanted to talk about it / laugh at me some more. But I'm sure she'll come back and tell us why.

It would be amusing if it wasn't so embarrassing for KS. Doesn't he have anyone to advise him and stop him before he does these things (like the 99.9% of women not having a penis)?

Time zones are confusing!

I have a peculiar relationship with time anyway, so chuck daylight saving in as well and I have no idea what’s what.

starting a thread about someone else’s confusion over time zones is a weird, dickish thing to do.

You're right Datun, that was the wrong way round - see I'm still confused. Putting back the clock was a 'Where does that hour come from?' moment. Putting it forward was, 'Where does that hour go'?
My dad tried to tell me it was just like borrowing money and then paying it back....

When you think about it, where do those hours go?

Also, why is France/Majorca etc an hour ahead when they seem to be in the same zone.

Actually, now I'm getting confused. Putting them back, that's when you do gain the hour. It's putting them forward, when you lose it.

What did you think when you gained an hour? That's got to be weirder!

Putting back the clocks back though.... it made such an impression on me when I was a kid because it wasn't like now where it happens automatically, you had to physically change them. I used to watch my dad and think where does that hour go?