Feminist Pub XVIII, in which the Bluestocking greets the first signs of spring with a glass of something soothing

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Just starting this one as the last is nearly full

I haven't read the voting thread, and won't. Not good for my blood pressure.

You can kind of see where the logic for cancelling one another out started. The same principle as 'pairing' of absent MPs. But where that train of reasoning took them........ I have no words. Marvellous for the husband though. Twice as many votes as everyone else in the country.

But cancelling one another out surely only means anything if there are only two candidates?

Yes. Though the reality in lots of areas is a two horse race. I just meant that I could see the kernel of starting logic before it went wooooooosh.

well quite, and if it is a two-horse race in your area, and you are both voting for one of those two candidates, then surely the cancelling out aspect is a good thing. because the alternative is that the party you don't agree with is two votes up . do people not understand how voting works?

or neither of you votes i suppose

I don't know what DH will vote for though I know what he WILL NOT vote for. He doesn't know what I will vote for though I think he knows what I WILL NOT vote for. I'm quite happy with that.

Besides how do you know they do vote for what they say they will vote for? That's the whole point of secret ballot - the receipt-freeness and the coercion-resistance that are so hard to replicate in the digital world. (Sorry - studied this a few years back ...)

Last time dh and I sat with our laptops looking at the different parties' policies and comparing them to our views and working out which was least bad. I've no way of knowing how he voted, but unless his whole life is basically a lie, I'm pretty sure he did as he said. This time I might end up voting for a party I strongly dislike, to keep out a party I hate. (I might possibly lie about that.)

Lordc, do your male colleagues get called "mr" by this publisher?

I did ask my male colleagues if they were ever addressed as Mr by students or other colleagues. Apparently not.

DH didn't used to vote at all before he met me. I'm pretty sure he votes the same way I do most of the time (because he knows I've actually paid attention to 'detail' things like manifestos and policies).

My parents ways vote for different parties - my mum always drags my dad out to vote even though she knows that by doing so it will essentially cancel her vote out.

OMG I've finally let my inner pedant out and asked people to define things. Must stop posting and actually find out where the DC are.

Sisters, I have a very urgent and important request - ignore will and listen to meeeee!

I would like a female equivalent to "belt and braces" but "pad and tampon" are going to be a bit too, err, visceral for my needs.

Inspire me!

Suspenders with hold ups??

(From someone who has not worn tights/stockings for about 20+ years - apart from DS's wedding).

Socks and slippers?

I don't know what "belt and braces" mean.

Pill and condom?

(Sorry)

That doesn't actually jut apply to women really of course

Coil and condom is much more alliterative though.

Tights and trousers?

Seatbelt and airbag?

Belt and safety pin.

I like coil and condom!
(I did think about pill and diaphragm)

Women in braces? Err, where do their breasts sit?

Are we talking fancy dress?

Hood and umbrella

LordC, a belt holds up trousers, but so do braces, if you wear both then you are doubly protected from your trousers falling down.