Sandie Peggie: Employment Tribunal, associated legal claims, and related matters - thread #68

Talk about having your cake and eating it.

I keep meaning to post to the effect that we Fifers have always called it 'the Courier' rather than the Dundee Courier (The Dundee Courier and Advertiser as was when I was a paper loddie in the 80s). So it was funny to see someone (at last) call it by the normal name.

Tbf the Catholic Church only introduced celibacy for priests in the Middle Ages because so many left church lands to their children in their wills. It was a pragmatic decision rather than a spiritual one.

Our old catholic priest was a widower with grandkids, which I think made him a better priest. Certainly better at dealing with kids at school and mass than the other priest who coild barely hide his distaste.

"Aye. Ma name's no in The Courier, so A'm no deid yet."

I may have inadvertently overstated the position of former CofE priests celibacy-wise as they don't get a free pass for sexual relations. If they have a wife they get to keep her but they aren't allowed to get married after joining the Catholic priesthood or indulge in relations outside of marriage.

I think we should be grateful to the interruptatron for triggering all the detailed exposition of the law from @prh47bridge.

And now respond to any further nonsense with pictures of pets (or the unicorn used to police previous threads).

Catchup post:

Result for this tribunal: no date given IIRC, but the judge said she intended to be quick. So hopefully before xmas.

Appeal date: middle of 2027?

Sourdough mother: if frozen, shouldn't be dead. May take a week or so of feeding to revive it.

@Igmum, interesting book collection.

@BinturongsSmellOfPopcorn those are part of the work books, play books elsewhere (must recheck that photo and see which ones you saw...)

Hello all, checking in - I only skim read the last thread and a half and didn’t realise that the hearing was finished! Thank you to the knowledgeable legal contributors in the thread - I always learn something from them. I’ll be back when there’s some SP related news. In the meantime I’ll leave this which I get referred to when I get too far down the Internet rabbit hole.

I can't imagine they have anything more to say anyway

Their final post on the previous thread effectively brought their argument full circle. Apparently you CAN have a mixed sex service that includes transwomen labelled simply "women" because (as some people believe) transwomen ARE women.
QED.
40 odd pages of arguing over 2 threads to get to that conclusion. That was their whole point all along.
Here is a picture of Mushroomcat having a laugh at all this nonsense

I can't imagine they have anything more to say anyway

FGS don't jinx it

This I recall was the Telegraph's heading when the judgement was announced:
https://x.com/Telegraph/status/1912645314105704535?lang=en

Now nowhere in the judgement does it actually say that, but it is the logical conclusion.

The pity for me is that I have to read a right wing paper to read some sense on the issue. I was brought up on The Guardian and that is a complete waste of time, (and on science issues generally.)

Right right sorry. 😳

I love that picture so much. Joyous.

As requested:

Photo will appear soon, I hope. Despite using cups as a measure, this is not a US recipe- a real Scottish recipe, Mum from Edinburgh- just use a real cup, recipe is fairly forgiving

No photo yet, continuing to hope.

Not sure what happened to photo so here’s the recipe - apologies for using 3 posts!
Isle of Rhum Gingerbread (sorry, pre-decimal)
6oz marg; 5oz soft brown sugar; 1/2 cup (8 oz) black treacle; ditto golden syrup; 1 cup milk; 1teaspoon each of ground ginger; ground cloves; cinnamon & bicarbonate of soda.A little hot water; 12 oz plain flour; 1 or 2 eggs.
in a pan, place marg, sugar, treacle, syrup & spices. Set on gentle heat until warm. Add milk. Pour into a bowl and add beaten eggs and bicarbonate that has been dissolved in hot water. Lastly, add flour and beat well. The mixture will be runny. Add walnuts or preserved ginger if desired.
Medium oven 325 Fahrenheit (mark 3 / 180 C) for 1 and half hours but check before end. If making 2 loaves the time is about 50 mins but again check near end.

Cor that sounds yum. Could butter be used instead of marg? And would it be baked in a loaf tin - what size? My DH loves ginger things so he’d really like this.

Thank you, that looks lovely.

Looks delicious, thank you @Veilsofmorning
Is it one that gets better after a few days?

It is lovely- not sure about butter instead of marg, but probably, though I usually put the butter (thick slabs and marmalade has been known) onto slices once cooked:)
Yes, small loaf tins work well - we have always used 2x loaf tins (lined with greaseproof) - not good with sizes but not the large ones.
Makes the whole house smell wonderful.

https://x.com/WWWheesht/status/2107482684918260141

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