Sara Morrison vs Belfast Film Festival

[NorthernIrishFeminist]

Employers seem to be slow learners when it comes to women's rights! There’s another employment tribunal case being brought by a woman who attended and took the microphone at a Let Women Speak event in Belfast last year and has been treated very badly by her employer Belfast Film Festival as a result.

Looks like we’re going to have to keep gardening until they get the message.

disclaimer. I don’t know Sara and have no connection to BFF I’m just a woman who likes donating to causes that make a difference

We live in an old house and there is a linen press in our bedroom. It's a useful space but I have to stand on a chair to get things in and out, which is not so useful.

Morning

can't thole the heat

That's a new one for me!

Bord is Irish [Irish Gaelic, not Hiberno-English] for table

thole(v.)
"be subjected to or exposed to, to endure without complaint," now archaic or Scottish and Northern English dialect, Middle English tholen, from Old English þolian "to suffer, endure, undergo; remain, survive; to lose, lack, forfeit," from Proto-Germanic stem *thulonan (source also of Old Saxon tholon, Old High German dolon, Old Norse þola, Gothic þulan "to suffer," German geduld "patience").

https://www.etymonline.com/word/thole

How big is it? Do you need an Allen key?

'Thole' is still heard sometimes in parts of the North-west, definitely in Lancashire. I think in Yorkshire too.

Five minute warning just given.

'Thole' is used in Scotland too.

And knit at the same time and recovering from surgery; we must know your secret, Myrtle

Tried to post this comment earlier but the connection was waffling.

Ok, so something that's been bothering me about some of MD's statements from the day before yesterday -

She blamed SM for missing the PBS advert deadline for Pride Belfast '23 but said a similar thing about the (nonexistent) advert for '22: "I don't think we did it in time to make the brochure".
Said "people's reluctance to do the work was also a factor" in setting up the (nonexistent) '23 event.
Then she lied multiple times in a row about the blind carbon copy versus carbon copy July 3rd e-mail that was an accident or standard practice depending on which part of the sentence you listened to.

But the thing that really got my goat was when MD said - after being shown the 'ha ha woopsie I need new glasses' draft:

"Yes, and if SM had sent the e-mail it might well have been bcc'd."

The implication really irks me. "If she'd done her job". As if it would have made a difference, besides! Sara sending it from her own e-mail address would have exposed her to all the hyperbolic vitriol seen in the responses Nick Wallis published yesterday anyway, but MD wasted no time assigning blame of the blind carbon copy woopsie doxing-lite to Sara.

MD seems to let no opportunity pass her by to sneer at Sara in the tribunal and this exchange reeked of a purity test to me. Maybe I was reading too much into it.

Edited because I spelled Sara's name wrong

I don't think you were .

Lots of to-ing and fro-ing but now guests are seated and the barristers will soon arrive.

Five minute warning @MyrtleLion

Although today it would be more like, it's a brave day if you could thole the wind!

'It's a soft day, thank God'
i.e torrential rain😄

It was lashing down earlier to be fair!

Lashing it here am on my boat for a week from tomorrow, packing my wet weather gear and wells, and thermals…

!!!!!!!

Gosh!!!!

What?????!!!!

Oh come on! Not fair you pair in the room!

Loving how all the NI vocab is being discussed!

I used to argue that our NO SMOKING signs should say NICK YER FEGS

from NW

Drama here at the beginning of Day 5 of Morrison v BFF in Belfast. Morrison's legal team have informed the judge that they will not be ready to start until 2pm. The judge is livid. Says it is not for counsel to dictate when court sits.

I've just looked at NW on Nitter
Drama here at the beginning of Day 5 of Morrison v BFF in Belfast. Morrison's legal team have informed the judge that they will not be ready to start until 2pm. The judge is livid. Says it is not for counsel to dictate when court sits.

sorry for crosspost