Mining this N entirely SFW video for material.

To the tune from around 60 seconds in:

🎼Cooper's on fire, your defence is terrified! 🎼

To the tune of "She'll be coming around the mountain when she comes", which I've just found out from YouTube is used with different lyrics that reference The Battle Of Britain at England v Germany matches.

🎼
There were 18 OU witnesses on the stand.

There were 18 OU witnesses on the stand.

There were 18 OU witnesses, 18 OU witnesses, 18 OU witnesses on the stand.

Then Ben Cooper's cross-examining knocked one down.

Then Ben Cooper's cross-examining knocked one down.

Then Ben Cooper's cross-examining, Cooper's cross-examining, Cooper's cross-examining knocked one down.

There were 17 OU witnesses on the stand...
🎼

I went looking for that tune in its "terrace" form and found https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4kBI4oICwU filmed a few days after Sir Bobby Robson's death.

Just as happens to "We Are Sailing" when it becomes "No One Likes Us", the rhythm has been warped with the long notes cut too short, at which point I no longer spontaneously recognise the two tunes as being the same.

I have to admit that I've never bothered listening to Guantanamera until I went to look for a link, but it's the basis of the standard name chant eg
"One Jo Phoenix,
There's only one Jo Phoenix
One Jo-o Pheeeeeeeenix
There's only one Jo Phoenix"

although to be honest it generally works best for players with 2 syllable first name and surname.

I know the Frankie Valli song, it's Guantanamera that I don't know.

I think 'Super Cooper' was quite popular when he first came into our lives.

Now I've got the chorus of 'Hey, Big Spender', but with 'Hey, Ben Cooper'.

I think SupportRobin may mean Can't Take My Eyes Off You.

No.

The silence is deafening.

I was using the Winter Wonderland tune. I don't know that other one.

😁Can we gently encourage them?

ooh, thank you for posting all the nitty-gritty.

And all the gleeful , laughing with heads back hurrahs!!

yay, Jo 🍾🥂

That mealy statement from the OU reminds me, has anything further been forthcoming from SWE following their drubbing from Rachel Meade?

Joan Smith in Unherd

The judgment comes only days after a report by the Committee for Academic Freedom revealed that nine universities have policies under which academics who don’t believe that transwomen are women are considered “transphobic”. They include Imperial College, Sheffield Hallam University and the London Business School.

Such policies are clearly in conflict with both the right to free expression and the intellectually curious atmosphere that should exist in higher education. They are further evidence of the way in which trans lobbyists have degraded basic rights in one institution after another, forcing people to accept transparent nonsense about “gender identity”.

https://unherd.com/thepost/jo-phoenix-wins-tribunal-case-over-gender-critical-views/

Point of order, your honour: you don't use a foil cutter for fizz, the foil on those bottles comes off nice and easy. Perhaps they could run to an icebucket?

@VitoCorleoneOfMNMafia presuming that's the one to the tune of Guantanamera, you could also use the Winter Wonderland tune with a similar start and "walking in a GC wonderland" as the last line.

Or to the tune of "I love you baby"
"Ben Cooper KC,
you are the love of my life.
Ben Cooper KC,
I wanna be your wife
Ben Cooper KC,
I want ginger hair too"

Although to be honest, I think further modification of that one beyond swapping out "I'd let you shag my wife" is necessary if we don't want to give out Annie Wilkes from Misery vibes.

They claim to be considering it.

Our priority has been to protect freedom of speech while respecting legal rights and protections. We are disappointed by the judgement and will need time to consider it in detail, including our right to appeal.

As above, I suspect they'll be offering a support service to their staff and signatories to the open letter, not least because of the comments from the ET judgment.

I'd be surprised if they have anything to offer JP. Mind, a foil cutter for the fizz would be a nice gesture.

Grip on reality not improved I see.

Oh do appeal. PLEASE appeal.

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Utterly shit statement from the OU

https://ounews.co/uncategorized/statement-on-employment-tribunal-ruling/

We are deeply concerned about the wellbeing of everyone involved in the case and acknowledge the significant impact it has had on Professor Phoenix, the witnesses and many other colleagues.

my bold. Have they not read the judgement?

You've reminded me of the moment in which West is listening to her husband having an intense political argument with a Yugoslavian.

Just then my eye was caught by two large, loosely formed spheres in neutral colours, one blackish grey, the other brownish black. These were the behinds of two peasant women who were employed by the municipalities to weed the flower-beds at the corners of the square. They were being idiots, private persons in the same sense as the nurse in my London nursing-home, who was unable to imagine why the assassination of King Alexander should perturb anybody but his personal friends. They were paid to pull up weeds, and they wanted the money, so they continued to pull them up, even when the students raised a shout and brought some gendarmes down on them not fifteen yards away. As I looked at those devoted behinds, bobbing up and down over their exemplary task, and the smug face of the automatic rebel, I thanked God for the idiocy of women, which must in many parts of the world have been the sole defender of life against the lunacy of men.

Women everywhere can be grateful to the courage and idiocy of women who defend us all "against the lunacy of men".

Telegraph reporting on this:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/22/open-university-gender-critical-jo-phoenix-tribunal/

I work in a university and I am so pleased to see this judgement. Well done Jo! What an awful experience you went through. I was also pleased to see the references to "Forstater" throughout the judgement - it truly was a landmark case.

YEEEEESSSSSSS!!!

And including the women who think that they are men, because they too have suffered under male supremacy in the past, even if they've managed since to create a personal escape plan. If that plan falls through in the future (e.g. they are outed amongst dangerous men) then they will suffer under male supremacy again.

Remember that aristocratic transmen cannot inherit an absolute male primogeniture peerage (some Scots peerages are male-preference primogeniture but they are few compared to the number of English peerages and are still male-first) and some 90 seats in the Lords are still reserved for hereditary peers.

Men only let women usurp male privilege as far as it suits them to. The peerage exemption to the GRA is proof of this.